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Random stuff you used to get up to when a bairn


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There's been a massive shift in the lives of kids over the past 20 years like. I was saying to the Mrs before, back before mobiles and the internet, if you wanted to see your mate you had to go and knock on his door. If he wasn't in you had to ride your bike round the usual spots like the park, the shops, the football field, until you found him. We literally spent all day every day playing football and riding our bikes. If you wanted to go to the pictures you had to ring a telephone number to get the times and listen to a 20minute recorded message that told you the time and date of each and every film they showed :rolleyes:

 

Used to always be knocking on eachother's doors. I was round my mate's house so often that I used to have me dinner there, then run home and have seconds. :angry:

 

Bit sad these days when you see kids glued to their DS or texting.

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Howay man. There's stuff you used to get up to as a bairn, and then there's stuff people make up cos they were blatantly boring as kids and did nowt. Stealing diggers and climbing churches fall into the latter category

 

And there's those who clearly were blatantly boring as a kid and have tried to wipe out their sad past existence by surrounding their adult selves with toys. :rolleyes:

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Taking advantage of experience/knowledge of the tides and sand banks to get day trippers to the beach into trouble was something else we did.

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Pulling moonies to everycunt and giving rifters to every cunt :rolleyes: and hunting the phantom feeler in British bulldog great days :angry:

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J69 destroyed.

 

I can't help but think my theory on him having no friends is true. Looks like he spent his childhood on his jack add well.

 

Totally :rolleyes:

 

That's another thing thats changed as well Ant, when I was a kid we used to go over the school fields to play football and there was a 3 foot wood gate to climb over. There's now a 7foot steel fence surrounding the entire school grounds to stop anyone getting in!

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J69 destroyed.

 

I can't help but think my theory on him having no friends is true. Looks like he spent his childhood on his jack add well.

 

Totally :rolleyes:

 

That's another thing thats changed as well Ant, when I was a kid we used to go over the school fields to play football and there was a 3 foot wood gate to climb over. There's now a 7foot steel fence surrounding the entire school grounds to stop anyone getting in!

Didn't stop us.

 

(cool as fuck me, man :angry: )

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Howay man. There's stuff you used to get up to as a bairn, and then there's stuff people make up cos they were blatantly boring as kids and did nowt. Stealing diggers and climbing churches fall into the latter category

:rolleyes: CT making stuff up? No way.

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Howay man. There's stuff you used to get up to as a bairn, and then there's stuff people make up cos they were blatantly boring as kids and did nowt. Stealing diggers and climbing churches fall into the latter category

:rolleyes: CT making stuff up? No way.

 

Dear me. Obsessed springs to mind :angry: Im sure they'll let you and Leazes share a padded cell.

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  • 13 years later...
On 18/05/2011 at 12:34, Howmanheyman said:

Was talking with my own daughters the other day and started reminiscing about when I was young. I lived in Walker as a kid and at the time there was a few houses getting renovated, we used run about these houses, jump out the windows onto old mattresses, play Japs and Commando's etc and then get chased off the 'Watchie' and his Alsatian dog which was great fun as long as you didn't get caught!

 

Also remember going to the Rec and playing football all summer long and pretending to be Zico/Socrates etc before going in to watch the World Cup in Spain. I don't know if any younger posters on here will know this but there used to be a few glue sniffers about in them days and as a bairn their appearance was a sign to fuck off sharpish as they were practically walking Zombies monged out their boxes and the rumour was they'd grab a hold of you and force you to sniff their glue. The next day you'd see their dried up bags lying about.

 

In the summer holidays on a boiling hot day what seemed like the entire street would walk along to old Shields Road enmasse and get the 301 bus to the coast, (the Metro was new and nobody used it), the place was packed, it was like the Costa del Sol.

 

Going to Jesmond Dene and climbing on anything that could be climbed, I'm surprised nobody got killed.

 

Getting a Juventus strip on a trip to Italy my Grandparents took me and my sis on as my parents couldn't afford it, coming back and my mates being awestruck at the strip as you couldn't really get them here at the time, I was tanned, kitted up in the Juve strip looking cool as fuck and was the toast of Walker! :rolleyes:

 

Apologies for the rambling! :angry:


Happy days. What I’d give for a knock on the door from my childhood mates for a game of japs and commando’s, especially in our air pistol days.

 

14 years ago btw. If you were feeling old then…..   :lol: 

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2 minutes ago, Christmas Tree said:


Happy days. What I’d give for a knock on the door from my childhood mates for a game of japs and commando’s, especially in our air pistol days.

 

14 years ago btw. If you were feeling old then…..   :lol: 

 

Are you doing an ewerk in your time machine? :lol:

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