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over a year ago

I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!

How would you describe your age?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Alarming

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By *ettyJaneNWWoman
over a year ago

Cheshire

Shellsuits and sweaters from Dash

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

I am this old ..I remember when you didn't have to wear a seatbelt in a car ...

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By *amuelsquestMan
over a year ago

Sutton at hone

Dungarees and paisley top

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

Sending a fax at work

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By *rincipessaWoman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,

You could smoke in one half of the cinema

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

Bay city rollers atire

Platform shoes

Tank tops

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"I am this old ..I remember when you didn't have to wear a seatbelt in a car ..."

Ma Dad had a car that you could start with a crank handle

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By *riel13Woman
over a year ago

Northampton

I remember my mum and gran smoking in shops

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

My mum used a mangle.

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By *omethingfun96Couple
over a year ago

greater london

I remember my parents smoking on a plane

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

I remember the black and white tv was replaced for a multi coloured one .

Was like a big WOW

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

I remember the police officer on top of a circle. Stripped like circus .

Controlling traffic .

He liked to blow the whistle on that four way cross dressed with his uniform

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

Blakeys in the soles of your shoes so you could create awesome sparks going around corners on your Chopper*

(*the bike!!)

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By *hePerkyPumpkinTV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol

Ps1 and Sunny Delight turning kids' orange

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

Findus crispy pancakes

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I remember the advent of the 50p coin, and using that coin in the rental colour TV.

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By *ab FunstersCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

We are that old we remember going to wimpeys for a burger

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By *ady CurvaceousWoman
over a year ago

Kent

Didn't have a PC at work, just a typewriter, pen and paper. Sent Fax instead of email, could smoke on the bus and train indoors at the pub, cinema etc. 10 fags was 72p.

You could get bags of "bits" from the chip shop.

Panini sticker books were free and the stickers were 20p a pack.

Newspapers were 20p.

School dinner was 50p.

Aciiiiiiiiiiiid, Ebenezer Goode, smiley faces and raving

Oasis were a new band

Kylie and Jason were in neighbours

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

ZX Spectrum

Farah trousers

Adidas Samba

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By *rincipessaWoman
over a year ago

your wildest dreams,

"Blakeys in the soles of your shoes so you could create awesome sparks going around corners on your Chopper*

(*the bike!!)"

Collecting all the clips from the bread to put on the spokes of your chopper, or tomahawk if you were a shortarse

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By *avexxMan
over a year ago

cheshire

i had a vespa with lots of mirrors on it..

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By *ack688Man
over a year ago

abruzzo Italy (and UK)

12 pennies in a shilling

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By *ittlemiss Hal O weenCouple
over a year ago

Southampton

"Shellsuits and sweaters from Dash

Hahahaha me too... United colors if benneton??

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

Jnco jeans

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

I can remember aeroplanes having ash trays too

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

Shops closing at 5pm and banks shutting for an hour at lunchtime.

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

"Shellsuits and sweaters from Dash

No one else remembers Dash

I had so much awful leisure wear

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

Photocopying your bum/boobs in work

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By *he Wrangler and BelleCouple
over a year ago

Bishops Strortford

A Milky Way was 8 pence, and a couple of years later 20 Gold Mark were 99 pence.

I also remember newspaper for toilet roll, so it wasnt all good lol.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Having to use a slide rule and logarithm book in Maths

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

I remember when you could tell jokes

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Hospitals used to have a smoking room on each ward

If you got caught smoking at school you got detention, now they provide smoking shelters

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

I remember the national lottery starting. They put on a godawful program then once they'd done the draw asked the audience who had won. About 2 people had won £10.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Cars had a ch+oke to start

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

Red bus rovers and BT phone cards.

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By *ohn KanakaMan
over a year ago

Not all that North of North London

I remember when thise games consoles that basically stimulated tennis with a line moving up and down opposite sides of the screen were cutting edge technology

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

School dinner was 5p

Petrol station sold only petrol and bulbs and fan belts

Tv only had 3 channels

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By *aroleBaskinWoman
over a year ago

somewhere down the rabbit hole, Aberdeen

I had a Sony Walkman.

