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By *oseyoudown OP   Man
over a year ago

Trouble! AGAIN! x

For instance. I remember the days when apple, blackberry and raspberry pie were just fruit

How old ard you? What can you remember?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

I'm 56 and can hardly remember what what I had for breakfast some days

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By *ere2pleasureUMan
over a year ago

Kington

A bag of crisps was actually full!

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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

When you could buy a marsbar and can of for 50p.

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

I remember I remember I remember when

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By *entileschiWoman
over a year ago

Norwich

I remember hot summers

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


"I remember hot summers"
like the one gone

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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


"I remember hot summers"
you from Chichester?

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


"I remember hot summerslike the one gone "

So do I, it was only a few months ago. It was a scorcher.

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


"I remember hot summerslike the one gone

So do I, it was only a few months ago. It was a scorcher. "
Best summer I can remember

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


"I remember hot summerslike the one gone

So do I, it was only a few months ago. It was a scorcher. Best summer I can remember "

It was too hot for me.

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


"I remember hot summerslike the one gone

So do I, it was only a few months ago. It was a scorcher. Best summer I can remember

It was too hot for me. "
I loved it I had best tan ever

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

I remember when as a child, children's programmes were only on late morning and late afternoon, and there were only a few of them.

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By *den-Valley-coupleCouple
over a year ago

Cumbria

TV stopping at night

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Not internet...

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

I remember when Nokia was a cool phone...

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

I remember only having four channels to watch on the telly,the remote was attached via a cable and the Atari which had the fake wood on it.

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

Watching the page numbers on Ceefax... Before Internet

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

A bag of chips was less than 50p. Actually I remember 28p bag of chips.

One pound f’kin eighty now

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

I remember my dad smacking the TV because the channels(sometimes all 3 of them)wouldn't come on the screen clearly

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham

I remember a bus ride from St. Helens to Liverpool was 13p, as a child.

I remember having a pound note, it lasted a week.

2 sweets for a penny, and getting a 10p mix.

Summer holidays lasting for ever.

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

Ten B+H for 27 1/2p.

Milk bottles on doorsteps.

The national anthem after the evening's TV.

Looking forward to an exciting future.

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Ok I remember pre decimal prices

A tube of fruit gums was 3d

6 black jacks or fruit salad 1d

10 bob note

Often decimalisation

My first pint 22p

1 gallon of petrol approx 4.5 litres was 47p

So just over 10p a litre

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Oh and I bought my flat for 14500

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

Has everyone just given away their real age?...

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

When £1 an hour seemed like a fantastic wage to be on

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

Summers when the tar on the roads. Bubbled as was so hot

When king size mars bars were normal size

Bread was 10 pence

Drinking glass of milk still warm from the cow

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport


"TV stopping at night

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Not internet... "

Stopped st midnight and then they played the National Anthem

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

Opal fruits, marathons and monster munch that were too big to fit in your mouth so you had to bite them in half.

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By *uciyassMan
over a year ago

sheffield

I can remember kick the can and stealing the milk float to run my teddy over when I was 8. I was not a popular boy of I remember well. I felt like dougle on father ted

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By *ELLONS AND CREAMWoman
over a year ago

stourbridge area

Watching tv cookery programmes

The galloping gourmet .....which was on after lunch

And Fanny craddock ....

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

I remember going to airports in the days before there were security checkpoints and you could walk onto the apron to greet people coming off the plane.

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

Smoking at the back of the aeroplane and cinema

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

I remember when he man wasnt too violent for kids to watch

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

Texan bars, the heatwave of 76,mary mungo and midge on TV and coal fires in the classroom at infant school

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

The test card with that girl and the clown

When compiling a playlist consisted of hours sat recording records onto a C60 or C90 (and hoping the tape didn't run out before the end of the record)

Record players where you stacked several records up on the spindle to drop down one by one after the previous one had played

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


"TV stopping at night

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Not internet...

Stopped st midnight and then they played the National Anthem "
and the announcer telling you to unplug the TV then wishing you a good night!

