Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Other subjects
Original poster

When I was a kid........................................................

482 replies

waterfalls · 16/06/2006 15:03

My mum often put my hair up with elastic bands and it hurt like hell getting them out....................and awful cheap plasters that became part of your skin, could only be forced of after a long soak in the bath while painfully peeling them off with a knife.

anyone elseGrin

OP posts:
Beetle73 · 16/06/2006 23:25

Playing Star Wars under the climbing frame, with 2 Leias (because otherwise someone would probably have stomped).
Hanging around to be allowed to ring the bell at the end of breaktime.

KBear · 16/06/2006 23:25

2shoes - I feel we are one! Love this thread. Makes me feel old and young at the same time!

If you hate me after all I say
dah, nah,
I can't put it off any longer
ooooh oooh
Just gotta tell her anyway

Bye bye baby baby goodbyyyyyye

2shoes · 16/06/2006 23:27

those "books" you could buy with all the words to song in them.
for some reason me and my friend learnt all the words to angie babe by helen reddy.

KBear · 16/06/2006 23:29

PSML at Angie baby - you're a special lady.....

I was working in the lab late one night...
She did the mash, she did the monster mash
She did the mash, it was a graveyard smash

Oh, what happened, I have been in the tardis back to the 70's and all this crazy stuff if whizzing into my head!

Mine's a campari and soda.

foundintranslation · 16/06/2006 23:30

Tiffany (I think we're alone now/there doesn't seem to be any-ONE-a-rou-hound). Debbie Gibson.

Playing elastics at primary school. Also a game where you had to dance around and then crouch down, and if you were the last you were pushed into the middle of a circle and would have sung at you which deeply undesirable person was 'your boyfriend'.

Being SO scared of the public info film genre (and still a tiny bit obsessed Wink) that when a cleaning product ad came on which started 'WARNING to people with plastic baths', I got really worried and ran to check our bath wasn't plastic Blush

JanH · 16/06/2006 23:30

Angie baby was just plain weird.

2shoes · 16/06/2006 23:32

used to watch there programme shang a lang a scream(nearly ) at the tv

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 23:34

OMG - went off to watch Jonathon ross for a while and thread has moved on to song lyrics.

Does anyone remember Disco 45 magazines with all the lyrics in?

cat64 · 16/06/2006 23:50

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

themoon66 · 16/06/2006 23:53

Cat64 - yes! We used to listen to the radio for the chart on thursdays too. Sitting on desks in the dinner break squeezed round a tiny tranny. Wearing blouses with huge collars and jumpers with short sleeves so your blouse sleeves puffed out. Long cuffs with a row of aabout 6 buttons. Tell me if i'm going on a bit.

EmmaKB · 17/06/2006 00:38

Twinkle comics
Swapping sarah Kay stickers
Computer games on cassette tapes that took ages to load.

Computer games that you had to actually type into the computer. Took about a month do do one.

nursetigger6 · 17/06/2006 01:19

Dragon 32 computers where you took hours to load the game / programme!! my parents still have their beast up in the loft!! Blush

threebob · 17/06/2006 04:24

You wore verucca socks (if you went swimming with a verucca). What happened to them?

threebob · 17/06/2006 04:26

F&Z - how do you throw up onto a ceiling? Surely it would go down the toilet. And why were people eating pink toilet paper?

2shoes · 17/06/2006 06:59

bunty comics with the dolls you cut out then dressed..i loved them
and having to wear a swimming hat..ouch

Riddo · 17/06/2006 07:04

I remember when creme eggs cost 4p and I'm sure they were bigger!

Blandmum · 17/06/2006 07:19

I remember not having
an inside loo
a fridge
a phone
a washing machine
central heating
a colour TV
a computer, video/DVD (obviously)
a supermarket....when the first one opened we all queued to see the shopping baskets!

I remember
Old money
Children being expected to stand on the bus if an adult came in
Having to stand up in school lessons if an adult entered the room
having 2.5p (6d ) pocket money
playing on the mountain with my friends when I was about 8 years old.
going shopping for my mother at around the age of 4 (!)
lino on the floor
My granmothes house which had no electricity at all....gas lights downstairs and candles upstairs
being able to play in the street because there were hardly any cars
Eating pomegranets with a pin
Jubllies
Saterday morning matinees at the cinema....full of kids and hardly an adult in sight
Man landing on the moon for the first time
Being 4 at the time of the Aberfan disaster and thinking that it was going to happen to my school next Sad

christ but I'm old Grin

FrannyandZooey · 17/06/2006 07:23

I used to borrow my sisters' library tickets and get 9 books out every week (you were only allowed 3 each Shock). They were little cardboard tickets and the librarian would take the tickets out of the books and put them in your ticket. I used to ride around on my bike, not going anywhere really, just exploring the streets.

Then we used to spend days on the beach. Your shoulders were always the brownest part and you could peel the skin off in big sheets when it went a bit dry in a few days time. When you took off your bathing suit there was always bits of seaweed all over you from going in the sea.

Me and my friend used to read the problem pages in her sister's teen magazines and we would laugh so hard it hurt. We would write each other letters and write silly messages all over the envelopes. We made a tape of our farts and several of us singing songs we had made up. We were bloody hilarious. She lives with some twat called Jason now and I never see her at all.

Riddo · 17/06/2006 07:23

My children don't really believe that there were only 3 TV channels and in black and white at that. They think I'm exaggerating for effect.

I was watching BB the other night when one of them said "I know about the 80's, my mum's told me". Made me feel REALLY old.

intergalacticwalrus · 17/06/2006 07:35

Public info film with the wellies on the escalators. I still make sure I don't put my feet past the yellow strip. I don't want to befall the smae fate as the red welly wearer.

When you actually got at least 10 sweets in your 10p mix up.

Getting a Sinclair Spectrum 128k computer for my birthday and being the envy of ALL my classmates. I remember the games being all on tape and taking about 4 years to load.

Having a duffle coat, and not being bullied for it, as everyone else at school had one too

Funny feet ice cream. They were gorge!

Having a B&W TV that when you switched on, the picture would start off being small, and would then get bigger as the telly "warmed up"

Also if your TV went "on the blink" it was nothing that couldn't be remedied by a good hard bang on the top

cheltenhamgal · 17/06/2006 07:43

getting a green canvas bag from the army and navy store, then shrinking crisp packets infront of the fire to make little badges, also writing your fav pop groups on there :)
spending all day in the garden with no sun protection
watching Tiswas
being allowed to stay up and watch 6million dollar man or Benny Hill

harpsichordcarrier · 17/06/2006 07:47

we didn't have a phone for years, and whe we did we had a "party line" shared with someone else, so if you picked it up you could listen to their conversation Shock
they used to broadcast computer programmes on the radio, which you could record and then try and load up, a real test of patience. and indeed safe breaking skills, as if it didn't load up you had to try and move the volume control a tiny bit to the right, and try all over again...

Furball · 17/06/2006 07:52

The test car with the girl and the clown about to write on the blackboard.

Sun tan oil factor 2

Always being a power cut and having a 'nightlight' candle on a saucer by the bed

Furball · 17/06/2006 07:55

oops - meant the test card

FrannyandZooey · 17/06/2006 07:58

We had two phones, and would phone someone at random then be in the middle of a conversation when they picked up, with one person upstairs and one down. When thepoor person answered, we would say "OMG did you just hear someone?" and when they asked what was going on, we would tell them off for listening in to a private conversation.

We also rang people at random pretending to be French. I am vaguely embarrassed about this now.

Swipe left for the next trending thread