scothunter 12,609 Posted August 12, 2016 Report Share Posted August 12, 2016 Ah skinheads, glue sniffing no job & yts. No peer pressure for wearing the latest trendy clothes and footwear. No pc tv even got to watch the miners getting their heads caved in by the cops on the tea time news. Even had a wee war with the argies. Downside was we did live under the threat of nuclear armageddon lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fifeman 164 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 Airguns and shotguns in your mums catalogue,delivered by littlewoods. thats were my dads webly vulcan came from lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fifeman 164 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 ,s haircuts, when I was in secondry school the fashion was to have just the back of your head permed. I asked my parents and my dad said a firm no ! But me being me I got one of my mates sister who was a hairdresser to do it for me, so there I was with a big flick at the front and a perm at the back and I thought I looked the dogs balls, even had a affro comb to curl my curls while sat in class lol 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pirate pack 109 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 I grew up on a large council estate and my dad on is money making Deals bought a job lot hair cutting stuff,the only hair cut he could do was a no 1 all the mothers would turn up with kids most crying their eyes out having their cut on our lawn,the kids called my dad the reaper,he charged 50 pence a cut he thought he was dell boy. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 20,882 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 My dad got a job lot of pork scratchings that hadn't been salted...so he went to the butchers and got a full bucket of salt...all sat round licking em and dipping em in the salt! Another time he was doing pest control in cadburys, he worked for British rail so he loaded a train up with chocolate...then got the driver to stop at the bottom of our field...unloaded all the chocolate over the railway fence....my mum had to do a dozen runs with the pram to get it into the house. We eat well in them days but it was feast or famine lol 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greg64 2,566 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 cant get nostalgic about the 80s as it seems like yesterday I don't know where the last 30 years have gone 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jacknife 2,005 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 We had a Lucozade factory near us and as kids we used to sneak across the yard as there was skips and any crushed crates of drinks were just binned Sometimes there'd be packs of 24 where only 1 or 2 cartons were crushed The amount of times we had the shits from drinking to much orange or ribbena........couldn't believe the time we were waiting for it to get dark when one of the workers came out and through some cartons out......then the b*****d climbed up and pissed all over the skip 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waz 4,212 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 Anybody ever remember a kids programme called Why Don't You? used to be on in the holidays along with Champion The Wonder Horse Yeah always seemed to be kids from northern ireland on it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Waz 4,212 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 Anybody else remember milk being delivered in square plastic bags for a while? used to get a bottle of milk and a straw at school every day 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flipbull 1,139 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 Anybody else remember milk being delivered in square plastic bags for a while? used to get a bottle of milk and a straw at school every day Watch out watch out ther's a Humphry about. Remember the unigate adverts, in the 70's. Used to love the Elvis films in the summer holidays when off school. Champion the wonder horse used to come on and remember I used to run straight to one of the arms on the couch as though I was riding it, to the theme song 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dai dogs 1,193 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 70s The old guy going around the streets sharpening knives Rag and bone men collecting old clothes for goldfish Old woman collecting silver paper.... I Still dont know why she did this Making dutch arrows . Taking wasps nests out for the grubs for poaching Sleeping in barns . Keeping birds of prey and flying them on the local football field Shooting starlings and sparrows off roofs around the streets . Catching mice alive in bottles and jars then giving them to the ferrets 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stealthy1 3,964 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 Remember laughing at yuppies with big brick sized mobile phones, but now everybody has one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flipbull 1,139 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 My dad got a job lot of pork scratchings that hadn't been salted...so he went to the butchers and got a full bucket of salt...all sat round licking em and dipping em in the salt! Another time he was doing pest control in cadburys, he worked for British rail so he loaded a train up with chocolate...then got the driver to stop at the bottom of our field...unloaded all the chocolate over the railway fence....my mum had to do a dozen runs with the pram to get it into the house. We eat well in them days but it was feast or famine lol I remeber waking up one day and the house was full of boxes of bar 6's, fook knows where they come fom ??? But they come from somewhere haha. That was in th 70's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
flipbull 1,139 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 70s The old guy going around the streets sharpening knives Rag and bone men collecting old clothes for goldfish Old woman collecting silver paper.... I Still dont know why she did this Making dutch arrows . Taking wasps nests out for the grubs for poaching Sleeping in barns . Keeping birds of prey and flying them on the local football field Shooting starlings and sparrows off roofs around the streets . Catching mice alive in bottles and jars then giving them to the ferrets Our rag man used to give us a bloon the tight tw@t. But we would be buzzing with it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dai dogs 1,193 Posted August 13, 2016 Report Share Posted August 13, 2016 My old man waking me up before he went to work after finding about 300 trout in the bath and asking me have i been fishing.. Fish Hatcheries no cameras in them days Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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