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Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song  .
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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A packet of Pacers (a stripy, minty version of an Opal Fruit chewy sweet). |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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I remember doing that.
And I'll add taking the video tape out the VCR and finding its wrapped it self around the spools.
And it probably had the latest Red Triangle CH4 film on it as well  |
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...what all the clubs in town used to be called before they were called what they're called today  |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am |
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Filling the football pools coupon in on a thursday night before the pools man came round. |
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"...what all the clubs in town used to be called before they were called what they're called today "
What clubs used to be there but are now supermarkets  |
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Television programmes stopping in the evening (about 11pm?), then the picture of the girl with the chalk and blackboard. Or maybe you wouldn’t even remember that? |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am"
I remember when there were only 3 TV channels  |
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over a year ago
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The priest coming on a house visit, and having to turn the Tv off, Just why. |
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Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!! |
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over a year ago
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am
I remember when there were only 3 TV channels "
Exactly. And you had to put up with the test card during the day to on the Beeb |
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over a year ago
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Betamax |
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The horrid noise of dial-up Internet connecting |
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Record players that allowed you to stack 7’’ singles |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am
I remember when there were only 3 TV channels "
Me too |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am"
There were 3 and they packed up around midnight! |
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The Rotary dial telephone
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7 drrrrr |
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By *B69Woman
over a year ago
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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A packet of Pacers (a stripy, minty version of an Opal Fruit chewy sweet)."
Used to love those
Swap shop on a Saturday morning
Crisps where you had the little sachet of salt to add
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over a year ago
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"Betamax"
And the remote control for the player was on a wire  |
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"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!"
Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!... |
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Eight track cartridge player in the car. |
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over a year ago
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Not being allowed to watch Tiswas because it was on ITV (BBC all the time in my house) 
and when kids TV presenters were all abusers |
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not having to wear a seatbelt
shops not opening on a Sunday
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Nothing being open on a Sunday. Much like Wakes now ') |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am
I remember when there were only 3 TV channels "
That beeping noise that used to play when the broadcast finished though
With the girl and the doll.
That was just weird.
Ahhh
Thems were the days |
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Paying for the phone bill by buying stamps |
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"not having to wear a seatbelt
shops not opening on a Sunday
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+ early closing on Thursday afternoons |
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It wasn't that long ago that one of my favourite songs came on and I was this close to shouting "mum I need a tape this is my favourite song!"
... Then I remembered that it was 20 years later, I was in a gym on literally the other side of the world, and given the time Mum was almost certainly asleep  |
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"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!
Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!..."
I can add waiting for the game to load with that screeching noise and then failing at the last minute and having to fiddle with the volume on the cassette player. I had a ZX Spectrum 48 by the way. |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
Using teletext... For a TV guide, to find a holiday, place a personal ad, get football gossip and league tables and best of all Bamboozle. |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am
I remember when there were only 3 TV channels
That beeping noise that used to play when the broadcast finished though
With the girl and the doll.
That was just weird.
Ahhh
Thems were the days "
I had quite a crush on that girl. |
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Taking pop bottles back for the deposit |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am
I remember when there were only 3 TV channels
Me too "
And the Queen then the little white dot.... Then the high pitched.. Buuuuuuuuuuu... Noise saying it was time to go to bed...
Watneys party 7
Babycham and pink lady...
Alias Smith and Jones and Black beauty... Magpie and horny hanley... Ohhh bananasplitz on a sat morning... |
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The Prestel service |
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"The Rotary dial telephone
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I still have one of those...mainly for aesthetic purposes, but it has been converted to work on modern phone lines. You get RSI trying to dial a mobile number though  |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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Are you kidding? I'm under 30 and I used to do that! |
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
Maldon and Peterborough |
When games consoles were black & white. |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!
Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!...
I can add waiting for the game to load with that screeching noise and then failing at the last minute and having to fiddle with the volume on the cassette player. I had a ZX Spectrum 48 by the way."
Sometimes you had to calibrate the joystick too before you could even play. You really had to graft for your enjoyment back then. |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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Are you kidding? I'm under 30 and I used to do that! "
Really ?? |
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Can you still get gold top milk? |
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over a year ago
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The Hammer Horror was followed by the National anthem. |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am
I remember when there were only 3 TV channels
That beeping noise that used to play when the broadcast finished though
With the girl and the doll.
