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Stupid things you miss from your childhood...

My first BMX.
Tank command on the atari.
Playing footy, Hido (hide and seek to the posh ones),british bulldog, Arlio, kick-the-can, tennis and cricket(same bat),kirby, stuck-in-the-mud,offground tick,building dens, collecting bomby wood, making a stirree out of pram wheels and a plank,pea-shooters, peg guns.
My first adidas trainees and pair of kickers.
Beech nut chewies ( I think they had curry in them, they were that hot).
The chocolate bars that were in them machines at train stations.
Strike cola.
Findus crispy pancakes and french bread pizza.
Proper music.
Eleccy blankets.
Flock wallpaper.
Kissing Samantha Burghall in the flats.
Scalextrics.
 
Picture Book on Mondays, Andy Pandy on Tuesdays, The Flowerpot Men on Wednesdays, Rag, Tag and Bobtail on Thursdays and the Woodentops on Fridays.
 
Garden Hopping
Budding Windows
Football before Sky Ruined it
Norman Whiteside
Old Trafford Without JCLs
Trying to get served in the Local.( maybe not childhood but worth a mention)
ZX spectrum
Jet set Willy & manic miner
Privet diving.
Collecting Bommy wood & conkers
Burtons Fish n chips out of the Vending Maching after swimming.
Nicking balls off the driving range.
Scoring a hat trick for the school team(honest)
Whizzer n Chips
Painting my Face Like Adam Ant.
 
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Garden Hopping
Budding Windows
Football before Sky Ruined it
Norman Whiteside
Old Trafford Without JCLs
Trying to get served in the Local.( maybe not childhood but worth a mention)
ZX spectrum
Jet set Willy & manic miner
Collecting Bommy wood & conkers
Burtons Fish n chips out of the Vending Maching after swimming.
Nicking balls off the driving range.
Scoring a hat trick for the school team(honest)
Whizzer n Chips
Painting my Face Like Adam Ant.

Adam ant - now your talking.

hey you - rafael midweek handball - pen or not? :)
 
Going home for lunch from School on a Tuesday, listening to Johnny Walker on Radio 1 for the Top 30 countdown and having to run back to school to tell everyone who was No.1 that week.
Rods strapped to the crossbar, all my fishing tackle in a rucksac, cycling 6 miles to the Thames to sit beside a freezing river with ice-floes catching nothing....
Doing the Status Quo Boogie at Discos
The Summer Holidays that just seemed to go on forever.....
 
Adam ant - now your talking.

hey you - rafael midweek handball - pen or not? :)



I'd say it was more clear cut than the sending off,' but I suppose that doesn't answer the Question:D

You know me mate, I lost interest a while back. FC all the way nowadays.
I think you was spot on though with Fergie losing the plot for 15 mins after the sending off and united not being able to regroup before it was to late.

I can't believe The Nani sending off has made 17 pages on here though.
 
I'd say it was more clear cut than the sending off,' but I suppose that doesn't answer the Question:D

You know me mate, I lost interest a while back. FC all the way nowadays.
I think you was spot on though with Fergie losing the plot for 15 mins after the sending off and united not being able to regroup before it was to late.

I can't believe The Nani sending off has made 17 pages on here though.

Kellfire's delusions are 5 pages of it!
 
^^This^^

Getting excited because there was a live football game on the telly.
Watching the colour telly at my grannie's.
Mercilessly ripping off the older family members at te time of decimalisation.
Getting "lifted into" the football.
Getting my first puppy.
 
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Watching a dancing flower with sunglasses whilst in a bomber jacket listening to tapes whilst drinking tab clear and rubbing a dock leaf on a sting from a 'bumpy stingy' I walked into trying to avoid a white dogs turd. All whilst sucking on a push-pop.

Take me back to the 90's! haha
 
My dad :(
Panini Sticker albums
Climbing trees
ManHunt (Team Hide and seek)
10p mix ups
Playing Dungeons and Dragons :o
Great kids TV -Transformers, He-Man, M.A.S.K, Thundercats.
The A-Team, Airwolf, Knight Rider, Baywatch :p

Did anyone play a game with little sticks and a ball called Cannon? Or was it just a made up game in my area??
 
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