What do you miss?

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:51 am

Reading this again it looks anti-kid.....but it's not...it's just that things have changed so much...the innocence has gone....kids dressed like mini adults etc...such a shame.

i have 6 grandchildren....when they come to see me we play with jigsaws, card games, snakes and ladders....they love it. If we go out we go and collect shells on the beach etc. They grumble at first but have a whale of a time in the end.....I've got great memories of things i did as a kid and hopefully so have my kids. What will this new generation be remebering....how many hours they spent playing computer games ? How many times they went to Mac Donalds ? sad sad sad....

Honneykit · Post by **Honneykit** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:53 am

Bez wrote: The sounds of kids playing in the street....unfortunately

a. they can't because they'd get run over

b. they wouldn't be able to play without screaming, crying and serioulsy hurting each other

c. TV, mollycoddling and play stations have sucked the creativity out of them

d. Parents are too scared of perverts to let their kids play outside

So true what has the world come too, i remember playing cricket with all the street till late at night. Now i would be too scared to in case i hit someones car!

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:55 am

Easily the worst thing that I miss the most all are my old friends whom I met at either school or back where I used to live. I remember being in tears when I was young, when my best friend from next door moved house. Ah the old days, brings back a tear to my eye. :-1

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:06 pm

I used to walk to school every day calling for friends on the way. There was only about 1 car in every street. We used to have our milk delivered by a horse drawn milk float....happy days

Honneykit · Post by **Honneykit** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:11 pm

Bez wrote: I used to walk to school every day calling for friends on the way. There was only about 1 car in every street. We used to have our milk delivered by a horse drawn milk float....happy days

I dont remember the horse drawn milk float, but these days do people still remember they can walk. everyone drives everywhere even to the post box at the end of the road.

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:16 pm

I know exactly what you mean honney. We had a 'get out of your cars and walk day' a while back ago where I live, and the response was supposed to be rubbish. I think it was something like 10% of the town decided to walk or bike. Not exactly a promising statistic that is it?

actionfigurestepho · Post by **actionfigurestepho** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:17 pm

I miss seeing kids dressed in proper clothing. When I was in school it was cool to wear more conservative clothes. I saw a ten year old wearing hoochie shorts that said "bootylicious" on them and I wanted to smack her mother!

I also miss those little wax bottles that were filled with extremely sweet sugary stuff. They were awful, but I liked to chew on the wax.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:18 pm

Smoking - I really miss smoking.....:-1

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:20 pm

I miss the Waltons and the Little house

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:21 pm

They are on re-runs everyday here.....

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:23 pm

nvalleyvee wrote: They are on re-runs everyday here.....We don't get them. I have seen the A-Team hundreds of times that I'm not sure I had a part in it:-5

l.plates · Post by **l.plates** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:51 am

Hi all

I dont remember anything like a bubble, but I used to love the "Umbrella" spend hours whizzing around on that.

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:03 am

We still have the "bubble" here in some of the older play grounds.

I miss good old fashioned wooden seat swings, the ones now days when you sit on them fold up around your butt and for us oldies with bad hips that hurts. Gawd I loved the swings, still wish I could sit on them for a long time and just swing.

My gran's had a single rope swing with a red plastic seat, you straddled the rope to sit on it. This was tied in their big old tree in their front yard, we spent hours on that thing.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:54 pm

Interesting that a few of you have confessed to missing The Waltons. I raised my kids by trying to emulate John Walton Snr (nice one Ralph) and they haven't turned out too bad even though they weren't overly keen on the chores. The Waltons had nothing but seemed happier than we who have everything

Night John-Boy

booradley · Post by **booradley** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:16 pm

pacer mints and texan bars, oh and tiswas.

Post by **Betty Boop** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:20 pm

booradley wrote: tiswas.

I preferred Swap Shop, was that on BBC at the same time, or did it come after tiswas?

Philip Schofield and Gordon the Gopher!! Completely forgotten the name of that sat morn show!!

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:31 pm

booradley wrote: pacer mints and texan bars, oh and tiswas.

A last request gringo

Guess I'll just chew on this here Texan bar

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Still miss Aztecs and Supermousse which was really just a bigger Milky Way

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 3:00 am

I miss Concorde, that was a cool plane, despite the horrible crash thing. That and the plaugue, that sorted out the men from the boys.

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:49 pm

I miss the show Romper Room and that lady's stupid mirror. No one seems to remember that show.

Do you guys? Do you remember the little rhyme she said into her magic hand mirror?

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:50 pm

I remember the show.......are you a Do Bee?

