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

I remember....when a pub called time..a man would appear and sell seafood....

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

The pop man would drive round on a Saturday morning in his truck. The pop was called.....Corona... Spooky

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By *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

I remember when trousers were half mast and men wore bowler hats

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By *endydick.CumbersnatchMan
over a year ago

"I remember when trousers were half mast and men wore bowler hats

Reece-Mog remembers.

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By *ny1localMan
over a year ago

READING

No shops open on a Sunday, or after about 6pm during the week.

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

I remember the "video man" comming round our house with pirate vhs tapes to rent in two leather suitcases.

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

Global hypercolour t-shirts.

White dog shit.

Buying cigs for your nan with a hand written note.

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By *ackbydemandMan
over a year ago

Leicester

Pubs closed for 4 hours on a Sunday afternoon between 3pm and 7pm

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

Coca cola italia 90 footballs

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

I worked in a factory in Australia once and the Queen bee would scream smoko every hour, everyone one would stop and smoke.

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

Pop man once a week

Also

Milk bottles

Think fresh milk from bottles taste nicer

That’s if you could get to it before the birds lol

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

Fruit and veg man in a van, fish man in a van, coal man dumping off bags of coal, the rag and bone man coming around ringing a bell .. fish and chip bloke in a van .. lots of people selling things from vans in my village back in the day!

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By *humper.Man
over a year ago

northumberland/scotland

"Fruit and veg man in a van, fish man in a van, coal man dumping off bags of coal, the rag and bone man coming around ringing a bell .. fish and chip bloke in a van .. lots of people selling things from vans in my village back in the day! "

There still is round here

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

I remember my grandad giving me PEDs in my cup of tea as a 6 year old for my first sports day which i smashed

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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago

Near Wells

The paraffin Man coming around on Saturday mornings, also sold cleaning items.

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By *astandtheCurious2Couple
over a year ago

letchworth

Half day closing for shops during the week, ours was Wednesdays

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By *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

"I remember when trousers were half mast and men wore bowler hats

Reece-Mog remembers. "
so he does is he 120 to?

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By *ris GrayMan
over a year ago

Dorchester

Cellars in houses outdoor toilets, shovels

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

There still is round here

Aw jealous now, miss all that. We have the milkperson come around still (gotta use inclusive language these days, right?) but the not the rest.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

There still is round here

Aw jealous now, miss all that. We have the milkperson come around still (gotta use inclusive language these days, right?) but the not the rest.

We have a milkman , a chippy van, a fish van nd a coal man , the veg man does come round but he doesn’t park up as such, it’s pre ordered veg box scheme run by a local grower.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Loading computer software from tape. No mobile phones or internet. 3 tv channels (yet a lot of tv was decent).

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

Mobile phones that weren’t smart ones

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By *annGentMan
over a year ago

With a cracking view

Wakes Holidays !

Factory towns would shut for a week in Summer, and most of the shops in town would shut for that week.

A butchers and/or bakers might open for a morning.

Newspapers were sold from the steps of the newsagents.

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

We had a potato man who would drive down my nans street selling big sacks of spuds.

We’d have a “pools” lady. Littlewoods and Football.

At Christmas there would be a Santa in a Sleigh lorry driving slowly down my nans Street ringing a bell and shouting out Merry Christmas to people as they stood on their doorsteps, waving.

Good times

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By *arlomaleMan
over a year ago

darlington

Putting £50p in the gas and Tv and having to physically get up to change the channel lucky for me I had a younger sibling and they did it for me

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

Watching football italia on channel 4 every Sunday with review and big game..

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

"I remember when trousers were half mast and men wore bowler hats

Reece-Mog remembers. so he does is he 120 to?

No, but he is a cunt of the lowest order

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

Cheap gas and electric

Non power steering cars had to have muscles of iron to turn the wheel

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

Men standing outside Dixons windows on a Saturday afternoon to see the football results on the TVs

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By *redwilma666Couple
over a year ago

Kilbirnie

Black & white tv, 405 lines & no remote control

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Phoning up the speaking clock to check the correct time

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

We had a Karma Chameleon phone when I was a kid… Did anyone else have one? It would stand up and dance singing the culture club song when the phone rang … bizarre

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

green shield stamps,,cigarette coupons,, rag and bone man

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Shared party line phone lines.

