Dad advice sharing thread.
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@Bones said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Virgil aren't we about the same age? Maybe it was losing to the mighty Eastbourne that made you hate it.
Probably was, I was living in Upper Hutt as a kid, anyone south was an enemy. ( Lower Hutt, Perone etc)
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@Bones said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Virgil I spent many a spell in Wallaceville. That BMX track down by the river was the best in Welly too.
Loved the Hutt, lived there till I was 16. Parents owned a dairy, best years of my life growing up. Free junk food and the pretty fellow teenage girls working behind the counter with you while your mates looked on with envy
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@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
Poofter.
I blame the lack of male role model parent.
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@booboo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
Poofter.
I blame the lack of male role model parent.
Apparently the kid was originally into rugby, then he busted into his dads bedroom one evening and now he's into soccer... Weird.
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@voodoo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@booboo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@mariner4life said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
boys have been back at soccer for about a month? and because it's outside we do get to watch.
Eldest is in his first year of competitive. Loving the challenge.
Youngest has been bumped to the age group above him, and he fucking loves it. Bigger field, more structure. I wish he played rugby though...
Poofter.
I blame the lack of male role model parent.
Apparently the kid was originally into rugby, then he busted into his dads bedroom one evening and now he's into soccer... Weird.
My pa did used to call Soccer "Kiss and Cuddle"....
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@raznomore said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Virgil nice which one?
Can’t remember the name just that it was on the main drag before Upper Hutt, maybe Silverstream?
That would have been around 85 - 87 -
@voodoo said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@Virgil my kids don't believe me when I tell them that some lollies used to be 5 for 1c...
Had similar disbelief with mine. Was telling them how when they phased out the 1c and 2c coins that my local diary started offering some lollies at 20 for 5cents!
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@voodoo True story. On my tenth birthday I bought 50 cents worth of mixed lollies on the way to school, it was a big fuckoff bag of all sorts of the bastards. Heaven. When I turned around from the counter in the dairy I bumped (literally) into Miss Everett the school dental nurse. She says "I hope you're not going to eat all those yourself". Ha ha. Sure as eggs later that day I got the call to attend the murder house where she drilled out half of one of my molars and put in a shit filling that still gives me grief to this day. So for my tenth birthday I got a pointless filling. Miss Everett, if you're reading you are a malicious old bag.
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@taniwharugby Raumanga intermediate. The Otaika Dairy had an awesome lolly selection back then.
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@taniwharugby The murder house was by the playground facing towards Murdoch Crescent.
I’m gonna show my age now and say that before Tip Top sold Popsicles, Walls sold Crazy Joes. When Popsicles came out Walls dropped the price to 4 cents and Tip Top matched the price. What a time to be alive!
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@JC said in Dad advice sharing thread.:
@taniwharugby The murder house was by the playground facing towards Murdoch Crescent.
I’m gonna show my age now and say that before Tip Top sold Popsicles, Walls sold Crazy Joes. When Popsicles came out Walls dropped the price to 4 cents and Tip Top matched the price. What a time to be alive!
God I'm old