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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Simply post something from your childhood/youth that you don't see at all or rarely now..

I'll start with

white dog poo

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

Kids playing in the street

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

Those awesome He-Man and Skeletor shaped jellys in a mould.

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

Texan chocolate bars used to love them

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

Dens or treehouses

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

"Kids playing in the street"

Was talking about this earlier, now they just roam like zombies

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

Riding around on your bike until you found all your friends bikes on one of your mates front lawns

It was the only way to know where they were

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Playing conkers at school

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Soda stream

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

Monkeys to have your picture taken with at fairs, rightly so though.

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

Schools open during snowy days.

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

tide marks

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

go karts made from old pram wheels

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

"Monkeys to have your picture taken with at fairs, rightly so though.

Can't remember monkeys but remember a guy with a big python snake at Blackpool charging for photos with it.

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By *orkie321bWoman over a year ago

Nottingham

"Those awesome He-Man and Skeletor shaped jellys in a mould."

Aww I used to love those. I bet if we could get them now we would think they taste vile

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Combs

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

BMX jumps made of an old shelf and three bricks

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

"Those awesome He-Man and Skeletor shaped jellys in a mould.

Aww I used to love those. I bet if we could get them now we would think they taste vile

There's now way any ingredient in them would pass food standards

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By *yldstyleWoman over a year ago

A world of my own

Cremola foam

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By *rincess peachWoman over a year ago

shits creek

Summer

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

candy apple man

(dont say it three times)

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By *rincess peachWoman over a year ago

shits creek

Vinyl singles

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

Having to wait to use a telephone box

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By *rincess peachWoman over a year ago

shits creek

Vhs tapes

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By *rincess peachWoman over a year ago

shits creek

Smoking everywhere, on buses, planes the lot

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

"Vinyl singles "

I still buy them weekly although mine are from a bygone era.

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

Kids from rival groups all coming together for a big communal footy 'tournament'.

Instead, they try and shoot each other.

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

Telephone wires getting curled up and spending your conversation trying to straighten it out

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

"Vhs tapes"

Betamax

lol

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman over a year ago

evesham

Candy cigarettes

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

"Vhs tapes"

Betamax tapes.

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

Writing letters to your girl/boyfriend.

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

"Candy cigarettes "

Forgot those

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

Sending the blue foldable armed forces letters through the post - I can't remember if it was free of charge though

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By *ornylittlesubWoman over a year ago

Grangemouth

"Cremola foam "

This! Actually went on line a year or so back to hunt it out.

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

zx spectrum tape loading screen/sound.

dialup internet schreeech

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

Teenths.

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By *asques and boxersCouple over a year ago

Ashford and dept16

Kids sitting on a book/small board placed on one skate, riding them down hill.

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

"zx spectrum tape loading screen/sound.

25 minutes of loading time to play 'pong' or 'frogger'

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

"zx spectrum tape loading screen/sound.

25 minutes of loading time to play 'pong' or 'frogger'"

or it'd crash

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

"zx spectrum tape loading screen/sound.

25 minutes of loading time to play 'pong' or 'frogger'"

Then error message and you start again

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

Coppers walking the beat.

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By *rincess peachWoman over a year ago

shits creek

Half pennies

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

"zx spectrum tape loading screen/sound.

25 minutes of loading time to play 'pong' or 'frogger'

Then error message and you start again

Followed by using the biro to rewind the cassette

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By *asques and boxersCouple over a year ago

Ashford and dept16

"Telephone wires getting curled up and spending your conversation trying to straighten it out "

Party lines two or more different conversations at same time.

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

portable tellys

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By *oddyWoman over a year ago

between havant and chichester

"Sending the blue foldable armed forces letters through the post - I can't remember if it was free of charge though "
yes they are

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By *ustagentMan over a year ago

wa14

no health and safty zelots!

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

Proper Tizer, not that pretend shit they sell now.

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

Monster munch roast beef crisps being more dense and tasting much nicer

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By *asques and boxersCouple over a year ago

Ashford and dept16

Headphones in recordshops so you could listen to the record before you bought it.

Great social opportunities.

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

Woolworths pick and mix

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Phone books

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By *lue NarwhalMan over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..

A copy of razzle tucked away in the bushes in the park.

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By *rincess peachWoman over a year ago

shits creek

Tony the tiger spokey dokeys

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

Those little edible foam shrimp thingies. Pink, sweet, very moorish.

