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over a year ago
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Silver tops pecked open by birds on the doorstep …
What else, Fabsters?  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Pulling out the ch0ke ..  |
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POGS! So much fun had by a simple concept |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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VINE!
I miss vine so much  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jenko jeans. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Watch out, watch out, there’s a Humphrey about … |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Taping the top 40 before the dj spoke |
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By *avexxMan
over a year ago
cheshire |
morris minors and ford anglia were police cars |
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Taking empty lemonade bottles back for pennies and buying lots of half penny sweets X |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Fiddling with the tracking ….
The kids are like WTF are they talking about!?!  |
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Loading computer games on a tape player. Took about 5 minutes, but felt like hours. |
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4 tv channels and Saturday morning kids tv till grandstand. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Punch out the tab to record protect  |
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By *avexxMan
over a year ago
cheshire |
bill and ben flowerpot men |
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"Loading computer games on a tape player. Took about 5 minutes, but felt like hours."
Then it froze at the final stage and you had to start again. |
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"B&w 405 lines telly  "
Corrected |
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Piling up 45s on the record player  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Policemen had to be at least 6ft tall |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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“Oooohhhh Rennnnnnnnnnnnné…”
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Clunk Click Every Trip  |
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By *ynxxxMan
over a year ago
Southeast London |
Rewinding the video before you took it back to the shop |
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Only ever saw Disney movie clips on a Bank holiday tv special |
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"Punch out the tab to record protect "
On a cassette. Yes! And then sticking sellotape over the holes when you wanted to record over it! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Texan bars, High Karate aftershave, Six Million Dollar man action figure with telescopic eye and bionic arm, and his arch enemy action figure, can't remember it's name, with interchangeable clip on face. |
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By *avexxMan
over a year ago
cheshire |
dixon of dock green,,, and z.cars |
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Watching 14 pages of cefax for the football scores only for it to skip the page you wanted. |
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Hanging out by the phone box, so you can ring your mates or the girl yiu liked |
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"Policemen had to be at least 6ft tall"
Yes, I upset a chap in my 20s by expressing doubt that he was a police officer... he was shorter than me.
Nita |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?) |
Mixed tapes |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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...and green shield stamps. |
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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago
Shrewsbury |
Candlewick green. I or the engine.
C and A |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Punch out the tab to record protect
On a cassette. Yes! And then sticking sellotape over the holes when you wanted to record over it!"
Don’t tell the kids what it means .. this whole thread is meant to confuse them!! |
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The yellow pages....GDPR nightmare nowadays |
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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
VHS / BETAMAX players.
Cassette tapes / tape decks.
Colour TVs so heavy you needed to be a gym goer to move them
Rotary phones to speak to your friends with and hope parents weren't listening in 
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Following on from the COD thread
Getting 3 mates round and playing 4 player GoldenEye on one TV (and not always a big TV at that) |
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"Candlewick green. I or the engine.
C and A"
Camblewick green
Chiggly
Trupton
Ivor the engine |
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"VHS / BETAMAX players.
Cassette tapes / tape decks.
Colour TVs so heavy you needed to be a gym goer to move them
Rotary phones to speak to your friends with and hope parents weren't listening in
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And what about party lines? Nightmare! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Jimmy Savile |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Our closest phone was in a red box on the corner and you had better have plenty of 2p’s if you wanted a chat
Saving 50p’s for the telly rental man to collect
Clackers!!! No explanation needed
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"Candlewick green. I or the engine.
C and A
Camblewick green
Chiggly
Trupton
Ivor the engine "
Don’t forget Noggin the Nog |
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"Candlewick green. I or the engine.
C and A
Camblewick green
Chiggly
Trupton
Ivor the engine
Captain pugwash
Don’t forget Noggin the Nog "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Battle Picture Weekly,Commando Comics,Airfix models…. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I hate it in here everyone is so old |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Knowing a Gary under 20. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pressing play and record at the same time.
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By *ewels74Woman
over a year ago
Dundee/Angus/Blackpool |
Actually playing kick the can outside in the fresh air lol |
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Only 3 tv channels & the 10 o’clock news. Channels went off at midnight. |
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"I hate it in here everyone is so old"
We're not old.... We're just vintage. |
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"Tv remotes on a wire. "
Us kids were the remote when I was younger, my dad would say “put 1 on, nowt on ITV” and we had buttons to press on the actual telly |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Cb's
Over.
