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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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A packet of Pacers (a stripy, minty version of an Opal Fruit chewy sweet).

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


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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I remember doing that.

And I'll add taking the video tape out the VCR and finding its wrapped it self around the spools.

And it probably had the latest Red Triangle CH4 film on it as well

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By *rPeachyMan
over a year ago

Bristol

...what all the clubs in town used to be called before they were called what they're called today

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


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"...what all the clubs in town used to be called before they were called what they're called today "

Haha yes deffo this

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By *aldyreynoldsMan
over a year ago

Oldbury

Filling the football pools coupon in on a thursday night before the pools man came round.

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


"...what all the clubs in town used to be called before they were called what they're called today "

What clubs used to be there but are now supermarkets

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Television programmes stopping in the evening (about 11pm?), then the picture of the girl with the chalk and blackboard. Or maybe you wouldn’t even remember that?

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


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

Go

There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am"

I remember when there were only 3 TV channels

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

The priest coming on a house visit, and having to turn the Tv off, Just why.

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By *az080378Woman
over a year ago

Cromer

Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!

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


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am

I remember when there were only 3 TV channels "

Exactly. And you had to put up with the test card during the day to on the Beeb

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

Betamax

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

?

The horrid noise of dial-up Internet connecting

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

Record players that allowed you to stack 7’’ singles

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


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am

I remember when there were only 3 TV channels "

Me too

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


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am"

There were 3 and they packed up around midnight!

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By *siancouplehantsCouple
over a year ago

K-PAX

The Rotary dial telephone

0 drrrrr

7 drrrrr

7 drrrrr

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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A packet of Pacers (a stripy, minty version of an Opal Fruit chewy sweet)."

Used to love those

Swap shop on a Saturday morning

Crisps where you had the little sachet of salt to add

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


"Betamax"

And the remote control for the player was on a wire

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By *otstuffbabeCouple
over a year ago

Bolton

clackers

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places


"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!"

Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!...

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By *siancouplehantsCouple
over a year ago

K-PAX

Marathon Bar = snickers

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Eight track cartridge player in the car.

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

Not being allowed to watch Tiswas because it was on ITV (BBC all the time in my house)

and when kids TV presenters were all abusers

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By *otstuffbabeCouple
over a year ago

Bolton

not having to wear a seatbelt

shops not opening on a Sunday

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By *imon_hydeMan
over a year ago

Stockport

Nothing being open on a Sunday. Much like Wakes now ')

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


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

Go

There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am

I remember when there were only 3 TV channels "

That beeping noise that used to play when the broadcast finished though

With the girl and the doll.

That was just weird.

Ahhh

Thems were the days

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By *siancouplehantsCouple
over a year ago

K-PAX

Paying for the phone bill by buying stamps

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT


"not having to wear a seatbelt

shops not opening on a Sunday

"

+ early closing on Thursday afternoons

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

It wasn't that long ago that one of my favourite songs came on and I was this close to shouting "mum I need a tape this is my favourite song!"

... Then I remembered that it was 20 years later, I was in a gym on literally the other side of the world, and given the time Mum was almost certainly asleep

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


"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!

Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!..."

I can add waiting for the game to load with that screeching noise and then failing at the last minute and having to fiddle with the volume on the cassette player. I had a ZX Spectrum 48 by the way.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"It wasn't that long ago that one of my favourite songs came on and I was this close to shouting "mum I need a tape this is my favourite song!"

... Then I remembered that it was 20 years later, I was in a gym on literally the other side of the world, and given the time Mum was almost certainly asleep "
and you're still young anyway

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

Using teletext... For a TV guide, to find a holiday, place a personal ad, get football gossip and league tables and best of all Bamboozle.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am

I remember when there were only 3 TV channels

That beeping noise that used to play when the broadcast finished though

With the girl and the doll.

That was just weird.

Ahhh

Thems were the days "

I had quite a crush on that girl.

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

Taking pop bottles back for the deposit

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am

I remember when there were only 3 TV channels

Me too "

And the Queen then the little white dot.... Then the high pitched.. Buuuuuuuuuuu... Noise saying it was time to go to bed...

