The middle aged thread

surging forward on the terraces when the hammers scored, running battles up and down green street, carrying weapons into upton park for my older cousins, the cunts

fa cup win 1980!

Cheering when the Belgrano was sunk........

My friend died on the Sheffield, I did not cheer when the Belgrano was sunk

Kung fu
Hai karati with the adverts with that fit bird
Brut
Meccano
Puppets on a string
Chicken in lemon sauce was foreign food
Way finders shoes with a compass
Hiking
Thick fog

The monkies
Pogo sticks
Licking the bowl when your mums baking
Fin tail exhausts

buying Vodka in Pewex (Poland) at 90 cents a bottle and drinking for cans of beer in a Mafia bar and asking for a 5th to be told that I've drunk all the beer...........

They didn't sell alcohol before 1PM.

Hearing all the time about Beirut.

And British agression.

And Aldo Moro killed by Brigate Rosse.

You'd buy alcohol earlier from a cleaner in your workplace, meat from newsagents, cigarettes from the post office. All illegally..

Or without any problem from Pevex . Everything with dollars, francs, ponds, marks.. Or if you were a miner.

Collecting smurfs from 'national' garages?

I'd get 5 canadian dollars for christmas. It could buy 3 bottles of vodka.

Kick Start.

^ Quality titles

Junior Kick Start Xmas 1986 - YouTube

Queuing for ages to cross the border into Poland, stopping in the first lay by for a pee in the bushes and no sooner having started than a person strolls up asking to change money.

Tripping over the guy who's nameday it was and who was blotto and asleep on the office floor.

Going to a factory in the middle of nowhere and drinking black tea and vodka first thing in the morning. A bag of sugar was their 'reward'.

Seeing a queue around the block and finding a shop with a fresh delivery of sweets at the front of it.

The huge queue for petrol with everyone pushing their cars to save petrol.

Taxi in winter with an inch of 'permafrost' in the footwell.

Seeing the same stripper 3 times in 3 different bars in the same evening.

#more Polish memories.

10 No6

Brownie Cameras
Box Cameras
Kodak Instamatics
The first Polaroids

Lest we forget

you know your middle aged when 'horseplay' with apprentices in the factory ends up with criminal charges for sexual assault

blued balls rip

Lest we forget

Who are those cunts supposed to be - Larry, Moe and Curly?

jeremy thorpe, harold wilson, edward heath, show some respect young man!

those mini frisbee things out of a packet of cereal, and scooby doo key fobs you put in the oven.

Monster Munch packets. 5 Mins in the oven to shrink them and then just add to a keyring.

'Why Don't You'

I'll tell you why not, I've not got a feckin' hovercraft for a start. Or a quadbike.

The hovercraft was built from a wardrobe, they showed you how on No 73.

Swap shop.

Seeing Kraftwerk at the Hammersmith Odeon and Siouxie and the Banshees as well as the Cure and Ultravox, Japan, Nash The Slash, Gary Numan, Prince, having a mate playing in Southern Death Cult and seeing Bauhaus at the Lyceum hanging out with Boy George Marc Almond and Steve Strange (Visage) at various clubs in London.

Buying the Album Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie and being called queer at school.

and whats wrong with Ndubz and gaga!?!??

When being touched by priests was alright
When the simple flu killed your relatives