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The kids on here will never understand …
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over a year ago
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Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..
What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?
Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pulling their teeth out on a Texan bar  |
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"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..
What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?
Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …
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Oh yes! Many a Sunday untangling a tape with a pencil and trying to avoid the DJ |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Playing outside in the rain  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rewinding a cassette with a Bic biro. Yeah, remember Bic Biros. When we wrote stuff instead of typing it |
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The joy of purchasing a brand spanking new Sony Walkman and the flimsy metal headset breaking within five minutes  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The excitement of going to the video shop. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Finding copies of Mayfair and Penthouse hidden in the derelict cricket pavilion.....Not that it's ever happened to me of course  |
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Eating Ready Brek in the morning and becoming engulfed in a warm and glowing orange aura…. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Eating Ready Brek in the morning and becoming engulfed in a warm and glowing orange aura…."
It’s central heating for kids!  |
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Kids today will never understand how irresponsibly climbing pylons in order to retrieve one’s lost frisby can result in one’s bell-bottoms suddenly catching fire….. |
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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
Hull |
Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.
Join the Tufty Club
Get a little badge to wear. |
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"Playing outside in the rain "
playing outside full stop,
I need to nuke my2 off the couch. |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
We used to go on blind dates via cb radio and BT phone parties before the internet existed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Walking for 20 minutes to call for your mates only to find they’ve gone out rather than send a text |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We used to go on blind dates via cb radio and BT phone parties before the internet existed."
Eyeball we called it |
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By *edheadjMan
over a year ago
High Wycombe |
Ringing your mates house phone to see if they're in.
Ringing your house phone for three rings to let your parents know you're safe.
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"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.
Join the Tufty Club
Get a little badge to wear. "
The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion
…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was…. |
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By *r_PinkMan
over a year ago
london stratford |
finding porn magazines in your dads "private place!" |
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Having four tv channels to choose from, and it turning off at midnight Miss pc |
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.
Join the Tufty Club
Get a little badge to wear.
The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion
…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was…. "
'Lewk, oi ahrm yor faaathur"! |
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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago
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Kids today dont know what CDs are never mind cassettes
They won’t experience that thrill of collecting a packet of photos that have been developed and printed, most of which were blurry and had chopped the heads off the subject |
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Kids today don’t realise that we typically only had three miserly lives in which to complete the latest Arcade game (unless we had a shit ton of change to shove into the machine in a hurry!)
None of this infinite re-spawning for us! |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"We used to go on blind dates via cb radio and BT phone parties before the internet existed.
Eyeball we called it "
Yep, an eyeball, basically a social in a pub car park and if your lucky a blow job |
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"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.
Join the Tufty Club
Get a little badge to wear.
The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion
…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was….
'Lewk, oi ahrm yor faaathur"! "
 ‘Oo ahhh! Get me them there droids!’ |
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"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..
What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?
Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …
Oh yes! Many a Sunday untangling a tape with a pencil and trying to avoid the DJ"
Haha This x |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
Kids today would never understand that the size of sweets and chocolates were never always small |
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Kids won’t understand that the TV channels shut down after a certain time; there none of this binge watching series in the early hours malarky. We actually went to bed and slept(!) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Been able to play out with friends as there was no chance anything would happen going out to pub with friends to pub being able to get pissed get ten cigs chips and gravy on way home for less than a fiver  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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kids today will never understand the phrase 'and here's one I made earlier' |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Pulling their teeth out on a Texan bar "
Refreshers now hold that title. I can vouch for that. |
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At school, getting bapped in the gob with a conker was not a safeguarding issue…. |
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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
Hull |
"Kids won’t understand that the TV channels shut down after a certain time; there none of this binge watching series in the early hours malarky. We actually went to bed and slept(!) "
And if your favourite program was on and you missed it - bad luck and no chance of seeing it again. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.
Join the Tufty Club
Get a little badge to wear.
The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion
…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was…. "
Luke right, Luke left then Luke right again? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Send your answers on a postcard. |
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"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.
Join the Tufty Club
Get a little badge to wear.
The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion
…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was….
Luke right, Luke left then Luke right again?"
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
Pound notes, unless you don't live in England.
