Childhood Memories

Mimojo · 15-03-2011 10:21PM #1

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 · 15-03-2011 10:28PM

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

Chaotic_Forces · 15-03-2011 10:29PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:33PM

Playing doctors and nurses with me cousin..:D

lorweld · 15-03-2011 10:35PM

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

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

Lawrence1895 · 15-03-2011 10:37PM

- '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 · 15-03-2011 10:37PM

bryaner wrote: »

Playing doctors and nurses with me cousin..:D

Mine too! She loved being examined alright.

marcsignal · 15-03-2011 10:38PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:41PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:42PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:42PM

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

Mine too! She loved being examined alright.

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

easyeason3 · 15-03-2011 10:42PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:43PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:43PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:44PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:44PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:45PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:46PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:47PM

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

Chaotic_Forces · 15-03-2011 10:49PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:50PM

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 · 15-03-2011 10:58PM

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 · 15-03-2011 11:01PM

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 · 15-03-2011 11:04PM

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 · 15-03-2011 11:04PM

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 · 15-03-2011 11:05PM

Actually just lovin' West Cork full stop.

Jesus Wept · 15-03-2011 11:06PM

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 · 15-03-2011 11:06PM

Lee Majors on Sunday night.

tan11ie · 15-03-2011 11:08PM

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! · 15-03-2011 11:09PM

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 · 15-03-2011 11:10PM

The-Rigger wrote: »

This is not good.

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

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