Childhood Memories

Mimojo

What are the weird things you remember for being young?! What reminds you of being your childhood? What did you used to love?

Just been talking about the "cameras" you used to get with pictures in, from Knock etc, you held it up to the light and pressed the button and could see various pictures. Seriously imagine giving that to a kid now, they would laff in your face!

And also the lovely waffer yolks you used to get, they were waffer on the outside, with marshmallow stuff in the middle and a chocolate top - used to love them...

So what you do remember???!

lisa_celtic

I want a Dan Bar.. the orange ones with the black suger lumps!

Chaotic_Forces

Being a kid? Uh... Amy Jo Johnson from the Power Rangers, she played Kimberley. I'm quite sure 99% of all males my age remember her.

Kelly from Saved By The Bell.

Actual things would be cartoons, Street Sharks, Double Dragon, Mummies Alive!, Mighty Max, Biker Mice From Mars, about a gazillion other ones.

Toys... I suppose the action figures from said shows?

Oh and Action Man The Greatest Hero Of Them All at about 25 feckin' quid a pop. I think there was a reason I never got one (never really wanted one TBH) but still, they'd come out with a new one like every week at 25 pounds. Bizzare.

Oh, WWF/E wrestling, pure coolness. Nothing like Austin just randomly walking out, beating the tar outta someone and then doing the same next week.

I guess Goosebumps books but reading some of them now would scare the living daylights outta me!

Animaniacs where I learnt so much... even through secondary uptill I finished in 2007. :P

bryaner

Playing doctors and nurses with me cousin..:D

lorweld

Making kites out of plastic bags and thread and having hours of fun!!

/Jaysus we were poor but shur weren't we happy

Lawrence1895

- 'The Wombles', that was just cult :cool:
- My first Borussia Dortmund shirt, I got it signed by a player called Manni Burgsmueller
- Being scared of bin trucks and the hoover

Chaotic_Forces

bryaner wrote: »

Playing doctors and nurses with me cousin..:D

Mine too! She loved being examined alright.

marcsignal

The Americans pulling out of Vietnam, shoving the empty Chinook Helicopters over the side of the Aircraft Carrier to make way for more trying to land. I vividly remember asking my dad why they were doing that.

Oh, and Christmas

TanG411

When I was five I would get up really early to play Grand Theft Auto on the PS1. My brother owned it and my parents wouldn't let me play it.


Just pure freedom, thats all it was about. No pressure, primary school was easy. Life was great.

Chaotic_Forces

marcsignal wrote: »

The Americans pulling out of Vietnam, shoving the empty Chinook Helicopters over the side of the Aircraft Carrier to make way for more trying to land. I vividly remember asking my dad why they were doing that.

Oh, and Christmas

What? Um... the only thing I can think of is they were empty or am I missing something else? How come they did it?

Bit OT but I'm generally confused.

bryaner

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Mine too! She loved being examined alright.

Lol ohh yea all under the banner of education mu hahahaha..:D

easyeason3

When I'd leave the house at nine o' clock in the morning & return at six o' clock without anyone thinking I'd been snatched.

The smell of horses on a warm summers day & galloping across the fields like I was in the Grand National, on the horse that is not just me running like a lunatic.

Being piled into a car with seven or eight other kids to go to a hurling match & getting a 99 on the way home.

Being shipped on to aunts & uncles farms under the pretence of going on 'holidays'. It was in fact child slavery because we had to help milk, move cattle, bring in hay & paint gates.

Being made to go Irish dancing.

Playing 'tig' with all my friends & loving it.

The Scientician

lorweld wrote: »

Making kites out of plastic bags and thread and having hours of fun!!

/Jaysus we were poor but shur weren't we happy

We made "parachutes" out of silage bags.

Chaotic_Forces

bryaner wrote: »

Lol ohh yea all under the banner of education mu hahahaha..:D

I completely mistyped that feckin' post. I meant it as "my favourite thing to with YOUR cousin". But of course, I fecked it up.