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When carrying a mobile phone around was like carrying a brick...... |
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Jimmy Saville was considered a kind and benevolent (if somewhat eccentric) chap who made kids wishes come true back in our day….. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.
Join the Tufty Club
Get a little badge to wear.
The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion
…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was….
Luke right, Luke left then Luke right again?
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Thanks Father, for helping me to get tot the other side. |
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We all knew and used to sing along to the awesome theme tune to Record Breakers and we all remember with utter shock, THAT episode wherein a kid challenged Norris McWhirter over a Guinness record fact  |
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Waking up to frost on the inside of your windows, although that might soon become common again.
Two TV channels only.
Coat hanger for an aerial.
Mittens on elastic threaded through your coat sleeves.
Conductors on the bus
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Spending time in the pubs, playing pool and dart's and drinking the cheapest beer they had, landlords just didn't care back then.
Mr. |
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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
Hull |
Posting a painting in to Vision On and waiting to see if it got shown in the gallery.
“Unfortunately, we can’t return any paintings, but a prize is given for each one shown’
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"Dial-up modems."
Dont forget the floppy disc |
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"Dial-up modems.
Dont forget the floppy disc"
Anybody here got a 3.5"floppy? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Dial-up modems.
Dont forget the floppy disc"
Green Screen Monitors can be added to the list too |
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‘Just Say No!’
We watched in horror as ‘Zammo followed the dragon and got a smack on the nose’ and subsequently, suitably fucking terrified, knew never to touch that shit! (Not least of all after witnessing the poor lad slumped against the wall sporting the sort of vapid expression that suggested that the crew may have lost his pay check for his efforts that episode) |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
House prices that didn't look like phone numbers.
Petrol sold as 2, 3 and 4 Stars and priced by the gallon
Free dentistry for grown ups (Go'bless'Merica, when they get our NHS in their filthy grip)
Shampoo bottles made of glass, eco friendly, but lethal to butterfingers.
Wages in brown envelopes.
Electricity board shops in town.
people asking strangers to hold their camera and take their photos.
waiting a week or three for the mailorder photos to come back.
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Having to rewind the video to get back to your favourite part of the porno |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Racing on your bikes down the street.
Playing hide and seek in the dark around the neighborhood
Gordon the gopher
Gladiators....are you ready!
Rola cola
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….and talking of Grange Hill; we knew to always be alert to random flying sausages on the end of forks that could appear out of thin air at any moment….. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We were the remote as kids haha or tuning in tv with that little stick |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Send your answers on a postcard. "
01 811 8055 |
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"Dial-up modems.
Dont forget the floppy disc
Anybody here got a 3.5"floppy? "
Always is buddy, always is lol |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
I used to roll my towel up and tuck it below my arm then walk 3 miles to the baths, aka know as a swimming pool for youngsters. My dry pants were in the towel and I had my trunks on as it saved time and I got to swim for a bit longer, 47 seconds!
And don't forget the joy of a party line. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Randall and hopkirk
Deceased !
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Happy hours and all you can drink for a tenner from 9pm/11:30pm at lollipops in town |
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"Dial-up modems.
Dont forget the floppy disc
Anybody here got a 3.5"floppy?
Always is buddy, always is lol"
I've seen a few, on public pics. |
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Kids today won’t remember how it was ALWAYS the shittest painting by a five year old that would win the overall best prize in the latest Blue Peter design competition.
Bastards!
(I’m not bitter or anything….) |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..
What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?
Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …
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Hey… I had to explain to my niece today why her mother basically lost her shit watching the Super Bowl half time show!!!
I have never felt more middle aged trying to explain just how big Dre and Snoop were!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mixups  |
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All the shops shut on Sunday.
When a dickhead didn't rewind the tapes from the video shop.
Leaving your bike outside the shop while you ran in for some penny sweets.
