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When you've made a phone call on a rotary dial phone
So what else is there ?
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over a year ago
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Press play and record on a Sunday evening for the Top 40 |
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"Press play and record on a Sunday evening for the Top 40"
I can remember doing this..that made me smile |
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over a year ago
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"Press play and record on a Sunday evening for the Top 40
I can remember doing this..that made me smile"
Trying to judge it so you got exactly the start of the song ! |
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If you can remember the old style, 8 track tape cartridges then you are clearly and officially a dinosaur (they were awesome right?)  |
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"Press play and record on a Sunday evening for the Top 40
I can remember doing this..that made me smile
Trying to judge it so you got exactly the start of the song !"
Yes... trying to avoid anyone taking over it. Oh and the tape getting chewed..the good old days  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Press play and record on a Sunday evening for the Top 40"
That's me fucked then did it most weekends |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you used a pen or pencil to rewind a cassette.
If you ever used a cassette!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Used to watch the test card on a black and white tv waiting for the children’s programme to come on x |
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over a year ago
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watching saturday morning tv
wrestling in the afternoon
blind date in the evening
hitman and her when you got in at 2 am |
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If you've ever had a car with a manual ch.ke (it won't let me put the word)
Juggling the ch.ke and accelerator pedal on a icey cold morning was a skill in itself !  |
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over a year ago
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If you used 110 film in cameras and ice cube flashes |
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over a year ago
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I can remember seeing a TV remote control at a friend's house that had a wire from the remote to the TV. |
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You played with toys that came in the bottom of cereal boxes. |
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over a year ago
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"watching saturday morning tv
wrestling in the afternoon
blind date in the evening
hitman and her when you got in at 2 am"
Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. |
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over a year ago
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dad made you set the table for tea and you had side plates/cup & saucer/tea pot
pudding was tinned fruit and evaporated milk |
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over a year ago
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Used your Mum's old-fashioned wind-up, table top, bean slicer. |
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over a year ago
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Used the typing pool ... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Only 3 channels on the tv
The clown card during the day for no programmes
Green cross code
Don't park in the box!
So a friend told me  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"watching saturday morning tv
wrestling in the afternoon
blind date in the evening
hitman and her when you got in at 2 am"
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Played the original frustration..
Had sheets and blankets on yr bed |
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over a year ago
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"Press play and record on a Sunday evening for the Top 40
I can remember doing this..that made me smile"
Im definitely old...I used to cut out the lyrics from Smash Hits magazine too  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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you had an Evel Knievel wind up racing stunt bike
or a sindy doll |
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over a year ago
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You can remember when Jimmy Savile, Garry Glitter and Rolf Harris weren't nonces. |
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over a year ago
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"If you've ever had a car with a manual ch.ke (it won't let me put the word)
Juggling the ch.ke and accelerator pedal on a icey cold morning was a skill in itself ! "
We have a car that still does  |
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If you've used a Polaroid instant camera |
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over a year ago
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If you had to go to Boots to get your holiday snaps developed. |
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"If you've ever had a car with a manual ch.ke (it won't let me put the word)
Juggling the ch.ke and accelerator pedal on a icey cold morning was a skill in itself !
We have a car that still does "
Omg, enjoy that beauty
What is it ? |
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over a year ago
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When cartoon's were actually good. |
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"You can remember when Jimmy Savile, Garry Glitter and Rolf Harris weren't nonces."
Guess they were but hadn't been caught |
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over a year ago
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Your cellphone was for emergencies only and the size of a brick! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When 48k of memory seemed huge. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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played board game Mastermind
the tennis game on console (cant remember proper name) |
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over a year ago
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Watched black and white TV |
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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago
liverpool wavertree picton clock |
Your mum put your dinner on Bigtrack |
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over a year ago
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"played board game Mastermind
the tennis game on console (cant remember proper name)"
Ah Mastermind, which was nothing like the popular tv show of the same name. |
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over a year ago
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You could play in the street, without worry , and count the number of cars there on one hand |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"played board game Mastermind
the tennis game on console (cant remember proper name)
Ah Mastermind, which was nothing like the popular tv show of the same name."