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

cigarellos . I felt right posh smoking them

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

Tazos

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

Chocolate sponge with luminous green mint custard

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By *icky-discoMan over a year ago

oxford

"Phone books "

Choppers, grifters

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

Spangles

Marathons

Opal fruits

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

Hard as nails football stars

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By *icky-discoMan over a year ago

oxford

Getting shouted out your DINNERS ready

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

A bowl haircut that your maw cut with the kitchen scissors

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

What were those paper bags(small) and they banged when you threw them on the floor

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

"What were those paper bags(small) and they banged when you threw them on the floor "

Fun snaps or bang snaps, something like that.

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

Cap guns, those little strips of pink paper with mini explosives in for your revolver or 9mm

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

CB handles

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

Innocence

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

Having to go door to door to see if your mates are coming out and not just texting them. If they weren’t in you’d have to wait till tomorrow to find out where they were...it was always their nans house lol.

And the internet dial up sound...”mum get off the phone I’m on the internet on yahoo!! And Napster” lol

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

Roller boots - never did get the hang of them!

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By *icky-discoMan over a year ago

oxford

"CB handles "
10 4 a copy lol

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By *ornylittlesubWoman over a year ago

Grangemouth

"CB handles "

Forgot all about them. Mine..Blue Velvet. Break 19 a copy....now they were the days you COULD make eyeball's.

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By *icearmsMan over a year ago

KIDLINGTON

"Roller boots - never did get the hang of them! "

I had skates that you attached to your shoes and could be adjusted to fit your feet.

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

"Roller boots - never did get the hang of them!

I had skates that you attached to your shoes and could be adjusted to fit your feet.

So did I

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By *edangel_2013Woman over a year ago

southend

"zx spectrum tape loading screen/sound.

I'm pretty sure that is where my epilepsy developed.

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By *icearmsMan over a year ago

KIDLINGTON

"Roller boots - never did get the hang of them!

I had skates that you attached to your shoes and could be adjusted to fit your feet.

So did I

I never got used to them. Had loads of cuts and bruises.

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

School discos that were just that, rather than this whole 'prom' bollocks that's been adopted.

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

The spinny roundabout things on the kids playground where you loaded kids up and ran like crazy to get it going faster and you'd play last one one where you had to push others off and they'd disappear at great velocity across the playground and then try and jump back on

And there was a flat one like a spiders web

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By *icearmsMan over a year ago

KIDLINGTON

Commodore 64. Having to wait for games to load.

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

"CB handles

Forgot all about them. Mine..Blue Velvet. Break 19 a copy....now they were the days you COULD make eyeball's.

"
haha you use to ask them. " what am I pushing you " and get real excited if it was a good signal

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

"School discos that were just that, rather than this whole 'prom' bollocks that's been adopted. "

We had a fancy dress leavers disco .. no prom shite

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

Skateboarding without pads, cycling without helmets, rickety rope swinging without harnesses, all that fun stuff where you might have got hurt but generally didn't.

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By *uicy72Woman over a year ago

North Colchester

"candy apple man

(dont say it three times)"

Toffee apple man !

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

Texan bars. They used to remove teeth!

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

Chalk drawings on the pavement.

Sock balls.

Jacks and Gobs.

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

Making sure you rewound your dad's porno Betamax to exactly the right spot so he didn't know you'd watched it.

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By *uicy72Woman over a year ago

North Colchester

Ghetto blaster

Artari

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By *ornylittlesubWoman over a year ago

Grangemouth

"CB handles

Forgot all about them. Mine..Blue Velvet. Break 19 a copy....now they were the days you COULD make eyeball's.

haha you use to ask them. " what am I pushing you " and get real excited if it was a good signal "

lol...Yep I remember...mine had fairy lights..."strong 30" is what ya wanted to hear.

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

Being able to just walk into most of your mates houses without announcing yourself.

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By *pider-WomanWoman over a year ago

Exeter, Bristol, Plymouth, Truro

Chopper

bike!

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By *eesideMan over a year ago

margate sumwear by the sea

PlayStation 1 games

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By *pider-WomanWoman over a year ago

Exeter, Bristol, Plymouth, Truro

Children playing two balls

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

Proper, waist deep snow.

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

"What were those paper bags(small) and they banged when you threw them on the floor

Fun snaps or bang snaps, something like that. "

You can still get them round here, heard loads in the summer..

