I grew up...

envelope · 01-02-2007 06:05PM

i grew up in an country where taytos and bars of chocolate had a set price in every shop.

Red Hand · 01-02-2007 07:06PM

I should have grown up in a sun-kissed land. Saying that, I have rarely gotten sunburn in the land I grew up in.

Zonko · 01-02-2007 07:34PM

I grew up a few miles outside of a small village, then moved to a small town a few years later.

biko · 01-02-2007 08:47PM

I grew up in a place where you could be gone from after breakfast until evening and no-one was worried

chump · 01-02-2007 08:58PM

I grew up with a small willy that I hoped and prayed would grow with age, but alas ...

DEmeant0r · 01-02-2007 09:07PM

I grew up in Hong Kong(ok well I spent my first 8 years there).

I grew up in a place full of tall buildings(and the sad thing is, i'm afraid of heights lol)

daiixi · 01-02-2007 09:58PM

I grew up in a place where the following things (previously mentioned) were also true: availability of red lemonade (commonly known as "creaming soda") and eating paper, tall buildings, people are divided by religion, fists turned to guns and where you could be gone from breakfast until evening and noone batted an eyelid... I'm not Irish though and I didn't grow up in Ireland.

Blush_01 · 01-02-2007 11:58PM

I grew up in a house, mainly.

I remember: Green cream soda. Shannon minerals (see cream soda) including proper red lemonade that left a red ring around the inside of the bottle where the meniscus was. Dempsey's Den. D'Arcy's arse. Podge when he was a postman. Zig getting blamed for breaking Ray's aftershave bottle. Zuppy and Ted. Bosco's "Tidy Up" song. Live at 3 with Thelma Mansfield and Derek Davis, who I always thought were married. Colm Rappel (sp?) and Fergus Gibson freaking me out. Tickling puppies behind the ears with straw. Wine patent t-bar shoes. Being the only child in my school who had the full uniform. Witch in the Well. Murder in the Dark. Bulldog. Rounders, the Irish way. Playing Chocolate Rats when it rained and we weren't allowed outside in school. Spending entire summers outside, unless it was lashing rain. Training calves to drink from buckets. Painting bales with whitewash to scare off crows. Going on holidays for a week with IR£5 in your pocket and coming home with presents for everyone, and change. Hideous clothes passed from brother to sister to cousin. Home-cut fringes that were always a little too short. Getting hairs up your nose when someone cut said fringe. Feeding granny's chickens and collecting the eggs without letting the chickens get out. Being sent up by Granny in groups of two or three to jump on my uncle's bed to get him up for work, so even if he caught one of us, the others could keep jumping. Podger on Scratch Saturday. Pangúr Bán, the cartoon. One pound notes. The first pound coins. Sunburn from the one Sunday a year you'd go to the beach. Getting loads of sweets and still having change out of 20p. Perri Tomato Ketchup flavour crisps. Kylie Minogue jumpers. The flake ad where the woman almost submerged herself in a bath that spilled over the sides, with flakes of chocolate on her lips. My cousin and I trying to imitate the ad (minus the bath) after play school. My dad squashing my trike with the tractor. Crazy Prices, Quinnsworth, the L&N. Monaghan being the other side of the world. Green 99s on Patrick's day. Mork and Mindy. Irish dancing in the Paddy's Day parade. Christmas starting on the 8th of December. Using your imagination to invent games in order to amuse yourself. Staying up late to cover the pit and then going into town for ice-cream. Piling 12 kids into a Micra to go to football/hurling/camogie training, or swimming, or tin whistle lessons... The first garlic mushrooms I ever saw, at the Ploughing Match. Summer camp. A time before mobile phones. A time before the internet being such a big deal, or PCs in most homes. People arranging to meet other people, and being on time because they couldn't contact someone if they were late. Woppas. Tangys. Take That breaking up and a girl committing suicide because of it. Tinkle Tots. Muppet Babies. Enid Blyton. Miffy. Under Giltspur books. The Babysitters Club. Sylvanian Families. The Late Late Toy Show being good, having lots of acrobatic acts, having the flushing Sylvanian Families toilet, Gay Byrne squirting the audience with water guns if they weren't enthusiastic enough. Going for walks at The Cup and Saucer. Finding out about mayflies. Seeing water hens apparently move without moving. Skimming stones at the duckpond. Cycling down "the hill of death". Walking on railway lines. Beethoven, the movie. Buzz Off. Kerplunk. Scrunchies. Scrunchy socks.

I know that's not exactly what was asked for, but it's what sprang to mind.

JC 2K3 · 02-02-2007 12:16AM

I grew up with the internet, which pretty much destroyed any chance of me formulating opinions based on my cultural surroundings.

bug · 02-02-2007 12:22AM

I grew up in a country where people couldn't get a job and had to emigrate.
When I grew up people could get really good jobs but couldn't afford a house, and now people are emigrating again.

I grew up in a country where every pub had some sort of band on every night of the week and it was free.

crosstownk · 02-02-2007 12:44AM

Beruthiel wrote:

Where every summer turf had to be turned.

I remember those wasted days on the Dublin mountains cutting and footing turf. But it kept us warm in the winter, which was a small consolation.

The Sweeper · 02-02-2007 01:11AM

I grew up in a country that used "of the welcomes" in its description of itself, but where all its young people left. Then when it got the young people from the rest of the world, it didn't want them and told them to go back where they came from.

MooseJam · 02-02-2007 03:30AM

I grew up in a country where pornography was banned, horray for the internet

Healio · 02-02-2007 05:06AM

I grew up in a country where a pound note was worth a fortune.

embee · 02-02-2007 06:02AM

I grew up in a country in the depths of economic depression. A lot of people didn't have jobs. Only the "well off" had landlines. Very few people had cars, and practically no-one went away on sun holidays.

Now, our country is drowning in cash, but people seem less happy.

User45701 · 02-02-2007 08:17AM

Ruu wrote:

Yep, spot on.

Brilliant. the magic door.

A Magic door that only ever went to the zoo

thelordofcheese · 02-02-2007 08:24AM

And Fota island!

I grew up...

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