On 2018-11-29 14:16:46 Kimmylee said:
When Telkom Yellow Pages directory book was used as a substitute for toilet paper.

The good humble beginnings, today that thing isn't good for us...hahahaha

I grew up in a township in Soweto, I'm proud of my humble beginnings, we went outside to play in the dusty streets,we could play soccer everyday from morning till sunset, we cooked in empty tin stuff cans and actually ate the food,at times it was plain mud, climbed trees and made with swings from trees, we didn't eat fast foods....we ate margarine and peanut butter and even if it was left over pap and imfino (cabbage or morogo) it was never questionable, home made food and chips fried in a pan...

We got ice cream from the ice-cream van that came around every Saturday playing a tune that will never fade, we would stop what we are doing to go beg, borrow or steal(coins) so we would buy the icecream, we played with tins and with a tennis ball (chicago), used our mothers old stalkings to make "mgusha" (i don't think theres an english word for it, and if none was available we made our own tennis ball with plastic bags, and black maipatile (hide and seek) the adrenaline, we climbed up trees for hours and ate organic fruits from trees without washing it, there was no bottled water, we drank water from the tap, learned how to make water cups to drink directly from the tap, if we had a drink we would share the same bottle of soda, at times we had Kool Aid... we shared the bottle after giving it a wipe with our mucky sleeves, M-net open time was probably the only time we payed attention to the TV there was no such thing as a mobile phone or any other electronic device house phone was the only thing that rang, an sms to us was a paper and pen with hearts and different colors...

We weren't AFRAID OF ANYTHIN, If someone had a fight, that's what it was...a fist fight, kids didn't have guns or knives...

The street lights were your curfew or until your mum shouted out for us to come home...

School was mandatory, we used to get corporal punishment, but you'd still bunk a couple of classes every now and then...

We never back chatted anyone older, because we knew we'd get a thin branch, belt, wooden spoon or some shoe or slipper in our faces:-)


The good old days...

Ice skating and ice hockey matches at the Wembley ice rink in Turffontein,
then when that closed going to the top of the carlton and soccer matches at the Rand Stadium , going to Pan burger road house and ten pin bowling
at Ponte

On 2018-11-27 19:32:19 Licketysplit said:
You could throw some one in the pool without worrying if they had a cellphone in their pocket?

Some of the new cellphones are waterproof, the good old days return

Caveat to that, some of the guys nowadays are to worried about ruining their hairdo

On 2018-11-30 10:20:03 Burfi said:
- the original Boswell Wilkie Circus

And Ticky the clown

When air was clean and sex was dirty

When I had to describe myself to a punter over the phone.

Im 5ft7 in height,Long dark hair, green eyes a natural 38 D long stunning legs very attractive and just like that he used to take a drive to Lennox Street or Conrad Drive.

When punters couldn't say can you send me a Picture or do you do video call

@dor
Yeah I remember Wembley ice rink.
Also the Rand Stadium, home of Rangers and Southern Suburbs football clubs.
Saw many games there when i was young, it was the best football stadium in SA.
When I passed there a few years ago I was amazed at how small it is.
When I was young it appeared to be huge.

@tegwane
Yes, I remember Reg Wright calling from Kingsmead, telling us how the football game went and the score.
There was Durban City, Durban United, Germiston Callies etc in those days.