Childhood memories..
What kind of things do you remember from your childhood??
Things like:
1. Spangles.
2. Scooters with yellow wheels.
3. Crisp packets with little blue packets of salt in them.
4. Rubbing your younger brother's nose in a dead bird's body (just kidding...honest!)
Get the picture? What has vanished from our lives, possibly foreever??
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TV: Bagpuss, the Wombles. Battle of the Planets.
Snacks: Opal Fruits, Marathons. The wide variety of crisp manufacturers and small variety of flavours. Do you want salt & vinegar, cheese and onion, or plain?
Transport: cars without rear seat belts. People smoking on top of buses (for that matter, people smoking in the cinema).
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| JackP wrote: |
| TV: Bagpuss, the Wombles. Battle of the Planets |
I don't remember Battle of the Planets...is that a good thing or a bad thing?
TV: Watch With Mother. Fireball XL5. Stingray. Torchie The Battery Boy. Twizzle. H R Puffnstuff. The Banana Splits. etc....
"sigh" Now I really am showing my age....
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| fogey wrote: |
| I don't remember Battle of the Planets.. |
See the wikipedia entry for Battle of the planets to see if that refreshes your memory at all...
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Recently i remembered me of a schoolmate from my earliest school years. He was the hero of our school, because he was the only one who could piss from the floor to the ceiling. No joke 
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I have Battle of the Planets (aka G-force aka something else Spanish to my Puertorican Mrs) on DVD. Watch it with my daughter at every possible opportunity. Best kid's animation ever. And a great theme tune! (and I can't be the only one to think Princess was kinda cute 
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A usual response to this question is "white dog dirt". It was everywhere in the 70s.
Well I've come to the conclution that its some kind of reaction to the proximity of children, as the first time I saw it again after what must have been quarter of a century, was outside my daughter's school!
I have pictures some where if you want?
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| Phil Teare wrote: |
| I have pictures some where if you want? |
Errr...I think I'll pass on this one. Thanks for the chance though!
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I don't feel so old being in this forum.
54321 bars
Star Wars toys
BMX and Choppers
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Spectrums and Commodores
| fogey wrote: |
| 3. Crisp packets with little blue packets of salt in them. |
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Aaaahhhh...but I remember when they weren't actually packets - just little twists of blue paper!
Commodore!!! Wrote my very first program (a simple general knowledge quiz) on one of those!
Fireball XL5
Supercar
Pneumatic type of gun that fired ping pong balls
Spud (potato) guns
Sherbert dabs
Johnny 7 gun
Man from UNCLE gun (with telescopic clip-on sight - as the song by Jimmy Nail mentions)
....hmmm...seems I had quite a violent childhood!
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| Spectrums and Commodores |
I've just moved house and in the process rediscovered the mouse to my Spectrum 128K +2! Oh yes. I once built a 3d scanner using it and some Lego.
Wgich is a point. Lego! But thats still around.
My Sinclair ZX81 has, and will always have, pride of place on my desk
1K. Yep one whole kilobyte of memory boys and girls. Read'm and weep. 
Never had a Commodore.
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I spent most of my childhood making stuff with Lego and, unrelatedly, with Grand Theft Auto. Made my first website in 1998 with a friend from school. I was about 12 or 13, so I guess that counts!
(I'll thinking of mirroring Cerbera's GTA Website!! myself so it won't disappear.)
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| Phil Teare wrote: |
| Spectrum 128K +2 |
| Phil Teare wrote: |
| Never had a Commodore. |
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Dinky toys
Hornby trains
Meccano
Going to the library
Skyleader model aircraft
Cycling safely on streets.
Making my own crystal sets - and later giving one transistor amplification.
Repairing valve radios - and making a valve amplifier for a record deck with parts from an old radio.
Making my own crystal sets - and later giving one transistor amplification.
Single-channel radio control of model aircraft.
I feel very old, here.
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| kiwibrit wrote: |
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I feel very old, here. |
? Old enough to remember:
Sweet rationing
Coronation Mugs
Dan Dare -- Pilot of the Future ........ in The Eagle, and on Radio Luxembourg
Radios that ran off of a large lead-acid battery
No Health & Safety people to spoil your fun
Still being able to buy something for a farthing
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Kicking Girls
Mom Always Shouting at me,
Hidding
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