The telly took five minutes to warm up
Nearly everyone閳ユ獨 Mum was in when you came home from school
No one owned a pure bred dog
When I shilling a week was enough pocket money
White dog poo on the street
When you only had to come home when the street lights came on.
Your Mum wore stockings that came in two pieces
Every male teacher wore a tie
Every female teacher had her hair tidy every day and wore high heels
You got your windscreen wiped for free at the petrol pump
Cereals had real toys hidden in the box
You thought is was a privilege to be taken for a meal by your parents to a real restaurant
A Ford Capri was your dream car
When your school threatened to keep you back a year if you didn閳ユ獩 do better閳ワ腹鈧腹鈧泧nd they did!
No one ever asked where the car keys were, because they were in the car, in the ignition, and it was unlocked.
Lying on your back on the grass with your friends saying 閳ユ涪hat cloud looks like閳ワ腹鈧腹鈧腹鈧?br> Playing footie without adults to tell you the rules of the game
Stuff from shops came without a safely cap or hermetic seal because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger
When being sent to the headmasters office was nothing to what you would get if your parents heard that you had been sent there
And with all our progress don閳ユ獩 you wish that you could slip back just for a day and savour the slower pace with the children of today
Basically we were in fear of our lives, but not from drugs or gang related crimes
But our parents and grandparents were a bigger threat
But we survived because their love was greater than the threat
Summers spent at the beach, donkey rides, powder lemonade, hoop la, bike rides that went on for miles.
When snow was so thick you never saw grass for weeks
When you read The Famous Five and Secret Seven
Watching Laurel and Hardy, Roy Rogers and The Lone Ranger at the pictures
Newsreels before the movies
Do you remember what a double dare was
Milk deliveries in glass bottles on the doorstep
Pogo sticks
Four digit telephone numbers
Red phone boxes where you had to press button A then button B
Metal ice cube trays
45 rpm records
Spud guns
Izal toilet paper
Twin tub washing machines
Reel to reel tape recorders
Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum
Mojos
Two bob for a gallon of petrol
Decisions were made by eeny meeny miny mo
Race issues meant who won the relay race
Being caught in school with a weapon meant a catapault
Being belted at school and your parents never had the teacher charged
There was no TV till 4pm
Spinning round, stopping then falling down was a cause to giggle
Putting playing cards into the spokes of your cycle turned any bike into a motorcycle
Taking drugs meant getting the polio injection
If you remember all of these then you have LIVED
Do you remember when? Oh yeah! What days they were. I wish I could take my grand-kids back to those days. The poor kids miss out on so much these days. The biggest thing they miss out on is being able to wander the streets day %26amp; nite like me %26amp; you %26amp; everyone else from that era did. Of course the kids, and the people who had negative answers to your question, would not realise or even begin to be able to comprehend, the freedoms we did have back then. Some of them were;
1. The ability to take the punishments for what we done wrong, which in turn, made us into respectful adults.
2. The freedom from being "protected", which made us learn to be able to protect ourselves.
3. Being able to eat what we wanted, because we would burn off the fat from that cream bun, by playing outside, instead of playing on-line/ electronic games, or watching "Big Brother","Idol" and the rest of the droll on TV
4. The freedom to think for ourselves, instead of being subjected to the media and marketing brainwashing, which makes todays kids believe that they have to have this, that, %26amp; the other, and all at ridiculous prices for brand name stuff.
5. We suffered the pain of learning to spell, write, add %26amp; subtract, so that later on in life, we didn't have to get the calculator out to work out the total for 2 pints of milk and a loaf of bread. We just did it in our heads. I always have the right money ready for the shop chics, 10 minutes before she has added it up on her calculator, and always a puzzled look on her face about how I happened to have the right amount in my hand for her.
6. We had freedom from our "rights", so that we knew exactly where we stood in our world. And our standing was in the shadows of our parents, teachers, police, and all adults in general. We never questioned that, and thank goodness we didn't. With our ability to think, survive and perform, us kids would have run rings around the adults.
7. We had a thing called imagination. We made our own fun. We didn't rely on adults to entertain us. How many times do you hear a kid say "I'm bored". So much for all their console games, and the countless toys they have been supplied with because "They Saw, They Wanted, They Cried, They Got"
I could keep going on, but it boils down to the fact, that it was a good life, we never expected too much, and therefore we were never dissapointed, we weren't drowning in information technology, we had a fear of being caught out, so we kept out of trouble, our parents were allowed to be parents, rather than having to play 2nd fiddle to us kids.
Yeah, they were good days........
