Things That Were Acceptable In Your Youth...

Nodin · 25-03-2012 07:49PM

cursai wrote: »

In my youth it was acceptable to have sex with sixteen year olds.

Aye.

I think it was always considered bad form to wake them, though.

KKkitty · 25-03-2012 07:49PM

Kids simply playing in muck and dirt. Now the majority of parents are hygiene conscious so much that they fear that all germs are harmful.
Being in a pub with your parents after a certain hour
Penny sweets
Your mam giving you fizzy drinks and taytos to accompany sandwiches for your lunch

ICANN · 25-03-2012 07:52PM

Licking your finger, sticking it in the salt pot and licking it off again, no fear of a heart attack.

Checking all of the phone boxes for change.

Going into dilapidated houses and having a good nose around then playing in building sites and making dens out of all the builders materials.

Eating a findus crispy pancake for dinner.

Sitting on my front door step and stopping random passers by and asking them personal questions.

Going out to the corner shop to get the teacher's lunch.

My father taking the car boot cover off and sitting in the boot because there were 5 children already stuffed into the back car seat.

Wattle · 25-03-2012 07:57PM

Gary Glitter.

LH Pathe · 25-03-2012 08:11PM

leaving the house, without notice, without a mobile phone, to go and hang w/ travlurz. often from factory rooves

aujopimur · 25-03-2012 08:37PM

Giving the priest a blow job.

My name is URL · 25-03-2012 08:38PM

When I lived in a housing estate as a kid; we used to go on the hunt for stuff to burn on the bonfire.. we'd start about a month before Halloween and spend countless hours building the stuff up. It was such great fun, and completely harmless fun at that.

Whenever you hear about similar endeavours these days, there's always a scumbaggery element added to it.. that gives me a sad. Have kids really got that much worse or has everyone else just become more cynical and cold?

Conchir · 25-03-2012 08:48PM

Me and my friends used to climb into the building sites near our estate, getting chased by the builders and having great craic, when we were around 7 years old.

Also just general kid stuff, climbing trees and making 'bases' in them. This was all only ten years ago at most, but I don't see any kids that age doing that now. My own cousins that age just spend their whole day playing shyte on their DS and the like, sad really.

rannerap · 25-03-2012 09:31PM

I still play pokemon on my game boy, its a fairly common thing :rolleyes:

BackScrub · 25-03-2012 10:51PM

Asking for 'tick' in the shop because there was no money for groceries.

The same shop owner giving you a 'christmas box' when you had paid off said tick.

Driving the tractor through town at 8 years of age hoping the guards wouldn't pull you for not having a stabiliser bar.

Going to school with the smell of the farm on you.

Hiding ammunition for the IRA.

ihsb · 25-03-2012 10:59PM

Sitting on Santa's lap at christmas... it wasn't allowed in Brown Thomas anyway.

Smidge · 25-03-2012 11:02PM

"Scuttin" on the back of a bin lorry/truck/bus

Kev.OC · 25-03-2012 11:09PM

KKkitty wrote: »

Kids simply playing in muck and dirt. Now the majority of parents are hygiene conscious so much that they fear that all germs are harmful.
Being in a pub with your parents after a certain hour
Penny sweets
Your mam giving you fizzy drinks and taytos to accompany sandwiches for your lunch

Damn you woman! I was going to post that!

God I miss when penny sweets used to cost 1p. Not like the 2c they charge now, the thievin' bastards!

Like other people here have said, the whole disappearing for a day thing was pretty cool. "I'm going...back later" and you'd disappear for 6 hours not a bother.

And whatever happened to tree-houses?

KKkitty · 26-03-2012 12:06AM

Kev.OC wrote: »

KKkitty wrote: »

Kids simply playing in muck and dirt. Now the majority of parents are hygiene conscious so much that they fear that all germs are harmful.
Being in a pub with your parents after a certain hour
Penny sweets
Your mam giving you fizzy drinks and taytos to accompany sandwiches for your lunch

Damn you woman! I was going to post that!

God I miss when penny sweets used to cost 1p. Not like the 2c they charge now, the thievin' bastards!

Like other people here have said, the whole disappearing for a day thing was pretty cool. "I'm going...back later" and you'd disappear for 6 hours not a bother.

And whatever happened to tree-houses?

Sorry but you have to be quicker than that

policarp · 26-03-2012 12:10AM

Conkers. . .

Smidge · 26-03-2012 12:23AM

Bring back the "nit nurse"
Fecking kids walking in the schools now

policarp · 26-03-2012 12:34AM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Going swimming in the local resevoir, pi$$ing in same, then having a big healthy glass of water (from same resevoir) when you went home.