Tv Tennis or Pong. I still have one. |
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"played board game Mastermind
the tennis game on console (cant remember proper name)"
Pong? (Beep.....boop.......beep......boop) |
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When you used a phone book to find numbers |
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over a year ago
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My parents still have the Mastermind board game. I loved it! |
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You watched multi coloured swap shop and crackerjack!! |
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If you ever watched 3,2,1 with Ted Rogers and Dusty Bin. |
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over a year ago
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When u went to Sunday school so you could eat.
When you had a tin bath in front of an open fire.
When you went carol singing and penny for the guy.
When you remember how big wham bars were!!!
When you wore turned up checked trousers
When you had to walk to find a telephone
When you got bread ?? every day. Or it would be stale.
Oh the good old days |
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You can remember when the United Kingdom voted yes in a referendum to join EU  |
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You received an orange in a xmas stocking that had your name on it |
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over a year ago
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If you ever tried to make a Vesta Curry. |
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If you ever used to stay up late to watch the old Open University maths programmes.
Did anyone ever understand any of it? |
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By *latinumkittenWoman
over a year ago
from Home Counties to Middle Earth |
If you can remember Live Aid |
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Also - the old (and often bloody scary!) public information ‘films’ that aired just prior to the BBC shutting down every evening.... |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
In Your Bush |
"If you can remember Live Aid"
Not only remember it. Pretty sure I’ve still got the lot recorded on VHS somewhere in my loft  |
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over a year ago
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You know the secret of the black magic box and why the milka cow is lilac |
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"I can remember seeing a TV remote control at a friend's house that had a wire from the remote to the TV."
I can remember TVs that didn't have remotes. You had to get up to change channels. But that was ok because there were only 3 channels anyway, each with its own button. |
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We used to use postal orders in the good old days to. Are they still in existence even? |
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You're officially old when 'Twerk' means a place when Yorkshire folk typically go Monday-Friday 9-5. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When Saturday evening tv was worth watching.
The Two Ronnie's
Cannon and Ball
Morecambe and Wise
Metal Mickey
Russ Abbot
321
Sale of the Century
Blake's 7
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over a year ago
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"I can remember seeing a TV remote control at a friend's house that had a wire from the remote to the TV.
I can remember TVs that didn't have remotes. You had to get up to change channels. But that was ok because there were only 3 channels anyway, each with its own button. "
Yeah we had one. It had valves in the back so you had to wait for it to warm up. |
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By *ookie46Woman
over a year ago
Deepest darkest Peru |
"If you can remember Live Aid
Not only remember it. Pretty sure I’ve still got the lot recorded on VHS somewhere in my loft "
Mines on my Beetamax |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you played paperboy on a Commodore 64! |
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over a year ago
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When you had to write programs on a computer to play games |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
In Your Bush |
"I can remember seeing a TV remote control at a friend's house that had a wire from the remote to the TV.
I can remember TVs that didn't have remotes. You had to get up to change channels. But that was ok because there were only 3 channels anyway, each with its own button. "
Had to put a 10p in ours to make it work. Or was it 5p? Can’t remember now. |
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"If you played paperboy on a Commodore 64!"
Guilty.  |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
In Your Bush |
"If you can remember Live Aid
Not only remember it. Pretty sure I’ve still got the lot recorded on VHS somewhere in my loft
Mines on my Beetamax "
Jeez I can’t top Betamax |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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lf you watched bag puss and the soup dragons |
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And I remember not having a phone at home - had to go to the phone box down the road.
Christ I sound ancient. |
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In the good old days also, eating a bowl of Ready Brek would cause one to instantly develop a rather fetching orange aura that would last until one went home after school |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When having a ride on a Chopper wouldn't result in a call from the rozzers. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you would arrange to meet a friend and if they didn't turn up you'd just have to go home. |
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" Use a pen and paper "
Not a ink pot and quill  |
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"I can remember seeing a TV remote control at a friend's house that had a wire from the remote to the TV."
Our first one was like that: a Grundig. Think we paid £1,000 for the tv and vcr...in 1982! |
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If you know what "press button B" means |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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" Use a pen and paper
Not a ink pot and quill "
I think my dad used a chisel and stone tablet. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I can remember seeing a TV remote control at a friend's house that had a wire from the remote to the TV.
Our first one was like that: a Grundig. Think we paid £1,000 for the tv and vcr...in 1982!"
