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

Someone asks you for more recent face pics

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over a year ago

You remember all this being fields

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

When you listen to radio 4 instead of 1

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

You are asked frequently to change your age restrictions.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

There were no GCSE's

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

You have a collection of Disney movies on vhs

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

You still have a box of cassette tapes

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

When you keep a hankychief up your sleeve

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

You think a 27 year old is really young.

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

"You think a 27 year old is really young."

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

"You think a 27 year old is really young."

This absolutely

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

"When you keep a hankychief up your sleeve"

Oh my! I collected them as a kid

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

You make at least 7 different noises getting up off the floor.

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

You remember your mum giving you 10p for the phone box to call home for a lift

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

You fall asleep on the sofa watching TV

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

You're outraged by the price of a Freddo

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

"You make at least 7 different noises getting up off the floor. "

All I hear is the devil saying "shit he's awake"

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

...you cannot name a single song in the current Top 40

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By *antasyrealmCouple
over a year ago

Congleton

2p.....

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By *antasyrealmCouple
over a year ago

Congleton

"You remember your mum giving you 10p for the phone box to call home for a lift "

2p....

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"2p....."

1/2p remember them?

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By *RSTCouple
over a year ago

S. Northants

"You're outraged by the price of a Freddo"

And still remember a Taz.

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

"...you cannot name a single song in the current Top 40"

And you try and listen and it all sounds the same

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

"You make at least 7 different noises getting up off the floor. "

I tried taking a new pic today and now my hip hurts

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"You think a 27 year old is really young."

My Curry Mummy (cf. Sugar Daddy) was 70 a week or so ago.

The card I gave her read: 70, Don't worry, it's only 21 in Celsius!

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

Petrol was less than 50p a liter

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

When the fun stops

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

You have an allotment

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"Petrol was less than 50p a liter "

Try less than 50p a gallon and then you really know you're old!!

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

You remember rewinding a cassette using a biro.

You used to record the top 40 and try to stop before the DJ spoke, and now you don’t even understand how the charts work!

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By *arker secrets 321Man
over a year ago

West Bromwich

Wen u could go out meet people lol

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By *azkinsWoman
over a year ago

leeds

An early night means sleep.

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By *uzz And WoodyCouple
over a year ago

Maidstone

When there’s a good chance your child or their friends could be on this site!

Lou x

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

"You remember rewinding a cassette using a biro.

You used to record the top 40 and try to stop before the DJ spoke, and now you don’t even understand how the charts work!"

And did mixed tapes for friends and crushes

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

When you'd put tape over a cassette to record the top 10 on the radio - timing the pause precisely!

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"...you cannot name a single song in the current Top 40

And you try and listen and it all sounds the same"

And you add comments like "What's this rubbish?" as you do!!

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

"You're outraged by the price of a Freddo

And still remember a Taz."

Definitely hit different to a regular Freddo

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

"You remember rewinding a cassette using a biro.

You used to record the top 40 and try to stop before the DJ spoke, and now you don’t even understand how the charts work!

And did mixed tapes for friends and crushes

Yes!

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

"You remember rewinding a cassette using a biro.

You used to record the top 40 and try to stop before the DJ spoke, and now you don’t even understand how the charts work!"

I'm sure they don't even play the top 40 on sunday afternoon radio anymore.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

"You remember rewinding a cassette using a biro.

You used to record the top 40 and try to stop before the DJ spoke, and now you don’t even understand how the charts work!"

I still have my collection from the 80s probably some with originally sellotape stuck when the cassette player decided to chew up my tape

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

"When you'd put tape over a cassette to record the top 10 on the radio - timing the pause precisely!"

Or stuff paper in the cassette holes so you could record.

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

"2p.....

1/2p remember them? "

Got lots of sweets when 1/2 penny was around

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

When you use your mobile to ring your friends, instead of using Snapchat, insta, WhatsApp, Facebook or Twitter to contact them.

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

"You make at least 7 different noises getting up off the floor.

I tried taking a new pic today and now my hip hurts

Do we have to get you one of those buttons you wear around your neck in case you have a fall?

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

"When you use your mobile to ring your friends, instead of using Snapchat, insta, WhatsApp, Facebook or Twitter to contact them."

You remember when the battery needed for one was the size of a car

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

"...you cannot name a single song in the current Top 40

And you try and listen and it all sounds the same

And you add comments like "What's this rubbish?" as you do!!"

And 'Not proper music, not like in our day'

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

you look for a handrail on every stair case you use

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By *etcplCouple
over a year ago

Gapping Fanny

When you treat 20 somethings in the same condescending manner as teenagers.

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"Petrol was less than 50p a liter "

I can remember when they were called litres...

... but now we are not in the EU we must look to our future special relationship!