Do you remember when? woah, you like writing :D
yes, yes I do remember the good ol' days...
Do you remember when? I do gosh I must be old
Do you remember when? Oh yes, the good old days
Thank you!
Do you remember when? Yayyyyyy- I've lived!
Do you remember when? I remember them all. Enid Blyton was my favourite author-read Famous Five and Secret Seven Also Billy Bunter. They were wonderful times.
I wanted a Lotus Elan though ;-) Still do.
Do you remember when? well i have lived a little, but not as much as you
good one tho!
Do you remember when? yeah your right!!!i used to really appreciate if my parents took us out for dinner..it was a rare treat!!kids take it for granted now!
Do you remember when? some things before my time. Im 40 and was born in 67 but a few of those things are true for me.
i remember playing out, being scared of being cheeky to an adult. Doors unlocked. People being AFraid of the police. police having powers they could use. I remember going off all day to play even from the age of 8. I was brought up by hard working parents who gave us everything they could save up for. I respected other people and their property etc.etc.......and I am bringing my children up exactly the same way. I am already proud of them and the way they behave.
Do you remember when? not many
Do you remember when? You forgot one, if the Bobby clipped your ear for something, you got a good belting off Dad for doing wrong.
Do you remember when? I have lived ..... and I feel much older now
Thanks a lot! LOL
Do you remember when? Ah, Elsie...................I was a little girl again whilst I was reading that. The bit that made me chuckle was, 'Eeny, meeny, miny, mo'
Eeny, meeny, miny, mo,
Put the baby on the po.
When it's done,
Wipe its bum,
Show its mummy what it's done.
Those were the days, girl.
Do you remember when? R what fab memories elsie...
I was brought up on Laurel and Hardy and love them! and Bazooka chewy? the best! and Tudor crisps.. m love the pickled onion ones.. Lol at the polio drug! :D Thanks for lovely memories...
Do you remember when? Yep
Do you remember when? Erm.. well, I remember some (not as old as you love!! ;)) hee hee..
but yeah I want my babs to have a childhood, not get spoiled with material things and live in fear of pervs, I want her to be outside and have a imagination, to be able to amuse herself.. pink chewy..mojos.. getting scared of getting told off by the teachers.. cos I'll tell her off more..
crickey I think I need to emigrate.. xx
edit oi!! I remember nutty bars.. they were my fav (brown wrapper with orange writing?? mmm yum!!!! oh and yeah okey dokey... i am 21 ...again!!! ;-) xx
Do you remember when? I remember it well and playing hide and seek without the fear of having something bad happen to you, indeed it was the good old days. I like these questions they bring back happy memories that make me smile, thanks.
Do you remember when? damn telly, i always got caught watching it. It took an hour to cool off
spinning until you hurled, then did again
only four or five channels on the telly
a star 4 you!!!
Do you remember when? I also remember spending my last farthing on a Blackjack chew.
Do you remember when? those were the days the best
Do you remember when? Every single one of those brings a memory and a smile - does it not make you really wonder - things really were simpler back then - there was certainly less stress so why did it all change? Supposedly times are changing to make things easier - for who? Life is so hard, fast and complicated now - I wouldn't want to be a kid growing up now in this ever changing fast paced world, but I suppose I look back at my childhood through rose tinted specs.
Thanks for this question i will now go to bed with a smile reminiscing x
I remember nutty bars too - very tasty mmmm x
Can I just add about the white dog poo - yes it is true we did used to see white dog poo on the pavements etc, the reason for this was they used to put chalk in dog food to bulk it out - they not allowed to do that anymore!
Do you remember when? No but some of those things still apply to me
Do you remember when? That is one long question. I'm not old enough to have experienced half of those things.
Do you remember when? you must be old
Do you remember when? no. i really dont ? whts a shillling?
Do you remember when? do you remeber when people didn't write long questions on y/a
Do you remember when? thats been going around for years
Do you remember when? Not this nostalgic, rose tinted view on the past AGAIN - I've lost count of how many times this has been posted.
Do you remember when? ok people cant really be bothered reading all this i read up to the dog poo bit. but no i was born in 1983. why were the poos white???? how old are you??
Do you remember when? could you please send me the name and address of your next of kin as i have a side-line job as a stone mason and i guess that if you go that far back there is not much time left!!
i could then convince them that this is to be your epitaph.
Do you remember when? If you call that living, that is sad! it's not living, it's grounghog day.
'Lived a full life' is not the above, that is just OLD, inside and out!
but then again, 'nostagia is not what it used to be'.