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

Getting a crossed line on the phone

Having to wear shoes/trousers/collared shirt for a nightclub

Overhead projector in school

Love bites

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Watching TV through a fog of interference and having to move the aerial umpteen times a program.

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By *rofessor ElementalMan
over a year ago

Durham

Lovely bushy hairy pussy

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Knocking on your mates door and asking his Mam if Johnny was coming out to play, then going to build a den or tree house

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Penny for a guy

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"Knocking on your mates door and asking his Mam if Johnny was coming out to play, then going to build a den or tree house

Building a go cart and having go cart race's in the middle of the road.

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

the world was a saver place in those times

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By *ny1localMan
over a year ago

READING

Phoning the operator to book a time to make an international call.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Reverse charge phone calls.

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Dashing outside in the cold or rain for the toilet.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Washing some of your neighbours cars on a Sunday morning for a bit of extra pocket money

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Two TV channels

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Jumpers for goal posts, plimsolls phones that only had one purpose to make a call with.

That's it nothing else.

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

TVs have gotten skinnier. I remember the big block type tvs

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

I remember when Craigslist Personals were still a thing.

When kids could watch the entire series of Teletubbies on cassette tapes that you rewound with a pencil in the winding hole.

When you couldn't use the Internet whenever someone called your house phone because the modem couldn't process internet connections alongside phone calls.

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

At the end of viewing

Only on BBC1

God save the Queen

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By *o new WinksMan
over a year ago

BSE

Nothing opened on Boxing Day.

No pubs shops or sports grounds. You'd have to go to Aunty Petunias' if you wanted a party.

At the same time, all the holiday adverts poured out to the captive audience. I can still remember all the words from the Hoeseasons Boating Advert.

It was the worst day to have a birthday on

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

"I remember the "video man" comming round our house with pirate vhs tapes to rent in two leather suitcases. "

Yes! Only this was a little transit van, can you imagine now!

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By *tylebender03Man
over a year ago

Manchester

There used to be no WiFi

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By *arkjackMan
over a year ago

West Cork

"Lovely bushy hairy pussy "

It'll come back you know, pussy hair implants for those who got laser hair removal. I like bald and hairy pussies so I get to be happy/unhappy either way.

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By *arkjackMan
over a year ago

West Cork

"Lovely bushy hairy pussy

It'll come back you know, pussy hair implants for those who got laser hair removal. I like bald and hairy pussies so I get to be happy/unhappy either way."

It has to, because - primal I guess, I love the smell of pussy and hairy pussy smells great.

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

Cigarette vending machines OUTSIDE a newsagents

Late night opening till 8pm on Thursday

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Smoking indoors, pubs in particular. That smell will always remind me of my childhood. Think I was 10/11 when the ban came in... I remember Mum and Dad both having their last smoke in a pub... something died within them that day (no it wasn't their lungs

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Children's TV finishing at 6pm

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

"We had a Karma Chameleon phone when I was a kid… Did anyone else have one? It would stand up and dance singing the culture club song when the phone rang … bizarre

I bought one for my little brother when he got his first flat. It was tacky as hell. Had a little bug that played the harmonica. My big brother got a mystery machine biscuit jar that played the scooby doo theme tune anytime u lifted the lid.

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By *umbiyaMan
over a year ago

Halifax

No social media and being able to enjoy the bliss of living in my own world without the depressing of feeling inferior to everyone.

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

"We had a Karma Chameleon phone when I was a kid… Did anyone else have one? It would stand up and dance singing the culture club song when the phone rang … bizarre

yes the bug that played the harmonica

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

No fridges back in the day

So a larder in the house

Outside toilet

Washing machine and mangle

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By *ilfCrumpet9Man
over a year ago

Wirral

People being nice and polite, younger generation more disciplined,knew who all your neighbours were, on first name terms with the shop keeper, postman, milkman, grocer and anywhere else you shopped. Parking available on streets, no road rage, no knife crimes or children being stabbed to death. Proper bobbies walking the streets again on first name turns. Front or back doors never shut or locked. Only the birds pinched your milk lol. Clean streets and the bin men brought your bin back and put it back in the yard and shut the gate. Nice summers and you actually had all four seasons.

And finally even though the list is to long, every night after news at ten Trevor McDonald finished the news with a funny story.

How things have changed, have a nice folks and let's be care out there. Stay safe sending hugs love you all xxx

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By *ilfCrumpet9Man
over a year ago

Wirral

Sorry for the typo

Have a nice day folks and let's be careful out there

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