FabSwingers.com forum: Things the kids of today just won’t understand …

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

Hovering over the “play / record” buttons on your tape recorder between 4pm and 7pm on a Sunday on Radio 1, hoping to cut out the DJ (Tommy Vance or Bruno Brookes) when a song you liked came on…

Or pulling out the ch0ke lever for 5 minutes when starting your car in the morning..

What else Fabsters? Let’s perplex the young ‘uns on here!

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

Having to rewind a film (video cassette) when you have finished watching it

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

Knocking on for a mate to find out they weren’t in!

Waiting a year for the film you saw at the cinema to finaly come out on VHS. (Also, having to rewind the video before returning it!)

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

No Netflix

No YouTube

No internet!!!

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

Sitting on the stairs on the phone whispering quietly to the guy you liked so your parents didn't overhear.

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

CDs.

And to play CDs in the car you needed a tape adaptor.

And that computer games could also be on tape. Which you had to pay at the right volume. And took 29 mins to load.

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

"Sitting on the stairs on the phone whispering quietly to the guy you liked so your parents didn't overhear. "

going to the pay phone down the road to call that lass you liked armed with a bag of 2ps and 5ps ..

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By *orthmanMan
over a year ago

Kendal

Dial a disc

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

"Sitting on the stairs on the phone whispering quietly to the guy you liked so your parents didn't overhear.

going to the pay phone down the road to call that lass you liked armed with a bag of 2ps and 5ps .. "

I appreciated it.

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

Latin.

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

"Sitting on the stairs on the phone whispering quietly to the guy you liked so your parents didn't overhear.

going to the pay phone down the road to call that lass you liked armed with a bag of 2ps and 5ps ..

I appreciated it. "

Becky … is.. is that YOU?

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

Scrapeing the frost on the inside of your bedroom window

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By *ostAirmenMan
over a year ago

crewe

Recording the Uk top 40 on a Sunday night .

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

No mobile phones with an antenna or flip. No mobile phones with 3g back then it was a big thing when it came out.

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

Going to the shop with a pound buying a shit load of sweets and still having change!!

Playing out!! Actual out out!

Drinking your parents 20/20.

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

There bloody useless kids today soft as puppy poop

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

Only 3 channels on the telly.

And it all stopped at about midnight, after the National Anthem.

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

If you wanted to finish a video game, you had to play it over and over until you figured it out, instead of searching YouTube!!!!

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By *inballs99Man
over a year ago

Blackheath

How hard it was to get hold of porn when we were kids !

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

10 print hello

20 goto 10

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

"If you wanted to finish a video game, you had to play it over and over until you figured it out, instead of searching YouTube!!!! "

from the start! No auto-saving of progress.

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By *astandtheCurious2Couple
over a year ago

letchworth

Bunking off school and no one rings home to see where you are

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By *inballs99Man
over a year ago

Blackheath

"Going to the shop with a pound buying a shit load of sweets and still having change!!

Playing out!! Actual out out!

Drinking your parents 20/20.

"
we had a sip of our nans martini Rossi!

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

being disciplined if out of line...!

having lots of fun outdoors...!

fun of going to scrap yard for spare parts & fixing own car...!

kissing the girls behind the bike sheds...!

more me time in general...!

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By *inballs99Man
over a year ago

Blackheath

Teachers that actually hit you for being naughty !

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By *M_RCouple
over a year ago

Swinton

“Neil, Neil, orange peel!”

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

"Teachers that actually hit you for being naughty !"

And coppers clipping you around the ear and saying I know your dad

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

Darts and snooker players openly smoking a fag and downing pints while playing on the telly (in tournaments sponsored by Embassy!)

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By *inballs99Man
over a year ago

Blackheath

"“Neil, Neil, orange peel!”"
"they don't like it up em "

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

Sunday afternoon top 40 countdown on the radio

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

You had to buy SMASH HITS to learn the words to your fave songs.

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By *orthmanMan
over a year ago

Kendal

The allure of the lingerie pages in your Mum's Littlewood's catalogue

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

Now That's What I Call Music 1.

