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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge

What has disappea_ed in your life time? When I was younger I remember taking a ticket at the cheese counter in the supermarket, saw dust on the floor in butcher's and a break half way through a movie in the cinema. What else has disappea_ed that you remember?

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

Going to the doctors surgery years ago and him sat at his desk smoking a cigarette .

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

Can I say it first? Please ... Thanks..

WHITE DOG POO!

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

That _ed stuff they put on cuts and scrapes at hospital (Iodine) I think it was called. Stung like a Tw*t

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

Oh god just a few things off the top of my head.

You don't 'call for people' anymore like go to their house and give them a knock to see if they're coming out! Or if you can't get them on the home phone you can't reach them at all!

Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.

Original Mountain Dew the green shit not the energy drink version that's come back.

Can't smoke on a train or pubs and nightclubs. Miss being able to have a fag and a dance at the same time!

Saturday night TV's gone shit as well, used to have gladiators and blind date, or generation game, now it's mainly crap.

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By *arnayguyMan
over a year ago

Durham Tees

Picking your telephone receiver up to make a call and hearing the 'party line' already using it. For those people too young to know about it, this was the person who sha_ed your telephone line with you. If you had a party line you had to wait for them to finish before you could make a call.

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By *ackDMissMorganCouple
over a year ago

Halifax

Pop man coming round.Miss.

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


"

Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.

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I agree, they should bring back Cadbury Spira's

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By *i amy cdTV/TS
over a year ago

leicester

Texan bars

Liverpool winning league titles

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By *otblondewife hornyMrCouple
over a year ago

Cambuslang

Fishmongers and butchers coming round by van

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

The coal man carrying a sack of coal over his shoulder for unloading into your coal house.

Birds merrily pecking away at the milk bottle tops of the pintas on your doorstep.

Kids playing football in the street (jumpers for goalposts and all that)

Discarded porn in hedges (a huge part of my education as a child!)

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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"Going to the doctors surgery years ago and him sat at his desk smoking a cigarette ."

Talking of doctors, in the past they always seemed to be older than me, now some of them are my age or younger

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

Or the internet line, if you were on the internet and picked the phone up it knocked your connection off. Course didn't even have internet at home till I was about 20 years old, would have hated Facebook being around when I was in school.

Oh yeah the corona pop man, my next door neighbour Leanne smashed a bottle into her hand cos she was runnjng to the van to take the empty bottles back!

We had a fish and chip can that used to go round on a sturdy night as well like an ice cream man would, and a cockle van and the fruit and veg van!

Seen the increase in cars on the road, never used to be this many cars when I first started driving and that's only really been the last 12 years.

Can't let your child play in the street anymore.

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

That sound of the modem screeching....

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


"

Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.

I agree, they should bring back Cadbury Spira's "

I don't even know what these are?

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By *arkstaffsMan
over a year ago

Rugeley

Miners walking past the house going to and from work.. An industry killed.

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


"

Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.

I agree, they should bring back Cadbury Spira's

I don't even know what these are?"

They were to fingers of choclate that were hollow and they were in a sort of twisty shape, you could drink hot chocolate through them and they'd get all melty in the middle. A crime that they stopped.

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


"

Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.

I agree, they should bring back Cadbury Spira's

I don't even know what these are?"

Oh Madame you have never lived till you have d*unk a glass of milk with a Cadbury's Spira

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

Two* bloody hell!

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

Seeing the milkman every day.

House phone with lock on it and having to beg to get the key to use it

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


"Or the internet line, if you were on the internet and picked the phone up it knocked your connection off. Course didn't even have internet at home till I was about 20 years old, would have hated Facebook being around when I was in school.

Oh yeah the corona pop man, my next door neighbour Leanne smashed a bottle into her hand cos she was runnjng to the van to take the empty bottles back!

We had a fish and chip can that used to go round on a sturdy night as well like an ice cream man would, and a cockle van and the fruit and veg van!

Seen the increase in cars on the road, never used to be this many cars when I first started driving and that's only really been the last 12 years.

Can't let your child play in the street anymore. "

Talking of the Corona Pop man - we used to get 5p or 10p deposit back on glass bottles back in the day ..

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

I used to get 5p back from a empty bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale.

Is it any wonder I was always pissed.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Dragons lurking at the bottom of the allotment

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


"

Cadbury Spira's have gone, wish they would bring them back.

