Topic ID 1267
in the recent Yobs frontpage crap..i would be interested as to what other memebers got up to in their youth??? come one come all
Reply ID 15150
Hmm. Lets see....can some one make that "lets go back in time" wave and noise..... 1986! I was 16 I would have been.... Hanging out with mates (at each others houses) Sometimes down Hartham Stevenage Cinema Watching videos Listening to my walkman Getting bored Going down the town for a wonder swimming Football Watching TV Girls! Being bored again That was about it! Sound familiar?
Reply ID 15151
pretty much
Reply ID 15152
Not much difference in 20 years is there? Except..... I didn't break stuff, spray on stuff, burn stuff or generally do anything that would p**s other people off! I didn't expect one adult to provide something to stop me being bored. I didn't drink either. I was only 16. I didn't fight (much). I didn't carry a weapon. I didn't do drugs. I'm not saying for one minute you do any of those Jakeling, I'm simply pointing out the big differences in the general culture. I did smoke and... back then, a sensational front cover for the Mercury would be about a cat being stuck in a tree.
Reply ID 15155
1. Drinking in pubs (The White Hart mostly) 2. In a band 3. Occasionally playing truant 4. Visiting or being visited by friends I generally mixed with friends older than myself when I was 15 or 16, which probably explains how I got away with (1). I certainly couldn't be doing with the discomfort of hanging around on the streets.
Reply ID 15160
I'd have been ASBO'd. [V]
Reply ID 15163
Racing soap box carts down Fire Engine Hill - steeper than Port Hill - and with a main road at the end to test the brakes. Jumping the six foot gap between the sheds on the local estate. Drinking my mate's dads home made orange wine. Paying to see X films and not being believed to pay half price on buses. The local flea pit. Queueing for tickets at Spurs on Sunday mornings. Taking part in the rent riots. Walking through pea soupers - most probably more dangerous than all the above put together and not a camera in sight. Or a local reporter.[:D]
Reply ID 15167
Ha! Playing football/rugby/cricket. Watching football/rugby/cricket. Bunking off school, nicking some of dads cigarettes, going home and renting a video from the little store at the garage down Bengeo Street next to The Greyhound - usually something not quite legal. Cycling to the cricket club to play/watch cricket. Wish I'd done some studying now so that I wouldn't have to be in such a boring job that means I spend most of my day checking on what's going on in Hertford via the internet.
Reply ID 15171
Sounds like what we all used to do, with a little bit of BMXing thrown in to the equation, funnily enough, we didn't have a skate park to ride them on, we found/made our own jumps in the various woods around (and the castle, sorry!)
Reply ID 15173
way back in 1989 when I was 16, I spent my youth playing footy for Middlesbrough FC youth team and on weekends, I went to Ayresome Park to watch the Pro's at it. The rest of the time I just went round mates houses and listened to music, watched films, admired their sisters, skateboarded, tried to copy BMXers on my Raleigh Grifter, played game son my ZX Spectrum and stared in awe at the much better graphics on my mates Commodore 64.
Reply ID 15174
BMX, skateboard, Spectrum (warm memories of Jet Set Willy and Monty Mole...) - yep, that rings a bell, 'Fair. Commodore 64 was better graphics but I always thought it was a sh*te computer. Also spent a vast amount of time watching the Blades at beautiful downtown Bramall Lane. I don't go for all this "society is different these days" crap - there were kids back then who vandalised, fought and did all the antisocial stuff that people complain about now. Things are no different today, it's just that such activities are given much more media coverage than they were.
Reply ID 15178
quote:Can't remember - too long ago. I have a vague recollection of Swimming all through the summer hols. Football, rounders and tennis with friends on land near our house. In the summer we were never in. Pictures - yes half price on bus, full in Pictures then half price back. Winter - not so sure, just got B*****y cold I suuppose
Originally posted by Joby
BMX, skateboard, Spectrum (warm memories of Jet Set Willy and Monty Mole...) - yep, that rings a bell, 'Fair. Commodore 64 was better graphics but I always thought it was a sh*te computer. Also spent a vast amount of time watching the Blades at beautiful downtown Bramall Lane. I don't go for all this "society is different these days" crap - there were kids back then who vandalised, fought and did all the antisocial stuff that people complain about now. Things are no different today, it's just that such activities are given much more media coverage than they were.
Reply ID 15179
pick the empty parents house for the day and pitch camp with the girlfriends. (I think thats the most PC way of putting it) This may surprise a few of you, at 16 (1987) I was a memeber of HDOS and appeared in one of there more succesful shows!