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By *arnsley guy100Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

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By *ELLONS AND CREAMWoman
over a year ago

stourbridge area

Watching andy Pandy

And listening to Listen with Mother on the radio ..... and falling asleep ...

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham


"I remember only having four channels to watch on the telly,the remote was attached via a cable and the Atari which had the fake wood on it."
at least we had something to watch .now with umpteen channels its all garbage unless you like soaps and reality TV stuffed down your throat

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham


"Opal fruits, marathons and monster munch that were too big to fit in your mouth so you had to bite them in half. "
don't forget the topic bar .back then it had a hazelnut in every bite.now its find the bloody hazelnut

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

I remember buying a pack of Polos for 7p.

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By *0tt0nSu3Woman
over a year ago

London

The cost for a school kid to travel on a bus in London was 10p!

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

Going to the shop with a note from my mum to buy her cigs

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


"A bag of chips was less than 50p. Actually I remember 28p bag of chips.

One pound f’kin eighty now "

I'm old enough to recall going to a chippy and getting a bag of chips, scraps and a scallop for 10p ... Bugger I feel old now

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


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Record players where you stacked several records up on the spindle to drop down one by one after the previous one had played "

I had one of these and it used to annoy me when occasionally two or three records dropped at the same time

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By *elshsunsWoman
over a year ago

Flintshire

Frost on the inside of the windows of a morning .... coal sheds .... Liberty bodices ... getting dressed for school in front of the fire ... frozen milk on the doorstep .... blankets on the bed ...

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By *hips n FursMan
over a year ago

Huddersfield

I remember when they used to put cartoons on in between programs as a time filler.

Bring back the looney tunes to mainstream TV.

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

When cinemas showed a support film

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

I can remember a 10p bag of sweet lasting all afternoon and then going home with a blue mouth

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By *W ChapMan
over a year ago

Swindon


"A bag of crisps was actually full! "
and cooked properly

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

Freddo's were 10p

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


"Freddo's were 10p"

That wasn't so long ago

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London


"When cinemas showed a support film"

Yep -double billings and Saturday Matinee's

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


"Freddo's were 10p

That wasn't so long ago "

Feels like a lifetime for me!

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By *innerdateMan
over a year ago

Leigh

I remember when Channel 4 started, and I also remember when ITV had some sort of industrial action and there was only BBC 1 and 2?

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By *arnsley guy100Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

I remember when men were men...

Before all the pussys took over

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By *arnsley guy100Man
over a year ago

Sheffield


"I remember when Channel 4 started, and I also remember when ITV had some sort of industrial action and there was only BBC 1 and 2?"

I watched ch4 come about.. The switch on.... Countdown was the first programme aired

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

I remember pulling my clothes into the bed to warm them before getting up at 5am, ice on the inside bedroom walls, putting my school uniform on the Aga to get warm and dry while I milked the cows.

Life has improved massively in my lifetime.

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


"I remember when men were men...

Before all the pussys took over"

Those pesky cats and their plans for world domination

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


"I remember when Channel 4 started, and I also remember when ITV had some sort of industrial action and there was only BBC 1 and 2?"

I remember mini pops on channel 4, I was devastated when they pulled the plug

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

I remember the excitement of getting a Binatone Pong game one Christmas, first video game. And then text adventures on home computers.

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


"I remember when men were men...

Before all the pussys took over"

Pussy has always ruled the world. Since about a year before I first touched one...

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


"I remember when men were men...

Before all the pussys took over"

Pussies*

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


"blankets on the bed ... "

I used to love the weight of 5 or 6 blankets on the bed in winter but now I sometimes struggle with the weight of a duvet

How times change!

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit


"When cinemas showed a support film

Yep -double billings and Saturday Matinee's"

Double Features were commonplace back then - can remember seeing Life Of Brian/Airplane and Monty Python & The Holy Grail/Blazing Saddles - don't think I've laughed so much since!!

You could also go into the film at any point and just sit there after it finished till the next showing started so you could see the bit you missed.

And films had intervals!!

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

What about getting a mini bottle (glass) of milk in school everyday

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


"What about getting a mini bottle (glass) of milk in school everyday "

Invariably warm. Yuck

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

When people mostly took pictures of people other than themselves.

