The small things you miss from days gone by ...

Dave_Vader

There genuinely being fuck-all on the telly

DefaultM

My mum abusing me. Well, either that or Maverick bars.

strumjoughlamps

Texan bars

8p cone of chips

Kinder eggs with small plastics bits you could choke on

Not being concerned about falling off a skateboard 

Listening to the same album constantly for a week

HAL9000

Pie and a pint for a quid.

Roland

guitars4you said:

Pocket money - I can just about recall 1/2 a crown - Which I think is now 12.5p

HAL9000 said:

Pie and a pint for a quid.

A pint and a packet of crisps for half a crown

pmbomb

being excited about a new Iron Maiden album.

pmbomb

and crisps bag colours were a reliable guide to flavours.

hollywoodrox

Going down the arcades and seeing how much money you could find in the bottom of penny shovers etc  getting 5 or 10 pennies then changing them for silver.  Collecting all the empty pop bottles on a caravan site and cashing them in. Collecting pop bottles from anywhere and cashing them in . Guy - ing on the lead up to guy fawkes night , sometimes instead of making a guy we would dress up like pirates or whatever and knock peoples doors ,saying do you remember the 5th of November the poor old guy , a hole in me stocking a hole in me shoe so could you spare a copper or two, if not a penny an happeny will do if not an hapenny well god bless you.  Trick or treating ,with a hollowed out swede lit with chopped up candles or a tea light if available , the smell of the burning swede on a cold frosty night , knowing it was soon bonfire night and Christmas and collecting enough money to buy an album if you’re lucky for about £3.50.  Using the school hymn book to go round peoples houses singing carols for change,  fruit machines that didn’t take a degree to understand them - the feeling in the pit of your stomach as it lights up saying nudge now and trying to get something to line up and win.  Getting a large dome nut like off a car wheel , tearing up a whole packet of paper caps into single dots ,pushing them in the dome nut, getting a bolt and screwing it in the dome nut , throwing it up in the air and the amazing bang as it hits the ground .  Having small fires , experimenting with burning different things , nothing destructive. Burning plastic would make amazing sounds as small molten pieces dropped off. One of my friends made some lead bars  by having a fire in this brick shed like a pig sty at the bottom of his garden , he put lead off the building site in the depression of LBC bricks and got these perfectly formed little bars of lead. He also had a pet crow and had rabbit skins curing in the garden , and a fox skin with a hole in the head where he shot it. , he also had a load of mice , his vicious Alsatian. Had to be restrained when I visited though as it didn’t like people and was loose round the back . Another friend had a vicious dog called patch with one blind eye which his dad kept On a chain , the trick to this was to flatten yourself against the wall , and even when it was strained at it’s neck on it’s rear legs it’s jaws were just out of reach if you were skinny like me as a kid , it took many weeks before I got the courage to do this but once I had it sussed it was just a minor concern . It was to dissuade debt collectors ,bailiffs , customs and excise etc .

hollywoodrox

Texan bar good shout ,  prize bar, spangles ,toffo , amazing raisin bar ,gold cup, bar six, blackjack fruit salad chews , chocolate and chewing gum machines on the wall . Proper juke boxes 

hollywoodrox

guitars4you said:

Surely kissing and any form of heavy petting round the back of the bike shed, or any other secluded place

Kiss chase, postman’s knock  ,truth ,dare ,kiss or promise.

boogieman

Those thunderclap things you got free with the Beano or the Dandy. If the paperboy hadn’t nicked it. 

Paperboys. 

Spangles 

hollywoodrox

Decent toys in cereal packets 

rze99

eye contact - everyone is studied their terribly exciting phone updates

people looking where they are going when they walk - See above.

random conversation with people in public - See above.

 

phil_b

being able to get extremely drunk without some bellend recording it on their phone

hollywoodrox

pmbomb said:

and crisps bag colours were a reliable guide to flavours.

Plain could be , red ,or dark blue. Salt and vinegar could be light blue or green. Cheese n onion could be green or dark blue. Beef n onion,oxo etc brown. Smokey bacon burgundy, tan etc.

golden wonder I think , sausage and tomato flavour  eating these or beef n onion while wTching the Rockford files or the professionals 

LastMantra

bodhi said:

Riding bikes, building tree houses, making slingshots and bows and arrows...

I'm getting to do all this kind of stuff again with my son 

builttospill

Early 1980's our local SavaCentre in Oldbury, West Midlands always seemed to have a massive range of Star Wars toys and merchandise on display, T.J Hooker, Street Hawk and Vesta curries. 

hollywoodrox

Tiswas. Jackanory ,play school , hanna Barbara cartoons , animations from eastern block countries , like the little mole

Little mole animation below. I could quite happily have a room decorated with murals from the art in this series ,absolutely enchanting 

https://youtu.be/O2XNh-vXZfQ

phil_b

builttospill said:

Early 1980's our local SavaCentre in Oldbury, West Midlands always seemed to have a massive range of Star Wars toys and merchandise on display, T.J Hooker, Street Hawk and Vesta curries. 

also dukes of hazard and starsky and hutch

Bridgehouse

builttospill said:

Early 1980's our local SavaCentre in Oldbury, West Midlands always seemed to have a massive range of Star Wars toys and merchandise on display, T.J Hooker, Street Hawk and Vesta curries. 

They did vesta curry toys? I so want one of those