Looking back with a smile
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Dicky
Punter God
Milk delivered to your door - a glass bottle with a red foil seal that would pop when you opened it. And cream on top.
Riding around the neighbourhood on 16" BMXs with pint sized full face helmets on. (a mate raced Peewee 50s.)
Pen licenses.
Walking half a K to school was a big deal.
Monstrous lollybags for 50c from the shops.
Going to a friend's house after school to play.
Tarax? Sounds like a cleaning product.
Sunny Boy iceblocks are still available....
Riding around the neighbourhood on 16" BMXs with pint sized full face helmets on. (a mate raced Peewee 50s.)
Pen licenses.
Walking half a K to school was a big deal.
Monstrous lollybags for 50c from the shops.
Going to a friend's house after school to play.
Newsreels and standing for the National Anthem before a movie?Grip said:
Tarax? Sounds like a cleaning product.
Sunny Boy iceblocks are still available....
Grip
Yeah, yeah... blah, blah.
Piss off, boynaz said:Back in my day....
jesus christ this thread sounds like a fucking retirement village.
"oh i remember when i was young coke cost 10c"
The sooner you youngens realize that simple truth that everything you've ever experienced was old to us before you first spotted your momma's teat, then the better the world will be.Oh, and on a related subject... who's been watching Grumpy Old Men? Bloody marvelous,eh?
Sits back and waits for someone to ante up with some comment about the Walter Matthau movie
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FR Drew
Not a custom title.
What, Charade?Grip said:
Ok, I'll come clean, that was before my time too.
Dilemma, there's a one film you gotta add to your list.
BTW, bollocks to Niki Gudex, woman don't get any better than Audrey Hepburn.
I'm absolutely loving Grump Old Men, Grip. I had tears streaming down my face last night.
naz
Criminally Inane
you killed someone too?Grip said:Piss off, boy
Oh, and on a related subject... who's been watching Grumpy Old Men? Bloody marvelous,eh?[/size]
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YES!! I loved the doozers and Uncle Travelling Mac!toodles said:
Tab cola
The Dark Crystal
your very first cassette walkman
Mobile phones with a battery the size of a house
Ghetto blasters
Electric Boogaloo
Kajagoogoo
Adam and the Ants
Atomic ant
fearless fly
puting things "under your desk" at school
Picking up papers at lunchtime
the Young Ones
Cliff richard....wired for sound..."AM/FM I feel so eccstatic now that I'm wired for sound"
Cracker night
Throw downs
Catherine wheels
Evil Kenieval (sp)
Dale Buggens (RIP)
Sample bags (not bloody "show bags"
)Has anyone noticed how utterly tasteless fruit and veges are these days? I had an apple the other day that seriously tasted like crunchy water! I only noticed this decline when my old Italian neighbour gave me some of his tomatoes, it was like a trip back to childhhod they had so much flavour. I spoke to the parents about this (60 years old) and Mum swears that apples lost their flavour when they started puting stickers on them.
Anyone else experienced this?
naz
Criminally Inane
not doing homework, then spending more time thinkin of a excuse than it would have to complete the work.
detentions
first kiss
first root
thinkin school was so hard, then gettin a fulltime job.
swapping food at lunch
forgetting your calculator for maths exam
forgettting your locka key
pretending your sick for a class because u didnt do the homework
doing your homework but leaving at home, and trying to explain it to the teacher
setting things on fire
blowing things up
detentions
first kiss
first root
thinkin school was so hard, then gettin a fulltime job.
swapping food at lunch
forgetting your calculator for maths exam
forgettting your locka key
pretending your sick for a class because u didnt do the homework
doing your homework but leaving at home, and trying to explain it to the teacher
setting things on fire
blowing things up
dilemma
girl+bike
FR Drew said:
OR, that same game (the one with a ball, and you have to hit it when it bounces off the wall) on a console that plugs into your black and white tv (or if you're lucky, a colour one but it just comes out black and green)
("meeck... meeck... meeck... meeck... mock")
Space invaders
Pacman
Galaxian
Galaga
Moon Cresta
Moon buggy
Pole position
Asteroids
Summer Olympics
Dragon's Lair
Commando
(goddamnit, what 's that car game where you drive around picking up flags whilst avoiding the red cars, you also have a smoke screen. It was kind of like pacman but in a car instead....?)
Xeviuos
Defender
The haunted house (very first split level pinball machine)
Matchbox
Hotwheels
Tonka
Construction straws
Ludo
Snakes and ladders
Chinese checkers
Star Wars action figures (I had three Han Solo's but my dog ate my only Chewbacca )
Smash up derby (.....are fun)
Pacman
Galaxian
Galaga
Moon Cresta
Moon buggy
Pole position
Asteroids
Summer Olympics
Dragon's Lair
Commando
(goddamnit, what 's that car game where you drive around picking up flags whilst avoiding the red cars, you also have a smoke screen. It was kind of like pacman but in a car instead....?)
Xeviuos
Defender
The haunted house (very first split level pinball machine)
Matchbox
Hotwheels
Tonka
Construction straws
Ludo
Snakes and ladders
Chinese checkers
Star Wars action figures (I had three Han Solo's
but my dog ate my only Chewbacca )Smash up derby (.....are fun)
FR Drew
Not a custom title.
"Choose Life" T Shirts
"Ghostbusters" T Shirts
Fluro ankle socks
Wacky Races (now there was a cartoon!)