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


"When people mostly took pictures of people other than themselves."

And it took a week or more to get the prints

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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

Going to see Back to the Future for my first trip to the cinema ever and thinking everything was really expensive as it cost a whole £2 combined for the ticket, a drink and a cornetto... 

B

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By *c1989Woman
over a year ago

Manchester


"Freddo's were 10p

That wasn't so long ago

Feels like a lifetime for me!"

I remember when they were 5p and Taz's were still around.

Space Raiders used to be 5p too.

I remember being able to get all kinds of goodies for 50p in the shop across the road. You can barely get one chocolate bar for that price these days.

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London


"What about getting a mini bottle (glass) of milk in school everyday "

They still do that in Ireland -only cos they didn't have "Magggie Thatcher Milk Snatcher" there

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

Loving reading through these!!

I remember when I left the house in the summer after breakfast... Took a football and met mates, playing with pea shooters and spud guns all day in the countryside near our homes.... All on our own from the ges of about 10, not to go home until dinner time at about 5pm.... Great days.... Great mates

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

Hated warm milk that had been stood out in the sun.

Flares, platforms for guys, tank tops, slade t.rex bowie, mot the hoople, medicine head......the list goes on. Disco , funk and all

Still love playing the sounds of the 70s

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By *irty Flirty HarryMan
over a year ago

East Sussex

Remember, rickets and scurvy and being forced up a chimney as a young lad. You've never had it so good these days

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

when men were men and sheep were nervous

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

Having a personal ad refused by my local paper because they wouldn't print the word "bisexual"

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By *laytimetwoCouple
over a year ago

Staines

Being taken to a wimpy bar as a treat.

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By *loswingersCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

I remember when the shops were all closed at 5.30 .

Walking almost two miles to primary school , meeting up with friends along the way .

Living on an estate with hardly any cars on it , maybe one house in 3 had one .

Being the first to have a colour tv and having friends over to watch it .

Going out to play with friends from the age of five till it got dark , and not worrying about what might happen .

Getting a tomahawk bike and looking forward to being big enough for a chopper .

And so much more

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London


"Being taken to a wimpy bar as a treat."

Did you ever notice how the food that came out a Wimpy bar was an almost exact clone of the photograph in the menu -creepy or what!

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Waiting for Pebble Mill to finish, so I could watch Mr Benn

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


"A bag of crisps was actually full! "

Can't believe they are 75p now and that ppl pay for them. Get a multipack haha

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By *laytimetwoCouple
over a year ago

Staines


"Being taken to a wimpy bar as a treat.

Did you ever notice how the food that came out a Wimpy bar was an almost exact clone of the photograph in the menu -creepy or what!"

Oh yes, never the guts to have there red sausage, stayed with the cheese burger, which I think was better than any mac Donald’s.

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


"Being the first to have a colour tv and having friends over to watch it"

We were late getting a colour TV. It's funny now watching repeats of old sitcoms in colour which I always thought were in black and white : )

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

I remember great Saturday night Telly with big break Noel’s house party and Jim Davidson’s generation game great Telly

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

Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game lol.

And John Pertwee as Dr Who

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


"Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game lol.

And John Pertwee as Dr Who"

Jim Davidson’s generations game was better

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By *arnsley guy100Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

I remember when I'd fall off my bike and just get up and do it again...

and when my dad showed me how to make a scotch arrow out of a bamboo stick, peice of string and a dart head...or something heavier than the stick to make it top heavy.

BEST THING EVER.... Make one... There right good.. Cost nothing, loads of fun...

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

I remember buying cans of top deck, lager or bitter shandy. Thinking I was being grown up, as I d*unk it.

Let's not forget Texan bars, eat them warm and they stretched. Only issue was you got covered in chocolate as it cracked and flaked.

