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By *aravancouple OP Man
over a year ago
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Have you ever 
1 Used a rotary dial telephone?
2 Went to school when students didn't carry cellphones
3 Owned cassette tapes
4 Ridden in a car with no seatbelts
5 Wrote letters to friends and relatives by hand.
6 Played jump rope games, four-square, and hopscotch because Facebook didn't exist.
7 Know what an 8 track tape machine is
8 Turned off the TV because programming was finished for that day
9 Played PONG on an Atari
10 Used an outhouse? Not a Port-a-Potty...a REAL outhouse 
For me & Vinny it is 10 out of 10  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Have you ever
1 Used a rotary dial telephone?
2 Went to school when students didn't carry cellphones
3 Owned cassette tapes
4 Ridden in a car with no seatbelts
5 Wrote letters to friends and relatives by hand.
6 Played jump rope games, four-square, and hopscotch because Facebook didn't exist.
7 Know what an 8 track tape machine is
8 Turned off the TV because programming was finished for that day
9 Played PONG on an Atari
10 Used an outhouse? Not a Port-a-Potty...a REAL outhouse
For me & Vinny it is 10 out of 10 "
i know i felt really old when my daughter 6yrs ago when 12 saw a dial phone and asked me what it was ! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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10 out of 10 here too, and here's another one for you:
How many of you left school and started college before calculators were the norm?
I did, used a slide rule  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"10 out of 10 here too, and here's another one for you:
How many of you left school and started college before calculators were the norm?
I did, used a slide rule "
Log tables...;) |
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"10 out of 10 here too, and here's another one for you:
How many of you left school and started college before calculators were the norm?
I did, used a slide rule
Log tables...;)"
LOL snap and I still have my book |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Didn't have a bathroom so we all went to the public baths, they used to have cubicles where you paid 2'6 pence for a hot bath. All four of us used it lol xx |
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"Tin baths in front of the coal fire?
Didn't have a bathroom so we all went to the public baths, they used to have cubicles where you paid 2'6 pence for a hot bath. All four of us used it lol xx
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So who out of us was posh lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Strangely none of the above...
What is this hoppidy scotch you speak of?"
I was just about to say "yeah right!" then I saw your ages! Rub it in why don't you!   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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10 out of 10 for ms and 1 out of 10 for mr! log tables and slide rules take me back too as did walking to school and back and those little bottles of milk that had gone horribly warm by the time the milk monitor dished them out. Those were the days when a blackberry was something you picked from a hedgerow to make jam and a tweet was a sound that birds made. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Never did 8 or 10 /10
Ex army, so never had the pleasure of an out house  We also had the 1 channel, (BFBS) which was a mix of all the english ones, so it must have run later than the channels did here in the UK. Corrie, easteneders, neighbours, home and away and everything were all on the 1 channel, was a shock when I came to England, didnt know what programmes were on which station lol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"10 out of 10 for ms and 1 out of 10 for mr! log tables and slide rules take me back too as did walking to school and back and those little bottles of milk that had gone horribly warm by the time the milk monitor dished them out. Those were the days when a blackberry was something you picked from a hedgerow to make jam and a tweet was a sound that birds made. "
yer, and a mouse was a little furry fucker, and now they control pooters |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Watched live TV that wasn't in color? "
you had a tv?? I can remember my granddad buying a very early silk screen tv and when someone in our street bought the first colour tv we were all wedged in to their front room watching the horse racing in fascination. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"This could be a new forum thread!! Words whose meaning has changed over the years."
Can remember when, if you were asked if you wanted some crack, it was an offer of a sexual encounter |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Jack Frost on the windows, cos you didn't have central heating"
I remember scraping ice of the inside of my bedroom window to see out.We were made of tough stuff in those days |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Yep, yep,yep!!! 10 out of 10 or 11 if you count the tin bath in front of the coal fire.
I used to have to go round to the outside toilet in my dressing gown and slippers in the driving snow just for a sit down wee.
