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Lighthearted thread open to all ages and the post that makes me chuckle most gets a curly wurly.
I’ll start with
I’m so old i….. remember playing conkers and British bulldogs at school and they weren’t *banned
*British bulldogs was suspended after a broken arm but resumed 6 months later |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Lighthearted thread open to all ages and the post that makes me chuckle most gets a curly wurly.
I’ll start with
I’m so old i….. remember playing conkers and British bulldogs at school and they weren’t *banned
*British bulldogs was suspended after a broken arm but resumed 6 months later "
Haha I was playing British Bulldog on the playground and went flying and knocked myself out. Oops. |
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"Lighthearted thread open to all ages and the post that makes me chuckle most gets a curly wurly.
I’ll start with
I’m so old i….. remember playing conkers and British bulldogs at school and they weren’t *banned
*British bulldogs was suspended after a broken arm but resumed 6 months later
Haha I was playing British Bulldog on the playground and went flying and knocked myself out. Oops. "
Great game  character building |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I remember when summers were hot and winters were cold.
And when over 40 year olds dressed their age."
Some people did look a lot older than their actual age though depending on what they wore or their hair style. |
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over a year ago
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I'm so old that when my family went on long trips through Europe in our Ford Esc0rt estate car, us four kids could lie down and sleep with the back seats down as the car was being driven. Also if we were all sat in the rear of the car there were no such things as seat belts.
(888 honestly, cant even type the name of the car without Fab blocking it!) |
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"I’m so old teachers hitting kids was only just abolished when I started primary. Anyone at school when it was still ok and did you ever get hit? "
I am so old that the teachers used to either cane us or use a plimsol on our bare bottoms.
I am so old that it was not unusual for the teacher to throw the blackboard rubber** at us when they were angry !
** for those to young to know what a black board rubber was, we did not have white boards, we had black boards and chalk, with a piece of wood with some form of felt on one side for wiping down the board to remove the lesson |
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"I'm so old, I'll see your British Bulldog and raise you Murderball...
(But I went to a very 'old skool' school so doubt any of this is banned to this very day!)"
What is murderball? Lob balls at peoples heads as hard as you can? |
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I'm so old that in my first job we had a typing pool with secretaries** typing up our hand written letters and when they came back to us, we had to identify corrections and they would use tippex to correct them. They also made a second file copy which was created through the use of carbon paper***
** for those to young to know what a secretary was, she was a gobby woman, possibly a spinster, who sat in a room with a vast number of other gobby women and complained when you brought them any work, plus deliberately made mistakes so that you had to bring it back so they could complain again about your poor hand writing.
*** for those of you to young to know what carbon paper is, it consists of sheets of black paper that create one or more copies simultaneously with the creation of an original document and was sold at Wilko****
**** for those of you who do not know what Wilko was, it was a cheap shop selling amongst other things carbon paper, and close down this week. |
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By *mber81Woman
over a year ago
Lives in Preston, Eng |
"Lighthearted thread open to all ages and the post that makes me chuckle most gets a curly wurly.
I’ll start with
I’m so old i….. remember playing conkers and British bulldogs at school and they weren’t *banned
*British bulldogs was suspended after a broken arm but resumed 6 months later "
I am so old I remember my class getting a computer (1 between 60 of us). We got 30 mins a week on it in groups of 4 and no there was no connection to the internet. There was no internet. |
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I am so old I remember my class getting a computer (1 between 60 of us). We got 30 mins a week on it in groups of 4 and no there was no connection to the internet. There was no internet."
I am so old I remember my primary school class getting its first type writer! |
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over a year ago
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"I’m so old schools never closed when it snowed, you had to go no matter how deep it was and the boys still had to wear shorts! "
Yes! Walking through snow drifts to school. |
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"I'm so old I can remember tellys not having remote control, as I was the littlest in the house it was my job to change channel on it"
And there were only 3 channels!  |
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over a year ago
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Granted I'm from the USA, but it looks like we all did the same things "back in the day" just different names for it.
