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over a year ago
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I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!
How would you describe your age?
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Shellsuits and sweaters from Dash  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I am this old ..I remember when you didn't have to wear a seatbelt in a car ... |
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By *rincipessaWoman
over a year ago
your wildest dreams, |
You could smoke in one half of the cinema |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bay city rollers atire
Platform shoes
Tank tops  |
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"I am this old ..I remember when you didn't have to wear a seatbelt in a car ..."
Ma Dad had a car that you could start with a crank handle |
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By *riel13Woman
over a year ago
Northampton |
I remember my mum and gran smoking in shops  |
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I remember my parents smoking on a plane |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember the black and white tv was replaced for a multi coloured one .
Was like a big WOW |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember the police officer on top of a circle. Stripped like circus .
Controlling traffic .
He liked to blow the whistle on that four way cross dressed with his uniform
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Blakeys in the soles of your shoes so you could create awesome sparks going around corners on your Chopper*
(*the bike!!) |
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Ps1 and Sunny Delight turning kids' orange |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Findus crispy pancakes |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
I remember the advent of the 50p coin, and using that coin in the rental colour TV.
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We are that old we remember going to wimpeys for a burger  |
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Didn't have a PC at work, just a typewriter, pen and paper. Sent Fax instead of email, could smoke on the bus and train indoors at the pub, cinema etc. 10 fags was 72p.
You could get bags of "bits" from the chip shop.
Panini sticker books were free and the stickers were 20p a pack.
Newspapers were 20p.
School dinner was 50p.
Aciiiiiiiiiiiid, Ebenezer Goode, smiley faces and raving
Oasis were a new band
Kylie and Jason were in neighbours
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ZX Spectrum
Farah trousers
Adidas Samba
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By *rincipessaWoman
over a year ago
your wildest dreams, |
"Blakeys in the soles of your shoes so you could create awesome sparks going around corners on your Chopper*
(*the bike!!)"
Collecting all the clips from the bread to put on the spokes of your chopper, or tomahawk if you were a shortarse |
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By *avexxMan
over a year ago
cheshire |
i had a vespa with lots of mirrors on it.. |
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By *ack688Man
over a year ago
abruzzo Italy (and UK) |
12 pennies in a shilling |
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"Shellsuits and sweaters from Dash "
Hahahaha me too... United colors if benneton?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jnco jeans |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I can remember aeroplanes having ash trays too |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
Shops closing at 5pm and banks shutting for an hour at lunchtime.
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"Shellsuits and sweaters from Dash "
No one else remembers Dash I had so much awful leisure wear |
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Photocopying your bum/boobs in work |
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A Milky Way was 8 pence, and a couple of years later 20 Gold Mark were 99 pence.
I also remember newspaper for toilet roll, so it wasnt all good lol. |
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Having to use a slide rule and logarithm book in Maths |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember when you could tell jokes |
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Hospitals used to have a smoking room on each ward .
If you got caught smoking at school you got detention, now they provide smoking shelters  |
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I remember the national lottery starting. They put on a godawful program then once they'd done the draw asked the audience who had won. About 2 people had won £10. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Red bus rovers and BT phone cards. |
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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago
Not all that North of North London |
I remember when thise games consoles that basically stimulated tennis with a line moving up and down opposite sides of the screen were cutting edge technology |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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School dinner was 5p
Petrol station sold only petrol and bulbs and fan belts
Tv only had 3 channels
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By *aroleBaskinWoman
over a year ago
somewhere down the rabbit hole, Aberdeen |
I had a Sony Walkman.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Leaded petrol 75p a gallon when I started driving |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I had 2 black n white tvs, remember the ones you had to tint tune channel with one dial the other for volume ?
One tv the screen didn’t work but had sound.
The other no volume but working screen.
But you could tune both same time  |
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Spokey dokeys
Getting a TV with a remote.. teletext.. wow.
Shellsuits
Neon pink or yellow fluffy socks |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sitting beside the gas fire on a cold school morning.
Spice girls.
Rewinding tapes before you could watch the film.
Stealing the little balls from the mouses at school.
Tooth gems. |
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By *hropsDuoCouple
over a year ago
Shropshire |
Not many people owned a TV. They used to 'rent' them. There was a box on the back that you put a sixpence in. A man used to come round to empty it and if there was more than the rental amount in, you got the excess back. Our family used to decide together what treat to spend it on.. we got so excited when 'Telly man day' came around |
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"I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!