That was just weird.
Ahhh
Thems were the days "
Woolworths pick n mix...
Lyons corner shops...
Porn with pubic hair...
H and E magazine |
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"The Rotary dial telephone
0 drrrrr
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7 drrrrr
I still have one of those...mainly for aesthetic purposes, but it has been converted to work on modern phone lines. You get RSI trying to dial a mobile number though "
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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago
Doire Theas |
Lucozade in a glass bottle  |
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The "Let's Pretend" caterpillar
Playing "on top of old smokey" on Major Morgan
Popples
Teddy Ruxpin |
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over a year ago
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"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!
Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!...
I can add waiting for the game to load with that screeching noise and then failing at the last minute and having to fiddle with the volume on the cassette player. I had a ZX Spectrum 48 by the way. Sometimes you had to calibrate the joystick too before you could even play. You really had to graft for your enjoyment back then. "
when computer games only cost a £1.99 and you still had enough left over for a bottle of pop
and half penny pieces |
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"Lucozade in a glass bottle "
and only when your poorly |
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"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!"
The tape running out before the game actually loaded... |
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"Lucozade in a glass bottle and only when your poorly "
Saturday grandstand with wrestling and mick mcmanus and les kellett...
Nationwide and Frank the snowman bough and the filthy bit of smut that was sue Lawley |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
Feeling up a girl's tits.
Green Shield stamp shops. I didn't really know what the deal was with those shops tbh.
Going to C&A and your mum makes you try on clothes. Sometimes we didn't even bother with the changing rooms lol. Or buying clothes from a market where you just had to sneakily try it on behind a rail of clothes. |
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Memorising your friends’ phone numbers.
Being able to dial someone in the same town with just 4 digits |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When Snickers were marathons
You had to use a rotary dial phone that sometimes had a lock on it if you used it too much |
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Led Zep's - Whole Lotta Love (of sorts) being the theme tune to Top of the Pops (iron Maiden insisting on playing live and not miming)
Barnby the Bear, Barbapapa, The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe (both on B&W) Marine Boy being my favourites on tv
Cow field football pitches on the TV - George Best could still dribble through
Marina in Stingray (what a babe)
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over a year ago
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Religiously watching Dallas on TV every week with all the family and secretly loving J.R. "Sue Ellen you tramp!" |
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Yes three tv channels and the girl with a chalk and blackboard and some kind of clowns face in the corner one of the programmes I used to watch and enjoy was the world about us on bbc 2 not just david attenborough being the narrator but others two It was not that many years into colour television and was quite pleaseing to see. |
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Collecting grolsh bottle tops for my shoes
Smash hits having the words to the songs and me exclaiming that they were wrong
X |
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Giving nan three rings to let her know I got home safe |
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The race to get the milk off the doorstep before the blue tits pecked through the lid to get the cream.
Plastic Thunderbirds characters in breakfast cereal.
Sticky tape over the hole in a cassette tape so you could reuse it.
Merit chemistry sets with ch3micals that we are no longer allowed to buy.
The girl with the clown testcard.
Channel 4 didn't exist.
Henry VIII's first marriage... |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Angus & Findhorn |
Fry's Five Centres |
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"it's your quiz inquisitor, Michael Miles" and the "yes, no interlude" |
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"Religiously watching Dallas on TV every week with all the family and secretly loving J.R. "Sue Ellen you tramp!""
Guilty  |
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TV presenters not shouting like idiots with enforced jollity.
Can you imagine Tony Hart or Johnny Morris raising their voices? Of course not |
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"Religiously watching Dallas on TV every week with all the family and secretly loving J.R. "Sue Ellen you tramp!"
Absolutely fancying the pants off of Victoria Principle!
Guilty "
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Saving up to buy the latest 7inch single or if it was a rarity a picture sleeve or if it were really special an imported 12 incher (steady on girls)...
The weekly update chart show on a Sunday..
Ohhhh radio Luxembourg under the covers and if your mum let you.... John peel... |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
Fiddling around with the tracking on the vcr
Recording in lp on a 240 min tape meant up to 8 hours of poor quality recordings would be available!
