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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So browsing through the forums and I heard an advert for McDonald’s about a cheese burger meal being £3.99, call me old (I am after this) but I remember the 99p deals on a cheese burger and for the rest added an extra pound onto it so £1.99 for a cheese burger meal. Any other prices make people look back and think how things cheap were? Fredoes are off because inflation made them not worth buying any more  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Space raiders 10p a bag before !! And now ...  "
I had an argument in a shop about this, so where I am it’s 50p a bag… that’s almost extortion at this point  |
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"Space raiders 10p a bag before !! And now ...
I had an argument in a shop about this, so where I am it’s 50p a bag… that’s almost extortion at this point "
You can buy multiple bags for £1 (ish) ..  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Laptops and Mobile had replaceable batteries!
Oh and the look of utter befuddlement on the face of adults that have no idea how to work a dial telephone. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Laptops and Mobile had replaceable batteries!
Oh and the look of utter befuddlement on the face of adults that have no idea how to work a dial telephone. "
I can still class myself as old having used a dial telephone right? |
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I remember 10 Bob notes being a fortune.
Winning on "uncle Peter Webster show", Blackpool. Offered either a huge stick of rock, or this mucky piece of paper lol.
Said paper being a 10 Bob note, and me a little lad from Barnsley pmsl. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When milkmen were a common sight, postmen came twice a day (and delivered letters twice a day).
The dustman used to carry the metal bin to the cart, and bring it back instead of flinging the wheelie bin down the sodding road. We also used to have a coal man.
All of them were grumpy buggers but used to turn into cheery, lovable chaps in the run up to Christmas, hoping for a large tip! |
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"I remember when a bus ticket anywhere in London was 80p, oh those were the days!"
Pfffttt.
Nipper, I remember being able to get a bus from Uxbridge to Shepard's Bush for 5p.
And shorter journeys 2p.
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By *ommodoCouple
over a year ago
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In 1980 i remember school dinners cost 15p or 13 & a half pence for ten benson & hedges cigarettes 1p for a paper book of matches a bag of chips also cost 15p and corona pop bottles had a 10p refund on them |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Having a fiver in your pocket knowing you could go to pub for a couple of drinks"
I had a tenner the night after my 18th birthday, went to the pub and got well pissed and chips on the way home |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When there were only 3 channels - yes 3 for you youngsters - on't tele and they only broadcast for limited hours a day. Oh the fun we had watching that testcard"
And you had to get off the sofa to change channels |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"In 1980 i remember school dinners cost 15p or 13 & a half pence for ten benson & hedges cigarettes 1p for a paper book of matches a bag of chips also cost 15p and corona pop bottles had a 10p refund on them "
I remember school dinners costing 25p a week |
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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago
Derry |
I don't think you have to be old to remember when things were cheaper. Inflation is a bitch and not going anywhere for a while. Practically everything is more expensive.
That said, I know I'm ageing |
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By *bi HaiveMan
over a year ago
Forum Mod Cheeseville, Somerset |
"So browsing through the forums and I heard an advert for McDonald’s about a cheese burger meal being £3.99, call me old (I am after this) but I remember the 99p deals on a cheese burger and for the rest added an extra pound onto it so £1.99 for a cheese burger meal. Any other prices make people look back and think how things cheap were? Fredoes are off because inflation made them not worth buying any more "
Ah the youth of today.....
I remember a hamburger being 29p and a cheeseburger 39p at Maccies.
We used to go after school and do the who can eat the most challenge with a fiver. 
Happy days......... 
A |
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By *tterdogMan
over a year ago
South West |
The local farmer used to deliver a sack of spuds in his tractor. As kids we'd ride in the link box down the road & back.
Now they're all washed, health & safety say they can't be in a sack that big or ride on the back of the tractor. |
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"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!!  "
Now I'm crying my eyes out all over again!! 
Cheers!
Jo.Xx |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
"When there were only 3 channels - yes 3 for you youngsters - on't tele and they only broadcast for limited hours a day. Oh the fun we had watching that testcard"
All in Black @ White |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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£20 was enough to get you a skinful down the pub and chips on the way home.
The binmen had been before you got up in the morning and the post was there when you got home.
£1 would get you a load of sweets from the corner shop. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
If you can remember buying a pint of locally brewed pale ale for 1 shilling and 3d (6.5p) and a gallon of petrol for 5 shillings (25p) circa 1962 then you really are old. |
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By *aggonerMan
over a year ago
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"If you can remember buying a pint of locally brewed pale ale for 1 shilling and 3d (6.5p) and a gallon of petrol for 5 shillings (25p) circa 1962 then you really are old."
I remember these and I’m not old. Approaching middle age, hopefully. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!! "
Bloody hell Fabio!!!   |
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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago
west midlands |
"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!!
Bloody hell Fabio!!! "
I know there was no need for this at all  |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"When you heard the headlines acts at Glastonbury in the charts and it was cutting edge. "
Or when you see a kid wearing the t shirt of a band that's been around longer than the kids been alive and you've followed that band before the kid was an itch in his daddies pants. |
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"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!! "
Angry Anderson on the radio, all the girls at school in love with Bros! Me trying to sport a spikey hair style! |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!!
Angry Anderson on the radio, all the girls at school in love with Bros! Me trying to sport a spikey hair style!"
Bros-: Jesus wept.I'd managed to forget about that shite.Thanks.  |
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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago
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"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!!
Angry Anderson on the radio, all the girls at school in love with Bros! Me trying to sport a spikey hair style!"
Spikey hair!! Forgot all about that, I had a spikey hair style till I got hair gel all over the bathroom and my mum banned me from using hair gel |
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"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!!
Angry Anderson on the radio, all the girls at school in love with Bros! Me trying to sport a spikey hair style!
Bros-: Jesus wept.I'd managed to forget about that shite.Thanks. "
Apologies.... Thundercats on Telly... |
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"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!!
Angry Anderson on the radio, all the girls at school in love with Bros! Me trying to sport a spikey hair style!
Spikey hair!! Forgot all about that, I had a spikey hair style till I got hair gel all over the bathroom and my mum banned me from using hair gel "
My Auntie became a hair dresser and this time period saw tubs and tubs of hair gel used! Haha! |
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By *ndycoinsMan
over a year ago
Whaley Bridge,Nr Buxton, |
"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!!
Angry Anderson on the radio, all the girls at school in love with Bros! Me trying to sport a spikey hair style!
Bros-: Jesus wept.I'd managed to forget about that shite.Thanks.
Apologies.... Thundercats on Telly..."
It gets worse! That said Morecambe and Wise/Two Ronnie's repeats,when I was a kid the oldsters felt old watching the repeats. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Remember Scott and Charlene’s wedding in neighbours…..
Remember it like it was yesterday huh…..
In November… that will be 35 years ago!!!!
Your welcome!!!!!
Angry Anderson on the radio, all the girls at school in love with Bros! Me trying to sport a spikey hair style!
Bros-: Jesus wept.I'd managed to forget about that shite.Thanks.
Apologies.... Thundercats on Telly...
It gets worse! That said Morecambe and Wise/Two Ronnie's repeats,when I was a kid the oldsters felt old watching the repeats."
I think everyone born up until the year 2000 grew up with Morecambe and Wise as well as Two Ronnie’s, there’s still a lot of their material that’s still funny today |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Panda pops were in all of the shops. Those blue ones were so damn good!"
I got banned from the blue ones, too many E numbers
Which reminds me, the original blue smarties… the sort you didn’t give to a child somewhere on the spectrum out of fear of them turning into a hyperactive hurricane of destruction (swear I’m not speaking from experience…) |
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