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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fruit and veg man in a van, fish man in a van, coal man dumping off bags of coal, the rag and bone man coming around ringing a bell .. fish and chip bloke in a van .. lots of people selling things from vans in my village back in the day! |
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By *humper.Man
over a year ago
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"Fruit and veg man in a van, fish man in a van, coal man dumping off bags of coal, the rag and bone man coming around ringing a bell .. fish and chip bloke in a van .. lots of people selling things from vans in my village back in the day! "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Fruit and veg man in a van, fish man in a van, coal man dumping off bags of coal, the rag and bone man coming around ringing a bell .. fish and chip bloke in a van .. lots of people selling things from vans in my village back in the day!
There still is round here "
Aw jealous now, miss all that. We have the milkperson come around still (gotta use inclusive language these days, right?) but the not the rest.  |
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"Fruit and veg man in a van, fish man in a van, coal man dumping off bags of coal, the rag and bone man coming around ringing a bell .. fish and chip bloke in a van .. lots of people selling things from vans in my village back in the day!
There still is round here
Aw jealous now, miss all that. We have the milkperson come around still (gotta use inclusive language these days, right?) but the not the rest. "
We have a milkman , a chippy van, a fish van nd a coal man , the veg man does come round but he doesn’t park up as such, it’s pre ordered veg box scheme run by a local grower. |
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By *annGentMan
over a year ago
With a cracking view |
Wakes Holidays !
Factory towns would shut for a week in Summer, and most of the shops in town would shut for that week.
A butchers and/or bakers might open for a morning.
Newspapers were sold from the steps of the newsagents. |
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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago
South Wales |
We had a potato man who would drive down my nans street selling big sacks of spuds.
We’d have a “pools” lady. Littlewoods and Football.
At Christmas there would be a Santa in a Sleigh lorry driving slowly down my nans Street ringing a bell and shouting out Merry Christmas to people as they stood on their doorsteps, waving.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We had a Karma Chameleon phone when I was a kid… Did anyone else have one? It would stand up and dance singing the culture club song when the phone rang … bizarre |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember when Craigslist Personals were still a thing.
When kids could watch the entire series of Teletubbies on cassette tapes that you rewound with a pencil in the winding hole.
When you couldn't use the Internet whenever someone called your house phone because the modem couldn't process internet connections alongside phone calls.
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Nothing opened on Boxing Day.
No pubs shops or sports grounds. You'd have to go to Aunty Petunias' if you wanted a party.
At the same time, all the holiday adverts poured out to the captive audience. I can still remember all the words from the Hoeseasons Boating Advert.
It was the worst day to have a birthday on  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I remember the "video man" comming round our house with pirate vhs tapes to rent in two leather suitcases. "
Yes! Only this was a little transit van, can you imagine now! |
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By *arkjackMan
over a year ago
West Cork |
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It'll come back you know, pussy hair implants for those who got laser hair removal. I like bald and hairy pussies so I get to be happy/unhappy either way."
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Smoking indoors, pubs in particular. That smell will always remind me of my childhood. Think I was 10/11 when the ban came in... I remember Mum and Dad both having their last smoke in a pub... something died within them that day (no it wasn't their lungs ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We had a Karma Chameleon phone when I was a kid… Did anyone else have one? It would stand up and dance singing the culture club song when the phone rang … bizarre "
I bought one for my little brother when he got his first flat. It was tacky as hell. Had a little bug that played the harmonica. My big brother got a mystery machine biscuit jar that played the scooby doo theme tune anytime u lifted the lid. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We had a Karma Chameleon phone when I was a kid… Did anyone else have one? It would stand up and dance singing the culture club song when the phone rang … bizarre
I bought one for my little brother when he got his first flat. It was tacky as hell. Had a little bug that played the harmonica. My big brother got a mystery machine biscuit jar that played the scooby doo theme tune anytime u lifted the lid. "
 yes the bug that played the harmonica |
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People being nice and polite, younger generation more disciplined,knew who all your neighbours were, on first name terms with the shop keeper, postman, milkman, grocer and anywhere else you shopped. Parking available on streets, no road rage, no knife crimes or children being stabbed to death. Proper bobbies walking the streets again on first name turns. Front or back doors never shut or locked. Only the birds pinched your milk lol. Clean streets and the bin men brought your bin back and put it back in the yard and shut the gate. Nice summers and you actually had all four seasons.
And finally even though the list is to long, every night after news at ten Trevor McDonald finished the news with a funny story.
How things have changed, have a nice folks and let's be care out there. Stay safe sending hugs love you all xxx  |
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