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If you are old enough to remember. It was in some ways Fantastic. Racists had to meet in shit boozers and send of for magazines.
Flat earthers. Well I'm not sure there were any? Getting fucked meant leaving the house and socially interacting and maybe stumbling apon a kindred spirit rather than demanding a fuck by message.
You could travel somewhere without knowing the negatives and positives. Now that's an adventure.
You could voice a comment in a circle of like minded people and someone may disagree. They weren't ejected from that group by people living in echo Chambers. On the plus side I like the videos of people slipping on ice. X |
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"If you are old enough to remember. It was in some ways Fantastic. Racists had to meet in shit boozers and send of for magazines.
Flat earthers. Well I'm not sure there were any? Getting fucked meant leaving the house and socially interacting and maybe
stumbling apon a kindred spirit rather than demanding a fuck by message.
You could travel somewhere without knowing the negatives and positives. Now that's an adventure.
You could voice a comment in a circle of like minded people and someone may disagree. They weren't ejected from that group by people living in echo Chambers. On the plus side I like the videos of people slipping on ice. X"
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over a year ago
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You could voice a comment in a circle of like minded people and someone may disagree. They weren't ejected from that group by people living in echo Chambers."
Or they'd just beat the fuck out of you.
Does make me laugh this idea that people with wildly different views used to stand about having civilized debates.
We were joking earlier about the days when we used to collect ring pulls from cans to send off for free stuff. |
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You could voice a comment in a circle of like minded people and someone may disagree. They weren't ejected from that group by people living in echo Chambers.
Or they'd just beat the fuck out of you.
Does make me laugh this idea that people with wildly different views used to stand about having civilized debates.
We were joking earlier about the days when we used to collect ring pulls from cans to send off for free stuff."
Better than getting stabbed, or shot like these days! |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
It was a lot harder to book a holiday, either piles of magazines or brochures as they were called or trudging your way through Teletext. It was a b'stard if you didn't write down the info before the page moved on and there was usually 163 pages of them.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If you are old enough to remember. It was in some ways Fantastic. Racists had to meet in shit boozers and send of for magazines.
Flat earthers. Well I'm not sure there were any? Getting fucked meant leaving the house and socially interacting and maybe stumbling apon a kindred spirit rather than demanding a fuck by message.
You could travel somewhere without knowing the negatives and positives. Now that's an adventure.
You could voice a comment in a circle of like minded people and someone may disagree. They weren't ejected from that group by people living in echo Chambers. On the plus side I like the videos of people slipping on ice. X"
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By *eisty LadyWoman
over a year ago
Count Your Blessings Cottage, Gratitude Grove |
I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination
I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car |
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"I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination
I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car "
Still have my uk road maps volume. A-Z . Such a handy bit of paper back.
hardly got lost,deff ended up at the Destination. And had some proper spontanious meets off chatlines from the mid 90,s -2015.
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By *eisty LadyWoman
over a year ago
Count Your Blessings Cottage, Gratitude Grove |
"I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination
I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car
Still have my uk road maps volume. A-Z . Such a handy bit of paper back.
hardly got lost,deff ended up at the Destination. And had some proper spontanious meets off chatlines from the mid 90,s -2015.
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I had some interesting social meets from my CB radio days - a great way of meeting nice people back in the day
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By (user no longer on site)
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Omg I remember only having two tv channels both black and white, no computers or mobile phones, playing football, cricket and rounds in the street with friends, I enjoyed my childhood, now it’s all tech, |
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"I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination
I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car
Still have my uk road maps volume. A-Z . Such a handy bit of paper back.
hardly got lost,deff ended up at the Destination. And had some proper spontanious meets off chatlines from the mid 90,s -2015.
I had some interesting social meets from my CB radio days - a great way of meeting nice people back in the day
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Most deff.
Remember very clearly. You had to use your social and laguage skolls to get your point across. express yourself and get your personality to be seen. Very simple yet affective life skills.
Mostly lost because of hi-tech,and smart tech.
I find very disturbing as i drive esp in london. Many are on their phones when crossing the roads totally dorked out unaware and rude with it,when you point out a safety awareness to them.
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By *batMan
over a year ago
Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales) |
"Or they'd just beat the fuck out of you.
Does make me laugh this idea that people with wildly different views used to stand about having civilized debates.
Better than getting stabbed, or shot like these days!"
