Do you remember ?

Alright folks i know I'm an old fuddy duddy who lives in the past and hates all things new , but i make no excuses for that i miss things from the past .

So here's a thread for anyone who wants to share things they miss or just dont see or cant get anymore .


I miss the penny goodie , do you remember when you could go to the corner shop with 10p and get a bag of sweets ... at mine they did those jelly teddy bears 3 for 1p !! or those hard pink chewing gums that were in a greasepaper wrapper twisted closed at both sides they were 2p

I remember the 21st night of September, love was changing the ,ind of the prenteders. A bit blanked out after that.

erm ok

It's from a song.... Wasn't expecting many to get it.


Anyway, those days are still kind of aroudn in Ireland, some shops you can buy a fair bit fof jellies and small goodies for like 50c or so.


Do you remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles man that was a great 90s kids show.

It's coming back apparently,another great memory about to be shafted by the idiocy of Michael Bay.

Animated one? I wouldn't have high hopes. Animaniacs was great too, as you can guess I'm a 90s kid.

This one would only be for Cork people, but do you Remember Roche's Stores on Pana?

I loved that show , do you remember when they change the name to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles so it was more kid friendly

I got into trouble because of that show aswell , i decided to draw them on my bedroom wall lifesize ............didn't go down to well with my mum

I still remember that we had no indoor toilet and that a man came once a month to pick up our outside toilet tank.
Basically having no TV, we were hardly inside at all. Our mammy used to have to scream for us to come home and we hated being inside. We were always having adventures as we had to use our own imagination to entertain ourselves

Do you remember that tv show that used to be on during the school holidays .................Why Dont You

I dont think that i started watching tv until i was about 14 to be honest, they were all Goodies re-runs as well

One of the first records i went out and bought myself with my own pocket money was Funky Gibbon

God, i remember that

They did a good cover of 'Wild thing' as well if i remember correctly

Do you remember games like Manhunt? Those were fecing class.

Manhunt? Was that a board game?
Logacta Chart Soccer - classic! Anyone else ever play it?
What about Today newspaper - the first colour newspaper.

Do you remember....chalk hearts melting on a playground wall? Dawn escapes from moonwashed college halls?

Adam, you're not still trying to write a love song, are you?

No, 2 teams split up on number of people, one guy/girl is on and counts to 100 while everyone hides, he/she sees someone and shouts, tip the can (while touching a lamp post or something) I see.... whichever teams members are all caught first lose. However if a team member reaches the post while the person is on is on the lookout for people and gets to the can, before the person who is on and shouts tip the can I free all. Their team wins.

Yeah we used to play that! Not called Manhunt, can't remember what we called it.

Manhunt was great, although for some reason I always felt it was important to hid with your team mates which is a stupid idea really.

1..2..3 red lights and what time is it mr.wolf is another 2 games I can remember as well as British bulldogs of course.

Land of the Giants. Anyone remember that on a Sunday morning after mass?

I remember Land of the Giants - not one of my favourites though. I think you could watch it even without going to mass

What about The Time Tunnel?

Adam D wrote:Do you remember....chalk hearts melting on a playground wall? Dawn escapes from moonwashed college halls?

You have been spending to much time trying to land Fish

JuliusHMarx wrote:I remember Land of the Giants - not one of my favourites though. I think you could watch it even without going to mass

What about The Time Tunnel?

Yes i remember Time Tunnel with the black and white swirlly tunnel making you go bogged eyed

I used to love the Water Margin aswell

Another 90s child so all the TV shwos are missed. Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Power Rangers, Saved by the Bell. Don't make them like that any more!

TT, I remember that song. Earth, Wind & Fire

Billy, same here, we didn't have a telly until I was 13 so a lot of the kids tv from my era passed me by somewhat. I do remember watching the wrestling at my grandparents house on a Saturday (?) afternoon. Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks are the ones I remember.

My favouritest ever thing when I was a kid was my spacehopper! Absolutely loved it!

