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By *parkyjayne OP Couple
over a year ago

midlands

If you are old enough to remember. It was in some ways Fantastic. Racists had to meet in shit boozers and send of for magazines.

Flat earthers. Well I'm not sure there were any? Getting fucked meant leaving the house and socially interacting and maybe stumbling apon a kindred spirit rather than demanding a fuck by message.

You could travel somewhere without knowing the negatives and positives. Now that's an adventure.

You could voice a comment in a circle of like minded people and someone may disagree. They weren't ejected from that group by people living in echo Chambers. On the plus side I like the videos of people slipping on ice. X

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By *parkyjayne OP Couple
over a year ago

midlands

"If you are old enough to remember. It was in some ways Fantastic. Racists had to meet in shit boozers and send of for magazines.

Flat earthers. Well I'm not sure there were any? Getting fucked meant leaving the house and socially interacting and maybe

stumbling apon a kindred spirit rather than demanding a fuck by message.

You could travel somewhere without knowing the negatives and positives. Now that's an adventure.

Off. Sorry

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

Had to find porn in park bushes !

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By *damsmith12233Man
over a year ago

leicester

"Had to find porn in park bushes ! "

Finding a wank mag lovingly placed in a bush was a highlight

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By *oeBeansMan
over a year ago

Derby

Pre? Internet?

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

We had to go to things called shops and not get everything delivered.

We had to go to a Travel agent and look through a holiday brochure, there was no TripAdvisor.

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

You could voice a comment in a circle of like minded people and someone may disagree. They weren't ejected from that group by people living in echo Chambers."

Or they'd just beat the fuck out of you.

Does make me laugh this idea that people with wildly different views used to stand about having civilized debates.

We were joking earlier about the days when we used to collect ring pulls from cans to send off for free stuff.

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

You could voice a comment in a circle of like minded people and someone may disagree. They weren't ejected from that group by people living in echo Chambers.

Or they'd just beat the fuck out of you.

Does make me laugh this idea that people with wildly different views used to stand about having civilized debates.

We were joking earlier about the days when we used to collect ring pulls from cans to send off for free stuff."

Better than getting stabbed, or shot like these days!

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

It was a lot harder to book a holiday, either piles of magazines or brochures as they were called or trudging your way through Teletext. It was a b'stard if you didn't write down the info before the page moved on and there was usually 163 pages of them.

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

You could actually fix your car yourself. You could even speak to real people face to face for most things from banking to shagging.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Recall driving past the local gig venue just to see what bands were playing at the weekend. Listening to footie on the radio. Good times.

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

"If you are old enough to remember. It was in some ways Fantastic. Racists had to meet in shit boozers and send of for magazines.

Flat earthers. Well I'm not sure there were any? Getting fucked meant leaving the house and socially interacting and maybe stumbling apon a kindred spirit rather than demanding a fuck by message.

You could travel somewhere without knowing the negatives and positives. Now that's an adventure.

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By *eisty LadyWoman
over a year ago

Count Your Blessings Cottage, Gratitude Grove

I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination

I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car

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

"I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination

I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car "

Still have my uk road maps volume. A-Z . Such a handy bit of paper back.

hardly got lost,deff ended up at the Destination. And had some proper spontanious meets off chatlines from the mid 90,s -2015.

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By *eisty LadyWoman
over a year ago

Count Your Blessings Cottage, Gratitude Grove

"I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination

I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car

Still have my uk road maps volume. A-Z . Such a handy bit of paper back.

hardly got lost,deff ended up at the Destination. And had some proper spontanious meets off chatlines from the mid 90,s -2015.

I had some interesting social meets from my CB radio days - a great way of meeting nice people back in the day

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By *orbidden eastMan
over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

I remember buying the loot to find and buy some bargains

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By *entDomMan
over a year ago

Paddock Wood, Kent

I was discussing in a previous forum my mum ran a singles club that was aligned with Dateline, if you remember that?

