Things you could do once, but can't now

Buy a newspaper with a semi-naked/naked girl in it and no one would bat an eyelid even if you read it on the bus

drive around sandringham

Conversely you could also go into any WHSmith either in the high street or on a railway concourse and buy your adult material off the shelf!

This might be coming back but as kids we used to get old fizzy pop bottles and take them back to the shop where they would give you money back for them to be recycled-a brilliant idea that was dropped years later, so an early recycling idea that could work today.

The biggest thing we could do that you definitely can't do now without supervision or they don't bother now is playing OUTSIDE! We used to play on bikes, skateboards, use skipping ropes and play tennis(soft ball) in the street without any problems or fear of being abducted-the only danger was cars coming along the road, and across the country I am sure the sound of "car coming!" echoed around many streets. We could even go out of the street to the park or just explore the area without any fear and parents didn't worry because most of us were pretty intelligent enough to let them know where we would be going first. Sometimes we'd be outside until it got dark-especially in the Summer. I doubt any kids today would even consider that now.

Getting out of bed or off a chair without making an involuntary noise as if it has been a real effort

Cuff or clip a kid round the ear-now they would report you for it!

(17-04-2019 09:58 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Cuff or clip a kid round the ear-now they would report you for it!

Yep I can definitely remember being on the receiving end of the clip round the ear. From our local Bobby (in the days when Policemen would walk the beat instead of hiding in Speed Camera vans) no less, for the crime of scrumping apples.

Didn’t do me any harm in the long run either.

Buy a small chocolate bar for less than 50p - it sounds inconceivable that we would pay anything between 5p-10p for a bar of chocolate yet now it is but a faded memory and we pay nearly a pound for something like a small Milky Way or Milky Bar that isn't that big but has more sugar and other things bad for us to satisfy our craving. I don't ever see it going back to prices like that because demand has become too great but it seems the larger the bar, the more expensive it is and a generation of kids will virtually use up their pocket money on ONE bar.

Something else linked to that is pocket money. When I was a lad my sister(older than me by three years) got £1 per week and I got between 50-75p and that had last a whole week. Now admittedly things were a lot cheaper back then(1970's) and you could do a lot with 50p but over the years the pocket money has risen and I am not sure of the exact prices but kids today get thirty times more than we did. If you had £5 you were rich! Now you're considered poor by comparison to what other kids might get, maybe as high as £10-20 but on the minus side unlike us, things for them are a lot more expensive. I blame the parents

Watch England win the World Cup.

(24-01-2019 22:07 )SecretAgent Wrote:  Wank 5 times a night to a Danni Levy nightshow (only can’t do it now because she doesn’t do nights .... honest )

5 times jesus i feel sorry for your hand.