Anyone remember these days

[LOZZER1]

Before the Internet or the Apple Mac. Before Super Nintendo.I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park. The corner shop. Hopscotch. Butterscotch. skipping. Handstands.Football with an old can.Beano, Dandy,Buster,Twinkle and Dennis the menace.Roly Poly. Hula Hoops, Watching Saturday morning cartoons, RoadRunner,He-Man,Tiswas or Swapshop when around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians,and Zorro.Climbing trees.Walking to school, no matter what the weather.Remember,The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team. Water balloons were the ultimate weapon Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.There were two types of trainers girls and boys, and Dunlop Green Flash,You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents. It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best'' friends.nobody owned a purebred dog. When 25p was decent pocket money. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When nearly everyone's mum was at home when the kids got there. Any parent could discipline any kid,or use him to carry groceries and nobody. When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you when you got home. When we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! and some of us are still afraid of them!! Decisions were made by going ''Ip Dip Dog ****''. ''Race issue'' meant arguing about who ran the fastest. Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in 'Monopoly.'' The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was a germ. It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event. Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult. Nobody was prettier than Mum. Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better. Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin. Ice cream was considered a basic food group.

[Panic Button]

and Mohammed Ali was Cassius Clay.

When we used to win Eurovision.

When we used to listen to a little transistor radio in the toilets to hear who was Number 1.

[Panic Button]

No, it was one great big drum.

The spin dryer was a separate little machine that sounded like it changed gear three times.

[perigra]

TWOCing has been arround for a hundred years now!

[zebra]

Before you started primary school, you had two kids programmes at lunchtime that you really looked forward to at 12 o'clock. Rainbow, Pipkins, etc and the one with the lady with the spider glove puppets.

Coming home from school mid 70's and we had our first colour telly. It was great.

Not forgetting when there was a bit of party at home, i.e xmas, the beer that came in the big tins that you had to open with a sort of tin opener and crap home made wine, not that I drunk it!!

Proper holidays on the beach with the windbreaker in a mad colour so you could spot it when being allowed to safely run around. Then eat your sandwiches after washing your hands in the sea, not a baby wipe in sight.

[EssJay1]

And a tin of mandarins with evaporated milk was Sunday night "pudding"!

[311271]

well b4 my days

black or white stripes?

lol

[tiggerblue10]

Captain Cavemaaaaaaaaaan.
Ivor the Engine.
Captain Pugwash (we were kids and we didn't get it at the time)!
Oh and Tales of the Unexpected :000

[zebra]

311271, white stripes if you were asking me n i am also 71 if thats your birth year and i remember most of it.

tiggerblue. tales of the unexpected. loved it but the dance at the start used to freak me out but I still watched it to see the twist in the story, then could never understand why the adults never realised the plot lol.