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One four one four for a copy, over .. |
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By *ewels74Woman
over a year ago
Dundee/Angus/Blackpool |
"4 tv channels and Saturday morning kids tv till grandstand. "
Have to say Saturday morning kids back then was highly more entertaining Tiswas and all that and cartoons |
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That little handle you had to pull on your car to start it on colder mornings (rhymes with poke - ch) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don’t understand any of this. |
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"I hate it in here everyone is so old"
I think that was the general idea... kiddo
Nita |
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Lou Ferrigno in black and white |
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"I hate it in here everyone is so old
We're not old.... We're just vintage. "
Like fine brandy |
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"That little handle you had to pull on your car to start it on colder mornings (rhymes with poke - ch)"
I still have one of those but it’s on my tractor. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Lou Ferrigno in black and white"
Trousers still intact |
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"That little handle you had to pull on your car to start it on colder mornings (rhymes with poke - ch)
I still have one of those but it’s on my tractor."
I'd love to drive a tractor! |
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Pounds, shillings and pence.
Half pennies got you three mojos. |
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"Lou Ferrigno in black and white"
Don't make him angry for god sake. |
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You hoped you would get a reply from Jim'll Fix it. |
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"I don’t understand any of this. "
There's always one!! |
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Ring pulls that came off the can.
Putting 2p on top of the needle when a record gets stuck.
Knocking on and sitting off.
Buying a chip barm and 10 Regal whilst wearing a school uniform. |
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"You hoped you would get a reply from Jim'll Fix it."
And now you're glad you didn't. |
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"There's always one!! "
Yeah, but Demi’s cute so we let her get away with it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rockports |
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By *KTim61Man
over a year ago
Tipton |
The Waltons little house on the prairie Mr Benn the wombles, The Banana Splits, Grange Hill, Tom & Jerry, Jackanory, Blue Peter, Mary Mungo & Midge to name but a few |
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By *ewels74Woman
over a year ago
Dundee/Angus/Blackpool |
When you still have a Barbie Doll and Ken Doll that you have had since the 80s,tucked away for sentimental value,as well as Sindy doll |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Twiki : “What a bummer”
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Join us again next week when we very much hope you’ll be watching us, watching you, watching us, watching you! Goodnight! |
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By *ewels74Woman
over a year ago
Dundee/Angus/Blackpool |
Actually the saddest thing of all this,is your childhood heroes *proper musicians/presenters/actors that you loved growing up are passing slowly at a time or far too early in their prime...sad face |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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“Hello Campers!” |
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TV test card when the programmes stopped |
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"Max Headroom"
M-M-M-mmmm-m-Max.
M-M-M-mmmmmmAX.
Max.
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National anthem being played at the end of the nights tv. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Clackers....lethal |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you run out of anything on a weekend you was fucked unless your neighbor had some spare till shops opened Monday |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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10p mixtures having 10 sweets in the bag. |
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By *aizyWoman
over a year ago
west midlands |
"Max Headroom
M-M-M-mmmm-m-Max.
M-M-M-mmmmmmAX.
Max.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Last orders called at 1.30 in a afternoon |
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https://youtu.be/HeEWtNaW6KE?si=_bHMWEdOeOjVfzaT
I've you've never seen "we didn't have an ipad" you can thank me later. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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In Autumn if your foursie beat your friends fivesy, yours would be a ninesy.. no dipping in vinegar though! |
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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago
Shrewsbury |
"Candlewick green. I or the engine.
C and A
Camblewick green
Chiggly
Trupton
Ivor the engine
Don’t forget Noggin the Nog "
Finger mouse
The clangers.
Moo mins |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Our kids are absolutely gob smacked we didn't have internet. They ask how we are still alive
Mrs C |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"In Autumn if your foursie beat your friends fivesy, yours would be a ninesy.. no dipping in vinegar though!"
On a shoelace, not string. |
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Shops closing at 5:30 pm and not opening again until 8 am. I grew up in a village which had one shop. If you didn't have what you wanted by 5:30 you were screwed, Weekends, Bank Holidays and Christmas! |
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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago
where the road goes on forever |
Pop-tops, you know jimmy Buffett, " blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop-tops, cut my heel,had to cruise on home," Margaritaville |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"In Autumn if your foursie beat your friends fivesy, yours would be a ninesy.. no dipping in vinegar though!
On a shoelace, not string. "
 absolutely! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Shops closing at 5:30 pm and not opening again until 8 am. I grew up in a village which had one shop. If you didn't have what you wanted by 5:30 you were screwed, Weekends, Bank Holidays and Christmas! "
We had a shop van man.