I'm so old I remember when schools had corporal punishment (spanking) and I was in the last class in high school that we could actually bring guns to school. (I lived up north and he had hunting season.) |
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"I'm so old, I'll see your British Bulldog and raise you Murderball...
(But I went to a very 'old skool' school so doubt any of this is banned to this very day!)
What is murderball? Lob balls at peoples heads as hard as you can? "
We used to call it killer rugby.
You got rid of the ball as soon as possible.
It wasn't a pretty game  |
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I'm so old I remember my parents paying over the top for commodore 64 as separate parts then few months later sold them as a package remember them being annoyed that I wanted it when first came out and not wait |
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"I remember when summers were hot and winters were cold.
And when over 40 year olds dressed their age."
Dressed their age? What outfit choices do I choose in 2 years that's different to now?
I remember when a fredo cost 10p
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"I remember when summers were hot and winters were cold.
And when over 40 year olds dressed their age.
Dressed their age? What outfit choices do I choose in 2 years that's different to now?
I remember when a fredo cost 10p
Mrs "
Don’t wear clothes in your 40’s that look like you’ve run through sports direct and grabbed anything on offer |
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By *unchalMan
over a year ago
Dartford |
"Lighthearted thread open to all ages and the post that makes me chuckle most gets a curly wurly.
I’ll start with
I’m so old i….. remember playing conkers and British bulldogs at school and they weren’t *banned
*British bulldogs was suspended after a broken arm but resumed 6 months later "
I'm so old that I remember Bonnie and Clyde by Georgie Fame when I was 7 or 8 playing at a friend's birthday party and the thrill of touching his older sister's bum as we danced the afternoon away! |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
I am so old I remember seeing American Bombers setting off to deposit another load of bombs over Germany and my mum saying she hoped they would all come back. |
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"I'm so old when I Fart I shit myself...
Try keeping to the one alcopop and making sure you are home by 10"
If that's the best bit of banter you can muster, I'd stick to your normal style of posting. |
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"I am so old I remember seeing American Bombers setting off to deposit another load of bombs over Germany and my mum saying she hoped they would all come back."
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"I’m so old teachers hitting kids was only just abolished when I started primary. Anyone at school when it was still ok and did you ever get hit?
No but I remember when one kid got the slipper."
Slipper in cane were abolished at my secondary school in 1984. Seems like yesterday |
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"I’m so old teachers hitting kids was only just abolished when I started primary. Anyone at school when it was still ok and did you ever get hit?
No but I remember when one kid got the slipper."
We used to get the cane, had one house master, who loved using it, he was bit of a sadist |
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"I’m so old I remember Kay’s catalogue lingerie section being of great interest "
This was me... Got caught by my sister once..I was so embarrassed. The next day a different catalogue was there and open at the lingerie section ??
But I'm so old that my joints crack when getting out of bed in the morning and a slip in the kitchen will through my neck out for a week. Xx |
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"I'm so old I can remember tellys not having remote control, as I was the littlest in the house it was my job to change channel on it"
I'm so old I remember when there were only three channels and the TV had dial knobs. |
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"Oh that’s it
Collecting the bread bag ties and putting them on the brake lines on your bike.
(If you couldn’t afford spokey dokies)"
I remember when breakfast cereals gave you colourful plastic thingies to clip on the wheels of the bike.
Breakfast cereals always gave things away |
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"Lighthearted thread open to all ages and the post that makes me chuckle most gets a curly wurly.
I’ll start with
I’m so old i….. remember playing conkers and British bulldogs at school and they weren’t *banned
*British bulldogs was suspended after a broken arm but resumed 6 months later "
Remember both of these plus, press gang, knocks 9 doors, block and kerby |
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By *eah BabyCouple
over a year ago
Cheshire, Windermere ,Cumbria |
It was ok not to wear a seat belt while your parents drove the car home a little but squiffy and leaving you in it with a packet of crisps and a lemonade while they had a cheeky drink on the way home from the beach and social services were not a thought |
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"Oh that’s it
Collecting the bread bag ties and putting them on the brake lines on your bike.