Sneakily checking out the big tits on the top shelf in the newsagents. |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
"Having four tv channels to choose from, and it turning off at midnight Miss pc "
Four channels! Back in my day... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Waiting 5 minutes for the cassette to load your favourite computer game for it to then fail at the last grainy beep....and starting all over again! |
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"Having four tv channels to choose from, and it turning off at midnight Miss pc
Four channels! Back in my day..."
and having to get the portable Ariel in the window cill for the best signal |
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Hearing Concorde go over at 10.30am everyday departing from Heathrow to New York |
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Avoiding going upstairs on the bus as that's where all the smokers sat  |
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Having a dump in an outside toilet.
Mr |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Absconding from Bernardo home getting all the way down to London for free |
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"Dial-up modems.
Dont forget the floppy disc
Anybody here got a 3.5"floppy?
Always is buddy, always is lol
I've seen a few, on public pics. "
Not mine though, I wouldn't want to blind people! |
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Going for a wee during the adverts and then danger sprinting back to the lounge because your siblings shouted IT'S ONNNNN x |
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"Randall and hopkirk
Deceased !
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The original or Reaves and Mortimer remake? |
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Breaking numerous joysticks playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon
Using the underwear section of the Kays catalogue as wank material |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
Having to write out school work BY HAND.
Typing www dot website in the URL bar and not doing it through a search engine.
Not having a printer at home.
Typewriters.
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Breaking numerous joysticks playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon
Using the underwear section of the Kays catalogue as wank material"
Same wrist action? |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
MTV playing nothing but music videos, not some rapper's in laws bitching at each other non stop.
Music-non-stop. Kraftwerk |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Finding it impossible to pick out the half pennies in your purse.
Of course essential when buying the half penny sweets at the corner shop |
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"MTV playing nothing but music videos, not some rapper's in laws bitching at each other non stop.
Music-non-stop. Kraftwerk"
I'm sure they played better stuff than Kraftwerk. Occasionally. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Going the shop with £1 and buying a packet of crisp, freddo bar, bottle of pop and still having change |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Waiting for a few minutes to connect to AOL with the worst noise known to man, and then greeted with a failed attempt.
The rest of the house banned at this point from even thinking about lifting the phone |
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Not 'top 40'...
'Friday rock show'
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"Not 'top 40'...
'Friday rock show'
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Alan "Fluff" Freeman on a saturday... |
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Waking up the day after a night out and smelling your clothes from the night before  |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
When Golden Wonder was the market leader for crisps.
Then Walkers came alond and put cheese and onion in blue bags! this resulted in Salt & vVnegar buyers getting a mouthful of the wrong flavoured crisps! This was really annoying.
WTF do these companies break out from agreed colour codes? |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Waiting for a few minutes to connect to AOL with the worst noise known to man, and then greeted with a failed attempt.
The rest of the house banned at this point from even thinking about lifting the phone "
aol Connie, who fancied her? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Whyyyyyy dont you? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Having to stick a pencil in to wind the tape back in when it all untangled on your cassette that youve just recorded the Top 10 in from the radio. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
""Whyyyyyy dont you?"
Shouldn't you handwrite that in fifteen different colours from your felt tip pens collection? |
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An a rated film or the double bill at the cinema |
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Loading a game on a zx spectrum |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Being scared shit less by Hartley Hare from Pipkins |
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"Playing kerby"
Ruined many a good ball playing that. Football, that is. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Loading a game on a zx spectrum "
as a Commodore fan, I don't understand it either. |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
Kids today wouldn't understand that sex with the same sex was classified as a criminal offence |
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Cleaning the tape heads with alcohol and a cotton bud.
Mr |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
Using teletext/ceefax to look for love in your area.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Getting Pissed on Blastaways |
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Shops closing on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.
Feeding 2p pieces into a public phone that stank of piss to speak to your girlfriend because there was no phone at home…
Oh and white dog shit… |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
If you went on AOL your mum could kiss goodbye to trying to get hold of you on the phone for at least 4 hours. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Checking football scores on ceefax |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
"Waiting for a few minutes to connect to AOL with the worst noise known to man, and then greeted with a failed attempt.
The rest of the house banned at this point from even thinking about lifting the phone "
Opps missed this  |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Being scared shit less by Hartley Hare from Pipkins "
I always though his teeth looked like hot glue pellets. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Going to blockbuster to rent films and games and sharing it around before it was due back |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Kids today wouldn't understand that sex with the same sex was classified as a criminal offence"
Isle of Man? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Being scared shit less by Hartley Hare from Pipkins
I always though his teeth looked like hot glue pellets."
