Have You Lived?

[Berrgk]

Can you remember...

Before the Internet...
Before Political Correctness...

Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....

Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...

Way back........

I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
The corner shop.
Hopscotch.
Butterscotch.
Skipping.
Handstands.
Football with an old can.
Manhunt.

Beano, Dandy, Buster, Gnasher and Dennis the Menace.

Roly Poly's, Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams, sand castles.
The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum.

An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune.
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps screwball.

Wait......

Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks.
Bravestar, He-Man, The Pink Windmill,
Grange Hill, FingerMouse, Button Moon and 'Why Don't You'?
or staying up for Doctor Who.

When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere.

Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
Sticky fingers. Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
Climbing trees.
Making igloos out of snow banks.

Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
Spinning around on roundabouts, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
Being tired from playing....remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Choppers and Grifters.

Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Experimenting with the Soda-Stream, Vimto and Jubbly lollies

Remember when...

There were three types of trainers - girls, boys and Dunlop Green Flash
The only time you wore them at School was for P.E.
And they were called plimsoles

You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.

You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.

When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.

When 25p was decent pocket money
Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's.
Top Trumps.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving pupil at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc.


Remember when....

Decisions were made by going "Ip, Dip, Dog Sh.t"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.

It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.

Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Magic yellow spray.

Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.

Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.. ; )

[Gerinych]

No.

[blackfriday]

Yes xD

[random0guy]

Looks like I'm dead

[Underground]

Damn.... I definantly haven't but I haven't slept a wink on christmas eve before... I got in trouble... and hardly any presnts.... lol

[Kermit4Prez]

*dies instantly*

[Underground]

Awwwwww Kermit died...

[KTownEgghead]

I was starting to take this seriously until I read this.

The smell of the sun

and I died. And so did the rest of the forum.

EDIT::: lol 711 posts :p

[warhol]

I'm not old.

[blazingamer]

I remember most of that stuff mostly because my area loved to show old cartoons, I didn't get internet until I was 5, the ice cream man went around our block a couple times a summer. My community is very old fashioned, I especially remember igloos though because we'd get blizzards. I can remember little more than half of that so that'd mean I'm living and not so much lived.

[quakegod667]

Can you remember...

Before the Internet...
Before Political Correctness...

Before semi-automatics, joyriders and crack....

Before SEGA or Super Nintendo...

Way back........

I'm talking about Hide and Seek in the park.
The corner shop.
Hopscotch.
Butterscotch.
Skipping.
Handstands.
Football with an old can.
Manhunt.

Beano, Dandy, Buster, Gnasher and Dennis the Menace.

Roly Poly's, Hula Hoops, jumping the stream, building dams, sand castles.
The smell of the sun and fresh cut grass.
Bazooka Joe bubble gum.

An ice cream cone on a warm summer night from the van that plays a tune.
Chocolate or vanilla or strawberry or maybe Neapolitan or perhaps screwball.

Wait......

Watching Saturday morning cartoons, short commercials or the flicks.
Bravestar, He-Man, The Pink Windmill,
Grange Hill, FingerMouse, Button Moon and 'Why Don't You'?
or staying up for Doctor Who.

When around the corner seemed far away and going into town seemed like going somewhere.

Earwigs, wasps, stinging nettles and bee stings.
Sticky fingers. Playing Marbles. Ball bearings. Big 'uns and Little 'uns.
Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro.
Climbing trees.
Making igloos out of snow banks.

Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath, laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
Spinning around on roundabouts, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
Being tired from playing....remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.
Football cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Choppers and Grifters.

Eating raw jelly. Orange squash ice pops. Experimenting with the Soda-Stream, Vimto and Jubbly lollies

Remember when...

There were three types of trainers - girls, boys and Dunlop Green Flash
The only time you wore them at School was for P.E.
And they were called plimsoles

You knew everyone in your street - and so did your parents.
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'best' friends.

You didn't sleep a wink on Christmas Eve.

When nobody owned a pure-bred dog.

When 25p was decent pocket money
Curly Whirlys. Space Dust. Toffo's.
Top Trumps.
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When any parent could discipline any kid, or feed him or use him to carry groceries and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When being sent to the head's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving pupil at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs etc.


Remember when....

Decisions were made by going "Ip, Dip, Dog Sh.t"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.

Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was germs.
And the worst thing in your day was having to sit next to one.

It was unbelievable that 'British Bulldog 123' wasn't an Olympic event.
Having a weapon in school, meant being caught with a catapult.

Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Magic yellow spray.

Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.

Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED.. ; )

You mean... THE OUTSIDE WORLD??????????? I thought that was only a myth!!!!!!!!!! (suddenly has a fatal heart attack) As a consolidation, THIS proves my theory that the outside world is a horrible place (NOT a Rickroll!!!!!). The only safe place is inside, where your toilet and your WoW is. (WTF was I talking about again?)

[ghfan]

I'm dead :p

And don't quote long posts.

[Blue Murder]

According to this, I'm a cadaver.

Rock on.

[tibiazak]

tbh, and not to sound old here (i am only 15 after all) i do remember a lot of that. maybe not the specific cartoons or the monetary values, but the general spirit of that is the way i lived until about maybe 3~ years ago. and, compared to the hopelessly crappy summer i had, i had i bit of "ah, the good ol' days" going on too. :p

[tyros]

Yes!!! That was life... Real...
When I was like 5 the time was going soooo slow... All I wanted to do is to grow up faster. When I was 13 the life was going just right. I wanted it to stay that way forever. But now, when I'm 19 the time seems to be going a lot faster. Sometimes I'm like: man, I don't wanna grow up.
Time goes by...