FabSwingers.com forum: The thing about the old days…

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

They the old days.

Another meme reference for you farts to enjoy.

What do you miss about (your) old days

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

My youth and fitness

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By *ntrigued32Couple
over a year ago

Nottingham

Winner stays on (console games)

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over

Silent knees

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

Free pool table in the local pub if you were a member of said pubs team.

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

Spira chocolate bars

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

On ops with some of the best guys I’ve ever served with that are no longer around.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Everything was bigger and cheaper

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By *obilebottomMan
over a year ago

All over

"On ops with some of the best guys I’ve ever served with that are no longer around. "

That must be so huge for you. Sorry to hear

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By *t0600Man
over a year ago

elvedon

I miss when fuel was 99p lol

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"I miss when fuel was 99p lol"

A gallon........

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

"I miss when fuel was 99p lol

A gallon........

I wasn’t driving back then in the dark ages

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By *bi HaiveMan
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over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"I miss when fuel was 99p lol

A gallon........

I wasn’t driving back then in the dark ages

June 1979 apparently. Me neither.

Apart from a tricycle.

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By *andadbodMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

being able to get out of bed without making any sound

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

I miss school holidays and not a care I’m the world apart from tomorrows next adventure

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

The cost of things, other than that I like the new days.

Mrs

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By *orflondonerMan
over a year ago

Wood Green

League football being affordable.

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

Knowing your neighbours and most of the people on your street/estate/village.

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By *eacupsbearCouple
over a year ago

York

Not needing several different bloody apps for gig tickets..

And having an actual ticket to keep.

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

Lots of stuff. Mainly things like the whole family sitting down together for Sunday lunch. The shops was closed. Neighbor's looking out for each other. The old Christmas decorations, the smell of grandma's house, watching my grandad mow the lawn. Caravan holidays by the sea 20 miles away from home was very exciting times. We was happy with our lot in the 80s

Mrs C xx

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

Living for living not just paying bills.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Fewer whippersnappers

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Really genuinely miss in the sense that I pine for it... nothing.

Miss in the ' wouldn't mind having again if easily achieved' - my smooth arm skin

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

I quite like how things are these days! If everything was a bit more affordable, or at least a bit more in line with the cost of life 20/30 years ago, I wouldn’t change a thing

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By *linyMan
over a year ago

Manchester/London

I don’t miss the Tories in government.

Wait…. what!! You’re havin’ a laugh aren’t you? They’re still in?! Oh balls, I’m going building a den! With a secret password!

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By *ansoffateMan
over a year ago

Sagittarius A

The eye contact flirtation in bars that leads to spontaneous conversation. Fab winks aren't the same.

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Out with mates playing footie, going on bikes, going to model plane shop in town, rock bands and the mystery surrounding them, falling in love. So many good times.

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

"Fewer whippersnappers

You were the whippersnapper

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"Fewer whippersnappers

You were the whippersnapper

Never

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

Knowing everything and being capable of doing anything while doing nothing.

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By *ovetoedgeMan
over a year ago

Dunstable

"I miss when fuel was 99p lol

A gallon........

I wasn’t driving back then in the dark ages

June 1979 apparently. Me neither.

Apart from a tricycle.

60p a gallon in 1976!

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

Being able to sneeze without putting my back out haha , wake up to quick these days and I'm in pain

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By *ntrigued32Couple
over a year ago

Nottingham

I miss long hot summers, with water fights using empty fairy liquid bottles.

Jo.Xx

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

I miss petrol being 50p a litre, and beer being a quid a pint at most.

I mean, it’s not really the prices I’m nostalgic for. It’s the carefree lifestyle that went along with them.

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By *iddlesticksMan
over a year ago

My nan’s spare room.

Playing football in the street.

Poor kids today the roads are too full of cars to be able to play footie in the street.

Bags eye I’m Johan Cruyff.

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By *ust a little bit moreWoman
over a year ago

kendal

My figure.....

Being 18 and working my ass off riding all day every day gave me an ass that could crack walnuts!