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

Leaded petrol 75p a gallon when I started driving

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

I had 2 black n white tvs, remember the ones you had to tint tune channel with one dial the other for volume ?

One tv the screen didn’t work but had sound.

The other no volume but working screen.

But you could tune both same time

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By *oxy jWoman
over a year ago

somerset

buzby was bt

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
over a year ago

IPSWICH

Spokey dokeys

Getting a TV with a remote.. teletext.. wow.

Shellsuits

Neon pink or yellow fluffy socks

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

Sitting beside the gas fire on a cold school morning.

Spice girls.

Rewinding tapes before you could watch the film.

Stealing the little balls from the mouses at school.

Tooth gems.

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By *hropsDuoCouple
over a year ago

Shropshire

Not many people owned a TV. They used to 'rent' them. There was a box on the back that you put a sixpence in. A man used to come round to empty it and if there was more than the rental amount in, you got the excess back. Our family used to decide together what treat to spend it on.. we got so excited when 'Telly man day' came around

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By *aughty Hubby n Sexy WifeCouple
over a year ago

Scarborogh

"I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!

How would you describe your age?

I remember before McDonald's expanded all over uk.

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By *ecret fabbersCouple
over a year ago

Castleford

Roller skates

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By *orbidden eastMan
over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

When you could borrow cassette tapes from the library

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
over a year ago

IPSWICH

Stealing the little balls from the mouses at school. "

No wonder they squeeze.

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
over a year ago

IPSWICH

Stealing the little balls from the mouses at school.

No wonder they squeeze. "

Squeek

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By *ld StrumpetWoman
over a year ago

Telford

Fish from the chippy still had skin on it mmmm

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

Stealing the little balls from the mouses at school.

No wonder they squeeze.

Squeek "

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

Top of the pops was still a thing…..

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By *iscean_dreamMan
over a year ago

Llanelli

I'm as old as the chicken mcnugget

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By *iscean_dreamMan
over a year ago

Llanelli

"I'm as old as the chicken mcnugget "

On it's world wide release

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

Fish chips

In newspaper

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

Remember all these...

Having to walk to the TV to change channels.

No law on wearing of seatbelts.

Parents rented the TV + (top loading) video machine!

Channel 4 starting.

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

I can remember when petrol was 75p a gallon

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

I am this old - I remember when your parents, and the local police were allowed to give you a slap lol

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I remember my own name...most days

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By *nterblueMan
over a year ago

manchester

Mimicking Evel Knievel by building a ramp from a plank of wood and some bricks. Get several mates to lie down behind the ramp and see how many you can jump on your bike. Nobody would go on the end for some reason?

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

Lived in black and white.

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

I remember buying a Saver Strip for the bus. I’m still singing the song from the advert. Lol.

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito

I remember Woolworths.

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

The lad mags on the shelves

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

Fish from the chippy still had skin on it mmmm"

Still does at my local chippy

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

Chocolate machines at train stations

Kia Ora cartons with a straw

The test card on tv

The pips on a call at phonebox

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

Green shield stamps.

cider being 20p a pint in the pub.

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

Fish from the chippy still had skin on it mmmm

Still does at my local chippy"

What that sounds awful

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By *riel13Woman
over a year ago

Northampton

Getting things for my first home with my ex husband with cigarette cards

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By *oodmessMan
over a year ago

yumsville

Bermuda shorts were loved by everyone.

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By *lecom1Couple
over a year ago

Stornoway

Not enjoying getting spanked by a nun at a convent school. How times have changed.

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

The last decade that spent most of their time outside doing things instead of being glued to tablets

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By *lackshadow7Man
over a year ago

Toronto

When TVs were CRT, and 480p

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

Asking someone to get off the landline so you could use the internet.

MS Dos.

Thinking Y2K night actually happen and partying like it was the year 2000...

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By *uzy1969Woman
over a year ago

Hull

Public phone boxes with a dial phone that took 2ps and the old 5ps

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By *haggydogMan
over a year ago

Brooklands/London

We had an outdoor loo when I was 6.

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By *olymalelincsMan
over a year ago

southend

I can remember spending 1/2p's in infants school

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By *ustincider888Man
over a year ago

Preston Ish

I was the TV remote control

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By *isAdventure69Woman
over a year ago

Hampshire

Princess Anne’s wedding being shown on french tv on a Wednesday , Wednesday was a day off in my school but we had to go in every Saturday morning instead .