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

Omg I remember only having two tv channels both black and white, no computers or mobile phones, playing football, cricket and rounds in the street with friends, I enjoyed my childhood, now it’s all tech,

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

"I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination

I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car

Still have my uk road maps volume. A-Z . Such a handy bit of paper back.

hardly got lost,deff ended up at the Destination. And had some proper spontanious meets off chatlines from the mid 90,s -2015.

I had some interesting social meets from my CB radio days - a great way of meeting nice people back in the day

Most deff.

Remember very clearly. You had to use your social and laguage skolls to get your point across. express yourself and get your personality to be seen. Very simple yet affective life skills.

Mostly lost because of hi-tech,and smart tech.

I find very disturbing as i drive esp in london. Many are on their phones when crossing the roads totally dorked out unaware and rude with it,when you point out a safety awareness to them.

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By *batMan
over a year ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

"Or they'd just beat the fuck out of you.

Does make me laugh this idea that people with wildly different views used to stand about having civilized debates.

Better than getting stabbed, or shot like these days!"

Google UK violent crime stats. It's lower than the 1980 and waaaay lower than the 1990s

Gbat

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Apparently, my shit local was the headquarters for the National Front.

I only found that out recently.

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

If you wanted to buy a house, you had to make contact with all the estate agents in the area, and collect all the photocopied sheets of house details, each featuring a single black and white photo of the front of a house, and the measurements of most of the rooms within.

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By *offiaCoolWoman
over a year ago

Kidsgrove

"If you wanted to buy a house, you had to make contact with all the estate agents in the area, and collect all the photocopied sheets of house details, each featuring a single black and white photo of the front of a house, and the measurements of most of the rooms within.

And drive past the house to check out the street, position, factory next door that the estate agents had photographed so it wasn't visible. Now you can see it on Google earth, and walk it on street view

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By *rMs.NeekCouple
over a year ago

Worcestershire

Taping music from the radio as there was no downloads

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By *idlandiaMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Had to find porn in park bushes !

Finding a wank mag lovingly placed in a bush was a highlight

Women in Said magazines having Bush....

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Collecting tokens off cereal packets to "win" a reflector for your bike or a Snap, Crackle and Pop pencil topper

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By *ohnny4playMan
over a year ago

Kinross

"I remember buying the loot to find and buy some bargains

Exchange and mart for bargains and stuff you had never thought of...

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By *iberius61Man
over a year ago

Pontefract

"Flat earthers. Well I'm not sure there were any?"

I remember the flat earth society existing when I was young. I just googled it and apparently it was founded in 1959!

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

White dog shit.

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

I remember these days. I used to go to nightclubs with bits of paper that had my name and house phone number on them to hand out to lucky lucky girls! My dad always took the call

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"White dog shit.

How has the Internet affected that???

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

I'm still an internet virgin

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall

"On the plus side I like the videos of people slipping on ice. X"

Are you pre-"You've Been Framed!" as well?

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

"I remember all the times I drove around the country with a map on my knee wondering if I was going to end up at the right destination

I miss those map books and street A-Z that I always kept in the car "

I still navigate by road map, wouldn't set of on a journey without one.

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By *JB1954Man
over a year ago

Reading

As a male. Meet female in disco ( I am talking around 1974) Dance , chat . Then how do you see her again? . Ask for phone number . If she / parents have one. Then who has a pen etc and something to write number on ? Yes if did manage to write down / call. Who answered phone . If her father being asked who you are etc. Yes if really lucky get to see again after a call. A lot of times yes see again and trying to explain , lost number, could not read, father or mother did not pass on message

Now yes my age not been to a disco

. For long time. But on internet . Chat use same app. Exchange phone numbers and actually see female without leaving house before face to face meeting the next time, which is so easier.

Do realise female can block me or I can block her. Sometime times now internet makes things easier ?

