Things you did as a kid

But still do now,

I bite my nails and chew them , don’t ask why.lol

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Make sandwiches out of the stuff on my plate of a “Fry Up”. (still do to this day)

Put a single dollop of Brown Sauce AND Tomato Sauce on my burgers, and never use official “Relish”. (still to do this day)

Start Smoking (quit in 2006)

Order Rootbeer at McD’s (Stopped when “Rootbeer” got cancelled)

Play Fruit Machines in Pubs, buy a single drink, and leave it on top of the machine for over an hour. (quit slot machines shortly after Gordon Brown abolished Betting Duty of 10%, thereby making Dogs and Horses more viable to bet on, replacing that bad habit playing rigged machines that always seem to pay out the cleaner, and never people like me that played them for hours at a time)

Drink Lager Top, Snakebite, Top Deck, R-Whites
scavenge for discarded Corona bottles on rubbish tips which had a 10p return deposit on them.

Ride my pushbike over car park pressure mats at entrance, and flog that ticket to people who’d lost their tickets, or overstayed for 50p at the other end (got warned off by security eventually, but it was a good wheeze whilst it lasted, and kept me in JP Blues aged 15 as well)

Go to Butlins/Pontins in August (Clacton got demolished, Phwehlli too, Bognor and Minehead - are a shadow of their former selves, without the rides, chairlifts, monorails, gaeity theatre, and other free stuff so a kid could be out all day without having to put their hand in their pocket)

Play Chess rather than Draughts, Lexicon rather than Scrabble, “Sorry”, rather than Ludo, KerPlunk rather than Buckaroo,
Go for Broke AND monopoly, Lego AND Meccano, Whist AND Eucre, Matchbox AND Hot Wheels, Space Invaders AND Galaxians…

Eat Club biscuits/KitKats/plain Bounties and the like by biting off all the surrounding chocolate and eating that first. With Penguins/custard creams/Twix and the like, split them in half long ways and eat the side without filling on first, maybe dunk it if having a cuppa alongside, sometimes scrape filling off with teeth so can dunk the other part. Clubs and KitKats used to have really thick chocolate ends. Like many things, they are a shadow of their former selves. How much smaller can they get??

Winseer:
Play Fruit Machines in Pubs, buy a single drink, and leave it on top of the machine for over an hour. (quit slot machines shortly after Gordon Brown abolished Betting Duty of 10%, thereby making Dogs and Horses more viable to bet on, replacing that bad habit playing rigged machines that always seem to pay out the cleaner, and never people like me that played them for hours at a time)

I used to be an AWP (amusement with prizes, or fruit machine) service engineer and believe me they don’t ever consistently pay out to anybody, except the owner. If you ever see a service engineer working on a slot machine, ask him if he ever puts his own money into one on a night down the pub, he’ll laugh at you.

Among players, there is more “kiddology” about slot machines than any other form of gambling, the simple fact is that every event, or play, on a slot machine is totally independent of anything that has happened in the past, a slot machine is simply a quasi random number generator whereby the reels display the numbers pre-selected by the computer in pictorial form and any apparent run of good or bad luck is simply down to the laws of chance.

The biggest revenue earners in Las Vegas are the slots, they make more profit for the casinos than all of the table games put together. If you look at Las Vegas as a thing, that opulence was all built on player losses, not player winnings. :stuck_out_tongue:

Got badly suburned on St Mildreds Bay, Westgate, 1976 - spent evening standing in bath, being plastered in Calomine lotion…

These days, if you hear someone got “badly burned at Westgate” - they’d think you were refering to a cremation going wrong:unamused:

Wet the bed. No, wait…

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