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By *amantha TSWoman
over a year ago

Swindon

TV remote controls being on a lead

Unleaded fuel becoming a thing (diesel or 4 star before that)

Rent books

50p electric meters

Greaseproof paper style loo roll (is that still a thing?)

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By *0IAN00Man
over a year ago

Dumfries & Galloway

My car had wind up windows, fuel was sold by the gallon, shops were closed on Sunday and you could drive without wearing a seat belt.

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By *izmeCouple
over a year ago

Merseyside

We got ration books for fuel

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

"I remember the police officer on top of a circle. Stripped like circus .

Controlling traffic .

He liked to blow the whistle on that four way cross dressed with his uniform

We still have this in VI, Lagos rush hour it’s insane. Policeman with an automatic rifle acting as a traffic light at busy junctions

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By *he Wrangler and BelleCouple
over a year ago

Bishops Strortford

We used to get dressed up for the cinema, and queue outside for hours. Dogs used to wander around the streets and if you had a fight, it was fists and feet. The corner shop gave your Mam credit and you could get her fags for her, even though you were only 7 and pop came in glass bottles that you returned for your deposit back......

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By *oalie66Man
over a year ago

Chesterfield

"I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!

How would you describe your age?

Outside toilet and no central heating.

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By *razytimesinloveCouple
over a year ago

SW Scotland

Getting free milk at school

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By *ymbunnyfitCouple
over a year ago

East Yorkshire

Tin bath in front of coal fire xx

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

Buying Garbage Pail Kids cards from the shop.

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

"We are that old we remember going to wimpeys for a burger

There are still Wimpeys about.

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

Pubs opening 10.00am to 2.30pm the reopening between 6 & 7.00pm.

£1 notes became coins.

You could smoke everywhere.

White dog shit.

£0.45 for lager, £0.39 for bitter and Taunton Cider for £0.25 a pint.

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By *amescoupleCouple
over a year ago

north walsham

Half penny sweets.

The time before the Internet when you had to go out and actually see people.

You could go see a football match, get a programme, fish and chips and drink and still get change from a week's wages

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By *ean and carolineCouple
over a year ago

wakefield

I remember going to the local shop with a pound and being able to come out with 2 bottles of bubblegum pop, a chocolate bar, a packet of crisps and 30 penny sweets.

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

I am that old I remember White £5 notes.

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By *olymalelincsMan
over a year ago

southend

"Half penny sweets.

The time before the Internet when you had to go out and actually see people.

You could go see a football match, get a programme, fish and chips and drink and still get change from a week's wages "

I miss those times so much at times

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Loading computer software from cassette tape.

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

Only 3 TV channels

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

I was just saying this to my kids…

I used to have Pac-Man, E.T. AND Gremlins cereal for breakfast when I was 10!

(I lived in Arizona for a while)

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"Loading computer software from cassette tape."

Cassette tape! Your were lucky! We had punch cards and punched paper tape. Programs had to compile and fit in 2k of memory max.

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By *yron69Man
over a year ago

Fareham

Queuing up behind your older siblings to wash in the same water.

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

5p crisps

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By *W_RedMan
over a year ago

Manchester

Italia 90 was great

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire

Luncheon vouchers and green shield stamps

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

Half penny pieces, eating boiled eggs during the 70s powercuts

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

"We are that old we remember going to wimpeys for a burger

My first job was making burgers in our local wimpy!

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

"Italia 90 was great"

Haha

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

"Loading computer software from cassette tape."

Harsh times

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

It wasn’t Drake and Josh it was Kenan and Kel!!

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

You been reading that nostalgia twitter feed?? I saw the McDonald’s ashtray…

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

"You been reading that nostalgia twitter feed?? I saw the McDonald’s ashtray… "

I am not on Twitter

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By *umbiyaMan
over a year ago

Halifax

As a kid I was banging my head on the floor because I kept dying in crash bandicoot.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

When a Vesta curry was considered a treat

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

When people used to smoke inside the nightclubs

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"When people used to smoke inside the nightclubs"

Was that when they used to smoke in trains and planes and shops and restaurants... Ahhh the good old days

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

Fish from the chippy still had skin on it mmmm

Still does at my local chippy

What that sounds awful

It's lovely.