And I've still got my Atari 'woody'. It's going on ebay soon. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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10/10 although I am 33 and we did have an indoor loo growing up my nan and grandad had an out house always used it when we used to go round was a novelty. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"This could be a new forum thread!! Words whose meaning has changed over the years.
Can remember when, if you were asked if you wanted some crack, it was an offer of a sexual encounter "
...and you could cut Grass without being frowned at... 
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By (user no longer on site)
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Lol 10/10 but 38 lol god save the queen belting out one min to 12 BBC 1,And the white puppet on the checked screen. Channel 4,5 sky and cable were twinkles in the stars, ( years away) But I carnt remember what time tv was Back on air. Anyone ?? |
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"Jack Frost on the windows, cos you didn't have central heating
I remember scraping ice of the inside of my bedroom window to see out.We were made of tough stuff in those days"
And getting dressed under the sheets, blanket and eiderdown |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"9oot 10 by any body been been washed in the kitchen sink by your gran "
I used to bathe my two in the kitchen sink soo much easier than bending especially after 2 c sections. Plus you have everything to hand. |
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1 Used a rotary dial telephone? YES
2 Went to school when students didn't carry cellphones YES
3 Owned cassette tapes YES
4 Ridden in a car with no seatbelts YES
5 Wrote letters to friends and relatives by hand. YES
6 Played jump rope games, four-square, and hopscotch because Facebook didn't exist. YES
7 Know what an 8 track tape machine is YES
8 Turned off the TV because programming was finished for that day YES
9 Played PONG on an Atari YES
10 Used an outhouse? Not a Port-a-Potty...a REAL outhouse YES |
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"[Removed by poster at 13/06/11 22:17:18]"
9 out of 10...
we were posh we had an inside loo. ..
well .  actually it was an outside loo.. but my grandad kind of built a lean too over the top and enclosed it so it was an inside loo.. |
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By *andKCouple
over a year ago
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"Have you ever
1 Used a rotary dial telephone?
2 Went to school when students didn't carry cellphones
3 Owned cassette tapes
4 Ridden in a car with no seatbelts
5 Wrote letters to friends and relatives by hand.
6 Played jump rope games, four-square, and hopscotch because Facebook didn't exist.
7 Know what an 8 track tape machine is
8 Turned off the TV because programming was finished for that day
9 Played PONG on an Atari
10 Used an outhouse? Not a Port-a-Potty...a REAL outhouse
For me & Vinny it is 10 out of 10 "
oh dear it's 10 out of 10 here as well  |
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"Tin baths in front of the coal fire?"
Tin baths, were a tremondous find when tipped at the base of shale heaps.
An impromptu sledge for a while, down the shale heap of course.
And they dont make pram wheels ( thus soap carts ) like they used to. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Have you ever
1 Used a rotary dial telephone?
2 Went to school when students didn't carry cellphones
3 Owned cassette tapes
4 Ridden in a car with no seatbelts
5 Wrote letters to friends and relatives by hand.
6 Played jump rope games, four-square, and hopscotch because Facebook didn't exist.
7 Know what an 8 track tape machine is
8 Turned off the TV because programming was finished for that day
9 Played PONG on an Atari
10 Used an outhouse? Not a Port-a-Potty...a REAL outhouse
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hmmm - yip, yip, yip, yip (but it was tax exempt car about 14 years ago), yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip (but its in Bulgaria where most peeps have a thunderbox!)
Feck full house for me and i'm only gonna be 40 on my birthday |
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Yep, all ten lol
though i never did the hopscotch thing...honest.
having to make the coal fire in the winter before anyone else was up, aged 8
mittens
stopping when told to and given a clip around the ear by the local bizzy, cos if you ran he would see your dad in the pub and you would get two!! |
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stopping when told to and given a clip around the ear by the local bizzy, cos if you ran he would see your dad in the pub and you would get two!!"
lol.
when i was around 45i went on a "long expedition" on my bike, including at least two sleeps. Obviously reported missing by my mum.