Figuring out how to set the timer to auto record itself often required a PhD and relied on an act of god to succeed. You'd be in the queue at the video shop wondering if the FA Cup game was being taped properly at home. Then you get home and rewind it, press play and realise you forgot to set the channel to ITV and instead you have recorded Jimll Fix It. |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am
I remember when there were only 3 TV channels "
I remember BBC1+2 PLUS ITV no channel4 or channel5 |
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Bread clips on you’re bmx and them old ring pulls on cans of pop |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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Top 40 on radio Luxemburg |
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"Lucozade in a glass bottle "
And with the gold coloured cellophane wrapping that used to make crinkly / rustling sound! |
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over a year ago
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Spangles sweets |
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The milk Advert
"Accrington stanley? who are they then" |
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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago
Doire Theas |
"Giving nan three rings to let her know I got home safe "
Aww we used to do this too |
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"Bread clips on you’re bmx and them old ring pulls on cans of pop "
I had a BMX Mongoose with bright yellow mag wheels... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"clackers"
Nearly broke my wrist with them |
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"Bread clips on you’re bmx and them old ring pulls on cans of pop
I had a BMX Mongoose with bright yellow mag wheels..."
I got my cousin’s grifter second hand but I loved it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The milk Advert
"Accrington stanley? who are they then""
That young lad is now in brassic and was in trollied |
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The exorcist being banned....
God save the Queen being banned...
Mary Whitehouse making sure we were all wholesome... (imagine what she'd make of this website!)
Ladybird books...
Cor! Comic...
Libraries to actually borrow books... And actually reading actual books with pages in.. |
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"The milk Advert
"Accrington stanley? who are they then"
That young lad is now in brassic and was in trollied"
That was stevie Gerrard wasn't it! |
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By *Wman15Man
over a year ago
Mansfield |
Not having a full week at school as a result of power cuts caused by (yet another) miners' strike |
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over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to dream in black and white because there were no colour TVs. I listened to the wireless, played 78s on a gramophone and wore plimsoles for PE. |
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By *ananas57Couple
over a year ago
lake ariel |
Taking camera film to be developed |
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Getting up to turn the television over or if you were posh you had a wired box normally fitted to the windowsill you could use |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Decent sized wagon wheels and quality curly whirlies. |
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Button moon
Kwik save
The clangers |
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"Led Zep's - Whole Lotta Love (of sorts) being the theme tune to Top of the Pops (iron Maiden insisting on playing live and not miming)
Barnby the Bear, Barbapapa, The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe (both on B&W) Marine Boy being my favourites on tv
Cow field football pitches on the TV - George Best could still dribble through
Marina in Stingray (what a babe)
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I had a light sky blue water pistol modeled on stingray it was the best water pistol I ever had lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The milk Advert
"Accrington stanley? who are they then"
That young lad is now in brassic and was in trollied
That was stevie Gerrard wasn't it! "
His name is Carl rice |
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"The milk Advert
"Accrington stanley? who are they then"
That young lad is now in brassic and was in trollied
That was stevie Gerrard wasn't it!
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eeeeeeeeeeh it does sound like him |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Paying for the phone bill by buying stamps"
Going to the electric shop to pay for the electric bill. Same for gas bill at gas shop. |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
Climbing frames where you were convinced you were gonna die.
Dogs with rabies chasing you in the park. Dobermans and rottweilers were more common back then lol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"not having to wear a seatbelt
shops not opening on a Sunday
+ early closing on Thursday afternoons "
Wednesdays here. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Lucozade in a glass bottle "
Wrapped in orange cellophane and sold as a remedy when you were ill not as a multi-purpose sports/energy drink |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!
Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!...
I can add waiting for the game to load with that screeching noise and then failing at the last minute and having to fiddle with the volume on the cassette player. I had a ZX Spectrum 48 by the way."
Games before these, the old tennis (2 player), squash (1 player). Two bat sizes, two speeds ?? |
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"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .
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Doing the same on a reel to reel before the cassette was invented |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Taking pop bottles back for the deposit"
Corona |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Landline phones with rotary dials and phone keylocks. "hacking" them by repeatingly pressing / releasing the switch-hook to call your girlfriend / boyfriend.
