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

[amethyst]

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

pee the bed

One thing I did not do

[little miss sunshine]

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

pee the bed

[Jedi Knight]

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

Read the Beano
Collect Panini stickers
Build "dens" in the local woods
Build a "tarzan swing" over the creek/ stream in said woods
Fall off said tarzan swing into the creek/ stream
go on "Goonie" adventures that always turned out not quite as good as a "Goonie" adventure
Ride a BMX
Play football in the street (sometimes with a pepsi-can)
Sit on the kerb under the streetlight at dusk and just talk about **** as other people ride around on BMX's
Get "knacked" or "knack" someone else (I try to avoid fights nowadays)

[victorbrunswick]

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

Having a hard time getting up for school at 6:30 AM. Now I'm automatically up at 5 to 6:30 AM with no alarm regardless of what time I went to bed last night.

[darren]

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

yeah being atschool from around nine to half 3.
having to be in by a certain time for school next day.
having to visit my granny every sunday and being kissed on the cheek by her.

the day before goin back to school at the end of summer holidays.
when the weekend ends and school again on monday.

getting changed having a shower with the other kids.

[Powdered toast man]

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

Wearing orange corduroy dungarees with a blue jumper and Clark's Commandos.
Build a Tamiya monster truck kit.
Not being allowed to sit in the front seat of the family car.
Being at school from 9am to 3.30pm and thinking the day would never end.
Weekends were longer and there was always a friend to play with.
Shoving washers into those bubble gum machines outside the newsagents and getting handfuls of free gum!
Riding a pushbike through a 5' deep outdoor swimming pool.
Saturday teatime eating fish and chips and watching wrestling then A-team/Knight Rider/Superboy on the tele
Begging to plug the Sega into the only TV in the house when Dads was watching something.
Putting spray polish on the slide in the park.
Tying the swings up in knots
The feeling of dread on that horrid, dead day before you go back to school after the long summer holiday.
Shopping for shoes and having your growing feet measured by that sliding ruler thingy.
Actually being afraid of teachers.
Actually being able to remember the phone numbers of your friends and family.
My folks had a load of bricks delivered to our house when I was about 8 and the lorry driver let my mate and I go up and down on the tail lift! That would never happen now thanks to the H&S police.
Being scared of stupid things such as odd shapes, noises, patterns etc.


"So this is 'The Daddy' - the 'ardcase. Carlin, is it? Don't look much to me, Carlin...you're the little toerag who thumped the officer at Rowley...fancy yerself do ya, Carlin? Thumpin' officers, eh?"

[xmark1234]

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

i didnt see your reply either until just philip lol

[philipdalton]

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

go school lol

You said more or less the same as me copycat!

[80sChav]

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

I think that there is a fair bit, I don't do now compared to the 1970s/1980s, going to different places on Buses and Trains when you could go to far far more differing places than these day's and quicker too without the bus going miles and miles and takingan hour or so or going at times/returning at times that is not the time you want to return or go, is one thing I don't do but still a bit, watching Saturday Morning TV - right until Grandstand at Lunchtime - when there'd be a special part of it allocated to the Football.


As well too, watching Sunday Morning TV with all the Music type thing's that was on is another, as well as other thing's like watching different TV programmes too (though I still watch some) as well as say not going to different shop's as some are no longer going as they have closed or the choice in them may just not be the same/similar- if they are still there.

80sChav

[darren]

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

same with me regarding checking books in the library but also i dont read books anymore i used to
do it all the time.

and hubba bubba blowing it up as far and as big as i could.

Checking out books and records from the library. (Nowadays I prefer to buy them)
Settling in on a Friday nite with a TV dinner and Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas on the tube.

[xmark1234]

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

go school lol

[victorbrunswick]

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

Checking out books and records from the library. (Nowadays I prefer to buy them)
Settling in on a Friday nite with a TV dinner and Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas on the tube.

[Beach Life]

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

Buying Hubba Bubba chewing gum and blowing bubbles as big as I could, sealed it and popped the bubble outside the mouth.

The excitement of having my first ice cream soda with coke.

Wearing huge chandeliar type earrings, bangles and wearing drain pipe jeans. Passing a test for dance and still have the badge which was called Disco Dancing (prefer disco name to the name of nightclub) and the music played was KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up

Discovering space dust and the soda stream machine.

Watching videos at the weekend and buying albums/singles/cassettes from Woolworths.

Watching Black Beauty, Grange Hill and Tuckers Luck

Walking someones dog for a bit of pocket money and the poor dog being frightened of this wind up bird toy I showed her and the poor old girl ran all over the house like crazy. Remember Gran always giving her titbits and the dog would do this begging noise when she saw gran in the kitchen.

[philipdalton]

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

Going to school

[darren]

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

another for me is gurgling any type of liquid.

sniffing pepper.
playing football in the street wth other kids.