Milky bar

Curly wurly

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

"Those little edible foam shrimp thingies. Pink, sweet, very moorish."

lol I buy them from the pound shop and take them to work almost daily

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

"candy apple man

(dont say it three times)

Toffee apple man !"

its candy apple man ok!..

however he actually would shout around the street, "WHELKS , MUSSELS AND CANDYAAAAAAAAPLES!"

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

Little clockwork toys that hopped off your school desk.

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

British bulldogs game

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

"Children playing two balls

I used to love playing that with my best friend.

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

Walkmans

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

"Sending the blue foldable armed forces letters through the post - I can't remember if it was free of charge though yes they are"

They are called forces bluey's tho the last one i sent was around 13 years ago lol

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Rebound against a wall

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

Jimmy Saville singing me to sleep...too much lol??

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

Toy soldiers!

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By * and M lookingCouple over a year ago

Worcester

Roadworks where there are actually people working and not hiding behind health and safety gone mad.

It’s a dangerous job, live with it, stop killing us as a country with bureaucracy.

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By *pider-WomanWoman over a year ago

Exeter, Bristol, Plymouth, Truro

Pacman

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By *pider-WomanWoman over a year ago

Exeter, Bristol, Plymouth, Truro

"Children playing two balls

I used to love playing that with my best friend. "

Me too. X

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

Hopscotch

Skipping rope games.

Games using a bit of elastic

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

"Roadworks where there are actually people working and not hiding behind health and safety gone mad.

It’s a dangerous job, live with it, stop killing us as a country with bureaucracy."

Fuck yeah.

A bit like coppers who used to push a broken down car out of the way so traffic could get moving sooner.

Now it takes 2 hours to move one.

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By *uicy72Woman over a year ago

North Colchester

"candy apple man

(dont say it three times)

Toffee apple man !

its candy apple man ok!..

however he actually would shout around the street, "WHELKS , MUSSELS AND CANDYAAAAAAAAPLES!""

Not in EastEnd

He used to beep his horn and shout out “toffee apples”

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By *uicy72Woman over a year ago

North Colchester

"Pacman

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By *uicy72Woman over a year ago

North Colchester

Donkey Kong

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

Scalextrix

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

Choppers and Boxers

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By *exymidscouple2017Couple over a year ago

Birmingham

Tripe

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By *pider-WomanWoman over a year ago

Exeter, Bristol, Plymouth, Truro

"Hopscotch

Skipping rope games.

Games using a bit of elastic "

Omg yes

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

Porn mags stashed in hidey holes in dry stone walls

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By *oiretblancCouple over a year ago

London

Hairy pussies

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By *oiretblancCouple over a year ago

London

"Hairy pussies"

....in porn!

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Space hoppers

And

Pogo sticks

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

"Hopscotch

Skipping rope games.

Games using a bit of elastic "

Just going to say these!...double skipping ropes, paper aeroplanes in class. That origami thing where you had to pick a number, then a colour etc. Cats cradle...

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

Spirograph

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

Etch a sketch

God it's coming back to me now

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Kerplunk

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

Compendium of games....

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

For the girls, pippa dolls

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By *organ and rob zombieCouple over a year ago

bradford

"Skateboarding without pads, cycling without helmets, rickety rope swinging without harnesses, all that fun stuff where you might have got hurt but generally didn't. "

This! Made us who we are today!

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By *organ and rob zombieCouple over a year ago

bradford

"Spirograph

I so want one of these!

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By *organ and rob zombieCouple over a year ago

bradford

Pacers spearmint chews

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

Anyone remember Wham bars?

And the game kerbie? which I spent most of my school holidays playing ( real hot summer holidays )

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

Coppers

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

Yep a bluee was free still is i think

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

"Spirograph

I so want one of these!"

I suppose you could still get them, I loved it!

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

French elastics.

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

Cola cubes and half penny chews

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By *organ and rob zombieCouple over a year ago

bradford

"Spirograph

I so want one of these!

I suppose you could still get them, I loved it!

Gonna have a look for one, my older sister had one but I was too young to appreciate it at the time! :-/

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

"French elastics. "

On,on, in,out ,in,on!....or something like that!

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

"Soda stream "

Sodastreams still exist

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

"Spirograph

I so want one of these!

I suppose you could still get them, I loved it!

Gonna have a look for one, my older sister had one but I was too young to appreciate it at the time! :-/"

Aah...

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

Arcade machines that used to cost 10p a game

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

"Monkeys to have your picture taken with at fairs, rightly so though.

Can't remember monkeys but remember a guy with a big python snake at Blackpool charging for photos with it."

