Things That Were Acceptable In Your Youth...

mackg · 26-03-2012 04:05AM

krudler wrote: »

arcades, real ones with proper video games not stupid dance mat ones

Bowling alley in Tralee and then later the Snooker Hall serious craic. Tekken 3 was the first arcade fighter I ever finished in the arcade.:)

wonderfulname wrote: »

I combatted this by playing online.

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

Dragon Warrior Monsters!!! This does not bode well for the coming exams

/:) I'm not really sure!

paulyd83 · 26-03-2012 05:31AM

Getting chases off people
making bases
climbing trees
playing IRA
playing kick the can
always having a football when out

Meauldsegosha · 26-03-2012 07:33AM

Knick knacks. Kids don't do the anymore. Should probably be glad about that as an adult I don't think I would see the funny side.

ziggy23 · 26-03-2012 08:22AM

Wibbs wrote: »

Smoking in cinemas and hospitals. I awoke after an operation to remove my tonsils(which grew back anyway)
I've heard this happen to someone else can they really grow back??

Water fights with all the other kids on your road
Tip the can, pussy four corners.
Having scabby arms and legs all the time from falling out of a tree etc.

Big Nasty · 26-03-2012 08:39AM

Chipping in £10 a head to buy an old banger to race around the fields.:cool:

Gummy Panda · 26-03-2012 08:53AM

Sarannewrap wrote: »

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

A lot of women on this thread like Pokemon :eek:

/mental note: Dress up as Snorlax and ask for belly rub :P

mikemac1 · 26-03-2012 09:17AM

EGAR wrote: »

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.

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Nit nurse is a thing of the past, in some ways it's a pity,as some parents don't treat their child who then re-infects everyone else.

I didn't realize there was such a fear of offending parents.

The fastest possible way is to bring in the public health nurse, line up the kids and get them checked.

And now this is gone in case parents get offended

Nobody is singling them out, if a child has nits doesn't mean you're a bad parent. It just happens but now it seems the nurse isn't used as families would get singled out
Failing to treat it with the shampoo makes you a bad parent though

Nothingbetter2d · 26-03-2012 09:18AM

paulyd83 wrote: »

Getting chases off people
making bases
climbing trees
playing IRA
playing kick the can
always having a football when out

dont forget cow tipping & making mazes out of haybales

as125634do · 26-03-2012 10:19AM

Fago! wrote: »

Shifting a teenage girl.

U can sprak for the tighteous youth of today. Theres still plenty of old more sensible people who dont have a problem with 20s.dating teenagets

Mickey Dazzler · 26-03-2012 10:31AM

taking a dump on the side of the road and using your sock as tissue paper.

counterlock · 26-03-2012 10:58AM

Making appointments with the travellers in the class to fight them at the bridge after school
Cycling everwhere with no brakes and having no sole on your right shoe as a result

SEPT 23 1989 · 26-03-2012 11:00AM

Scutting

Cee-Jay-Cee · 26-03-2012 01:06PM

Two of us on the front passenger seat of dads car (another 5 in the back) on the way to football training.

Lying on the back rear window shelf in the car on a long journey.

Sneaking a lift on the trailer of a tractor as it passed on the road (with out the driver knowing) and jumping off when ever you were at where you wanted to go.

Cycling everywhere without a helmet.

Disappearing for the entire day without an amber alert being announced.

Eating stuff you found on the roadside.

Fighting someone at school and when you beat him or were beaten no one called the guards and no one reported anyone for assault.

emeraldstar · 26-03-2012 01:15PM

Penny for the Black Babies.

jester77 · 26-03-2012 01:17PM

Packing an underage team into a car to go to an away game. I remember 14 of us fitting into a hatchback to go to a game, 3 in the front, a lot in the back and another 4 or 5 in the boot!

Big Nasty · 26-03-2012 01:18PM

CJC999 wrote: »

Eating stuff you found on the roadside.

You've just reminded me a friend of mine told me recently that they used to rip chewing gum up off the street and recycle it! :eek::eek::eek:

R P McMurphy · 26-03-2012 01:25PM

getting rolled down a steep hill inside a barrell

tinyk68 · 26-03-2012 01:33PM

all the adults on our road could give out to any of the kids, it didn't matter whose they were.

we used to get "spins" in an empty trailor on the back of a car, there could be a half dozen of us.

playing tennis in the middle of the road when wimbeldon was on.

playing on the diggers and dumpers in building sites.

