Rant time.

Throughout the majority of my primary school years there was one thing I always wanted, and it was this hat:

Now these hats are the standard thse days, everyone has them.

Back in my day what did the majority of the kids (from my school at least) get stuck with?

These fuckers

Will never forget the memorable day in grade 6 where I saved up enough pocket money to get one, changed my life.

These days every time I've been in a school I haven't seen a single kid wearing one. How lucky they are.

Back in my day jlm, which I don't think was too much later than yours, we were allowed normal caps.

Only the geeky kids wore either of the hats you've shown.

Back in my day we didn't need caps to keep the sun off... Because I was in Sunderland and we never saw the bloody sun. Which is kind of ironic when you think about it.

I always thought it was more Sunder than Sun.

:lol::lol::lol: to the pun.

I remember one of my teammates heading over the Scotland about 8-10 years ago for a trial with a few clubs. And he also did a little tour of England. Apparently when he was in England, they were through a bit of a sunnier patch than they were used to. And he brought home this newspaper, I forget which one but it was one of the bigger ones, and on the 2nd or 3rd page there was an article with pictures of detailed instructions on how to apply sunscreen, and where you could buy it from. Because no one ever needed or used it - they needed these instructions in the paper :lol:

One of those 2 were mandatory down here :cry: :cry:

We were forced to wear flap caps or "no hat no play". It was tremendously degrading.

Back in my day there was no "no hat no play" policy yet, but my mum made me wear one anyway because of how white I am.

Back in my day you got nuked until you looked like an aboriginal lad and your hair was bleached blonde.

If you didn't have a tan you were seen as some sort of poof.

Funny how old things become new again :lol:

-PB

that's a racist comment, you have to use FAIR not WHITE....i am offended...!!!!!!:^o

lol....yeah we used to go swim in the river and get on the Tarzan swing and get flung out into the middle of the river......ride there and ride home, no sun screen, no hat, no shirt just a pair of boardies.......the temp was 40 degrees and over for weeks on end, the tar on the road would melt and flick up off the pushie tyres and splatter your legs and feet, and as long as you were home by dark no one gave a fuck, i used to be so tanned i looked like an olive wog

Edited by batfink: 28/11/2014 03:35:18 PM

and i used to wood up rubbing this onto my girlfriends when in their bikinis.....

Ha ha. We used to ride our pushies to the river, climb a fence to get onto the railway tracks and walk along the tracks about 5 metres in the air until we got to this big old fuck off railway bridge.

If you were normal you went from the tracks into the water which was about 8 metres above the river. If you had big balls you'd go off the top of the trusses which was about 12 metres. If you were a friggin mental case with no sense you went off these beams that went over the top of the trusses which were about 15 to 17m above the water.

Not many blokes had the kahunas to pull that off.

Shot showing the tracks you had to cross to get to the bridge over the river. Getting halfway and hearing a train coming made for an interesting minute or so while you worked out whether it was quicker to go back or keep going to safety on the bridge. If you cut it close old mate the train driver would give you a huge blast of his horn. (Just noticed handrails there in that shot. There was none of that namby pamby rubbish BIMD.)



Looks like they've replaced it. (Behind the concrete headstocks you can see the bridge deck, then above that the top of the trusses and then the beams at the very top. To get to the very top you had to climb inside this lattice column. )






Edited by MUNRUBENMUZ: 28/11/2014 03:55:22 PM

There were no ATMs. If you didn't get to the bank Fridee arvo you had no $ for the weekend. Shops closed lunchtime Satdy. If you had no milk well you had to borrow some for a cuppa. No way you'd consider wearing white footy boots they call you all sorts of names.

How old are some of you blokes :lol:

you're lucky you could afford a tan, I would have been in rapture if my family could afford a tan, I used to have to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week. I never saw the sun.

another ripping yarn....;) ;) ;)

We had one like that but a bit longer, not for passenger trains but for the big freight trains on their way to and from Kwinana. If you got caught in the middle, there were these safety platforms that allowed you to stand a good 1-1.5m away from the train as it thundered past for at least 30 seconds. Always had bare feet so had to walk on the rails because the rocks on the track were massive pointy fuckers even though our feet were like leather. Made it pretty hard to run if you timed it wrong.

bunch of pussies.....this is the bridge we jumped off.......and it fucken hurt when you hit the water unless you dropped a rock with you to break the water tension...

this is the M4 bridge over the Nepean....a bloke i grew up dared my to jump off it.....i told him was mad and there was no way....he put shit on me at school for weeks until someone said well if your so fucken good you do it.......

so he did...broke both ankles and we had to rescue him........lol....silly prick

It is, but that ruins the joke.



It was probably the Sun or the Mirror, in which case the sunscreen instructions reflect more about the standard of their readership than a general British lack of knowledge of the product.

Never got why people don't like the legionaires hats. It is far easier to run around and do things with them on than the wide brim hats they've been replaced with.

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another ripping yarn;)

BIMD: chicos were 5cents each or 3 for 10. Now i don't even think your allowed to call them that.

what's a chico??

we used to get 4 anaseed balls for 5 cents and sherbies were 5 cents each, and the epic choo choo bars were real choo choo bars that lasted at least and hour and made a huge black mess of your teeth

Chicos. Little black jelly babies.

We used to buy "Fags". They were lollies that looked like smokes which was the whole idea.

The PC mob got hold of that and now they changed the name to "Fads". (Probably rightly so.)




Edited by MUNRUBENMUZ: 2/12/2014 08:59:37 AM

Gollywog biccies <3

-PB