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By *ssex_tom OP Man
24 weeks ago

Chelmsford

Tom never had sky TV in the house when he grew up.. It had not been invented then ..

What did you go without...

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By (user no longer on site)
24 weeks ago

My house growing up was never deplete of love, kindness, or meaningful experiences. The ability to think, question, ponder, and disagree was cemented into my core at home. Kindness for others, sharing, helping out was something not only said with words but through actions. Love - giving it and receiving it in and of itself without conditions or demands was something I grew up with.

As for material things, there was nothing I grew up without as my life was exactly as it should have been.

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
24 weeks ago

The Town by The Cross

Butter

Safety

Beef

Television

Central Heating

Carpets

Salmon

Spin Dryer

Tumble Dryer

Washing machine

Hot water unless a fire was lit

and probably a zillion other things that are today considered essential

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By *eard and TattsCouple
24 weeks ago

Cwmbran

Actually, it was sky tv

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By *zeroMan
24 weeks ago

Glasgow

Internet. Until we got dial up AOL.

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By *ambertMan
24 weeks ago

Cheltenham

Had all the sky we wanted.

Couldn't afford ceilings tho

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By *cidcassual88Man
24 weeks ago

Glasshoughton

"Actually, it was sky tv"

Sky Television (1984–1990)

BskyB (1990-2022)

Sky Uk (2002 -

In October 2022, Comcast announced that it had written off US$8.6 billion of its valuation of Sky, with its third-quarter sales dropping 14.7 percent to $4.3 bn

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By *ady LickWoman
24 weeks ago

Northampton Somewhere

Central heating for a while, I remember icicles on the inside of my bedroom windows!

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By *eard and TattsCouple
24 weeks ago

Cwmbran

"Actually, it was sky tv

Sky Television (1984–1990)

BskyB (1990-2022)

Sky Uk (2002 -

In October 2022, Comcast announced that it had written off US$8.6 billion of its valuation of Sky, with its third-quarter sales dropping 14.7 percent to $4.3 bn

What was the cable box called? I just knew it as cable

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By *elvet AngelWoman
24 weeks ago

Newton Abbot

We didn't have a fridge, telephone, colour tv, central heating, or even a car! The internet hadn't been invented.....and yet I survived!

We had family time, lots of love, friends and no gadgets whatsoever.

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By *alcon77Man
24 weeks ago

under the sun & the moon

I didn't have my own bedroom until I was 13.

Now I have loads of bedrooms to myself. The opposite extreme.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
24 weeks ago

North West

"Tom never had sky TV in the house when he grew up.. It had not been invented then ..

What did you go without..."

A normal set of parents. Mine were/are fucking odd fuckers.

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By *cotsguyyMan
24 weeks ago

Belfast

"Central heating for a while, I remember icicles on the inside of my bedroom windows!"

I was going to say the exact same thing

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By (user no longer on site)
24 weeks ago

"Actually, it was sky tv

Sky Television (1984–1990)

BskyB (1990-2022)

Sky Uk (2002 -

In October 2022, Comcast announced that it had written off US$8.6 billion of its valuation of Sky, with its third-quarter sales dropping 14.7 percent to $4.3 bn

What was the cable box called? I just knew it as cable "

NTL

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By (user no longer on site)
24 weeks ago

It didn’t bother me that much as I was in hospital for most of my childhood so as long as I had love which I did the rest is just material stuff

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By *andy CanesWoman
24 weeks ago

south

Heating it was coal fires back then & sometimes couldn’t afford coal grim days they were

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By *yeSureMan
24 weeks ago

Glasgow

"Central heating for a while, I remember icicles on the inside of my bedroom windows!"

Jeez remember those days! Metal window frames.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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24 weeks ago

East Sussex

We were talking about this earlier.

We both come from poor but not impoverished back grounds.

I remember being hungry but never going without food.

Wearing hand me downs but never being without clothes.

