were you born before 1988?

[DONNAKEBABUK]

If you were born before 1988 you will know that Michael Jackson has not always been White. You will also know that Billy Joel sang Uptown Girl and NOT Westlife. You may also remember eating chips and bread and butter pudding without becoming obese. You will remember playing Knock a Door Run and actually BEING AFRAID of being caught. If you fell out of someones tree and broke your arm your parents would clout you round the ear hole for being so stupid to climb the thing in the first place, prior to taking you to A&E rather than calling at your local PI Solicitors to make a claim. Recycling consisted of taking pop bottles back to the shop and getting 5p back on the bottle (12p for those brown cider bottles). And you and your friends could share a can of coke (without getting germs). You would go out and play 8 - 10 hours a day in the woods without a mobile phone. You perhaps made go karts out of silver cross prams and had never heard of Nintendo, X Box, DVD, Playstation etc. We had 3 TV Chanels and we were lucky they were in colour. University students of today were mostly born in 1988.

Tell me, does this make you feel old? Well it shouldnt, it should make you grateful that you had a childhood like EVERY child deserves to have.

Katie. x

[perigra]

yup!!!!!!!

nice one katie

[funnygirl]

Yes Katie, I was born well before 1988 and remember all what you said.

I had a fab childhood. spending more time out than in, as an inner london child.

Where I grew up, back then we still had some sites that we called 'bomb ruins' and used to play in them, They were literally bombed out houses from the war, but we had such fun!

Our first tv was black n white, we had an old bakelite telephone, coal fires no central heating.

Those were the days eh!

[maggs1703]

well done donna it's exactly what we used to do as kids and look back and wish our children had the same lifestyle as we did it's a total shame the children of today don't have the same childhood we did - if they had then the world may be better place

[patsyann]

Oh lovely memories of my childhood. They really were The Good Old Days.

[SpiderPig]

THREE channels ? in COLOUR !

[B00]

I remember during the summer holidays we'd play out with our friends from morning till almost dark, and then you'd only come in for ya tea. I can still remember my mum bellowing from the doorstep for me to come in. We'd run wild on the backstreets, wouldn't dream of allowing any child of mine to do that nowadays.

we we're lucky enough to have a colour telly, but my grandma had a B&W one and i'll never forget her watching snooker (she was big fan of it) on the damn thing, the commentator saying "for those watching in black and white, the pink ball is on the bottom left"

[mccfluff]

being able to play outside all day in the hols without adults bugging you, it was ace

[Aquagility]

Excellent, Katie. You've hit several nails on the head. Whatever happened to families?

[DONNAKEBABUK]

Our TV was black and white too. I remember our whole street going into our RICH neighbours house to watch...........wait for it PRINCESS ANNES WEDDING in colour and my Mum giving us those Traffic Light Lollies (those that went red, yellow, then green) to suck on!

Does anyone ever remember making a go kart without brakes and only realising it before you hit the nettle bush ?

LOL !

Katie. x

[sandrajo]

We had a colour telly first does that make us rich lol. My big brother Mark used to make go carts out of bits and pieces, it even had a motor on one, I think he stole it out of mums hoover or washing machine!

[B00]

We had a sledge made out of a dining table top for winter -when we had SNOW! O ur backstreet was on a hill with a row of backstreets along the bottom (sort of like an upside down T) and we'd always make Greg, (the fat porky kid) sit at the front so he'd be the one to smash into the wall first and cushion us lot- so if you're reading this Greg, I'm really sorry and I hope your nose isn't still broken :-(

[godlovesatry]

AMEN to that!!!

[maggs1703]

if you don't mind katie how old are you?

[cazzz1975]

I loved growing up in the 80s, in 1988 I was at secondary school!!

[pusspuss]

tv guide wednesday may 19th 1965
bbc
start at 5.05pm..treasure house
5-30..jonny quest
5-55 news
6-05 loook north.weather
6-55 tonight
7-25.soccer european cup winners cup final
9-15 news
10-20 peter nero----in person
11-10 news extra
11-20 postscript
11-25 weather -close
special night with football on itv started at 4-45pm and closed with granada in the north at 11-45 pm

[B00]

I was born in 1970 cazzz so I got the best decades to be a kid and teen in. The 70's were brill for kids, we had loooooooong hot summers and the 80's were awesome for the music and fashion for a teen.

[maggs1703]

hahaha pusspuss i was 2years old then but i loved those years

[sandrajo]

I remember being clouted around the ear a few times lol, imagine that nowadays....you'd end up in a police cell!!

I loved going out in the morning at the weekends and having so much fun playing games like 2 man hunt and rounders etc..my mum had to literally force me to come in and have lunch ....those were the days!

[cazzz1975]

You would have been classed as too old to watch He-man...which was the bestest campest cartoon ever :D

<<I am of course still jealous