Somethings never change

Emboss

20 years ago we used to tie a rope around a pole or a lamppost and swing on it from dusk till dawn, twenty years on we have play stations, Xbox pc's DVD digital TV etc, and on my way home from work I see a few kids swinging on a rope happy as Larry...the simple things, can anyone remember things they did 15 - 20 years ago that kids today still enjoy?

Emboss

ozpass

Not in a remotely sinister way, but setting fires. I used to buzz off setting fires as a kid (twigs, branches, newspaper- not cars or houses!). Likewise if I came across a stream I felt duty bound to make a dam with stones and mud. Also riding my bike. All familiar pastimes to the youth of today I'm sure.

Cork

Originally posted by Emboss
20 years ago we used to tie a rope around a pole or a lamppost and swing on it from dusk till dawn, twenty years on we have play stations, Xbox pc's DVD digital TV etc, and on my way home from work I see a few kids swinging on a rope happy as Larry...the simple things, can anyone remember things they did 15 - 20 years ago that kids today still enjoy?

Emboss

I sort of agree. I think the only half decent way of relaxing is getting out there and going for a walk.

TV or the Internet are a pretty dore metod of relaxation.

Sundy

this featured on the Gerry Ryan show this week and sort of sums all the nostalgic things up in one


Growing up in Ireland

I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park, The shop down the road, Hopscotch, Donkey, skipping, handstands, stuck in the mud, football with an old can, Dandy, Beano, Twinkle and Roly Poly, Hula Hoops, Jumping the stream, building a swing from a tyre and a piece of rope tied to a tree, (If you live in Dublin the lampost), building tree-houses, climbing up onto roofs. Tennis on the street, the smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.

Hubba Bubba bubble gum and 2p Flogs, macaroon bars and woppas, 3p Refreshers and wham bars, superhero chewing gum, golf ball chewing gums and liquorice whips, desperate dan and roy of the rovers, sherbit dips and Mr. freezes, marathon bars and everlasting gobstoppers. An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe neopolitan

Wait ... Watching Saturday Morning cartoons ... short commercials, Battle of the Planets, Road Runner, He-Man, Swapshop, and Why Don't You?, Transformers, How do you do?, Bosco(SANDY), Forty-coats, the Littlest Hobo and Lassie, Chucklevision, The Muppet Show, MacGyver, Scarecrow and Mrs King, Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven, or staying up for Knight Rider and Magnum PI.

When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere.

A million midget bites, sticky fingers and mud all over you, knee-pads on your jeans, Cops and Robbers, Rounders, tip the Can, Queenie-I-O, climbing trees, spin the bottle, building igloos out of snow banks, walking to school, no matter what the weather, running till you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt, Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights, Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles, Being tired from playing... Remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon

Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.

And don't forget the Marietta sandwiches we'd make by buttering a cupla Marietta biscuits and stickin' them together. And that quare oul mixture made in a tall glass with HB ice cream and Taylor Keith Red Lemonade.

I'm not finished just yet...

Eating raw jelly, orange squash ice pops

Remember when ... There were two types of sneakers - girls and boys and Dunlop Green Flash and the only time you wore them at school, was for "P.E.", Gola football boots.

It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends, when nobody owned a pure bred dog, when 25p was decent pocket money, when you'd reach i nto a muddy gutter for a penny, when nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there, when it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents

When any parent could discipline any kid or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of muggings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! and some of us are still afraid of them!!!

Remember when....

Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo." Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"

"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly", the game of life and connect four, atari 2600's and commadore 64's. The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs. It was unbelievable that Red rover wasn't an Olympic event...

Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a biro barrel pea shooter or an elastic band. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better, Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable vitamins, Ice cream was considered a basic food group.

Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.. Abilities were discovered because of a "double dare" Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!! Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown up" life...

I DOUBLE DARE YA!!! Bagsy it, no returns and no magical changes

Emboss

No mention of the misfits of science, I used to adore that show and no one remembers it

parasite

marietta sandwiches !!

i though it was just me

*sniff*

corkviewer

I remember it emboss - no detailed memory but I recall seeing it - was it on friday nights on rte 2?

Silvera

Building dams across streams...... loved doing that

Does anybody remember "Simon & Simon" on TV ?

aine

Originally posted by ozpass
Not in a remotely sinister way, but setting fires. I used to buzz off setting fires as a kid (twigs, branches, newspaper- not cars or houses!). Likewise if I came across a stream I felt duty bound to make a dam with stones and mud. Also riding my bike. All familiar pastimes to the youth of today I'm sure.

