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

Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..

What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?

Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …

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

Pulling their teeth out on a Texan bar

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline


"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..

What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?

Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …

"

Oh yes! Many a Sunday untangling a tape with a pencil and trying to avoid the DJ

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

Playing outside in the rain

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

Rewinding a cassette with a Bic biro. Yeah, remember Bic Biros. When we wrote stuff instead of typing it

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

The joy of purchasing a brand spanking new Sony Walkman and the flimsy metal headset breaking within five minutes

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

The excitement of going to the video shop.

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

Finding copies of Mayfair and Penthouse hidden in the derelict cricket pavilion.....Not that it's ever happened to me of course

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Eating Ready Brek in the morning and becoming engulfed in a warm and glowing orange aura….

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


"Eating Ready Brek in the morning and becoming engulfed in a warm and glowing orange aura…."

It’s central heating for kids!

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Kids today will never understand how irresponsibly climbing pylons in order to retrieve one’s lost frisby can result in one’s bell-bottoms suddenly catching fire…..

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.

Join the Tufty Club

Get a little badge to wear.

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By *he AmbassadorMan
over a year ago

IRLANDA. / Prague. / Cil Dara


"Playing outside in the rain "
playing outside full stop,

I need to nuke my2 off the couch.

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

We used to go on blind dates via cb radio and BT phone parties before the internet existed.

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

Walking for 20 minutes to call for your mates only to find they’ve gone out rather than send a text

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


"We used to go on blind dates via cb radio and BT phone parties before the internet existed."

Eyeball we called it

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By *edheadjMan
over a year ago

High Wycombe

Ringing your mates house phone to see if they're in.

Ringing your house phone for three rings to let your parents know you're safe.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…


"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.

Join the Tufty Club

Get a little badge to wear. "

The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion

…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was….

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By *r_PinkMan
over a year ago

london stratford

finding porn magazines in your dads "private place!"

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7

Dial-up modems.

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By *urplechesterCouple
over a year ago

chester

Having four tv channels to choose from, and it turning off at midnight Miss pc

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.

Join the Tufty Club

Get a little badge to wear.

The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion

…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was…. "

'Lewk, oi ahrm yor faaathur"!

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

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Kids today dont know what CDs are never mind cassettes

They won’t experience that thrill of collecting a packet of photos that have been developed and printed, most of which were blurry and had chopped the heads off the subject

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Kids today don’t realise that we typically only had three miserly lives in which to complete the latest Arcade game (unless we had a shit ton of change to shove into the machine in a hurry!)

None of this infinite re-spawning for us!

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham


"We used to go on blind dates via cb radio and BT phone parties before the internet existed.

Eyeball we called it "

Yep, an eyeball, basically a social in a pub car park and if your lucky a blow job

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…


"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.

Join the Tufty Club

Get a little badge to wear.

The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion

…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was….

'Lewk, oi ahrm yor faaathur"! "

‘Oo ahhh! Get me them there droids!’

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By *ollycouple71Couple
over a year ago

manchester


"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..

What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?

Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …

Oh yes! Many a Sunday untangling a tape with a pencil and trying to avoid the DJ"
Haha This x

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Kids today would never understand that the size of sweets and chocolates were never always small

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Kids won’t understand that the TV channels shut down after a certain time; there none of this binge watching series in the early hours malarky. We actually went to bed and slept(!)

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

Been able to play out with friends as there was no chance anything would happen going out to pub with friends to pub being able to get pissed get ten cigs chips and gravy on way home for less than a fiver

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

kids today will never understand the phrase 'and here's one I made earlier'

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Pulling their teeth out on a Texan bar "

Refreshers now hold that title. I can vouch for that.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

At school, getting bapped in the gob with a conker was not a safeguarding issue….

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull


"Kids won’t understand that the TV channels shut down after a certain time; there none of this binge watching series in the early hours malarky. We actually went to bed and slept(!) "

And if your favourite program was on and you missed it - bad luck and no chance of seeing it again.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.

Join the Tufty Club

Get a little badge to wear.

The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion

…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was…. "

Luke right, Luke left then Luke right again?

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

Send your answers on a postcard.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…


"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.

Join the Tufty Club

Get a little badge to wear.

The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion

…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was….

Luke right, Luke left then Luke right again?"

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Pound notes, unless you don't live in England.

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By *irtydevil666Man
over a year ago

bristol

When carrying a mobile phone around was like carrying a brick......

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Jimmy Saville was considered a kind and benevolent (if somewhat eccentric) chap who made kids wishes come true back in our day…..

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Not being mowed down on the roads when trying to cross, because I was in the Tufty Club.