Also being so care free, when my biggest financial outgoing was a Saturday night, I want constantly clock watching, and although mega busy and working hard, it was a pleasure and something I enjoyed alot, so it wasn't really a 'job' more a way of life!

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
over a year ago

North West

"They the old days.

Another meme reference for you farts to enjoy.

What do you miss about (your) old days

The ability to run, skip, jump etc. That's it, mainly.

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

I miss being able to go out all weekend for about 20 quid

Those were the days…

* not that I remember most of them

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By *ulfilthmentMan
over a year ago

Just around the corner

The nostalgia used to be a lot better.

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By *imi_RougeWoman
over a year ago

Portsmouth

Being healthy and having endless energy

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

Nothing! Most that go on and they do about old days are wearing rose tinted specs IMHO! X

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By *oyahandrussCouple
over a year ago

Nr Rugby

"They the old days.

Another meme reference for you farts to enjoy.

What do you miss about (your) old days

Bigger pickles lol

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By *he love catsCouple
over a year ago

South Wales

Proper music.

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

I miss rose tinted specs

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

"I miss rose tinted specs

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

"Proper music.

Oh you

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

"They the old days.

Another meme reference for you farts to enjoy.

What do you miss about (your) old days

Bigger pickles lol

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

"I miss being able to go out all weekend for about 20 quid

Those were the days…

* not that I remember most of them

Must’ve been somewhere up north at those prices?!!

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

"They the old days.

Another meme reference for you farts to enjoy.

What do you miss about (your) old days

The ability to run, skip, jump etc. That's it, mainly. "

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

"Playing football in the street.

Poor kids today the roads are too full of cars to be able to play footie in the street.

Bags eye I’m Johan Cruyff. "

Yes! This!

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I actually don't miss "the old days" at all. People were free to be raging bigots in ways that get them slapped down now. We knew less about diversity and treated people like shit.

Fuck the old days.

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

"I actually don't miss "the old days" at all. People were free to be raging bigots in ways that get them slapped down now. We knew less about diversity and treated people like shit.

Fuck the old days."

Always respect your elder days.

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

"I miss being able to go out all weekend for about 20 quid

Those were the days…

* not that I remember most of them

Same haha

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

Some of the friends that have since passed. They were epic and cool as fuck.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"I actually don't miss "the old days" at all. People were free to be raging bigots in ways that get them slapped down now. We knew less about diversity and treated people like shit.

Fuck the old days.

Always respect your elder days."

Even greater raging bigots, who got to do things because they say so? Who moan that they don't get to be mean to uppity people like they used to?

Nope. Fuck that too

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

"I actually don't miss "the old days" at all. People were free to be raging bigots in ways that get them slapped down now. We knew less about diversity and treated people like shit.

Fuck the old days.

Always respect your elder days.

Even greater raging bigots, who got to do things because they say so? Who moan that they don't get to be mean to uppity people like they used to?

Nope. Fuck that too

Well that joke was lost in the ether

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I suppose, at least these elders weren't so butthurt by having to be polite to people that they were looking to bring in fascism. One small point for the nineties. Hurrah

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By *host63Man
over a year ago

Bedfont Feltham

My knees were in better shape other than that nothing.

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

The Sinclair 48k Spectrum

So many fond memories do I hold of gripping my Kempston Joystick tightly and hammering one out to such classics as, Jet Set Willy, Jet Pac, Attic Attack and Sabre Wulf

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

i miss being young, happy and carefree, without pain and responsibilities.

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

Cigarettes.

Lying to my parents about where I was.

Other peoples parents having white bread and no limit on how much chocolate you could eat.

Bike riding.

Petrol being 87p a litre.

Walking everywhere.

Being able to sneak in the pub when your mates brother wasn’t on the door.

Cigarettes.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

I miss not having any interweb where young whippersnappers who don't know their place make fun of those with a few more miles on their clock.

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

"I miss not having any interweb where young whippersnappers who don't know their place make fun of those with a few more miles on their clock. "

Those darn whippersnappers

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By *sleWightCoupleCouple
over a year ago

Ryde

I miss The Dingbats, Tessie O'Shea and Roy Hudd. All class entertainment on the show.