Sharing a mars bar with two of my brothers. The fights over who had the biggest bit

Very rarely having pocket money.

All the stuff that causes some old people to utter the timeless phrase

'kids today don't know they're born'

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By *usie pTV/TS
24 weeks ago

taunton

Lol well remember the ice on the inside of the bedroom windows and that was with 6 of us sleeping in the bedroom, one day out to weymouth once a year, heck we enjoyed that day out, gutted when we went to weston super mare one year and never saw the sea all day, bath night sunday evening only tin bath with us all sharing lol seems impossible now doesn't it, no telly but listened to the archers every night I think on the radio and the flying doctors, but fook me I think we were in a much better place.

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By *till gameMan
24 weeks ago

two doors down

Never mind sky tv, didn’t even have a remote control for the telly , us kids were there to change to channel for the grown ups

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
24 weeks ago

The Town by The Cross

"We were talking about this earlier.

We both come from poor but not impoverished back grounds.

I remember being hungry but never going without food.

Wearing hand me downs but never being without clothes.

Sharing a mars bar with two of my brothers. The fights over who had the biggest bit

Very rarely having pocket money.

All the stuff that causes some old people to utter the timeless phrase

'kids today don't know they're born'

When we split a mars one of us would shout....... wahhhhhh he's took the biggest half...

Then we'd get the maths lecture about there being no such thing as a biggest half...

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
24 weeks ago

East Sussex

"We were talking about this earlier.

We both come from poor but not impoverished back grounds.

I remember being hungry but never going without food.

Wearing hand me downs but never being without clothes.

Sharing a mars bar with two of my brothers. The fights over who had the biggest bit

Very rarely having pocket money.

All the stuff that causes some old people to utter the timeless phrase

'kids today don't know they're born'

When we split a mars one of us would shout....... wahhhhhh he's took the biggest half...

Then we'd get the maths lecture about there being no such thing as a biggest half... "

. We used to argue over who got the middle piece and a lecture about one third is larger than one quarter.

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By *ivemealadybonerWoman
24 weeks ago

somewhere

First time I ever had sky was in 2001 (9/11, you can imagine what was on all day, sky news). Mum and dad didn't get sky until grandkids came along

Despite the sky issue (or cable for that matter), we did have internet when it was still fairly new, we had a dvd player before most of my friends, my dad is very much a man that goes into Currys and looks at something, a salesman comes up and he buys it, even though he was just looking, the amount of electrical stuff we had was ridiculous just because he can't say no lol.

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By *ansoffateMan
24 weeks ago

Sagittarius A

My ma said only the queen had bog roll and we had to make do with newspaper.

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By *os19Man
24 weeks ago

Edmonton

I remember our first colour television with remote control in 1981 when I was 13 and there was only 3 channels.

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By *ean counterMan
24 weeks ago

Market Harborough / Kettering

We never had a colour TV as the licence was massively more expensive than a black & white license (yes kids, you could buy a black & white TV back in the 70's).

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By *racknell_GuyMan
24 weeks ago

Bracknell

I never grew up with Sky and my parents were always cheap when it came to buying me casual trainers (no air max Nike for me) I still had a very comfortable upbringing though. But because of the trainers kids in school just assumed my family was poor.

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By *he turned me GreyCouple
24 weeks ago

Warwick and Coventry

"Tom never had sky TV in the house when he grew up.. It had not been invented then ..

What did you go without..."

A mum and dad

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
24 weeks ago

North West

We still don't have Sky TV. Our kids must really be up against it

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By *viatrixWoman
24 weeks ago

Redhill

A VHS VCR

We only had Betamax … all the best films were in VHS.

An Atari. My dad went and bought a piece of crap “Vectrex” thing that cost like 3x the price of an Atari and it was crap.

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By *roadShoulderzMan
24 weeks ago

Croydon

"Tom never had sky TV in the house when he grew up.. It had not been invented then ..

What did you go without..."

