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Tanner...sixpence, 6 old pennies, two and half pennies in new money!DT_Xtremez_19:
... or two thrup'penny bits.
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When I was a kid
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... or two thrup'penny bits.
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And another
And another
Sitting in the front seat of a car without putting the seat belt on (if it had one) and putting a whole packet of space dust in your mouth.
For some reason, I wouldn't think of doing either now.
And another
Sitting in the front seat of a car without putting the seat belt on (if it had one) and putting a whole packet of space dust in your mouth.
For some reason, I wouldn't think of doing either now.
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How about when the toy was actually IN the box, none of this collecting tokens rubbish. Open your cornflakes and have a matchbox car inside to drive around the table doing handbrake turns in the sugar you "spilled by accident", till Mum nicked it off you or confiscated as she called it!
DT_Xtremez_14:I had the 1970 world cup squad coin collection except Bobby Moore :S
Anyone remember the little booklets Shell did, they could be stored in a big black PVC envelope in individual windows!
Making a homemade boomerang out of two 12" wooden rules and an elastic band the postman had dropped on the floor
DT_Xtremez_30:Firing Dutch arrows into the air with gay abandon not really thinking through what could happen when they came down again
DT_Xtremez_42:Never killing anyone while doing it.
Playing "splits" with a flick knife someone had bought on holiday in Spain :
:Going to Casualty after a "mishap" and seeing a girl from your class you were told was ill waddling through to Maternity while her mother gave her a constant ear barrage about shaming her in public
DT_Xtremez_05:Sitting on the bench seat in Dads Riley, between Mum and Dad.
Sleeping outside RAF Nocton Hall on the back seat of an old Austin 1100 with a Labrador for company, protection and a pillow. What a dog
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I used to get a threepenny bit a day for spends when I was a kid, then Mum says one day "do you want to carry on as it is or would you rather have a half crown every saturday?" Being quite quick with numbers even at the age of 7 or 8 ish, I said half crown please, don't know whether it was a test but I'm sure she must have walked away thinking "bugger, that's me nine pence down a week"!
DT_Xtremez_19:True Blue Jack
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I remember when Panini was sticker album not a toastie with delusions of grandeur!
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Getting the cards from pg tips. Still got the book with british trees.
Buying 45rpm singles with the Middles missing from jukeboxes.
Going for a cycle ride first thing in the morning with tomato sauce sarnies
Going potato picking for 30/- for a days hard graft.
Cutting out the backs of kelloggs cornflakes to make heads of the kings and queens of England.
Getting the goal magazine every week when they use to give a poster of a famous footballers away over 4 weeks, starting with his legs and trying to figure out who it was.
Listening to the new chart countdown on a Tuesday to see if "in the summertime had been knocked off the top spot"
Buying disc and music echo every Thursday.
Sneakily reading your sisters fab208 magazine.
Listening radio Luxembourg under the pillow. Tony prince bob Stewart etc. The 208 powerplay on the hour every hour.
Recording the top 40 on a Sunday with a basic cassette recorder with the microphone in front of the radios loudspeaker.
Buying 45rpm singles with the Middles missing from jukeboxes.
Going for a cycle ride first thing in the morning with tomato sauce sarnies
Going potato picking for 30/- for a days hard graft.
Cutting out the backs of kelloggs cornflakes to make heads of the kings and queens of England.
Getting the goal magazine every week when they use to give a poster of a famous footballers away over 4 weeks, starting with his legs and trying to figure out who it was.
Listening to the new chart countdown on a Tuesday to see if "in the summertime had been knocked off the top spot"
Buying disc and music echo every Thursday.
Sneakily reading your sisters fab208 magazine.
Listening radio Luxembourg under the pillow. Tony prince bob Stewart etc. The 208 powerplay on the hour every hour.
Recording the top 40 on a Sunday with a basic cassette recorder with the microphone in front of the radios loudspeaker.
needsabiggerfuse
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Using a clothes peg to hold a piece of cardboard onto the frame of your bicycle so it stuck into the spokes of the back wheel. Yeah - we all had motorbikes!!! DT_Xtremez_42:
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Much as it pains me to accuse a fellow Goater.
You Sir are a spreader of untruths. There was a lad in 3rd year did that and he died of a brain haemorrhage. My mate from the 6th form told me.
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I can remember being scared of coppers....
trotterdave
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I remember being scared of my 'uncle'
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The more I think about that statement the more sinister it becomes!
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He was my Dads mate and drank a lot, I was young. Apparently everyone did it?
needsabiggerfuse
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Loading up your cowboy pistols with gun caps. 'Peowww - peoww - peoww'. Nah! 'CRACK - CRACK - CRACK'.
Making and firing home made arrows - without the need for a hard hat and safety goggles!
Obi Wan - Legendary post.
Was I the first to sample the delights of cabled walkie-talkies in the 70s and early 80s; one in the kitchen for our mother and one in the garage den for us kids with the cables pegged along the washing line.
Tea time - Radio crackles into life - 'Kids - Tea's ready' followed by mass stampeed to the kitchen to wash hands and eat together at the table as a family! Good times!
Thanks Obi for reminding us we had a childhood.
1969 btw)
Was I the first to sample the delights of cabled walkie-talkies in the 70s and early 80s; one in the kitchen for our mother and one in the garage den for us kids with the cables pegged along the washing line.
Tea time - Radio crackles into life - 'Kids - Tea's ready' followed by mass stampeed to the kitchen to wash hands and eat together at the table as a family! Good times!
Thanks Obi for reminding us we had a childhood.
1969 btw
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Much as it pains me to accuse a fellow Goater.
You Sir are a spreader of untruths. There was a lad in 3rd year did that and he died of a brain haemorrhage. My mate from the 6th form told me.
I'm claiming it happened. I'm not claiming it's clever - like a lot of childhood things!
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I'm claiming it happened. I'm not claiming it's clever - like a lot of childhood things!
You'll be claiming next that you knew a bloke that ate 30 packets of polos and didn't go sterile.
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You'll be claiming next that you knew a bloke that ate 30 packets of polos and didn't go sterile.
Dont be absurd,everyboby knows the lethal dose for polos(mint)is ten packets
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