Gen X where are you ????

[JRHartleysmum]

What are you ‘I’m old’ references that younger folk might not understand ?
I’ll start: ‘too orangey for crows, it’s just for me and my dog’

@theblackradiator I think we all used to get mixed up , but I was even worse at doublers y'know when you bounce the two tennis balls off the walls and sing songs , my Mother was always yelling about the noise on the walls 😇 .

thank you. but no still do not recall this I was born late 70s.
does anyone remember Henry's cat,
"Henry,Henry, you must know Henry's cat,
he a mellow yellow feline...."

I was rubbish at 2 balls as we called it too! I've still got no co-ordination to this day. I remember my mum trying to teach me how to do it against our garden wall I could never get the hang of it! I was rubbish at the French skipping too. probably why I preferred playing with the boys as I could never play the girls games!

And I'm still gutted that I never got a Blue Peter badge. no matter how many crushed tin cans we collected for their recycling appeal I never bloody got a badge. 😭

Talking of skipping do you remember double dutch , and you would get the mucky lines on your white socks from the skipping rope 😁 if it had been raining .

Don't remember double Dutch, but does anyone remember French skipping?

We often joke "Get to the chopper!"

I know what you mean!
I'm in Scotland and it was always "ohhh ahh" but run together so it sounds more like "oh-wah" in a tone that means we all know you're in trouble when a teacher asks to see you in the hall outside the classroom. Wonder if kids still do that!

We always sang it as "ooh ah I lost my bra, I found my knickers in my boyfriend's car"
So at least she found a pair of pants in our version 😄

Omg loved pong how could I ever have forgotten that?!

My boyfriend gave me an apple
My boyfriend gave me a pear
My boyfriend gave me a kiss on the lips and threw me down the stairs

I gave him back his apple
I gave him back his pear
I gave him back his kiss on the lips
And threw him down the stairs

Aaah, a more innocent time, when singing about domestic violence was fiiiiiine!

Anyone remember the Roses chocolate advert: Thank you very much for doing the dishes, thank you very much for being my missus.

Also one for those around Notts: Shipstones and Home Ales. I hated Shippos!!

The teenage Susie version I knew didn't involve knickers - it was 'ooh aah, I lost my bra, I left it in my boyfriend's car' (presumably kids only sang this in areas with non-rhotic accents?)

Then there was 'I had a magic fever, I had it very bad, bad, bad, they wrapped me in a blanket and put me in a van, van, van' then a bit I can't remember, then 'Here comes Doctor Alistair, sliding down the banister, Are you better? are you worse? Oh God blimey, here comes Nurse'

Kids used to walk around the playground with arms linked calling for anyone who wanted to join up for playing a particular game. If it was a popular one there would be a huge line of kids at the end, all with linked arms.

For French elastics we used to say 'England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, in, out, twist and shout'

For French elastics we used to say 'England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, in, out, twist and shout'

Our version of that was England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, inside, outside, inside, on

Ours was inside outside donkeys tails

Ceeeeeilings, cover well in Motherwell,
The walls of Birm-ing-ham wipe clean of pea and ham,
And the skirting boards of Fife have a long life,
With brush in hand we'll decorate this land the best paint!

I’m telling over you
you dirty kangaroo
you put me in the toilet at half past two

Anyone remember The Wonder Years?

Playing Red Rover or BB and the boys would try and break people’s arms. Playground violence was seen as normal.

Double Dutch skipping with two long ropes at once.
We had anklesies and kneesies for elastics, but also hipsies, waistsies, shouldersies and necksies!

(Autocorrect hated that last sentence)

Monkey terrified me!

I seem to remember reading recently that the English dubbing was a totally different script to the original Japanese?

Same, except it was "studs" at the end when you stood on the bands. We Disney call it French elastic, just called it "bands".

The thing with the two balls against the wall, I was bloody good at that, used to practice for hours and hours at home and play every playtime with my friend Doreen (Doreen was an old-fashioned name even in the 80s!). It was important to get just the right type of ball, tennis ball sized but smooth rubber, bouncy but not too bouncy. There were lots and lots of complex patterns that you had to repeat and extend each round, under your leg, overarm, bounce towards wall, drop bounce before catching, "slam", and your go was over if you dropped the ball. Happy days.

I was also reminiscing with my SIL the other day about skipping of the type where one person holds each end and the others jump in and out (single rope, not Double Dutch). Loved that too, but there was often a Mean Girl who would decide who went on the ends to begin with. Do kids still play that? I remember it was definitely uncool after primary and being sad that break time at High School was just standing about chatting.

Why don’t you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead?

'Maybe tomorrow I'll wanna settle down, until tomorrow I'll just keep moving on' 🐕 🛣️

Clapping games - not just to The Clapping Song (Belle Stars), but there was another one that went "BA, Hannibal, Murdoch, FACE" with a fake slap on the word "Face" (or was that just us?) 😄