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:53 pm

chonsigirl wrote: I remember the show.......are you a Do Bee?
"Do be a Do Bee, dont be a don't be"

Oh I loved it! I barely remember it because IM only 28 but I loved it more than Sesame Street!!!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:54 pm

Oh you youngster! I remeber the original series....................:wah:

Now what was the rhyme about the Magic Mirror.....................

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:40 pm

chonsigirl wrote: Oh you youngster! I remeber the original series....................:wah:

Now what was the rhyme about the Magic Mirror.....................

i'm 27 and have no friggin clue what you two are babbling about.

I miss the original Muppets

and Fragill Rock

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:41 pm

Wolverine wrote: i'm 27 and have no friggin clue what you two are babbling about.

I miss the original Muppets

and Fragill Rockit was a lame-ass show. go get this....

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:52 pm

lady cop wrote: it was a lame-ass show. go get this....
not the recent movies they put out.

the old TV show from the late 70's and early 80's. it was wonderful. i loved the old men in the balcony.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:54 pm

me too, it was hilarious. i liked the swedish chef. get the movie, you'll crack up.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:55 pm

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:17 pm

lady cop wrote: me too, it was hilarious. i liked the swedish chef. get the movie, you'll crack up.
the chef was awesome.

Pigs in Space was a good one, too.

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 11:51 pm

Hey wolfie do u remember MaryLou and the House with the Magic Window? Was that just an IOWA thing? Or the FLOPPY SHOW?

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:01 am

mominiowa wrote: Hey wolfie do u remember MaryLou and the House with the Magic Window? Was that just an IOWA thing? Or the FLOPPY SHOW?
i was on FLOPPY!! when i was 4 or 5

i even got to tell him a joke.

How do you make Time fly?

Throw your clock out the window.

MaryLou was GREAT! I loved watching Felix the Cat!! and that carpet bag that turned into anything. she went to college with my Gramma. i met her once too.

i was 8. she smelled like cookies.

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:03 am

Thats crazy.I too was on the Floppy show...It was so crazy--I got to beep his nose....I forgot about Felix the Cat..the wonder-wonderful cat-- when ever he gets in a fix, he reaches into his bag of tricks.Oh Felix the cat..The wonderful wonderful CAT!

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:05 am

mominiowa wrote: Thats crazy.I too was on the Floppy show...It was so crazy--I got to beep his nose....I forgot about Felix the Cat..the wonder-wonderful cat-- when ever he gets in a fix, he reaches into his bag of tricks.Oh Felix the cat..The wonderful wonderful CAT!
that's scary. you remember the words.

yep what kid in IOWA didn't watch Duane and Floppy. you got to beep his nose?? Lucky.

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:09 am

IF I can find my pic - I will scan it and send it to you..LOL I don't remember my joke though...Hmmmmmmmm - it was at the Fair that I got to sit on his lap...LOL Mr. Green Jeans???:D

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:12 am

mominiowa wrote: IF I can find my pic - I will scan it and send it to you..LOL I don't remember my joke though...Hmmmmmmmm - it was at the Fair that I got to sit on his lap...LOL Mr. Green Jeans???:D
nope. Capt kangaroo?

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:20 am

Wolverine - be certain that your Proctologist is using his hands!!!

Valerie100 · Post by **Valerie100** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:25 am

Blue Sky soda -- it was a weird, blue and blueberry flavored soda. I used to drink it all the time.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:58 am

You've reminded me that I used to love to drink Cresta. I think I loved the commercials even more than the drink. It's frothy man !

different · Post by **different** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:02 am

I miss Texan bars and creeping round old derelict buildings getting scared witless with my friends....

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:04 am

I don't miss school today!:wah:

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:45 pm

I miss my dad.

P.S. I am not Santa.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:07 pm

Your just my blurb of the day, but you would make a good Santa!

I'll make it more flashy next time.

Hey, I gotta guess with all this hullabaloo today!

adelcity · Post by **adelcity** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:39 am

I miss ice-cream that came in a wrapper? Not a plastic tub.

Tigersmeow · Post by **Tigersmeow** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:59 am

I miss loving the deep snow that seemed like it was five feet deep-of course when I was only three feet tall the snow seemed much deeper and it was so much fun making igloos and snowmen and angels.

I also miss the tall slides at the park, they seemed like they reached the clouds!

And I really miss the innocence and the feeling of invinciblity as a child. I never thought about things like what if I get hurt or will I get a disease or any of the what if questions. Sure I got hurt alot, but I had fun doing it!

I miss the 70's and 80's.

Benjamin · Post by **Benjamin** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:32 am

I miss cheap gas.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:11 am

I was reading his old post too.............................:-1