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What do you miss from your childhood?

  • 26-11-2009 12:42PM
    #1
    Elba101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭


    For me it was shows like Supermarket sweep. What a show. Or the Crystal maze, who didn't want to be in that glass cage collecting those golden tickets?

    And games like Roy rover and kick the can....

    What do you miss from your childhood?
    And don't say your innocence!


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Comments

  • #2
    prendy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭prendy


    i miss sleeping whenever i want and getting pushed around all day in my pushchair.

    Walking everywhere is overrated!


  • #3
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Dry sunny warm weather.


  • #4
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at me.


  • #5
    Elba101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Elba101


    mike65 wrote: »
    Dry sunny warm weather.


    Yeah i remember there was a time once when we actually got a summer. And now...nothing...


  • #6
    jokettle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    Power cuts. They were strangely comforting when I was younger, we'd all be huddled in the sitting room over the two or three candles we could find :) It was never scary, Mammy and Daddy would keep us safe! :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    Being able to fall asleep easily


  • #8
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    Being able to fall asleep easily

    Don't worry that comes back to you.


  • #9
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Being able to call to your mates houses unannounced for no reason other than being bored and they will actually be there, won't be annoyed that you didn't call first and won't be in the middle of anything.

    Of course, I'm married now so I'm that annoying guy who's always busy if someone calls unannounced :D


  • #10
    destroyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 723 ✭✭✭destroyer


    The christian brothers and the way they might look at you


  • #11
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Staying out til 10 O'Clock with 1 other guy when everyone else was gone in at 9. Felt really cool cos we were still allowed out and they weren't.

    That and Saturday evenings, after a bath watching winning streak.


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  • #12
    funk-you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Not much about my childhood but it was much easier to get head off random girls when I was a teenager.

    -Funk


  • #13
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    The energy to play football from 9am to 9pm, with only a break for dinner.


  • #14
    BraziliaNZ
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,671 ✭✭✭BraziliaNZ


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Don't worry that comes back to you.

    what, when I'm an OAP?


  • #15
    foxyboxer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭foxyboxer


    Playing "World Cup"

    Group of lads with a designated keeper.
    If you score, you go to the next round.
    Last man in each round not to score is knocked out (not literally:pac:)

    The first round was always great. A big massive free for all. Arms and legs flying everywhwere.
    The weaker players would always grab a poxy goal but in the end the best player would win.


    Happy days.


  • #16
    Elba101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Elba101


    funk-you wrote: »
    Not much about my childhood but it was much easier to get head off random girls when I was a teenager.

    -Funk


    That's lovely


  • #17
    funk-you
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,744 ✭✭✭funk-you


    Elba101 wrote: »
    That's lovely

    What can I say, I'm a romantic at heart.

    -Funk


  • #18
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    Kids books. So many pictures, so few words!


  • #19
    shqipshume
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭shqipshume


    Community spirit in Ireland :)


  • #20
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Holding a Mars Bar in both hands.


  • #21
    Elba101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Elba101


    bluto63 wrote: »
    Kids books. So many pictures, so few words!


    You don't have to be a kid to buy those types of books...


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  • #22
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    The innocence that everything and everyone was good.


  • #23
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Not having to make my own dinner.
    And extreme sugar rushes


  • #24
    Darksaga87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭Darksaga87


    Not having to pay bills.


  • #25
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Heads and Volleys.. NOT IN!!!!
    A Stable diet of 8p Mr. freezes.
    Being blown away by Snes graphics
    The excitement on christmas eve, (Brummy Tom
    when you believed in Santa
    )
    Fortnight in Gorey
    Pocket Money (£3 a week, yeah!)


  • #26
    asdfgh86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭asdfgh86


    When the Aunties and Uncles were around it was perfectly acceptable to hide behind your mum's leg and then stay in your room playing Nes for the duration of their visit. Now I'm expected to talk to them.:rolleyes:


  • #27
    Elba101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Elba101


    Stee wrote: »
    Heads and Volleys.. NOT IN!!!!
    A Stable diet of 8p Mr. freezes.
    Being blown away by Snes graphics
    The excitement on christmas eve, (Brummy Tom
    when you believed in Santa
    )
    Fortnight in Gorey
    Pocket Money (£3 a week, yeah!)


    I was just about to say pocket money but i only got £1:eek: The amount of crap you could buy with it..100 penny sweets. Do penny sweets still exist?


  • #28
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Elba101 wrote: »
    I was just about to say pocket money but i only got £1:eek: The amount of crap you could buy with it..100 penny sweets. Do penny sweets still exist?

    Yeah, they're a fiver now.


  • #29
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Stee wrote: »
    A Stable diet of 8p Mr. freezes.
    Nowhere else is Blue a flavor. mmm
    The excitement on christmas eve, (Brummy Tom
    when you believed in Santa
    )

    BrummyTom is the only innocent thing left on AH, don't go shattering his illusions!
    Pocket Money (£3 a week, yeah!)

    £3 a week, ya rich backstard, I was happy with my 10p bag or a wham bar!


  • #30
    chakotha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭chakotha


    Summer holidays at the grandparents farm.


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  • #31
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,387 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    foxyboxer wrote: »
    Playing "World Cup"

    No hatching!!


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