Star Bingo

do you's know anyone who doesn't ever have seemed to have had a childhood? garbage pail kids! airwolf. .. macho man randy savage?! .. its like they were born adults. and we'll die kids

marcsignal

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

What? Um... the only thing I can think of is they were empty or am I missing something else? How come they did it?

Bit OT but I'm generally confused.

yeah, they were empty. I also should add, I was watching this unfold on the black and white telly, as opposed to being there in the flesh

macroboy

running down steep hills ,knowing you couldnt keeep running b4 you collapsed in a heap..it really was like giving your self a heart attack.

why it was so enjoyable ..well ..lack of control i suppose ...


now i know why i smoke all that crack..

phew!

Chaotic_Forces

marcsignal wrote: »

yeah, they were empty. I also should add, I was watching this unfold on the black and white telly, as opposed to being there in the flesh

Did you ever get told why the fu*k they were pushing old copters off the aircraft carriers? If not, I think we need answers quickly! :P

bryaner

Forgot to add looking for me old mans porn stash and finding it......................... Jackpot!!

Chaotic_Forces

bryaner wrote: »

Forgot to add looking for me old mans porn stash and finding it......................... Jackpot!!

First your cousin and now a porn stash... WTF was in the stash?!

Then again, I don't wanna know. :P

marcsignal

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Did you ever get told why the fu*k they were pushing old copters off the aircraft carriers? If not, I think we need answers quickly! :P

No room on the deck. Good old YouTube, I found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5mo88-xjo

Chaotic_Forces

marcsignal wrote: »

No room on the deck. Good old YouTube, I found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5mo88-xjo

Wow, that's amazing. Thank you for the link!

But feckin' Hell... talk about out with the old and in with the new.

marcsignal

The 1970s kids public safety ads were the best.
Any kid today would be traumatised after seeing them:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb00H6mCTM8

Luxie

Going to Owenahincha or Inchadoheny beach. Going to Glengarriff for picnics and going for a walk in the rhorhdendron (sp) forest. Going to Garnish Island on the same day. Chancing it down to the southern most part of ireland.

Agricola

Playing football in the summer for 6, 7 or 8 hours solid. Well with breaks for Mr. Freezes, lunch, dinner etc. Trying to get just one more game in before it became too dark to actually see the ball. If the cousin's neighbours werent around and we didnt have enough people to play, we'd walk the fields dodging bulls as we went, to head to the local golf club, to look at old men in pink jumpers trying to play golf. Hiding in the bushes and shouting FORE just as one of them was about to putt on the green!
On wet days, of which there were many, we'd play FIFA on the Megadrive for hours on end.

God, your twenties really are the best years.

Luxie

Actually just lovin' West Cork full stop.

Jesus Wept

bryaner wrote: »

Playing doctors and nurses with me cousin..:D

bryaner wrote: »

Lol ohh yea all under the banner of education mu hahahaha..:D

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Mine too! She loved being examined alright.

This is not good.

tony1kenobi

Lee Majors on Sunday night.

tan11ie

Watching the price is right and Manimal every Saturday night.
Eating clipso bars and drinking American cream soda...mmmm can you still buy that anywhere?

Aoifey!

Making mud cakes/pies
Pringles at Christmas. Til I was 12 I thought Pringles only went on sale at Christmas cause that was the only time we had em
Watching Pokemon every morning with my brother

Chaotic_Forces

The-Rigger wrote: »

This is not good.

Ah I'm so sorry. You should have asked for a loan of my cousin.

Jesus Wept

I hope she remembers the experience as fondly as you do.

tan11ie

Monkey Magic
Does anyone remember this? I can't believehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUMWy4hqAg i loved this ****!!!!

Ev84

Mimojo wrote: »

So what you do remember???!

I remember Kinder-eggs being a challenge! There was actually something you had to build with instructions and loads of bits... Now when i buy them for my son the toys are always pre-made and sh*tty. They must think kids these days are stupid. I also remember that chocolate bars and sweet bars used to fill their wrappers and bags of crisps had more than ten in a packet! Oh, how things have changed...

Chaotic_Forces

The-Rigger wrote: »

I hope she remembers the experience as fondly as you do.

