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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

So I was just telling my kids a story from

when I was a wee pup...

I told them about buying half penny sweets to get 20 sweets in a mix up that

cost 1st

THEY WERE BAFFLED !!

I'm only 40yrs and now feel ancient !!

Anyone else have their kids look at you as if your a dinosaur !!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"So I was just telling my kids a story from

when I was a wee pup...

I told them about buying half penny sweets to get 20 sweets in a mix up that

cost 1st

THEY WERE BAFFLED !!

I'm only 40yrs and now feel ancient !!

Anyone else have their kids look at you as if your a dinosaur !!"

10p not 10st

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My eight year old asked if the CDs in my car were what we listened to music on "in the olden days"!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm 37 and I don't remember half penny sweets

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"So I was just telling my kids a story from

when I was a wee pup...

I told them about buying half penny sweets to get 20 sweets in a mix up that

cost 1st

THEY WERE BAFFLED !!

I'm only 40yrs and now feel ancient !!

Anyone else have their kids look at you as if your a dinosaur !!"

I'd understand if you didn't say "cost 1st"!! If you said "cost 10p" you'd have my full backing! !

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By *icketysplitsWoman over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

One of the kids thought that everything was in black and white and asked us how it felt when the world became colour.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Agh now little Wren, you ain't old at all!! I've friends there that work with me and I tell them things ant theye are like you're ancient and I'm like aye and me I am I'd still beat you in a 100 yard sprint

but I mind auld lads telling me things when I were a young babe and I'm like away on will ya lol, its just part of the big wheel of life it keeps on turning and moving on

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

All the time, especially when I say about black and white tv's and not having 24 hr programmes x

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"So I was just telling my kids a story from

when I was a wee pup...

I told them about buying half penny sweets to get 20 sweets in a mix up that

cost 1st

THEY WERE BAFFLED !!

I'm only 40yrs and now feel ancient !!

Anyone else have their kids look at you as if your a dinosaur !!

10p not 10st"

I bloody remember when you got 24 for 1 shilling

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By *anielpiercedMan over a year ago

by the seaside

"So I was just telling my kids a story from

when I was a wee pup...

I told them about buying half penny sweets to get 20 sweets in a mix up that

cost 1st

THEY WERE BAFFLED !!

I'm only 40yrs and now feel ancient !!

Anyone else have their kids look at you as if your a dinosaur !!"

I was explaing to my daughter how my first mobile phone in 1993 only made calls and didn't even store numbers. She is 13 and has an S7 and seemed totally confused as to what we used them for apart from calls. Further explained there was no internet then so it was just a phone and it blew her mind.

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By *cenario-xxxMan over a year ago

Salford

"So I was just telling my kids a story from

when I was a wee pup...

I told them about buying half penny sweets to get 20 sweets in a mix up that

cost 1st

THEY WERE BAFFLED !!

I'm only 40yrs and now feel ancient !!

Anyone else have their kids look at you as if your a dinosaur !!

10p not 10st"

I remember the 10p mix! Flying saucers, cola bottles etc haha. Makes me think of the 1/2p coin!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I only remember using half pennys for one thing in my youth ......balancing the scales shall we say

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

My youngest asked me if I grew up in the Victorian Days and was being serious !!

Patted me on the knee and said " mummy that's really awful "

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"So I was just telling my kids a story from

when I was a wee pup...

I told them about buying half penny sweets to get 20 sweets in a mix up that

cost 1st

THEY WERE BAFFLED !!

I'm only 40yrs and now feel ancient !!

Anyone else have their kids look at you as if your a dinosaur !!

10p not 10st

I remember the 10p mix! Flying saucers, cola bottles etc haha. Makes me think of the 1/2p coin!

And jars of sweets behind the counter !!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"So I was just telling my kids a story from

when I was a wee pup...

I told them about buying half penny sweets to get 20 sweets in a mix up that

cost 1st

THEY WERE BAFFLED !!

I'm only 40yrs and now feel ancient !!

Anyone else have their kids look at you as if your a dinosaur !!"

Very, very, very hot dinosaur

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By *mokes n MirrorsCouple over a year ago

Plymouth and Newcastle (sometimes)

"I only remember using half pennys for one thing in my youth ......balancing the scales shall we say

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman over a year ago

little house on the praire

I was watching the enfield murders (think its called something different) the other week with my son and the girl is 12 and its set in 1977. The exact year i was 12. My son was amazed at lots of the things

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"My eight year old asked if the CDs in my car were what we listened to music on "in the olden days"!"

Blimey!

I've actually shown my children what we used to listen to music on - vinyl.

Still got my 7" records. I even have the one my daughter is named after. It's a little ditty by that Clapton chap with his band Derek and the Dominoes and was released the year before I was born.

Just shows how much technology has changed. In my lifetime, I have seen the CD launched and then superseded.

Much like what happened to the humble video recorder.

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By *opsy RogersWoman over a year ago

London

The argument as to who was gong to get up and change the channel on the TV.

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By *ighland gentlemanMan over a year ago

Ardgay

"All the time, especially when I say about black and white tv's and not having 24 hr programmes x "

And only 3 channels

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Actually now loving this thread !!

I remember a Thursday evening my dad came home with kitkats in his work coat pockets, then me and brother got our pocket money which clubbed together, went to the corner shop around our way and bought 3 packets of angels delight (sstrawberry, banana and choclate) always milk in the fridge and me and my Bro would use the little hand held metal whisk and make a three layer Angels Delight in my mum's baking bowl !!

It took a fee hours to get perfect lol

Then we halved it and scoffed the lot !! :D

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"The argument as to who was gong to get up and change the channel on the TV."

lol always !!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"So I was just telling my kids a story from

when I was a wee pup...

I told them about buying half penny sweets to get 20 sweets in a mix up that

cost 1st

THEY WERE BAFFLED !!

I'm only 40yrs and now feel ancient !!

Anyone else have their kids look at you as if your a dinosaur !!"

I remember when Mojo's were 4 for 1p! Those were the days

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"All the time, especially when I say about black and white tv's and not having 24 hr programmes x

And only 3 channels "

Aha. Now I'm too young to remember only 3 channels, but I remember being seven or eight and a TV engineer came round to do something so we'd be able to pick up Channel 5 and it was this big new exciting thing