Radio rentals was big then too. We rented our first video player |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You had to watch out for a ‘humprey ‘ when drinking milk! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I can remember seeing a TV remote control at a friend's house that had a wire from the remote to the TV.
Our first one was like that: a Grundig. Think we paid £1,000 for the tv and vcr...in 1982!
Radio rentals was big then too. We rented our first video player "
It was Radio Rentals or Rumbelows.
Now it's Slash Converters. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you had Corona Pop delivered. |
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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago
liverpool wavertree picton clock |
Taping computer games tape to tape on a Hi Fi
Using a Thundershot 2 joystick
Road Rash |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Taping computer games tape to tape on a Hi Fi
Using a Thundershot 2 joystick
Road Rash"
Lol buying a game from WH Smith's or John Menzines. Then copying it and giving it out to all your mates the taking it back for a full refund. |
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By *am4CamWoman
over a year ago
Fairy Land |
"When you've made a phone call on a rotary dial phone
So what else is there ?
Best answer wins a curly wurly "
When you’ve eaten a Fry’s five centres. |
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By *agenta400Woman
over a year ago
All over the shop |
"When you've made a phone call on a rotary dial phone
So what else is there ?
Best answer wins a curly wurly "
When you remember Terry Scot playing a school boy to advertise Curly
There was a little pull out strip cartoon of him in the wrapper too. Or was it on the wrapper. I’m old. I dunno.
And he did song called “My Bruvva” dresses as a school boy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"lf you watched bag puss and the soup dragons "
Bagpuss scared the hell out of me. Not sure why lol |
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over a year ago
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"If you've ever had a car with a manual ch.ke (it won't let me put the word)
Juggling the ch.ke and accelerator pedal on a icey cold morning was a skill in itself ! "
pressing the starter button and using the crank |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
Buying the original Sony Sports Walkman, in bright yellow, at Dixon's.
Cost well over £100 Then. Still have it!
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over a year ago
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The funny thing is that I as a 31-year-old recognise things people who replied in their 50s have mentioned.
Just goes to show how fast things have and continue to advance. |
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over a year ago
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Watching worzel gummidge and the waltons on a Sunday |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When balls go cold. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Your car had wind up windows! "
Haha our current car has wind up rear windows. That one isn’t so old! |
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over a year ago
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You remember ash trays on The tables in Mc Donalds.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"you had an Evel Knievel wind up racing stunt bike
or a sindy doll"
Mr Cagey has one of those Evel Kneivel’s and our kid is going to be confused by a post like this someday as she plays with it. She even knows what a rotary phone is.
Reading this whole post I can’t relate to all as I didn’t grow up in the UK, but I know I’m old |
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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago
where the road goes on forever |
Playing cards in your bike spokes |
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By *uryWhipMan
over a year ago
Harringay |
Public safety ads with kids climbing pilons to retrieve frisbys and running across train tracks.
Also, Frisby |
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"Your car had wind up windows! "
Don't forget the Quarter Lights, Trafficators and "When I was a lad, all of this used to be fields" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Your mum put 50p in the gas meter, you owned a space hopper lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Public safety ads with kids climbing pilons to retrieve frisbys and running across train tracks.
Also, Frisby "
Ohh what about the adverts “Charlie says” I never spoke to strangers because of that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Watched movies using a top loader video recorder |
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When you can remember the original thunderbirds, captain scarlet, joe 90
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When you've made a phone call on a rotary dial phone
So what else is there ?
Best answer wins a curly wurly "
When the hairs in your nose grow quicker than your erection |
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over a year ago
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"If you played paperboy on a Commodore 64!"
I had a Vic 20! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You lived in a house with a TV that didn't have a remote.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You lived in a house with a TV that didn't have a remote.
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or a house with no TV at all the thought I mean how would they get through life |
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over a year ago
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"Your mum put 50p in the gas meter, you owned a space hopper lol"
The big 50p too  |
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By *reygorCouple
over a year ago
birmingham |
had a wank to a pic of a nearly fully dressed female showing a bit of stocking top in the TIT BITS mag |
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over a year ago
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When you got a 10p mixy and it had 10 sweets in it |
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Learnt to type on a manual typewriter and still use shorthand |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You take your family to the museum and your first mobile phone is now an exhibit...