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By *arnsley guy100Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

Basically dismantle a dart... Putting 18 inch garden cane/straight stick between the dart head and the fin/flight feather and the other end

You now have a 2 foot dart

Put a notch at the tail end

Take a peice of string the same length as your 2 foot dart with the string at the end in your notch, the other at your dart head

Throw it at full arms length as hard as you can kind of holding on bett letting go of the string.. The string catapults it....... GOES FOR MILES.. RIGHT GOOD... MAKE ONE

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By *arnsley guy100Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

If you havnt got a dart... Use a stone tide to the front of your stick.... Make a tail fin out of "something else"

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

Listening to next doors telephone conversation on the Party line.

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


"Basically dismantle a dart... Putting 18 inch garden cane/straight stick between the dart head and the fin/flight feather and the other end

You now have a 2 foot dart

Put a notch at the tail end

Take a peice of string the same length as your 2 foot dart with the string at the end in your notch, the other at your dart head

Throw it at full arms length as hard as you can kind of holding on bett letting go of the string.. The string catapults it....... GOES FOR MILES.. RIGHT GOOD... MAKE ONE "
aka a Spanish arrow...

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


"Listening to next doors telephone conversation on the Party line."

My nan used to tell me about that one

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

When there was only one type of lettuce, tomatoes were seasonal and jelly came in cardboard boxes! My nan used to get marmalade that came in tins from south africa!

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

I remember when Mark Wahlberg was Marky Mark (your such a gooooood vibrationnn) with his funky bunch

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

I remember when men were men and women liked them

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Rendezvous contact magazine!

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By *eliciousladyWoman
over a year ago

Sometimes U.K


"A bag of chips was less than 50p. Actually I remember 28p bag of chips.

One pound f’kin eighty now "

Remember a bag of chips being 6d

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

Omg I remember history lessons when you could buy a whole house for £250

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

Noel Edmonds multi coloured swap shop and Tiswas who remebers the phantom flan flinger ??

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


"Noel Edmonds multi coloured swap shop and Tiswas who remebers the phantom flan flinger ?? "

Never mind the flan flinger. Sally James omg 3

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham


"Being taken to a wimpy bar as a treat.

Did you ever notice how the food that came out a Wimpy bar was an almost exact clone of the photograph in the menu -creepy or what!"
not at my local wimpy it didn't .it looked half the size

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"Rendezvous contact magazine! "

And sending "actual" photos through the post with an introductory letter, including your landline number to your intended victim, then waiting about a fortnight for a reply

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

I remember.....

Errr what was the question again?

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By *tace 309TV/TS
over a year ago

durham


"A bag of chips was less than 50p. Actually I remember 28p bag of chips.

One pound f’kin eighty now

Remember a bag of chips being 6d "
so do i fish n chips was 1s-9dfor all the lazy so and so s that's about 9 pence in today's money . now its a luxury and the fish have downsized as well

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

Once you've been with a woman from drumchapel you learn to forget

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By *rwhite30Man
over a year ago

deptford London

I renewed when everything no matter what didn't offend everyone

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

Sally James was treat now you mention it , shame I was still playing with Transformers then

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By *uzzy NavelWoman
over a year ago

so near and yet so far....

Leaving myself wide open to abuse, but I remember a gobstopper actually shut you up...

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central


"I remember when Nokia was a cool phone..."

Still are!

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By *eorge17Man
over a year ago

Leven

I remember when the parkie came round in the evening and chained up the swings, in the play parks, and locked them up with a padlock.

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

When pussies used to get wet themselves

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London


"I renewed when everything no matter what didn't offend everyone "

Yep -rampant racism, homophobia and sexism were great weren't they?

Disclaimer: Irony Alert!

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


"I renewed when everything no matter what didn't offend everyone

Yep -rampant racism, homophobia and sexism were great weren't they?

Disclaimer: Irony Alert!"

My generation miss them days

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport

When match of the day used to show only one game

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
over a year ago

newport


"When match of the day used to show only one game "

And being allowed to stay up late to watch it

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

I'm 43, pack of polos for 10p, 20 cigs for less than £2 !! And I guess thinking the polos would cover up the cig smell !! How foolish I was !!

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

I remember when swingers had to advertise in the back of porn mags! The emergence of adult friend finder! Downloading porn at Dial up speed!