I drank some of your diluted urine.
Sandyford you say.
And it tasted like Budweiser. . .

ToddyDoody · 26-03-2012 12:35AM

Having a gap in the back garden fence where you could come and go to the neighbours

gnfnrhead · 26-03-2012 12:37AM

Explosions in the Sky wrote: »

I'm 20 and I play Pokemon yellow on my Gameboy colour (behind closed doors of course )

I'm 24 and still go back to it every couple of months

Was highly disappointed to find that the old games don't fit into the DS. No backlight on the colour means its a pain to play once it starts getting late

wonderfulname · 26-03-2012 12:55AM

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Was highly disappointed to find that the old games don't fit into the DS. No backlight on the colour means its a pain to play once it starts getting late

I combatted this by playing online.

Have to say I'm amazed at how many Gameboy enthusiasts are coming out of the woodwork.

Toothpaste89 · 26-03-2012 01:31AM

A Tamagotchi to me was the best game in the world. Wish I had one now

starviewadams · 26-03-2012 01:40AM

Climbing onto the roof of the local church during mass and shouting swear words through the open windows.

Turning up after weddings in said church with a group of mates and looking for a 'grushy'

Being sent down to the pub on a Saturday night (at 8 or 9 years of age!) at closing time to collect your granda.

policarp · 26-03-2012 01:41AM

What is youth nowadays?
Kids can't be kids. . .

policarp · 26-03-2012 01:43AM

starviewadams wrote: »

Climbing onto the roof of the local church during mass and shouting swear words through the open windows.

Turning up after weddings in said church with a group of mates and looking for a 'grushy'

Being sent down to the pub on a Saturday night (at 8 or 9 years of age!) at closing time to collect your granda.

Precisely. . .

Slunk · 26-03-2012 01:53AM

Playing paths, on the volley and 40 40. Using the neighbours gates as a goal and hiding in random gardens and side entrances and hedges.

EGAR · 26-03-2012 01:55AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Does that still happen in schools?

I remember it well, all getting lined up and the nurse checks us all

If you have nits you get some piece of paper about the sheep dip shampoo which you took home to the Mammy

No big deal, is it unacceptable nowadys

Nowadays one gets letters from the teacher to say lice are on the rampage in the school, again. And during P & T meetings the teacher tells you that *we all know which child keeps bringing them to school as the parents do not look after her but we can't say anything to them*.....

Small man never got them but that's why I keep his hair clipped with a #3.

Stealing apples from the grumpy neighbour whom we were all afraid of. He actually turned out to be a real nice guy

who knew well who nicked his apples.

Rodeo on the cows in the field next to the house

. Driving a Honda 50 over ditches on old timber boards

, mostly ending up in the ditch. Building soap box cars and *racing* them down the road.

Still alive and kicking.

Washington Irving · 26-03-2012 02:03AM

Slunk wrote: »

Playing paths, on the volley and 40 40.

Paths? I never heard of that

carbon nanotube · 26-03-2012 02:09AM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

...that are not accpetable now.

Being let out to play at 8am and not being expected back until dinner time.
Going down the shops to get a packet of fags for yore ma
'Catch a ni&&er by the toe'
being told to get married just coz you were polled
NOT leaving your husband / wife coz he / she is a cnut

Any more...........

picking blackberrys on wild bushes without being thought of as some weird alien

*yummmm!

also using a magnifying glass to burn selected insects to pieces on a footpath whilst talking gibberish about the effects of gamma rays to your cousin who was too busy winding up a evil kenevil bike for the 10,000 time to listen to you

delaad · 26-03-2012 02:45AM

Being physically assaulted by teachers for routine misdemeanours, otherwise known as corporal punishment.

The rebellious response to this state-sanctioned correction procedure was, in our national school anyway, either to comment on the effect of the delivery of each caning(e.g., I recall a student who managed to classify each blow - of four - with adjectives beginning with 'd'), or to persistentlly withdraw your proffered hand moments before the delivery of the strike, thus leaving the "master" attempting to whip thin air.

My cousin, Patrick, was lightening at the latter tactic, thus generating suppressed gales of laughter amongst the rest of the class, to the extent that the "master" only later resorted to the cane when he had forgotten what happened the last time he tried to use it.

Oh happy days!

Jimoslimos · 26-03-2012 02:46AM

Saul-Goode9 wrote: »

Paths? I never heard of that

Is that like Kerbs? Standing on opposite sides of the road and trying to rebound the ball off the kerb edge - can only play in housing estates and not anymore since too many (second) cars parked outside driveways

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