Watneys party 7

Babycham and pink lady...

Alias Smith and Jones and Black beauty... Magpie and horny hanley... Ohhh bananasplitz on a sat morning...

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

The Prestel service

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

?


"The Rotary dial telephone

0 drrrrr

7 drrrrr

7 drrrrr"

I still have one of those...mainly for aesthetic purposes, but it has been converted to work on modern phone lines. You get RSI trying to dial a mobile number though

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


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

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Are you kidding? I'm under 30 and I used to do that!

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

When games consoles were black & white.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"It wasn't that long ago that one of my favourite songs came on and I was this close to shouting "mum I need a tape this is my favourite song!"

... Then I remembered that it was 20 years later, I was in a gym on literally the other side of the world, and given the time Mum was almost certainly asleep and you're still young anyway "

Yeah but almost all this shit is still my childhood

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact


"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!

Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!...

I can add waiting for the game to load with that screeching noise and then failing at the last minute and having to fiddle with the volume on the cassette player. I had a ZX Spectrum 48 by the way."
Sometimes you had to calibrate the joystick too before you could even play. You really had to graft for your enjoyment back then.

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas


"The priest coming on a house visit, and having to turn the Tv off, Just why. "

in case something naughty came on

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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Are you kidding? I'm under 30 and I used to do that! "

Really ??

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By *siancouplehantsCouple
over a year ago

K-PAX

Can you still get gold top milk?

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

The Hammer Horror was followed by the National anthem.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

Go

There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am

I remember when there were only 3 TV channels

That beeping noise that used to play when the broadcast finished though

With the girl and the doll.

That was just weird.

Ahhh

Thems were the days "

Woolworths pick n mix...

Lyons corner shops...

Porn with pubic hair...

H and E magazine

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By *siancouplehantsCouple
over a year ago

K-PAX


"The Rotary dial telephone

0 drrrrr

7 drrrrr

7 drrrrr

I still have one of those...mainly for aesthetic purposes, but it has been converted to work on modern phone lines. You get RSI trying to dial a mobile number though "

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

Lucozade in a glass bottle

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

The "Let's Pretend" caterpillar

Playing "on top of old smokey" on Major Morgan

Popples

Teddy Ruxpin

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


"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!

Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!...

I can add waiting for the game to load with that screeching noise and then failing at the last minute and having to fiddle with the volume on the cassette player. I had a ZX Spectrum 48 by the way. Sometimes you had to calibrate the joystick too before you could even play. You really had to graft for your enjoyment back then. "

when computer games only cost a £1.99 and you still had enough left over for a bottle of pop

and half penny pieces

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


"Lucozade in a glass bottle "
and only when your poorly

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


"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!"

The tape running out before the game actually loaded...

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Lucozade in a glass bottle and only when your poorly "

Saturday grandstand with wrestling and mick mcmanus and les kellett...

Nationwide and Frank the snowman bough and the filthy bit of smut that was sue Lawley

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

Feeling up a girl's tits.

Green Shield stamp shops. I didn't really know what the deal was with those shops tbh.

Going to C&A and your mum makes you try on clothes. Sometimes we didn't even bother with the changing rooms lol. Or buying clothes from a market where you just had to sneakily try it on behind a rail of clothes.

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


"The priest coming on a house visit, and having to turn the Tv off, Just why.

in case something naughty came on "
Haha, thing is tho they must have thought every ones TVs we're broken, all the kids sat on the sofa, not saying a word

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

Memorising your friends’ phone numbers.

Being able to dial someone in the same town with just 4 digits

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

When Snickers were marathons

You had to use a rotary dial phone that sometimes had a lock on it if you used it too much

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By *oTouchPleaseAndTeaseMan
over a year ago

Harlow

Led Zep's - Whole Lotta Love (of sorts) being the theme tune to Top of the Pops (iron Maiden insisting on playing live and not miming)

Barnby the Bear, Barbapapa, The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe (both on B&W) Marine Boy being my favourites on tv

Cow field football pitches on the TV - George Best could still dribble through

Marina in Stingray (what a babe)

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

Religiously watching Dallas on TV every week with all the family and secretly loving J.R. "Sue Ellen you tramp!"