Came round in an ups style van, loaded with daily staples. |
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Playing conkers with your mates then complaining when they smashed your knuckles. |
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Naff Naff jackets and sweater shop jumpers .. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Going to knock for your mates at their parent's place, not knowing if they would be in or not. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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£12.50 for a concert ticket lol
Danish x |
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Rembering everyone's phone number |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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“RUNAROUND!!” |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Fish fingers, chips and beans in BHS on a paper plate with circus images around the outside edge.
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?) |
Diamond white  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Listening to tapes as cd not invented. Records were available but expensive before they came back.
Computer games was tennis on bnw tv
Mobiles.. Phone cards and red boxes to arrange my nights out
Wifi.. Nope.
Computers. Nope
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Playing ‘army’ in the street and not having the Armed Response Units cordoning off half of the city |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Parafin heaters on the upstairs landing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Rewinding a cassette using a biro to save on Walkman battery life.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ra ra skirts
Lycra leggings
Leg warmers
Keep fit with green goddess
Cinema.. X XX AND XXX |
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By *ewels74Woman
over a year ago
Dundee/Angus/Blackpool |
Love all these answers as I remember doing all these |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Space Pinball, Minesweeper, Spider Solitaire |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Space Pinball, Minesweeper, Spider Solitaire "
But without having any idea how to play Minesweeper and just randomly clicking around |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Stretch Armstrong |
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Working out where your friends were by where the pile of bikes was. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Throwing a wobbly as tape got caught in machine half way singing go grease lightning
Wearing flares
Ponchos
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don’t understand any of this. "
You remember Vine Demi I know you do |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My orange scooter not the Ebike
Eating space dust |
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Why Don’t you on the TV when it was school holidays… |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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When F.A.B. had *nothing* to do with internet based casual sex fuck sites!
(Yes, M’Lady …) |
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Salt and shake with the salt in the blue packet.
Patches on your jeans |
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I used to have a mini disc player |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don’t understand any of this.
You remember Vine Demi I know you do"
Hurricane Katrina? More like hurricane tortilla |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Marine Boy and Joe 90 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mallets mallet |
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"Why Don’t you on the TV when it was school holidays…"
and the littlest hobo
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Being in a jazz band, with kazoos, drums and twirly sticks, I was in the Solitaires and we wore purple and yellow |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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WACADAY |
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Paper boy on the Commodore 64! |
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A mainstream comedian on prime time 3-channel TV regularly doing a 'stupid black man' impression that involved animal noises and ridiculous faces. Those were the days! Honestly, people have no sense of humour in this crazy world I tell you. Young people today would have no idea! (except of course on this one they do). pt |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Hemglas Van's that used to come down the road selling all the frozen ice creams and desserts from a catalogue that you couldn't get from a normal ice cream van. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Splash it all over! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sing Something Simple after the top 40 on Sunday night then Last of the Summer Wine and That's Life. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Spud guns!!!!"
Ha ha yeah and cap guns. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"A mainstream comedian on prime time 3-channel TV regularly doing a 'stupid black man' impression that involved animal noises and ridiculous faces. Those were the days! Honestly, people have no sense of humour in this crazy world I tell you. Young people today would have no idea! (except of course on this one they do). pt"
Yeah, cheers for that 
Anyway, where were we?
Elspeth, will ya blow on yer Thistle Whistle .. |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?) |
Snake |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?) |
The 'top shelf' |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Internet forums didn’t even EXIST let along time out after 175 replies!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Finders crispy pancakes, beans and chips was a staple for dinner. |
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By *mily36CWoman
over a year ago
Bedford (or anywhere beginning with B..!?) |
Soap on rope |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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" Finders crispy pancakes, beans and chips was a staple for dinner. "
Will it be chips or jacket spuds?
Will it be salad or frozen peas?
Will it be mushrooms?
Fried onion rings?
We'll have to wait and see...
Hope it's chips it's chips, we hope it's chips it's chips... |
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""A mainstream comedian on prime time 3-channel TV regularly doing a 'stupid black man' impression that involved animal noises and ridiculous faces. Those were the days! Honestly, people have no sense of humour in this crazy world I tell you. Young people today would have no idea! (except of course on this one they do). pt"
Yeah, cheers for that
Anyway, where were we?
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Sorry for fluffing on your first '175' babes, hope I haven't ruined the special day. (I am from the 70's what do you expect?). pt |
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