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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

READING

You don't need to be that old to remember queuing to use a phone, or even, having to book an international call,.what big changes have you all seen in your life?

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

Smoking ban

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

I remember my first Walkman then CD player.. who knew then you will have wireless headphones and music streaming from internet.. Anything you want. Anytime.

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

Turkey twizzlers getting banned/stopped producing

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Having to use a slide rule in ma maths exam

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By *hloevtTV/TS
over a year ago

norwich

More than three channels, gosh I'm old !! X

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

A marathon becoming a snicker..

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

1/2p coins taken out of circulation

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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

READING


"Smoking ban "
and cigarette machines outside newsagents.

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

Woolworths, pick and mixes

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

I know ime old but I remember all of them

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By *oungguyxxx100Man
over a year ago

Sheffield and Maidstone

Dial up internet and Blockbuster

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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

READING


"I remember my first Walkman then CD player.. who knew then you will have wireless headphones and music streaming from internet.. Anything you want. Anytime. "
you had to carry the Walkman carefully so it didn't jump songs.

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By *hloevtTV/TS
over a year ago

norwich


"I know ime old but I remember all of them"

Bet you remember the test card ?

When I was very young I used to fancy her x

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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

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"Having to use a slide rule in ma maths exam "
I could never figure them out, guess that's why I failed first time.

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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

READING


"I know ime old but I remember all of them

Bet you remember the test card ?

When I was very young I used to fancy her x "
I was the same, but the doll creeped me out.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

I remember all of these

For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

Three channels, all in black & white and at the end of the night they played the national anthem before the last thing you saw was the little white dot.

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By *litterbabeWoman
over a year ago

hiding from cock pics.

Tetris was state of the art

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Having to use a slide rule in ma maths exam I could never figure them out, guess that's why I failed first time. "

How about the old trigonometry set that contained a pencil, a compass and some funny shaped pieces of plastic

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By *rank speakerMan
over a year ago

Worcester

Really confession time now. I'm that old I remember all of the above as well as decimalisation and when a pound bought you quite a lot.

Oh, and of course when everything didn't come with a 'chip' and you could actually repair something yourself instead of having to get someone in?

Good luck millennials??!!

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By *rank speakerMan
over a year ago

Worcester

Small but rather unbelievable fact. A pint of beer cost 1/6 That's seven and half pence!

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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

READING


"I remember all of these

For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work "
you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port

Restaurants. Anybody remember them?

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch


"I remember all of these

For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers "

I actually don’t remember photocopiers arriving.... typing was always four sheets of different coloured paper with a sheet of carbon in between each, that was my copying

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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

READING


"Restaurants. Anybody remember them? "
I remember a Bernie Inn.

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

The life and death of Top Deck and it's subsequent resurrection in the form of low alcohol craft beer.

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port


"I remember all of these

For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers

I actually don’t remember photocopiers arriving.... typing was always four sheets of different coloured paper with a sheet of carbon in between each, that was my copying "

I remember fax machines being introduced. I thought they were going to change the world. It was mind blowing at the time!

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch


"Restaurants. Anybody remember them? I remember a Bernie Inn. "

Little chef was my treat

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over a year ago

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Restaurants. Anybody remember them? "

I bet you've still got a fondue set haven't you?

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

Recording the UK Top 40 off of the Radio and onto a cassette.

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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

READING


"I remember all of these

For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers

I actually don’t remember photocopiers arriving.... typing was always four sheets of different coloured paper with a sheet of carbon in between each, that was my copying "
and didn't you swear when after all that typing, you realised the carbon was in back to front.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch


"I remember all of these

For me the biggest change in everyday life was at work.... left my desk in a Friday typewriter in situ, returned Monday tw gone and a computer on its place and a manual, lost so much bloody work you'll be too young remember banda/gastetner machines being replaced by photocopiers

I actually don’t remember photocopiers arriving.... typing was always four sheets of different coloured paper with a sheet of carbon in between each, that was my copying and didn't you swear when after all that typing, you realised the carbon was in back to front. "

Happened a few times

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By *ord Willy McFuck-BucketMan
over a year ago

newcastle

Porn on demand, instead of getting 4th look at a magazine your mate had found under a hedge with the pages stuck together

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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

READING

Carbon paper reminds me how you used to be able to buy it from the newsagents, as well as odd things like stamp hinges and packets of foreign stamps.

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port


"Restaurants. Anybody remember them?

I bet you've still got a fondue set haven't you? "

A 1970s swingers party wasn't complete without one of them!

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

I mean I remember having a flip phone sort of ahaha

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By *iamond coupleCouple
over a year ago

leeds

The compulsory wearing of crash helmets in motorbikes

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By *iamond coupleCouple
over a year ago

leeds


"Small but rather unbelievable fact. A pint of beer cost 1/6 That's seven and half pence! "
I’m older than you and started going into pubs at 15 and the cheapest I can remember beer was one shilling and ten pence in the bar and one shilling and eleven pence in the lounge.

