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Things that disappointed you as a kid.
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The electric hand fans.1
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Finding cooked caterpillars in my greens that me nan had boiled to death after just bringing in from the allotment.
Me - "Erm, I think there's another caterpillar in me greens, I can see the luminous orange blood"
Nan - "It's cooked ain't it!"12 -
got into trouble over that bloody toy. I stretched it so much the liquid stuff came out and went onto the carpet where it left a hard sticky irremovable stain.lordromford said:Stretch Armstrong.
Those fuckers who made him pretty much dared every kid to stretch him as far as possible.
Result: millions of overstretched and broken Stretch Armstrongs all over the world on Boxing Day.
Devastated.
edit: the above sentence sounds so wrong.9 -
Getting to about 12 years old and finally finding out that I could've been choosing my own choice of penny sweets to go in the 10p mix up bags from Georges (Oppo. and down the road a bit from The Oak), instead of purchasing the pre-made up bags.0
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The video in the Thames Barrier visitors center0
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alcohol0
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I bought a wooden boomerang and it had instructions and a special blue dot on it that you had to put your thumb on, and a complicated way of holding the bloody thing as you threw it, but it still never came back. It ended up disappearing over someone’s fence overlooking the park, and that was the end of that.4
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Dirty Sally at number 82
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My Grandad lied.
He said he'd take me to the wrestling if he could get away after his Saturday morning shift in the docks. After a certain time it was obvious he'd been detained and I wouldn't be going.
A bit later, to the dulcet tones of Kent Walton it comes on the telly, and there he is sitting in the front row!
It was fun later though, hearing Nan extract what had detained him at work and hearing him literally hang himself in lies and subterfuge.13 -
Being told that the local co-op would give you 50p for returning a shopping trolley.
After finding and storing half a dozen abandoned trollies over the school holidays, I linked them together and pushed them the mile or so to the store on Westhorne Avenue to find out that it was complete bollocks.
It has however made me appreciate the seemingly menial task undertaken by the fluorescent clad zombies in supermarket car parks up and down the country.5 - Sponsored links:
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being shunned by Colin Cowdrey when i asked him for his autograph once
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I read this as ‘Seth Armstrong’ and wondered what you were doing pulling emmerdales finest to pieces on Boxing Day.lordromford said:Stretch Armstrong.
Those fuckers who made him pretty much dared every kid to stretch him as far as possible.
Result: millions of overstretched and broken Stretch Armstrongs all over the world on Boxing Day.
Devastated.2 -
The distance I could kick the ball from a goal kick2
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When Bo Derek didn't get her kit off in the film 10. The rumour going around was that we were going to get the full on carpet and curtains.5
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The rare occasions that the page 3 girl in the sun had been moved to page 5 or 7 to accommodate small news stories like the Falklands or the salmonella outbreak. Made my blood boil when I was expecting Maria Whittaker but ended up with Margaret Thatcher or Edwina Curry.7
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She lived at number 9i_b_b_o_r_g said:Dirty Sally at number 8
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George killing Lennie4
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Gary Glitter's water bed.3
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Soda streams. Great idea but they tasted horrible.1
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That explain it a lotT.C.E said:0 - Sponsored links:
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Still all the rage here mateSantaClaus said:Soda streams. Great idea but they tasted horrible.
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I put milk in a soda stream once. Tasted a bit odd. Also, it exploded and covered the house with milk.
I'm mainly disappointed with my throwing technique. I throw like the stereotype of a girl.1 -
NO. I'm not having that. The one that looks like poo was (and still is) worth buying the whole assortment for.flyingkiwiDK said:Indoor fireworks
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My mum taking me to lunch at the revolving restaurant in the Post Office tower and discovering when we got there that you had to book (and probably that it was well out of our price range anyway). Did you really think you could just walk in there with a little kid, mum?3
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Not having my letter picked for Jim'll Fix It. With hindsight, probably for the best.10
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A stupid one, but why couldn't we have been like the cool kids families and have Unigate milk? Ours was delivered by the Coop. Not sure why, but it seemed important at the time.2
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When I realised Pokemon cards and Yu-Gi-Oh cards and the like really had no true value and I was an unknowing corporate shill0
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When strangers had no sweets.2
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Did you whistle Charlie Drake's tune on the way home?3blokes said:I bought a wooden boomerang and it had instructions and a special blue dot on it that you had to put your thumb on, and a complicated way of holding the bloody thing as you threw it, but it still never came back. It ended up disappearing over someone’s fence overlooking the park, and that was the end of that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ac8jZakNXk&t=30s 1 -
Always being told to come home for my tea before the other kids.
On one occasion everybody got home late except me and they all got grounded; so I may as well have stayed out anyway.0