Join the Tufty Club

Get a little badge to wear.

The Green Cross Code Man sure saved my bacon on more than one occasion

…..Until he joined the Dark Side and became Darth Vadar that was….

Luke right, Luke left then Luke right again?

"

Thanks Father, for helping me to get tot the other side.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

We all knew and used to sing along to the awesome theme tune to Record Breakers and we all remember with utter shock, THAT episode wherein a kid challenged Norris McWhirter over a Guinness record fact

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Waking up to frost on the inside of your windows, although that might soon become common again.

Two TV channels only.

Coat hanger for an aerial.

Mittens on elastic threaded through your coat sleeves.

Conductors on the bus

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By *he love catsCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

Spending time in the pubs, playing pool and dart's and drinking the cheapest beer they had, landlords just didn't care back then.

Mr.

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

Posting a painting in to Vision On and waiting to see if it got shown in the gallery.

“Unfortunately, we can’t return any paintings, but a prize is given for each one shown’

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury


"Dial-up modems."

Dont forget the floppy disc

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"Dial-up modems.

Dont forget the floppy disc"

Anybody here got a 3.5"floppy?

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


"Dial-up modems.

Dont forget the floppy disc"

Green Screen Monitors can be added to the list too

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

‘Just Say No!’

We watched in horror as ‘Zammo followed the dragon and got a smack on the nose’ and subsequently, suitably fucking terrified, knew never to touch that shit! (Not least of all after witnessing the poor lad slumped against the wall sporting the sort of vapid expression that suggested that the crew may have lost his pay check for his efforts that episode)

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

House prices that didn't look like phone numbers.

Petrol sold as 2, 3 and 4 Stars and priced by the gallon

Free dentistry for grown ups (Go'bless'Merica, when they get our NHS in their filthy grip)

Shampoo bottles made of glass, eco friendly, but lethal to butterfingers.

Wages in brown envelopes.

Electricity board shops in town.

people asking strangers to hold their camera and take their photos.

waiting a week or three for the mailorder photos to come back.

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By *assing Fancies xCouple
over a year ago

Sherwood Forest

Having to rewind the video to get back to your favourite part of the porno

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

Racing on your bikes down the street.

Playing hide and seek in the dark around the neighborhood

Gordon the gopher

Gladiators....are you ready!

Rola cola

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

….and talking of Grange Hill; we knew to always be alert to random flying sausages on the end of forks that could appear out of thin air at any moment…..

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By *assing Fancies xCouple
over a year ago

Sherwood Forest

Roller disco

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

We were the remote as kids haha or tuning in tv with that little stick

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Send your answers on a postcard. "

01 811 8055

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury


"Dial-up modems.

Dont forget the floppy disc

Anybody here got a 3.5"floppy? "

Always is buddy, always is lol

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

I used to roll my towel up and tuck it below my arm then walk 3 miles to the baths, aka know as a swimming pool for youngsters. My dry pants were in the towel and I had my trunks on as it saved time and I got to swim for a bit longer, 47 seconds!

And don't forget the joy of a party line.

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

Randall and hopkirk

Deceased !

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By *assing Fancies xCouple
over a year ago

Sherwood Forest

Happy hours and all you can drink for a tenner from 9pm/11:30pm at lollipops in town

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"Dial-up modems.

Dont forget the floppy disc

Anybody here got a 3.5"floppy?

Always is buddy, always is lol"

I've seen a few, on public pics.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Kids today won’t remember how it was ALWAYS the shittest painting by a five year old that would win the overall best prize in the latest Blue Peter design competition.

Bastards!

(I’m not bitter or anything….)

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..

What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?

Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …

"

Hey… I had to explain to my niece today why her mother basically lost her shit watching the Super Bowl half time show!!!

I have never felt more middle aged trying to explain just how big Dre and Snoop were!!!

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

Mixups

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

All the shops shut on Sunday.

When a dickhead didn't rewind the tapes from the video shop.

Leaving your bike outside the shop while you ran in for some penny sweets.

Sneakily checking out the big tits on the top shelf in the newsagents.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.


"Having four tv channels to choose from, and it turning off at midnight Miss pc "

Four channels! Back in my day...

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

Waiting 5 minutes for the cassette to load your favourite computer game for it to then fail at the last grainy beep....and starting all over again!

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By *assing Fancies xCouple
over a year ago

Sherwood Forest


"Having four tv channels to choose from, and it turning off at midnight Miss pc

Four channels! Back in my day..."
and having to get the portable Ariel in the window cill for the best signal

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By *nebig1ivorMan
over a year ago

Reading

Hearing Concorde go over at 10.30am everyday departing from Heathrow to New York

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Avoiding going upstairs on the bus as that's where all the smokers sat

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By *he love catsCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

Having a dump in an outside toilet.