(If you couldn’t afford spokey dokies)
I remember when breakfast cereals gave you colourful plastic thingies to clip on the wheels of the bike.
Breakfast cereals always gave things away "
I remember those! |
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"I'm so old my first computer was a zx Spectrum
Snap"
Being a little older, my first computer was the Sinclair ZX81. It had a tiny 1K of RAM but it could do floating point arithmetic and I learned BASIC programming. Never managed to get a cassette player to store data though. |
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By *lan157Man
over a year ago
a village near Haywards Heath in East Sussex |
"I’m so old teachers hitting kids was only just abolished when I started primary. Anyone at school when it was still ok and did you ever get hit?
No but I remember when one kid got the slipper."
I got the slipper for " messing with the javelin "on the school field in games. Except it was not me but you just took the punishment. |
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"I'm so old my first computer was a zx Spectrum
Snap
Being a little older, my first computer was the Sinclair ZX81. It had a tiny 1K of RAM but it could do floating point arithmetic and I learned BASIC programming. Never managed to get a cassette player to store data though."
I had to do. BASIC prog for O-level. |
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"I'm so old my first computer was a zx Spectrum
Snap
Being a little older, my first computer was the Sinclair ZX81. It had a tiny 1K of RAM but it could do floating point arithmetic and I learned BASIC programming. Never managed to get a cassette player to store data though.
I had to do. BASIC prog for O-level."
I guess that having studied O-levels also shows ones age! |
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"I'm so old my first computer was a zx Spectrum
Snap
Being a little older, my first computer was the Sinclair ZX81. It had a tiny 1K of RAM but it could do floating point arithmetic and I learned BASIC programming. Never managed to get a cassette player to store data though.
I had to do. BASIC prog for O-level.
I guess that having studied O-levels also shows ones age!"
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"I'm so old my first computer was a zx Spectrum
Snap
Being a little older, my first computer was the Sinclair ZX81. It had a tiny 1K of RAM but it could do floating point arithmetic and I learned BASIC programming. Never managed to get a cassette player to store data though.
I had to do. BASIC prog for O-level.
I guess that having studied O-levels also shows ones age!
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52/53 is the current cut off age, I was the last O level year. pt |
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I'm so old... Well I'm not, or at least I didn't think so until last night. I watched Gremlins with the kids last night. Then I realised the release date was 1984. Then I realised the movie was as old as I am. Then I realised the movie is nearly 40 years old. How the hell is that movie nearly 40 years old? In my head films that are 40 years old are like old black and white Westerns. Then worst of all that made me realise I am very nearly 40 years old 
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"So old I can remember traveling in the back of cars with no rear seatbelts (ape). "
My step dad invented the people carrier, Bedford van with deckchairs and boxes as seats.
Hit a corner to fast or break to hard and you flew around the back
Happy days indeed |
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I'm so old no one but richest familys had a car! Phones were seldom in houses in our street! Just the red push button a and b button phone boxes! No central heating! No supermarkets us kids could buy cigs for mum! No washing machine just the old copper that was included in the rent and a ringer with rollers my brothers tried to put my fingers in! And ohh the best milk tray bars of chocolates loved those! All different shapes in one bar! X |
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By *lan157Man
over a year ago
a village near Haywards Heath in East Sussex |
"I’m so old I remember wages being paid in cash in a little brown envelope (official not dodgy) lol"
And I remember being shown how to extract pound notes from a wages packet with a hairgrip so as to leave it looking unopened. |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
I seem to remember our first television was a Bush and had a 9" screen in a large cabinet.
We also had a large magnifying glass on a stand which you placed in front of the screen to give you a more viewable picture.
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I'm so old I remember a mangle being attached to the twin tub.
Local area dialling codes were one or 2 digits eg Guildford was 9, London was 01 (I think)
My wardrobe didn't haven't any purple in it.
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