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Tell us how old you are without stating your age by reference to something from your childhood ..
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Me? Rentaghost
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Button Moon, King Rollo, Mr Ben |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sonic the hedgehog |
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Godzilla.. And Godzuuuuuuuuuuki  |
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School packed lunches and endless summers in the south of France… |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Oh and a ZX81 (doesn’t have to be just telly programmes  ) |
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By *oo..Woman
over a year ago
Boo's World |
Free mini bottles of Milk at school |
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Penny crayon, trap door, Grotbags, Super Nintendo, crash bandicoot
Oh and round the twist |
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Playschool with the satanic Hambel!!
Wombles, Tizwaz |
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"Playschool with the satanic Hambel!!
Wombles, Tizwaz "
Half pennies too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jammy dodgers and Sun Valley peanuts at school break and the dinner lady hitting you across the back for not eating the cheese pie and diced cabbage.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Poggs! |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
5p to watch StarWars at the cinema. |
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Crash Bandicoot was released
Dianna and Charles divorce
Tupac Shakur is shot dead in Las Vegas
Dolly the sheep is the first cloned animal
Spice Girls release debut hit Wannabe |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Can't remember the exact quote but something about fight them on the beaches etc etc |
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"Playschool with the satanic Hambel!!
Wombles, Tizwaz
Half pennies too"
Black jacks, two for half a pence |
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"Penny crayon, trap door, Grotbags, Super Nintendo, crash bandicoot
Oh and round the twist "
Have you ever
Ever felt like this?
How strange things happen
Are you going round the twist
Loved that show |
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By *umbiyaMan
over a year ago
Halifax |
I smashed my brothers game boy with a hammer because I was retarded that way. I survived somehow. |
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"Poggs!"
I was just about to say the same lol or toys in your cereal boxes lol |
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By *edGrayCouple
over a year ago
Swindon |
Choppers
Space 1999
Honda superdream 250cc
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Play school |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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[Removed by poster at 01/11/22 17:35:46] |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The death of Elvis.
Wind up evel kenevil toys
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
Blip, Grandstand and Astrowars handheld arcade games |
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Loading computer software using cassette tape. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Thundercats |
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By *rC99Man
over a year ago
Liverpool |
Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Farah trousers |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Home alone |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Chopper bicycle. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tvs without a remote |
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Waiting till after 6 to use the phone |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Emmerdale |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Dexter's Laboratory
High School Musical  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The death of Elvis.
Wind up evel kenevil toys
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Oh yes, those Evel Knieval toys were so popular. It must've been about 1975 when they first came out.
But they didnt do any of the tricks they showed on the adverts |
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By *llaandGCouple
over a year ago
London |
Commodore 64. Though Ella would say that my PlayStation 5 is proof that my childhood is ongoing...
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Penny crayon, trap door, Grotbags, Super Nintendo, crash bandicoot
Oh and round the twist "
Haha I was only talking about round the twist with my sons this morning, the episode when Pete could only say "without my pants" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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World Of Sport
The Six Million Dollar Man
Monkey
Mary, Mungo and Midge |
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Lots of snow and icy windows inside |
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Knightmare
Who could imagine a game show about a kid with a bucket on its head would be so addictive!
“Spellcasting” |
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By *ribsaMan
over a year ago
A box at end of your bed |
Heartly Haire, The hurbs |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Trim phones and party lines |
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Andy Pandy and the wooden tops watch with mother x |
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"Heartly Haire, The hurbs "
My older children liked Hartley hare! He did look rough I seem to recall x |
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By *aviniaCDTV/TS
over a year ago
Leeds (close to GAP) |
Sgt Bilko, Torchy the Battery Boy, trams!!!....  |
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Playgrounds with tarmac floors and metal slides |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Opal fruits
England won
The Beatles
Mini skirts
Mini bottles of milk at school
Getting the cane / slipper / slap at school
Moon landings
God I'm not just old I am ancient! |
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I used to put the draw plate over the fire hole until the coal caught alight. When the wind blew we'd all cho*e on the smoke that came back down the chimney and into the living room. |
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By *6996Man
over a year ago
Weston Super Mare |
The moon landings(if it was real?) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"World Of Sport
The Six Million Dollar Man
Monkey
Mary, Mungo and Midge"
My brother had the "Six million Dollar man" action figure. It had chips that you could pull out of his arms. |
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By *avexxMan
over a year ago
cheshire |
bill and ben..magic roundabout,, captain scarlet |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rubix cubes, smelly erasers, Cans of Quatro. |
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"Penny crayon, trap door, Grotbags, Super Nintendo, crash bandicoot
Oh and round the twist
Have you ever
Ever felt like this?