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

When you were grateful for getting a pound note for your birthday

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

"When you were grateful for getting a pound note for your birthday "

Pounds were in notes?

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

"When you treat 20 somethings in the same condescending manner as teenagers."

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"When you were grateful for getting a pound note for your birthday

Pounds were in notes?

Indeed they were

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Grey pubes.

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

"...you cannot name a single song in the current Top 40

And you try and listen and it all sounds the same

And you add comments like "What's this rubbish?" as you do!!

And 'Not proper music, not like in our day'

And “Turn it down, I can’t hear myself think”

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"When you were grateful for getting a pound note for your birthday

Pounds were in notes?

Green notes.

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

"When you were grateful for getting a pound note for your birthday

Pounds were in notes?

Indeed they were "

You could feel rich paying for something with a fistful of pound notes.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

When someone on an over 18 site didn't know there used to be pound notes

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

You, erm, do, what, you want!

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

You could swear wagon wheels were bigger

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

You don't start yoga coz it's cool, but you start it coz you can't fucking move and only last 15 mins on basic beginner

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

"When you use your mobile to ring your friends, instead of using Snapchat, insta, WhatsApp, Facebook or Twitter to contact them."

Stop it! You are making me feel young. I don't use any of those!

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

"Someone asks you for more recent face pics

That's why I've gone silhouette. I don't think I look anything like my pics anymore.

Pretty certain my dick hasn't shrunk though, but alas, I can't be sure.

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

You got moaned at to get off the internet so your mum could use the phone line

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

White dog poo...

...end the thread

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

Remember when Snickers bars were called Marathon.

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

"White dog poo...

...end the thread

On a stick

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

"Remember when Snickers bars were called Marathon. "

And Starbursts were opal fruits

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Remember when Snickers bars were called Marathon. "

Starburst were opal fruits

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

[Removed by poster at 18/01/21 23:05:11]

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By *RSTCouple
over a year ago

S. Northants

Penny sweets used to cost a penny each.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

You wanted a Dusty Bin for Xmas

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

When someone tells you metal gear solid is 23 years old

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

"When someone tells you metal gear solid is 23 years old "

The Simpsons has been going for 30yrs

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

I should hire a paleontologist to study some of you people

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

"When someone tells you metal gear solid is 23 years old

The Simpsons has been going for 30yrs

It's a crazy world.

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

Phone boxes and the disgusting things that happened in them.

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

"When someone tells you metal gear solid is 23 years old

The Simpsons has been going for 30yrs

Aww come on now sis ur really make me feel old I was 3 then when the simpsons started

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Wanting Jimmy Saville to fix something for you wasn't frowned upon

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

When Saturday night consisted of bullseye and blind date

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

"When Saturday night consisted of bullseye and blind date "

And Supergran

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

When you realise Beverly Hills 91210 is 31 yes old

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

Yrs*

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

"Wanting Jimmy Saville to fix something for you wasn't frowned upon "

And rolf Harris meant Friday tea time cartoons

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"There were no GCSE's "

I was the last CSE and O-level generation.

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

I was talking to a few people earlier that didn't care to listen about life calendars which basically visualise your remaining days (based on your current age and average life expectancy) - it's a sad state of affair when you see your remaining days in countable, visual blocks laid out in front of you.

Or was this thread just about the same old crap like white dog shit?

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

you look in the mirror and don't recognise yourself

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

"Wanting Jimmy Saville to fix something for you wasn't frowned upon

And rolf Harris meant Friday tea time cartoons "

I knew they were sinister as a kid - I could feel it

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By *izzabelle and well hungCouple
over a year ago

Edinburgh.

Bits of you hurt for no particular reason.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

your 65th birthday is this year.

How did it happen, where has it all gone?

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"I was talking to a few people earlier that didn't care to listen about life calendars which basically visualise your remaining days (based on your current age and average life expectancy) - it's a sad state of affair when you see your remaining days in countable, visual blocks laid out in front of you.

Or was this thread just about the same old crap like white dog shit?"

I don't think I'd like to see it. Being personalised to that level would freak me out

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"When someone tells you metal gear solid is 23 years old "

Oh my, I remember my son playing that.

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

The telly only had 3 channels and programmes would stop at 11pm

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By *uciferLingerieMan
over a year ago

Leeds

You're looking for cougars but you're always out their age range!

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

You remember Dave Prowse in his day job, every time you cross the road. He must've have gone berserk watching numpties gawping at their glass altars in between kerbs.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

You wanted to be the face of the test card

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

When bbc ceefax was a thing

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Your pop star crush turns pension age.

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

When cigarette packets had collectable cards in them

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

Or was this thread just about the same old crap like white dog shit?

