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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Without revealing your actual age,
What’s something that you remember that if you told someone younger, they wouldn’t understand?
Doughnut |
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Childrens programmes 16.30 - 18.00 only |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Only having 3 TV channels, with you being the remote control, activated by a kick  |
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A and B buttons on a public phone |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
Moving from Old Money (Pounds, Shillings & Pence) to Decimal (£'s and Pence). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Chopper |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Hedge porn |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Black and white tv |
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Pub closing hours. 11am until 3pm. And then 6pm until 11pm. On the dot. "have you no homes to go home too!" |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Telex machines. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Climbing down chimneys to clean them and begging for more groul fuck I am old |
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"Telex machines."
...and even fax machines |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Getting off the sofa to change tv channel |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
Anything closely resembling a Supermarket as we know them today, opened 9am to 5.30pm Mon to Sat, closed Sundays and Bank Holidays. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Bunty & Jackie |
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Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
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"Only having 3 TV channels, with you being the remote control, activated by a kick "
They had them remote controls for a while that were attached to the telly by a wire! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Michael Barrymore was allowed on tv, Michael Jackson was safe with your kids and Lenny Henry was funny. |
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By *bcums3Couple
over a year ago
lanarkshire |
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By *bcums3Couple
over a year ago
lanarkshire |
Playing bamboozle on teletext  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There was 150 of us living in shoe box middle tut road |
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"Black and white tv"
waiting 5 minutes for the valves to heat up so a picture could come on. No instant on /off back in a time long so long ago
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That tennis game thing on early computers. And Space Invaders |
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By *reya73Woman
over a year ago
Whitley Bay |
When the internet made a noise like robots screaming
Brown polo necks
My mum in flares |
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"Fireball XL5 "
hey I can go back even further. That was gerry Andersons 3rd TV series. The second was supercar and the first was four feather falls
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
"There was 150 of us living in shoe box middle tut road"
Shoe box? Luxury!
We'd a hole in t'ground!
Kids today, don't know how lucky they are!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anything closely resembling a Supermarket as we know them today, opened 9am to 5.30pm Mon to Sat, closed Sundays and Bank Holidays."
And Wednesday afternoons
Coalmen
Milkmen
Powdered orange juice
Freezer compartments in fridges
Lino
Paraffin heaters
Women wearing rollers and headscarfs
Klackers ( or whatevva they were called)
Cat food in tins not pouches
Those rubber things on the end of kitchen taps
Kids being able to buy cigarettes
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Our war of the roses wasn't about who wanted the orange or strawberry creams |
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"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
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bring back both |
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EyeToy for PlayStation. Precursor to the Wii
(Yeah that's still fairly recent, I'm young shoot me hah!) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When the only things that bothered you was what the hell was a Humphrey that we had to watch out for and who was the Phantom Flan Flinger...  |
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By *reya73Woman
over a year ago
Whitley Bay |
Teachers stinking of cigarettes and booze! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We used to live in a corridor |
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Topic bars that had a hazelnut in every bite and not like todays topics where its hard to find a nut |
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Every item of clothing in I owned was a hand-me-down apart from shoes and pants. |
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CrackerJack on at 5 o’clock, what the hell were they thinking, fecking 6 o’clock the worlds gone mad |
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Fraggle rock and muppet babies |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Tank Tops. My mum was so proud of the one she knitted me |
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The white dot on the TV after the National Anthem  |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both "
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name. |
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Get off the internet I need to use the phone
The art of text speak to communicate as much in as few characters as possible, not because we couldn't spell. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We used to live in a hole in the ground |
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"Tank Tops. My mum was so proud of the one she knitted me "
Remember going to a family wedding we all hand knitted jumpers..
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not being able to use the internet and house phone at the same time |
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"LPs"
Have you been in any sainsburys in the entire country recently? |
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"We used to live in a hole in the ground "
Not wanting to put Grimsby down but..
Just kidding.. |
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By *oxtonMan
over a year ago
Some where in West Yorkshire |
Opal Fruits
Super Gran
Master System
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"Not being able to use the internet and house phone at the same time"
I've not been caught blowing into a phone for years now... |
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"LPs
Have you been in any sainsburys in the entire country recently? "
True. Vinyl outsells CDs now |
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Smoking in underground stations. |
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Hmmm
Freezerpops ( maybe not my generation but I remember it )
Dial up internet - the horrible noise it made!
