FabSwingers.com forum: Can you remember(part 2)

By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Some people seemed to enjoy reminiscing so I thought i would try a part 2.

Simply post something from your youth/childhood that you just don't or rarely see now.

I'll go for the Rubik's cube

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

"Some people seemed to enjoy reminiscing so I thought i would try a part 2.

Simply post something from your youth/childhood that you just don't or rarely see now.

I'll go for the Rubik's cube "

They are still around

But sexed up versions

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

Hoop and stick

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Missed part one - so apologies if any of this is a repeat:

Shellfish sellers coming round the pub

8 track cassette tapes

Floppy disks

White dog poo

Jumble sales - car boots and eBay appear to have replaced them

Kids being able to "play out" without fear

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By *rs T and HubbyCouple
over a year ago

somewhere north of the border..

Space hoppers..

Chopper bikes

Kids playing in the streets

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Respect and politeness . Both have disappeared! !

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Those gondola swings in the playground where you pulled a rope alternatively.

You could nearly loop the loop in them

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Making a c60 or c90 tape from your record collection to give to a girl you fancied.

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Some people seemed to enjoy reminiscing so I thought i would try a part 2.

Simply post something from your youth/childhood that you just don't or rarely see now.

I'll go for the Rubik's cube

They are still around

But sexed up versions"

How can you sex up a Rubik's cube ? Lol

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By *arksMan
over a year ago

in the centre

The chip van , used to be round my aunties on a Friday night watching Starsky and Hutch and listening out for the bell ringing to signal the arrival of the mobile chippy

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Government safety films scared everyone sh*tless.

Kids drowning, blowing themselves up, being thrown through car windows, being run over.

All aimed at traumatising kids in the name of safety.

Ironic that some featured Jimmy saville

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

Rubber keyed zx spectrum with manic miner and jetpac.

Them were the days

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By *arksMan
over a year ago

in the centre

"Rubber keyed zx spectrum with manic miner and jetpac.

Them were the days"

That would take an hour to load and crash on 99%

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

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"Government safety films scared everyone sh*tless.

Kids drowning, blowing themselves up, being thrown through car windows, being run over.

All aimed at traumatising kids in the name of safety.

Ironic that some featured Jimmy saville

God yes the one with the voice of Donald Pleasance about the dangers of playing near water scared the bejeezus out of me:

https://youtu.be/xZWD2sDRESk

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

"Rubber keyed zx spectrum with manic miner and jetpac.

Them were the days

That would take an hour to load and crash on 99%

Yeah I still remember the loading sound. Graphics were shite too, but I wasted hours on it as a kid!

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Mobile phone with the car battery that weighed @30lb

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Woolworths

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

Gollywogs

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

"Some people seemed to enjoy reminiscing so I thought i would try a part 2.

Simply post something from your youth/childhood that you just don't or rarely see now.

I'll go for the Rubik's cube "

We have one and MrDoublehunbon is teaching our daughter how to solve it.

He insists it's all to do with memory

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

Cabbage patch kids

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Some people seemed to enjoy reminiscing so I thought i would try a part 2.

Simply post something from your youth/childhood that you just don't or rarely see now.

I'll go for the Rubik's cube

We have one and MrDoublehunbon is teaching our daughter how to solve it.

He insists it's all to do with memory

It's all to do with swapping the stickers

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

Stylaphone

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

Fuzzy felts

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By *lackitncoCouple
over a year ago

brownhills

Spangles

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Golden egg restaurants

Berni inns

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By *wo4FemCouple
over a year ago

Birmingham

Sega megadrive

Mr2

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Sega megadrive

Mr2

Think it was that one that I wasted hours on a golf game

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

The Banana Splits

Tra la la

Loved them

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By *riendly older leggy wifeCouple
over a year ago

london

Taking empty bottles back for 3d

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Spirograph

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

"Some people seemed to enjoy reminiscing so I thought i would try a part 2.

Simply post something from your youth/childhood that you just don't or rarely see now.

I'll go for the Rubik's cube "

Clackers... Although I have a pair which were brought back for me from Poland

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

Hopping onto the back of the bus on the way to school.

How did we ever survive without the health and safety ?

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Hopping onto the back of the bus on the way to school.

How did we ever survive without the health and safety ?

Happy happy days and like you I'm surprised I survived

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

Spangles

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

Wide Awake Club on Saturday morning tv. Loved it

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Wide Awake Club on Saturday morning tv. Loved it

And Tizwas

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

"Wide Awake Club on Saturday morning tv. Loved it

And Tizwas

Ahhh... basking in the warm fuzzy glow of reminiscence! Swap Shop and the morning tv for years to come

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Wacky races, scooby doo, yogi bear, top cat fond memories

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Long hot summer holidays

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

"Long hot summer holidays "

Dam right

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

Top of the pops

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

The magnificent Raleigh Grifter

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

Porn mags abandoned in bushes

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Jackie and Mandy magazines for girls

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

clackers

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Clangers

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

Quick sand! I thought it’d be a much bigger problem in my life but pfft whatever lol

Good Saturday morning cartoons

Good Saturday evening quiz shows

While we’re at it let’s just put good TV in general

Knock down ginger (or I believe the Americans call it ding dong ditch)

Being able to go to the shops with £1 and coming back with a panda pop, chocolate bar and crisps

Ads

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

Seashell necklaces brought back from Spain.

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

Shaker Makers

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

TV programmes like why don't you when the Northern Irish group were pretty impossible to understand and a programme called we are the champions, they once did a handicapped special where my friend Kev couldn't stop laughing at it and was readily sent to this room by his parents who both worked with special needs children

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

"Top of the pops"

Pan's people

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By *lackitncoCouple
over a year ago

brownhills

"Wide Awake Club on Saturday morning tv. Loved it

And Tizwas

Doll was on tizwas regular and even got phantom flan flung in the cage

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

Children playing 'What's the time Mr Wolf' in the street

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

Unsynchronised digital watch alarms in class. *giggle*

Balsa wood boats.

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

"Children playing 'What's the time Mr Wolf' in the street"

Yeh it’s boring now

“What’s the time mr wolf?”

“Hold on let me ask Siri”

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

French cricket

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

"Children playing 'What's the time Mr Wolf' in the street

Yeh it’s boring now

“What’s the time mr wolf?”

“Hold on let me ask Siri”

Haha

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

"Wide Awake Club on Saturday morning tv. Loved it

And Tizwas

Why Don't You during the school holidays

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By *hetalkingstoveMan
over a year ago

London

Henry's Cat.

Epic stuff.

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

"Top of the pops

Pan's people

And legs and co

Hot gossip.

Orange juice being a luxury.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

Magpie

Kids programme on around tea time on weekdays.

The joys of only having 3 channels to choose from

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By *ELLONS AND CREAMWoman
over a year ago

stourbridge area

Dr Who in black and white

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By *ELLONS AND CREAMWoman
over a year ago

stourbridge area

Recording the top 20 on sunday night ...

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

Taping the Top 40 countdown on a Sunday evening without getting the DJ’s voice to play in your car.. and the tea trolley lady doing the rounds at work! A x

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By *layfullsam OP Man
over a year ago

Solihull

The scary bubbles the clown test card when there was no programme on tv

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