I agree, they should bring back Cadbury Spira's

I don't even know what these are?Oh Madame you have never lived till you have d*unk a glass of milk with a Cadbury's Spira "

This

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

Warm summers days.

Bath night Sunday night's,whether you wanted one or not.

Playing outside on our bikes,from morning till night.

Ten number 6 and a strip of matches.

Bob a job week.

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Tree huts.

Building river dams.

Playing cowboys n Indians.

Jumpers for goal posts.

Spangles

Marathon bars.

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

People.

Where is everyone? Streets used to be packed when i was younger, now they're pretty much dead all the time.

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

The queen played at the end of the night on tv.

The white dot on tv.

Ceefax.

Oracle.

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By *uddlybear2015Man
over a year ago

BEDFORD


"Can I say it first? Please ... Thanks..

WHITE DOG POO! "

Thus rendering the "Gatherers of The Pure" _edundant!

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


"Dragons lurking at the bottom of the allotment "
pmsl

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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"The queen played at the end of the night on tv.

The white dot on tv.

Ceefax.

Oracle."

That girl playing 0 and X with the clown

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts


"Dragons lurking at the bottom of the allotment pmsl"

It was a real pain when I was a kid. Roast parsnips just aren't meant to come out of the allotment already pre-roasted

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

I remember watching movies we had recorded from the tv on VHS with all the commercials. I still have some old VHS tapes and watching the old commercials is spectacular

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

The milk man, he's still here just but I wonder how much longer.

Ringing the local telephone operator for std codes. Taking 10p out with you to make a call from the phone box.

Some good things : hasn't small pox been eradicated and polio nearly.

Sarah

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By *abes in the woodWoman
over a year ago

wales

As kid remember sunday not allow out no shops open..playing kerbie..pop man.lock on house phone..playing cowboys Indians

..coal man..good school dinner go for second.

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

Losing my virginity.

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
Forum Mod

over a year ago

My Own Little World


"Can I say it first? Please ... Thanks..

WHITE DOG POO! "

Nope, saw some on Tuesday.

Brought back all the old memories

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


"The queen played at the end of the night on tv.

The white dot on tv.

Ceefax.

Oracle.

That girl playing 0 and X with the clown"

Yes of course,the test card,forgot about her.

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

A video shop. Not long ago I know, but you wheat and browsed. Maybe even spoke to the people who worked there to recommend s 50p for a week vhs film. And then buy your m&ms. And don't forget to rewind before you return it, God forbid

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By *rcticFoxxxWoman
over a year ago

Hereabouts


"The milk man, he's still here just but I wonder how much longer.

Ringing the local telephone operator for std codes. Taking 10p out with you to make a call from the phone box.

Some good things : hasn't small pox been eradicated and polio nearly.

Sarah "

Bit off topic but your picture is really trippy. It appears to shake when I scroll down because of the lines xD

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By *illbillMan
over a year ago

dublin

Bus conductors

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

Calling 'Dial a Disc' on the way home from school with four or five of us, school bags and all,crammed into the old _ed phone box listening to music.

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By *tephanie19631TV/TS
over a year ago

oxford

Free school milk

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown


"What has disappea_ed in your life time? When I was younger I remember taking a ticket at the cheese counter in the supermarket, saw dust on the floor in butcher's and a break half way through a movie in the cinema. What else has disappea_ed that you remember? "

Ushers at the cinema

Milk floats

Pound notes

Fuzzy felt

Spending an hour choosing a video to rent

Walkmans

Bamboozle!

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

The sound of dial up internet

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

Manners.

Women being ladylike!

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


"The milk man, he's still here just but I wonder how much longer.

Ringing the local telephone operator for std codes. Taking 10p out with you to make a call from the phone box.

Some good things : hasn't small pox been eradicated and polio nearly.

Sarah

Bit off topic but your picture is really trippy. It appears to shake when I scroll down because of the lines xD "

I have just checked this out and it does Brilliant I want a shaky arse pic

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

Stickle Bricks

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

Where the f@@k did the cream on top of the milk go? Just disappea_ed!

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

10p Cadbury F_edo

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

Going to buy the latest 7" or 12" single on Saturday morning after seeing them perform on Swap Shop/Going Live etc

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By *atietvsheffTV/TS
over a year ago

Sheffield

Rag and bone men on a horse drawn cart giving you clothes pegs in return for scrap metal

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


"Rag and bone men on a horse drawn cart giving you clothes pegs in return for scrap metal "
Yeah now its just flat bed transit vans that will take anything not nailed down

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

Me pulling women

Oh and no need to keep a clothes peg in your car to hold the choke out.

