What you did in the 70,s and 80s but you dont do now

[Kiop]

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?

Only ten minutes ago I opened a can and started talking about the old ring pulls. Then I come on here - and....spooky!

[Richard1978]

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.

[Danny]

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?

[scotchmist]

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 !!

[Danny]

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

[rossobantam]

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

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!

[Marine Boy]

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

...Do homework on the Fine Fare roof in the rain, lol

I love this one!

[Marine Boy]

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.

[MommaMystique]

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.

[Kiop]

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...

[amethyst]

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

[Danny]

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

Carry pies in a bag in my jacket pocket

Who else recalls that? - sandwich shops were totally unheard of , and even the concept of them seemed ridiculous (What ? you mean like somebody makes up the sandwich so I pay extra for that? Pah! - no chance!) so every time you went anywhere the great seventies staple of 'a pie in a paper bag' was crammed into your pocket

[frame]

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

talk in a high pitched voice

[rossobantam]

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

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!)

[yelever]

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

Used to read Fred Basset and The Gambols books before bed. Now just listening to my mp3 player or just come online lol