Tales of the Unexpected was a classic, I loved that.

Was it a Tales of the Unexpected that had Peter Ustinov playing a rather camp bloke who had 2 poodles and in the end the person he had wronged fed them to him ?

Sega Mega drive and snes superscope, haha that was one of the more outrageous ideas that was fantastic. A bazooka on your shoulder

ShahenshahG wrote:Sega Mega drive and snes superscope, haha that was one of the more outrageous ideas that was fantastic. A bazooka on your shoulder

Remember the NES Powerglove?

I remember Manhunt, Thom. We played that here in the late 70s across about a quarter of our suburb - including the school, oval surrounding houses and streets. We kept widening the field. We used to include an area of bushland. I'm not kidding... you could be about 10' away from the hunter hiding in this scrubby thicket and they'd walk right by you. They'd have no idea you were there!

I can also remember having this sinking feeling knowing it might be the last time we would ever play before school started again. As it happened we never did play again.

We had the same with mixed sweets. You could get 5 or 4 for 1 cent.
A ten cent paper bag would be stuffed full. The sweets were also better made, tasted better and the smell of the shop when they opened the jar doesn't exist any more. Nowadays, the equivalent sweets are often poorly (cheaply) made with the wrong ingredients (or too much of one) and are about 100 times more expensive!

Can anyone remember SSP Racers? You'd have this plastic zip which you'd pull through the motor. It got red hot sometimes and if you weren't careful you'd get these horrible burns from the molten hot serrated plastic zipper or from the wheel carriage itself. The actual racers would shoot across rooms into a glass door or a piece of furniture at a rapid rate of knots. The cat was scared 5hitless of it.

When there was the yo-yo craze, your fingers would almost get the blood circulation cut off. I had one of those coca-cola (red & white) ones but then upgraded to the cola-coloured/clear one. The string was so much better the finger felt less pain too. Then some kid turns up with the red cherry and clear plastic one.... obviously the latest model!

Yes i rememeber those racer toys not sure if they were call SSP Racers here but i did have one .

White Dog Poo anyone ?

Sex...

I forgot what makes white dog poo, not sure if its the length of time it sits for i can't remember. Don't see it any more though i agree.

Wasn't it that the dog food back then wasn't particularly well made and often supplemented with chalk which in turn then produced the white effect as the dogs didn't need that level of calcium.

Spoiler:

Hello.

Nice, just as i remembered it.

You the man hero.

I remember when summers were summers,and you could go to the beach have picnics play in the park, now its just rain rain rain

How about those aliens that were in eggs? Everyone said they'd hatch a baby....

...they didn't.

Following on from that vein, Sea Monkeys. Man those things were a waste of money.

Thomond wrote:Following on from that vein, Sea Monkeys. Man those things were a waste of money.

I bought some of them , well i think i did ............i couldn't really see anything

I was reading an article about the history of my local area and was shocked to find the place was used as a dumping ground in the early years of the colony. Hard to believe there were sheep, pigs and cattle farms only a few kms from the Harbour bridge - but all the rubbish was chucked down into the valley of the creek nearby.

Apparently it got so bad that the plague broke out (around 1902) and they eventually stopped doing this and built the now famous Incinerators. There's one near me designed by Walter Burley Griffin - the guy who designed Canberra and it is now an artist's studio / community facility next to the sports complex. The playing fields are on top of all the old fill and are level with these ancient aboriginal caves at Flat Rock - but originally the valley floor was 30m below. Just mind boggling how we can clear and fill up huge areas so quickly and we have no idea of what the natural country originally would have looked like before the First Fleet arrived.

It got me thinking about people lighting fires to burn off rubbish, leaves, etc which used to happen on a wide scale. It stopped when the laws were brought in around the late 70s? That smell which used to linger was quite nice. Eucalyptus and charcoal.