How strange things happen
Are you going round the twist
Loved that show "
Me too! One of my faves |
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Knightmare
Who could imagine a game show about a kid with a bucket on its head would be so addictive!
“Spellcasting”"
My brother and I loved this |
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Art attack with neil Buchanan
Hart beat with Tony hart |
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"Penny crayon, trap door, Grotbags, Super Nintendo, crash bandicoot
Oh and round the twist
Have you ever
Ever felt like this?
How strange things happen
Are you going round the twist
Loved that show "
I got to visit that lighthouse...and the set of Ramsey Street  |
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"Penny crayon, trap door, Grotbags, Super Nintendo, crash bandicoot
Oh and round the twist
Have you ever
Ever felt like this?
How strange things happen
Are you going round the twist
Loved that show I got to visit that lighthouse...and the set of Ramsey Street "
Jealous! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Woodentops
Andy Pandy
Pinky and Perky |
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Free milk at break times grot bags the first episode of the simpsons |
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Watching Derek Dougan with my grandad on MOTD |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"World Of Sport
The Six Million Dollar Man
Monkey
Mary, Mungo and Midge
My brother had the "Six million Dollar man" action figure. It had chips that you could pull out of his arms. "
And a telescopic eye, and a button you pressed on his back that raised up one of his arms Nazi-salute style!  |
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"World Of Sport
The Six Million Dollar Man
Monkey
Mary, Mungo and Midge
My brother had the "Six million Dollar man" action figure. It had chips that you could pull out of his arms.
And a telescopic eye, and a button you pressed on his back that raised up one of his arms Nazi-salute style! "
And fake skin on the arm you rolled up so it looked like a circumcised dick.
I also had the Oscar Goldman figure. He had...glasses.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"World Of Sport
The Six Million Dollar Man
Monkey
Mary, Mungo and Midge
My brother had the "Six million Dollar man" action figure. It had chips that you could pull out of his arms. "
So did i. You rolled his skin back to expose the circuitry in his arm.
You could also look through his bionic eye. And he could lift things, using a button in his back.
Happy simpler times.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"World Of Sport
The Six Million Dollar Man
Monkey
Mary, Mungo and Midge
My brother had the "Six million Dollar man" action figure. It had chips that you could pull out of his arms.
And a telescopic eye, and a button you pressed on his back that raised up one of his arms Nazi-salute style!
And fake skin on the arm you rolled up so it looked like a circumcised dick.
I also had the Oscar Goldman figure. He had...glasses. "
Ahhhhh, you beat me to it. |
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Neil Armstrong walked on the moon |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Spice girls |
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Terrahawks
Half penny sweets
Corona pop bottles that got recycled
Milk at school |
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Pipkins, playschool, Crackerjack.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Banana Splits Lee |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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He-man
Grotbags
Zippy and George
Record Breakers |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Six year old remembers England winning the football World Cup |
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By *ORBCouple
over a year ago
Dundalk |
Donkey Kong
The A team
Gobstoppers
Wham bars
Ford cortina (especially the mk3)
The fall guy
Count duckula . |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Bay City Rollers |
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By *rtyIanMan
over a year ago
Gateway to the Beacons |
Summer of love |
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"Pound a gallon!!"
34p a gallon! |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Pound a gallon!!
34p a gallon! "
That's going to upset people... |
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William Hartnell as Dr Who.
