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Post by Chelsea on Feb 8, 2012 19:58:17 GMT
;D Okay guys, I haven't been on in a while so I'm paying back with starting a new thread.
I've been remembering the good stuff thats happened in my life or random little things I've done. (The truth is I'm freaking out over leaving school next year, I'm scared)
One thing I remember is in Year 6 (about 11 i think) me and my friends wanted to read a book called '*cant remember her name* has hurt her tummy' but we said to each other "we're too old to say tummy, so we'll say stomach instead". It just, in my head, is so cute!
Nothing too personal please, try not to post about your sex lives, I don't want to know neither does the internet in general...
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Post by catwolf on Feb 9, 2012 22:51:27 GMT
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Post by thehazelwoodfaye on Feb 10, 2012 8:17:47 GMT
^ lol good topic I blame my worst nigthmares on the Yankees, just so you know...all I say is Jim Henson "The Storyteller" I was so absurdly scared of the puppets they used there...the funny thing is, the most fairy tales told were german ones, but they weren't that scary in the books... It might entertain you: "All creatures great and small" was often shown in german tv (dubbed) and we always watched it when we were little and does anyone remember The Moomins??? (it's spelled Mumin in Sweden and Germany though) I loved that show! it was so bonkers - in a good way though
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Post by Chelsea on Feb 10, 2012 16:17:48 GMT
I used to love the teletubies! Never heard of The Moomins til now I used to watch Pokemon (still play the games though) and Tracy Beaker alot. I also used to sneak downstairs in the weekend to watch Dick and Dom in the Bungalow... Then too many parents complained about the show and it stopped. I was devastated! I still play this game when I'm at the cinema and I don't like the film. And I remember watching this one! My friend reminded me of it in school , but with the actual game were you shout geese, and i screamed bogies down the corridor.
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Post by thehazelwoodfaye on Feb 10, 2012 18:31:20 GMT
god you're all so young I feel old now btw was Wickie shown on british tv at any time? I'm curious...loved that show! ;D so you know what I'm talking about: they're talking about a wolves' hunt - how appropriate the whole idea of the show is that Wickie is the brainy one amongst the vikings, but not very strong and often afraid. but with his brilliant ideas he always saves the vikings from dangerous situations. one of the funniest things was that one didn't quite know what to make of Wickie - boy or girl? I remember thinking he was a girl for a while, because his voice was so high-pitched... xD lol
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Post by catwolf on Feb 12, 2012 13:39:58 GMT
Haha, i used to love Dick and Dom in da Bungalow!!! I really wanted to go on it, but i could never find enough people for the group (and i didn't even know how to apply). I always thought it looked like so much fun! We used to play bogies as well, but we always got too scared to shout it really loudly! Did the programme really get banned?! (I think i stopped watching it when i was about 11) I'm not sure if Wickie was shown here, i've never heard of it (the video you posted apparently isn't available in this country btw). I don't think i've ever seen the Moomins but i've heard of them (i think my sister used to have a book about about them). And Bjork has a song in the moomin film! (it was actually the first Bjork song i ever heard - i came across it on itunes one day and really liked it, so then i looked up the rest of her music!) Did anyone else used to like the Singing Kettle? (i don't know if they were famous outside Scotland). I used to be so obsessed with them when i was a wee kid - it was my life's ambition to join the Singing Kettle when i grew up!!! (If you can't understand the song, it's about why you shouldn't throw a sandwich out a 20 storey flat ) The rhyme at the start of the video was what everyone had to say to make the kettle open, and inside the kettle there'd be a clue to which song they had to sing next. My gran used to take us to see them every year. They'd always come into the audience and pick kids to come on stage for one song - i used to be desperate to get picked so i'd always put up my hand, but whenever they came near us i'd get too shy and put my hand down so i was never picked! And when my brother was born i really wanted my parents to call him Artie after the guy from the Singing Kettle!!! I think my mum threw out all our old Singing Kettle tapes, i'd love to listen to them again
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Post by Chelsea on Feb 13, 2012 20:20:04 GMT
You shouldn't throw a sandwich out of a 20 storey flat because its a waste of food and I would of ate it if there was no eggs in it, or Marmite...