What? We're NOT talking about the TV series The Good Old Days...?

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

Not having to do adulting

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By *eard and BoobsCouple
over a year ago

Portstewart

I miss being without extreme pain

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By *sleWightCoupleCouple
over a year ago

Ryde

"I miss being without extreme pain "

My wife is with you on that one!

She suffers from Osteoarthritis, along with other medical problems. This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for her freakish, doctor-puzzling metabolism which renders her immune to the effects of things like Tramadol, Zapain and even morphine!

She was knocked down by a bus less than six months ago, and she literally pulled herself out from under it and promptly won a bet with the A&E department by saying that she only had soft tissue damage, when they were sure of breaks and internal damage.

The point is that she's a tough old bird, but gets pissed off at having to live in a state of constant pain.

Getting older certainly isn't for the weak!

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

A sign I see outside a pub always amuses me. It says:

"The older I get, the better I was".

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

Miss my Grandma...

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By *929Man
over a year ago

newcastle

Going out on the drink at whitley bay, so sad what has become of the main strip driving through it now, place was magical back in the day

Being old enough to work but still living at home, hanging out with mates every night and on the weekend days out places swimming at the beach when it was warm out on drink on Saturday nights no worries or cares or responsibilities

Getting 3 chickens for a fiver from the butcher in netto

The world generally bring a happier more care free place without people being offended at everything somewhere around the mid 2000s the world just stated getting fucking miserable and got worse till we progressed to the shitshow or a society we have today. Or maybe nowts changed and it just looks that way as getting older hsha

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By *layfullMan
over a year ago

wakefield

3 somes and 2 day sessions ??

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

Staffs

Riding round the block on my BMX

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By *rder66Man
over a year ago

Tatooine

The plague, Horse and carts, regional wars, scabbies, dirty drinking water, work houses.

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

No camera phones- people could actually go out and enjoy themselves without having to constantly pose!

Less reliance on social media and internet, things felt a bit more special and spontaneous

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

Not having to worry about bills

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By *teveAndHisMagicPicklenicMan
14 weeks ago

Ends

Uni

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By (user no longer on site)
14 weeks ago

https://youtu.be/7m148vZDwJA?feature=shared

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
14 weeks ago

newport

Going for a night out, pub, disco getting absolutely bladdered, take away on way home and still having change out of a tenner

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
14 weeks ago

newport

"The plague, Horse and carts, regional wars, scabbies, dirty drinking water, work houses."

Did they send you up the chimneys

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By *erfHerder74Man
14 weeks ago

Greenock

Good tv shows

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By *rHotNottsMan
14 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Eating coal, lard and deep fried eggs. , racist sexist pedo teachers who shouldn’t have be allowed within a mile of children.

On a more positive note poll tax riots were good., shows that sheeple can actually get a good result when they learn to organise and pull together rather than apart

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By *2000ManMan
14 weeks ago

Worthing

Being out all day with mates. On bikes, building camps in woods, football, marathon games of Monopoly, Subbuteo, building model aeroplanes.

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By *ansoffateMan
14 weeks ago

Sagittarius A

Things working

Things costing a fair price.

Not being inundated with texts, emails, calls etc or people getting miffed because you don't text back within X minutes.

Being able to park without reading War and Peace terms and conditions.

No BS automatic fines.

There's a whole list at this point, one day I may roll it up and shove it up my arse for all the good it'll do me.

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By *ortySwitchMan
14 weeks ago

london

Being able to leave the house without a phone or photo Id. Being able to buy something in a shop without needing to become a member first or being surveilled. Being able to sit in a restaurant without needing a sodding app. Being able to do anything without the internet or proving who we are is what I miss the most.

In the late ‘90’s I was in college, drove a car and had a job all without photo Id or a bank account! I miss those days.

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
14 weeks ago

Cumbria

Not being tired.

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By *teveanddebsCouple
14 weeks ago

Norwich

I can remember when my grandad was complaining that petrol hit 5/- a gallon

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