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"Opal Fruits
Super Gran
Master System
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Geoff capes was (is?) a budgie fancier. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We used to live in a hole in the ground Not wanting to put Grimsby down but..
Just kidding.. "
Haha it’s ok you wont upset me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When bullying was not only allowed but encouraged. Much better days. |
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"When bullying was not only allowed but encouraged. Much better days. "
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"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name."
Owned by Masterfoods one of the largest private owned companies |
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Levis £3:50 a pair and sitting in the bath to "shrink to fit" |
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"Spangles "
and white dog poo, right? I saw them myself but still believe they're urban myths now.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We used to have to get up in the morning half hour before we went to bed |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Pulling in town then having to put smokey clothes on to go home in. Nothing worse than putting stale smokey clothes on for the walk of shame. |
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"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name.
Owned by Masterfoods one of the largest private owned companies "
Snickers came first. Marathon was a "health" branding!  |
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A TV (Television) that you could give a good hard slap, and it liked it! |
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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago
In my happy place |
The pips on a public phonebox
Arranging to meet someone in a week's time and they showed up
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Spangles and white dog poo, right? I saw them myself but still believe they're urban myths now. "
No, Spangles were deffo real |
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Woolworths Christmas adverts - this will send you back in time!
https://youtu.be/1m_0ENIw4os |
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"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name.
Owned by Masterfoods one of the largest private owned companies
Snickers came first. Marathon was a "health" branding! "
Very true but the UK market thought it sounded too close to Knickers !!! |
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"Spangles and white dog poo, right? I saw them myself but still believe they're urban myths now.
No, Spangles were deffo real"
So was white dog poo! |
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"When bullying was not only allowed but encouraged. Much better days. "
have you seen this thing... Facebook..?
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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Buses had open rear platforms, rarely heated in winter, with a conductor. Smokers went upstairs. Buses ran far more frequently, 7 days a week.
Shops: cold meats were sliced at the counter in front of you. A lot of grocery shops had seats at the counters too for elderly customers.
Trucks often had loads leaning in to the centre of the truck, sometimes with a rope or tarpaulin to hold it in place. Drivers slept overnight on top of the engine cowl inside the cab - no heater at night.
Soft drinks were sold by the bottle from vans or trucks which came round the streets where you lived. |
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"Spangles and white dog poo, right? I saw them myself but still believe they're urban myths now.
No, Spangles were deffo real
So was white dog poo! "
And a spangles advert too
https://youtu.be/MnsV0TAOf8U |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Using a pencil to rewind a cassette to save on batteries lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Waiting for commodore 64 tapes to download and getting a little glass bottle of milk at primary school. |
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By *i1971Man
over a year ago
Cornwall |
"When the only things that bothered you was what the hell was a Humphrey that we had to watch out for and who was the Phantom Flan Flinger... "
That's triggered an ear-worm. "Watch out, watch out, watch out, there's a Humphrey about" and "drink it quick, Humphreys are slick". Unigate milk. |
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
Northampton Somewhere |
I mentioned Wigfield to my new boss, he didn't have a clue ~ he's 23. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We used to dream of living in a corridor |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
"Waiting for commodore 64 tapes to download and getting a little glass bottle of milk at primary school."
I was Milk Monitor at one Primary School I attended. Crates of milk were left at the school gates. In winter, the cream top would be freezing cold and had pushed the foil cap off the top of the bottle by an inch or two.
In summer, there was a battle to get the crates into the school before the local birds pecked off the foil caps to reach the nutritional cream first!
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"I mentioned Wigfield to my new boss, he didn't have a clue ~ he's 23."
Saturday night  any time I heard it I was mentally ready to just go out |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Does anyone remember the Campbells meatballs adverts from when I was a little boy with 'Malcolm Meatball Head'.