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By *artinbobMan
over a year ago

Leicester

Playing pong on an Atari and think his cool it was. Now kids have PlayStation/Xbox playing all sorts of games against others anywhere in the world

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

Paying 6p for the bus and getting a square ticket. Then getting on one these days and it's £1.40 for two stops!

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By *heLaserGuyMan
over a year ago

Coventry

The birth of Napster- taking over a day to download an album

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By *ung and readyMan
over a year ago

newcastle under lyme

When a packet of walkers crisps cost 2 1/2 p.

A Mars bar went from 4d to 9p

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By *exy BeckyCouple
over a year ago

Torrox, Spain

Remember buying the kids their first computer game box.

The one where you could play 'tennis' in black and white and you could change the speed of the ball and the size of the racket.

If you were on your own, you could switch it to a squash game.

Played it for bloody hours...!

Happy days...

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

When a public telephone had an A button and a B button. When I could fix my own car. Post office workers riding around on

BSA bantoms and coppers riding lambrettas. Flares, Oxford bags,stack heels and a ten bob note... just for starters.

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


"Remember buying the kids their first computer game box.

The one where you could play 'tennis' in black and white and you could change the speed of the ball and the size of the racket.

If you were on your own, you could switch it to a squash game.

Played it for bloody hours...!

Happy days..."

My sister still has our Binatone console. I found a connector to plug it into a new flat screen tv.

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

And everyone in the house had to be sooo quiet!!

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


"The life and death of Top Deck and it's subsequent resurrection in the form of low alcohol craft beer."

Talking of top deck: getting on a bus going upstairs and not being able to see the back of the bus for smoke

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By *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

Driving theory test

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

9/11, the world became a very different place after that.

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By *hy_bangor_bi-girlWoman
over a year ago

Bangor

The days when you had to pay for porn and water was free!

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

Pagers , sending someone a typed message,

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

recently the hot food shortage

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

Social distancing

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By *hloevtTV/TS
over a year ago

norwich

Saying I was staying around a mates, then going down the offy and buying a bottle of cider and three single cigarette, we would go down the rec and get d*unk, no one asked for age I.D. I loved the 80s , and we had Maggie Thatcher, a woman with real balls !!! X

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By *AYENCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Slotted screws and screwing them in by hand, or if you didn't mind taking a chunk out of your work, using a Stanley 'pump' screwdriver!

K

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

Mobile phones, there used to be a time when noone had a mobile phone. You would go out to play and be out all day without a care in the world

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By *ntrigued32Couple
over a year ago

Nottingham

Winner stays on! On computer games

D.

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By *lint-EverhardMan
over a year ago

Perpignan and cap

I had a black and white "portable" telly. Looking back it was probably 18" square.

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


"Recording the UK Top 40 off of the Radio and onto a cassette. "

And trying to hit pause for the talking in between

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet


"The life and death of Top Deck and it's subsequent resurrection in the form of low alcohol craft beer.

Talking of top deck: getting on a bus going upstairs and not being able to see the back of the bus for smoke "

Oh God yeah, my mum was a smoker so was ways the top deck for us. Urgh.

In wet weather condensation used to form on the ceiling of the bus and the nicotine used to drip down the walls.

Lovely

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

The Top 40 charts on Sunday being a national event. Now, I couldn't even tell you any of the last 5 no. 1 songs

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By *ike1469Man
over a year ago

torquay

2p to make a phone call..

The farthing.

Not having to lock house or car when leaving.

He he the good old days...

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet


"Smoking ban "

Seems weird when I watch a film now and people are smoking inside!

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

Was in Germany at time the Berlin wall came down

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

Three tv channels black and white no remote.

No internet at all

No phone in Mum and dads house

Def no mobile phones

CB radio

To mention just a few.

Oh and for me sat nav in cars love them I am terrible at directions and wife never liked reading maps in the car

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By *elloIntrigueMan
over a year ago

North West UK

ZX Spectrum - rubber keys

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

Vinyl - CD - mp3

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By *hloevtTV/TS
over a year ago

norwich


"Three tv channels black and white no remote.

No internet at all

No phone in Mum and dads house

Def no mobile phones

CB radio

To mention just a few.

Oh and for me sat nav in cars love them I am terrible at directions and wife never liked reading maps in the car "

All of this, and having to go out side to use the toilet, scary stuff x

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By *elloIntrigueMan
over a year ago

North West UK


"The Top 40 charts on Sunday being a national event. Now, I couldn't even tell you any of the last 5 no. 1 songs "

Yes, sat there with my ghetto blaster, with tape deck included primed and ready to record the songs and then rushing to stop the tape before Bruno Brooks spoke again..