Reply ID 15184
HDOS???
Reply ID 15188
Hertford Dramatic and Operatic Society. Not as "Little Britain" as it sounds. They do panto, plays, musicals and have a thriving youth group called Young Idea.
Reply ID 15189
Suits you Sir
Reply ID 15190
1986 when I was 16 we used to listen to music in each other's bedrooms, tapes and vinyl back then, go to Pizza Town (anyone remember that?), drink in the Warehouse Pub - underage drinking seemed to be accepted in there! camped out in friends back gardens in Summer, went rowing in Hartham in a very dodgy old rowing boat, played out in the street on bikes, went to the park, played Netball, tennis. It was safer back then and we were able to go out all day and come back in time for tea ! god I sound old but it's true! I do feel for the teenagers today, it's NOT the same and I am all in favour of them having more amenities.
Reply ID 15192
Guides and Scouts listening to music at friends. sailing and canoeing ( big lake and river near my parents) Spending time with siblings.
Reply ID 15194
quote:you are old![}:)]
Originally posted by Mrs Meldrew
1986 when I was 16 we used to listen to music in each other's bedrooms, tapes and vinyl back then, go to Pizza Town (anyone remember that?), drink in the Warehouse Pub - underage drinking seemed to be accepted in there! camped out in friends back gardens in Summer, went rowing in Hartham in a very dodgy old rowing boat, played out in the street on bikes, went to the park, played Netball, tennis. It was safer back then and we were able to go out all day and come back in time for tea ! god I sound old but it's true! I do feel for the teenagers today, it's NOT the same and I am all in favour of them having more amenities.
Reply ID 15198
playing with hoop and stick, collecting shrapenel, making corn circles in the fields(ahead of our time)playing marbles
Reply ID 15199
that should have been deleted!
Reply ID 15215
Inventing the wheel [:D]
Reply ID 15216
Riding horse and working at the stables at weekends and studying for my GCE's. Had a part time job in a newsagents as well and also tried smoking and hanging out with the other kids and getting mildly into trouble :-) Gotta be done really and I think I turned out ok :-)
Reply ID 15220
Venture scouts, horseriding, gymnastics, amateur dramatics, working in a newsagent, babysitting, building dens and dams in Wyre Forest, reading "Jackie" "Blue Jeans" and "Smash Hits" with my mates, taking my favourite records round to my mates house to listen to and learning the words from Disco 45, hanging out in music shops, going to gigs at the Birmingham Odeon, gathering around the radio on Sunday nights to hear the charts, going to village hall discos for teenagers, checking all the local phone boxes for returned coins, collecting empty Corona pop bottles off building sites and taking them back to get the deposit, going to the flicks, tape recording interviews with ourselves pretending to be pop stars, playing Pontoon, taking the p**s out of Lee Lacey, Sindy Baker and Stuart Knowles, hiding from scary kids like Neil McCloud-Finch and Andrew Bradley, trying to find the most recent graffiti about the local slag. *Sigh* youth is truly wasted on the young. That reminds me... are any of my Smash Hits flexi discs worth anything? I've got quite a few.
Reply ID 15224
quote:sigh...
Originally posted by nora batty
Venture scouts, horseriding, gymnastics, amateur dramatics, working in a newsagent, babysitting, building dens and dams in Wyre Forest, reading "Jackie" "Blue Jeans" and "Smash Hits" with my mates, taking my favourite records round to my mates house to listen to and learning the words from Disco 45, hanging out in music shops, going to gigs at the Birmingham Odeon, gathering around the radio on Sunday nights to hear the charts, going to village hall discos for teenagers, checking all the local phone boxes for returned coins, collecting empty Corona pop bottles off building sites and taking them back to get the deposit, going to the flicks, tape recording interviews with ourselves pretending to be pop stars, playing Pontoon, taking the p**s out of Lee Lacey, Sindy Baker and Stuart Knowles, hiding from scary kids like Neil McCloud-Finch and Andrew Bradley, trying to find the most recent graffiti about the local slag. *Sigh* youth is truly wasted on the young. That reminds me... are any of my Smash Hits flexi discs worth anything? I've got quite a few.
Reply ID 15227
quote:Have a look at eil.com [:)]
Originally posted by nora batty
That reminds me... are any of my Smash Hits flexi discs worth anything? I've got quite a few.
Reply ID 15228
studied walked the dog helped with the washing up
Reply ID 15376
I've still got a Soft Cell smash hits flexi disc!