How would you describe your age?
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I remember before McDonald's expanded all over uk. |
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When you could borrow cassette tapes from the library |
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Stealing the little balls from the mouses at school. "
No wonder they squeeze. |
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Stealing the little balls from the mouses at school.
No wonder they squeeze. "
Squeek |
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Fish from the chippy still had skin on it mmmm |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Stealing the little balls from the mouses at school.
No wonder they squeeze.
Squeek "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Top of the pops was still a thing….. |
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I'm as old as the chicken mcnugget |
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"I'm as old as the chicken mcnugget "
On it's world wide release |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fish chips
In newspaper 
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Remember all these...
Having to walk to the TV to change channels.
No law on wearing of seatbelts.
Parents rented the TV + (top loading) video machine!
Channel 4 starting. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I can remember when petrol was 75p a gallon |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I am this old - I remember when your parents, and the local police were allowed to give you a slap lol |
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I remember my own name...most days |
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Mimicking Evel Knievel by building a ramp from a plank of wood and some bricks. Get several mates to lie down behind the ramp and see how many you can jump on your bike. Nobody would go on the end for some reason? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lived in black and white. |
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I remember buying a Saver Strip for the bus. I’m still singing the song from the advert. Lol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The lad mags on the shelves  |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
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Fish from the chippy still had skin on it mmmm"
Still does at my local chippy |
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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago
In my happy place |
Chocolate machines at train stations
Kia Ora cartons with a straw
The test card on tv
The pips on a call at phonebox |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
Green shield stamps.
cider being 20p a pint in the pub. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fish from the chippy still had skin on it mmmm
Still does at my local chippy"
What that sounds awful  |
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By *riel13Woman
over a year ago
Northampton |
Getting things for my first home with my ex husband with cigarette cards |
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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago
yumsville |
Bermuda shorts were loved by everyone.
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By *lecom1Couple
over a year ago
Stornoway |
Not enjoying getting spanked by a nun at a convent school. How times have changed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The last decade that spent most of their time outside doing things instead of being glued to tablets |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Asking someone to get off the landline so you could use the internet.
MS Dos.
Thinking Y2K night actually happen and partying like it was the year 2000... |
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Public phone boxes with a dial phone that took 2ps and the old 5ps |
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By *haggydogMan
over a year ago
Brooklands/London |
We had an outdoor loo when I was 6. |
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I can remember spending 1/2p's in infants school |
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Princess Anne’s wedding being shown on french tv on a Wednesday , Wednesday was a day off in my school but we had to go in every Saturday morning instead . |
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TV remote controls being on a lead
Unleaded fuel becoming a thing (diesel or 4 star before that)
Rent books
50p electric meters
Greaseproof paper style loo roll (is that still a thing?) |
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By *0IAN00Man
over a year ago
Dumfries & Galloway |
My car had wind up windows, fuel was sold by the gallon, shops were closed on Sunday and you could drive without wearing a seat belt. |
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By *izmeCouple
over a year ago
Merseyside |
We got ration books for fuel |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"I remember the police officer on top of a circle. Stripped like circus .
Controlling traffic .
He liked to blow the whistle on that four way cross dressed with his uniform
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We still have this in VI, Lagos rush hour it’s insane. Policeman with an automatic rifle acting as a traffic light at busy junctions |
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We used to get dressed up for the cinema, and queue outside for hours. Dogs used to wander around the streets and if you had a fight, it was fists and feet. The corner shop gave your Mam credit and you could get her fags for her, even though you were only 7 and pop came in glass bottles that you returned for your deposit back...... |
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By *oalie66Man
over a year ago
Chesterfield |
"I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!
How would you describe your age?
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Outside toilet and no central heating. |
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Tin bath in front of coal fire xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Buying Garbage Pail Kids cards from the shop. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We are that old we remember going to wimpeys for a burger "
There are still Wimpeys about. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pubs opening 10.00am to 2.30pm the reopening between 6 & 7.00pm.
£1 notes became coins.
You could smoke everywhere.
White dog shit.
£0.45 for lager, £0.39 for bitter and Taunton Cider for £0.25 a pint.
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Half penny sweets.
The time before the Internet when you had to go out and actually see people.
You could go see a football match, get a programme, fish and chips and drink and still get change from a week's wages |
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I remember going to the local shop with a pound and being able to come out with 2 bottles of bubblegum pop, a chocolate bar, a packet of crisps and 30 penny sweets. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
I am that old I remember White £5 notes.  |
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"Half penny sweets.