No one I know remembers it... |
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"Teachers stinking of cigarettes and booze! "
and smoking during lessons |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Having to press the 9 key twice followed by twice again followed by twice again for 3 kisses |
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"Teachers stinking of cigarettes and booze!
and smoking during lessons "
And doctors in their surgeries too, I remember this as a child |
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"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name."
mars brought back the marathon bar brand for 3 months only as a way to celebrate 85 years,of making chocolate. It was, done for nostalgic reasons only. They then reverted back to snickers. Much like todays bags of m&ms which are coloured versions of the old bags of treets you once got and in my opinion they tasted better than todays sweets and they were much bigger. Far too much fiddling on with the recipes and spoiling the taste. Yes Cadburys you are at fault as well changing the recipe for the creme egg. What have you done to it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Celtic fans throwing bananas at Rangers Mark Walters |
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"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name.mars brought back the marathon bar brand for 3 months only as a way to celebrate 85 years,of making chocolate. It was, done for nostalgic reasons only. They then reverted back to snickers. Much like todays bags of m&ms which are coloured versions of the old bags of treets you once got and in my opinion they tasted better than todays sweets and they were much bigger. Far too much fiddling on with the recipes and spoiling the taste. Yes Cadburys you are at fault as well changing the recipe for the creme egg. What have you done to it "
Were M&M’s treats ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I mentioned Wigfield to my new boss, he didn't have a clue ~ he's 23."
I remember my sister doing a "performance" of wigfield while we were on holiday in either 1990 or 1994, it was shockingly bad  |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
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"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name.mars brought back the marathon bar brand for 3 months only as a way to celebrate 85 years,of making chocolate. It was, done for nostalgic reasons only. They then reverted back to snickers. Much like todays bags of m&ms which are coloured versions of the old bags of treets you once got and in my opinion they tasted better than todays sweets and they were much bigger. Far too much fiddling on with the recipes and spoiling the taste. Yes Cadburys you are at fault as well changing the recipe for the creme egg. What have you done to it
Were M&M’s treats ?"
Minstels were treets |
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"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name.mars brought back the marathon bar brand for 3 months only as a way to celebrate 85 years,of making chocolate. It was, done for nostalgic reasons only. They then reverted back to snickers. Much like todays bags of m&ms which are coloured versions of the old bags of treets you once got and in my opinion they tasted better than todays sweets and they were much bigger. Far too much fiddling on with the recipes and spoiling the taste. Yes Cadburys you are at fault as well changing the recipe for the creme egg. What have you done to it
Were M&M’s treats ?
Minstels were treets "
Or treats |
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Tapeing top 40 every sunday and trying not to get the dj talking over it lol ..simon bates our tune ,steve wright and the afternoon boys and mr angry.. |
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"The stylophone "
Oh my god yes, I have one of them! Rolf Harris face on the box! |
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Noggin the Nog,and,Muffin the mule..or is that just a fantasy? |
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Hector's house, Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Clangers |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Panini sticker books and washing neighbours cars to raise money to buy the stickers |
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Captain Pugwash (ducks for cover) |
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"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name.mars brought back the marathon bar brand for 3 months only as a way to celebrate 85 years,of making chocolate. It was, done for nostalgic reasons only. They then reverted back to snickers. Much like todays bags of m&ms which are coloured versions of the old bags of treets you once got and in my opinion they tasted better than todays sweets and they were much bigger. Far too much fiddling on with the recipes and spoiling the taste. Yes Cadburys you are at fault as well changing the recipe for the creme egg. What have you done to it
Were M&M’s treats ?
Minstels were treets "
treets, were in 3types
1.peanut treets, 2.chocolate treets3. Toffee treets. Yes the chocolate ones could be classed as minstrels but the peanut ones, are today's m&ms. The toffee ones, disappeared completely. And they were treets not treats, |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
"Shops shut on Sundays
Marathon bars
bring back both
Marathon still exist, just under the Snickers brand name, that being the owning company's Global name, who brought all individual named but identical products together under one name.mars brought back the marathon bar brand for 3 months only as a way to celebrate 85 years,of making chocolate. It was, done for nostalgic reasons only. They then reverted back to snickers. Much like todays bags of m&ms which are coloured versions of the old bags of treets you once got and in my opinion they tasted better than todays sweets and they were much bigger. Far too much fiddling on with the recipes and spoiling the taste. Yes Cadburys you are at fault as well changing the recipe for the creme egg. What have you done to it
Were M&M’s treats ?"
I think the main issue with all the changes to what we knew as UK choc bars and their own taste styles, was most of the UK Brands as we knew them, were bought out by US or other foreign companies.