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

Gaming. If you were stuck on a level, you had to find a mate who knew how to complete it. He’d either show you or give you specific tips.

If not, you still to this day reminiscing how a game defeated you and is unfinished.

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

Love this post. I miss those days

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

"Love this post. I miss those days"

I know. I read through and imagined a crazier more exploring time.

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

"Love this post. I miss those days

I know. I read through and imagined a crazier more exploring time. "

Literally love the flex I have over my kids that I didn't get my first phone until I was nearly 20 when they ask for one

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

"Love this post. I miss those days

I know. I read through and imagined a crazier more exploring time.

Literally love the flex I have over my kids that I didn't get my first phone until I was nearly 20 when they ask for one

Haha. My kids waned the latest game console. I made them play and old spectrum and he the snes and warned they had hers to wait until hey get the original PlayStation.

The now generation don’t know how patience works.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Was shit days! Back then! Thank god for the Internet! Although we did have cb radio! Talked to strangers sometimes met up for an "eyeball" x

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

Tannoys in work places, pagers telling you one of six messages... ring office etc, writing letters, putting piece of hot coal in back of telly to make it start up quicker so you didnt miss footie kickoff.

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Had a school project on ports of the world in 1980. We had to research the address and contact details of the port offices and write letters to each one asking for information.

They sent leaflets and typed histories as well as flowcharts.

At that time Rotterdam was one of the largest ports in the world and I received a hand written letter from the operations manager with an enormous package of info. He explained that it wasn't possible to respond to every school or student and he asked that I pass on some of the info to my classmates.

Unfortunately it was a summer holiday project and we didn't have email or even phone numbers so there was no way of passing it on and I therefore was the only one with any detailed info on that port. The good old days

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By *assy69Man
over a year ago

West Sussex and Wales

I sometimes miss the old dial telephone, hung on the wall in the hallway, writing letters, on paper, with a pen, and jumping on a train and not really knowing where I was going, or what would be there….. it seems so long ago now

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

Would go back in a heart beat, all this instant gratification is making us lousy humans

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

"Had a school project on ports of the world in 1980. We had to research the address and contact details of the port offices and write letters to each one asking for information.

They sent leaflets and typed histories as well as flowcharts.

Sounds super fancy... When I was at school my mum just put one of those encasement locks on the handset

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By *undance_KidMan
over a year ago

London

"White dog shit.

Interesting. Why is this no more ?

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

An AA roadmap, purchased from the filling station, always on special offer when buying a torch. They were always just a little too large to pockets behind the seat, so lived in the footwell.

We all had one mate who’s map was 10 years out of date and would enjoy taking the new road ‘not on the map’.

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

Pain in the arse back then..had to take a photo of me tea..then send the film off to get developed..then when it came back send off the negatives to get multiple copies done of the photo..then when they arrived had to go around posting them all through my friends doors..so easy now.. take photo.. upload..

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By *lderflower_AppleWoman
over a year ago

Basingstoke

"Love this post. I miss those days

I know. I read through and imagined a crazier more exploring time.

Literally love the flex I have over my kids that I didn't get my first phone until I was nearly 20 when they ask for one

Haha. My kids waned the latest game console. I made them play and old spectrum and he the snes and warned they had hers to wait until hey get the original PlayStation.

The now generation don’t know how patience works. "

I seem to recall getting weekly magazines that would have cheat codes you could type in on the keyboard to get unlimited lives, or coins etc that were about 27 characters long.

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"White dog shit.

Interesting. Why is this no more ? "

Because dog owners used to get raw bones free from the butchers and the calcium content turned the shit white.

These days that rarely happens.

You still see the odd bit out in the sticks but it's a rare sight now.

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By *undance_KidMan
over a year ago

London

"White dog shit.

Interesting. Why is this no more ?

Because dog owners used to get raw bones free from the butchers and the calcium content turned the shit white.

These days that rarely happens.

You still see the odd bit out in the sticks but it's a rare sight now.

