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Before Health & Safety went a bit mad.... Remember these @SirBalon Used to get as many on there as possible including standing up on the boards facing inwards and kick yourselves round against the center pole as hard and as fast as you could while trying not to clatter yourself.. Or this... Or these where you had a couple of you running round it pushing it so fast some of you would slide off and fall on the concrete.... Standing on the swings to get maximum height before leaping off for the longest jump.... or trying to get them so high you might flip over which ever came first.. Now it's all safety seats and 3 inch Black Rubber matting.... How is anyone supposed to have fun and experience danger with that lot???

Fucking Legend!!!!

Buddy, the daughters gentle lady Gecko.

I thought you would have been older than m hearing about the gang fights, I'm 55. I guess 17/18 is about the time you start work. It happened to me about 16 and guess it was to do with exams and starting work.

Almost through Season 1 of The Expanse. Absolutely love it. Fascinating characters, great story telling, a little humour here and there, mystery, action.

Don't know if anyone else lived in an area like me growing up but Wythenshawe in Manchester was a huge housing estate with various different areas that basically had their own teenage gangs. For a large part of my childhood and teenage life parts of Wythenshawe would be no go zone's. Often we'd arrange meet ups with rival areas in Wythenshawe Park or Sale fields for huge gang fights. The only thing I could relate it to was football hooligism. You'd get 30 to 40 lads either end of the field throwing bricks and stones until someone would get brave and breach the gap and then a war would break loose. So many lads would end up in hospital. Absolutely crazy to think a lot of the lads now work together or drink in the same pubs and laugh about the battles with a respect for one another. Really sad to think I used to really get excited about a Friday night at the park for a potential battle.

Simpler times being a kid and doing shit like that for fun

We used to build a ramp near the local brook and attempt to jump it on our bikes. I don't remember many people ever making it across.

We all loved doing that, crazy thing was I was on the park with my youngest the other week and I contemplated doing it for a second and couldn't through fear of breaking my legs. Didn't give a damn as a kid, flew through the air.

He's lucky, Thai police and military usually don't fuck around...

Aye, I put this pic up earlier, the old pram wheels came in handy.

Used to make them with your dads tools and old pram wheels... I did put one up somewhere on here before.

I can't think of a stadium in Germany that I don't have a desire to see. It seems like most of the ones in the top two divisions (and even lower) are some pretty cool stadiums.

@nudge, all that wall by Trump to stop a Road Runner

Yes to most of all this. I'd liken WWE to McDonalds. It's woven into culture as an individual entity. Some people go as far back as Hulk Hogan. Others to Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart. More when it was The Rock, Stone Cold, Triple H. And The Undertakers never been away. Then there's the modern day which I guess has been Cena, Orton, the Shield. I did find WWE some of the most captivating TV in the early 2000's. Maybe it was. Or maybe I was just the right age for it then. Whenever I see any these days it feels like someone doing a bad HD parody of it. With less laughs. Less drama. Less rude suggestive side shenanigans. But WWE will continue as a global super brand for quite some time I would guess. Will kids today be watching the sparkly, shiny HD WWE & thinking if only it was way back whenever? No. And I doubt many teens have gone back further than 2010's on the WWE Network. So the nostalgia for future parents will continue on into future generations when the kids of today decide to allow kids of their future to start following it, because they did themselves, or everyone at school is, etc. WCW got seriously close to challenging WWE/WWF, but it was WWE's none American audience & income that helped it to win out. From what I've seen of AEW, it's not what the kids will be fascinated by. It is kind of dad's TV. Purists TV. The alternate seekers choice. etc.

Wrestling isn't about wrestling. If people watched Wrestling for wrestling then old school NXT with UE, Gargano, Andrade, Ciampa, Ricochet and Alister Black would have been globally revered, NXT UK would actually have an audience and NJPW would be the largest company. Wrestling is just a vehicle for hammy drama. Take game of thrones for example. Plenty of women aged 18-35 watched game of thrones. Plenty of bros too. You think many of them started reading wheel of time, or watched the lord of the rings after it ended? No, the fantasy was just a vehicle for cocks, tits and drama. Wrestling is no different and that's why Alexa blisses possessed toy and fat Chris Jerichos hot tub segments will beat Ilia Dragunov vs Walter or Shingo Takagi vs Okada every time.

You can get handjobs whenever you like when single, just not from someone else.

People don't seem to realise that WWE is a much bigger, global promotion when compared to any other promotion. AEW are a long way off bringing in the same amount of money.

Never tried that one but I remember before Guy Fawkes day making a guy and wheel it around shouting "Penny for the guy", get the dosh then bloody burn him on a bonfire

Did you ever used to make your own go-karts out of wood? Rope tied to front wheels to steer and pram wheels used for wheels.