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


"I remember when swingers had to advertise in the back of porn mags! The emergence of adult friend finder! Downloading porn at Dial up speed! "

60 minutes of download for 2 minutes of porn. Kids today have no idea how dedicated to the cause we were

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock


"I'm 43, pack of polos for 10p, 20 cigs for less than £2 !! And I guess thinking the polos would cover up the cig smell !! How foolish I was !! "

Remember buying loosies

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

Ringing the sex line from the phone box(think it was 111) and asking what a rainbow kiss was

And getting a detailed but scientific description from the person on the other end

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


"Ringing the sex line from the phone box(think it was 111) and asking what a rainbow kiss was

And getting a detailed but scientific description from the person on the other end "

Had to Google that. Thank you lol

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

A bag of cheese and onion crisps. 5p a packet my 1St pint of beer was 97p

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Moving a few blobs around a screen made for a great game...thanks Mr Sinclair.

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford


"Moving a few blobs around a screen made for a great game...thanks Mr Sinclair."

Jet Set Willy, Attic Attack,

Knight Lore, Pole Position

Spy Hunter, Jet Pack,

Elite, Paperboy

... I dunno never really played it.

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

I remember signing up to the internet in the early 90s and you would get lists of the new people who joined our provider.

That’s how small the internet was.

First person to contact us incidentally was someone keen on wearing inflatable rubber suits

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


"Leaving myself wide open to abuse, but I remember a gobstopper actually shut you up... "

did they work? me thinks not

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By *eresa_cdslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Bodmin

And enclosing a postal order and stamped addressed envelopes for their replies it must have been good in those days as cant remember a single timewaster or refusal to meet xx

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By *amelhunterMan
over a year ago

newcastle

Salt and shake crisps.

Liver!

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By *rtraymondo76Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham

And those little blue ones in the bag were very salty.

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By *hrobbermanMan
over a year ago

Lanarkshire

I remember Spangles and Aztec Bars.

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

I remember BBC2 starting up

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

Fish and chips wrapped in the daily newspaper and having dustbins where the dustman would carry it on his sholder to the dust cart

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

When my mum used to use the Roses/Quality Street Christmas tins as hat boxes or fruit cake tins. Nowadays you can just about fit a child's straw boater/Victoria sponge.

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

I remember having an A to Z in the car not a sat nav.

I remember asking my elders advice on knitting etc now I just go to YouTube!

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London


"I remember only having four channels to watch on the telly,the remote was attached via a cable and the Atari which had the fake wood on it."

First tv and video we bought with the cable attached remote was a Grundig...and we paid £1,000 for it in 1982!

Last tv I bought in 2017 4k ultra curved smart tv £600!

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By *hechairman18Man
over a year ago

Salford Quays , Manchester

Radio Luxembourg.

The adverts for Horace Batchlor.

Sent to K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M.

Bing sings, brought to you by Pre-tested Products Ltd, makers of Carter's Little Liver pills, and Arid Cream Deoderent.

The Ovalteen' s, little girls and boys.

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

I remember saving up cereal tokens to get a cola yoyo and if you was a hardcore saver you got a gold one. Saving my money and buying football stickers and swapping them on the school playground. Never did finish that book had 3 players left! that haunted me for years

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

I remember glue sniffers, whatever happened to them?

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


"I remember glue sniffers, whatever happened to them?"

A passing fad. It didn't stick.

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By *oseyoudown OP   Man
over a year ago

Trouble! AGAIN! x


"Going to the shop with a note from my mum to buy her cigs "

Yeh 10 Embassy Filter lol x

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York


"I remember glue sniffers, whatever happened to them?"

One in the year above me at school was found dead in his bedroom by his parents when he was around 15.

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By *rwhite30Man
over a year ago

deptford London


"I renewed when everything no matter what didn't offend everyone

Yep -rampant racism, homophobia and sexism were great weren't they?

Disclaimer: Irony Alert!

My generation miss them days "

exactly

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

I remember the days when we all had that dogey mate who could get you free cable tv and copy’s VHS

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By *rwhite30Man
over a year ago

deptford London

bubble bobble

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By *rwhite30Man
over a year ago

deptford London

when sky movies cost more than sky sports

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

I remember when you could buy a single fag and a match at the pub

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


"I remember when you could buy a single fag and a match at the pub "

A brick on the bar full of loose matches

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By *hatYorkLadMan
over a year ago

York

I remember life before the internet and mobile phones.

