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By *LCC OP Couple
over a year ago
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What has disappea_ed in your life time? When I was younger I remember taking a ticket at the cheese counter in the supermarket, saw dust on the floor in butcher's and a break half way through a movie in the cinema. What else has disappea_ed that you remember? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh god just a few things off the top of my head.
You don't 'call for people' anymore like go to their house and give them a knock to see if they're coming out! Or if you can't get them on the home phone you can't reach them at all!
Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.
Original Mountain Dew the green shit not the energy drink version that's come back.
Can't smoke on a train or pubs and nightclubs. Miss being able to have a fag and a dance at the same time!
Saturday night TV's gone shit as well, used to have gladiators and blind date, or generation game, now it's mainly crap.
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Picking your telephone receiver up to make a call and hearing the 'party line' already using it. For those people too young to know about it, this was the person who sha_ed your telephone line with you. If you had a party line you had to wait for them to finish before you could make a call. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The coal man carrying a sack of coal over his shoulder for unloading into your coal house.
Birds merrily pecking away at the milk bottle tops of the pintas on your doorstep.
Kids playing football in the street (jumpers for goalposts and all that)
Discarded porn in hedges (a huge part of my education as a child!)
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By *LCC OP Couple
over a year ago
Cambridge |
"Going to the doctors surgery years ago and him sat at his desk smoking a cigarette ."
Talking of doctors, in the past they always seemed to be older than me, now some of them are my age or younger  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Or the internet line, if you were on the internet and picked the phone up it knocked your connection off. Course didn't even have internet at home till I was about 20 years old, would have hated Facebook being around when I was in school.
Oh yeah the corona pop man, my next door neighbour Leanne smashed a bottle into her hand cos she was runnjng to the van to take the empty bottles back!
We had a fish and chip can that used to go round on a sturdy night as well like an ice cream man would, and a cockle van and the fruit and veg van!
Seen the increase in cars on the road, never used to be this many cars when I first started driving and that's only really been the last 12 years.
Can't let your child play in the street anymore. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.
I agree, they should bring back Cadbury Spira's 
I don't even know what these are?"
They were to fingers of choclate that were hollow and they were in a sort of twisty shape, you could drink hot chocolate through them and they'd get all melty in the middle. A crime that they stopped. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.
I agree, they should bring back Cadbury Spira's
I don't even know what these are?"
Oh Madame you have never lived till you have d*unk a glass of milk with a Cadbury's Spira  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Or the internet line, if you were on the internet and picked the phone up it knocked your connection off. Course didn't even have internet at home till I was about 20 years old, would have hated Facebook being around when I was in school.
Oh yeah the corona pop man, my next door neighbour Leanne smashed a bottle into her hand cos she was runnjng to the van to take the empty bottles back!
We had a fish and chip can that used to go round on a sturdy night as well like an ice cream man would, and a cockle van and the fruit and veg van!
Seen the increase in cars on the road, never used to be this many cars when I first started driving and that's only really been the last 12 years.
Can't let your child play in the street anymore. "
Talking of the Corona Pop man - we used to get 5p or 10p deposit back on glass bottles back in the day .. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.
I agree, they should bring back Cadbury Spira's
I don't even know what these are?Oh Madame you have never lived till you have d*unk a glass of milk with a Cadbury's Spira "
This |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Warm summers days.
Bath night Sunday night's,whether you wanted one or not.
Playing outside on our bikes,from morning till night.
Ten number 6 and a strip of matches.
Bob a job week.
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Tree huts.
Building river dams.
Playing cowboys n Indians.
Jumpers for goal posts.
Spangles
Marathon bars. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I remember watching movies we had recorded from the tv on VHS with all the commercials. I still have some old VHS tapes and watching the old commercials is spectacular  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The milk man, he's still here just but I wonder how much longer.
Ringing the local telephone operator for std codes. Taking 10p out with you to make a call from the phone box.
Some good things : hasn't small pox been eradicated and polio nearly.
Sarah |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The queen played at the end of the night on tv.
The white dot on tv.
Ceefax.
Oracle.
That girl playing 0 and X with the clown"
Yes of course,the test card,forgot about her. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A video shop. Not long ago I know, but you wheat and browsed. Maybe even spoke to the people who worked there to recommend s 50p for a week vhs film. And then buy your m&ms. And don't forget to rewind before you return it, God forbid |
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"The milk man, he's still here just but I wonder how much longer.
Ringing the local telephone operator for std codes. Taking 10p out with you to make a call from the phone box.
Some good things : hasn't small pox been eradicated and polio nearly.
Sarah "
Bit off topic but your picture is really trippy. It appears to shake when I scroll down because of the lines xD |
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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago
Pleasuretown |
"What has disappea_ed in your life time? When I was younger I remember taking a ticket at the cheese counter in the supermarket, saw dust on the floor in butcher's and a break half way through a movie in the cinema. What else has disappea_ed that you remember? "
Ushers at the cinema
Milk floats
Pound notes
Fuzzy felt
Spending an hour choosing a video to rent
Walkmans
Bamboozle! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The milk man, he's still here just but I wonder how much longer.
Ringing the local telephone operator for std codes. Taking 10p out with you to make a call from the phone box.
Some good things : hasn't small pox been eradicated and polio nearly.
Sarah
Bit off topic but your picture is really trippy. It appears to shake when I scroll down because of the lines xD "
I have just checked this out and it does Brilliant I want a shaky arse pic  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Rag and bone men on a horse drawn cart giving you clothes pegs in return for scrap metal "
Yeah now its just flat bed transit vans that will take anything not nailed down |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The queen played at the end of the night on tv.