The time before the Internet when you had to go out and actually see people.
You could go see a football match, get a programme, fish and chips and drink and still get change from a week's wages "
I miss those times so much at times |
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Loading computer software from cassette tape. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Only 3 TV channels |
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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago
Redhill |
I was just saying this to my kids…
I used to have Pac-Man, E.T. AND Gremlins cereal for breakfast when I was 10!
(I lived in Arizona for a while) |
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"Loading computer software from cassette tape."
Cassette tape! Your were lucky! We had punch cards and punched paper tape. Programs had to compile and fit in 2k of memory max. |
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By *yron69Man
over a year ago
Fareham |
Queuing up behind your older siblings to wash in the same water. |
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By *B69Woman
over a year ago
Wiltshire |
Luncheon vouchers and green shield stamps |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Half penny pieces, eating boiled eggs during the 70s powercuts |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We are that old we remember going to wimpeys for a burger "
My first job was making burgers in our local wimpy! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Italia 90 was great"
Haha |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Loading computer software from cassette tape."
Harsh times |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It wasn’t Drake and Josh it was Kenan and Kel!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You been reading that nostalgia twitter feed?? I saw the McDonald’s ashtray… |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"You been reading that nostalgia twitter feed?? I saw the McDonald’s ashtray… "
I am not on Twitter |
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By *umbiyaMan
over a year ago
Halifax |
As a kid I was banging my head on the floor because I kept dying in crash bandicoot. |
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When a Vesta curry was considered a treat  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When people used to smoke inside the nightclubs |
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"When people used to smoke inside the nightclubs"
Was that when they used to smoke in trains and planes and shops and restaurants... Ahhh the good old days |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
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Fish from the chippy still had skin on it mmmm
Still does at my local chippy
What that sounds awful "
It's lovely. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When people used to smoke inside the nightclubs
Was that when they used to smoke in trains and planes and shops and restaurants... Ahhh the good old days"
lol yeah though I actually cant remeber anyone smoking on planes or trains |
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"When people used to smoke inside the nightclubs
Was that when they used to smoke in trains and planes and shops and restaurants... Ahhh the good old days
lol yeah though I actually cant remeber anyone smoking on planes or trains"
Planes used to have ashtrays in the armrests |
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By *hropsDuoCouple
over a year ago
Shropshire |
"5p crisps"
Ours were 2d (old money) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember it cost 2p to go on the bus and I remember you got 5p back on a pop bottle |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember swimming pools used to serve Bovril as a beverage for 5p |
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Brown 10 Shilling notes
Beer at 16 pence a pint
Eating out was going to the UPC where they sold tripe
Houses cost tens of thousands instead of hundreds of thousands
Interest rates of 17%
The winter of discontent where everything cost a fortune and we couldn’t heat our homes
Some things haven’t changed.
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"I am this old ..I remember when you didn't have to wear a seatbelt in a car ..."
And you could sit in the boot (estate) with a number of others and no one would bat an eyelid |
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Rara skirts
Fluorescent leg warmers
The original Rubics cube
Kx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jamie and the Magic Torch
Chorlton and the Wheelies
Pebble Mill at One
Mr Noseybonk
Why Don't You?
Swapshop
Fingering a girl being the be all and end all of everything! |
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Smoking on a plane and on the top deck of a bus |
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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago
Secret hideaway in the pennines |
3 star jumpers and 6 button flares |
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"I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!
How would you describe your age?
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I remember Wimpy! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cinema back seat fingering, cinemas closed down en mass when it declined |
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By *asilForty77Man
over a year ago
a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road |
The Mysterious Cities of Gold |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!
How would you describe your age?
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I can recall nudging my toddler away when there was still ashtrays |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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VHS rental shops , black and white TV, those phones with the circle dial , Walkman, discman , mp3 players |
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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago
Ireland /Kilkenny areas |
Telly with no remote buttons Home telephone that was fixed to the wall in the hallway parking lights on cars |
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Naff Naff jackets.
Getting 10 sweets in your 10p mixture.
The image of the wee girl and her ragdoll when TV actually ended for the night.
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By *xydadbodMan
over a year ago
Milton keynes |
When McDonald's didn't do a salad lol
But I think the one that stands out is waiting patiencely by the radio, fingers itching ready on the record button, for your favourite tune to come on.. one wrong timing and its game over lol |
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By *9alMan
over a year ago
Bridgend |
as a child we had £ s d money & electric trolly busses were being phased out |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I remember £1 notes "
One of the local garages had a 24hr pump that took notes, remember using it to fill moped up, trying to get old £1 notes that were crumpled up flat enough to go in the slot.