Hell ya! lighting little fires with a magnifying glass was sooo much fun! I live by the sea so from the first fine day of summer we would come hom efrom school begging to go swimming! When we were told the water was still too cold....we went anyway and put up with the 1000 "I told you sos" that we got when we finished out the school year with a chest infection and/or the flu! The olds couldn't really complain though they ahd done exactly the same thing when they were kids!

Other than that there was tip the can...hours of fun, funny how you NEVER got tired then! World Cup soccer, oh and robin hood ice-lollies on sunny days....does anyone remember robin hood ice lollies? they had orange, raspberry and cola?!!

GuanYin

Originally posted by aine
....does anyone remember robin hood ice lollies? they had orange, raspberry and cola?!!

I do believe I do!!!

I lived by the beach too, and used to spend hours collecting beach flint and chipping it down to make arrow and spear heads.

otherwise it was basically football and relievio all the way....

p.pete

Originally posted by sykeirl
I lived by the beach too, and used to spend hours collecting beach flint and chipping it down to make arrow and spear heads.

And I suppose you all gathered around the fire at the end of the day? Twas a simpler time really.

ShaneOC

Originally posted by Silvera
Does anybody remember "Simon & Simon" on TV ?

Yeah, I remember that. They were the most unlikely brothers imaginable. Rik and AJ were their names I think. You still see the dark haired guy in things - I'm sure it was him on the West Wing a few weeks ago.

gogo

I think kids today still like to build dens/hideouts, we had so many when we were younger, we lived close enough to a forest (small group of trees, really) and had them everywhere, up the tree's, in the trunks, in the bushes, the best was getting a hideout and not telling anyone about it until you had a new best friend and then deciding to share the best knowledge you had - the location of your new, brilliant, secret hideout.

I remember my oldest brother and sister had a big hole dug in one of the fields behind our house, they used to cover it over with twigs and branches so unsuspecting passerbys would fall in. (unsuspecting passerbys in a middle of no where field?) But I remember the first time I fell in, and thinking i'd never get out without a ladder, but i walked up that way recently and stood in the hole and it was only up to mid calf.

I laughed all the way home.
Ahh memories.

gogo

GuanYin

Originally posted by p.pete
And I suppose you all gathered around the fire at the end of the day? Twas a simpler time really.

Only to cook the wooly mammoth we caught for dinner....

p.pete

Originally posted by sykeirl
Only to cook the wooly mammoth we caught for dinner....

Ah yes, and then there was the carcas left over which was used for a kayak to sail out to the island.

GuanYin

Originally posted by p.pete
Ah yes, and then there was the carcas left over which was used for a kayak to sail out to the island.

Now you're just talking nonsense.....

as the title says... "somethings never change"

p.pete

Originally posted by sykeirl
Now you're just talking nonsense.....

as the title says... "somethings never change"

And thus the thread is applicable to things that have changed and things that have not changed. Your point is poorly made, I don't get it:rolleyes:

solice

i wasnt even thought of 20 years ago but 10 years ago i could be seen running around fields, building dams and having them collapse on top of me, getting lost in forrests and woods, coming home always head to toe in mud, catching tadpoles and frogs and carrying them home in my welly cos we had always forgotten to bring something with us to collect them and then screaming cos they were so slimy, climbing trees and eating berries off the side of the road (black berries, not poisinous ones) and stealing crab apples from my neighbours garden. playing Tip The Can and always loosing, crying over getting stung by nettles (those f*****g things) and then rubbing doc leaves into them as if it would maybe make it better.

now i go for walks past the places where i did all those and i think, yeah i had a really good childhood. it was special

patch

Originally posted by solice
crying over getting stung by nettles (those f*****g things) and then rubbing doc leaves into them as if it would maybe make it better.

now i go for walks past the places where i did all those and i think, yeah i had a really good childhood. it was special

I see why it didnt work for you.......You have to spit on the doc leaves first silly!

Those same doc leaves started me off smoking too :mad:
If you get just the right type, from a bale of hay, it's as close to a cigarette as an eight year old will find!

solice

did the doc leaves thing actually ever seriously work or is it like parents kissing their childs arm when they graze it.
cos that never worked

p.pete

Maybe the Doc Leaves worked in the same way as Placebos? Or else they neutralise the sting.