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""Whyyyyyy dont you?"
I was thinking of that.
I never did anything though. |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure |
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By *edheadjMan
over a year ago
High Wycombe |
Speaking of the internet, buying internet minutes via CDs on the front of PC magazines |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
Kids today wouldn't understand that one girlfriend was enough and they got married |
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure "
Speak for yourself! |
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By *ozapperMan
over a year ago
Lancashire |
Never knowing how to work the video recorder timer properly and simply pressing record to get 3 hours of recording, only 30 mins of it being what you wanted! |
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Playing spot the ball and helping with doing the football coupon x |
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The joy of getting the swing to swing so high you flip over the top, they don’t even get to end up horizontal nowadays |
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All phone calls took place in the living room as that was where the phone was. If you were lucky it had a long enough cord that you could stretch and sit the other side of the door |
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"All phone calls took place in the living room as that was where the phone was. If you were lucky it had a long enough cord that you could stretch and sit the other side of the door"
We use to have a lock on the dial |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Folk copying stuff off Facebook on to a swingers forum |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Getting 20 sweets in a 10p mix up |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ski Sunday.
Italian football on channel 4
Telly text |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Getting 20 sweets in a 10p mix up"
Gis one. |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure "
That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me. |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
How much warmer you are, when you tuck your clothes in. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..
What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?
Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …
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See, I understand all those words individually but I gotta level with you, when you put them in that order, I'm stumped |
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure
That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me. "
Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught! |
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Waiting over 5 mins for a game to load off a cassette on the ZX Spectrum. |
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By *100Man
over a year ago
Essex |
Having to disassemble the vhs cassette player because your mates porn tape is stuck and your mum will kill you if she finds it |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"Getting 20 sweets in a 10p mix up"
You've been robbed I'm sure mine was close 50 things were half a pence |
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"Using teletext/ceefax to look for love in your area.
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Or book a holiday |
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"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure
That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.
Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!"
Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Vic 20 that dial up modem noise - ha
Atari |
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Penpals you used to write to. I am guessing foreign exchange students probably don't exist now either?
The "kids" in my office think it is hilarious that email wasn't about when I started work. |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure
That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.
Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!"
Hmmmmm, let me think about that one. |
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"Using teletext/ceefax to look for love in your area.
Or book a holiday "
Selecting the page and it was at 79/100 when you wanted to read what was on page 78. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Waking up to frost on the inside of your windows, although that might soon become common again.
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Handy tip - warm up a coin in your hand and breath on it then press it on the icy window - it'll melt a perfect little peeky hole for you |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Life from a unstaged,unposed POV.
We just went and did things back in the day, no video phones, no social media, just good times and memories  |
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure
That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.
Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!
Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too"
It was an English teacher who'd do that in my school. Deadly accurate too. |
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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago
Newcastle |
"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure
That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.
Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!
Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too"
I was going to mention this but thought I might have been alone |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
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Making the perfect mixtape.... only for the cassette player to chew the bustard up! |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure
That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.
Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!
Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too
I was going to mention this but thought I might have been alone "
The real sadists liked to whack your knuckles with a ruler, and not one of those new fangled plastic ones the break too easily. This was a regular occurance at primary school.  |
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Dial-up internet and arguing with someone who wants to make a telephone call. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Playing hide and seek with all the kids in the street. Good old days.. yes I’m only 21 but I was born in the era of playing outside ahaha |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure
That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.
Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!
Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too
It was an English teacher who'd do that in my school. Deadly accurate too."
I had a metalwork teacher 2ho would throw a hammer. Could you imagine the uproar there would be these days. We just learned to duck quickly. |
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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago
In my happy place |
A new release on vinyl
Listening to the charts in the playground and hearing new songs.
Queue for tickets at venues
A bag of sweets for a 20p mix up |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Finding copies of Mayfair and Penthouse hidden in the derelict cricket pavilion.....Not that it's ever happened to me of course "
Remember finding some adult magazines in a camp me and my best friend had made. He got busted by his parents when they cleaned under his bedroom. Literally a school boy error |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
Kicking a piece of rock hard, white dog poop down the street, on the way to school.