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

Learning more about sex and periods from sneakily reading your sisters Jackie magazine than from school

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By *M_RCouple
over a year ago

Swinton

"How hard it was to get hold of porn when we were kids !"

Mags were often seen discarded in hedges, waste ground etc back then, so for the desperate a grotty/soggy mag wasn’t too hard to source. We both pilfered ours from older family members private stashes!

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By *ustyLeRouxWoman
over a year ago

Brecon

Floppy disks

Dial up Internet

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

01 811 8055

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

Only 3 TV channels that finished shortly after midnight.

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

"Learning more about sex and periods from sneakily reading your sisters Jackie magazine than from school "

Dan

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

One more record to Bits & Pieces ..

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By *izbitMan
over a year ago

St Helens

Vinyl records and tuning the wireless

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By *M_RCouple
over a year ago

Swinton

"“Neil, Neil, orange peel!” "they don't like it up em ""

“I’m old enough to start work, join the army & have ‘intercourse’ with a partner of my choice… but I can not drink in pubs!”

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

How to load a 35 mm camera, using a real typewriter, affordable house prices.

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

Not getting participation medals. Second place is the first loser, if you hate losing work harder.

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

Woolworths lol

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"If you wanted to finish a video game, you had to play it over and over until you figured it out, instead of searching YouTube!!!!

from the start! No auto-saving of progress. "

Nintendo are a bugger for that, NES/SNES/N64 for example.

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

"01 811 8055"

I’d that Going Live?

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By *hil most chillMan
over a year ago

South East & Europe

Paying 10p to send a text

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Sunday and Wenesday closing.

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

Eating using a knife and a fork

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

No mobiles and using the street light as a timer to go home for the night lol

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

"How to load a 35 mm camera, using a real typewriter, affordable house prices."

A flash ‘tower’ for your camera. 10 individual single use flashes

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

"Only 3 TV channels that finished shortly after midnight."

Twiddling the vertical and horizontal knobs to keep the picture stable and if that didn’t work just hit the top of the TV

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By *orthmanMan
over a year ago

Kendal

"01 811 8055

I’d that Going Live? "

Swap Shop.

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

Finding 10p down the side of your dads armchair then going down the village shop and getting 10 Embassy from the fag machine outside the shop on a Sunday afternoon . Calling on your mates to smoke them in 3 hours and then go home for tea. Such happy days

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

"01 811 8055

I’d that Going Live? "

And Swap Shop and Saturday Superstore beforehand!

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

"Only 3 TV channels that finished shortly after midnight.

Twiddling the vertical and horizontal knobs to keep the picture stable and if that didn’t work just hit the top of the TV "

Moving the aerial about on a portable to get a clear channel

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"01 811 8055

I’d that Going Live?

Swap Shop."

Multicoloured at that!

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

Pubs closing at 3pm

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

Putting a camera film in at the chemist to get developed and printed.

Queueing for concert tickets

Walking an hour in 2 feet of snow to get to school

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Life before Google.

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

"Only 3 TV channels that finished shortly after midnight.

Twiddling the vertical and horizontal knobs to keep the picture stable and if that didn’t work just hit the top of the TV "

having a tracking dial on a video recorder to stabilise the picture on a VHS tape

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Pubs closing at 3pm "

Theres's a pub in a village a few miles away from me that does that.

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

How to wind up a watch

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

"Only 3 channels on the telly.

And it all stopped at about midnight, after the National Anthem. "

And the girl and the blackboard came on.

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By *ornywelsh2sumCouple
over a year ago

Neath valley.

using the old dial house phones

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By *valiceslutTV/TS
over a year ago

London

Shops closing half day Wednesdays, only petrol stations open during Christmas

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

"Paying 10p to send a text"

So young

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

we'd go to the music halls. All the big variety acts were there...Lily Savage and Kirsty Young. I remember Chris Tarrant was working the halls...he came on and he'd say "But we don't want to give you that!" It was very funny. For the first year..."

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

The Green ‘Un Saturday night sports paper with the reports from that afternoons games .. on sale before 6pm!