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet


"Was in Germany at time the Berlin wall came down"

Ah you and David Hasslehoff

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


"ZX Spectrum - rubber keys "

That noise when the tape was loading!

Paperboy was my go-to game

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Video cassettes that took a week to rewind

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By *elloIntrigueMan
over a year ago

North West UK


"ZX Spectrum - rubber keys

That noise when the tape was loading!

Paperboy was my go-to game "

The noise like an angry fax machine and the fact you could copy games onto normal cassettess.... shhh

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

A few years ago I took on apprentice , very smart 16yrold all straight A*s. We were taking the piss in the office , I asked her if she knew what vinyl was. Of course I do she said, feeling all smug, those big CDs you use for scratching....

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By *elloIntrigueMan
over a year ago

North West UK

In fact, I could also include fax machines here, and shell suits, and I remember one year every male in my family from my dad through to my uncles, all had perms done! There were a lot of people walking around with dodgy hair. A little later Bros arrived and kids wanted spikey hair.. haha

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

Sending your kids to the corner shop to buy your ciggies

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL


"I know ime old but I remember all of them

Bet you remember the test card ?

When I was very young I used to fancy her x "

She was creepy and that clown thing...

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL


"A few years ago I took on apprentice , very smart 16yrold all straight A*s. We were taking the piss in the office , I asked her if she knew what vinyl was. Of course I do she said, feeling all smug, those big CDs you use for scratching...."

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

Playing track and field on my Commodore 64 and getting repetitive strain injury

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By *hloevtTV/TS
over a year ago

norwich


"Sending your kids to the corner shop to buy your ciggies "

I was 10 , often sent up the shop for eggs, flour and a pack of players , o GOSH the memories x

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham


"ZX Spectrum - rubber keys "

I bought one recently , complete with the box, charger, original polystyrene, Basic programming manual and even a printer. 40 years that manual probably taught me more about problem solving than any degree or course has since

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

God Save The Queen played at the end of the night on the TV and then the channels went off!!

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By *isaAndNicoleTransTV/TS
over a year ago

Southport / Ellesmere Port

Dial-up Internet. You couldn't use your home phone at the same time and mobiles barely existed. And it took forever just to look at a picture as it gradually built bit by bit!

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


"Was in Germany at time the Berlin wall came down

Ah you and David Hasslehoff "

He gave me a lift in Kitt...

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By *ungscotsman26Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Music was on tapes when I was young. Remember when cd's came out and then when everyone was risking a computer ending virus to download via limewire haha.

Msn messenger and then BBM and qwerty keyboard on a phone being revolutionary and so fast to type rather than hitting numbers 2 or 3 times for letters.

When the internet came out and was dial up and if the phone went that was you off haha.

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

@hotmail.com.....whhhhooooooooo

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

Digital watches

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

Filofaxes and then the digital personal organiser

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Pagers

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By *ny1local OP   Man
over a year ago

READING

Buying a kit from halford's to fit a heated rear screen to the car.

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By *ord Willy McFuck-BucketMan
over a year ago

newcastle

I hope Peter Kay is on fab, you have all just written his new stand up show.

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway


"Filofaxes and then the digital personal organiser "

I think I'm one of the few left with a Filofax . As long as they keep making refills I'll stick with it.

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

Black and white TV, coal-fired central heating, a grammarphone and wireless. No telephone at home, outside toilets, using a mangle to wring out clothes, no freezers, just small fridges, no showers just a bath, being bathed in a sink. Using an upside down coffee table as a toy boat. Crimplene shorts in winter.

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

Having no debts.

Once your in control you can quit your horrible job, tell people what you really think of them and not have sleepless nights worrying about bills.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch


"ZX Spectrum - rubber keys

That noise when the tape was loading!

Paperboy was my go-to game "

If you didn’t have your volume set just right it would fail

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

Going off with your mates to build a den in the woods and spending days hanging around in there during the school holidays, or building rope swings over a nearby river etc, it was our escape from adults and chores. Kids these days have a meltdown if they have to go outside of a WiFi signal

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By *oroRick1027Man
over a year ago

Middlesbrough


"Three channels, all in black & white and at the end of the night they played the national anthem before the last thing you saw was the little white dot."

I'm with you on that one

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

Buying fruit salad or blackjacks 8 for a old penny.

Thats 1920 for a pound

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By *oroRick1027Man
over a year ago

Middlesbrough


"Restaurants. Anybody remember them? I remember a Bernie Inn. "

How about a Golden Egg?

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By *ungscotsman26Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Going to the wee shop and getting a qtr of rhubarb and custard sweets.

Going all the way to your mates and chapping on their door to see if they are coming out. Sometimes they wouldn't be in. Sometimes they would be at their dinner haha. Kids these days will never know.

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