Hiding under the bed when the phone bill arrived !! |
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"Button moon
Kwik save
The clangers"
I fucking loved Button Moon |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
Smoking wherever the fuck you like. McDonald's ashtrays, airplane ashtrays, cigarette vending machines. Being asked if you wanted to be seated in the smoking or non smoking area. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Did anybody use old TV screens as a sledge? |
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"Taking pop bottles back for the deposit
Corona "
Haha oh yeah |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Using a pencil with an audio cassette tape to wind it on
When a "playlist" was called a "mix tape" and usually ruined when the tape ran out 30 seconds before the end of the song
Watch/Listen With Mother was what passed for CeeBeebies
Soaps were on one night a week and there were only two of them
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"Smoking wherever the fuck you like. McDonald's ashtrays, airplane ashtrays, cigarette vending machines. Being asked if you wanted to be seated in the smoking or non smoking area. "
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"Button moon
Kwik save
The clangers
I fucking loved Button Moon "
My kids watch it along with trap door & rainbow |
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"Did anybody use old TV screens as a sledge? "
No but I used my Mums serving trays |
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"Button moon
Kwik save
The clangers
I fucking loved Button Moon
My kids watch it along with trap door & rainbow "
Rainbow  |
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"Paying for the phone bill by buying stamps
Going to the electric shop to pay for the electric bill. Same for gas bill at gas shop. "
You mean when you could actually go in and talk to someone face to face....
OK... High streets with the butcher, the baker, the tobacco shop, a record shop, a book shop, a wimpy, off licenses,the fish monger,... The bloody iron monger! And no charity shops..
Pubs without bouncers... Sit down space invader machines... Rum and black! Yuk
I remember going to see thin lizzy at the rainbow in London for 50p. |
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"Getting a colour portable tv"
My Mum got me one for my room when I was about 10 I think .
I thought I was the coolest kid |
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I remember getting our first colour TV, half the kids in the street were in our house watching it |
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I'm clearly old as ALL of the above I can recall....oh well I am obviously past it |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
Bobbies on the beat.
Kids playing in the street.
Children singing racist dittys. |
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"Getting a colour portable tv
My Mum got me one for my room when I was about 10 I think .
I thought I was the coolest kid "
You were lucky |
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"Getting a colour portable tv
My Mum got me one for my room when I was about 10 I think .
I thought I was the coolest kid
You were lucky "
I was just a spoilt brat |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not quite over 40 yet but yep remember doing this xx |
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over a year ago
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"The milk Advert
"Accrington stanley? who are they then""
Watch out, watch out there's a humphrey about |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
White dog shit on the pavement. Still get em now, just rarer lol. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Green Shield Stamps
Sweets sold as cigarette imitations
Figurine Panini stickers (got, got, got, got, swap, got, got)
Music centres the size of a house
K-Tel and Ronco
When the only home deliveries you got were milk, newspapers and the post
When dustmen used to collect your bins from the side of the house AND put them back again |
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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago
Doire Theas |
"Tooth gems
You aren’t old enough to reminisce "
Oh shush you |
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over a year ago
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The Oz blasphemy trials. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hiding under the bed when the phone bill arrived !!"
I did that after racking up a bill on a MUD using the Prestel service - online addiction is nothing new |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
That sugary, grindy feeling you get after drinking Panda Pop and your whole mouth has turned colour. |
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"Tooth gems
You aren’t old enough to reminisce
Oh shush you "
Irish ****  |
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over a year ago
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"I used to dream in black and white because there were no colour TVs. I listened to the wireless, played 78s on a gramophone and wore plimsoles for PE."
We were one of the last to get colour TV in our neighbourhood. I was 15. It was because an old lady gave us one. No more b+w TV rental |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jim "fixing" it  |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Victor
Warlord
Shoot
Look & Learn
The Dandy
Whizzer & Chips
Commando
Bunty
Jackie
Just Seventeen
Smash Hits
Record Mirror
Melody Maker
Sounds
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By *urflrCouple
over a year ago
wirral |
"Taking camera film to be developed "
Then waiting a week for it to be ready and finding half the photos hadn’t taken properly |
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"The race to get the milk off the doorstep before the blue tits pecked through the lid to get the cream.
