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Have you ever bought a gadget to fit in with the in crowd?

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)

If so what was it?

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

Can't say I have no ... I prefer to be myself rather than one of the flock

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"Can't say I have no ... I prefer to be myself rather than one of the flock "

Well i am struggling with my 2006 whim (only once been out of the box) pasta maker here!

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

yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort .........

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


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort ........."

What's one of those?

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort ........."

Cool who do you have on the cartridges you play on it

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

i knew the mention of the 8 track would sort out the men from the boys!!!!!

it was so on everyones wish list in the early seventies !!

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


"i knew the mention of the 8 track would sort out the men from the boys!!!!!

it was so on everyones wish list in the early seventies !!"

Men from the boys? *looks and checks*

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


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort .........

What's one of those? "

you are too young to remember them !! was the seventies equivalent to the ipod !!!

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)

Well its a man thing with the 8 track. not like your CD. Its god tome substance to it

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


"i knew the mention of the 8 track would sort out the men from the boys!!!!!

it was so on everyones wish list in the early seventies !!

Men from the boys? *looks and checks*"

sorry reply was for OP he obviously wanted one !! or had one

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


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort .........

Cool who do you have on the cartridges you play on it"

probably was mainly the motown !!!! i cant remeber think the ex got custody !!!

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


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort .........

What's one of those?

you are too young to remember them !! was the seventies equivalent to the ipod !!!"

Oh right ... my dad didn't have a car but I remember mr serens having a cassette player in his car when we were younger when most had a radio

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


"Well its a man thing with the 8 track. not like your CD. Its god tome substance to it "

Like a yorkie bar?

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort .........

What's one of those?

you are too young to remember them !! was the seventies equivalent to the ipod !!!

Oh right ... my dad didn't have a car but I remember mr serens having a cassette player in his car when we were younger when most had a radio "

the big thing was to get one with "auto reverse" cool as chuff you was if you had one of them in the car!

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


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort .........

What's one of those?

you are too young to remember them !! was the seventies equivalent to the ipod !!!

Oh right ... my dad didn't have a car but I remember mr serens having a cassette player in his car when we were younger when most had a radio

the big thing was to get one with "auto reverse" cool as chuff you was if you had one of them in the car!"

I was just glad I had a boyfriend who had his own transport lol

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort .........

Cool who do you have on the cartridges you play on it

probably was mainly the motown !!!! i cant remeber think the ex got custody !!!"

I remember my dad having Simon & Garfunkel on a advercardo green cartridge in his pail blue viva!

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


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort .........

What's one of those?

you are too young to remember them !! was the seventies equivalent to the ipod !!!

Oh right ... my dad didn't have a car but I remember mr serens having a cassette player in his car when we were younger when most had a radio

the big thing was to get one with "auto reverse" cool as chuff you was if you had one of them in the car!"

8 tracks werent just ordinry cassettes they were M&S cassettes !!

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


"yes i had to have an 8 track player in me ford escort .........

Cool who do you have on the cartridges you play on it

probably was mainly the motown !!!! i cant remeber think the ex got custody !!!

I remember my dad having Simon & Garfunkel on a advercardo green cartridge in his pail blue viva!"

funny enough my dad had an avacado coloured viva !!! and an avacado bathroom suite bt thats a whole new thread ......

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"

I remember my dad having Simon & Garfunkel on a advercardo green cartridge in his pail blue viva!

funny enough my dad had an avacado coloured viva !!! and an avacado bathroom suite bt thats a whole new thread ......"

wow an advacardo viva! Funny cars don't come in that colour these days!

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


"

I remember my dad having Simon & Garfunkel on a advercardo green cartridge in his pail blue viva!

funny enough my dad had an avacado coloured viva !!! and an avacado bathroom suite bt thats a whole new thread ......

wow an advacardo viva! Funny cars don't come in that colour these days! "

strange that ????? nowadays its u can have that car in any colour as long as its silver !

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)


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strange that ????? nowadays its u can have that car in any colour as long as its silver !"

not ideal if its a hire car and there ate another 100 the same in a spanish carpark

Bring back the beige car i say!

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


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strange that ????? nowadays its u can have that car in any colour as long as its silver !

not ideal if its a hire car and there ate another 100 the same in a spanish carpark

Bring back the beige car i say! "

i love my silver merc tho !!

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


"

strange that ????? nowadays its u can have that car in any colour as long as its silver !

not ideal if its a hire car and there ate another 100 the same in a spanish carpark

Bring back the beige car i say!

i love my silver merc tho !!"

shame it didnt come with an 8 track as standard

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)


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not ideal if its a hire car and there ate another 100 the same in a spanish carpark

Bring back the beige car i say!

i love my silver merc tho !!"

Well most of them seem to be silver AKA maclaren style. Love the old Grosser merc's of the 70's in bottle blue myself.

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

Going back many many years but yes... A CB Radio lol..

Ohhhh God I feel Old now lol.

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


"Going back many many years but yes... A CB Radio lol..

Ohhhh God I feel Old now lol. "

breaker breaker ...10-4....

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By *ig bad OP   Man
over a year ago

Up North :-)


"Going back many many years but yes... A CB Radio lol..

Ohhhh God I feel Old now lol. "

Breaker breaker rubber duckie want a fuckie! Could you CB swing then???

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By *ouvakMan
over a year ago

clacton on sea

like HENERY FORD said you can have any car in any colour as long as it's black lol. and as for 8 tracks i saw one with a dozen cartridges go at auction a few weeks ago for well over £300, bet you wont see that price being paid in 30 years for an ipod

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

Have to say we love gadgets - have everything from an ironing board that pops out of a kitchen drawer to a shower that interupts your radio or ipod tune to plug you into a call and a jacuzzi with voice activated lighting - anyone got any cool ones they want to share with us xxx

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


"like HENERY FORD said you can have any car in any colour as long as it's black lol. and as for 8 tracks i saw one with a dozen cartridges go at auction a few weeks ago for well over £300, bet you wont see that price being paid in 30 years for an ipod "

oh bugger and i let HIM have custody of it !!!

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


"Have to say we love gadgets - have everything from an ironing board that pops out of a kitchen drawer to a shower that interupts your radio or ipod tune to plug you into a call and a jacuzzi with voice activated lighting - anyone got any cool ones they want to share with us xxx"

you win !!!!! surely no one can top a voice activated jacuzzi whatever next?? !!

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

I bought paul a radio scanner a good few years ago for crimbo .... he used it for the rally safety channel when he used to do that. It was in the days before digital mobiles and we found out that it would lock onto mobile phone calls ... oh the things we heard

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