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

"When people used to smoke inside the nightclubs

Was that when they used to smoke in trains and planes and shops and restaurants... Ahhh the good old days"

lol yeah though I actually cant remeber anyone smoking on planes or trains

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"When people used to smoke inside the nightclubs

Was that when they used to smoke in trains and planes and shops and restaurants... Ahhh the good old days

lol yeah though I actually cant remeber anyone smoking on planes or trains"

Planes used to have ashtrays in the armrests

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By *hropsDuoCouple
over a year ago

Shropshire

"5p crisps"

Ours were 2d (old money)

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By *aughty but nice...Man
over a year ago

Staffs

I remember £1 notes

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

I remember it cost 2p to go on the bus and I remember you got 5p back on a pop bottle

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

I remember swimming pools used to serve Bovril as a beverage for 5p

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By *alk on the wild sideCouple
over a year ago

manchester

Brown 10 Shilling notes

Beer at 16 pence a pint

Eating out was going to the UPC where they sold tripe

Houses cost tens of thousands instead of hundreds of thousands

Interest rates of 17%

The winter of discontent where everything cost a fortune and we couldn’t heat our homes

Some things haven’t changed.

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By *urves and MischiefWoman
over a year ago

Northerner

"I am this old ..I remember when you didn't have to wear a seatbelt in a car ..."

And you could sit in the boot (estate) with a number of others and no one would bat an eyelid

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By *itty Kat ABWoman
over a year ago

North Somerset

Rara skirts

Fluorescent leg warmers

The original Rubics cube

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By *amuelsquestMan
over a year ago

Sutton at hone

Naff naff

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

Jamie and the Magic Torch

Chorlton and the Wheelies

Pebble Mill at One

Mr Noseybonk

Why Don't You?

Swapshop

Fingering a girl being the be all and end all of everything!

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By *rishsteveMan
over a year ago

carlow

Smoking on a plane and on the top deck of a bus

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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

3 star jumpers and 6 button flares

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By *inchyorksMan
over a year ago

huddersfield

"I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!

How would you describe your age?

I remember Wimpy!

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

Cinema back seat fingering, cinemas closed down en mass when it declined

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By *asilForty77Man
over a year ago

a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road

The Mysterious Cities of Gold

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By *arleyfatboy2019Couple
over a year ago

Devon

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

"I remember Macdonalds had ash trays!

How would you describe your age?

I can recall nudging my toddler away when there was still ashtrays

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

VHS rental shops , black and white TV, those phones with the circle dial , Walkman, discman , mp3 players

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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago

Ireland /Kilkenny areas

Telly with no remote buttons Home telephone that was fixed to the wall in the hallway parking lights on cars

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By *unsexual MemelordWoman
over a year ago

Midlothian

Naff Naff jackets.

Getting 10 sweets in your 10p mixture.

The image of the wee girl and her ragdoll when TV actually ended for the night.

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By *xydadbodMan
over a year ago

Milton keynes

When McDonald's didn't do a salad lol

But I think the one that stands out is waiting patiencely by the radio, fingers itching ready on the record button, for your favourite tune to come on.. one wrong timing and its game over lol

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By *9alMan
over a year ago

Bridgend

as a child we had £ s d money & electric trolly busses were being phased out

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

"I remember £1 notes "

One of the local garages had a 24hr pump that took notes, remember using it to fill moped up, trying to get old £1 notes that were crumpled up flat enough to go in the slot.

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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago

Ireland /Kilkenny areas

Trying to record the top 40 on Sundays number one in the charts at 7pm

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

Using the red telephone boxes on the streets and it was just 2p to make a call

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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago

Ireland /Kilkenny areas

Fone boxes with fone books in metel covers AZ

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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago

Ireland /Kilkenny areas

Then fone boxes got covered in call cards personal offer in All shorts

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

Pans people, on top of the..pops

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By *eekin NSAMan
over a year ago

Ireland /Kilkenny areas

Saturday evening paper with the football results at 6pm

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

"Pans people, on top of the..pops"

Loved them! Allways wanted to b one! X

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

"Using the red telephone boxes on the streets and it was just 2p to make a call "

Remember the push button b to get your money back in phone box when it was the old money x

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By *olden PoleMan
over a year ago

Kent

Sundays deserted streets, the smell of roast dinners, Londons Burning on in the with Sicknote, George and a young John Alford.