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby

Yes three tv channels and the girl with a chalk and blackboard and some kind of clowns face in the corner one of the programmes I used to watch and enjoy was the world about us on bbc 2 not just david attenborough being the narrator but others two It was not that many years into colour television and was quite pleaseing to see.

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By *aven RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

Collecting grolsh bottle tops for my shoes

Smash hits having the words to the songs and me exclaiming that they were wrong

X

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

Giving nan three rings to let her know I got home safe

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By *moothman2000Man
over a year ago

Leicestershire

The race to get the milk off the doorstep before the blue tits pecked through the lid to get the cream.

Plastic Thunderbirds characters in breakfast cereal.

Sticky tape over the hole in a cassette tape so you could reuse it.

Merit chemistry sets with ch3micals that we are no longer allowed to buy.

The girl with the clown testcard.

Channel 4 didn't exist.

Henry VIII's first marriage...

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Fry's Five Centres

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

"it's your quiz inquisitor, Michael Miles" and the "yes, no interlude"

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"Religiously watching Dallas on TV every week with all the family and secretly loving J.R. "Sue Ellen you tramp!""

Guilty

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

TV presenters not shouting like idiots with enforced jollity.

Can you imagine Tony Hart or Johnny Morris raising their voices? Of course not

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By *oTouchPleaseAndTeaseMan
over a year ago

Harlow


"Religiously watching Dallas on TV every week with all the family and secretly loving J.R. "Sue Ellen you tramp!"

Absolutely fancying the pants off of Victoria Principle!

Guilty "

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Saving up to buy the latest 7inch single or if it was a rarity a picture sleeve or if it were really special an imported 12 incher (steady on girls)...

The weekly update chart show on a Sunday..

Ohhhh radio Luxembourg under the covers and if your mum let you.... John peel...

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

Fiddling around with the tracking on the vcr

Recording in lp on a 240 min tape meant up to 8 hours of poor quality recordings would be available!

Figuring out how to set the timer to auto record itself often required a PhD and relied on an act of god to succeed. You'd be in the queue at the video shop wondering if the FA Cup game was being taped properly at home. Then you get home and rewind it, press play and realise you forgot to set the channel to ITV and instead you have recorded Jimll Fix It.

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By *immerman100Man
over a year ago

Never never land


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

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There are only 4 tv channels and sometimes they would stop broadcasting at 3am

I remember when there were only 3 TV channels "

I remember BBC1+2 PLUS ITV no channel4 or channel5

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

Bread clips on you’re bmx and them old ring pulls on cans of pop

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


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

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Top 40 on radio Luxemburg

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places


"Lucozade in a glass bottle "

And with the gold coloured cellophane wrapping that used to make crinkly / rustling sound!

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

Spangles sweets

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By *siancouplehantsCouple
over a year ago

K-PAX

The milk Advert

"Accrington stanley? who are they then"

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas


"Giving nan three rings to let her know I got home safe "

Aww we used to do this too

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places


"Bread clips on you’re bmx and them old ring pulls on cans of pop "

I had a BMX Mongoose with bright yellow mag wheels...

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


"clackers"

Nearly broke my wrist with them

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington


"Bread clips on you’re bmx and them old ring pulls on cans of pop

I had a BMX Mongoose with bright yellow mag wheels..."
I got my cousin’s grifter second hand but I loved it

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


"The milk Advert

"Accrington stanley? who are they then""

That young lad is now in brassic and was in trollied

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

The exorcist being banned....

God save the Queen being banned...

Mary Whitehouse making sure we were all wholesome... (imagine what she'd make of this website!)

Ladybird books...

Cor! Comic...

Libraries to actually borrow books... And actually reading actual books with pages in..

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"The milk Advert

"Accrington stanley? who are they then"

That young lad is now in brassic and was in trollied"

That was stevie Gerrard wasn't it!

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By *Wman15Man
over a year ago

Altrincham

Not having a full week at school as a result of power cuts caused by (yet another) miners' strike

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

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

I used to dream in black and white because there were no colour TVs. I listened to the wireless, played 78s on a gramophone and wore plimsoles for PE.