I remember cars without power steering or air conditioning as standard.

I remember computer games before they were 3D as standard.

I remember using a coat hanger as a TV aerial in my bedroom as a teenager and having to mess around with the tuning to get something vaguely watchable.

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By *rwhite30Man
over a year ago

deptford London

when 10 fags and large rizla together were under £2

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By *rwhite30Man
over a year ago

deptford London

when joysticks had one button,l joypad had 2

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

I remember the days when we used to nick the corona bottles from the back of the corner shop and then take them back in the front door to get our 10p... Then buy the 10p mix from him.... Poor old bastard we must have had him for at least a tenner over the years

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

I remember only drinking lucozade when you were poorly ,on the sofa and being sick !!!

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By *oseyoudown OP   Man
over a year ago

Trouble! AGAIN! x


"I remember only drinking lucozade when you were poorly ,on the sofa and being sick !!!"

And it used to have the orange crinkly wrapper around the neck!

And chicken noodle soup for strange reason x

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

When all the kids in the street would be out playing hunts. Kids don't play in the street anymore

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London


"I remember glue sniffers, whatever happened to them?

A passing fad. It didn't stick. "

They took thinners out of anything useful -ever wonder why Tippex now takes friggin ages to dry or never ever sets like concrete in the pot anymore?

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By *ormerWelshcouple2020Man
over a year ago

Stourbridge

Pint of mild 15p

Party line on the phone, most houses didn’t have a phone.

The first colour TV (rented) and the tv cabinets that had sliding doors.

3 channels

Davenports beer delivery service (beer at home means davenports tv advert)

Fireball XL5

seeing Pele play for Santos in the flesh.

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By *arnsley guy100Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

Atlantic 252

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

Wagon wheels were definitely bigger!

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By *ycra loutMan
over a year ago

york/Scarborough

I remember when my parents used to leave their car and house unlocked 24/7 and who remembers telephones with the dial on the front

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham


"I remember only drinking lucozade when you were poorly ,on the sofa and being sick !!!

And it used to have the orange crinkly wrapper around the neck!

And chicken noodle soup for strange reason x"

And it had a funny corkscrew type top

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

A mobile phone was a brick sized thing attached to the central consul in your car

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


"For instance. I remember the days when apple, blackberry and raspberry pie were just fruit

How old ard you? What can you remember? "

The earth just about being cool enough to stand on

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

Great thread! I remember when I used to carry a Curly Wurly back home from the shops on my shoulder it was that big! And if I ever got locked out of the house I used to use it as a ladder to climb up to an open window..

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


"Wagon wheels were definitely bigger! "

And Monster Munch.

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By *vcarolTV/TS
over a year ago

kilmarnockish

I remember the days before it all went PC.

A penny chew was, 1p.

It’s a marathon, still is always will be!

Petrol came in leaded.

Five star was at the far end pump.

Steve Austin was rebuilt.

Jeremy Thorpe was naughty!

Watching Betamax videos.

Laserdisc what’s that?

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By *oseyoudown OP   Man
over a year ago

Trouble! AGAIN! x

When a mobile phone was just a mibile phone!

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

When your parent rented a tv from radio rentals and it had a box in the side or back of the tv and when the telly cut off you had to but 50p in the meter to get the telly back on

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

You used to have your milk and bread delivered to your door.

Pop came on the back of a lorry and they gave you money back for your empties.

You rarely saw a fight in your pub, now your lucky if you can find a decent pub at all.

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


"When people mostly took pictures of people other than themselves."

The selfie revolution sweeped the nation and just took over

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By *ulu and MonkeyCouple
over a year ago

Durham

I remember when my parents used to ask people "are you on the phone? "...

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


"When a mobile phone was just a mibile phone! "

Tell me about it. Technology hey!

Mobiles used to be simple, but nowadays they have 100s of different functions. I recently upgraded and won't even use half of it's features.

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