Trying to remember the way to school in thick fog. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"Making the perfect mixtape.... only for the cassette player to chew the bustard up! "
Splicing it back together with sellotape. |
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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago
Starbase K-7 |
"A new release on vinyl
Listening to the charts in the playground and hearing new songs.
Queue for tickets at venues
A bag of sweets for a 20p mix up"
All of those resonate. Half the story with vinyl was pouring of the album art & sleeve notes! |
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"We used to go on blind dates via cb radio and BT phone parties before the internet existed.
Eyeball we called it "
Use to collect eyeball cards. I meet my ex husband and my ex from CB. So glad it's gone with them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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20p freddos |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Making the perfect mixtape.... only for the cassette player to chew the bustard up!
Splicing it back together with sellotape. "
I've got that down to a fine art. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"20p freddos "
My girlfriend bought me a 6 pack for a pound for valentines! That’s the Asda price  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"20p freddos
My girlfriend bought me a 6 pack for a pound for valentines! That’s the Asda price "
She’s a keeper |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Having to disassemble the vhs cassette player because your mates porn tape is stuck and your mum will kill you if she finds it"
Recording something dodgy on vhs and racking your brain to think of an innocent label to put on it so your parents didn’t twig! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"20p freddos
My girlfriend bought me a 6 pack for a pound for valentines! That’s the Asda price
She’s a keeper"
Absofuckinglutely! |
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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago
In my happy place |
"A new release on vinyl
Listening to the charts in the playground and hearing new songs.
Queue for tickets at venues
A bag of sweets for a 20p mix up
All of those resonate. Half the story with vinyl was pouring of the album art & sleeve notes!"
And the choice of a 7 or 10 inch single or an ep |
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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago
In my happy place |
Going to school in 3 foot drits, aged 9
School was open |
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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago
East of Eden, West of Hell |
"Ringing your mates house phone to see if they're in.
Ringing your house phone for three rings to let your parents know you're safe.
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I still have to call my parents phone and let it ring when I get home, just so they know I've arrived home safely |
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Using a dial phone, then getting fucked off that you were too quick and dialed the wrong number.
Running into your house, when you favourite TV program came on.
Finding colour climax porn mag, in the bushes of the infants school.
Having to go to the local shops, to play video games.
Programming a game in basic, then finding out you had one number wrong somewhere. |
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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago
East of Eden, West of Hell |
The joy of a new exercise book
Respecting grown ups |
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"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..
What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?
Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …
Oh yes! Many a Sunday untangling a tape with a pencil and trying to avoid the DJ"
That was the beauty of John Peel. Unlike many DJ's, who seemed to like the sound of their own voices, he let the music do the talking and you could record loads of great tracks and Peel Sessions without him talking all the way through the intro and outro.
Plus, he played music other than the bubblegum pop you got on most other shows. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Benetton sweatshirts! I managed to get my mum to by me one but the only one in my size was red. Biggest regret of my childhood not understanding colour coordination and being ginger. |
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By *amie366Man
over a year ago
doncaster |
Having a chalk board rubber launched at you by a teacher for not listening ?? |
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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago
In my happy place |
Round dial on the house phone... 8 and 9 took ages! |
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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago
A world all of his own |
Renting the television from Granada, and when we "upgraded" to one with a remote control (saved my 2 sisters and I from being the remote) and it was a wired one. You'd get screamed at "mind the wire!!!" when you got up to go to the loo |
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"Round dial on the house phone... 8 and 9 took ages! "
and took an age for it to go back, 999 should have been 111 |
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Carrying an emergency phone card in your purse and heaven forbid you actually had to use it.
Using payphones and needing 20p. The pips going.
When bus fares cost about 20-odd pence (I remember being appalled when they hit 50p for a single ticket).
Radio alarm clocks with bright red numbers.
Your CD Walkman skipping if you walked or frankly breathed with it on (in a pouch that if you hung from your trousers would make them fall down). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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a 4 penny one |
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listening to Radio Caroline on my transister radio |
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