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By *ananas57Couple
over a year ago

lake ariel

Taking camera film to be developed

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By *elshkinkyMan
over a year ago

south wales

Getting up to turn the television over or if you were posh you had a wired box normally fitted to the windowsill you could use

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

Decent sized wagon wheels and quality curly whirlies.

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By *ersnickety PantsWoman
over a year ago

Club Meets Only

Button moon

Kwik save

The clangers

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby


"Led Zep's - Whole Lotta Love (of sorts) being the theme tune to Top of the Pops (iron Maiden insisting on playing live and not miming)

Barnby the Bear, Barbapapa, The Flashing Blade, Robinson Crusoe (both on B&W) Marine Boy being my favourites on tv

Cow field football pitches on the TV - George Best could still dribble through

Marina in Stingray (what a babe)

"
I had a light sky blue water pistol modeled on stingray it was the best water pistol I ever had lol

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


"The milk Advert

"Accrington stanley? who are they then"

That young lad is now in brassic and was in trollied

That was stevie Gerrard wasn't it! "

His name is Carl rice

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By *siancouplehantsCouple
over a year ago

K-PAX


"The milk Advert

"Accrington stanley? who are they then"

That young lad is now in brassic and was in trollied

That was stevie Gerrard wasn't it!

"
eeeeeeeeeeh it does sound like him

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

Tooth gems

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


"Paying for the phone bill by buying stamps"

Going to the electric shop to pay for the electric bill. Same for gas bill at gas shop.

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

Climbing frames where you were convinced you were gonna die.

Dogs with rabies chasing you in the park. Dobermans and rottweilers were more common back then lol.

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


"not having to wear a seatbelt

shops not opening on a Sunday

+ early closing on Thursday afternoons "

Wednesdays here.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"Lucozade in a glass bottle "

Wrapped in orange cellophane and sold as a remedy when you were ill not as a multi-purpose sports/energy drink

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


"Using a tape to load a game on the old commodore 64 and the funky,stripy loading screen for what felt like hours!!

Daley Thompson's Decathlon and many broken joysticks!!...

I can add waiting for the game to load with that screeching noise and then failing at the last minute and having to fiddle with the volume on the cassette player. I had a ZX Spectrum 48 by the way."

Games before these, the old tennis (2 player), squash (1 player). Two bat sizes, two speeds ??

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts


"Trying to stop the cassette on the Top 40 before the DJ spoke at the end of a song .

Other examples of only people over 40 should know ...

Go "
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Doing the same on a reel to reel before the cassette was invented

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


"Taking pop bottles back for the deposit"

Corona

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

Landline phones with rotary dials and phone keylocks. "hacking" them by repeatingly pressing / releasing the switch-hook to call your girlfriend / boyfriend.

Hiding under the bed when the phone bill arrived !!

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"Button moon

Kwik save

The clangers"

I fucking loved Button Moon

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

Smoking wherever the fuck you like. McDonald's ashtrays, airplane ashtrays, cigarette vending machines. Being asked if you wanted to be seated in the smoking or non smoking area.

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

Did anybody use old TV screens as a sledge?

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"Taking pop bottles back for the deposit

Corona "

Haha oh yeah

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Using a pencil with an audio cassette tape to wind it on

When a "playlist" was called a "mix tape" and usually ruined when the tape ran out 30 seconds before the end of the song

Watch/Listen With Mother was what passed for CeeBeebies

Soaps were on one night a week and there were only two of them

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By *siancouplehantsCouple
over a year ago

K-PAX


"Smoking wherever the fuck you like. McDonald's ashtrays, airplane ashtrays, cigarette vending machines. Being asked if you wanted to be seated in the smoking or non smoking area. "

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By *ersnickety PantsWoman
over a year ago

Club Meets Only


"Button moon

Kwik save

The clangers

I fucking loved Button Moon "

My kids watch it along with trap door & rainbow

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"Did anybody use old TV screens as a sledge? "

No but I used my Mums serving trays

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

Getting a colour portable tv

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"Button moon

Kwik save

The clangers

I fucking loved Button Moon

My kids watch it along with trap door & rainbow "

Rainbow

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Paying for the phone bill by buying stamps

Going to the electric shop to pay for the electric bill. Same for gas bill at gas shop. "

You mean when you could actually go in and talk to someone face to face....