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

Using a mangle to help dry your clothes

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By *valiceslutTV/TS
over a year ago

London

‘Penny for the Guy’

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

"The Green ‘Un Saturday night sports paper with the reports from that afternoons games .. on sale before 6pm! "

Manchester. The pink.

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

On Thursday night someone knocking on the door for ‘the pools’

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

The weight and cost of "d" batteries and the weight of a walkman, whose batteries have just died.

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

"The Green ‘Un Saturday night sports paper with the reports from that afternoons games .. on sale before 6pm! "

Use to be pink In Birmingham

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By *valiceslutTV/TS
over a year ago

London

"Using a mangle to help dry your clothes "

A Sheila’s maid to raise the washing up to the ceiling to dry

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

Collecting green shield stamps

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By *valiceslutTV/TS
over a year ago

London

Loot newspaper - great personals

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

The man from the Pru

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"‘Penny for the Guy’"

Not long after "Penny for Halloween", before the yanks infected us with TorT?

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By *ik MMan
over a year ago

Lancashire

"using the old dial house phones"

Crossed lines

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

rotary telephones...

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By *avie65Man
over a year ago

In the west.

Mental arithmetic.

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

"using the old dial house phones

Crossed lines

Party line where you shared the line with your neighbours, would have to wait for them to put the phone down before you could make a call

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By *orthmanMan
over a year ago

Kendal

"using the old dial house phones

Crossed lines

Party lines (two telephones sharing the same line).

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By *orthmanMan
over a year ago

Kendal

"using the old dial house phones

Crossed lines

Party line where you shared the line with your neighbours, would have to wait for them to put the phone down before you could make a call "

Ha! Great minds...

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

Bob a job week from the scouts.

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

“Hello, this is the Operator. Will you accept a reverse charges call?”

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

A clip round the earole?

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

honestly dont no where to start but those times i miss them so much,,

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

"A clip round the earole?"

And no fear of a knock at the door from Social Services ..

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By *orthmanMan
over a year ago

Kendal

Shiny Izal toilet paper.

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

Parrafin heaters

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

Clipper cards for the bus

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By *ealthy_and_HungMan
over a year ago

Princes Risborough, Luasanne, Alderney

frost on the inside of the windows

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"A clip round the earole?

And no fear of a knock at the door from Social Services ..

or plod

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

"Shiny Izal toilet paper."

Or the News of the world

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Shiny Izal toilet paper."

My o-level history paper was printed on that I swear!

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

Having that big tv on wheels and inside a wooden cabinet rolled out in the assembly hall to watch a schools tv programme on reproduction because the teachers were too scared / incapable of delivering it themselves ..

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By *entlemanFoxMan
over a year ago

North East / London

Slide rule

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

"A clip round the earole?

And no fear of a knock at the door from Social Services ..

or plod"

The dibble did the clout !

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

"Slide rule"

Nerd!

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

Hairy minges in porn.

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

The tooth fairy only left 2p

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By *orthmanMan
over a year ago

Kendal

Michael Bentine's Potty Time

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By *orthmanMan
over a year ago

Kendal

And The Flowerpot Men

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

Being off school sick and watching Pipkins, Bod, Trumpton and Pebble Mill at One. Whilst drinking Lucozade that came in a bottle wrapped in orange plastic! (deposit on return 5p)

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

3 tv channels.

Yes! I said 3.

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By *ealthy_and_HungMan
over a year ago

Princes Risborough, Luasanne, Alderney

riding a 250cc bike on L plates.

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

Be kind rewind

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

Having to chuck a CD in the bin when it starts to skip

Blowing into the backs of games and consoles.

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

"You wouldn't steal a car..."

"You wouldn't rob a granny..."

"Don't pirate this film pls."

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

The apparatus

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

Putting sellotape over the tabs on the top of a cassette or VHS to record over it again .. or punching them out to prevent it!

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

Getting a bollocking for eating two trios

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

“What time does the shop open on Sunday?”

- Pardon? Open on Sunday? When I was young!…..,,,etc.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"Sunday and Wenesday closing."

Our local high street shops are mostly still ½ day closing Weds and not open Sunday.