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

Coat Hanger car ariels

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

Using an air band receiver to listen to your neighbours' phone calls.

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

About an inch and a half off the size of a wagon wheel lol

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


"The queen played at the end of the night on tv.

The white dot on tv.

Ceefax.

Oracle.

That girl playing 0 and X with the clown"

Having to get up and press a button on the tv to change the channel.

Only 3 tv channels.

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

oh the corona lorry with fizzy drinks and you retuned the empty bottle for money back or off you next bottle ..

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By *otblondewife hornyMrCouple
over a year ago

Cambuslang

Women calling pubs to get their men home

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


"Women calling pubs to get their men home

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other way around these days

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

- Salt n' shake crisps

- Making my own mixtapes ^_^

- Rushing to John Menzies for the latest single

- Smash Hits

- Getting money back for glass bottles

- Long, hot summers!

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By *eavenscentitCouple
over a year ago

barnstaple


"The queen played at the end of the night on tv.

The white dot on tv.

Ceefax.

Oracle.

That girl playing 0 and X with the clown"

She was an evil bitch that one

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

Bogeys

Kids playing fox and hounds

Pods

Geordie Jeans

Mullets (thank god)

The pink

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

School dinners (chocolate sponge with mint green custard)

Old English spangles

Friday night pop man, our local brand was called 'She' so we called him the she man

Dandelion & burpdock & cream soda

opal fruits and pacers

Clackers!! Those were lethal

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

Davenports beer delivery

English motorcycles

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

Buses you could jump on (or off) at the lights.

Eating in near darkness at a Berni Steakhouse.

Modesty, in all its forms.

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

Putting black bin bags out at the kerbside for the binmen to pick up (none of those separate wheelie bins ha ha)!

Trello bars! Anyone remember those? Finger-style chocolate bars with a pink-and-white marshmallow filling!

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By *aria_dreamgirlTV/TS
over a year ago

stockport

Black and white television. The Beverely Hillbillies.Bonfires in the back garden and roasting chestnuts in it.VHS video recorders.

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By *edMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire


"Going to the doctors surgery years ago and him sat at his desk smoking a cigarette ."

I'd be happy to get a doctor's appointment at all.. smoking or not!

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


"School dinners (chocolate sponge with mint green custard)

Old English spangles

Friday night pop man, our local brand was called 'She' so we called him the she man

Dandelion & burpdock & cream soda

opal fruits and pacers

Clackers!! Those were lethal "

our pop van was Alpine and they did a Pineappleade it was lush

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

Racing home from school to watch Batman and Robin . Kerpow'

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

being able to buy a ticket for a football match , or just paying at the turnstiles and not having to take out a second mortgage to do so

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

manners - simple things like please and thank you - standing up for others - holding doors open - giving without expecting a thing in return - and respect for others

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

People arranging a time and place to meet, even weeks in advance and simply being there without lots of calls or messages.

If you can't get hold of someone on their phone leaving it for a few hours or even a day or more before you try again (on the landline) and being chilled about it.

Only contacting people who are at work for a very important reason (unless directly involved with their work).

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

Pubic hair

Pagers

Doing mix tapes for friends

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


"being able to buy a ticket for a football match , or just paying at the turnstiles and not having to take out a second mortgage to do so "
Try Gateshead fc Taff no problem

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

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

Getting a beep on your pager and calling back on a pay phone

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over a year ago

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

Knowing all your neighbours and practically everyone in the estate...

I miss fizzle sticks the most ... oh and them two in two bars

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By *verready32Man
over a year ago

omagh

As a child I lived on a farm, we had a man come round twice a week selling bread and papers sweets and other stuff, I still remember the Paris buns, wonder do they still make them.

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

Having to play with the TV areial to get a descent picture .

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
Forum Mod

over a year ago

My Own Little World

Sunshine.

It has been ages since I saw the sun for more than 5 minutes

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Mongols sweeping down from the steppe

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

The Roman Empire

*sighs*

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk


"Sunshine.

