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By (user no longer on site) 13 weeks ago
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"I recall the scratching sound of the needle on the record player,before the record started playing. "
I used to play them on wrong speed my mum and dad used to play hell
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By *ragonbaitCouple 13 weeks ago
Reading and Aberdare |
"On the first flight I ever took, smoking was still allowed in the dedicated section.
What was the dedicated section?..
The back few rows of the aircraft"
Flew on a Bulgarian airline many years ago, tge left side was smoking the right side not!! |
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By *onmar02Couple (MM) 13 weeks ago
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"On the first flight I ever took, smoking was still allowed in the dedicated section.
What was the dedicated section?..
The back few rows of the aircraft"
Travelling with my mum on the London underground, making sure we got on the last carriage so she could have a cigarette. |
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"Only having 4 channels on the TV "
Only having THREE channels on the telly (.....or even just two if you count the late summer/autumn of 1979 when ITV were on strike for three months! And BBC2 was very much a part-time station then, so for much of that time it was BBC1 and sod all else). |
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By *onmar02Couple (MM) 13 weeks ago
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"Only three channels on the telebox.
Channel 4 first broadcast
Channel 5 first broadcast and the soft porn films they showed at night.  "
Having the channels closing transmission for the night, the national anthem followed by the test card. Non of this 24 hour malarkey lol |
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"When wrestling was accepted and at its absolute peak! (Monday night wars/attitude era)"
It was accepted way before the American stuff (much as I love it)before that happened we had the good old British Wrestling on ITV.. |
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"When wrestling was accepted and at its absolute peak! (Monday night wars/attitude era)
It was accepted way before the American stuff (much as I love it)before that happened we had the good old British Wrestling on ITV.."
Yep remember that introduced by Kent Walton I think  |
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By (user no longer on site) 13 weeks ago
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"Having only 4 channels on tv, before remote controls were a thing, and being really excited about the channel 5 launch"
Yeah I remember the otherworldly excitement at the tease of the new channel, alas it was never available in my area.
I must remember to add this to my self journal of childhood trauma  |
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"Only having 4 channels on the TV
I remember 3"
I remember rushing home from school to see the begining of Channel 4. !
What dates me... only electric windows in the front of the car,not the back.
2 star petrol, leaded of course.
The Beano costing 8p
And when older, £20 being enough to get the bus to and from the pub and have a skinful of beer 🤣 but not on a sunday when the pub shut at 3pm until 7pm
I am feeling old
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"Having to be careful walking with the portable cd player cos it would skip otherwise."
I had a really good one (also expensive) that would not skip at all unless you flipped it over and back again very fast for a few seconds. Just holding it in two hands and shaking it like you were wanking a giant wouldn't cause it to skip.
I loved that thing, but a decent mp3 player simply killed it.
But my answer to the original question is your relative calls your next door neighbour and you go round to theirs to speak because you don't have a phone at home. |
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By *aizyWoman 13 weeks ago
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"When wrestling was accepted and at its absolute peak! (Monday night wars/attitude era)
It was accepted way before the American stuff (much as I love it)before that happened we had the good old British Wrestling on ITV.."
Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks, used to watch it with my grandad. |
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By (user no longer on site) 13 weeks ago
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"When wrestling was accepted and at its absolute peak! (Monday night wars/attitude era)"
I remember asking my parents to lash a vhs in to record whatever wrestling was on terrestrial tv! Loved it haha |
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By *ezoMan 13 weeks ago
The Kingdom |
"Loading a game from a cassette.
Half the time the game wouldn't load..
-and the loading screen would be more interesting than the game itself. (Commodore 64)"
God that takes me back.
I also remember when black and white tv was a thing. |
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Airfix plastic aircraft models in a plastic bag at a shilling and sixpence. All my pocket money. They were the cheapest you could buy an Airfix model at the time. The Revell ones were in a box and cost 2 shillings. |
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"Only having 4 channels on the TV
Only having THREE channels on the telly (.....or even just two if you count the late summer/autumn of 1979 when ITV were on strike for three months! And BBC2 was very much a part-time station then, so for much of that time it was BBC1 and sod all else)."
I remember one full channel (BBC) and ITV (actually ATV) was a part-time channel. David Hamilton was the continuity announcer. |
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The national anthem played every night at, I think it was around 10pm on bbc2, to signal the end of transmission! Channel 4 played alternative relaxing music with nature videos through the night!
Laying on my cabin bed surrounded by peirot decor, eating salt n shake or sucking aniseed pips waiting for the 'snow' to appear in the screen knowing I'll have to get out of bed to switch it off!
Cherry x |
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Proper Lucozade in a glass bottle, bobbly neck texture with the opaque yellow cellophane wrap - it was ‘medicine’, as ubiquitous on the wards as flowers, the Radio Times and grapes. ‘Lucozade Aids Recovery’ - always thought of it during the HIV epidemic back in the day…
When that shit got old… if you got it on your hands… it was so sticky you could climb walls like Spider-Man |
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