OK... High streets with the butcher, the baker, the tobacco shop, a record shop, a book shop, a wimpy, off licenses,the fish monger,... The bloody iron monger! And no charity shops..

Pubs without bouncers... Sit down space invader machines... Rum and black! Yuk

I remember going to see thin lizzy at the rainbow in London for 50p.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"Getting a colour portable tv"

My Mum got me one for my room when I was about 10 I think .

I thought I was the coolest kid

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

I remember getting our first colour TV, half the kids in the street were in our house watching it

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By *picknspanMan
over a year ago

North West Leeds

I'm clearly old as ALL of the above I can recall....oh well I am obviously past it

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

Bobbies on the beat.

Kids playing in the street.

Children singing racist dittys.

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By *irewolffMan
over a year ago

Dublin

The Wombles

MsD

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey


"Getting a colour portable tv

My Mum got me one for my room when I was about 10 I think .

I thought I was the coolest kid "

You were lucky

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By *elshkinkyMan
over a year ago

south wales


"Tooth gems "

You aren’t old enough to reminisce

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity


"Getting a colour portable tv

My Mum got me one for my room when I was about 10 I think .

I thought I was the coolest kid

You were lucky "

I was just a spoilt brat

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

Not quite over 40 yet but yep remember doing this xx

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


"The milk Advert

"Accrington stanley? who are they then""

Watch out, watch out there's a humphrey about

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

White dog shit on the pavement. Still get em now, just rarer lol.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Green Shield Stamps

Sweets sold as cigarette imitations

Figurine Panini stickers (got, got, got, got, swap, got, got)

Music centres the size of a house

K-Tel and Ronco

When the only home deliveries you got were milk, newspapers and the post

When dustmen used to collect your bins from the side of the house AND put them back again

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas


"Tooth gems

You aren’t old enough to reminisce "

Oh shush you

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

The Oz blasphemy trials.

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


"

Hiding under the bed when the phone bill arrived !!"

I did that after racking up a bill on a MUD using the Prestel service - online addiction is nothing new

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

That sugary, grindy feeling you get after drinking Panda Pop and your whole mouth has turned colour.

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By *elshkinkyMan
over a year ago

south wales


"Tooth gems

You aren’t old enough to reminisce

Oh shush you "

Irish ****

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


"I used to dream in black and white because there were no colour TVs. I listened to the wireless, played 78s on a gramophone and wore plimsoles for PE."

We were one of the last to get colour TV in our neighbourhood. I was 15. It was because an old lady gave us one. No more b+w TV rental

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

Jim "fixing" it

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Victor

Warlord

Shoot

Look & Learn

The Dandy

Whizzer & Chips

Commando

Bunty

Jackie

Just Seventeen

Smash Hits

Record Mirror

Melody Maker

Sounds

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By *urflrCouple
over a year ago

wirral


"Taking camera film to be developed "

Then waiting a week for it to be ready and finding half the photos hadn’t taken properly

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby


"The race to get the milk off the doorstep before the blue tits pecked through the lid to get the cream.

Plastic Thunderbirds characters in breakfast cereal.

Sticky tape over the hole in a cassette tape so you could reuse it.

Merit chemistry sets with ch3micals that we are no longer allowed to buy.

The girl with the clown testcard.

Channel 4 didn't exist.