It has been ages since I saw the sun for more than 5 minutes "

It was in my garden for several hours today. Lovely, it was

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield


"The Roman Empire

*sighs*"

I'd rather like a Visigoth invasion, been years since there was a good Visigoth hoarde looting there way through

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"The Roman Empire

*sighs*

I'd rather like a Visigoth invasion, been years since there was a good Visigoth hoarde looting there way through "

You'd need to have been in Spain or North Africa for that - this side got Jutes and Angles and Picts and other unwashed people.

Architecture, amongst other things, went missing for 1000 years. Sod's law.

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

Friendly bin men who would come right into your back garden and take the bag of rubbish out of the metal bin..tie it up. .put a new bin bag in and take the rubbish away.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"The Roman Empire

*sighs*

I'd rather like a Visigoth invasion, been years since there was a good Visigoth hoarde looting there way through

You'd need to have been in Spain or North Africa for that - this side got Jutes and Angles and Picts and other unwashed people.

Architecture, amongst other things, went missing for 1000 years. Sod's law. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso

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

Was going to say rochdale being good at football but I don't ever think they have been .

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

Paper delivery espesh News of the Screws.

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

Meets on fab

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By *artytwoCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Crispy cod fries.

If you saw someone coming down the street shouting and gesticulating you would cross the road or speed up and not look at them.

Just on the phone these days.

People used to put their crap/wrappers in the waste bins, they just drop it anywhere now.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

police man on point duty at busy road junctions during rush hour or before after big events

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

cassette tapes and Woolworths

though seeing as i used to steal cassette tapes from said store.. maybe I'm to blame for the demise of both

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
over a year ago

1127 walnut avenue

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

Recording the top 40 chart off the radio onto a tape on a Sunday night. And trying not to get the presenters talking in between each song

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By *ark074Man
over a year ago

nottingham

Renting tv's (don't start) and position of the week. Or was it fortnight?

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By *ime for me21Man
over a year ago

skeg


"Recording the top 40 chart off the radio onto a tape on a Sunday night. And trying not to get the presenters talking in between each song "

Remember doing that x

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


"The queen played at the end of the night on tv.

The white dot on tv.

Ceefax.

Oracle.

That girl playing 0 and X with the clown

She was an evil bitch that one"

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By *orwegian BlueMan
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..

Standing outside a phone box with your 2p and seeing the person inside stick 10p in the slot...

You knew you were in for a long wait.

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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago

North Herts

Having to wait for the TV to warm up for several minutes before you actually got a good enough picture to watch it. Your parents still called the radio the 'wireless' and the record player - or more trendily termed 'stereo' - was refer_ed to as the 'gramaphone' for heaven's sake (no, I wasn't brought up in a Victorian orphanage). The excitement of extraordinarily advanced technology when your dad came home with a *remote controlled* VHS recorder which in reality was attached to the unit on a very long cable the cat kept leaping on and chewing as it trailed across the floor and was thus rende_ed useless within weeks.

Ms G

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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago

North Herts

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By *otblondewife hornyMrCouple
over a year ago

Cambuslang

'Watching' football on teletext

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

- Renting videos

- Support films at the cinema

- Being able to drink more than three pints without suffering a 48 hour hangover

- Politicians making at least some attempt to appear honest and decent

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By *orwegian BlueMan
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..


"The Roman Empire

*sighs*"

what have the Romans ever done for us?

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


"The Roman Empire

*sighs*what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Introduced illicit indulgent sex parties!!

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

What happened to penny sweets and the corona man

And bloody hell I'd forgotten about Cadbury spiras they were the best ....and Mars applause

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

I used to love watching Miss World competition on tv

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

Oh and the milkman with cream at the top of the bottle the the birds used to peck at the foil lid and pinch hahah

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By *ime for me21Man
over a year ago

skeg

Talking to people normally

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

Stray dogs, or people that just used to let their dogs out to roam the streets, or was that just our neighbour?? Same neighbour also used to keep a Donkey in her garage.

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By *layfull pairingCouple
over a year ago

Bristol

Tiswas and Sally James's tits

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

Playing the national anthem at the end of a film in the cinema

oh the pictures thats how us in Durham refe_ed to the cinema

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

Recording the chart show on a tape on a Sunday and having to sit there for three hours to pause at the talking

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


"Can I say it first? Please ... Thanks..

WHITE DOG POO! "

My dog did a white poo last week, I was so excited!

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


"Recording the chart show on a tape on a Sunday and having to sit there for three hours to pause at the talking "

Love this so many memories

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

Renting a video from the video shop!

