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General => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: Zaf on October 14, 2011, 01:06:59 PM
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Sweets, toys, clothes from your childhood?
Aztec bars, I havent seen any for years and I used to love them
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i always remember my tonka truck..... not the crappy plastic ones you get now, it was big heavy and metal, it was indestructable :)
oh and teenage mutant HERO turtles, i liked them more before they were ninja's :D
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I remember my strawberry shortcake dolls & care bears. I remember going to the cinema to see care bears the movie.
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I remember strawberry shortcake and care bears. I had a a green care bear but I preferred my little ponys. I remember these chewy spearmint sweets that were out in the 80s and I loved them. They were green and white stripes. Hardly anyone remembers them
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i remeber when i was 5 my mum put a champagne cork on my pillow and tried to convince me my ear Gromit had fallen out. I remember when i was very little my gradad sittign on an ox blood coloured leather chair that smelt very stongly of leather, he had his feet up and had a gruff voice. I told him off for not pronouncing the "T" in water.
I remember when i discovered the tooth fairy wasnt real when i found all my teeth wrapped up in my mums jewerly box.
I remeber having a doll called fish fingers and a bear called peas.
I remeber the first time i saw my dad cry, and freddos costing 2p.
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Does anyone remember this choc mint bar...it was sort of crackly mint inside...hard and flaky///must have been in the 70s and they prob stopped making it because someone poked an eye out with it! I also remember Creamola foam.
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I remeber mint kendal cake, is that what you mean?
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Nope not mint kendal cake...this had a green mint filling choc outside maybe the size of a small dairy milk bar...flat like that...
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I remember that too but cant for the life of me think what it was called
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The mint stuff was flaky right?
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Does anyone remember this choc mint bar...it was sort of crackly mint inside...hard and flaky///must have been in the 70s and they prob stopped making it because someone poked an eye out with it! I also remember Creamola foam.
Was it frys peppermint cream? google images.
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I remember strawberry shortcake and care bears. I had a a green care bear but I preferred my little ponys. I remember these chewy spearmint sweets that were out in the 80s and I loved them. They were green and white stripes. Hardly anyone remembers them
were they pacers? google images for them
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I thought about this a year or so ago and wrote one of my many poetic posts lol: ( Written in local dialect in places but you should get the gist)
When I was a kid
Ar wos born in 1971 amidst right dodgy fashion,
I missed out on the flower power
and all of that free passion
but I spent me days just loffin and playing wi me toy's,
a life of fun I had, just me an me boy's.
I'd listen to me music, Blondie, Madness and the Who,
there were massive bands in them day's, them a just a few.
We'd climb trees up to the sky, dig holes deep as the sea,
we'd mek our camps to hide inside to see what we could see.
We'd ava game of army, with a stick used for a gun,
folk would think we barmy but it was always loads of fun.
we'd meet at half eight in the morning
and stay out all the day,
it was safe back then, no warnings
onny "be um for youwer tay".
Me action mon, me richochet gun,
me trusty Raleigh Chopper,
Me dominoes, me colouring books,
me bouncy space hopper.
Me stickle bricks, me leggo blocks
me Atari console game,
me meccano set,me dartboard,
too many toys to name.
The red hand gang, The disney club,
and good old scooby doo,
Starskey and hutch, the professionals
( I day like Dr Who).
Opportunity knocks, variety shows,
the minstrals, bless this house,
love thy neighbour, Alf garnett,
wotsitfingerbob the mouse?
Friday nights tay from the chip shop,
was a regular little treat,
Saturday nights down the labour club,
in the kids room yow couldn't beat.
Pop and crisp's and a game of pool
doin' what you wanted to,
me old man with his pint of mild,
well pint , he'd have a few.
I survived the 70's and 80's
and that newromantic stuff,
I remember gettin' me pixie boots
and me dad callin me a puff.
Flock of seagulls dad i'd say, as he just shook his head,
"Flock of seagulls son, you'm jokin,
looks like yower saygulls jed"
The 80's bought the music and bands such as Wham!
I would sing around the house, me old man wore no fan,
"whats all that noise you'm mekking?"
"What yow a squalin' fower?"
"I'm singin dad"..... "youwm singin?"
"like a ruddy glead under a door".
