FabSwingers.com forum: Things you miss from your childhood

By *sylocke OP Woman
over a year ago

East Anglia

I miss the ice lollies that had a bad joke on the stick. What about yours?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Innocence and lack of modern technology

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Proper smarties tubes that, when empty, you could thump to fire the little plastic lid across the room.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The innocence and naivety.

Oh and getting toys in cereal boxes. Anyone remember the Simpson’s magnets?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chorlton and the wheelies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going down Woolworths on my Raleigh Grifter, getting some pick n mix, then playing 27 a side football, calling the game a draw after we lost count of the goals. Then getting home to watch The A Team, while having some Rola Cola.

Sent from ZX Spectrum

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chorlton and the wheelies

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"awh, she's a lovely lady, she is!". Fanela was a raving bonkers psychotic and Chorlton just let it wash over him... hilarious..

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Chorlton and the wheelies

"awh, she's a lovely lady, she is!". Fanela was a raving bonkers psychotic and Chorlton just let it wash over him... hilarious..

Superb!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chorlton and the wheelies

"awh, she's a lovely lady, she is!". Fanela was a raving bonkers psychotic and Chorlton just let it wash over him... hilarious..

She was ... he bloody loved her though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Proper smarties tubes that, when empty, you could thump to fire the little plastic lid across the room. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chorlton and the wheelies

"awh, she's a lovely lady, she is!". Fanela was a raving bonkers psychotic and Chorlton just let it wash over him... hilarious..

Superb!"

Loved that programme

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going to Scarborough on the coach with my mum even though it was for only for the day it felt like I was going on holiday

Happy memories

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lime milkshakes from the local Wimpy, clackers (lethal things!) Take Hart, old English spangles, playing out to name but a few

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Going over the park with your friends.

Getting told off for being late back for your tea.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chorlton and the wheelies

You really are the perfect woman

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Watching Star Wars every Sunday morning with my brother, getting up early enough to watch well before 9am. Nowadays getting that early ain't so fun.

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By *uxom _edCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

The muppetts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

White dog shit.

Where did it go to?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A bath in the living room

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

WWF and the attitude era

The hype around Pokemon cards when first released

Being the first kid at school to get a PlayStation 2 was pretty fucking awesome

Learning to BMX properly at skateparks

Water fights

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bigger Wagon Wheels and Monster Munch.

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

Falling off my bike and getting stitches

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Chorlton and the wheelies

You really are the perfect woman"

I know

Could you just tell the fella I fancy that please

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cycling 9 miles to play footie on a Saturday morning, 9 miles back, wolfing down lunch and going off to play footie at the rec before it got too dark. I wish I still had that kind of energy. Even the memory makes me feel a little breathless, think I'll have a kebab and a beer or 3 to get over it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Saturday morning telly before going to town with friends to buy 7" 12" singles

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By *otsoSnowWhiteWoman
over a year ago

My Ice Castle! South Wales

"Bigger Wagon Wheels and Monster Munch."

Bags of crisps that weren't just full of air too.

Being carefree.

School holidays

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

SW1A1AA

Innocence

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My nana

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"White dog shit.

Where did it go to? "

Haha was on about it with my mate at work the other day he swears it still exists and he’s seen it

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By *100Man
over a year ago

Essex

Elvis films on a Saturday morning all the kids down our street used to come in and watch

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

My Mum.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My Mum."

I get this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bigger Wagon Wheels and Monster Munch."

Thats only because your hands and mouth were smaller...its all relative

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Spokey dokeys

Bubble gum in a tube

Playing "on top of old smokey" on my Major Morgan

Family time playing board games or cards.

Being excited about Christmas

Family holidays

The Wuzzles

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Youth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My Dad. I was raised by a single Dad and I miss my him telling me nonsense stuff about acorn shells being fairy hats. And telling me there were a fairy family living in our garden.

I miss him carrying me on his shoulders and laughing as he runs across the field.

I also miss our little house, powercuts where Dad would make us toast cooked over the coal fire and jacket potatoes wrapped in foil cooked in the hearth.

Snuggling up by the open fire in the kitchen.

Leaving the house early Saturday and not being seen until your hungry.

Saturday nights when it was a chippy tea with a bag of sweets (only ever allowed sweets on a Saturday)

Being cuddled up with my brothers on a wet rainy day watching films.