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By *orthmanMan
over a year ago

Kendal

Alf Tupper: Tough of the Track

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

Stuart Hall, Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris were Prime Time Saturday Night TV favourites!

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By *osey WalesMan
over a year ago

Surrey

Saturday morning telly not being all cookery shows

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Having to hang up the phone and redial after 59mins so your parents didn't get charged for the call.

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

"Stuart Hall, Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris were Prime Time Saturday Night TV favourites!

wtf indeed...!

not to forget Gary Clitter...

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

You put the phone down …

No YOU put the phone down …

(Or is this actually just a timeless courtship thing that still happens today ..? )

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

"Saturday morning telly not being all cookery shows "

Jesus prime time TV is a bake off of master something making jewellery repairing something but the barrel is being scrapped.......make me Prime Minister.

Valium for the Vox Pop

O and strictly come dancing!

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"You put the phone down …

No YOU put the phone down …

(Or is this actually just a timeless courtship thing that still happens today ..? )"

It doesn't translate so well to Whatsapp

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

Stingray

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

Ooooooooooo

Thunderbirds are GO!!!!!!!

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By *inballs99Man
over a year ago

Blackheath

Petrol prices were so low I could fill my first car up (full) for£14 !!!

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

"10 print hello

20 goto 10"

my parents thought I was bill gates love child when I showed them 20 goto 10!!!

Green screen!!

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

"Having to rewind a film (video cassette) when you have finished watching it"

Or just when you've settled down to watch the film you realise those who previously rented it haven't rewound it

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

A great footballer wasn't all about stats, goals and assists

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

Straining the tea leaves when making a brew.

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

Taking 45 mins to load a video game only for it to crash after 44mins

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

Teletext, was amazing before the internet

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

"Being off school sick and watching Pipkins, Bod, Trumpton and Pebble Mill at One. Whilst drinking Lucozade that came in a bottle wrapped in orange plastic! (deposit on return 5p)"

Plastic wrapped lucozade could cure covid probably!! That’s when you knew your tonsillitis was serious!!

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

Scaping ice from the inside of your bedroom window...no central heating back in the day.

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

C B radio

Sinclair C5

Sega Mega drive

No remote control on the telly which was only black n white

The good old days

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

"Teletext, was amazing before the internet"

Bamboozale

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

Space Pinball

Minesweeper

Spider Solitaire

The cool solitaire animation when you completed it

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

"Space Pinball

Minesweeper

Spider Solitaire

The cool solitaire animation when you completed it "

I still play these

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By *inkyInkedBiWoman
over a year ago

"Teletext, was amazing before the internet

Bamboozale"

I loved this

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By *inkyInkedBiWoman
over a year ago

Public telephones and using telephone cards.

Then the ‘pips’ went

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

"Space Pinball

Minesweeper

Spider Solitaire

The cool solitaire animation when you completed it

I still play these

Bet I could beat your high score in pinball

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

"Petrol prices were so low I could fill my first car up (full) for£14 !!!"

My first moped filled up for under £1

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

"Space Pinball

Minesweeper

Spider Solitaire

The cool solitaire animation when you completed it

I still play these

Bet I could beat your high score in pinball

You definitely could

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By *ontWannaMissASwingCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

Getting off the Internet because someone needed to make a phone call. Winding down windows in cars. Encarta encyclopaedia.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

The pips going on a payphone

Cassette Walkmans and them eating batteries

Buses finishing at 6pm, none on a Sunday.

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By *ersatile-1Man
over a year ago

stirlingshire

"01 (if you’re outside London) 811 8055"

Fixed that for you

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

The word No

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

Holidays to the beach was two families about ten of us in a car and it was a small one.

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By *tylebender03Man
over a year ago

Manchester

Dial up internet

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

Writing a letter and using a stamp or having to pop up the road to use the phone box

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Hovering over the “play / record” buttons on your tape recorder between 4pm and 7pm on a Sunday on Radio 1, hoping to cut out the DJ (Tommy Vance or Bruno Brookes) when a song you liked came on…

Or pulling out the ch0ke lever for 5 minutes when starting your car in the morning..

What else Fabsters? Let’s perplex the young ‘uns on here!