Plastic Thunderbirds characters in breakfast cereal.
Sticky tape over the hole in a cassette tape so you could reuse it.
Merit chemistry sets with ch3micals that we are no longer allowed to buy.
The girl with the clown testcard.
Channel 4 didn't exist.
Henry VIII's first marriage... "
Yes I,m sure I had a Merit Microscope with glass slides with samples on and test tubes and tweezer plus some extra microscopiic glass slides all in their own box from the 1960,s |
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When it was 12 and a half pence for a pint of bitter, and you bought petrol in gallons |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"The Rotary dial telephone
0 drrrrr
7 drrrrr
7 drrrrr
I still have one of those...mainly for aesthetic purposes, but it has been converted to work on modern phone lines. You get RSI trying to dial a mobile number though "
I remember learning to tap out numbers to get around parents phone dial locks so we could use the internet before the World Wide Web existed ! It was a bit like FAB, bunch of 10 year old boys looking for sex on the internet |
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Eastenders starting
Watching albion Market |
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When footballers just wore black boots |
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There used to be a biscuity type snack that you could get and when you rubbed the wrapper on your skin it would leave gold,sparkly shimmer.
Used to love getting them in my lunchbox at school,no idea what they were though |
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having respect for your parents |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When there was only one Star Wars film and it was brilliant. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Paying on the gate at football and it costing less than a pound to get in
Standing on the terraces
FA Cup draws being made on the radio on a Monday lunchtime
Gigs costing less than a fiver
Waiting for the Top 40 to be announced on Radio 1 on a weekday lunchtime
Fred Perry's and Ben Sherman's not costing an arm and a leg
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over a year ago
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"Paying for the phone bill by buying stamps
Going to the electric shop to pay for the electric bill. Same for gas bill at gas shop.
You mean when you could actually go in and talk to someone face to face....
OK... High streets with the butcher, the baker, the tobacco shop, a record shop, a book shop, a wimpy, off licenses,the fish monger,... The bloody iron monger! And no charity shops..
Pubs without bouncers... Sit down space invader machines... Rum and black! Yuk
I remember going to see thin lizzy at the rainbow in London for 50p. "
I remember when slot machines relied on skill regarding timing (increase nudges and increase prize money) |
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Thinking I was cool walking down the road with a walkman ... |
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I remember staying up late to watch prisoner cell block H I say late I don't know what time it was on but it felt like the middle of the night |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"When footballers just wore black boots "
And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Rotary dial telephone
0 drrrrr
7 drrrrr
7 drrrrr
I still have one of those...mainly for aesthetic purposes, but it has been converted to work on modern phone lines. You get RSI trying to dial a mobile number though
I remember learning to tap out numbers to get around parents phone dial locks so we could use the internet before the World Wide Web existed ! It was a bit like FAB, bunch of 10 year old boys looking for sex on the internet "
I even did gender swapping on a text only multiuser adventure game |
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Pinky & Perky
Bay City Rollers |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jim "fixing" it "
I wrote up to that show - thank fuck my want was not doable |
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"When footballers just wore black boots
And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back "
and very short shorts |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Thinking I was cool walking down the road with a walkman ..."
Haha, and being teased by other kids, because your cheap walkman looked like a "life support machine" ...
Honorary mention goes to Huge BoomBoxes too! |
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"Pinky & Perky
Bay City Rollers "
Not chimney sweeps dancing on a Landaaaan roof then |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Victor
Warlord
Shoot
Look & Learn
The Dandy
Whizzer & Chips
Commando
Bunty
Jackie
Just Seventeen
Smash Hits
Record Mirror
Melody Maker
Sounds
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Bunty comics and the Christmas annuals |
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By *Wman15Man
over a year ago
Mansfield |
British Leyland
The original Mini
Actually being able to rent a council house
Scots voting for Labour
Vesta Chinese meals
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Captain Pugwash
Ivor The Engine
Noggin The Nog
The Clangers
The Woodentops
Mary, Mungo & Midge
Bod
Chigley
Trumpton
Camberwick Green
Joe 90
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet |
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Did anyone else ever have the broken biscuit van or the rent a video guy come round ?? |
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"When footballers just wore black boots
And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back
and very short shorts "
and thighs like tree trunks |
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Playing conkers was deemed dangerous
Swings could up and over the bar
Pubs closed on Sunday between 14.00-17.00 |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"When footballers just wore black boots
And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back
and very short shorts "
Trust you |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jim "fixing" it
I wrote up to that show - thank fuck my want was not doable "
Snap |
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over a year ago
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For me...