Because I went on the train for the first time on my own on Saturday (I meant without an adult figure). I've been laughing at how scared I used to be of going on the bus on my own and i go on it now pretty much every week....
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Post by catwolf on Feb 16, 2012 21:57:50 GMT
Apparently the sandwich will go up instead of down and go into orbit It's always kind of scary doing things like that by yourself for the first time but once you get used to it it seems easy. When i first started going into town by myself/with my friends i always liked the train better than the bus because it announced the stops and you were less likely to get off in the wrong place or get lost And it tells you at the station when the all the trains are coming, with buses you'll never know when they'll turn up
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Post by Chelsea on Feb 17, 2012 13:18:57 GMT
I like the buses better (though in my head the train amuses me), but i only get 3 buses and they all go into town. But my friends tried to get me on a bus to Manchester and i was talking to them like i was their mother.
'Do you know your way around Manc Land? 'No' Do you know the bus/train to get back? 'No' Do you know how much the fares are? 'No'
I do this whenever I go somewhere I've never been before because its embarrassing having to phone up my sister to pick me up... To answer those questions I use Google Maps, that is the best extra google have ever made. As well as Translate...
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Post by thehazelwoodfaye on Feb 17, 2012 14:14:00 GMT
lol ;D btw I'm still scared of buses not really, but when I have the choice I avoid them...childhood trauma or sth I guess waiting for eternities for the next bus when you missed one on a cold, icy winter afternoon...brrr I love trains. okay, often it's a bit annoying when there are children playing with their incredible loud gameboys (or whatever that's called nowadays...oh I'm old) and some adult passengers are truely annoying, but when you get a seat at a table you can plug in your laptop and pass the time nicely doing some writing, work etc. while listening to music (so I'm talking about hour long train journeys of course )
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Post by Chelsea on Feb 17, 2012 20:37:45 GMT
haha i used to have a gameboy! with Spyro games, and pokemon ruby Good times ~
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Post by catwolf on Feb 19, 2012 10:43:28 GMT
Yeah i always get the train rather than the bus, buses sometimes make me feel sick if i'm reading or something and i don't trust them to come on time I quite like long train journeys, where you get a fancy train with a carpet and powerpoints and stuff (i'm used to the trains i get into town for uni, which is like a 20 minute journey, so trains that go to other cities always seem really fancy ) I had a gameboy too! I had a monster's inc game and some harry potter games. And a lord of the rings game that was really hard and i could never complete I was actually playing my gameboy in the summer!!! (i was really bored and i didn't have any mac compatible games for my laptop, or any more modern gaming devices ) But then it went missing I'm pretty sure the last place i left it was the table in the living room where anyone walking past could have seen it, so i used to joke about how someone must have broken in and stolen it (because at the time i got it it was really valuable and the sort of thing people would have stolen but now it'd be worth about £1! )
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Post by Chelsea on Feb 19, 2012 23:13:04 GMT
The first console I got was the original playstation with a rayman game that me and my sister used to fight over who could play it *and when I was 11 i got a DS to get pokemon diamond (all of my friends had pearl) and I still play it, in school, bring on the teasing I fucking love these games. Another thing about my school is that a lad in my class was bitching at me for eating some pistachio nuts that were really salty and fatty. (I laughed at him for being to body concious, a bit sexist, I should feel bad but I dont...) In his defence, he fights (can't think of the plural for boxing) and has to watch what he eats... *warning: Some people may have to google what this stuff is.