The Monkees
The Beatles
I was 12 when we won the World Cup
The Flowerpot Men
Fuck me I am old! |
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"Pound a gallon!!
34p a gallon!
That's going to upset people..."
I got £750 a year in my first job |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Three channels on the telly.
Beta max video recorder.
Free school milk.
Watch with Mother. |
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"Penny crayon, trap door, Grotbags, Super Nintendo, crash bandicoot
Oh and round the twist
Have you ever
Ever felt like this?
How strange things happen
Are you going round the twist
Loved that show "
I was going to say Round the Twist and Spice World:The Movie for my childhood |
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Sport Billy
The Smurfs and Father Abraham LP
Major Morgan
Teddy Ruxpin |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
Do doooo do dodo doooooooo.
And all because the lady loves Milk Tray. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
Just popping to the phone box, won't be long.
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Churchill's funeral and captain pugwash |
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"Just popping to the phone box, won't be long.
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Was that because your dad had put a key lock on the house telephone like ours did |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"Just popping to the phone box, won't be long.
Was that because your dad had put a key lock on the house telephone like ours did"
Lol no, we didn't have a house phone until I was about 14. I was allowed to use it when I wanted but my sister wasn't. |
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By *heGigglersCouple
over a year ago
Northwich (just visiting) |
Funhouse
Red Dwarf
Super nintendo
Pogs
Keenan & Kel
Sister sister
White dog poop
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Bay city rollers
Pinky & Perky
Michael Bentine’s Potty Time
Sapphire & Steel
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Skylab coming back down to earth ... incidentally Australia fined NASA for littering |
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Rentaghost
Rainbow
Robin of Sherwood
Aha
Duran Duran
A.L.F
The Littlest Hobo
The Box of Delights
Crossroads
Scooby Doo |
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Punky Brewster and Sesame Street. |
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By *el65Man
over a year ago
paisley |
the banana splits
, the funky phantom,
randall and hopkirk,
and sunday special the high chapparal, lol, |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mr bean. |
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By *ornycougaWoman
over a year ago
Wherever I lay my hat |
Highlight of the year was when a VHS video recorder and a microwave arrive on the same day so I could frazzle some Crispy Pancakes to eat whilst watching Brookside on the long awaited 4th channel whilst supposedly revising for my O levels |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
The brand new 20p piece and £1 coin, plus good riddance to the Half penny. I do remember spending pre decimal currency, but the shilling =5p, and 2 of them were worth 10 peach |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cartoon Network
Gel/smelly pens
Scooby doos
Pokémon cards
Pedal pushers aka 3/4 lengths |
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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago
East of Eden, West of Hell |
Care Bears and My Little Pony
Penny sweets in a paper bag, or a quarter from a big jar
Cosmo and Dibbs
The milkman delivering glass bottles in the morning, blue tits pecking through the foil top to get to the cream
Going to the greengrocer, butcher, baker...
Being allowed to play outside, but knowing when the streetlights came on, it was time to go home
Dettol baths for skinned knees
Loloballs, pogo sticks and french skipping
British Bulldog, 40-40
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Government adverts-
Beware of deep and dark water!
Don't mix cross-ply and radial tyres!
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Thunderbirds |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"Charlie says!"
Neow nom wom
Brilliant dvd. |
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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago
west midlands |
Jamie and his magic torch
Chips
Knightrider
And British wrestling, Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks are the only 2 I remember. |
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Miners strike halfway through primary school |
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"Jamie and his magic torch
Chips
Knightrider
And British wrestling, Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks are the only 2 I remember."
Pretty sure they should remake that as a porno, Jamie and the Magic Fleshlight. |
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It's a word association game where you mustn't pause, hesitate, repeat a word or say a word I don't like otherwise you'll get a bonk on the head like this ... or like this ... the one with the most bruises loses |
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Deep Snow 1947
Lasted until the May
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Trumpton
Camberwick Green
Chigley
Chorton and the Wheelies
Ivor the Engine
Bagpuss
Mr Benn
Bod |
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Very first mobile phone, my dad had one for work !