Henry VIII's first marriage... "
Yes I,m sure I had a Merit Microscope with glass slides with samples on and test tubes and tweezer plus some extra microscopiic glass slides all in their own box from the 1960,s

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

When it was 12 and a half pence for a pint of bitter, and you bought petrol in gallons

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham


"The Rotary dial telephone

0 drrrrr

7 drrrrr

7 drrrrr

I still have one of those...mainly for aesthetic purposes, but it has been converted to work on modern phone lines. You get RSI trying to dial a mobile number though "

I remember learning to tap out numbers to get around parents phone dial locks so we could use the internet before the World Wide Web existed ! It was a bit like FAB, bunch of 10 year old boys looking for sex on the internet

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

Eastenders starting

Watching albion Market

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

When footballers just wore black boots

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By *az080378Woman
over a year ago

Cromer

There used to be a biscuity type snack that you could get and when you rubbed the wrapper on your skin it would leave gold,sparkly shimmer.

Used to love getting them in my lunchbox at school,no idea what they were though

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By *ewsub4dommeMan
over a year ago

thirsk

having respect for your parents

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

When there was only one Star Wars film and it was brilliant.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Paying on the gate at football and it costing less than a pound to get in

Standing on the terraces

FA Cup draws being made on the radio on a Monday lunchtime

Gigs costing less than a fiver

Waiting for the Top 40 to be announced on Radio 1 on a weekday lunchtime

Fred Perry's and Ben Sherman's not costing an arm and a leg

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


"Paying for the phone bill by buying stamps

Going to the electric shop to pay for the electric bill. Same for gas bill at gas shop.

You mean when you could actually go in and talk to someone face to face....

OK... High streets with the butcher, the baker, the tobacco shop, a record shop, a book shop, a wimpy, off licenses,the fish monger,... The bloody iron monger! And no charity shops..

Pubs without bouncers... Sit down space invader machines... Rum and black! Yuk

I remember going to see thin lizzy at the rainbow in London for 50p. "

I remember when slot machines relied on skill regarding timing (increase nudges and increase prize money)

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By * and R cple4Couple
over a year ago

swansea

Thinking I was cool walking down the road with a walkman ...

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By *ersnickety PantsWoman
over a year ago

Club Meets Only

I remember staying up late to watch prisoner cell block H I say late I don't know what time it was on but it felt like the middle of the night

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"When footballers just wore black boots "

And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back

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


"The Rotary dial telephone

0 drrrrr

7 drrrrr

7 drrrrr

I still have one of those...mainly for aesthetic purposes, but it has been converted to work on modern phone lines. You get RSI trying to dial a mobile number though

I remember learning to tap out numbers to get around parents phone dial locks so we could use the internet before the World Wide Web existed ! It was a bit like FAB, bunch of 10 year old boys looking for sex on the internet "

I even did gender swapping on a text only multiuser adventure game

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Pinky & Perky

Bay City Rollers

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


"Jim "fixing" it "

I wrote up to that show - thank fuck my want was not doable

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch


"When footballers just wore black boots

And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back "

and very short shorts

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


"Thinking I was cool walking down the road with a walkman ..."

Haha, and being teased by other kids, because your cheap walkman looked like a "life support machine" ...

Honorary mention goes to Huge BoomBoxes too!

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By *elshkinkyMan
over a year ago

south wales


"Pinky & Perky

Bay City Rollers "

Not chimney sweeps dancing on a Landaaaan roof then

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


"Victor

Warlord

Shoot

Look & Learn

The Dandy

Whizzer & Chips

Commando

Bunty

Jackie

Just Seventeen

Smash Hits

Record Mirror

Melody Maker

Sounds

"

Bunty comics and the Christmas annuals

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By *Wman15Man
over a year ago

Altrincham

British Leyland

The original Mini

Actually being able to rent a council house

Scots voting for Labour

Vesta Chinese meals

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Captain Pugwash

Ivor The Engine

Noggin The Nog

The Clangers

The Woodentops

Mary, Mungo & Midge

Bod

Chigley

Trumpton

Camberwick Green

Joe 90

Thunderbirds

Captain Scarlet

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By *rumpyMcFuckNugget OP   Man
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Did anyone else ever have the broken biscuit van or the rent a video guy come round ??

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington


"When footballers just wore black boots

And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back

and very short shorts "
and thighs like tree trunks

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Playing conkers was deemed dangerous

Swings could up and over the bar

Pubs closed on Sunday between 14.00-17.00

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"When footballers just wore black boots

And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back

and very short shorts "

Trust you

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


"Jim "fixing" it

I wrote up to that show - thank fuck my want was not doable "

Snap

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

For me...