Google UK violent crime stats. It's lower than the 1980 and waaaay lower than the 1990s
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else |
If you wanted to buy a house, you had to make contact with all the estate agents in the area, and collect all the photocopied sheets of house details, each featuring a single black and white photo of the front of a house, and the measurements of most of the rooms within.
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"If you wanted to buy a house, you had to make contact with all the estate agents in the area, and collect all the photocopied sheets of house details, each featuring a single black and white photo of the front of a house, and the measurements of most of the rooms within.
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And drive past the house to check out the street, position, factory next door that the estate agents had photographed so it wasn't visible. Now you can see it on Google earth, and walk it on street view  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember these days. I used to go to nightclubs with bits of paper that had my name and house phone number on them to hand out to lucky lucky girls! My dad always took the call  |
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"I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination
I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car "
I still navigate by road map, wouldn't set of on a journey without one. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Gaming. If you were stuck on a level, you had to find a mate who knew how to complete it. He’d either show you or give you specific tips.
If not, you still to this day reminiscing how a game defeated you and is unfinished. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Love this post. I miss those days
I know. I read through and imagined a crazier more exploring time. "
Literally love the flex I have over my kids that I didn't get my first phone until I was nearly 20 when they ask for one  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Love this post. I miss those days
I know. I read through and imagined a crazier more exploring time.
Literally love the flex I have over my kids that I didn't get my first phone until I was nearly 20 when they ask for one "
Haha. My kids waned the latest game console. I made them play and old spectrum and he the snes and warned they had hers to wait until hey get the original PlayStation.
The now generation don’t know how patience works. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tannoys in work places, pagers telling you one of six messages... ring office etc, writing letters, putting piece of hot coal in back of telly to make it start up quicker so you didnt miss footie kickoff. |
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Had a school project on ports of the world in 1980. We had to research the address and contact details of the port offices and write letters to each one asking for information.
They sent leaflets and typed histories as well as flowcharts.
At that time Rotterdam was one of the largest ports in the world and I received a hand written letter from the operations manager with an enormous package of info. He explained that it wasn't possible to respond to every school or student and he asked that I pass on some of the info to my classmates.
Unfortunately it was a summer holiday project and we didn't have email or even phone numbers so there was no way of passing it on and I therefore was the only one with any detailed info on that port. The good old days |
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By *assy69Man
over a year ago
West Sussex and Wales |
I sometimes miss the old dial telephone, hung on the wall in the hallway, writing letters, on paper, with a pen, and jumping on a train and not really knowing where I was going, or what would be there….. it seems so long ago now |
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"Had a school project on ports of the world in 1980. We had to research the address and contact details of the port offices and write letters to each one asking for information.
They sent leaflets and typed histories as well as flowcharts.
At that time Rotterdam was one of the largest ports in the world and I received a hand written letter from the operations manager with an enormous package of info. He explained that it wasn't possible to respond to every school or student and he asked that I pass on some of the info to my classmates.
Unfortunately it was a summer holiday project and we didn't have email or even phone numbers so there was no way of passing it on and I therefore was the only one with any detailed info on that port. The good old days "
Sounds super fancy... When I was at school my mum just put one of those encasement locks on the handset |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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An AA roadmap, purchased from the filling station, always on special offer when buying a torch. They were always just a little too large to pockets behind the seat, so lived in the footwell.
We all had one mate who’s map was 10 years out of date and would enjoy taking the new road ‘not on the map’. |
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Pain in the arse back then..had to take a photo of me tea..then send the film off to get developed..then when it came back send off the negatives to get multiple copies done of the photo..then when they arrived had to go around posting them all through my friends doors..so easy now.. take photo.. upload.. |
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"Love this post. I miss those days
I know. I read through and imagined a crazier more exploring time.
Literally love the flex I have over my kids that I didn't get my first phone until I was nearly 20 when they ask for one
Haha. My kids waned the latest game console. I made them play and old spectrum and he the snes and warned they had hers to wait until hey get the original PlayStation.
The now generation don’t know how patience works. "
I seem to recall getting weekly magazines that would have cheat codes you could type in on the keyboard to get unlimited lives, or coins etc that were about 27 characters long. |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"White dog shit.
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Interesting. Why is this no more ? "
Because dog owners used to get raw bones free from the butchers and the calcium content turned the shit white.
These days that rarely happens.
You still see the odd bit out in the sticks but it's a rare sight now.