Thanks for clearing that up. Definitely true that you hardly see it anymore.

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"White dog shit.

Interesting. Why is this no more ?

Because dog owners used to get raw bones free from the butchers and the calcium content turned the shit white.

These days that rarely happens.

You still see the odd bit out in the sticks but it's a rare sight now.

Thanks for clearing that up. Definitely true that you hardly see it anymore."

No worries!

I've been told in the past that I 'don't know shit'.

How wrong they were.....

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

"Pain in the arse back then..had to take a photo of me tea..then send the film off to get developed..then when it came back send off the negatives to get multiple copies done of the photo..then when they arrived had to go around posting them all through my friends doors..so easy now.. take photo.. upload..

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

Sex education from some middle aged virgin teacher.

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By *hilloutMan
over a year ago

All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest

Far easier to be anonymous and much more privacy.

You could be left alone if you so desired as there wasn't instant connectivity.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Had you not heard of Polaroids?!

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By *lueFireCouple
over a year ago

just somewhere around here

"Recall driving past the local gig venue just to see what bands were playing at the weekend. Listening to footie on the radio. Good times."

Ordering gig tickets by post sending a cheque to the box office or buying from genuine touts outsider

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

"Love this post. I miss those days

I know. I read through and imagined a crazier more exploring time.

Literally love the flex I have over my kids that I didn't get my first phone until I was nearly 20 when they ask for one

Haha. My kids waned the latest game console. I made them play and old spectrum and he the snes and warned they had hers to wait until hey get the original PlayStation.

The now generation don’t know how patience works.

I seem to recall getting weekly magazines that would have cheat codes you could type in on the keyboard to get unlimited lives, or coins etc that were about 27 characters long."

Yes

and writing them down swapping them with friends.

If you really were desperate there were helplines

I called one once. And some guy did walk you through It.

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By *stoppMan
over a year ago

Durham

No -ordering fast food or grocery deliveries.

No -Amazon

No -getting grief emails from work.

One phone for the whole house.

Conversations done with friends or girlfriends on the hall telephone, sadly used in the belief if you shut the hall doors no one in the house could hear your conversations.

No Fabswingers.

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

Pre Internet.

Going to a gig and not really know what the gig would be like, stage set, set list.

No YouTube. Sure, you could get concert review on NME or Kerrang. It was exciting the unknown.

And you were lost in the moment.

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

I grew up in an age when we had:

No TV

No Central Heating

No washing machine

No Fridge

No Freezer

No bathroom

No inside toilet

No telephone

Food was rationed

Clothes were rationed.

Wnen we did get a telephone it was a shared line and we had to dial 9 to talk to an operator and tell her what number you wanted.

Our first television was a Bush with a 9 inch screen this was bought for the Queens Coronation.

We survived and we thrived. Happy days.

Sadly I am a luddite when it comes to todays technology, Progress is going too fast for me to keep up. I still use map books, I have 12 yr old Nokia telephone. I still us a land line and a fax machine. Very rarely have a takeaway, and do most of my shopping in real shops.

I must however I do have a small business selling coffee pots on Ebay though.

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

"Recall driving past the local gig venue just to see what bands were playing at the weekend. Listening to footie on the radio. Good times.

Ordering gig tickets by post sending a cheque to the box office or buying from genuine touts outsider"

It wasn't me!

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

" I grew up in an age when we had:

No TV

No Central Heating

No washing machine

No Fridge

No Freezer

No bathroom

No inside toilet

No telephone

Food was rationed

Clothes were rationed.

Wnen we did get a telephone it was a shared line and we had to dial 9 to talk to an operator and tell her what number you wanted.

Our first television was a Bush with a 9 inch screen this was bought for the Queens Coronation.

We survived and we thrived. Happy days.

I must however I do have a small business selling coffee pots on Ebay though."

You're cleverer than me, I can't figure out Ebay.

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