Doing the football rounds. My mum used to do it as a job when I was 2/3, I remember she used to stick me in the car and bring me with her.
Being able to hire computer games from the video shop. It was at that time my mum used to but screwballs and I had to give mine back to her when I got down to the bubble gum.
Having your TV retuned to get Channel 5. Big excitment on that day. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Okay, so if there was any doubt before, this thread seals the deal....
I’m old |
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"Landline phones with rotary dials and phone keylocks. "hacking" them by repeatingly pressing / releasing the switch-hook to call your girlfriend / boyfriend.
Hiding under the bed when the phone bill arrived !!"
Waiting for you neighbour to get off the phone cos you had a party line  |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Playing conkers was deemed dangerous
Swings could up and over the bar
Pubs closed on Sunday between 14.00-17.00"
Didn't pubs close every day between those times and then only stayed open till 23.00 (or 22.30 on a Sunday)? |
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"Did anyone else ever have the broken biscuit van or the rent a video guy come round ??"
Didn’t have a van, but going to Wembley market before returning to school to buy bags of broken biscuits for 20p.
We had a fish & chip van and a grocery store van ... when lived in Dorset
Having a burger was a treat and a sit down meal at Wimpy |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
Using Yellow Pages and the Phone Book.
Getting smacked by your mum and dad.
Not having a delete button on a typewriter or old word processor.
Luncheon vouchers.
Being bored as fuck stuck at your nan's while your parents left you there and all your nan did was go to bed at 6pm and all you had for entertainment was an Argos or Index catalogue. If you were lucky you may get a Kays or Freeman's catalogue with a lingerie section. |
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By *r.HMan
over a year ago
A gentleman never tells |
Words and pictures TV show with the magic pencil, oh the memories |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
When "pub food" consisted of a mouldy sandwich or a pickled egg or crisps/nuts....or roast potatoes on the bar on a Sunday |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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And Sesame Street actually being on Channel 4, in the morning and at noon. |
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Putting 10p in the back of the TV as it was hired |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"For me...
Doing the football rounds. My mum used to do it as a job when I was 2/3, I remember she used to stick me in the car and bring me with her.
Being able to hire computer games from the video shop. It was at that time my mum used to but screwballs and I had to give mine back to her when I got down to the bubble gum.
Having your TV retuned to get Channel 5. Big excitment on that day. "
Oh I remember screwball, I wasn't allowed the bubblegum but my older sister was. I loved witches hats (ice cream with a lolly plonked into the ice cream). |
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"Playing conkers was deemed dangerous
Swings could up and over the bar
Pubs closed on Sunday between 14.00-17.00
Didn't pubs close every day between those times and then only stayed open till 23.00 (or 22.30 on a Sunday)?"
I can only remember Sunday and the landlord kicking us out with ‘go home and eat’. Other days I was working. As for closing no idea, our landlord never rang a bell, just locked the doors.... home time was when he has had enough |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Putting 10p in the back of the TV as it was hired "
I swear down my mum's used 50ps. |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
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Having a burger was a treat and a sit down meal at Wimpy "
Wimpy with their circular sausages with a tomato in the middle.
The Golden Egg |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Using Yellow Pages and the Phone Book.
Getting smacked by your mum and dad.
Not having a delete button on a typewriter or old word processor.
Luncheon vouchers.
Being bored as fuck stuck at your nan's while your parents left you there and all your nan did was go to bed at 6pm and all you had for entertainment was an Argos or Index catalogue. If you were lucky you may get a Kays or Freeman's catalogue with a lingerie section. "
My mum had a Great Universal catalogue, and now my wobbly brain wants to call universal credit by its name haha. |
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"When footballers just wore black boots
And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back "
Thats right not tied into sponsorship deals of any kind how its changed It also felt like it was just about the club itself you were watching better to listen now on radio which I do now anyway. |
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