Little one, guess a spider monkey at Hull fair in my case.

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

Jacks, where you would throw the ball up and pick up a Jack, and then two jacks etc..

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By *i1971Man over a year ago

Cornwall

Chocolate cigarettes/cigars (choc sticks wrapped like a roll-up)

Liquorice shaped like a smoking pipe, with a coloured sweet where the tobacco would be

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

"What were those paper bags(small) and they banged when you threw them on the floor

Fun snaps or bang snaps, something like that.

You can still get them round here, heard loads in the summer..

Milky bar

Curly wurly"

I still can get curly wurlys

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

Panda pops

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By *edangel_2013Woman over a year ago

southend

"Spirograph

I so want one of these!

I suppose you could still get them, I loved it!

Gonna have a look for one, my older sister had one but I was too young to appreciate it at the time! :-/

Aah...

Tesco have them. As do The Entertainer. I just bought myself one for Christmas.

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By *uicy72Woman over a year ago

North Colchester

Penny up the wall !

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By *amissCouple over a year ago

chelmsford

"Spirograph

I so want one of these!

I suppose you could still get them, I loved it!

Gonna have a look for one, my older sister had one but I was too young to appreciate it at the time! :-/

Aah...

Tesco have them. As do The Entertainer. I just bought myself one for Christmas. "

I think I want one again!

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By *igerlilycubWoman over a year ago

Lancashire

Toffos

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

Loved that stuff!

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

"Jacks, where you would throw the ball up and pick up a Jack, and then two jacks etc.."

I used to love this

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Space Invaders !!!!!!

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By *layfullsam OP Man over a year ago

Solihull

Ordering Sea monkeys from magazines

And

Buying X-ray specs that you thought would let you see women naked

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By *ulldog_71Man over a year ago

Sedgefield

Butterscotch Ready brek

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By *amiePhuktMan over a year ago

Bristol

Shrinky Dinkies

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

I'm sure some on here remember dodos

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By *un4meanduMan over a year ago

STOTFOLD

Taking empty drinks bottles back to shop to get deposit back , then spending the money on proper gobstoppers' that lasted for ages

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By *eeky goodnessMan over a year ago

Worcester

Video rental stores and electronic boutique

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

Milk men on electric floats holding the traffic up

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

Peashooters.

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By *ust Us TogetherCouple over a year ago

Newport

Clackers........the proper glass ones!!

You were almost a demi-god if you could do a pair in each hand!!

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

Lego, when a set didn't cost in the £100's

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

Spanish Fly

Jazz mags in hedges

Lost Cities of Gold

Keys in tractors

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By *ust Us TogetherCouple over a year ago

Newport

spending hours trying to get a set of old Fairy lights working.......

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

The Smash Robots in the adverts.

I had one of the robots too... untill Debbie threw it down the stairs the cow... lol

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By *ancduoCouple over a year ago

Manchester

"Texan chocolate bars used to love them "
yeah they teased us bringing them out again then cruelly ripped them away once more “sniffle”

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By *ancduoCouple over a year ago

Manchester

Post that arrived before you woke and the milk float going past in the snow at 6am

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

"Simply post something from your childhood/youth that you don't see at all or rarely now..

I'll start with

white dog poo"
photographs actual printed photographs whatever happened to them ,I loved them

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

"go karts made from old pram wheels "

Golliwog on Roberts jam you used to collect them to get a metal badge

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

"go karts made from old pram wheels

Golliwog on Roberts jam you used to collect them to get a metal badge

"
omg the golliwog nearly fell off the jam jar remember that expression which of course and quite rightly is inappropriate now !!

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By *anda and CatCouple over a year ago

Mars bars, curly whirly's, wagon wheels being massive!

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By *ELLONS AND CREAMWoman over a year ago

stourbridge area

I got a telegram once from a friend on my birthday ... I think I was about 14 ...

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By *LIRTWITHUSCouple over a year ago

Chester

Alpine Pop

Scrumping

Kiss Chase Fi xx

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

"Simply post something from your childhood/youth that you don't see at all or rarely now..

I'll start with

white dog poophotographs actual printed photographs whatever happened to them ,I loved them

I encourage all my customers to have photos printed. There's a digital black hole type Armageddon lurking out there that will trash electronic storage and erase memories forever.

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

"Alpine Pop

Scrumping

Kiss Chase Fi xx"

Alpine pop, that stuff was awesome. Maybe it was the E-Numbers that made it so.

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