Big Nasty · 26-03-2012 01:35PM

R P McMurphy wrote: »

getting rolled down a steep hill inside a barrell

Using half of one of these as a see-saw! How nobody lost a hand is beyond me. :eek:

tinyk68 · 26-03-2012 01:53PM

my friend lost her nail on one of those see-saws:eek:

SteoL · 26-03-2012 02:47PM

Lighting bangers and putting them in people's letterboxes.

Just chilling down the valley with a few joints of a 5 spot you bought between 5 or more of your mates.

Walking the shops on your 15 minute break at school to have a smoke.

Up to 10 people sharing said smoke.

Looseys I.e. Buying loose cigarettes

Going to over 18 raves at 15 And getting in no bother.

CrazyRabbit · 26-03-2012 02:54PM

Mostly mentioned above but...

Holding on to the back of a bus to get a free lift into town. Actually...pretty much any van/lorry that you could get a grip on to.

Teachers beating up students. Ah, Mr Casey from the De La Salle school in Ballyfermot...my arm still has an indent of your fist.

Making treeshouses down in the Phoenix Park, or rope swings over the 40 foot drops/ledges.

Standing in the back of cars/vans just behind the 2 front seats.

99.5% of the irish population being white & Irish, and actually being fearful of that 1 black family that lived down the road (very embarrassing now, but as a kid I didn't know any better).

Being allowed to go for 1-2 weeks vacation during the summer to Wexford (from Dublin), with £20 spending money, a tent, no train ticket and only being 12/13 years old. I did that until I was 17.

Underage drinking. Was given my first pint when I was 9 and at a wedding. Well, it was the first that my parents knew about. There was a place in the Dublin city centre that sold 2 litre bottles of alcohol really cheaply to anyone. They didn't care about age.

Mooning cars on the motorway, or while in the back of a bus.

Spending hours playing computer games. Anything that kept you quiet for a few hours was 'good' as far as parents could see.

Building crossbows/gats and using them to hunt rats/mice/bees.

Going into neighbours houses even though your parents didn't know them very well.

Being forced to go to church even though you didn't believe.

Jesus Wept · 26-03-2012 02:58PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

Kids hanging out the back of tractors and your Dad driving along
If you slip you go straight under the wheels of the trailer but sure it was normal to me, kids don't see danger

Putting children on top of a trailer of square bales for some extra weight.
Bouncing around way up there with your brothers, dodging tree branches and loving it

Fook, how was I not killed on the farm

Some were. Brother of someone in my class in primary school, heard something about a bailer, dunno the details.

:-/

Nothingbetter2d · 26-03-2012 03:06PM

walking 1 mile home on my own from school when i was 5 years old.

cant do that anymore... too many freaks out there.

Nothingbetter2d · 26-03-2012 03:08PM

The-Rigger wrote: »

Some were. Brother of someone in my class in primary school, heard something about a bailer, dunno the details.

:-/

when i was a kid we used to get up on top of the turf trailer while dad would drive the tractor around in the bogs.

he sank a tractor once or twice lol had to get a bord na mona bulldozer to pull the tractor out of the bog hole.

Run_to_da_hills · 26-03-2012 03:16PM

Hopping on and off on the rear left hand corner of a double decker bus. Health & Safety regulations would not accept this today.

marnie d · 26-03-2012 04:37PM

Staying at my aunt's or having my cousins stay with us for weeks or months at a time during the summer, this just isn't done anymore.

Making clothes for barbie out of scraps of material instead of always using shop bought barbie clothes.

Reading books, how often do you see kids do this now?

Being actually sent out in the sun, being told not to waste the good weather, before being roared at in the evening to come back for your tea.

Treehouses in the forest.

Drinking the milk fresh from the farm.

Chasing the local kids who used to rob our apple tree, with buckets of water, and by throwing old rotten apples at them.

EGAR · 26-03-2012 10:36PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

I didn't realize there was such a fear of offending parents.

The fastest possible way is to bring in the public health nurse, line up the kids and get them checked.

And now this is gone in case parents get offended

Nobody is singling them out, if a child has nits doesn't mean you're a bad parent. It just happens but now it seems the nurse isn't used as families would get singled out
Failing to treat it with the shampoo makes you a bad parent though

I know, it makes no sense. I got lice when I was in school which was years ago

and the stuff they put on my head nearly peeled my skin off and smelled like nail varnish remover or paint stripper. It's not that hard to get rid of headlice but some parents don't seem to make the effort and the teachers seem to have problem calling them up on it.

LH Pathe · 27-03-2012 02:44AM

Crossing pedestrian bridges over motorways. From the outside.. at rush hour. Back when they didn't gve a hoot

Eroticfishcake · 27-03-2012 04:12AM

Having your school books covered in the most awful wallpaper.

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