Boy was i glad that the coppers found me before dad did. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Scored 10 out of 10
I also remember my school rulers measured in inches and my mum kept the milk on the stone shelf in the larder because we didn't have a fridge
And I recorded the charts off the radio using a microphone ... more than one song had me going 'SHHHH' as one of my sisters walked in the room and started talking! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Yep, all ten lol
though i never did the hopscotch thing...honest.
having to make the coal fire in the winter before anyone else was up, aged 8
mittens
stopping when told to and given a clip around the ear by the local bizzy, cos if you ran he would see your dad in the pub and you would get two!!"
Mittens on a long piece of elastic in the sleeves of your coat... |
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"Scored 10 out of 10
I also remember my school rulers measured in inches and my mum kept the milk on the stone shelf in the larder because we didn't have a fridge
And I recorded the charts off the radio using a microphone ... more than one song had me going 'SHHHH' as one of my sisters walked in the room and started talking! "
didnt we used to that every sunday i say how poor were some of us beans on toast for a week not good and the gas been cut off |
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stopping when told to and given a clip around the ear by the local bizzy, cos if you ran he would see your dad in the pub and you would get two!!
lol.
when i was around 45i went on a "long expedition" on my bike, including at least two sleeps. Obviously reported missing by my mum.
Boy was i glad that the coppers found me before dad did."
did something similar, police picked me up about 8 mile from home the first evening.
dad picked me up from the station and let me go to bed, would'nt let mum give me a cuddle either.
next morning he walloped my arse with his dads old leather belt, never did it again lol |
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10/10 for me.....and our outhouse was on the other side of the street and shared with next door!
No-one in our street had a telephone and only one family owned a car.
Telly programes started with the news and watch with mother at lunchtime....then it was just the testcard until about 4pm, however, there were childrens programmes on Saturday mornings. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Have you ever
1 Used a rotary dial telephone?
2 Went to school when students didn't carry cellphones
3 Owned cassette tapes
4 Ridden in a car with no seatbelts
5 Wrote letters to friends and relatives by hand.
6 Played jump rope games, four-square, and hopscotch because Facebook didn't exist.
7 Know what an 8 track tape machine is
8 Turned off the TV because programming was finished for that day
9 Played PONG on an Atari
10 Used an outhouse? Not a Port-a-Potty...a REAL outhouse
For me & Vinny it is 10 out of 10 "
all of the above other than no.9
we never had money for the atari
just loaded us up with rola cola and cheap sweets the thrown out in the streets to run round buzzin our nuts off |
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"Have you ever
1 Used a rotary dial telephone?
2 Went to school when students didn't carry cellphones
3 Owned cassette tapes
4 Ridden in a car with no seatbelts
5 Wrote letters to friends and relatives by hand.
6 Played jump rope games, four-square, and hopscotch because Facebook didn't exist.
7 Know what an 8 track tape machine is
8 Turned off the TV because programming was finished for that day
9 Played PONG on an Atari
10 Used an outhouse? Not a Port-a-Potty...a REAL outhouse
For me & Vinny it is 10 out of 10 :-
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What about the tin bath in front of the fire, sweet rationing etc etc
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Have you ever
1 Used a rotary dial telephone?
2 Went to school when students didn't carry cellphones
3 Owned cassette tapes
4 Ridden in a car with no seatbelts
5 Wrote letters to friends and relatives by hand.
6 Played jump rope games, four-square, and hopscotch because Facebook didn't exist.
7 Know what an 8 track tape machine is
8 Turned off the TV because programming was finished for that day
9 Played PONG on an Atari
10 Used an outhouse? Not a Port-a-Potty...a REAL outhouse
For me & Vinny it is 10 out of 10 "
All of the above |
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By (user no longer on site)
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10 out of 10 as well, can remember when there was only 1 phone in the street and the woman down the road had to come and knock you up, then came the dreaded party line. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"10 outa 10 ere but if you wanna count the tin bath on a sunday in front ov thecoal fire itll be 11 outa 11 ere lol"
i don't remember tin baths but i do remember the sunday night bath where me and 2 of my mums friends kids got cobbed in the bath together (while them 2 sat gassin downstairs)
other than that it was 'strip washes' for the rest of the week ! |
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And I was a 9/10! I didn't have an Atari! 