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  • #16
    Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

    Buy 45 singlesgot rid of my collection to a DJ about 20 years ago.

    Drink fizzy pop,listen to the top 20 on the radio on sunday evening.

    Riding a bike

    Went ice skating once and never wanted to do it again,that was an experience

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    • #17
      Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

      What I did in the 70s and 80s but don't do now? Let me think...

      Go scrumping
      Go bird nesting
      Go climbing trees
      Set fire to stuff (not proud of it)
      Play computers games on a vic-20 (3.5k) and think they were great
      Ride a bicycle
      Vandalism (not proud of it)
      Go sledging
      Do homework on the Fine Fare roof in the rain, lol
      Steal records form the library (not proud of it)
      Tell lies (not proud of it)
      Drink lager (not proud of it, LOL)
      Have an infatuation with Madonna
      Play mabs (marbles)
      Play cricket
      etc...
      Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.

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      • #18
        Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

        Play out from dawn till dusk.
        Eat a bucket load of sandwiches at the beach then run round like a loony and not throw up.
        Not be able to sleep on Christmas Eve.
        Believe in the tooth fairy..... now I am the tooth fairy.
        Roll down grass hills laughing all the way.
        Have a bath in Nan's kitchen sink or her old tin bath which she would warm up on the range.
        Help Nan with her mangle when she washed her laundry in the bath.
        Took the white stone to Nan's front step.
        Get a huge bag of mix up from the post office for only 10p.
        Believe that tap water was really corporation pop.

        I cant go any further some memories are sad and i now have tears.
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        Count your friends amongst the stars....
        And your enemies on the fingers of one foot!

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        • #19
          Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

          Oh god, Momma, that last line cut me up. I'm sniffling now.

          Playing outside from dawn until dusk: Oh yes! I used to do exactly the same thing. Very difficult to get me back in the house on a summer's evening.

          And as for rolling down a grassy hill; I am determined to do that again before I'm 50. Just over two years to find somewhere no one will spot me.
          Last edited by Marine Boy; 09-08-2009, 19:14.

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          • #20
            Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

            Originally posted by Kiop View Post
            ...Do homework on the Fine Fare roof in the rain, lol
            I love this one!

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            • #21
              Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

              Originally posted by rossobantam View Post
              listen to the Top 40 on Radio 1 , Sundays tea-time

              listen to Radio Luxemburg secretly whilst in bed (early teens!)

              Play with my Airfix soldiers (though I now COLLECT them)

              Play many board games (although we have family staying with us at the mo so I've been playing Monopoly most of today - like I used to as a kid - with their kids cos I watched them & they had NO IDEA about the rules, and I ended up roped in) Been many years, but forgot how good a game it can be

              Play marbles

              Watch any decent telly ! (only 3 channels of course back then, but quality over quantity!)
              couple more...

              Have me tea made for me all the time..mums eh!
              Mum washing my hair over the sink.."keep your head down"
              Being taken to the (gents) barbers.."what's he having?" "Short back & sides"...no choice back then! (only bit I liked was that scent they sprayed on your hair at the end, in the round squeezy ball thing)
              Mum checking my hair for nits.
              Calling ALL family friends "Mr" or "Mrs" .....would never dream of using their first names!
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              • #22
                Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

                Apprentice Fitters and Electricians taking on the trainee miners at football - every couple of months in seventies.

                Up the pit soon on a Fri afternoon and right out onto the pitch, faces black with dust, overalls rolled down to waist with the arms tied round you.
                It was terrifying if you got possession and their defence was charging at you with steel toe-cap pit boots on!
                How quickly you learned to boot it to a team mate - with no fancy dribbling unless you wanted to limp for a long time.
                Training officers chortling and passing their 50p bets to each other.

                Nowadays the HSE would stop it right away or some little wimp would try and sue ("They shouldn't have let me play it") if they got a bruise

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                • #23
                  Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

                  Practice my bagpipes in the house driving my family and neighbours insane

                  Pool tournaments round at all my mates houses as we were too poor to afford a pool table

                  Watch straight pornography on VHS that was probably 10th generation

                  driving lessons

                  eating dangerous quantities of Kola Cubes, Clove Rock, ABC's and other evil Scottish sweeties which I'm now paying for in dental bills

                  TRying to get served in off-licences and pubs

                  Listening to the Top 40 on Sunday afternoons

                  Buying 45-singles half-price out of Woolworths

                  Shopping trips with my mother

                  Wearing my cousins' hand-me-downs

                  Fighting with my sister

                  Interviews with useless careers advisers

                  Pep-talks from my Uncle

                  Filling my car up with 4-star petrol

                  Writing letters to pen friends/lonely hearts

                  Getting smashed in Glasgow pubs with poncy pretentious names ie. "Joe Paparazzi's"

                  THANK GOD THAT'S ALL OVER !!

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                  • #24
                    Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

                    Got another one - spotted this yesterday when channel hopping and I saw a couple of mins of the Professionals

                    Opeing a ring-pull can and then putting the ring and its attached oval shape tab (from the can lid) into the bin

                    Remember the days when they weren't fixed to the lid?

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                    • #25
                      Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

                      I remember they changed at the end of the 1980s, but some brands still to stay longer with them than others.
                      The Trickster On The Roof

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                      • #26
                        Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

                        Originally posted by Danny View Post
                        Got another one - spotted this yesterday when channel hopping and I saw a couple of mins of the Professionals

                        Opeing a ring-pull can and then putting the ring and its attached oval shape tab (from the can lid) into the bin

                        Remember the days when they weren't fixed to the lid?
                        Only ten minutes ago I opened a can and started talking about the old ring pulls. Then I come on here - and....spooky!
                        Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.

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                        • #27
                          Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

                          Me & a friend were watching Deliverance a few years ago & he spotted that people were drinking out of cans with the old ring pull, & mentioned it wasn't something you see any more, even though the change had only been 4-5 years before.
                          The Trickster On The Roof

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                          • #28
                            Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

                            Watching The Equalizer in the late 80's at night on my own with a bag of sweets and a comic.

                            Going into derelict buildings with my friends in the 80's and early 90's.

                            Making dens with my mates.
                            My Youtube retro & new video game reviews, glitches, and more,

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                            • #29
                              Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

                              Originally posted by culnara View Post
                              when things werent going my way or I'd hurt myself doing stuff
                              I used to say things like OCH, ACH, OW and OOYAH !!

                              now i just swear like a trooper LOL
                              Ooyah? LOL!
                              "...And that's what I've done. Maintained it for 20 years. This old brooms had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time."
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                              • #30
                                Re: What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

                                Building Dams
                                Playing outside from Dawn to Dusk
                                Taking part in 50+ a side football matches
                                Swimming in the sea
                                Spinning around and around till dizzy
                                Eating a whole pack of Polos at once
                                Trying to make lego buildings as tall as I was
                                Stretching my chewing gum as long as possible
                                Replaying the FA Cup final in the garden after watching it on TV
                                Trying to do skids on my bike
                                Trying to do wheelies on my bike
                                Build bonfires for fireworks night

                                Wish I could do some of that stuff now...The Dam Building on a day like today is very appealing
                                I go back to the original Jethro Tull - Yes! The seed drill inventor!

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