When the same family asked you what people did before Google...
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By *p230Man
over a year ago
Warwickshire |
Remember milk being delivered by the milk lady with her horse & cart x |
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Jumping off the rear double decker bus platform before it had stopped at the bus stop. On your way to school. |
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Remember Dirty Den handing Angie divorce papers, and watched it first time round..
Also if you had a walkman, or ZX Spectrum (rubber keys) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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To use an AA road map |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you have lived more years than you have years left to live |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When you've made a phone call on a rotary dial phone
So what else is there ?
Best answer wins a curly wurly "
When you start talking about things in the past in decades ago, not years |
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When you recall a recent film, and then realise that fil is 10-15 years old! |
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"When you recall a recent film, and then realise that fil is 10-15 years old!"
Or it comes up on social media the 20year since it was released comes up |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You remember watching Gordon Banks’s save in the 1970 World Cup at your Nana’s house and we’re born before England won the World Cup in ‘66 and Cilla Black was number 1 in the charts when you were born |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Getting a clip round the ear from the local bobby, then getting another clip from my mother when I told her. |
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When pounds were in paper not a coin.
Putting a lolly ice stick in the rear wheel of your Raleigh grifter
Running home from school to watch blockbusters with Bob holness |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If you've ever had a car with a manual ch.ke (it won't let me put the word)
Juggling the ch.ke and accelerator pedal on a icey cold morning was a skill in itself ! "
Or a car with a 3 speed gearbox |
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By *p4funCouple
over a year ago
Plymouth |
You watched
banana splits
Robinson crusoe
Flashing blade
Champion the wonder horse
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By *VineMan
over a year ago
The right place |
You were evacuated during the war. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You watched
banana splits
Robinson crusoe
Flashing blade
Champion the wonder horse
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Used your Mum's old-fashioned wind-up, table top, bean slicer. "
Oh this is a good one |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When there was only 3 TV channels and the test card came on at midnight |
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"Only 3 channels on the tv
The clown card during the day for no programmes
Green cross code
Don't park in the box!
So a friend told me "
I said that was a secret |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You were evacuated during the war. "
You were under a table in the kitchen, suffering so much from Scarlet Fever, that you couldn’t go into the Anderson shelter, during the Blitz.
Or were nearly mowed down by a rogue Messerschmitt,while crossing a railway bridge on the way back from school. |
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By *lan157Man
over a year ago
a village near Haywards Heath in East Sussex |
You went to Saturday morning childrens cinema and stamped your feet in unison when the baddies came on the screen |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Getting up on a Saturday and watching the banana splits on the telly but having to put 50p in the telly first to make it work.
Running out to the rag and bone man on his horse and cart to get a balloon off him.
Getting a whole bag of half penny mojo’s for 10p
Taking lemonade bottles back to the shop to get the 10p deposit back. |
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over a year ago
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"If you can remember the old style, 8 track tape cartridges then you are clearly and officially a dinosaur (they were awesome right?) "
Had a Realistic one, best sound quality ever, remember many a Sunday morning listening to Dark Side of the Moon and Revolver |
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Afternoon naps.....had one yesterday driving to a job.....will up refreshed ... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"watching saturday morning tv
wrestling in the afternoon
blind date in the evening
hitman and her when you got in at 2 am"
That’s not bloody old, that was the mid 90’s  |
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"Afternoon naps.....had one yesterday driving to a job.....will up refreshed ... "
*Woke! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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A student told me I was the same age as their nan  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I can barely remember what I had for breakfast |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Only 3 channels on the tv
The clown card during the day for no programmes
Green cross code
Don't park in the box!
So a friend told me
I said that was a secret "
Hahahahahahahahahahaha glad you fessed up thought she meant me! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"If you played paperboy on a Commodore 64!
I had a Vic 20!"