Awww miss that. I tried to recreate these times with my own boys, I hope they have good memories.

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By *bonynivoryCouple
over a year ago

market harborough

Not much other than summer holidays and endless playing sport.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Finding porn mags in the bushes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All the kids TV.

Rainbow

Fingerbob

Hair bear bunch

Swap shop

TV adverts

Smash

Snap crackle pop

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

No responsibility.

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By *007ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Meeting up with mates and other kids on the "block" for a massive game of footie...usually 20 a side! Playing with mates on bikes. Building model aeroplanse with best mate. Following footie on radio.

Happy times.

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By *bonynivoryCouple
over a year ago

market harborough

Wimpy

Mrs

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By *ickygirl41Woman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Jubilee cups, the video shop, crappy discos at the community centre with dexys midnight runners getting about 7 plays of one song.

Playing out til it was too dark to see.

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By *riefcase_WankerMan
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Being able to walk (actually, scratch that) *sprint* up to some complete random, somehow be telepathically on the sane level as them and just go "C'mon! Let's play" and be best buds instantly

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By *ipsxxCouple
over a year ago

Spiral chocolate bar

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By *elma and ShaggyCouple
over a year ago

Bedworth

"Spiral chocolate bar "

Drinking got chocolate through a spira chocolate bar like a straw

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By *edMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire

"The muppetts "

There's a few Muppets in here

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By *edMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire

Immortality...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Summer holidays with my friends.

Endless days of hanging around in fields and having fun (innocent fun!)

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple
over a year ago

Cumbria

Just playing out until it was dark not giving a fuck about the brand of trainers you had .

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By *riefcase_WankerMan
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Not feeling old and ti_ed all the time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Looking forward to the next episode of 'Grange Hill', and later, 'Tucker's Luck'.

Much like some of the fellas have also said, 15 plus-a -side footie on the village green followed by cold bottles of cream soda bought from the local pub window.

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By *onedbodMan
over a year ago

co Galway

Miss not being screwed by the Government paying ridiculous taxes!!

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By *sylocke OP Woman
over a year ago

East Anglia

"Lime milkshakes from the local Wimpy, clackers (lethal things!) Take Hart, old English spangles, playing out to name but a few "

Lime milkshakes? Loved spangles!

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By *sylocke OP Woman
over a year ago

East Anglia

my parents used to tell me to come home by the time the sun started setting in the summer holidays.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I miss not having any stress

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Finding porn mags in the bushes

Finding bushes in porn mags..

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"No responsibility. "

This coupled with a certain naivety that all people were nice..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bigger Wagon Wheels and Monster Munch.

Thats only because your hands and mouth were smaller...its all relative

Disagree, they were defo bigger before the bean counters and profit mungers got involved.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Only having 3 TV channels

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anyone remember when there used to be a chocolate spread made by Sainsbury’s I think that contained hazelnut chocolate and honey. There used to be a picture of a bumble bee on the jar. I used to love that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

playing over in the 8X's .... basically it was a massive underground ww2 munitions complex with dozens of massive underground bunkers

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

Spangles, the fruity ones not the old English ones

Buying bottles of pop off the pop van. Better than the ringtones tea van

Collecting all the tags off the bread and putting them on your spokes coz you were too poor to buy spokey dokeys. It was much cooler anyway.

Splitting a roller skate in half and screwing it to a bit wood to make a skateboard.

Shit we were poor

but handy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Miss not being screwed by the Government paying ridiculous taxes!! "

screwing the banks with massive interest rates on savings

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By *elloIntrigueMan
over a year ago

North West UK

My answer is a bit more personal.

My grandparents.

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By *ve 66Woman
over a year ago

Blackwood

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How cheap everything was,how you could get away with everything.The long summers and snow at winter,the pop man the video man the classic 80s cartoons and consoles

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

The cheap entertainment that was picking up the phone and listening in on the party line to someone else’s conversation

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *ve 66Woman
over a year ago

Blackwood

My mam's ice slice ....

Pippa dee and tuppa wear parties

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Bucket and spade and jumping over waves

Pink panther choc bar... It was pink

Proper mix ups for 10p

Seaside special on a sat nite

Fish and chips in newspaper.. The smell was lush.

Cider ice lollys

Nutty bars

milky ways that were brown inside

Typos fixed..

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By *ve 66Woman
over a year ago

Blackwood

Bazooka bubble gum with their transfers

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