The Onedin Line
Fags, the lolly ciggies (before they became "Fads")
The rumor that if you buckled "tuffs" (the 5 spoked plastic bmx wheels) you could put them in the freezer and they'd go straight again.
On a related note "Shrinkie Dinks" Samboy chips and twisties packets shrunk down in the oven.
Chemical volcano's made in science class. (don't know what the stuff was, it got banned cos of the fumes eventually but they'd get a little mound of orange stuff about 4cm high, light it and it'd end up as a huge cone of black ash.
Rulex Truline wooden rulers.
unit cubes (little wooden cubes just under 10mm on a side)
"Phonics" class in grade 1
Adidas Romes (only the really cool kids ever got them)
Speaking of Adidas, remember the footy boots jingle?
"Adidas three stripes, for the dry and the wet,
Adidas three stripes, the best boots yet,
Adidas three stripes will take him far,
Give him Adidas boots, and make him a star"
"Up there Kazaly"
"Willy the wall walker" (walks down walls)
Couldn't you, couldn't you, go a chicko roll?
Who says men smoke Drum?
(actually, ciggie adverts being in magazines at all)
datacassette
5 and a 1/4 inch disks
Programming in LOGO with TURTLE. (on an Apple II)
"Ghostbusters" T Shirts
Fluro ankle socks
Wacky Races (now there was a cartoon!)
The Onedin Line
Fags, the lolly ciggies (before they became "Fads")
The rumor that if you buckled "tuffs" (the 5 spoked plastic bmx wheels) you could put them in the freezer and they'd go straight again.
On a related note "Shrinkie Dinks" Samboy chips and twisties packets shrunk down in the oven.
Chemical volcano's made in science class. (don't know what the stuff was, it got banned cos of the fumes eventually but they'd get a little mound of orange stuff about 4cm high, light it and it'd end up as a huge cone of black ash.
Rulex Truline wooden rulers.
unit cubes (little wooden cubes just under 10mm on a side)
"Phonics" class in grade 1
Adidas Romes (only the really cool kids ever got them)
Speaking of Adidas, remember the footy boots jingle?
"Adidas three stripes, for the dry and the wet,
Adidas three stripes, the best boots yet,
Adidas three stripes will take him far,
Give him Adidas boots, and make him a star"
"Up there Kazaly"
"Willy the wall walker" (walks down walls)
Couldn't you, couldn't you, go a chicko roll?
Who says men smoke Drum?
(actually, ciggie adverts being in magazines at all)
datacassette
5 and a 1/4 inch disks
Programming in LOGO with TURTLE. (on an Apple II)
Dicky
Punter God
Still got em.scblack said:
The library at school had a stack of Asterix books. Year 12 study periods were spent wisely. (When we weren't playing Elastomania or networked Tank Wars.)
Still got a massive tub of it.scblack said:
Mates and I built a working dual suspension bike after a night out at the pub. You could pedal it too.
Still got a big pile of unbuilt planes in a cupboard.scblack said:
These now live in the den at my Scout hall - myself and the other Rovers get them out every year or so for the hell of it. 40m ish of track from a few sets put together.scblack said:
FR Drew
Not a custom title.
Tamiya Subaru Brat and Wild Willy
(shortly followed by The Grasshopper, The Hornet and The Fox)
Red Devil, Blue Devil and Yellow Devil BMX's
"In the Wild" with Harry Butler
The Good Life
To The Manor Born
Rumpole
Porridge
Rush
Mr Hooper the Grocer on Sesame Street.
The James Bond underwater Lotus as a current release matchbox car.
Mitsubishi (no more Chrysler!!??)
Silly Putty
Slime
Blue Fin and Storm Boy (whatever happened to Greg Rowe anyway?)
(shortly followed by The Grasshopper, The Hornet and The Fox)
Red Devil, Blue Devil and Yellow Devil BMX's
"In the Wild" with Harry Butler
The Good Life
To The Manor Born
Rumpole
Porridge
Rush
Mr Hooper the Grocer on Sesame Street.
The James Bond underwater Lotus as a current release matchbox car.
Mitsubishi (no more Chrysler!!??)
Silly Putty
Slime
Blue Fin and Storm Boy (whatever happened to Greg Rowe anyway?)
Alan Ssssseale (said with a wistle)
Slinky
The Rubix Cube
Speed Burners
"Cruncie will change the colour of your day"
"Mars will help you work rest and play"
"Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame sead bun"
"Football meat pies kangaroos and holden cars"
Mrs Marsh "It does get in" "foooligarde"
Rita the eta eater.
Bucky beaver "Brusha brusha brusha"
Playing "brandings" with a tennis ball at "playlunch"
The Dismissal
"No child will live in poverty"
The Australia card
"10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" The Oils.
Darling Harbour union disputes
The Hilton bombing by the Ananda Marga (Australia has had terrorism before)
There were two newsreaders on Chanel 10 news Gordon Elliot and Katrina ______?
Slinky
The Rubix Cube
Speed Burners
"Cruncie will change the colour of your day"
"Mars will help you work rest and play"
"Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame sead bun"
"Football meat pies kangaroos and holden cars"
Mrs Marsh "It does get in" "foooligarde"
Rita the eta eater.
Bucky beaver "Brusha brusha brusha"
Playing "brandings" with a tennis ball at "playlunch"
The Dismissal
"No child will live in poverty"
The Australia card
"10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" The Oils.
Darling Harbour union disputes
The Hilton bombing by the Ananda Marga (Australia has had terrorism before)
There were two newsreaders on Chanel 10 news Gordon Elliot and Katrina ______?