And the fact that there were two charts the official one on Radio 1 and TOTP with Bruno and the rest of the R1 team, then there was Dr Fox on the other side with the unofficial Pepsi charts on commercial raddio and ITV.

I do remember a week in the mid 90s where the two charts had two different number ones.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"The pips going on a payphone

Cassette Walkmans and them eating batteries

Buses finishing at 6pm, none on a Sunday."

Sound like a normal week in Peterborough.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

When Stagecoach hadn't bullied the other bus companies out of existence.

British Rail, just one company fucking up the trains, not twenty.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"Clipper cards for the bus"

Scratch card Savewaways

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

"10 print hello

20 goto 10

my parents thought I was bill gates love child when I showed them 20 goto 10!!!

Green screen!! "

Don't forget to enter the word, Run

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By *edangelindisguiseWoman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

The dial up sound.

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By *entBarryUKMan
over a year ago

Ashford

"The dial up sound. "

I played this to my kids the over day! They are so confused, lol.

I am also teaching them about records and cassettes

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Taking pictures on a camera and waiting a week to see the pictures unless you had an instant camera.

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Shops not open on a Sunday.

Having only 3 and later 4 tv channels.

Waiting a hour for hot water to have a bath.

Sending cheques or postal orders in the post.

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

That news doesn’t come from and isn’t generated by social media.

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By *eeds fun guyMan
over a year ago

yorkshire

Winding down car windows

Playing conkers

Coal hoses

Table tennis video games

Sitting down to eat your family tea

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By *eeds fun guyMan
over a year ago

yorkshire

"Shops not open on a Sunday.

Having only 3 and later 4 tv channels.

Waiting a hour for hot water to have a bath.

Sending cheques or postal orders in the post."

Love yours and to add the bath was only on a Sunday and the youngest went in last, not forgetting the plastic cup to rinse your hair lol

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By *tarkersandcrutchCouple
over a year ago

TELFORD

Winding down the car window.

No seatbelts.

Sending a fax.

Fast forwarding a tape to get to the next song.

3 tv channels and going off air at a certain time.

Renting a video from a shop.

Greenshield stamps

Collecting cigarette cards to get gifts.

Outside toilets.

No central heating.

Regular power cuts.

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

Thanks Dan for creating this thread, I feel really young now.

I'm going to add; the joy of having "your song" playing when someone clicked on your profile (Myspace).

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By *xydadbodMan
over a year ago

Milton keynes

Waiting ages for your favourite song to come on the air then getting the timing right to record it on tape lol

Watching your recorded cartoons on VHS quickly when you can before your dad records over it with baywatch lol

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

Co-op stamp books.

Post Office savings account.

Punch & Jusy strawberry flavoured toothpaste when you were poorly.

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

Rewinding your mum/dads secret stash of porno tapes, using the clock counter on the Betamax player. The times I got away with watching ‘dirty Dutch sluts Vol’3’ was countless.

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

"Rewinding your mum/dads secret stash of porno tapes, using the clock counter on the Betamax player. The times I got away with watching ‘dirty Dutch sluts Vol’3’ was countless."

Your dad knew...

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

"Rewinding your mum/dads secret stash of porno tapes, using the clock counter on the Betamax player. The times I got away with watching ‘dirty Dutch sluts Vol’3’ was countless.

Your dad knew..."

No don’t tell me that, it ruins my illusion of some great skullduggery.

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By *isaB45Woman
over a year ago

Fabville

"Rewinding your mum/dads secret stash of porno tapes, using the clock counter on the Betamax player. The times I got away with watching ‘dirty Dutch sluts Vol’3’ was countless.

Your dad knew...

No don’t tell me that, it ruins my illusion of some great skullduggery."

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

Times tables.

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

Using the wheels off a pram to make a go cart with no steering and no brakes.

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

The Joy of lacerations inside your mouth after eating a packet of Spangles

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

"Taking pictures on a camera and waiting a week to see the pictures unless you had an instant camera."

I miss printed photos. Great to look through.

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

Off shore Pirate Radio Stations blasting away pop music 24/7.

Sadly the arrival of Radio 1 led to their eventual demise.

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