I don't think I'd like to see it. Being personalised to that level would freak me out "

Whem I saw it it was used as a tool against procrastination, but procrastination isn't really about long-term worries anyway.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

also when other people start treating you as if you're old. That slightly patronising way of explaining things and the assumption that there are things you won't understand

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

you know that Muffin the Mule was a kids programme and not a sex position

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

"When cigarette packets had collectable cards in them "

Cigarette and cigar shaped sweets !

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

"When cigarette packets had collectable cards in them

Cigarette and cigar shaped sweets !"

Omg! Yes haha

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

"you know that Muffin the Mule was a kids programme and not a sex position"

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

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of."

Everyone smoked every f......g where !

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Travelling

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of."

Well... Depends on the source of the smoke...

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Teenagers on buses ask you if you want their seat.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of.

Everyone smoked every f......g where ! "

I used to sit in a smoke filled canteen eating my lunch and thought nothing of it

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

Green Shield Stamps ....need I say more?

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

There was 1 McDonald's in a 20 mile radius

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Someone asks you for more recent face pics

My friend, you are NOT old

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

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of.

Everyone smoked every f......g where !

I used to sit in a smoke filled canteen eating my lunch and thought nothing of it

Planes, buses, cinema, the tube, your clothes stunk of smoke....got to say that’s been one big change for the better

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

When television used to end at midnight

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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

"When you were grateful for getting a pound note for your birthday

Pounds were in notes?

Indeed they were

You could feel rich paying for something with a fistful of pound notes. "

I remember being given 10/- note for my pocket money.

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

When snooker and darts players drank beer as they played

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of.

Everyone smoked every f......g where !

I used to sit in a smoke filled canteen eating my lunch and thought nothing of it

Planes, buses, cinema, the tube, your clothes stunk of smoke....got to say that’s been one big change for the better

You'd go to the GP and was stubbing a fag

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By *rincess PhoenixWoman
over a year ago

Southampton

"When someone on an over 18 site didn't know there used to be pound notes

I'm in my 30s and don't remember pound notes!

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

"When snooker and darts players drank beer as they played "

Professional that is

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of.

Everyone smoked every f......g where !

I used to sit in a smoke filled canteen eating my lunch and thought nothing of it

Planes, buses, cinema, the tube, your clothes stunk of smoke....got to say that’s been one big change for the better

I agree. I can't imagine anyone smoking in an office or restaurant nowadays

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

You used to actually have to get up to change the channel.

You used to sprint like it was the 100m to go to have a wee and back in the ad break

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"The telly only had 3 channels and programmes would stop at 11pm "

With the National Anthem followed by the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppp

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By *nerealman100Man
over a year ago

Cambridge

You talk about it's a knockout and back in the day and someone thinks your talking about ninja warrior

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

When you got fined by the VHS store for not rewinding the tape when you returned it

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

threppeny bits and sixpences

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of.

Everyone smoked every f......g where !

I used to sit in a smoke filled canteen eating my lunch and thought nothing of it

Planes, buses, cinema, the tube, your clothes stunk of smoke....got to say that’s been one big change for the better

You'd go to the GP and was stubbing a fag

You go to see your GP and she was smoking.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

we were regretting the days when there was no choice in jeans. You had the one style and that was it, it was only the brand that differed. I'm scared to buy jeans nowadays I just want a pair of Levis like the first pair I bought in 1972

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

The idea of a good game to play was turning the coffee table upside down and pretending it was a pirate ship

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

You realise Two Tone started 42 years ago this year

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of.

Everyone smoked every f......g where !

I used to sit in a smoke filled canteen eating my lunch and thought nothing of it

Planes, buses, cinema, the tube, your clothes stunk of smoke....got to say that’s been one big change for the better

You'd go to the GP and was stubbing a fag

You go to see your GP and she was smoking."

Wouldn't surprise me if we had the same one!

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By *nerealman100Man
over a year ago

Cambridge

"You used to actually have to get up to change the channel.

You used to sprint like it was the 100m to go to have a wee and back in the ad break "

Them was the days, when you felt more fitter as well with the sprints and the stretches

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

You rented the phone, not just the phone line

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

"You rented the phone, not just the phone line "

You didn’t have a phone at all

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

You go out for a good drink and your in bed for 2 days lol

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

You shared a WEEKLY bath with your sister

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of.

Everyone smoked every f......g where !

I used to sit in a smoke filled canteen eating my lunch and thought nothing of it

Planes, buses, cinema, the tube, your clothes stunk of smoke....got to say that’s been one big change for the better

You'd go to the GP and was stubbing a fag

You go to see your GP and she was smoking.

Wouldn't surprise me if we had the same one! "

She was a chain smoker and I used to come out coughing worse than when I went in.