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Post by Sorrow By Nature on Feb 20, 2012 15:34:05 GMT
I felt I just had to throw in a few comments here... Firstly, miss Hazelwood, if you're feeling old, guess what kind of extinct animal I feel like!?! Back when I was a kid, I used to play my first computer games on my uncle's old ZX Spectrum (which was a computer with rubber keys, which had to be connected to a cassette player and TV to be able to load programs and games!), and then as my first computer, I got a Commodore 64. Secondly, I LOVE AND ADORE the Moomins since early childhood. Comet In Moominland is a book which I still put up there among my favourites. It also has amazing artwork by Tove Jansson herself. Guess where my avatar is from? Thirdly, I love nostalgia. Now and then I tend to check youtube for newly uploaded bits and pieces of childhood TV memories. Having cable TV and therefore getting the amazing "action figure" series of the 80's, like He-Man and Transformers made me learn english waaaay before I was even in school. I bet you "kids" don't remember THIS! OH! And if you want to see something outstanding, watch THIS charming Norwegian (with english dub) kid's movie, /Tommy
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Post by thehazelwoodfaye on Feb 20, 2012 18:24:57 GMT
^ lol I thought you were about to lecture me when I read Miss Hazelwood ;D so you definitly have the authority of "old age" *hands it over* I have to admit we were never allowed to have gameboys, playstation etc. as kids (my siblings and me). So I'm still rubbish at playing video games and stuff. TV and later on that magic thing called computer were or devices (remember those laptops that were as thick as 300pp. hardcover books? I was the first in our household to have a flat screen computer xD) and concerning the Moomins I just have to shut out I know I know! (I hoped I could trigger you with that one ;D hehe ) I only knew the tv series when I was little and started to collect the books one by one only a few years ago I'm still longing for a handbag like the one Moominmamma has...would be so practical! Oh and I still love Schnupferich (well that's the german name) aka Snufkin aka Snusmumriken (wow now it's getting complicated O.o) ever so much as a character <3 (and btw that short film is adorable haha I love that kind of animation films) okay so we're not old we're still young spirited...or is that already the second childhood commonly known as senility? I blame it all on Peter Pan, Pippi and the like who made me believe I could stay a child forever
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Post by niwo on Feb 21, 2012 13:54:53 GMT
i loved he-man when i was a kid!!!! sadly no learning english for me as we got (and still get) everything dubbed :/ our first computer didn't have an OS, but i can't remember what exactly it was, most likely an amiga. i'm just quite sure it was no c64. oh those were the times *le sigh* another early memory, when my brother and i were kids (before either of us was in school), my brother was obsessed with commercials on television. we weren't allowed to watch tv when we wanted, either mom or dad had to allow it and on weekends we weren't allowed at all. my mom used to explain to my brother there wouldn't be any commercials to watch anyway on weekends. he didn't believe it of course, so once we sneaked into the living room on a saturday and had to find out that there really were no commecials on weekends ah those were the times! */dinosaur*
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Post by Chelsea on Feb 21, 2012 17:26:16 GMT
Aww! My grandad was cruel to my mum because there was no 24 hour tv and made them watch the screen that was between the times! (she said it was a multicoloured circle with a woman's face in the middle of it or something like that) Thats my old times story, its counts even though it was told to me by the older generations haha!
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Post by niwo on Feb 22, 2012 9:40:59 GMT
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Post by Mimosa on Jun 3, 2012 16:19:50 GMT
and does anyone remember The Moomins??? (it's spelled Mumin in Sweden and Germany though) I loved that show! it was so bonkers - in a good way though In Finland it's a holy thing for children. The author of the original Moomin books, Tove Jansson was Finnish, though she was Finnish Swedish and the books were written in Swedish. I believe that there's no single kid in Finland who hasn't watched the series. I enjoyed the books too as a child and still do, and I think that nearly everybody that has read Moomin books likes them. We have a Moomin theme park in Finland too.
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Post by thehazelwoodfaye on Jun 4, 2012 17:54:39 GMT
oh god you do? Okay I'll add that to my list of things to visit...if I ever travel to Finland that is.
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