The joke was that I was abour yer man's cousin but I fecked up on my post and now declared that it was my own cousin. :rolleyes:

eternal

Buying like a million penny sweets ,going to the beach ,running everywhere and laughing so much you peed your pants.

Aoifey!

Ev84 wrote: »

I remember Kinder-eggs being a challenge! There was actually something you had to build with instructions and loads of bits... Now when i buy them for my son the toys are always pre-made and sh*tty

I bought one the other day, all happy bout getting to make the toy...and I was met with a little pre-made thing that did nothing but sit there and look at you

Chaotic_Forces

Aoifey! wrote: »

I bought one the other day, all happy bout getting to make the toy...and I was met with a little pre-made thing that did nothing but sit there and look at you

Eh... I remember you used to collect little turtles (about 30ish in all). But I think there were different sets, like once a year for a month you'd collect a set or something.

But yeah, I remember at one time it was far too complicated for a child and I would rush to an adult for help.

Jesus Wept

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

The joke was that I was abour yer man's cousin but I fecked up on my post and now declared that it was my own cousin. :rolleyes:

Then I mean him.
You are lumped in together in my mind now. :rolleyes:

macroboy

tan11ie wrote: »

Watching the price is right and Manimal every Saturday night.
Eating clipso bars and drinking American cream soda...mmmm can you still buy that anywhere?

what a bollix that dusty bin was eh...fooking pratt if ever there was one

BluesBerry

10 penny bags , edible paper and chomps
I miss being a kid

Gyalist

Sitting outside with the other kids under a spectacular full moon, telling ghost stories, then being too terrified to walk the few yards to the house.

Throwing a stick or stone at a mango tree and being rewarded with more fruit than you could possibly eat.

Monthly "film shows" at the village school. Loading the film reels on to my Dad's Bell & Howell projector with the generator humming gently in the background.

Going to "town" meant a flight on the seaplane. Those were really exciting!

Chaotic_Forces

The-Rigger wrote: »

Then I mean him.
You are lumped into together in my mind now. :rolleyes:

Haha, I have the lovely talent of making disturbing situations much worse. An asset at any get-together.

tan11ie

macroboy wrote: »

what a bollix that dusty bin was eh...fooking pratt if ever there was one

Ah but did you ever master that 3 - 2 - 1

Reading, reading, reading
Running around outside all day at weekends and in the summer
Loads of music lessons

bonzodog2

bryaner wrote: »

Playing doctors and nurses with me cousin..:D

this

im invisible

Gyalist wrote: »

Sitting outside with the other kids under a spectacular full moon, telling ghost stories, then being too terrified to walk the few yards to the house.

Throwing a stick or stone at a mango tree and being rewarded with more fruit than you could possibly eat.

Monthly "film shows" at the village school. Loading the film reels on to my Dad's Bell & Howell projector with the generator humming gently in the background.

Going to "town" meant a flight on the seaplane. Those were really exciting!

those were the days all-right!

tan11ie

Pinching holes in the milk bottles first thing in the morn...or nicking them! oh or just drinking them and leaving the empties

Oranage2

kick the can and spin the bottle. also at Halloween you'd break the sticks off rockets and throw then at each other. climbing trees and walking up the hell fire club with loads of sweets

Bannasidhe

Kneeling up on a chair on a Saturday watching my grand mother baking - sponge was her speciality - and hoping I'd be allowed to lick the bowl afterwards.

Being out on my bike all day only coming home for food.

Being sent to the local shop for half a block of ice cream and a packet of wafers for our Afters.

Watching one of my cousins fall in the slurry pit instead of me.

Spending ALL day Sunday at Luck Strand near Ringaskiddy. Swimming, diving, eating slightly sandy Taytos and very sandy sambos and washing the lot down with warmish Tanora.

Building the best damn Steerina in Ballinlough AND Douglas.

Taking my sister's dolls pram apart to build the best damn Steerina in Ballinlough AND Douglas.:D

Being the fastest draw for miles around. Boys used to come and knock on the door to challenge me cos there was no way a girl was going to be faster then them. I retired undefeated (and just in time before I grew boobs which really get in the fecking way!)

tan11ie

Lino - break dancing lol