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 Posted: September 20 2006 at 02:05 |
playgrounds were death traps when i was a kid - concrete, metal, every torture trap you could think of! i was always falling or banging my head, my knees were permanently skinned. nowadays they have their mums there with them, and if they fall and hit the ground they just bounce, and all the climbing thingies are plastic. we have a local "wacky fun house" full of cages and plastic balls, i would love to have played in one of those! i used to love to go swimming - you were allowed to dive in the pool in those days (open air pools), it was a lot more fun, there were life guards but they didn't get on your case like they do now.
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 03:37 |
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playgrounds were death traps when i was a kid - concrete, metal, every torture trap you could think of! i was always falling or banging my head, my knees were permanently skinned. |
We had one contraption in our local park; a kind of a rocking horse affair that could seat about 6 kids... we could get that baby going back and forward like a train. Back, forward, up, down, faster, faster... this thing was metal, mounted on solid concrete & had a cast iron horse's head on the front!
Remember the battering ram used by the Orc army in 'Return Of The King'? That was based on our rocking horse!
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 07:35 |
Jim Garten wrote:
mystic fred wrote:
playgrounds were death traps when i was a kid - concrete, metal, every torture trap you could think of! i was always falling or banging my head, my knees were permanently skinned. |
We had one contraption in our local park; a kind of a rocking horse affair that could seat about 6 kids... we could get that baby going back and forward like a train. Back, forward, up, down, faster, faster... this thing was metal, mounted on solid concrete & had a cast iron horse's head on the front!
Remember the battering ram used by the Orc army in 'Return Of The King'? That was based on our rocking horse!
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We had one of those too!
Now the swings and stuff in one of our local parks are all made of wood. Every time the council repairs it, the local yobbos set fire to it again.
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 07:58 |
Also - why do you never see white dog-poo anymore...? 
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 07:59 |
white dog-poo? Is that english? 
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 08:12 |
It sure is (he means dog poo that is white, not poo from a white dog).
This is a question which has oft troubled me (not). It must be something in the water, I reckon.
Whatever happened to Spangles?
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 08:23 |
Ah, the dog-poo question.......... well, this was being discussed amongst some friends recently, and since the law stated that dog food had to have, some certain percentage of real meat and less rubbish, this has led to no more white poos! (Although I know some one who has a dog on a vegetarian diet- I know mad huh?- and they regularly have white dog poos in their garden!!!..)
Spangles were fantastic, I loved them............and "pacers" although they went down hill when they made them stripey.....
Ah! the rocking horse, they were good, and the one I played on as a child is still in existance, the face of the horse is a little indistinct with 30-40 odd years of paint tho! and they have bunged springy foamy stuff around it, but it's still in the park.......I think they might have restricted it tho!
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 08:29 |
This is vast becoming a very English thread  .
I love England though, the first time my parents took me there I was 13 or 14. A pretty little town called Sherston.
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:45 |
glass house wrote:
This is vast becoming a very English thread .
I love England though, the first time my parents took me there I was 13 or 14. A pretty little town called Sherston. |
i visited Holland some years ago, a long weekend in Amsterdam, it was fantastic there - we had a river trip, visited some bulbfields, some of the group tried their luck in the "red light" district, but wouldn't tell us what they did!
well we certainly seem to be covering some very interesting subjects here - white dog poo??
...as long as we're all enjoying ourselves!
anybody - what are the most memorable foreign countries you have visited??
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 11:49 |
Amsterdam is great. We did a trip round the Heineken brewery first thing in the morning, then went into a bar at lunchtime and found they were showing hard core porn on the telly!
I couldn't understand why everyone kept sneezing when they walked past me, then I realised they were saying "hashish".
Picked up a good Yes bootleg in a record store there.
And yes, we did a quick walk around the red light district.
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 12:03 |
I haven't been ever outside Europe - one place i would like to visit is Australia, i'm fascinated by the place, the aboriginal culture, the scenery.
big hobby of mine is Photography, the best places in the UK i have spent enough time in to do anything decent is Devon, Cornwall and the Highlands of Scotland - castles and scenery. Taken a lot around London Parks and along the Thames. Been to Austria to Ski, Germany (Munich) to taste the beer, Spain, Corfu, a weekend in Paris, Italy twice - Sorrento and Dolomiti mountains one February, and had a fantastic excursion to Venice where people were dressed in the most amazing masks and costumes you ever saw!
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 12:09 |
MF, you should definitely plan a trip to Rome! Amazing sights, great food and wine, and of course very beautiful, intelligent, classy women...  I've never been outside Europe either, though the situation is going to change rather soon. I haven't visited all of our continent, but I've visited Britain some 40 times (it is by far my favourite country) and have lived almost six years in Finland. Of the European cities I've visited so far, Amsterdam is definitely one of my favourites (though not because of the red-light district or the notorious coffee shops), together with Budapest and Paris.
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 12:13 |
I would love to visit Finland, another place i am fascinated with from a photographer's point of view, and i would love to spend some time in Rome, to visit the Colosseum and all those ancient Roman ruins, there has been a lot about Rome on the TV over here, absolutely fascinating!
....and of course those beautiful intelligent classy women!!!!
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 12:51 |
Amsterdam - famous for his coffeeshops and cd shops, oh and the Ladies. Some real good record stores there. Gotta visit The Hague as well, rather nice city, sometimes.
. Been a lot to England, visited the north ( york, a beautiful city ) and the South.
Visited Germany a lot and Belgium. One time Paris. Would like to visit Barcalona.
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 13:38 |
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Prague when I was 17.
It was a College trip and the lecturers came with us. We then found out the drinking age was 16, so you can imagine what we got up too!
Some friends of mine were looking for illegal substances and ended up getting locked in a brothel (I was in the hotel, I wasn't having anything to do with that!). We did however have a game of word association with vodka and coke, good times indeed!
The only time that tops that is a stag weekend in Barcelona 2 years ago!
Like Fred, I've also never been outside of Europe. I don't know where I want to go though.
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 13:40 |
I was lucky enough to spend some time in Central America last year, totally beautiful and such warm and lovely people!
We were on a surfing trip to Costa Rica, and I spent a few days just mooching about in the villages meeting people.........we spent an age in a store one day talking to two young guys about PROG!
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 15:08 |
I want to go to Europe. Hopefully I will do it soon. I have been all over North America, but that's it (actually, I have covered quite a bit of distance).
But we're not so different. I remember white dog poo. 
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 16:19 |
yes i would think a tour of North America would involve a lot of travelling - it's vast! come to England - everything's much closer together! when i lived up in the north-east we'd travel 20 miles to visit a pub or go shopping and think nothing of it, but in London 10 miles is a long way!
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Posted: September 20 2006 at 16:31 |
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Somewhere here MF?
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yeah - somewhere between M'bro and Darlington, in Yarm near Stockton-on-Tees. i lived there for a few years in the 70's. used to pop across to the Lake District some weekends, or a Sunday trip to Whitby!
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