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Spin dryers.

A lot of the things posted above still exist, guess it depends on where you live.

My bin men are nice and helpful, I know my neighbours, we have a fish and a meat van that comes round, people are polite and more

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

Military coups?.......oh!

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By *otLips 69Woman
over a year ago

Here or There

Top of the pops on a Thursday night. Sitting with food from the chippy watching Monkey on bbc2 on a fri evening at 6pm take aways was a treat back then not like now.

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By *ane DTV/TS
over a year ago

Glasgow

The Sweeney - after News @ Ten on a Friday night

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


"Recording the chart show on a tape on a Sunday and having to sit there for three hours to pause at the talking "

Top-loading cassette recorder propped up against the radio : ) I bet I still have some of those tapes

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By *lice400Woman
over a year ago

nottingham

Radio one bits and pieces in the summer road shows.

Coffee walnut whips.

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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"Military coups?.......oh!"

You haven't spent much time in Thailand then, they've had more coups than I've had hot dinners!

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By *ime for me21Man
over a year ago

skeg


"Radio one bits and pieces in the summer road shows.

Coffee walnut whips. "

Yes to both x

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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"Spin dryers.

A lot of the things posted above still exist, guess it depends on where you live.

My bin men are nice and helpful, I know my neighbours, we have a fish and a meat van that comes round, people are polite and more "

As in the ones in the garden with 4 arms and wire between them? My neighbor has one. On new developments they are often banned as a by-law, so too for campers and caravans, works vehicles etc.

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

Mangles.

Flat irons you put on a fire to heat up.

Toasting forks.

Red corduroy trousers.

Huge fla_ed trousers you could hide your dog under.

Little paper dolls in their undies with pop out clothes with little white tags on.

The shop selling rope by the metre,on the corner.

Ice cream bricks in grease-proof paper.

Gypsy skirts.

Gypsy hair cuts.

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

Thank god cigarette smoke has gone in pubs and restaurants!

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By *LCC OP   Couple
over a year ago

Cambridge


"- Renting videos

- Support films at the cinema

- Being able to drink more than three pints without suffering a 48 hour hangover

- Politicians making at least some attempt to appear honest and decent"

We certainly haven't had any decent political sex scandals for a while have we? I mean if we have to put up with a Tory government we could at least have a few married back benchers getting caught cottaging for us all to have a laugh at!

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

Crabb has been naughty!!

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Military coups?.......oh!

You haven't spent much time in Thailand then, they've had more coups than I've had hot dinners! "

There's one in Turkey tonight.

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Military coups?.......oh!"

Very good

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

Getting for a lift over the turnstiles at the football.collecting ginger bottles round the doors and buying ciggies with the money.nobody batted an eyelid then.

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


"Radio one bits and pieces in the summer road shows.

Coffee walnut whips. "

Ooh coffee Walnut Whips.....so want one now, wish they still did those!

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

Half day closing : ) I seem to remember it was Wednesdays where I grew up

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By *callycatMan
over a year ago

Mid Wales

Dad giving us a clip round the ear if we spoke while the football results were on the wireless...

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham


"Half day closing : ) I seem to remember it was Wednesdays where I grew up"

It was Saturdays too in Oxford street

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

Wirelesses with valves inside.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

People in bars, restaurants etc used to talk to each other, not look at their hands.

Photographs for most people were taken on holidays, at school, trips out and occasions.

Innocence

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


"

Original Mountain Dew the green shit not the energy drink version that's come back.

"

That was the best. Turned your tongue green, I could drink it all day Got banned in the UK from what I remember. Could still buy it in Romania when I was there last year though.

And great call on the Cadbury Spira

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"Military coups?.......oh!"

Topical

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

Me getting laid

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury


"Me getting laid "

Maaaawww

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

Beehive Bedlam on Sky games...

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


"Beehive Bedlam on Sky games..."

And Battleships! :D

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

Handing your snaps into the shop and waiting for them to develop

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

Getting up to change the channel on the TV...

Also getting the TV times as a special treat over the Christmas period

H x

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

Summer

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

I don't see kids playing balls anymore. Would spend hours playing....or put a ball in a leg of my mum's tights and bounce it against the wall x

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By *arkstaffsMan
over a year ago

Rugeley

Delivery vans with sliding doors! Great for this time of year driving along with the doors open!

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