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"White dog shit.
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Interesting. Why is this no more ?
Because dog owners used to get raw bones free from the butchers and the calcium content turned the shit white.
These days that rarely happens.
You still see the odd bit out in the sticks but it's a rare sight now.
A"
Thanks for clearing that up. Definitely true that you hardly see it anymore. |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"White dog shit.
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Interesting. Why is this no more ?
Because dog owners used to get raw bones free from the butchers and the calcium content turned the shit white.
These days that rarely happens.
You still see the odd bit out in the sticks but it's a rare sight now.
A
Thanks for clearing that up. Definitely true that you hardly see it anymore."
No worries!
I've been told in the past that I 'don't know shit'.
How wrong they were..... 
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"Pain in the arse back then..had to take a photo of me tea..then send the film off to get developed..then when it came back send off the negatives to get multiple copies done of the photo..then when they arrived had to go around posting them all through my friends doors..so easy now.. take photo.. upload.. "
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"Pain in the arse back then..had to take a photo of me tea..then send the film off to get developed..then when it came back send off the negatives to get multiple copies done of the photo..then when they arrived had to go around posting them all through my friends doors..so easy now.. take photo.. upload.. "
Had you not heard of Polaroids?! |
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By *lueFireCouple
over a year ago
just somewhere around here |
"Recall driving past the local gig venue just to see what bands were playing at the weekend. Listening to footie on the radio. Good times."
Ordering gig tickets by post sending a cheque to the box office or buying from genuine touts outsider |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Love this post. I miss those days
I know. I read through and imagined a crazier more exploring time.
Literally love the flex I have over my kids that I didn't get my first phone until I was nearly 20 when they ask for one
Haha. My kids waned the latest game console. I made them play and old spectrum and he the snes and warned they had hers to wait until hey get the original PlayStation.
The now generation don’t know how patience works.
I seem to recall getting weekly magazines that would have cheat codes you could type in on the keyboard to get unlimited lives, or coins etc that were about 27 characters long."
Yes and writing them down swapping them with friends.
If you really were desperate there were helplines I called one once. And some guy did walk you through It. |
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By *stoppMan
over a year ago
Durham |
No -ordering fast food or grocery deliveries.
No -Amazon
No -getting grief emails from work.
One phone for the whole house.
Conversations done with friends or girlfriends on the hall telephone, sadly used in the belief if you shut the hall doors no one in the house could hear your conversations.
No Fabswingers. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pre Internet.
Going to a gig and not really know what the gig would be like, stage set, set list.
No YouTube. Sure, you could get concert review on NME or Kerrang. It was exciting the unknown.
And you were lost in the moment.
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
I grew up in an age when we had:
No TV
No Central Heating
No washing machine
No Fridge
No Freezer
No bathroom
No inside toilet
No telephone
Food was rationed
Clothes were rationed.
Wnen we did get a telephone it was a shared line and we had to dial 9 to talk to an operator and tell her what number you wanted.
Our first television was a Bush with a 9 inch screen this was bought for the Queens Coronation.
We survived and we thrived. Happy days.
Sadly I am a luddite when it comes to todays technology, Progress is going too fast for me to keep up. I still use map books, I have 12 yr old Nokia telephone. I still us a land line and a fax machine. Very rarely have a takeaway, and do most of my shopping in real shops.
I must however I do have a small business selling coffee pots on Ebay though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Recall driving past the local gig venue just to see what bands were playing at the weekend. Listening to footie on the radio. Good times.
Ordering gig tickets by post sending a cheque to the box office or buying from genuine touts outsider"
It wasn't me!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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" I grew up in an age when we had:
No TV
No Central Heating
No washing machine
No Fridge
No Freezer
No bathroom
No inside toilet
No telephone
Food was rationed
Clothes were rationed.
Wnen we did get a telephone it was a shared line and we had to dial 9 to talk to an operator and tell her what number you wanted.
Our first television was a Bush with a 9 inch screen this was bought for the Queens Coronation.
We survived and we thrived. Happy days.
Sadly I am a luddite when it comes to todays technology, Progress is going too fast for me to keep up. I still use map books, I have 12 yr old Nokia telephone. I still us a land line and a fax machine. Very rarely have a takeaway, and do most of my shopping in real shops.
I must however I do have a small business selling coffee pots on Ebay though."
You're cleverer than me, I can't figure out Ebay. |
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