I remember...

TheUsual · 18-04-2013 05:50PM

Maggie Thatcher was alive.

ScumLord · 18-04-2013 05:55PM

I remember the craic we used to get up to as children too, setting things on fire, jumping in rivers, stealing apples, stealing cars given half the chance, taking things apart, cycling our bikes on the main roads.

It's not computer games that are at fault, I can't think of any parent around today that would allow their little babies out into the scary world. They'll end up giving the child a nintendo DS and telling them to sit in the corner of the garden out of the sun and not to touch the dirt with their new clothes.

gdavis · 18-04-2013 05:55PM

white dogsh1te

gdavis · 18-04-2013 05:55PM

jr ice pops

Fratton Fred · 18-04-2013 05:56PM

I remember when it used to snow for days on end, oh that was March wasn't it.

Actually I remember when it snowed as a kid, I'd wake up to see the snow and go running to the back door and bang excitedly on it shouting mum, dad, it's snowed.....can I come in now!

Chucken · 18-04-2013 06:05PM

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I remember my older sisters used to tape top of the pops every week. And on this one week there was a girl called Vanessa paradise singing joe le taxi. Then when everybody was out rewinding it because she was just fabulous. And her nipples showing through her top.
I was 7 years old and found myself thinking, I really need to see some more of this kind of stuff.

Missus Johnny Depp...
http://theredlist.fr/media/database/muses/couples/art_culture/vanessa-paradis-et-johnny-deep/002_vanessa-paradis-et-johnny-deep_theredlist.jpg

TheUsual · 18-04-2013 06:05PM

gdavis wrote: »

white dogsh1te

According to scientists, this is down to dogs being fed free bones that the butcher would give out. Now fancy dogfood and no bones means no white poop.

http://www.caninest.com/white-dog-poop/

Norwesterner · 18-04-2013 06:08PM

Full.Duck wrote: »

I remember varuca's were all the rage. People even had sock for them. Ye never hear about them any more. Like they just vanished. Did they find a cure or something?

True, and warts on schoolkids fingers.
where'd they go?

elaney · 18-04-2013 06:09PM

I remember when you could sit in the passenger seat without a seatbelt as a child :eek:.

Norwesterner · 18-04-2013 06:13PM

Smoking on a plane, in the cinema, at a restaurant, even in hospital corridors.
I remember a bank teller counting out money in front of me with a cigarrette hanging from his mouth, like a character from Goodfellas.

BattleCorp · 18-04-2013 06:30PM

I remember being able to look down and see my penis.

:(:(:(:(

BattleCorp · 18-04-2013 06:32PM

Chucken wrote: »

Missus Johnny Depp...
http://theredlist.fr/media/database/muses/couples/art_culture/vanessa-paradis-et-johnny-deep/002_vanessa-paradis-et-johnny-deep_theredlist.jpg

Ex Mrs. Depp

18-04-2013 06:52PM

BattleCorp wrote: »

I remember being able to look down and see my penis. :(:(:(:(

You pregnant?

Los Lobos · 18-04-2013 07:07PM

I remember being able to get a quarter pounder with cheese, a can of coke, ten fags and a box of matches, and having change out of a fiver.

18-04-2013 07:10PM

I remember, I remember
The house where I was born,
The little window where the sun
Came peeping in at morn;
He never came a wink too soon
Nor brought too long a day;
But now, I often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.

I remember, I remember
The roses red and white,
The violets and the lily cups--
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburnum on his birthday,--
The tree is living yet!

I remember, I remember
Where I was used to swing,
And thought the air must rush as fresh
To swallows on the wing;
My spirit flew in feathers then
That is so heavy now,
The summer pools could hardly cool
The fever on my brow.

I remember, I remember
The fir-trees dark and high;
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky:
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm farther off from Heaven
Than when I was a boy.

Thomas Hood

daithi1970 · 18-04-2013 07:16PM

Nostalgia's just not what it used to be...

daithi

Gorilla Rising · 18-04-2013 07:19PM

KKkitty wrote: »

I remember when kids played outside and not on computer games.

I remember when kids played computer games AND played outside.

Just like they do today.

RustyNut · 18-04-2013 07:25PM

I remember when rubbers were illegal.

retalivity · 18-04-2013 07:25PM

I remember cans of SMAK after someone brought it up in another thread.
also arctic rolls...havent seen one of those in years.
living in the gaeltacht and the 9 weeks of bliss when all these strange exotic girls from dublin came to your home to learn irish.

Hellrazer · 18-04-2013 07:28PM

I remember when 20 cigarettes and a box of matches were a pound and you could buy "loosies(single cigarettes)" for 10 p each a 2 litre of finest cider was 2pound.

You could go out and get hammered and smoke your head off for 3 pounds.

A0 · 18-04-2013 08:26PM

I remember when Boards were not online... Had to mail posts to everybody. No trolls, these were THE days.

Ilyana 2.0 · 18-04-2013 08:49PM

I remember when black bin bags and a mask were the height of Halloweeen costumes

LizT · 18-04-2013 08:55PM

I remember coming home from school to watch Bosco and the Den

mr kr0nik · 18-04-2013 09:13PM

Reminiscing isn't what it used to be. In my day I was able to remember all the good old days. These days I can't remember anything.

razorblunt · 18-04-2013 09:26PM

Getting hit on the inner thigh when playing jumper for goalposts at 9.30 at night on a Tuesday July night. Stung like mad.

Tigger · 18-04-2013 10:34PM

monkeysnapper wrote: »

I remember my older sisters used to tape top of the pops every week. And on this one week there was a girl called Vanessa paradise singing joe le taxi. Then when everybody was out rewinding it because she was just fabulous. And her nipples showing through her top.
I was 7 years old and found myself thinking, I really need to see some more of this kind of stuff.

no nipples sticking through in joe : she was 14
i think you mean this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwKn6fhtxtQ

Irish Guitarist · 18-04-2013 10:35PM

deccurley wrote: »

Thinly veiled "My family was minted in the 80s" comment :pac:

Not really. The Atari 2600 had already been out about six years when my father bought one. I think the one he bought might have been second hand.

I had loads of aunts and uncles so I got a decent amount of Confirmation money and bought the Commodore 64 with it.

MonaPizza · 19-04-2013 01:00AM

RustyNut wrote: »

I remember when rubbers were illegal.

I know....feckin tippex

Norwesterner · 19-04-2013 07:32AM

"Eenie Meenie, miney Mo
Catch an N-word by his toe"
I remember being taught this in school by middle-class, respectable teachers.

yeppydeppy · 19-04-2013 09:48AM

Marathon bars and supercans of coke or fanta.
Boxes of 10 cigarettes. A box of matches for 5p.
Payphones, call cards and the 088 network.

I remember...

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