Doing the football rounds. My mum used to do it as a job when I was 2/3, I remember she used to stick me in the car and bring me with her.

Being able to hire computer games from the video shop. It was at that time my mum used to but screwballs and I had to give mine back to her when I got down to the bubble gum.

Having your TV retuned to get Channel 5. Big excitment on that day.

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

Okay, so if there was any doubt before, this thread seals the deal....

I’m old

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Landline phones with rotary dials and phone keylocks. "hacking" them by repeatingly pressing / releasing the switch-hook to call your girlfriend / boyfriend.

Hiding under the bed when the phone bill arrived !!"

Waiting for you neighbour to get off the phone cos you had a party line

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"Playing conkers was deemed dangerous

Swings could up and over the bar

Pubs closed on Sunday between 14.00-17.00"

Didn't pubs close every day between those times and then only stayed open till 23.00 (or 22.30 on a Sunday)?

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch


"Did anyone else ever have the broken biscuit van or the rent a video guy come round ??"

Didn’t have a van, but going to Wembley market before returning to school to buy bags of broken biscuits for 20p.

We had a fish & chip van and a grocery store van ... when lived in Dorset

Having a burger was a treat and a sit down meal at Wimpy

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

Using Yellow Pages and the Phone Book.

Getting smacked by your mum and dad.

Not having a delete button on a typewriter or old word processor.

Luncheon vouchers.

Being bored as fuck stuck at your nan's while your parents left you there and all your nan did was go to bed at 6pm and all you had for entertainment was an Argos or Index catalogue. If you were lucky you may get a Kays or Freeman's catalogue with a lingerie section.

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By *r.HMan
over a year ago

A gentleman never tells

Words and pictures TV show with the magic pencil, oh the memories

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

When "pub food" consisted of a mouldy sandwich or a pickled egg or crisps/nuts....or roast potatoes on the bar on a Sunday

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

And Sesame Street actually being on Channel 4, in the morning and at noon.

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

Putting 10p in the back of the TV as it was hired

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


"For me...

Doing the football rounds. My mum used to do it as a job when I was 2/3, I remember she used to stick me in the car and bring me with her.

Being able to hire computer games from the video shop. It was at that time my mum used to but screwballs and I had to give mine back to her when I got down to the bubble gum.

Having your TV retuned to get Channel 5. Big excitment on that day. "

Oh I remember screwball, I wasn't allowed the bubblegum but my older sister was. I loved witches hats (ice cream with a lolly plonked into the ice cream).

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch


"Playing conkers was deemed dangerous

Swings could up and over the bar

Pubs closed on Sunday between 14.00-17.00

Didn't pubs close every day between those times and then only stayed open till 23.00 (or 22.30 on a Sunday)?"

I can only remember Sunday and the landlord kicking us out with ‘go home and eat’. Other days I was working. As for closing no idea, our landlord never rang a bell, just locked the doors.... home time was when he has had enough

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


"Putting 10p in the back of the TV as it was hired "

I swear down my mum's used 50ps.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"

Having a burger was a treat and a sit down meal at Wimpy "

Wimpy with their circular sausages with a tomato in the middle.

The Golden Egg

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


"Using Yellow Pages and the Phone Book.

Getting smacked by your mum and dad.

Not having a delete button on a typewriter or old word processor.

Luncheon vouchers.

Being bored as fuck stuck at your nan's while your parents left you there and all your nan did was go to bed at 6pm and all you had for entertainment was an Argos or Index catalogue. If you were lucky you may get a Kays or Freeman's catalogue with a lingerie section. "

My mum had a Great Universal catalogue, and now my wobbly brain wants to call universal credit by its name haha.

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By *oachman 9CoolMan
over a year ago

derby


"When footballers just wore black boots

And the *only* thing on the shirt was the club badge and the number on the back "
Thats right not tied into sponsorship deals of any kind how its changed It also felt like it was just about the club itself you were watching better to listen now on radio which I do now anyway.

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