Things we did as kids that don’t happen now!

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Poptop2, May 24, 2023.

  1. Being a kid, not a ten year old adult, with a phone and a constant stream of social media to worry about.
     
  2. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Caroling around the pubs for fag money!
     
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  3. crossy2112

    crossy2112 Supporter

    Which one's you bike monkey? :)
     
  4. Obviously in yeti land
    But in most civilised areas good parents don’t allow any of that until at least 13 + terrible :rolleyes:
     
  5. crossy2112

    crossy2112 Supporter

    Suppose it depends on how much pestering you can take until you give in :)
     
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  6. matty

    matty Supporter

    Bob a job

    Kicked outside to play straight after breakfast until the street lights came on.

    Cycling to the local woods and setting fire to things
     
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  7. crossy2112

    crossy2112 Supporter

    Telling your parents you was on a sleep over at a friends house which was actually the woods :)
     
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  8. I was the one that nicked the plastic toy camera.. and took the photo Nipper :D
     
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  9. Soggz

    Soggz An inquisitive supporter

    Saving your dinner money up for fags and cider, for the Friday night school yoof wing…;)
     
  10. Soggz

    Soggz An inquisitive supporter

    :p
    Like a reverse ‘Escape to Victory’…:D
     
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  11. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Bird nesting and blowing the yolk out of the eggs. I didn’t but loads of mates did!
     
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  12. Mr Apollo

    Mr Apollo Supporter

    Walking around the woods with a large sheath knife, which your dad had bought you, and a military grade slingshot from a hardware shop in Chagford that could send a ball bearing through a car door (apparently), before you were old enough to go to big school.

    True story, when we first moved to Switzerland my son was seven. After we'd registered with the local council, they must have told the Swiss Scout equivalent, or Pfadies as they're called here, as my son received a letter from them telling him to meet in the woods on the next Saturday afternoon, and to bring a large knife and no parents... He didn't go.
     
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  13. vinnyboy

    vinnyboy Supporter

    Riding my bike so much that the tyres wore down to the tubes
     
  14. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    Dying to have a go on one of these but being too short at the time to see the screen.

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    Using these for something more than sitting and smoking fags or taking whatever they do these days on playground that look like they fell off a space shuttle

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    Knowing that this was the fast track to the wider world

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    Being told, and very much believing that these could melt your insides

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    And no decent play session didn't involve this being 'lovingly' spread on war wounds

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  15. Soggz

    Soggz An inquisitive supporter

    My mother used to do that, but paint detailed landscapes on the shells for the cheese show, to sell for charity.
     
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  16. MorkC68

    MorkC68 Administrator

    Close :)

    Mum, can I go see Motorhead with some of the lads from school........ No.

    Ok, can I go for a sleepover at said mates house.......... Yes but be good.

    Motorhead here we come :D
     
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  17. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    So true, and then having to wait until your mum and dad could afford to replace them and in the meantime patching the innertubes and splicing bits of tyre in to stop the bulge!
     
  18. vinnyboy

    vinnyboy Supporter

    IMG_2373.jpeg Remember those creepy hand puppets.
     
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  19. Making wooden go karts from scrap and massive pram wheels ….. they were dangerous using only your heels as brakes


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  20. vinnyboy

    vinnyboy Supporter

    We made loads. Called them bogies. Posh ones had chrome quick release wheels from a Silver Cross
     
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