Retroman839
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I remeber you telling this story before. Man you must have had some good starwars stuff !
Coolest 1970's Toy
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Retroman839
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yes a recent pick up
You must have had the Action Man Assault Tower? I remember that was a big thing at the time and I managed to get one secondhand when I was a kid
Retroman839
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Yeh i remeber that thing was massive ! And had a zip line right ?
yea that's correct
Retroman839
Senior Member
Yes was cool ..
Did you have a zip line out your bedroom window with cotton ?
Mine too, my cousin(I passed it on to when I got a bit older) still has the bike apparently, but has lost the base, what a shame.
We were so lucky that we didn't have phones and technology to swipe our childhood from us like the kids today.
I've never seen so many fat kids under the age of Ten as I have recently.
Do you guys remember doing this stuff.....
Tree climbing?
British Bulldog?
Ball tig?
BMX ing to the Arcades where you could actually leave your bike outside the Arcade and it would still be there when you came out!
Hedge hopping?
Scrumping?
Knock down ginger? (knock on peoples doors then leg it)
Smoking fags at the age of 12 thinking you were ' hard '
Skate Boarding?
We had it so good, It's hard to believe and sad to see how bad it's got.
If you knocked on somebody's door as a kid and legged it nowadays, there's a high chance you'd end up getting 'bummed'
I've never seen so many fat kids under the age of Ten as I have recently.
Do you guys remember doing this stuff.....
Tree climbing?
British Bulldog?
Ball tig?
BMX ing to the Arcades where you could actually leave your bike outside the Arcade and it would still be there when you came out!
Hedge hopping?
Scrumping?
Knock down ginger? (knock on peoples doors then leg it)
Smoking fags at the age of 12 thinking you were ' hard '
Skate Boarding?
We had it so good, It's hard to believe and sad to see how bad it's got.
If you knocked on somebody's door as a kid and legged it nowadays, there's a high chance you'd end up getting 'bummed'
Retroman839
Senior Member
Knock knock ginger ☺️
We would tie cotton to door knockers and hide in opposite garden over the road .
Any one know Jack Jack shine a light ? My dad tried to explain and I remeber playing it in fields at night but I can’t remeber the rules
kingtreelo
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knock and run where i lived
i think the same things people of our age say about todays youth were said by our elders before TV was a big thing and computers/games
its all cyclical, everyone is just having different experiences in life, my daughter was asked once by her friends if she wanted to "hang around" the local town centre(not by me, by her friends) and she was mortified
times just move, new times are no worse than old ones, just different
i think the same things people of our age say about todays youth were said by our elders before TV was a big thing and computers/games
its all cyclical, everyone is just having different experiences in life, my daughter was asked once by her friends if she wanted to "hang around" the local town centre(not by me, by her friends) and she was mortified
times just move, new times are no worse than old ones, just different
I did a Google on ' Knock down ginger ' earlier and saw that it was also called ' knock, knock, ginger ' also ' ding, dong, ditch ' and also ' chappy ' and the best one ' nicky, nicky, nine doors ' if you lived in a Cornish holiday town called ' Nickanan Night '
I guess it all depended what part of the country you lived.
Not heard of ' Jack Jack shine a light ' but it sounds like a laugh!
' Jack Jack shine ' also knowns as ' Fugitive ' amongst other names - we called it ' Fox & hounds '
Copied and pasted
One person is the fugitive.
The rest are the trackers.
The Fugitive is given chalk and then runs out.
The group count to 100 and then start to give chase.
The Fugitive MUST draw an arrow every time they change direction.
They can hide the arrows anywhere as long as they DO draw an arrow somewhere.
The group must find the arrows or listen for the fugitive and catch them before they make it home.
The group can split up but must stay in groups of at least two or three.
Pretty much all of that and much worse
think we should have never been let out the house to be honestGood job we had cool games in the arcades and C64 else it could have been even worse
The equivalent today's Scrumping is kids going MuckDonald's
Smart phones are the downgrade of humanity with digital dopamine addiction all by design
Back to Happy Place
we used to be down the park making fires with bread and butter to toast
This was awesome photo I found looking for name of local arcade with the classic BMX outside
Oh, God, the mortality...
All of the above except ball tig (instead of standard tig, you had to kick an opponent in the nuts whilst shouting 'tig, you're on'?). And much more.
German Bulldog, anyone?
A 'Knock and Run' derivative we devised was to have four or five of us on a path close to an escape route (woods etc), wait for a driver to come close then pretend to beat the poop out of a volunteer on the floor. Some would drive past, some would slow down and shout, and the real payoff was when one would chase us.
Someone could get a PhD doing that sort of social experimentation.
Someone could get a PhD doing that sort of social experimentation.
Me and mate I used to play video games with on his Atari 800XL like Goonies, Track & Field, Pengo to name some. well it was school summer holidays and for some mad reason we were wandering around school grounds, there was a skip near caretakers pad and in it a Honda, only I can't remember if it was a 50, 70 or 90 its so long ago, we dragged it out the skip and walked to his house with it, got stopped by a copper asking a load of questions, obviously back then you did see police more but most days you wouldn't yet he just appeared at the right time, well right time after some nosey parker reporting us I'd say, wasn't taken from us having explained where we got it and the Caretaker said we could have it (never saw him lol) and where we going with it as mate lived near farms surrounded by fields
Got it going in no time, throttle wasn't right though as it wouldn't release and I tried to tell him before he jumped on it and went flying down his drive way straight up the pile of gravel at the bottom and into the thorn bush, what a state he was when I helped him out lol, fixed the throttle and we used to tear around the fields opposite his place, was brilliant fun
a while after that we found a dumped Lambretta near his place so I took that home but think I sold it someone
kingtreelo
Active member
these days you would be called scum and labelled as a wrong un for having such fun on an vehicle in a parkMe and mate I used to play video games with on his Atari 800XL like Goonies, Track & Field, Pengo to name some. well it was school summer holidays and for some mad reason we were wandering around school grounds, there was a skip near caretakers pad and in it a Honda, only I can't remember if it was a 50, 70 or 90 its so long ago, we dragged it out the skip and walked to his house with it, got stopped by a copper asking a load of questions, obviously back then you did see police more but most days you wouldn't yet he just appeared at the right time, well right time after some nosey parker reporting us I'd say, wasn't taken from us having explained where we got it and the Caretaker said we could have it (never saw him lol) and where we going with it as mate lived near farms surrounded by fields
Got it going in no time, throttle wasn't right though as it wouldn't release and I tried to tell him before he jumped on it and went flying down his drive way straight up the pile of gravel at the bottom and into the thorn bush, what a state he was when I helped him out lol, fixed the throttle and we used to tear around the fields opposite his place, was brilliant fun
a while after that we found a dumped Lambretta near his place so I took that home but think I sold it someone