The white dot on tv.
Ceefax.
Oracle.
That girl playing 0 and X with the clown"
Having to get up and press a button on the tv to change the channel.
Only 3 tv channels. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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School dinners (chocolate sponge with mint green custard)
Old English spangles
Friday night pop man, our local brand was called 'She' so we called him the she man 
Dandelion & burpdock & cream soda
opal fruits and pacers
Clackers!! Those were lethal  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Putting black bin bags out at the kerbside for the binmen to pick up (none of those separate wheelie bins ha ha)!
Trello bars! Anyone remember those? Finger-style chocolate bars with a pink-and-white marshmallow filling!
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By (user no longer on site)
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"School dinners (chocolate sponge with mint green custard)
Old English spangles
Friday night pop man, our local brand was called 'She' so we called him the she man
Dandelion & burpdock & cream soda
opal fruits and pacers
Clackers!! Those were lethal "
our pop van was Alpine and they did a Pineappleade it was lush |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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manners - simple things like please and thank you - standing up for others - holding doors open - giving without expecting a thing in return - and respect for others |
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People arranging a time and place to meet, even weeks in advance and simply being there without lots of calls or messages.
If you can't get hold of someone on their phone leaving it for a few hours or even a day or more before you try again (on the landline) and being chilled about it.
Only contacting people who are at work for a very important reason (unless directly involved with their work). |
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"The Roman Empire
*sighs*
I'd rather like a Visigoth invasion, been years since there was a good Visigoth hoarde looting there way through  "
You'd need to have been in Spain or North Africa for that - this side got Jutes and Angles and Picts and other unwashed people.
Architecture, amongst other things, went missing for 1000 years. Sod's law. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Friendly bin men who would come right into your back garden and take the bag of rubbish out of the metal bin..tie it up. .put a new bin bag in and take the rubbish away.
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"The Roman Empire
*sighs*
I'd rather like a Visigoth invasion, been years since there was a good Visigoth hoarde looting there way through
You'd need to have been in Spain or North Africa for that - this side got Jutes and Angles and Picts and other unwashed people.
Architecture, amongst other things, went missing for 1000 years. Sod's law. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago
Wolverhampton |
Crispy cod fries.
If you saw someone coming down the street shouting and gesticulating you would cross the road or speed up and not look at them.
Just on the phone these days.
People used to put their crap/wrappers in the waste bins, they just drop it anywhere now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The queen played at the end of the night on tv.
The white dot on tv.
Ceefax.
Oracle.
That girl playing 0 and X with the clown
She was an evil bitch that one"
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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago
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Having to wait for the TV to warm up for several minutes before you actually got a good enough picture to watch it. Your parents still called the radio the 'wireless' and the record player - or more trendily termed 'stereo' - was refer_ed to as the 'gramaphone' for heaven's sake (no, I wasn't brought up in a Victorian orphanage). The excitement of extraordinarily advanced technology when your dad came home with a *remote controlled* VHS recorder which in reality was attached to the unit on a very long cable the cat kept leaping on and chewing as it trailed across the floor and was thus rende_ed useless within weeks.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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- Renting videos
- Support films at the cinema
- Being able to drink more than three pints without suffering a 48 hour hangover
- Politicians making at least some attempt to appear honest and decent |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Stray dogs, or people that just used to let their dogs out to roam the streets, or was that just our neighbour?? Same neighbour also used to keep a Donkey in her garage.
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Spin dryers.
A lot of the things posted above still exist, guess it depends on where you live.
My bin men are nice and helpful, I know my neighbours, we have a fish and a meat van that comes round, people are polite and more |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Recording the chart show on a tape on a Sunday and having to sit there for three hours to pause at the talking "
Top-loading cassette recorder propped up against the radio : ) I bet I still have some of those tapes |
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By *LCC OP Couple
over a year ago
Cambridge |
"Spin dryers.
A lot of the things posted above still exist, guess it depends on where you live.
My bin men are nice and helpful, I know my neighbours, we have a fish and a meat van that comes round, people are polite and more "
As in the ones in the garden with 4 arms and wire between them? My neighbor has one. On new developments they are often banned as a by-law, so too for campers and caravans, works vehicles etc. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Mangles.
Flat irons you put on a fire to heat up.
Toasting forks.
Red corduroy trousers.
Huge fla_ed trousers you could hide your dog under.
Little paper dolls in their undies with pop out clothes with little white tags on.
The shop selling rope by the metre,on the corner.
Ice cream bricks in grease-proof paper.
Gypsy skirts.
Gypsy hair cuts.
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By *LCC OP Couple
over a year ago
Cambridge |
"- Renting videos
- Support films at the cinema
- Being able to drink more than three pints without suffering a 48 hour hangover
- Politicians making at least some attempt to appear honest and decent"
We certainly haven't had any decent political sex scandals for a while have we? I mean if we have to put up with a Tory government we could at least have a few married back benchers getting caught cottaging for us all to have a laugh at! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Getting for a lift over the turnstiles at the football.collecting ginger bottles round the doors and buying ciggies with the money.nobody batted an eyelid then. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Original Mountain Dew the green shit not the energy drink version that's come back.
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That was the best. Turned your tongue green, I could drink it all day Got banned in the UK from what I remember. Could still buy it in Romania when I was there last year though.
And great call on the Cadbury Spira  |
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