DOVEScot Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...? It took five minutes for the TV to warm up? Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when they got home from school? Nobody owned a purebred dog? When a shilling a week was decent pocket money? White dog poo in the street? You only had to be home when the street lights came on? Your Mum wore stockings that came in two pieces? All your male teachers wore ties Female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels? You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box? It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents? Schools threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . .and they did? When a Ford Capri was everyone's dream car? No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked? Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a… “ Playing footy and cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game? Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger? When being sent to the headmaster's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you if your parents heard that you had been sent to the headmaster? And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today? Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat. Send this on to someone who can still remember Laurel and Hardy, The Famous Five, Secret Seven, Biggles, the Lone Ranger, Phantom, Roy Rogers and Trigger at the flicks. As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games, Hula Hoops, monkey bars, Frozen jubblies, visits to the beach and lemonade powder. Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember that"? I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dare to pass it on. To remember what a double dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. How many of these do you remember? Sweet cigarettes, pogo sticks, marbles, Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil tops Newsreels before the movie Sandshoes/Desert wellies Four digit Telephone numbers Press button A then button B 45 RPM records Hi-Fi s Metal ice cubes trays Mimeograph paper Spud guns Ford Capris Twin Tubs Izal toilet paper Reel-To-Reel tape recorders houses made of cards Meccano Sets Anglo/Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum MoJos/black jacks/fruit salads Two bob for a gallon of petrol Do you remember a time when... Decisions were made by "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"? "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest? It wasn't odd to have two or three "Best Friends"? The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "boy or girl germs"? Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult? There were no Saturday morning cartoons with 30-minute adverts for action figures? Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles? The worst embarrassment was being caught playing doctors and nurses by your parents Putting playing cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle? Taking drugs meant the Polio injection in school Nitty Nora Water balloons were the ultimate weapon? If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
harky Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 AYE A CAN REMEMBER SOME AWE THEM.ONE THING THAT SRINGS TO MIND IS THE DOGS WHITE POO IT WAS ALWAYS HARD AND DRY AND WAS IDEAL FOR PICKING UP AND HITTING YOUR MATES WITH ;D ;D ;D ;DWHAT WAS IT THAT MADE IT GO WHITE
Guest Vic Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 Workingmens Pigeon Clubs! Still one in Liverpool (Halewood) One big laugh ain't it? That has a an rpra councillor as a member. LOL
bewted Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 i can remember all of them you mention and i can also remember petrol being 1/9p in old money !! small cadet cigarettes in a packet of 5 and a cadbury bar of chocolate costing 6 pence old money !! time flies when your haveing fun !!!
Guest Vic Posted May 6, 2008 Report Posted May 6, 2008 Also , climbing every tree on the way home after,watching a Tarzan film. Bursting "tar bubbles" in the road on hot summer days. "Legging" trams. Stuffing the return money "B" buttons in telephone boxes with paper. Seeing run over dogs intestines, Chewing Stickolice, putting cardboard in your shoes. And above all acknowledging your superiors at home. Yes, Treasured memories indeed! Vic.
Guest Vic Posted May 7, 2008 Report Posted May 7, 2008 May I also add, a few more comments. i.e. I remember the days when thousands of brainwashed people would traipse their way, every sunday morning, up to the local Catholic church, passing my house, Three masses in the space of an hour or two. Unbelievable! now they are thinking of demolishing the church. At the same time the Orange lodge has always passed my garden, led by some of the best scottish pipers, but alas! their is only one lodge now, sad indeed. But it must be the best way out Surely?
Lennut Tar Posted May 7, 2008 Report Posted May 7, 2008 Also , climbing every tree on the way home after,watching a Tarzan film. Bursting "tar bubbles" in the road on hot summer days. "Legging" trams. Stuffing the return money "B" buttons in telephone boxes with paper. Seeing run over dogs intestines, Chewing Stickolice, putting cardboard in your shoes. And above all acknowledging your superiors at home. Yes, Treasured memories indeed! Vic. There is always a spoil sport ??????? etc ;) This time it's Dovescot again ;D ;D ;D. All I can say now is !!!!!!!!. You should be ashamed of your effort & I'm quite at how you could do that to us old timers here, making us remember now ;) The bad old days :'( :'( :'(. Most of us didn't have a bob to our name & our *expletive removed* was hanging out of our pants etc most days & we lived rough, compared to our society today etc, "but Boy oh Boy" did we have a great time, learning about life in general & there was no booze (Well only a little) :) no drugs & no mobile phones. Makes one wonder now, how we passed the time away. PS. Thank's pal, one of your best efforts so far in my view. Enjoy.
gangster Posted May 7, 2008 Report Posted May 7, 2008 wow thats brought it all back and yes i yearn for those days again!!!!!!!!
bewted Posted May 7, 2008 Report Posted May 7, 2008 wow thats brought it all back and yes i yearn for those days again!!!!!!!! you just want fame ? hahahah
andy Posted May 7, 2008 Report Posted May 7, 2008 Also nobody wanted to sue anyone or give lawyers letters or be politically correct.
pjc Posted May 7, 2008 Report Posted May 7, 2008 I'm not as old as you lot but still remember a few of them! "Good old days" is the right phrase but if the world stood still we'd fall off! Phil
chickadee Posted May 7, 2008 Report Posted May 7, 2008 Aye I remember some o them days too, and it was only a penny for a mc gowans toffee, most sweeties came in the big jars and you bought a bag o them, twin tubs, hard toilet paper and the eenie meenie minie moe decision making bit, playing chasey .................Oh to be that age again. ;D ;D
DOVEScot Posted May 7, 2008 Author Report Posted May 7, 2008 AYE A CAN REMEMBER SOME AWE THEM.ONE THING THAT SRINGS TO MIND IS THE DOGS WHITE POO IT WAS ALWAYS HARD AND DRY AND WAS IDEAL FOR PICKING UP AND HITTING YOUR MATES WITH ;D ;D ;D ;DWHAT WAS IT THAT MADE IT GO WHITE Bones from the butcher, I think it was all the calcium :-/
DOVEScot Posted May 7, 2008 Author Report Posted May 7, 2008 And above all acknowledging your superiors at home. Yes, Treasured memories indeed! Vic. I was 33 before my maw heard me swear and I still got a slap for it :'(
Zuffy Posted May 8, 2008 Report Posted May 8, 2008 Am not that old ;D but i do remember alot of the things you say. The World is so fast now, a person with little wisdom, can do a google search and tell you fancy knowledge with no experience or wisdom. Net is good, don't get mi wrong, you know the type of dumb asses i mean. Where im from London no one cares, people don't even know who lives next door. No ones polite, to hear a thank you is a miracle. Fast doggy dogg life and its sad. I came from yorkshire where people are polite, if your polite in London they think your qweer or a soft touch. Oh I remember the Capri,s but 20 years in London has made mi look like a P.I.M.P. 8)
Guest TAMMY_1 Posted May 8, 2008 Report Posted May 8, 2008 Fortunately I am far too young to remember any of those old things
harky Posted May 8, 2008 Report Posted May 8, 2008 Fortunately I am far too young to remember any of those old things your losing it fast tammy .seek medical help right away or your gony end up sectioned AGAIN
Guest TAMMY_1 Posted May 8, 2008 Report Posted May 8, 2008 your losing it fast tammy .seek medical help right away or your gony end up sectioned AGAIN You were not meant to tell anybody about that , so now everybody will think I was a lunatic
harky Posted May 8, 2008 Report Posted May 8, 2008 You were not meant to tell anybody about that , so now everybody will think I was a lunatic they already know
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