You'd often see an old bloke sweeping leaves into a fire burning off on the side of the street. If a gust of wind arrived then there might be a few hot coals flying around which could spark others fires. That was probably why they stopped everyone doing it and also to clear the air more (which is a lot better than it used to be 30 years ago apparently). So when I smell a fire these days - it immediately takes me back to memories of those days when there were many little fires going on all over the place.

In regards to games played in my youth etc...

Kingy
Several kids, a tennis ball and the ability to dodge required.
Started off with everyone standing in a circle and trying to kick the ball through other peoples legs, the last person to not have the ball kicked through their legs was then 'King' and had to throw the ball at everyone else, if you were hit with the ball you were then on until one remained who was the winner.

Wallie
Several kids, a football (or tennis ball), a wall
Everyone has to be able to kick a ball off a wall, if you missed the wall then you had to stand in front of the wall and stop the other kids hitting the wall with the ball but often ended up getting pelted with the ball.

Kerbie
2 kids, a football, a road
Stand either side of a quiet road and throw the football across the road attempting to hit the opposing kerb, bonus points for then catching the rebounding ball if it hits the kerb, even more bonus points if ball is thrown whilst a car is passing as lives are in danger.

Blocky off
A base, several kids, the ability to shout Blocky off really loud.
A mixture of hide and seek and tag. One kid is on and has to count to designated number (usually 100 but no-one ever did) at a base whilst everyone else went off to hide. The catcher then has to find the hiders and make it back to the base to shout the term '1...2...3...Blocky off 'insert kid's name'. The other children though can get to the base and make themselves safe by shouting their own name before the catcher.

Funny how you had Wally and Kerbie and we had Wallsy and Kerbsy.

Either we add s' to game titles in Wales, or you omit them in the North.

And we called Blocky-Off - "Outs"

Never played the tennis ball one

Finding porn mags in bushes.

In the flat complex I grew up in we had a game called IRA (I know )

Basically there was 2 teams, one team would think of a word with the same number letters as the members of the team, when the said word is chosen, each team member would get a letter and run and hide

The other team would basically find them and beat the letters out of them, once the word was discovered that team won and then they would be the hunted team

It was a fun game and you could always tell the hard kids from the pansys so you just went for them

Years later when I worked in a Warehouse one of the lads mentioned the game and I said "yeah we played that" then he said "What about IRA r@pe"....the place went silent and he just went bright red and walked off to all of us peeing ourselves

#HEEL wrote:Finding porn mags in bushes.

That used to attract kids from miles away when one was found, you didn't need BMB/chat/emails etc back then, word of mouth quickly spread and you'd get kids from the other side of town suddenly turning up in to view rainsoaked covered in mud ripped pages of Razzle.

Yeah doesn't happen much anymore, in saying that i found one on the roof of my work last year.

My mates dads work vans were a hotspot for them, or at least a daily sport.

I remember when there was always one blank/unlabeled VHS tape behind our TV and we all knew what that was. You'd get the opening credits of Emmerdale Farm then BOOM!! the Swedish Olympics.

Taking that tape to school and lending it to all and sundry done your popularity no harm at all.

With regards to old ...............ehem ......................porn , do your remember that the ladies had a little more thatch .

Kenny wrote:With regards to old ...............ehem ......................porn , do your remember that the ladies had a little more thatch .

Brilliant word that! My ex missus looked like she had the Jackson 5 in a headlock.

FreekShow wrote:

Kenny wrote:With regards to old ...............ehem ......................porn , do your remember that the ladies had a little more thatch .

Brilliant word that! My ex missus looked like she had the Jackson 5 in a headlock.

I just choked on my digestive biscuit

Kenny wrote:

FreekShow wrote:

Kenny wrote:With regards to old ...............ehem ......................porn , do your remember that the ladies had a little more thatch .

Brilliant word that! My ex missus looked like she had the Jackson 5 in a headlock.

I just choked on my digestive biscuit

I hope it was a chocolate digestive Kenny. You deserve the best.