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

"You rented the phone, not just the phone line

You didn’t have a phone at all"

Or the one you had took half an hour to dial someone cos it had the circular dial

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

46 is out of the 45 years and under age range

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Only rich kids had central heating.

We had to make do with hot water bottles and gas heaters.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"A plane filled with smoke wasn't something to be afraid of.

Everyone smoked every f......g where !

I used to sit in a smoke filled canteen eating my lunch and thought nothing of it

Planes, buses, cinema, the tube, your clothes stunk of smoke....got to say that’s been one big change for the better

You'd go to the GP and was stubbing a fag

You go to see your GP and she was smoking.

Wouldn't surprise me if we had the same one!

She was a chain smoker and I used to come out coughing worse than when I went in."

Our school office was the same, secretary always had one lit

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

1/2 p coin

Grange Hill

Black jacks

Croggies

Aids advert scared you !

Taping the charts

Using a pencil to roll the tape back in

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"You rented the phone, not just the phone line

You didn’t have a phone at all"

when we first had the phone installed you had to lift the receiver and wait for the operator to ask "number please". I can't remember if you had to dial 0 first or not

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By *nerealman100Man
over a year ago

Cambridge

"When snooker and darts players drank beer as they played "

Guessing what colour snooker balls had got potted when you was watching it on the black and white TV in the window of Granada TV rental while waiting for the bus with us mum! Lol

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

This is a brilliant thread, thanks OP.

And I would say

Better in the past: the music

Better now: everything else

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Sundays

With the waltons good night John boy

Worzel gummidge

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By *ayTTV/TS
over a year ago

Porthmadog

Cream Eggs were 2p

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

You remember the London dialling code was just 01

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By *ayTTV/TS
over a year ago

Porthmadog

"Cream Eggs were 2p"

I may be eggagerating there but my memory is not too good these days x

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

"You remember the London dialling code was just 01

"
I bloody remember that lol

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Phone boxes had phone books in them

I can't honestly remember the last time I saw a phone box with an actual phone in it either

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By *ayTTV/TS
over a year ago

Porthmadog

"You remember the London dialling code was just 01

I was 02

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"When cigarette packets had collectable cards in them

Cigarette and cigar shaped sweets !"

Yes

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"You remember the London dialling code was just 01

I was 02"

I remember the code where I grew up going from

070

0708

01708

Insane when you think about it

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By *ussy_whisperer2020Woman
over a year ago

cardiff

I love my new hoover ...

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

Taking bottles back to the off license

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Wages were given in little brown envelopes

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

"Wages were given in little brown envelopes "

I remember my first week's wage being £16.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

When your whole street used to pull together and have a street party for jubilee

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By *ollycouple71Couple
over a year ago

manchester

"...you cannot name a single song in the current Top 40"
This haven't a clue x

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

7 Eleven was the latest shop open and the only place you could get a slush

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

When you used pounds, shillings and pence. Dam I miss ten Bob notes

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By *imbobaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"You think a 27 year old is really annoying.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

You spend longer picking out a pair of reading glasses than a pair of shoes.

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

Haha, this one!! X

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By *imbobaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

"You spend longer picking out a pair of reading glasses than a pair of shoes."

And then promptly loose them or forget where you put them and buy another pair until you've a dozen pairs scattered around the house.

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By *oomarangMan
over a year ago

Chester

"When you use your mobile to ring your friends, instead of using Snapchat, insta, WhatsApp, Facebook or Twitter to contact them."

Phone friends don’t you mean go and knock for them and had to be home when the street lights came on

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

You look at prices of everything these days and mutter...

14 shillings for a Mars Bar?

You watch modern comedy on the telly and shout, "call that funny??" In my day, we'd real funny shows...

Whatever has happened to people queuing?

You mention VHS or Betamax tapes and youngsters ask what they are?

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By *oomarangMan
over a year ago

Chester

When cigarettes were 75p for ten and £1.50 for 20

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

8p for saturday afternoon pictures

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By *oomarangMan
over a year ago

Chester

When sci fi Tv programs like space 1999 and doctor who were modern and new

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

tinka and tucker

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Shops shut half day Wednesdays and all day Sundays, apart from the newsagent for the Sunday papers and even then you were only allowed to buy the papers and certain other items - most of the shop was out of bounds

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

You can remember Tomorrows World talking about a revolutionary new disc that you could spread jam on, wipe it off and it would still play music...about 10 years before CDs went mainstream

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

When you say something and sound exactly like your mother. But hey who knew they were right all along

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I think about some of the offensive stuff that was said and cringe. Holy racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia. I'm glad we're better than that

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

"When snooker and darts players drank beer as they played "

And smoked

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By *iscoman7771000Man
over a year ago

birmingham

10 shilling notes = 50 p

1 pound notes = 20 shillings or 240d

Crisps 2d

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