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What's uncommon today that used to be acceptable?
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over a year ago
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Drinking milk out of glass bottles at school that has been sat in the sun for too long ewwww!!!! or seeing birds had got to the cream on your milk before you did. |
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"Shoving small children up a chimney to clean it, apparently a health and safety issue  "
yes apparently shoving too many up the one chimney didn't give them adequate room to work safely so 2001 the rule was changed to one boy per chimney |
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Public phone boxes.
Turning up when & where you agreed cos you had no means of letting your pal know otherwise.
Saving all your courseworks on one floppy disc.
Swapping football stickers.
50p drinks in strathy student union.
Guitar bands in the top 10. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Walking to school
All the kids round me walk to school, primary and secondary."
not here they don't. A lot of Primary children do but Secondary School children fill up buses in the morning. Some travel from across the borough |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Using the engineer code on public telephones to get free calls
we used to dial sex chat lines out of the paper, but being kids just used to give the women verbal
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Waking up super early on a Saturday and Sunday morning to catch the cartoons just as they'd start..as this would be thw only opportunity you'll get to see anything worth watching till A-team/knight rider/airwolf/mcguyver (delete as appropriate) later came on that afternoon... The joys of 4 channels...when you had to work hard to get your entertainment
Christmas radio times.
Channel 4 had naughty stuff like Eurotrash which was as close to porn as I got, back then.
I loved going to the local video rental shop to pick a new film (VHS) or game for my Nintendo64!!
I miss conkers and the ridiculous myths we'd follow to try to get an advantage (cover in oil, place in oven etc)
Oooh, recording songs of the radio, hoping the Dj would keep their mouth shut till an acceptable point near the end!
Good days... *sighs |
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Only three channels and childrens tv only on at set times. And the national anthem when the channel finished broadcasting for the night.
Ooh and the tv they used to show in the school holidays - Monkey and Kung Fu.
Playing in the streets cos cars only came down when dads came home from work - it wasn't unusual to have no car, but no-one had two! |
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Banana splits! And knitted mittens with L and R embroidered on, joined together with a long piece of wool. I miss being a kid walking to school in the fog swinging my mittens 
oooh skipping along swinging your long hair side to side then jumping on your Chopper to buy 2oz of pineapple cubes |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Banana splits! And knitted mittens with L and R embroidered on, joined together with a long piece of wool. I miss being a kid walking to school in the fog swinging my mittens
oooh skipping along swinging your long hair side to side then jumping on your Chopper to buy 2oz of pineapple cubes "
Your old |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Banana splits! And knitted mittens with L and R embroidered on, joined together with a long piece of wool. I miss being a kid walking to school in the fog swinging my mittens "
Did you get your knickers from C&A...???  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Banana splits! And knitted mittens with L and R embroidered on, joined together with a long piece of wool. I miss being a kid walking to school in the fog swinging my mittens
oooh skipping along swinging your long hair side to side then jumping on your Chopper to buy 2oz of pineapple cubes
Your old "
but young at heart! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Kissing a girl in school uniform behind the bike sheds. Acceptable then but definitely not when you leave school! Lol
Ahhhhh still remember your first kiss? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Tallyman knocking on a Saturday morning n me shouting through the letterbox Mum says shes not in come back next week
Gormless Gary
What's a Tallyman? "
Before Hire Purchase in shops became popular you could buy stuff on the never never or borrow money and someone would come round weekly to collect the payments....Allegedly |
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"The Tallyman knocking on a Saturday morning n me shouting through the letterbox Mum says shes not in come back next week
Gormless Gary
What's a Tallyman?
Before Hire Purchase in shops became popular you could buy stuff on the never never or borrow money and someone would come round weekly to collect the payments....Allegedly "
Ohhh ok...you learn something new everyday...cheers  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tally man - the guy who used to come round to collect loan money.
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The man from the 'Pru' collecting the insurance money.
The man collecting the pools coupon.
Doorstop deliveries of milk. |
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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
Giving carrots to the rag and bone man's horse, then collecting its manure for the garden.
Outside loos.
Bath night - no showers.
Coal fires - no central heating or doubke glazing.
Going to the wash house to do your weekly laundry. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Sunday ritual of dragging the tin bath in from the back yard in front of the fire n taking turns having a scrub before watching the Black and White Minstrel show |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I wanted to watch an old home movie the other month so dragged out the VCR player to put my video in. I pressed the eject button and genuinely thought it was broken because the disk tray wasn't coming out....
Jeez |
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Smoking areas on planes and buses, my kids find it really hard to believe that people used to be able to smoke on the bus!
Penny sweets.
The soda stream we had when I was a kid - it had glass bottles and you had to be a good catch as they came flying out the bottom of the machine when it was done. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My grandad never stirred a cup of tea in my vicinity without a quick press of the hot teaspoon on the back of my hand, character building apparently. Imagine doing that in costa to your kid these days! You'd be dragged out quivker than you can say Social Services! |
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"Tally man - the guy who used to come round to collect loan money.
also:
The man from the 'Pru' collecting the insurance money.
The man collecting the pools coupon.
Doorstop deliveries of milk."
We still get milk delivered to the doorstep, glass bottles and everything. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Tally man - the guy who used to come round to collect loan money.
also:
The man from the 'Pru' collecting the insurance money.
The man collecting the pools coupon.
Doorstop deliveries of milk.
We still get milk delivered to the doorstep, glass bottles and everything. "
Ladies and Gentlemen, we will shortly be landing in Sheffield where the local time is 1960... |
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"Tally man - the guy who used to come round to collect loan money.
also:
The man from the 'Pru' collecting the insurance money.
The man collecting the pools coupon.
Doorstop deliveries of milk.
We still get milk delivered to the doorstep, glass bottles and everything.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we will shortly be landing in Sheffield where the local time is 1960... "
They have diversified into ice cream now though and the farm now has an ice cream parlour - they used to sell to the supermarkets till they were getting less than cost. So they now only do milk for their delivery customers and a few local shops and the rest gets made into (incredibly yummy) ice cream. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Before motability, there used to be a type of car given to disabled person, it was awful, ugly and a terrible shade of pale blue. The local kids called them Spaz Chariots. No political correctness back then.
Sure if these were introduced again, everyone would choose to take the money rather than the car. |
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"Before motability, there used to be a type of car given to disabled person, it was awful, ugly and a terrible shade of pale blue. The local kids called them Spaz Chariots. No political correctness back then.
Sure if these were introduced again, everyone would choose to take the money rather than the car."
The Thundersley Invacar.... Built justa few miles down the road from us... Probably a collectors piece now...lol |
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