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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago
Ireland /Kilkenny areas |
Trying to record the top 40 on Sundays number one in the charts at 7pm |
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over a year ago
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Using the red telephone boxes on the streets and it was just 2p to make a call |
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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago
Ireland /Kilkenny areas |
Fone boxes with fone books in metel covers AZ |
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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago
Ireland /Kilkenny areas |
Then fone boxes got covered in call cards personal offer in All shorts |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pans people, on top of the..pops |
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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago
Ireland /Kilkenny areas |
Saturday evening paper with the football results at 6pm |
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"Pans people, on top of the..pops"
Loved them! Allways wanted to b one! X |
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"Using the red telephone boxes on the streets and it was just 2p to make a call "
Remember the push button b to get your money back in phone box when it was the old money x |
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Sundays deserted streets, the smell of roast dinners, Londons Burning on in the with Sicknote, George and a young John Alford.
Car with carburettor engines warming up on the drives and the little electrical milk cart doing its rounds. |
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I remember Levi jeans were so stiff when new they would stand up on there own, |
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"I remember Levi jeans were so stiff when new they would stand up on there own,"
Remember my brothers sitting with them on in cold bath think it shrunk them to fit x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember when I didn’t have to turn the radio down to park my car |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Pans people, on top of the..pops
Loved them! Allways wanted to b one! X"
And their replacement dance group Legs & Co |
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By *it4uMan
over a year ago
Brighton / Eastbourne / SW France |
There were just 3 channels on tv |
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over a year ago
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"There were just 3 channels on tv"
The national anthem followed by the white dot and high pitch squeal when the BBC closed down at night. |
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We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing).. |
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over a year ago
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"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing).."
I can see this turning into the Four Yorkshiremen sketch before long... |
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over a year ago
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"I remember Levi jeans were so stiff when new they would stand up on there own,
Remember my brothers sitting with them on in cold bath think it shrunk them to fit x"
How did they dry them? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Giving your mum 'three rings' from a payphone to let her know you are on the way home. |
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When the TV only had 3 channels and you had to get up of the sofa to go and change the channel. |
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"I remember Levi jeans were so stiff when new they would stand up on there own,
Remember my brothers sitting with them on in cold bath think it shrunk them to fit x
How did they dry them? "
Don't remember x |
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over a year ago
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Freddie’s used to be 5p
Tv with only 3 channels and all end at midnight
Tin baths in front of the fireplace
Going to school in winter time with no heating on in the building being told put a coat on
Being sent to the shops for a few bits and that includes buy your dad cigarettes no questions asked for age
The local coal man
The local milkman
Health and safety well that actually had sense
And my favourite one
People had a sense of humour and wasn’t easily offended by everything |
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"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing).."
Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x |
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"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing)..
Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x"
I remember playing Noughts & Crosses with my sister in the frost on the inside of the window. |
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"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing)..
Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x
I remember playing Noughts & Crosses with my sister in the frost on the inside of the window."
My dad used to say not to touch them or they would break! x |
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"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing)..
Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x
I remember playing Noughts & Crosses with my sister in the frost on the inside of the window."
That's what eiderdowns were for |
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"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing)..
Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x
I remember playing Noughts & Crosses with my sister in the frost on the inside of the window.
That's what eiderdowns were for"
And bedspreads |
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over a year ago
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When water was in with rates |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I am this old ..I remember when you didn't have to wear a seatbelt in a car ..."
I remember driving without a seat belt and then having to try to remember the law had been changed |
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Telex machine in my first job, then we got a fax, that was fascinating! |
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When John Noakes introduced Shep to Blue Peter and the day Petra died.
My first advent candle holder made from coat hangers and tinsel.
Collecting Bottle Tops for the Blue Peter Appeal.
The Magic Roundabout at 4:45 just before the 10 to six news.
Paraffin heaters in the hall to try and heat up the lovely council house!
Tangerines at Christmas
A bottle of sherry and port put out on the radiogram on Christmas Eve |
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"When water was in with rates "
When there used to be British telecom shops on the High Street where you could rent the sexy new trimphone from |
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Those hmv radiograms you stacked 8 singles on... And by the time it got to 6 they'd just slip on top of eachother |
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