Me too, the shittest computer of all time. I ended up with my cousins second hand Amstrad cpc 464 and I felt like I’d won the lottery. Which didn’t exist then btw but still. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Only having 3 channels and children's tv was only on a Saturday morning..Remember Swap Shop ? .. Lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Watching Chorlton and the Wheelies |
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"Only having 3 channels and children's tv was only on a Saturday morning..Remember Swap Shop ? .. Lol "
Swap shop was for the good children, tiswas was where it was at lol
Mmmm Sally james |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you yourself was mum and dads TV remote |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When you yourself was mum and dads TV remote "
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When your grandad had the first tv in your area an on sunday the bbc tuned off from 5 till 7 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When you got a 10p mixy and it had 10 sweets in it "
I remember getting 20 sweets for
10p! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you did the shake and vac to get the freshness back |
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By *p4funCouple
over a year ago
Plymouth |
Watching ..
Rhubarb and custard
Pipkins
The herbs
Talesof the riverbank
Bagpus |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Going to the video shop to fend a movie |
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By *inkySeeKinkyDoWoman
over a year ago
'tween PontyCarlo & CasVegas in West Yorks |
Youre first 'mobile phone' involved 2 cups and some string!
(Not to be confused with two girls one cup!) |
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By *inkySeeKinkyDoWoman
over a year ago
'tween PontyCarlo & CasVegas in West Yorks |
"Youre first 'mobile phone' involved 2 cups and some string!
(Not to be confused with two girls one cup!) "
* Your
(And you could spell without spellcheck or autocarrot and your grammer wasnt so poor!) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sitting on your dad's lap as he drove the car
Smoking in cinemas,planes,trains.
TV interviewers and interviewees smoking on telly
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"Your mum put 50p in the gas meter, you owned a space hopper lol
The big 50p too "
It was shillings back when I was a kid.. that's 5p now) |
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"Only 3 channels on the tv
The clown card during the day for no programmes
Green cross code
Don't park in the box!
So a friend told me
I said that was a secret
Hahahahahahahahahahaha glad you fessed up thought she meant me! "
Could easily have been either of us |
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When you listened to Radio Luxemburg on your old radio, twisting the ariel this way and that to get the signal |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Your car had wind up windows! "
Fucking hell, my first car had sliding windows!.. |
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"Your car had wind up windows!
Fucking hell, my first car had sliding windows!.. "
Hahahaha... actually did laugh to... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"When you've made a phone call on a rotary dial phone
So what else is there ?
Best answer wins a curly wurly "
Nah you're officially a modern hipster |
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You remember radio having more than 10 songs on their daily play list |
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Childhood memories...
Having an outside toilet, and a chamber pot under the bed!
Crying when the central heating was fitted, how would Santa deliver my presents?
Getting our first phone, a party line with next door, shouting "Max, you left the phone off the hook again" into the receiver, everytime we needed to make a call.
When the view from my bedroom window was slag heaps & pit wheels
Ah happy days! |
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By *adeiteWoman
over a year ago
Stafford |
You remember a time before phones and computers. Plus..... Dial up! |
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Your parents were the proud owners of a single tub clothes boiler complete with a new fangled hand roller ( mangle ) on top and they let you use the wooden tongs to pull the sheets from the boil. |
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If there was a time in your life when you wondered if you would need a mobile phone.
If there was a time in your life when it was a real problem if you didn't have a phone directory. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You remember cassette tapes and vhs
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Wait for the pips before butting your 2 pence in |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You are familiar with the BBC test card.. |
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"Wait for the pips before butting your 2 pence in "
Or my pre-decimal pennies and push button A or B ......
You whippersnapper you. |
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By *xelf787Man
over a year ago
Chorlton, Manchester |
You made a "bogey" out of old crates, pram wheels and bits if string! |
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By *xelf787Man
over a year ago
Chorlton, Manchester |
You had to go to the library to borrow a book! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Your first game console was a commodore 64.
Adam |
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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago
Hillside desolate |
"You had to go to the library to borrow a book!"
I still do that |
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By *xelf787Man
over a year ago
Chorlton, Manchester |
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By *xelf787Man
over a year ago
Chorlton, Manchester |
You got a little bottle of milk at primary school in the morning. You used to gag drinking it because it always tasted of chlorine!! :O= |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Wait for the pips before butting your 2 pence in
Or my pre-decimal pennies and push button A or B ......
You whippersnapper you. "
Yeah but I don't mind seeing threepenny bits |
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By *xelf787Man
over a year ago
Chorlton, Manchester |
"You had to go to the library to borrow a book!
I still do that "
I didn't know you could still do that!! |
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................ if you started this thread. |
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