We live in the real world, not the virtual world, we don’t have phones or tablets, we don’t know Minecraft, Spider-Man or YouTube. We spent days flying outside, climbing fences, and licking the vitality from the palms of our hands. We grow up in a time full of restrictions and lack of freedom, but somehow we don’t realize it at all. At school, teachers calmly spanked us for disrupting class, we didn’t even dream of a vacation in Italy or the Caribbean, and whoever had “mouldy” jeans and a cassette player called “twin” was the king. Go back a few decades with us!
Growing up under totalitarianism
Plus, do you sometimes think, when you see your kids glued to their computer monitor or phone screen, how do we actually have fun as children or teenagers even in times of profound totality? On years without ubiquitous electronics Many of us, witnesses, may often feel nostalgic. He had something up his sleeve.
We are kids living in the present, our lives are not influenced by popular YouTubers, and instead of playing online games on Playstation or Xbox, we play on bleeding knees, we jumped rubberwe arrange Rubik’s Cube or they just sit in the park after school on a bench or on a fence somewhere with their group and TALK!
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Favorite reading? Quick Arrow and Four Leaf Clover
A friend is someone we know closely, sits on the same bench with and tells our biggest secrets to, not an anonymous individual hiding under a Facebook icon. We read under the covers Rapid arrows and other foglar weapons, they collect notebook with Four Leaf Clover and several trained mass compositions to the Spartakiad (the last monumental sports parade took place in Strahov Prague in 1985).
Bloody Knees, Sugar, Coffee, Lemonade and other popular games
The venue is small, a group of a few friends is enough, and entertainment for the rest of the afternoon is usually taken care of. And world, be amazed, for the most part this is a game full of movement. The natural one, which today’s children so lack. We jump over the rubber, skip the jump rope or shot put, we organize dodgeball and badminton tournaments… Among the legendary games, for example, game Sugar, coffee, lemonade. Do you remember?
By calculation, a summoner is selected who stands with his back to the others. All players line up on a predetermined line and the caller begins to chant: “Sugar, coffee, lemonade, tea, rum, boom!” He chose his own speed of recitation, gradually he could easily speed it up. The players must run as fast as possible against the wall while singing. At the moment the rhyme ends, the caller quickly switches to another player, they at that moment must be “petrified” in place. Anyone who moves will be sent back to the starting line.
That match was also memorable Bloody knees. Do you still remember the rules? From the group of children, two people were selected who were bloodied knees and mothers. The bleeding knee hides, and the mother arranges with him in advance when he will wake up – that is, he will reappear. The rest of the players stand in a circle and hold hands, walk around and say together: “The first hour is on, the light is still on, the second hour is on, the light is still on…” When the time came for the knees to bleed and the mother to agree, they shouted together: “And the lights went out!” Bloody Knee jumped out of cover and chased another player. Whoever gets caught will get a bloody knee in the next round. This game is also a classic game Darling, wake up!
A little is enough for us and we are also happy with the gum wrapper
The generation of children who grew up in the 1980s were not as demanding as today’s schoolchildren and teenagers. There are no Nintendos, Legos, interactive robots, remote control RC models, or huge collections of Barbie dolls in giant houses. As soon as we got home from school, we threw our briefcases in the corner and flew again. We are with friends they exchange tic-tac-toes, play pex, and, friends, don’t be upset, collect gum wrappers or cans of “western lemonade”, they were solving a Rubik’s cube.
Boys are usually owned by a British couple and Merkur kits, Talking dolls called “walkers” and baby dolls with soft bellies that could be bottle-fed and could even pee in diapers were a hit among girls. The “pinnacle of high technology” is electricity Racing track and to anyone who has at least one monkey from Tuzex, we are very jealous.
The ultimate fashion convenience: gaiters and whistles
Today’s children, who are basically used to wearing branded and trendy clothes and models with patches or pictures of their favorite heroes, might be very surprised to see the creations of what their parents and grandparents consider the most top fashion. Some successful retro fashions cannot be forgotten. Maybe active rubber snowmanthat you can’t get out of (you need the help of at least one other person who actually pulls you out by force), a biting turtleneck sweater, crazy leggings rolled up at the ankles, or brown cotton tights. When you wet them outside in the winter, they stretch so much that you usually drag them behind you like “loaf”.
What’s legendary is of course the jeans.”mold”. Everyone has to have one at one time or another. And those who cannot afford it, or whose parents refuse to buy it, use the “homemade” method. He took sapo or other bleach and sprayed it on the jeans he was wearing. And you remember the iconic ones ski “cleats”? As mandatory ski training in seventh grade approached, I threatened my parents that I wouldn’t go anywhere without them.
It was also an integral part of the fashion trends of the late 80s canal, ideally in a very bold color. Those that are not imported from abroad are already sewn. We must not forget the very popular one a few days ago animal pattern (they look best with tight t-shirts and dresses or leggings) and accessories. Women and girls cannot live without it big plastic ear studscombined with a large plastic bracelet.
No YouTube or Xbox, TV can do it
Instead of the internet and game consoles, only television is available for entertainment. Specifically, two Czechoslovak Television programs, that was enough. And I think that’s enough. I love Slovak Mondays, I enjoy films in Slovak, I don’t even know why anymore. My parents and I can also watch at night The video stops. If I were to name a legend of eighties television entertainment, I think every observer would agree with me when I do Ambulance series, Hospital in the suburbs, Boys and guys or Big Saddle.
Sunday morning belongs to the kids – Studio friends in snow boots and Muf few people miss it. Glued to the screen, we devoured Maya the Bee, Smurf, Arabella, Smurf, Sandokana or draw A hamster in a nightgown and We from the end of the world. Wednesday afternoons are part of the children’s program Vega (since 1987), returns on Thursdays Magician (since 1984) with a ball like a kangaroo Skippy, Goro’s dog or Charifuk wizard.
Pens, klovatina, modurit, and other school supplies
Do you remember when a class usually had 35 children, there were no teacher’s assistants, textbooks and notebooks were given to schoolchildren for free, and chalk was written on the blackboard?
All equipment is the same for all children, and the selection of different colors, motifs and patterns today can only be dreamed of. OK, you’ll remember klovatinu, versatile (from which effective “flutters” can be easily made), plastic book stands that keep falling off magnetic pencil holder or active blue sports shorts? Which legendary school supplies are not lost in a socialist bag? For example: pens, fruit-scented erasersnotebook with a drink holder inside, modite material, sheet with cut out letters, white adhesive paste…
We carried lunch tickets to the school cafeteria (torn daily from the sheets for a whole month) in a small leather pocket on a string around our necks, and at recess we sampled each other’s colors. vitacite or desis, which is poured from the bag directly into the palm of the hand. For pocket money, my friends and I usually go shopping at the shop next to the school nougat and peanut deliciousness. Zora chocolate bars are wrapped in yellow paper, and they are the perfect treat. I’ll tell you where the nutella is dug up… This mass full of all sorts of impossible “e’s” and cheap solid fats remains a nostalgic memory to this day. This is of course not accepted by today’s nutritionists, but we all love it.
Compulsory parts of school education are i defensive drills, in which we prepare for the possible outbreak of a third world war. Usually they go somewhere, all equipped with backpacks, raincoats, plastic bags for hands and feet, and of course gas masks (some sometimes vomit). Dressed like this, we run through the forest or meadow and practice wearing personal protective equipment against radiation. These exercises enriched me with some knowledge that is still in my head to this day, such as the fact that when an atomic explosion occurs, I should lie on the ground with my head away from the center of the explosion.
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