In turn, these new owners have turned the manufacturing processes away from what we knew and liked of the UK version, to the new company's existing style and taste. USA made items have differing ratios of ingredients to what we Brits have been used to. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Purple crimplene trousers |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
TV channels closed down at 11pm. The screens went black, with the picture disappearing to a hole in the middle of the screen. |
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"Without revealing your actual age,
What’s something that you remember that if you told someone younger, they wouldn’t understand?
Doughnut "
The reformation |
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By *ucky78Woman
over a year ago
liverpool |
Video tapes and cassettes |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
8 Tracks
Cine film
Betamax
Binatone
Cigarette machines attached to the outside of shops
Cigarette machines in pubs
One arm bandits
That board rubbers and pieces of chalk were legitimate weapons for teachers
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Having to que up at the end of the road to make a phone call |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
"8 Tracks
Cine film
Betamax
Binatone
Cigarette machines attached to the outside of shops
Cigarette machines in pubs
One arm bandits
That board rubbers and pieces of chalk were legitimate weapons for teachers
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Those last 2 items in teacher's hands - Phew! Did teachers go to training school to learn such accuracy??? |
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And who's never enjoyed a "fuzzy felt"? |
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"And who's never enjoyed a "fuzzy felt"? "
Yesssssss! This wins! |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"And who's never enjoyed a "fuzzy felt"? "
You can still get it |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
The national anthem at end of tv broadcast (end of night) then watching the wee white dot after switching tv off to see how long it would be there  |
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By *ollee78Man
over a year ago
HARROGATE |
"Without revealing your actual age,
What’s something that you remember that if you told someone younger, they wouldn’t understand?
Doughnut "
Walkmans |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Sticklebricks
Meccano
Super Striker
Warlord and Victor (and a ton of other comics)
Tales From The Riverbank
The Woodentops |
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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago
Craggy Island |
Actually saving up for what you want instead of getting it on credit. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I tried explaining Video Rental to our daughter....no chance... |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
8 track cassette player in my dad's car |
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"And who's never enjoyed a "fuzzy felt"?
You can still get it "
really? I've not had one for years |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Being able to go to see a top flight football game, buy a programme, get the bus there and back and have a bag of chips all for less than a quid |
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Bubble Bobble
Sega Game Gear
Eagle comic
Battle monthly
Akira
Superted
Geordie Racer
BBC Acornsoft computers
Hypercolour T-shirts
M.A.S K.
Micro Machines |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
Rented colour tv's with cash meters fitted on the back  |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Remote controls that attached to the telly on a wire |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"And who's never enjoyed a "fuzzy felt"?
You can still get it really? I've not had one for years "
Yeah Waterstones had them before Xmas |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Rented colour tv's with cash meters fitted on the back "
Sticking 50p in the electric meter |
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over a year ago
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Amstrad and Commodore 64 were the most up to date computers.
Saturday night TV consisted of Gladiators and Bullseye!! Oh and Big Break |
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over a year ago
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What are they ? |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
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"Rented colour tv's with cash meters fitted on the back
Sticking 50p in the electric meter "
It was 50p every 4hrs in the telly if I remember right lol |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
"Amstrad and Commodore 64 were the most up to date computers.
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I had the zx spectrum ..was state of the art then lol |
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Bunty comic - where you could cut out the clothes and attach them to the paper girl, mix and match outfits. No wonder I turned out TV |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
You got to see 2 movies on a Saturday at the cinema for 1 ticket |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Amstrad and Commodore 64 were the most up to date computers.
I had the zx spectrum ..was state of the art then lol "
Oh god yes!!! I forgot about the spectrum |
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Oh, and for balance, Shoot magazine when they did the league tables things and you could track the real league tables in real time. Or make up your own. My own team won the league every year! |
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"Amstrad and Commodore 64 were the most up to date computers.
Saturday night TV consisted of Gladiators and Bullseye!! Oh and Big Break"
I remember playing a game called 'Sabre Wulf' on the C64 and thinking it was amazing. After listening to the tape deck screeching for over half an hour to load it of course |
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
Maldon and Peterborough |
When the pet cat was a sabre tooth tiger.
Oh, the good olde days.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Using a pool que to change the tv station over |
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A wee blue twisted bag of salt in a packet of crisps. |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
"Amstrad and Commodore 64 were the most up to date computers.
