JonnotheMackem
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The Queen’s gambit has a lot to answer for there.
Don’t, my kid is turning out ok. I don’t play video games all day though.
Board games are the opposite of anti-social, surely?
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Tetris: Sky News presenter tells teenager to "go outside"
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Rammstein
Midfield
A wind up, surely?
You participate in the Parsnip games on here ( as indeed do I ).
Board games are the very opposite of anti-social. I love a game of Monopoly or Cluedo with my family, nowt like it for having a bit of fun and a laugh.
InsomniacAttack
Central Defender
I watch a lot of professional League of Legends and the graft it takes to go pro from "just playing a computer game" is mental.
I wouldn't go as far to call them sportsmen, but don't disparage their achievements. I wouldn't watch competitive Tetris but some games are class as a spectator.
I wouldn't go as far to call them sportsmen, but don't disparage their achievements. I wouldn't watch competitive Tetris but some games are class as a spectator.
Or people who sit in a room playing a musical instrument alone for more than 5 minutes...
ilovehorswill
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Is it possible Jayne is Quasi’s love child?Went down in my estimation when she went out with the sex God that is Peter Beardsley, like. He left his wife for her.
Not as pretty as her mam and defo has his attitude going by past news stories
Bassa thought I had the exclusive there
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Naaaah, definitely not. It would have been about 2001-2003, their dalliance.
That said, I think that you're remembering Kathy through Rose tinted (probably teenage) specs cos if you go and look back over pictures, she really wasn't all that, though we all thought she was at the time. She just had something about her.
ilovehorswill
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I barely remember what she looked like - I remember thinking she was a beautiful kind lady and wanted her to be my mam
Hopefully I wasn’t a teenager
Rammstein
Midfield
Sorry, Dodgy….. any thoughts I had about Kathy ( and I certainly did !! ) were shattered into a million pieces when the realisation that Peter Beardsley had done the horizontal Rumba with her. I had to shower with Domestos after learning of that
There’s a UNIVERSE of difference between not looking like the rather lovely
Kathy Secker and even remotely looking like Peter Beardsley. You do know if you fantasised about Kathy being your mam, you’d have had Beardsley as your step dad?
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ilovehorswill
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I’d have to grow up quickly tbfSorry, Dodgy….. any thoughts I had about Kathy ( and I certainly did !! ) were shattered into a million pieces when the realisation that Peter Beardsley had done the horizontal Rumba with her. I had to shower with Domestos after learning of that
There’s a UNIVERSE of difference between not looking like the rather lovely
You do know if you fantasised about Kathy being your mam, you’d have had Beardsley as your step dad?
Kent_Mackem
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What about a bit of exercise now and again? The kid was wheezing like a Benwell bingo player. Think it would do him good.
Walking the dog, playing footy, playing cricket? Mine are most often out whenever it is light and warm, and when it’s dark, fecking freezing or raining they’re inside on their Play Stations.
Suspect the news reader’s comment was more towards it being possible to have a balance.
there's a bigger one at 200,000
I was never bored growing up in the 70s/early 80s my internet friend. Six weeks summer holidays were never long enough. Out with mates from 8am till it got dark doing all sorts of exploring, playing footy, hidey, kerby, going for miles on bikes. The list is endless.
When it rained we’d pile into someone’s house and play games such as darts, pool (we had a 6ft snooker table) subbutteo
jacko100
Striker
And have lashings and lashings of ginger beer!!
High Entropy
Midfield
Maybe when you were 10 - not when you were in comp I dare say, I know not many of us at 13/14 were playing kerby, making dens and playing hidey !!
We were paperboys & milkboys scraping pocket money together for 10 regal kingsize and a bottle of QC sherry for friday night hoping for some necking on (and a bit of fingering if we were lucky) with a lass (or lasses)
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Nil desperandum
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Can you imagine getting up at three on Xmas morning to search for your new XBox. Rather eat nails.
Am exaggerating for effect, but there's been a huge loss of green space since I was a kid growing up in the 70s. New developments have almost half less green space than older ones, and kids growing up in 'new' neighbourhoods on average have to travel further to get to anything resembling a park and it's much smaller when they get there. Green spaces that exist in poorer parts of the country are more likely to be built on too.
People often tend to blame the kids as well for not being out all the time, when you have to ask how many parents now would be happy for their ten-year-old to disappear out after breakfast, wander the land and reappear at tea time. I think a lot of kids are encouraged to stay in more, roam less widely, account for where they are, stay close.
alexander
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As with everything in life, moderation isn't a bad thing, I'd say. And to be fair to the telly woman, a bit of fresh air never harmed anyone.
I bought an SAFC Monopoly game years back. I think you buy players instead of streets and stands instead of houses till you get a full Stadium of Light (hotel) ? I reckon the questions are all SAFC related and not having anyone around to play it here in Denmark with the game is still not used and still wrapped in plastic.
Still hope to open it and get a game going sometime but I have a feeling I will need to bring the board with me to Sunderland at some point to make that likely.
I do like playing Yatzee though and have played it quite a few times in pubs in Sunderland over the years. Chess, too.
I bought an SAFC Monopoly game years back. I think you buy players instead of streets and stands instead of houses till you get a full Stadium of Light (hotel) ? I reckon the questions are all SAFC related and not having anyone around to play it here in Denmark with the game is still not used and still wrapped in plastic.
Still hope to open it and get a game going sometime but I have a feeling I will need to bring the board with me to Sunderland at some point to make that likely.I do like playing Yatzee though and have played it quite a few times in pubs in Sunderland over the years. Chess, too.
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Couldn't afford owt like that marraAnd have lashings and lashings of ginger beer!!
Aye a bit later for me. I was working hard studying at 14.
No way I was having a crqppy job
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alexander
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Could be seb but I'm sure KLD is involved with an e sports thing and has bought a building next to the stadium?