Then there was the fashion when I wore lemon and pink,
I cud hear the cogs a ternin' I knew what he would think,
That chap ay right mum i'd here him say, he's dressed up like ponce.
But I'd loff at him and do me hair and tap him on the bonce.
I spent me childhood loffin' at evrything I did,
Now i'm a mon i'm loffin still just like when ar wossa kid.
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thats brilliant Pete, when you feel up to it I'd love to see some more of your poetry :)
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Nope not frys or pacers...it was a bar of chocolate with flaky hard crunchy green peppermint filling...very crunchy.
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I remember them well - apart from the name ::)
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Pete
Loved your poem
So much came back to me,re climbing trees, camps in the woods,playing cowboys and Indians and out for hours. Special fish and chip dinner on Saturdays, my brother loved leggo and meccano,I remember the chopper I had too!
Good days. Brilliant poem
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I told him off for not pronouncing the "T" in water.
ummm actually the T in water is silent :P
i cant actually think of anything that you cant get anymore, then again i can barely remember yesterday ::)
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I remember when Walkers crisps, Cheese and Onion and Salt and Vinegar was the vice versa colour. I used to love red and black bars (I dreamt about them last night... not good! Cant find them anywhere) I remember count duckula! I miss that show so much lol ::) I remember when my little ponies didn't look like aliens and Polly Pocket was tiny! And Sindy dolls, with their flat feet. O how I miss being a kid! I loved Secret bars as well. They were awesome!
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Nope not frys or pacers...it was a bar of chocolate with flaky hard crunchy green peppermint filling...very crunchy.
MINT CRACKNEL I LOVED IT. ALSO LOVED PACERS. GALAXY COUNTERS TOO YUMYUM THEY WERE IN A WEE WHITE BAG WITH A CAMEL ON THE FRONT ;D
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Brilliant, thats what they were called!
Does anyone remember those flying saucer things? They sort of dissolved in your mouth and there was sherbert (or similar) inside?
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yeh you can still buy them. chelsea whoppers and mb bars too. i LUV chocolate lol
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space dust mmm
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those sweet bananas and prawns, we can get the prawns locally but not the bananas, I used to love them
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Brilliant, thats what they were called!
Does anyone remember those flying saucer things? They sort of dissolved in your mouth and there was sherbert (or similar) inside?
a bad of those wont even last a 10 minuet drive home from the shop i pass daily that sells them
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I loved Secret bars as well. They were awesome!
Hardly anyone remembers Secret bars!! I wish... wish wish wish!!! they would bring them back, they were possibly the best chocolate bar ever!
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Secret bar rings a bell......what was in it? Intrigued now lol
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I havent seen them for years cornish, I loved letting the outer shell sort of melt in my mouth to get to the sherbert :)
I dont remember secret bars at all, time to go google!
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They were like a mallow filling in thick birds nest chcolate - they were always a little more expensive than the other bars *&^
(http://www.bringitback.com/inc/view.php?id=54&thumb=216)
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Cant remember ever seeing one
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Yep I remember those now :) mmmmm yum :)
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
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Well.... I'm a girl. I confess it was a pair of shoes! They were sort of petrol blue/grey shiny leather and I loved them,
I still have most if not all of my teddy bears so kinda hard to forget them!
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Penny mojo's lol I remember I used to go in ask how much the penny mojo's were! :-\ or were they half a penny? Showing my age now... ::)
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Pete, just read your poem and have to say I really enjoyed it!
Here's something along the same 'nostalgia path' which I submitted in my creative writing degree portfolio last year:
Adolescence
Grey offices, wooden shelters,
rotten signs, the 74 bus,
the music hall, the gothic club,
they were all the making of us.
Shiny records, broken tapes,
The Cure, Duran Duran,
a game of football in the road,
kids playing kick the can.
Acne cream, homework logs,
Girls with love bites on their necks
from kisses behind the sheds,
teenage kicks, first time sex.
Falklands War, Maggie Thatcher,
all the things we were against,
loss of jobs, closing pits,
the strikers became our saints.
But we all grew up and changed,
without any knowledge put to use,
and we all reminisce on those
forgotten days of our youth.
I didn't grow up in the 80s- was born mid-november '89-but for some reason I've got an obsession with it!
Things I remember from the 90s though?
