What fad from your childhood/teenage years used to be "in" but now has vanished?

Yadda · 5 Feb 2020 at 14:20

Illuminist said:
White dog poo is a myth

The ones I saw aren't.

Semple · 5 Feb 2020 at 14:32

Marvt74 said:
Tamagotchis
Pogs
Finger boards for a while

It's weird how these trends come and go, i remember those squishy goo like alien baby egg things and i'm sure they were around again about 10 years ago.

It's actually quite funny this, you can have a rough guess of someones age purely based on the toys they had as a kid.

Used to love my pogs!

A couple of others from memory:
- Yoyos (can't remember the brand name that were the best ones to get)
- Pez sweets (weird looking things, you can still get them in proper sweet shops)
- Pokemon cards / Premier league cards

Scort · 5 Feb 2020 at 14:41

Naff Co. 54 :cool:

Arthur Hucksake · 5 Feb 2020 at 14:41

A track suited to this thread... sorry if its already been put on here.

Born in the 80s, Raised in the 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SpH5vDOx0Q

Illuminist · 5 Feb 2020 at 14:44

Yadda said:
The ones I saw aren't.

Haha but have you seen one since?

Scort · 5 Feb 2020 at 14:46

Illuminist said:
Haha but have you seen one since?

You have to pick dog poop up these days - back in the 80s and early 90s - people never seemed to bother; hence the white poop.

rxodium · 5 Feb 2020 at 14:53

The colouration was due to the amount of bone meal in the feed. Most feeds don't use bone meal or have greatly reduced it. But you can still get bone meal supplements to add to raw dog food diets.

Rhaos · 5 Feb 2020 at 14:57

1. Luminous yellow or pink socks
2. Loadsamoney T-Shirts from the market
3. Step hair cut

drakulton · 5 Feb 2020 at 15:16

wolfie138 said:
elastic belts w/ an S-shaped snake buckle

You mean snake belts?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?sou...wiz.......0i131.maze-Afe56E#spf=1580915225889

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Feb 2020 at 15:21

Semple said:
It's actually quite funny this, you can have a rough guess of someones age purely based on the toys they had as a kid.

You can then identify them as a BXY or Z

There's a lot of Gen Y's on this forum.

Junglist · 5 Feb 2020 at 15:24

Semple said:
- Yoyos (can't remember the brand name that were the best ones to get)

It was these bad boys which we loved at my school. Basically anything that could do a 'sleeper'

413x · 5 Feb 2020 at 15:26

Flack88 said:
Yo-yo's
Pokémon cards
Bowl hair cuts
Those Adidas tracksuit bottoms
Going outside to play

Born in 1990 so I'm a 90's kid.

This is sadly a thing of the past!
I still do it.

Tamogotchi! I loved those. Never really got into any of the other fads like yoyos

Semple · 5 Feb 2020 at 15:35

JunglistE said:
It was these bad boys which we loved at my school. Basically anything that could do a 'sleeper'

Could well have been!

I do remember the sleeper, you had to master that before you could do any tricks:
- eiffel tower
- GB flag
- "walk the dog"
- "round the world" - if you were feeling brave!

Hades · 5 Feb 2020 at 15:45

Illuminist said:
White dog poo is a myth

Nope. I personally used to see it a lot when I was younger.

Hades · 5 Feb 2020 at 15:46

Another one... kids climbing trees. We used to be up them all the time. Not seen that at all recently.

jsmoke · 5 Feb 2020 at 15:47

Semple said:
Could well have been!

I do remember the sleeper, you had to master that before you could do any tricks:
- eiffel tower
- GB flag
- "walk the dog"
- "round the world" - if you were feeling brave!

Rock the cradle also. I could do quite a few. I forget most of the tricks though.

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Feb 2020 at 16:01

Hades said:
Another one... kids climbing trees. We used to be up them all the time. Not seen that at all recently.

I used to make camps in trees properly we could climb up and actually sit properly up in the trees quite high up as well.

TJM · 5 Feb 2020 at 16:10

Gerard said:
Coco Cola "Spinners" (yo yo's). Seen them be big twice over the years, once in the 80's and once in the early 90's.

Coke ran a tournament in my local supermarket to win a golden yo yo and it drew quite a big crowd. My mother thought that playing video games on a Saturday afternoon was a waste but going up the town to watch someone swing a piece of plastic on a string about was apparently worthwhile.

Noakesy85 · 5 Feb 2020 at 16:13

A few of my friends growing up lived on farms and had quite a lot of land with woods/forests on them. I remember as a kid going out into those woods for as long as there was daylight building 'Dens' and 'Forts'

Do kids still do that today?

Eurofighter · 5 Feb 2020 at 16:20

We made a den in the woods near our house. It had traps. A hole in the ground covered by twigs and leaves and some traps that were heavy objects on string triggered by a tripwire.

The farmer came. Told us to get off his land. Then his dog set off a trap and a log landed next to its head haha