Essential childhood experiences

[Ninja Orange]

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Originally Posted by TrustingDreams

• Making Daisy chains
• Eating more cake mixture than actual cakes

QFT

Also, cutting your own fringe. Badly. Very very badly.

[Pictsie]

waking up and sneaking downstairs to watch tv, dodging the squeaky floor boards then finding its too early for the kids shows so watching open university programs till the cartoons started

camping in the back garden

learning to ride your bike with 1 hand, then no hands, then trying without your legs too, this obviously ended by riding into a curb and going over the handlebars, or maybe it was just toppling but a curb was definitely involved

piggyback fights

playing football in the street using trees and jumpers as goal posts, cricket in the street, rounders/baseball too, I'm amazed we never put a window through. there used to be 3 bare patches of grass where we played most

having one of the big kids spin you round fast by the hands

falling off a roundabout because someone spun it too fast from the middle

trying to swing a swing right over + jumping off a moving swing to see how far you can go

[SavingGrace]

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Originally Posted by Pictsie

having one of the big kids spin you round fast by the hands

falling off a roundabout because someone spun it too fast from the middle

trying to swing a swing right over + jumping off a moving swing to see how far you can go

How did I forget these?

[The One Who]

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Originally Posted by Buttons.

leaving wellies under a bush

Totally needed to re-read that several times!

[griddlebone]

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Originally Posted by Fifteen Dollar Eagle

This is a practise which has died out (and I can't decide if it's a good thing or a bad thing): taping late-night TV shows. F*ck Sky+ and TiVo, I mean literally taping something with a VCR.

I used to tape wrestling shows every single week. I had two Wrestling Tapes, one for weekly shows and one for monthly pay-per-views (which were occasionally on Channel 4 for free), and I used them so much I destroyed them and moved on to taping over my mother's soap operas. I still have a WWF tape (watched so many times that the sound is gone), but nothing to watch it on. I know Sky+ is more convenient, but there was something special about recordable VHS tapes. It's sad that today's kids will never experience it.

I did exactly this with wrestling!We had 2 tapes too haha :] xx

[Billy!]

BLOCKEY!!!!

[Lou Lou]

My friends were recently talking about Spokey Dokes or whatever they were called....used to get them out of corn flakes I think...and it got me reminiscing about the toys you used to get in cereal boxes. Do they even do that anymore?! I remember getting Polly Pockets and Mighty Maxes from cereal boxes, I had a frisbee from Lucky Charms, various action figures. And Pogs...what were they from? Quavers?
Never forget the excitment of getting a new box of cereal and rooting through the contents til you found that little packaged "collectable"

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Originally Posted by Fifteen Dollar Eagle

The Gameboy. Not the 3DS, not the DS, not even the Gameboy Advance. The Gameboy.

<3 I bought a Gameboy from ebay about a year ago, since I don't have a clue what happened to my original. There is something so wonderful about, so much more awesome than the DS :D And I am thrilled that my son loves it just as much. I have bought him Kirby's Dreamland as a Chrismtas stocking filler.

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Originally Posted by MeaCulpa

Ah the good old days before health and safety sucked the fun out of everything!

This. It's so sad that people worry and over protect nowadays...even I do it. Maybe our parents did worry but I remember being allowed to play in ditches and walk several streets away to visit friends. Knocking on peoples doors just to see if there were children living there.
My third primary school had a copse that we were permitted to play in during the summer term. We would make dens, climb trees, hide in bushes, pick blackberries. I heard a few years back that they chopped it all down because it was too dangerous. It saddens me that the children who go there now won't get to experience what we did....it was amazing!

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Originally Posted by makedamnsure

Claire, we played kerby - if thats the one where you chuck a ball and try and get it to bounce off the kerb.

I used to play Kerby :) And time bomb. 40/40 base or whatever it was called. We used to spend a lot of time playing those games outside in the summer.

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Originally Posted by Fifteen Dollar Eagle

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHUHHHH HHUHUUUUUHUUUUUUUUUUUUHKSHKSHKSHKSHKSHKDONGDONGDON GKSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH

God, dial-up was a nightmare.

Sorry, but best noise ever :p Nostalgia haha

[Buttons.]

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Originally Posted by The One Who

Totally needed to re-read that several times!

Disgraceful. I don't know what you mean ;-p

[The One Who]

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Originally Posted by Buttons.

Disgraceful. I don't know what you mean ;-p

But you know it to be disgraceful? Hmmm :p

[jayne.doe]

Dancing to "Mexican Radio" with my father. (My favorite line was the one about eating barbecued iguana.) Riding my bicycle... Climbing trees... Sledding... When I was older, I would still wake up early on Sunday mornings to watch Redwall... And once, when I was three or four, my best friend Thomas and I stripped naked and covered ourselves head to toe in half an inch of Vaseline, including our hair and faces. o.O I don't remember why...

[staceyrawrcakes]

Going up to industrial estate on our bikes and then riding really fast down the hill that was there
40/40
The Mega Drive (my fiance still has one and I still use it sometimes)

Also, one time when I was about 4 I was in the opticians with my mum and this bald guy walked past. I'd never seen a bald person and got really excited that I'd seen someone that was bald. So I pretty much shouted 'Look Mummy, there's a bald man!!'. My mum was mortified. He has to have noticed, I'd said it loud enough but he didn't say anything. Still got a massive telling off from my mum though :)