Saturday night TV consisted of Gladiators and Bullseye!! Oh and Big Break
I remember playing a game called 'Sabre Wulf' on the C64 and thinking it was amazing. After listening to the tape deck screeching for over half an hour to load it of course "
Or it failed to load and you had to start all over again lol |
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Power cuts in the 70s and potato shortage. Forced to eat rice as a substitute |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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"Oh, and for balance, Shoot magazine when they did the league tables things and you could track the real league tables in real time. Or make up your own. My own team won the league every year! "
League Ladders!! |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
Recording the top 40 on a Sunday night with a tape recorder ..finger hovering over the pause button to try cut out and dj talking  |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Public Information Films |
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"Power cuts in the 70s and potato shortage. Forced to eat rice as a substitute "
Unless you had Smash! |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
"Power cuts in the 70s and potato shortage. Forced to eat rice as a substitute
Unless you had Smash! "
For mash get smash |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Paper Rounds where a nation of 10 and 11 year olds got up at the crack of dawn wandered the streets delivering a sack full of newspapers before coming home and getting ready for school...£3 a week I used to get |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Anyone learn to read and write using ITA?
Initial teaching alphabet
It was a pilot in the early 70's.
I dont think it lasted long. Lol
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Calling for your mates in the summer holidays by actually cycling or walking to their houses and knocking on the door as none of you had mobile phones, then playing out all day with the only restriction being "come home before the street lights come on"
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Anyone learn to read and write using ITA?
Initial teaching alphabet
It was a pilot in the early 70's.
I dont think it lasted long. Lol
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Janet and John for me Sappster |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Bazooka Joe's
Bubble Gum collector cards (with the worst ever bubble gum in them) |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
"Paper Rounds where a nation of 10 and 11 year olds got up at the crack of dawn wandered the streets delivering a sack full of newspapers before coming home and getting ready for school...£3 a week I used to get"
Yep ..had 1 of those too |
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"Power cuts in the 70s and potato shortage. Forced to eat rice as a substitute
Unless you had Smash! "
Smash . Luxury
Smash too expensive for a family of 7 so rice it was |
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Black Jacks and Fruit Salads
...and a "quarter" of sweets |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
Getting the belt for talking in class ...primary school too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anyone learn to read and write using ITA?
Initial teaching alphabet
It was a pilot in the early 70's.
I dont think it lasted long. Lol
Janet and John for me Sappster "
I think we were guinea pigs
No one I speak to seems to have a bloody clue what Im on about
We even had Janet and John and Ladybird books written in ITA
Which was this weird language where all the letters were joined together, to make sounds |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
Wearing shorts for school no matter the weather |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Wearing shorts for school no matter the weather "
Primary school |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Anyone learn to read and write using ITA?
Initial teaching alphabet
It was a pilot in the early 70's.
I dont think it lasted long. Lol
Janet and John for me Sappster
I think we were guinea pigs
No one I speak to seems to have a bloody clue what Im on about
We even had Janet and John and Ladybird books written in ITA
Which was this weird language where all the letters were joined together, to make sounds"
New one on me - we had a system where each level of book topic was colour coded and as you completed one you were allowed to go up a level - having been to prep school before changing to a state school I sailed through it in no time and they ran out of colours for me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Anyone learn to read and write using ITA?
Initial teaching alphabet
It was a pilot in the early 70's.
I dont think it lasted long. Lol
Janet and John for me Sappster
I think we were guinea pigs
No one I speak to seems to have a bloody clue what Im on about
We even had Janet and John and Ladybird books written in ITA
Which was this weird language where all the letters were joined together, to make sounds
New one on me - we had a system where each level of book topic was colour coded and as you completed one you were allowed to go up a level - having been to prep school before changing to a state school I sailed through it in no time and they ran out of colours for me "
Running out of colours
Story of my frickin' life |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
Watching swap shop on a Saturday morning |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe |
Going to the petrol garage and the attendant would ask you how much you wanted and they would fill your car up and take your money without you having to get out of the car. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Swap shop
Loved that "
01 8118055... |
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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
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Running out of colours
Story of my frickin' life"
Actually that's reminded me of another...actually two..
Rainbow (as in Zippy, Bungle and George)
and
Red, and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue, I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow....etc |
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Toffee's (Sweets), coming "off the rations".
You could only buy toffees/sweets using Ration coupons issued by the Government, as they contained sugar which was in short supply just after the war.
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