Car with carburettor engines warming up on the drives and the little electrical milk cart doing its rounds.

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By *ndy man 200Man
over a year ago

hereford

I remember Levi jeans were so stiff when new they would stand up on there own,

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

"I remember Levi jeans were so stiff when new they would stand up on there own,"

Remember my brothers sitting with them on in cold bath think it shrunk them to fit x

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

I remember when I didn’t have to turn the radio down to park my car

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

"Pans people, on top of the..pops

Loved them! Allways wanted to b one! X"

And their replacement dance group Legs & Co

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By *it4uMan
over a year ago

Brighton / Eastbourne / SW France

There were just 3 channels on tv

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

"There were just 3 channels on tv"

The national anthem followed by the white dot and high pitch squeal when the BBC closed down at night.

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By *ove2pleaseseukMan
over a year ago

Hastings

We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing)..

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

"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing).."

I can see this turning into the Four Yorkshiremen sketch before long...

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

"I remember Levi jeans were so stiff when new they would stand up on there own,

Remember my brothers sitting with them on in cold bath think it shrunk them to fit x"

How did they dry them?

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

Giving your mum 'three rings' from a payphone to let her know you are on the way home.

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By *orthern StarsCouple
over a year ago

Durham

When the TV only had 3 channels and you had to get up of the sofa to go and change the channel.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

"I remember Levi jeans were so stiff when new they would stand up on there own,

Remember my brothers sitting with them on in cold bath think it shrunk them to fit x

How did they dry them? "

Don't remember x

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

Freddie’s used to be 5p

Tv with only 3 channels and all end at midnight

Tin baths in front of the fireplace

Going to school in winter time with no heating on in the building being told put a coat on

Being sent to the shops for a few bits and that includes buy your dad cigarettes no questions asked for age

The local coal man

The local milkman

Health and safety well that actually had sense

And my favourite one

People had a sense of humour and wasn’t easily offended by everything

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing).."

Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x

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

"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing)..

Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x"

I remember playing Noughts & Crosses with my sister in the frost on the inside of the window.

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing)..

Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x

I remember playing Noughts & Crosses with my sister in the frost on the inside of the window."

My dad used to say not to touch them or they would break!

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By *andy2123Couple
over a year ago

Portsmouth

We remember rin tin tin. Lol

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing)..

Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x

I remember playing Noughts & Crosses with my sister in the frost on the inside of the window."

That's what eiderdowns were for

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"We did not have central heating. Just a fire in the front room. In winter there would be ice on the inside of the window ( not double glazing)..

Ohh yes and Jack frost would come and make them into leaf patterns on my bedroom window! I miss that x

I remember playing Noughts & Crosses with my sister in the frost on the inside of the window.

That's what eiderdowns were for"

And bedspreads

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

When water was in with rates

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

"I am this old ..I remember when you didn't have to wear a seatbelt in a car ..."

I remember driving without a seat belt and then having to try to remember the law had been changed

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By *mashingPumpkinMan
over a year ago

Carmarthen

Telex machine in my first job, then we got a fax, that was fascinating!

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By *esYesOMGYes!Man
over a year ago

M20

Smoking on a plane.

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

When John Noakes introduced Shep to Blue Peter and the day Petra died.

My first advent candle holder made from coat hangers and tinsel.

Collecting Bottle Tops for the Blue Peter Appeal.

The Magic Roundabout at 4:45 just before the 10 to six news.

Paraffin heaters in the hall to try and heat up the lovely council house!

Tangerines at Christmas

A bottle of sherry and port put out on the radiogram on Christmas Eve

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

"When water was in with rates

When there used to be British telecom shops on the High Street where you could rent the sexy new trimphone from

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town

Those hmv radiograms you stacked 8 singles on... And by the time it got to 6 they'd just slip on top of eachother

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