It's the things we did have that I remember and was grateful for. I have never coveted others, not an ounce of jealousy, and just happy I grew up a confident man content with my lot in life....

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By *iltsTSgirlTV/TS
24 weeks ago

chichester

I went without a helicopter

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By (user no longer on site)
24 weeks ago

There was a time when we didn't have a television.

My dad sold it to buy a video recorder.

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By *aM 689Man
24 weeks ago

Lanarkshire

Being Scottish .. we went without vegetables

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
24 weeks ago

Stourbridge

I think he has been slightly unfairly treated on this statement

He was asked what he grew up without, and his peers would have had it. It’s not a competition like on Monty Python as to how poor they are. I think he meant it as a slightly humorous reply to a sky reporter who asked the question

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By *rSteve6Man
24 weeks ago

Bolton and Pattaya,Thailand

Why do politicians come out with such shit and never tell the truth?

This is why the UK is such a shithole.Nuff said. Vote..? No chance.

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By *r TriomanMan
24 weeks ago

Chippenham Malmesbury area

From the age of nine, my mother. I also went without someone to report the physical and mental abuse that my father dealt out to me and my siblings oh, I also never had a Raleigh Chopper

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
24 weeks ago

North West

"I went without a helicopter "

Thoughts and prayers

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By *uri00620Woman
24 weeks ago

Croydon

Parents

And no matter how many times I put a Mr Frosty on a Christmas list I never got one.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
24 weeks ago

East Sussex

"I think he has been slightly unfairly treated on this statement

I don't think he's been unfairly treated, he'd make much of a similar gaffe by Kier Starmer. This campaign is nasty.

An experienced and well advised politician would have followed the royal familie's line and set their face in a sympathetic expression while expressing sympathy and understanding for people who went without whilst carefully side stepping the issue of their immense privilege.

He's proving time and time again that he's unable to read the mood.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
24 weeks ago

East Sussex

*family's

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By * and R cple4Couple
24 weeks ago

swansea

He's proven time and time again he and the rest of his cronies are out of touch with reality.. Even in this day and age some kids go without a hot meal... It's a disgrace and their a disgrace..

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
24 weeks ago

North West

"I think he has been slightly unfairly treated on this statement

No, it's reported he struggled to identify anything his family lacked and happened upon the Sky TV after a good sift through his brain.

It's of interest to ordinary people as to whether their leaders have any lived experience in the "real" world. Can leaders empathise with them? I would suggest R. Sunak cannot empathise with the ordinary person.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
24 weeks ago

little house on the praire

I never have had sky TV. How on earth do I cope. When I got married in 1990 we lived in an old terraced house without an inside toilet

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By *929Man
24 weeks ago

newcastle

We were so poor growing up I didn’t have any clothes but when I turned 9 I got a hat for my birthday so I could look out the window and watch the other youngins playing out

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By *tylebender03Man
24 weeks ago

Manchester

I always wanted a Sega mega drive

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By (user no longer on site)
24 weeks ago

Marmite and Ribena ....

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By *alcon77Man
24 weeks ago

under the sun & the moon

"Tom never had sky TV in the house when he grew up.. It had not been invented then ..

What did you go without...

A mum and dad

Mr "

Reading that made me sad

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By *cidcassual88Man
24 weeks ago

Glasshoughton

"Actually, it was sky tv

Sky Television (1984–1990)

BskyB (1990-2022)

Sky Uk (2002 -

In October 2022, Comcast announced that it had written off US$8.6 billion of its valuation of Sky, with its third-quarter sales dropping 14.7 percent to $4.3 bn

What was the cable box called? I just knew it as cable "

Different Names

One was Yorkshire Cable they put all the place what virgin or bt use now !

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By *urry BlokeMan
24 weeks ago

Stalybridge

My childhood lacked a lot of material things

It was, however, full of love, affection, positive parenting, good times and laughs

I never felt that I missed out

Most of my friends were in the same boat

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