Mr

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

Absconding from Bernardo home getting all the way down to London for free

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury


"Dial-up modems.

Dont forget the floppy disc

Anybody here got a 3.5"floppy?

Always is buddy, always is lol

I've seen a few, on public pics. "

Not mine though, I wouldn't want to blind people!

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By *ed LipstickWoman
over a year ago

Fucksville

Going for a wee during the adverts and then danger sprinting back to the lounge because your siblings shouted IT'S ONNNNN x

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury


"Randall and hopkirk

Deceased !

"

The original or Reaves and Mortimer remake?

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By *nebig1ivorMan
over a year ago

Reading

Breaking numerous joysticks playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon

Using the underwear section of the Kays catalogue as wank material

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Having to write out school work BY HAND.

Typing www dot website in the URL bar and not doing it through a search engine.

Not having a printer at home.

Typewriters.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Breaking numerous joysticks playing Daley Thompson's Decathlon

Using the underwear section of the Kays catalogue as wank material"

Same wrist action?

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

MTV playing nothing but music videos, not some rapper's in laws bitching at each other non stop.

Music-non-stop. Kraftwerk

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

Finding it impossible to pick out the half pennies in your purse.

Of course essential when buying the half penny sweets at the corner shop

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"MTV playing nothing but music videos, not some rapper's in laws bitching at each other non stop.

Music-non-stop. Kraftwerk"

I'm sure they played better stuff than Kraftwerk. Occasionally.

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

Going the shop with £1 and buying a packet of crisp, freddo bar, bottle of pop and still having change

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

Waiting for a few minutes to connect to AOL with the worst noise known to man, and then greeted with a failed attempt.

The rest of the house banned at this point from even thinking about lifting the phone

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By *it-chrissyTV/TS
over a year ago

sw. london

Not 'top 40'...

'Friday rock show'

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"Not 'top 40'...

'Friday rock show'

"

Alan "Fluff" Freeman on a saturday...

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

Waking up the day after a night out and smelling your clothes from the night before

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

When Golden Wonder was the market leader for crisps.

Then Walkers came alond and put cheese and onion in blue bags! this resulted in Salt & vVnegar buyers getting a mouthful of the wrong flavoured crisps! This was really annoying.

WTF do these companies break out from agreed colour codes?

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Waiting for a few minutes to connect to AOL with the worst noise known to man, and then greeted with a failed attempt.

The rest of the house banned at this point from even thinking about lifting the phone "

aol Connie, who fancied her?

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

"Whyyyyyy dont you?

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

Having to stick a pencil in to wind the tape back in when it all untangled on your cassette that youve just recorded the Top 10 in from the radio.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


""Whyyyyyy dont you?"

Shouldn't you handwrite that in fifteen different colours from your felt tip pens collection?

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By *Just meMan
over a year ago

Basingstoke

An a rated film or the double bill at the cinema

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

Loading a game on a zx spectrum

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

Being scared shit less by Hartley Hare from Pipkins

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

Playing kerby

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"Playing kerby"

Ruined many a good ball playing that. Football, that is.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Loading a game on a zx spectrum "

as a Commodore fan, I don't understand it either.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Kids today wouldn't understand that sex with the same sex was classified as a criminal offence

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By *he love catsCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

Cleaning the tape heads with alcohol and a cotton bud.

Mr

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

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

Using teletext/ceefax to look for love in your area.

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

Getting Pissed on Blastaways

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By *ormorantMan
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Shops closing on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

Feeding 2p pieces into a public phone that stank of piss to speak to your girlfriend because there was no phone at home…

Oh and white dog shit…

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

If you went on AOL your mum could kiss goodbye to trying to get hold of you on the phone for at least 4 hours.

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

Checking football scores on ceefax

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales


"Waiting for a few minutes to connect to AOL with the worst noise known to man, and then greeted with a failed attempt.

The rest of the house banned at this point from even thinking about lifting the phone "

Opps missed this

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Being scared shit less by Hartley Hare from Pipkins "

I always though his teeth looked like hot glue pellets.

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

Going to blockbuster to rent films and games and sharing it around before it was due back

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Kids today wouldn't understand that sex with the same sex was classified as a criminal offence"

Isle of Man?

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


"Being scared shit less by Hartley Hare from Pipkins

I always though his teeth looked like hot glue pellets."

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham


""Whyyyyyy dont you?"

I was thinking of that.