Records
Walkman
Vauxhall Chevette or Austin Allegro
Bicycle with engine between pedals, you'd start of peddling then reach down push a little lever and hope it would start !
Watch with mother
Knight rider
The A team
Saturday night wrestling with giant haystacks and hulk hogan.
Oh so many, I would say guess my age but youd only cheat and look at profile lmao |
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"It's a word association game where you mustn't pause, hesitate, repeat a word or say a word I don't like otherwise you'll get a bonk on the head like this ... or like this ... the one with the most bruises loses"
Oh this was timmy mallet wasn't it ? Lol |
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Big daddy that was the other one !
The 1/2 pence piece that should stump some of you lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jase & the wheeled warriors |
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By *lecom1Couple
over a year ago
Stornoway |
Going to a love in at Alexander palace |
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Jack the Ripper, I'm older than you think. I was on the Titanic.......... silence, whistle of wind, toll of bell. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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my favourite cartoon as a child was thundercats |
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Jamie and the magic torch
Candy cigarettes
Hillman Imp |
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By *onk66Man
over a year ago
york |
Captain scarlet ,marine boy,thunderbirds |
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By *lecom1Couple
over a year ago
Stornoway |
I was in love with Marina in Stingray |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Dallas |
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"Tingha and Tucker"
And willie wombat |
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By *45amMan
over a year ago
South wales area |
Watching England win the world cup |
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Spice Girls, I was always scary spice in the play ground |
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"It's a word association game where you mustn't pause, hesitate, repeat a word or say a word I don't like otherwise you'll get a bonk on the head like this ... or like this ... the one with the most bruises loses
Oh this was timmy mallet wasn't it ? Lol"
It was |
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Big Daddy
Knight rider
Street hawk
Air wolf
A-team
1/2 penny’s & £1 notes |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jamie and his magic torch
Chips
Knightrider
And British wrestling, Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks are the only 2 I remember."
My mum was one of the groupies you'd see round the side of the ring. She travelled the country watching british wrestling in the 60's and 70's.
Judo Al Hayes, Steve Veidor, Catweasel, Kendo Nagasaki, Mick McManus, Rollerball Rocko...
I was actually named after her favourite wrestler, Spencer Churchill |
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"Charlie says!
Neow nom wom
Brilliant dvd."
Kenny Everett provided Charlie's meows. |
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Knievel crashed while trying to land a jump over 13 redundant single-deck AEC Merlin buses |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tiswas |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
Jaws |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Walkman |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Beatles |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Eyes of a hawk
Ears of a wolf
Strength of a bear
Speed of a puma
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Teenage mutant ninja turtles
Teenage mutant ninja turtles
Teenage mutant ninja turtles
Heroes in a half shell
TURTLE POWER!
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And Celtic become the first British team to win the European Cup. |
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Get your own back & a bit of Brum |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jamie and the magic torch
Candy cigarettes
Hillman Imp "
My favourite part about Jamie and the magic torch was the opening titles. Loved that theme tune.
And his dog, Wordsworth |
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I was born in the generation of free love |
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Seeing mankind's first moon landing and the not so glamorous going to the toilet in a bucket at the end of the garden. |
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Thundercats, Tab Clear & BT Phone Cards. |
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"Eyes of a hawk
Ears of a wolf
Strength of a bear
Speed of a puma
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Classic Bravestar |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's funny how many people just seem to use TV programmes as a reference point
Mine was quite sad it was the day my grandfather passed away when I was 13 |
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Monkey, Happy days, Mork and Mindy, 1st job YTS |
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"Thundercats, Tab Clear & BT Phone Cards."
Tab clear |
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Born in the year of the Suez crisis. Anthony Eden was Prime Minister. |
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By *ozapperMan
over a year ago
Lancashire |
The Flower Pot Men and Andy Pandy |
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England beat Germany in the World Cup final at Wembley stadium. |
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