Things that once seemed normal but aren't allowed now

You can't 'borrow' your paraplegic mate's wheelchair in the pub in order to try and pull a bird, well not without the moralistic morons giving you 'that look' and muttering into their shandy you can't.
 
TheKnat said:
I remember the good old days of wood/bush porn. No idea who put it there, but theres was always some random mags or pages in the bushes of the playgrounds.
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The porn fairies, of course!

Seriously though - I've always thought it's put there by fellas who have got themselves hitched and as such have to pass the "goods" on to the next generation somehow.
 
Being allowed to play ball games in the street :(

We used to play 'Street Cricket' and have tennis matches in the car park outside my house (back when only a few people had cars!). There are 'No Ball Games' signs everywhere now and the slide/climbing frame next to the car park was taken down a few years ago.

No wonder all the kids are bored these days :/
 
Cap guns, anyone remember those?

There used to be two main types...

The ones that took the paper rolls, 100 'shots' for 5p, an the ones that came in a plastic ring, about 45 shots for 35p! Massively expensive in comparison but they didn't jam, produced a hell of a bang and the gun smoked when they had fired :D

I used to go into the newsagents to get them all the time.

Also related...anyone remember those little bomb things, they were wrapped up in paper, you threw them on the floor and they banged and gritty bits came out? They came in yellow boxes of 100 I think and had sawdust filling the boxes up...can't remember the name of them at all! :(


*I digress from here on slightly - they aren't 'not allowed' but you just don't see them anymore...I'm on a nostalgic trip now...

Sticker cards with weird flavoured bubble gum in them...earliest I remember were Cabbage Patch Doll ones and then *thinks hard* some sort of evil cabbage patch...I can barely remember them but they were stuck all over a mates door.

The smiley sticker cards were the last ones I collected lol.

Lego that wasn't massively overpriced and wasn't all custom shaped - the most specialised shapre was a portculis for the castle set.

Action Force men (now renamed GI Joe) that didn't have to have a spring loaded weapon with every figure...the later ones were just rubbish.

The Beano not costing an arm and a leg, having good illustrations, no adverts and sometimes coming bundled with a free Drumstick or Refresher...and it was printed in two tones rather than full colour, ooh and Dennis the Menace was on the front and back cover.
 
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Cap guns, anyone remember those?

There used to be two main types...

The ones that took the paper rolls, 100 'shots' for 5p, an the ones that came in a plastic ring, about 45 shots for 35p! Massively expensive in comparison but they didn't jam, produced a hell of a bang and the gun smoked when they had fired

I used to go into the newsagents to get them all the time.

Also related...anyone remember those little bomb things, they were wrapped up in paper, you threw them on the floor and they banged and gritty bits came out? They came in yellow boxes of 100 I think and had sawdust filling the boxes up...can't remember the name of them at all!
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can still get all of those.
cap guns are in joke/trick shops still but seem to have been removed from most toy shops

the ones you threw on the floor i believe were called "devil bangers" they have been renamed to "fun snaps" and you can still buy them.

lego is expensive over here because of rip off britain , my wife just came back from a holiday to disney world where the lego shop lets you fill a large plastic cup with whatever lego peices you like for 14$ they are proper big drinking cups aswell bigger than the largest milkshake type cup mcdonalds do.
the only thing you arent alowed to put inside them is lego people.

now imagine how many lego wheelst etc you could fit in one of those cups and how much they cost :P it doesnt matter how much the cup weighs aslong as the lego fits inside
 
TheBigCheese said:
Sticker cards with weird flavoured bubble gum in them...earliest I remember were Cabbage Patch Doll ones and then *thinks hard* some sort of evil cabbage patch...I can barely remember them but they were stuck all over a mates door.

The smiley sticker cards were the last ones I collected lol.
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I used to hate them, I couldnt understand why everyone else like them. Used to give me nightmares.

Getting told of by your teacher and not answering back or being generally scared of teachers.
 
TheBigCheese said:
Sticker cards with weird flavoured bubble gum in them...earliest I remember were Cabbage Patch Doll ones and then *thinks hard* some sort of evil cabbage patch...I can barely remember them but they were stuck all over a mates door.
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Do you mean Garbage Pal Kids, if so they were freaking awesome, I used love collecting those.
 
Being able to ride my trials bike around the woods and fields and disused pit spoil heaps for years and never seeing a rozzer or being seen by or bothering anyone, in fact I even got stopped by a fireman once and gave him a lift to a fire near a rail line.

Now there are so many of those chinese 'pit bikes' (read as not even worth scrap value imitation bikes) being ridden by reprobate chavs, along roads, over school fields, carparks etc etc scaring the hell out of people and causing all kinds of damage that if you start a strimmer the rozzers are looking up your garden.
 
Hitman_Leon said:
Being able to ride my trials bike around the woods and fields and disused pit spoil heaps for years and never seeing a rozzer or being seen by or bothering anyone, in fact I even got stopped by a fireman once and gave him a lift to a fire near a rail line.

Now there are so many of those chinese 'pit bikes' (read as not even worth scrap value imitation bikes) being ridden by reprobate chavs, along roads, over school fields, carparks etc etc scaring the hell out of people and causing all kinds of damage that if you start a strimmer the rozzers are looking up your garden.
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we did that on a farmers field that was 5mins from our estate , somtimes he would chase us in his range rover even though we didnt cause any damage to his crops there was a public footpath cutting across his field that no one really walked along so we stuck to that.

one times the coppers did come to see us but the bike wasnt stolen and they said its keeping us out of trouble and theres no obvious crop damage from the bike so :P
 
simulatorman said:
Spending most of Friday afternoon in the pub with almost all the office.
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I did that too, but it did not do the head of the department much good he ended up an alcoholic, banned from driving and lost his wife, job and driving license.

Was funny though watching a half cocked boss calling Canada at 2pm whenever the system went down because the programmers were over there and some sales bod put a \ instead of a / in an order which brought the entire system to a halt,

those were the days, a server and printer in a sound proof room joined to the room I was in,

come to think of it, those were not the days, that was the most annoying and noisey system I ever worked on.
 
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