I never did anything though.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure

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By *edheadjMan
over a year ago

High Wycombe

Speaking of the internet, buying internet minutes via CDs on the front of PC magazines

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Kids today wouldn't understand that one girlfriend was enough and they got married

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure "

Speak for yourself!

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By *ozapperMan
over a year ago

Lancashire

Never knowing how to work the video recorder timer properly and simply pressing record to get 3 hours of recording, only 30 mins of it being what you wanted!

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By *parkle1974Woman
over a year ago

Leeds

Playing spot the ball and helping with doing the football coupon x

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

The joy of getting the swing to swing so high you flip over the top, they don’t even get to end up horizontal nowadays

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

All phone calls took place in the living room as that was where the phone was. If you were lucky it had a long enough cord that you could stretch and sit the other side of the door

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By *ife NinjaMan
over a year ago

Dunfermline


"All phone calls took place in the living room as that was where the phone was. If you were lucky it had a long enough cord that you could stretch and sit the other side of the door"

We use to have a lock on the dial

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

Folk copying stuff off Facebook on to a swingers forum

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

Getting 20 sweets in a 10p mix up

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

Ski Sunday.

Italian football on channel 4

Telly text

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Getting 20 sweets in a 10p mix up"

Gis one.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.


"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure "

That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

How much warmer you are, when you tuck your clothes in.

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


"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..

What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?

Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …

"

See, I understand all those words individually but I gotta level with you, when you put them in that order, I'm stumped

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure

That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me. "

Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!

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By *unandgamegeekMan
over a year ago

Bolton

Waiting over 5 mins for a game to load off a cassette on the ZX Spectrum.

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By *100Man
over a year ago

Essex

Having to disassemble the vhs cassette player because your mates porn tape is stuck and your mum will kill you if she finds it

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle


"Getting 20 sweets in a 10p mix up"

You've been robbed I'm sure mine was close 50 things were half a pence

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials


"Using teletext/ceefax to look for love in your area.

"

Or book a holiday

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials


"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure

That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.

Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!"

Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too

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

Vic 20 that dial up modem noise - ha

Atari

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By *heOriginalLoisWoman
over a year ago

London

Penpals you used to write to. I am guessing foreign exchange students probably don't exist now either?

The "kids" in my office think it is hilarious that email wasn't about when I started work.

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.


"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure

That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.

Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!"

Hmmmmm, let me think about that one.

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By *heOriginalLoisWoman
over a year ago

London


"Using teletext/ceefax to look for love in your area.

Or book a holiday "

Selecting the page and it was at 79/100 when you wanted to read what was on page 78.

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


"Waking up to frost on the inside of your windows, although that might soon become common again.

"

Handy tip - warm up a coin in your hand and breath on it then press it on the icy window - it'll melt a perfect little peeky hole for you

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

Life from a unstaged,unposed POV.

We just went and did things back in the day, no video phones, no social media, just good times and memories

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure

That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.

Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!

Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too"

It was an English teacher who'd do that in my school. Deadly accurate too.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle


"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure

That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.

Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!

Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too"

I was going to mention this but thought I might have been alone

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple
over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

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By *ehindHerEyesCouple
over a year ago

SomewhereOnlyWeKnow

Making the perfect mixtape.... only for the cassette player to chew the bustard up!

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.


"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure

That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.

Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!

Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too

I was going to mention this but thought I might have been alone "

The real sadists liked to whack your knuckles with a ruler, and not one of those new fangled plastic ones the break too easily. This was a regular occurance at primary school.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Dial-up internet and arguing with someone who wants to make a telephone call.

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

Playing hide and seek with all the kids in the street. Good old days.. yes I’m only 21 but I was born in the era of playing outside ahaha

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


"Kids today wouldn't understand that getting your bum spanked by a teacher with a stick wasn't for pleasure

That's just barbaric. We used to get a half inch leather belt across our hands. It was a daily occurance for me.

Never happened to me at all. I wasn't a goody two shoes, I was just smart enough not to get caught!

Chalk board rubber block thrown at us by history teacher. He was a total perv too

It was an English teacher who'd do that in my school. Deadly accurate too."

I had a metalwork teacher 2ho would throw a hammer. Could you imagine the uproar there would be these days. We just learned to duck quickly.

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

A new release on vinyl

Listening to the charts in the playground and hearing new songs.

Queue for tickets at venues

A bag of sweets for a 20p mix up

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


"Finding copies of Mayfair and Penthouse hidden in the derelict cricket pavilion.....Not that it's ever happened to me of course "

Remember finding some adult magazines in a camp me and my best friend had made. He got busted by his parents when they cleaned under his bedroom. Literally a school boy error

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Kicking a piece of rock hard, white dog poop down the street, on the way to school.

