Just had this email, thought it might spark memories for some of you?:)

>Just for a minute, forget everything stressful and read
this...............
>
>Close your eyes and go back in time...
>
>Before the Internet...
>
>Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....
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>Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...
>
>Way back........
>
>I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
>The corner shop.
>Hopscotch.
>Butterscotch.
>Skipping.
>Handstands.
>Football with an old can.
>Fingerbob.
>
>Beano, Dandy, Buster, Twinkle and Dennis the Menace.
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>Roly Poly.
>Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams.
>The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
>Bazooka Joe bubble gum.
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>An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a
tune.
>Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps
>screwball.
>
>Wait......
>
>Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks.
>Children's Film Foundation, The Double Deckers, Red Hand Gang,
>Tomorrow People, Tiswas or Swapshop?, and 'Why Don't You'? - or
staying up
>for Doctor Who.
>
>When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like

>going somewhere.
>
>Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
>Sticky fingers.
>Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.
>Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
>Climbing trees.
>Making igloos out of snow banks.
>
>Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
> Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your
stomach
>hurt.
>Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
>Spinning around on roundabouts, getting dizzy and falling down was
cause
>for giggles.
>Being tired from playing....remember that?
>
>The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
>Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
>Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
>Choppers and Grifters.
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>Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Vimto and Jubbly lollies
>
>Remember when...
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>There were two types of trainers - girls and boys, and Dunlop Green
Flash
>The only time you wore them at School was for P.E.
>And they were called gym shoes or if you are older - plimsoles
>
>You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
>It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.
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>You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.
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>When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.
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>When 25p (2'6) was decent pocket money (actually 5 shillings)
>Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's.
>Top Trumps.
>When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
>When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to
carry
>groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
>
>When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate
that
>awaited a misbehaving pupil at home.
>Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of
drive-by
>shootings, drugs, gangs etc.
>
>Remember when....
>
>
>Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
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>Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly
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>The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
>And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.
>
>It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic
event.
>Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.
>
>Nobody was prettier than Mum.
>Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
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>Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
>Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
>Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
>
>Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest
protectors.
>
>If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.
>
>Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their grown life...

yes, memories, I enjoyed that, thanks

It certainly sparked a few memories for me whitehorses, thanks!

Awww the good old days ... :) Thanks for that whitehorses :)

Hi All,
Here's another intresting email doing the rounds, worth a read, made me smile.
Steve


FOR EVERYONE BORN BEFORE 1986!!!

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who Were kids in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based
paint which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip-flops and fluorescent 'spokey dokey's' on our wheels. As children, we.would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy juice with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this.

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.
After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We would leave home in the morning and could play all
day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.No sky channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no DVDs, no Internet chat rooms.

We had friends - we went outside and found them.

We played elastics and rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt!British bulldogs,run off,We fell out of trees, got cut, and broke bones but there were no law
suits.We had full on fist fights but no prosecution followed from other parents.

We played chap-the-door-run-away (bobber knockin) and were actually afraid the owners catching us.
We walked to friends' homes.
We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
The idea of a parents bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of...They actually sided with the law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids,before lawyers and governments regulated our lives, for our own good.
For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like toreadabout us.
This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a smile on your face:
The majority of students in universities today were born in 1986........They are called youth.
They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children,and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of bananarama, Nena Cherry or Belinda Carlisle.
For them, there has always been only one Germany and one
Vietnam.
AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they were born.
To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be a god of dance. They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible are films from last year.
They can never imagine life before computers.
They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand Gang or the Famous Five.
They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It
They can't believe a black and white television ever existed. And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.
Now let's check if we're getting old...
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3. Your friends are getting married/already married.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing
comfortably with computers.
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You remember watching Dirty Den in EastEnders the first time around.
7. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good Old days,repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
8. Having read this you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too...

Both very good and very true

Times I remember well!

You've both just made a happy man very old!

"A barrel load of memories"
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Thanks for putting this on, it really cheered me up. I've just been on to Sky customer service. After 5 minutes I was so stressed, reason:
1. I couldn't make him understand my problem
2. I couldn't understand a word he was saying
3. I was no wiser after the discussion and my problem is still there
4. Being told to 'have a nice day' at the end

One thing that is certain, there is always something on the forum to cheer you up and for me this was it. Why have we let ourselves get into such a stressful life? it used to be so simple. But I suppose there will be somewhere out there an email going round telling us how bad it used to be as well.

Childrens Hour and Uncle Mac saying "Goodnight children everywhere ". The Wizard and Hotspur, the Ovaltinies, Itma, Much binding in the marsh. Listening to Chamberlain declaring war, helping Dad to fix up the Andersen shelter. The monkeys in the pet shop old market, buying broken biscuits , long, long journeys by coach to Brid with the WMC. There are so many memories, sadly if you speak of those days to the present generation - Oh not that again Grandad. I told my granddaughter that we had rabbit for Xmas dinner, she was horrified. When I said I had queued for four hours to buy a pair of football boots, she did'nt believe me, but as they say, there you are!

What great posts.
As a war baby it all applies to me and I can see us now doing everything ,in the first one especially. I sat smiling as I was reading it and the world felt right.
Then I realised I was using a computor:hihi:
I wouldn't like to be without this either.

enjoyed them remember .. trying to get luxemburge on wireless..

enjoyed them remember .. trying to get luxemburge on wireless..
yeh i think it was 108

yes your right it was . and archie andrews. feel old now

This thread has made me chuckle no end..:hihi:

Remember when.... "The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one."

This one creased me up... :hihi:

Brilliant, just brilliant.
Thank you!