the simple pleasures of life that we have lost

victorludorum

Philly_Q said:

munckee said:

mikeyrob73 said:

27 a side games of football down the park in the summer that would last for an afternoon 

I remember a game between all the young people in my village (before it became a small town, it was all fields back then) against a large group of french students.  It was like Agincourt.

When I was in junior school there was a separate building for kids with special educational needs.  In those, er, enlightened times, they weren't allowed to mix at all with the rest of the school - lunch and breaks were all at different times so we hardly ever saw them.  The building was called The Unit (or at least that's how we knew it) and we called the kids... "Units".

Once a term, for some reason, the Units would have a lunch break at the same time as everyone else... and without fail there would be a mass brawl.  I've got a distinct memory of a group of boys picking up some kid and dropping him over the chicken-wire fence into a big patch of nettles.  I think about it now and I can hardly believe it happened.

That nettles manoeuver was 'character building' for him.

Winny_Pooh

guitars4you said:

When still a youngster at school - Watching the 6th form girls netball or hockey matches

Phwoar yes!

theflyisback

Sticking an empty plastic carton drink container on your bike tyre so it sounded like a motorbike.

Spokie Dokies on your bike

Root Beer in McDonalds

Jawbreakers - either the red hot or ice cream flavours

Gino Ginelli ice cream

When 10 lambert and butler cost £1.38

Run the Gauntlet TV programme





 

cm01

Building BMX tracks / ramps / quarter pipes and spending hours and hours on my Redline racing all my mates and pulling ridiculous jumps and tricks - with no helmet or pads! 

boogieman

Bridgehouse said:

Imagine being out for a walk with the family after Sunday lunch and finding a porno mag in the bushes... and it being open at the page where you appeared as a readers wife. 

I can can imagine that would be a touch embarrassing 

In the 70s I remember going to a birthday party at a mates, think it was his 16th. His parents were amazingly trendy and had actually gone away for the weekend and let him have the house to himself for the party. We could even *shock horror* stay over, drink and smoke if we wanted. Anyway after the party, it’s late and all the girls had gone home after we’d all failed miserably to pull any of them. One of my mates is bored and starts mooching about in the garage. Suddenly he rushes in to find me...he’s only found a load of swingers contact mags!!  (the 70s equivalent of Tinder for younger readers). We start looking through them and find that the host’s mum and dad are in some of the ads. The poor bastard was mortified when we showed him but said it did explain why his parents were often away at weekends. 

Reverend

cm01 said:

Building BMX tracks / ramps / quarter pipes and spending hours and hours on my Redline racing all my mates and pulling ridiculous jumps and tricks - with no helmet or pads! 

Show off 

Philly_Q

theflyisback said:

Gino Ginelli ice cream
 

Tutti Frutti, what a cutie.

57Deluxe

pissing like a horse...

FX_Munkee

Reverend said:

cm01 said:

Building BMX tracks / ramps / quarter pipes and spending hours and hours on my Redline racing all my mates and pulling ridiculous jumps and tricks - with no helmet or pads! 

Show off 

Indeed. To this day I'm still bitter that I couldn't afford a pair of Skyways for the BMX I built and had to settle for Aero Zytecs.

fandango

EricTheWeary said:

I'm just following this until someone says white dog poo. 

From chewing bones. Never stuck to your shoe if you ever.

fandango

I remember a local bakers when i was a younger version of my infamous self.

They sold small danish pastries, and we would regular go in and buy a proper bakers’s dozen (13 if you can’t count), or buy them by the pound.

beed84

Conkers
Climbing trees
Going to the woods with mates and terrorising bee nests
Playing Pogs
Renting videos
Having four TV channels and being content with what was on
Bamboozle on Teletext

Today's tech is self-policing. Most people are either tethered to some social media site, streaming some TV series, or gaming online. No wonder half of us feel cut off.

Emp_Fab

My dad used to be a magazine wholesaler, so I had access to (among the regular titles), an endless supply of every porn mag on the market.  My sexual education was therefore somewhat more advanced than other boys my age and I couldn’t understand why my first real girlfriend ran away screaming when I suggested we start the foreplay with a little light felching.

I don’t remember much of my youth.  Most of it was spent wanking myself blind.

boogieman

beed84 said:

Conkers

We live near a big country park with lots of horse chestnut trees. Every autumn it breaks my heart to see literally hundreds of conkers lying on the ground. When I was a kid the whole lot would’ve gone. I always pick up a few for old time’s sake... my wife thinks I’m mad but I can’t resist. 

guitars4you

Have we done ?

Top Deck Shandy 
Sprinkling the salt on crisps 

guitars4you

When we thought Sylvia Kristel (Emmanuel) and Mary Millington (Come Play with me) was porn - It would almost get in a pre 9pm water shed TV show now

steveledzep

Wasn't Sonja Kristina the singer with Curved Air ?

Stevepage

octatonic said:

Sherbert.
Paper airplanes.
Finding pornography in the woods.

Yep. Special day when you found something like "Big Knockers" in the woods or under a hedge.

guitars4you

steveledzep said:

Wasn't Sonja Kristina the singer with Curved Air ?

I meant Sylvia Kristel - ta

Axe_meister

Watching my mates parents porn on proper reel to reel film on a projector