Trying to remember the way to school in thick fog.

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London


"Making the perfect mixtape.... only for the cassette player to chew the bustard up! "

Splicing it back together with sellotape.

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By *ysyphusMan
over a year ago

Starbase K-7


"A new release on vinyl

Listening to the charts in the playground and hearing new songs.

Queue for tickets at venues

A bag of sweets for a 20p mix up"

All of those resonate. Half the story with vinyl was pouring of the album art & sleeve notes!

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By *hortarseWoman
over a year ago

Norfolk


"We used to go on blind dates via cb radio and BT phone parties before the internet existed.

Eyeball we called it "

Use to collect eyeball cards. I meet my ex husband and my ex from CB. So glad it's gone with them.

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

20p freddos

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Making the perfect mixtape.... only for the cassette player to chew the bustard up!

Splicing it back together with sellotape. "

I've got that down to a fine art.

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


"20p freddos "

My girlfriend bought me a 6 pack for a pound for valentines! That’s the Asda price

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


"20p freddos

My girlfriend bought me a 6 pack for a pound for valentines! That’s the Asda price "

She’s a keeper

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


"Having to disassemble the vhs cassette player because your mates porn tape is stuck and your mum will kill you if she finds it"

Recording something dodgy on vhs and racking your brain to think of an innocent label to put on it so your parents didn’t twig!

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


"20p freddos

My girlfriend bought me a 6 pack for a pound for valentines! That’s the Asda price

She’s a keeper"

Absofuckinglutely!

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place


"A new release on vinyl

Listening to the charts in the playground and hearing new songs.

Queue for tickets at venues

A bag of sweets for a 20p mix up

All of those resonate. Half the story with vinyl was pouring of the album art & sleeve notes!"

And the choice of a 7 or 10 inch single or an ep

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

Going to school in 3 foot drits, aged 9

School was open

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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago

East of Eden, West of Hell


"Ringing your mates house phone to see if they're in.

Ringing your house phone for three rings to let your parents know you're safe.

"

I still have to call my parents phone and let it ring when I get home, just so they know I've arrived home safely

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

Using a dial phone, then getting fucked off that you were too quick and dialed the wrong number.

Running into your house, when you favourite TV program came on.

Finding colour climax porn mag, in the bushes of the infants school.

Having to go to the local shops, to play video games.

Programming a game in basic, then finding out you had one number wrong somewhere.

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By *nnCeeWoman
over a year ago

East of Eden, West of Hell

The joy of a new exercise book

Respecting grown ups

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By *uffolkClareClactonDaveCouple
over a year ago

Felixstowe/Clacton-on-Sea


"Hovering over your radio / cassette player with the ‘record’ function on pause listening to the Top 40 on a Sunday evening (5pm to 7pm), poised ready to tape all the records you like onto a TDK C90 cassette but trying to make sure you cut off the DJ..

What will the kids of today never have the joy of experiencing?

Yes, Fabsters, it’s another oldies nostalgia thread …

Oh yes! Many a Sunday untangling a tape with a pencil and trying to avoid the DJ"

That was the beauty of John Peel. Unlike many DJ's, who seemed to like the sound of their own voices, he let the music do the talking and you could record loads of great tracks and Peel Sessions without him talking all the way through the intro and outro.

Plus, he played music other than the bubblegum pop you got on most other shows.

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

Benetton sweatshirts! I managed to get my mum to by me one but the only one in my size was red. Biggest regret of my childhood not understanding colour coordination and being ginger.

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By *amie366Man
over a year ago

doncaster

Having a chalk board rubber launched at you by a teacher for not listening ??

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By *mateur100Man
over a year ago

nr faversham

What a great thread

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

Round dial on the house phone... 8 and 9 took ages!

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own

Renting the television from Granada, and when we "upgraded" to one with a remote control (saved my 2 sisters and I from being the remote) and it was a wired one. You'd get screamed at "mind the wire!!!" when you got up to go to the loo

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch


"Round dial on the house phone... 8 and 9 took ages! "

and took an age for it to go back, 999 should have been 111

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Carrying an emergency phone card in your purse and heaven forbid you actually had to use it.

Using payphones and needing 20p. The pips going.

When bus fares cost about 20-odd pence (I remember being appalled when they hit 50p for a single ticket).

Radio alarm clocks with bright red numbers.

Your CD Walkman skipping if you walked or frankly breathed with it on (in a pouch that if you hung from your trousers would make them fall down).

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

a 4 penny one

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By *hristopherd999Man
over a year ago

Brentwood

listening to Radio Caroline on my transister radio

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