- The Oasis vs Blur debate
- Painting your front door/car red if you supported Man U or blue if you supported Everton
- Penguin bars with jokes
- When cheese and onion Golden Wonder packets were green and not blue (Smokey Beckham and Cheese & Owen Walker packets!)
- Spice Girls everywhere
- Pogs and trolls
I could spend a good few hours here...
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wasn't it called mint cracknell?
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I think it might have been :)
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- When cheese and onion Golden Wonder packets were green and not blue
Green made so much more sense...
White dog poo.
Buying computers but not knowing what the point in them was.
Using public telephones.
Making tapes of the top 40.
Power cuts.
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marathons and not snickers
opal fruits and not starbursts
mars bars with tearable wrappers
buying a 10p mix-up
my raleigh striker bike
paper chritmas decorations that would give hse a heart attack
christmas wrapping paper so thin you could tear it easily (maybe my mum was tight i don't know)
it's a knockout on the tv
artic roll
crispy pancakes
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I'm a nineties child through and through I remember
fresh prince of bell air
milky lunches/top tens
buffy the vampire slayer
the songs 'SUPERSTAR' and 'MANAIC'
TOP OF THE POPS
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Oh and CD:UK the early days for Ant and Dec
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I'm ancient so I remember old money and 4 a penny chews, blackjacks and I think fruit salad, and huge pink chews that cost 1d, marsbars were 7d and tins of coke 1/6d (about 7p I think)
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fruit salads were the bees knees
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;D I loved flying saucers too :)
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I loved Dip Dabs, a red lolly with lovely yellow sugar stuff to dip it in ()_.
S x x x x
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I remember dib dabs mmm.. I used to love refreshers, they were too big for the mouth but they delicious.
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:D i must have had a big mouth as I dont remember having that trouble ;D
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Me neither ()_ I loved them.
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()_ i might have had a very small mouth
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:D
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That or Zaf and me have big ones (http://depressionforums.co.uk/dpf/mobiquo/emoji/E104.png)(http://depressionforums.co.uk/dpf/mobiquo/emoji/E405.png). S x x x x
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Stretch Armstrong
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Power cuts,
A tin bath in front of a fire,
The Rubettes,
Shawaddy waddy,
My dad raising more than his eyebrows at David Bowie,
Grandstand,
Three channels on tv.
Doctor Who, ( and William Hartnell) Just!
Thruppenny bits,Sixpences.
Sherbet in a paper bag,
Its a knock out.
Crisp butties and lemonade.
Sunday Best,
Day trips to the sea side.
Seaside Rock, Coach trips.
My Mums Rice pudding.
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Cooking toast and crumpets on a toasting fork in front of an open fire at my Grandads, and then putting dripping on it!!! And I have survived.
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I can just about remember William Hartnell as Dr Who
The old thruppence in the christmas pud then it went up to the old sixpence
The old sixpence left by the Tooth Fairy
Buying Black Jacks and Fruit Salad sweets - two for an old penny
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Toast and dripping, done on a fork!, wow, remember that, did you then cover it in salt, before you ate it ?, we did. =+-
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Gob-stoppers were huge balls that took up the whole inside of my mouth. Inside was chewing gum.
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Fizzy jerk sweets tasted like ice cream mmm
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Fish and chips in newspaper
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Proper string,in a ball. Brown Paper.
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The outdoor swimming pool. Where I spent all the summer holidays. S x x x x
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Six penneth of chips (old money) with crispy bits and (for the really ancient like me) biscuits in big tin boxes with glass lids in the grocery shop in front of the counter and the owner would get one out for me when I went in with my gran =+-
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Oh yes shaz, the outdoor swimming pool with the little hut type things to change in - and the stag beetles sometimes hiding in the corner of them ::)
Z xxx
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OMG yes. We had a little sweetie hut on the grass as well, and metal cages to put our clothes in and we had to hand them in and remember the number. Sadly there are houses built on the land where our pool was :(. S x x x x
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I remember the cages too, we usedtyo get a rubber band to slip over our foot onto our ankle with the number on _)_
Z xxxx
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We would spend all day there. Remember swimming in the rain it was lovely. S x x x x
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I dont think there are many outdoor pools these days :(
Z xxx
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No there isn't which is such a shame, the indoor pools are nice but they are not the same as you cannot spend the day there. We would take our packed lunch and eat it on the grass. S x x x x
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We did too, I can remember learning to swim in an outdoor pool _)_
Z xxxx
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I also remember doing my life saving in my pyjama's retrieving a brick from the bottom of the pool. S x x x x
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Omg yes, me too =+-
Z xxx
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There are a couple of outdoor pools in London, Lido's, I think they're called. I remember the metal cages and the colour rubber band. The siren would go off and a certain colour of light was displayed over the pool. In those days, when your colour came up, you promptly obeyed and left the pool area just in case the attendant gave you a clout round the ear
Ah.... such sweet memories
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I think some if them at least were called lido's, we really loved swimming in the local one in summer =+-
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Us too. Couldn't wait for it to open. S x x x x
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A bit too cold for my liking. The Lido in Tooting Bec, near me, is open early mornings during winter.
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We had two outdoor swimming pools near me one was a sea water pool as it was build right on the seafront and was freezing. The other was a heated pool and it always seemed to rain their. We used to go to stay at my aunts and she lived in a local town with the only indoor pool and on a sunday morning they put on the wave machine so there was the huge waves very exciting. The only thing is I never ever was able to learn to swim cause I hate getting my face wet, a shower sometimes makes me panic if I get too much water on my face, have to cover my face with my hands when rinsing hair. I used to love going to pools with Dad and had a rubber ring and arm bands a bit of a belt and braces type of girl. My problems got worse when I was about seve I was standing at pool waiting for dad to come out of changing room. Mum was sitting in spectator bit after having put me into pool are. Anyway this lout about 14 chucked me into pool at deep end. the pool attendanct had to jump in and get me out. By this time mum had jumped over barrier from spectators bit and had the lout and his dad both by back of necks banging their heads together. They were banned mum was sent back to spectator area and dad came along going whats happening lol he missed it all. I had to be taken to get and ice cream drink to cheer me up .
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Oh bless poor you. S x x x x
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Coal being delivered by the coal man who had a horse & cart. My parents house was heated by coal fires until they could afford to get central heating in and I remember stroking his horse as I love horses. It was the highlight of my week =+- .... I was easy to please as a child "!+
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Pip brought memories flooding back of the ''rag-man''. Arriving with a couple of horses pulling a very large trailer, piled high with rags, blowing his bugle and shouting ''any old rags''. In my early childhood, I was brought up in the infamous Easterhouse in Glasgow. I can assure you, the only rags we possessed were the ones on our backs!!
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Gosh, yes I remember the Rag and Bone man, not horses though just an old open truck, also remember the coalman, and of course the sweep who I was always terrified of because he was so grubby. Didn't have a boy to send up the chimney though, i'm not that old!
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Yes, I remember the coal man.... horse drawn, though. Later in life, we then got the 'ginger man'. In Glasgow a bottle of fizzy drink, like iron bru or orange.... didn't matter what flavour it is... we call it ginger.
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I remember as quite a young child the cigarette man coming. Not sure how it all worked but I know we had some kind of posh container for the ciggies. May be it worked out cheaper for the parents that way. Can still see that (sort of a gold bin I think) on top of the sideboard. And i also remember the Pop man, cream soda was my favorite. You used to get back pennies for the empties.
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I can remember scurrying around the coal shed, looking for empty bottles to take back to the 'Offie to get the money back for school trips, if yo hid enough you ended up with quite a haul.
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Lol I also remember the Corona man.
S x x x x
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One of the oddest things I remember is that my Grand-dad convinced me to sit on the loo facing the wall. He told me that that was the way cowboys did it! I've got photos of me wearing a cowboy hat (Not on the loo), so I suppose I was willing to do anything to be like the real cowboys. I remember cowboys names, but I'm not sure which TV series they came from Bronco Laine or Lane, and Cheyenne Bodie or Brody. Do these names ring any bells with anybody? Black and White TV, of course. I sort of remember the theme tune to Bronco Laine, so I suppose he must have had his own series.
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My Mum, now in her 80's always loved all the cowboy series and films but I dont remember that one. I would ask her but she will have forgotton bless. I remember Bonanza but think that was in colour so prob in the 70's. Followed by the High Chaperal. In those days you sat down as a familly to watch the box. Now I usually have one son on the X box, one on lap-top and poss me watching telly if I can find anything interesting. Usually end up reading or listening to music.