FabSwingers.com forum: I'm organising a trip down memory lane

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

Any era,any age, just memories

Tiswas

Texan bars

The tomorrow people

Old lollypop ladies

3 channels on tv

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

I'm off for a swim, I'll be back

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Woolworths

Rumbelows

Swap Shop

C&A

Blockbusters

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

The Tube

Generation Game

Man at C&A

Denim (aftershave)

The milk tray man

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

Mork & Mindy

Lava Lamps

Concorde

Shagpile Carpets

Space Hoppers

My Nanny

Arcades

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

Toys from your youth

Buckeroo

Crossfire

Are skateboards still going?

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By *llaboutthewifeCouple
over a year ago

Cardiff

Pacers

Findus crispy pancakes

Perfection the game

Simon game

Pac Man

ZX spectrum.......oh dear

I feel ancient now!

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

Green Cross Code man

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

No mobile phones

House phone wired in to wall

Neighbours coming to use phone

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By *llaboutthewifeCouple
over a year ago

Cardiff

"Green Cross Code man"

You have just reminded me of those Charlie Says adverts for road safety too

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

Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them

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

The Chart Show

The Waltons

50p mix from the sweet shop where most sweets actually cost 1 or 2p.

Brown nylon trousers with orange and brown woolly jumpers

Button Moon

Spokeys in cereal boxes

Roller boots

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them"

Yes, I had some clackers

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them

Yes, I had some clackers"

Bit like love balls

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them

Yes, I had some clackers

Bit like love balls"

Your to young to remember clackers

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them

Yes, I had some clackers

Bit like love balls

Your to young to remember clackers"

No I'm not!

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them

Yes, I had some clackers

Bit like love balls

Your to young to remember clackers

No I'm not! "

I thought they were a 70s thing

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them

Yes, I had some clackers

Bit like love balls

Your to young to remember clackers

No I'm not!

I thought they were a 70s thing"

We had some in the toy box at home. They may have been passed down from someone else but we definitely had them. Hated the noise....

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"Any era,any age, just memories

Tiswas

Texan bars

The tomorrow people

Old lollypop ladies

3 channels on tv

Ground floor: perfumery

Stationery and leather goods

Wigs and haberdashery

Kitchenware and food

Going up

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

Chopper

Chipper

Grifter

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

"The Chart Show

The Waltons

50p mix from the sweet shop where most sweets actually cost 1 or 2p.

Brown nylon trousers with orange and brown woolly jumpers

Button Moon

Spokeys in cereal boxes

Roller boots

The Waltons, every Sunday night before bed, shouting at my sister through the wall ...goodnight Jonboy ...not her name

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By *uzy swallowTV/TS
over a year ago

Warminster

Raleigh grifter and chopper

Stretch Armstrong

Six million dollar man

Tomorrow’s world

Crypton factor

Why don’t you

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

"Raleigh grifter and chopper

Stretch Armstrong

Six million dollar man

Tomorrow’s world

Crypton factor

Why don’t you

Forgot about why don't you!! Good shout

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

"Chopper

Chipper

Grifter"

And Striker

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

Subbuteo

Cluedo

Mousetrap

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

Smash hits magazine and those free c.d's

Dewberry body shop body spray

Butterfly hair clips like Claire from steps

Gina G ooh ahh just a little bit

Ben from A1

Kenan and Kel

sister sister

Trouser skirts

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By *aucy tiggerWoman
over a year ago

Back where I belong

Cabbage patch dolls

Bay City rollers

Chelsea Girl

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

Can you still get curly wurlies?

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By *exy studMan
over a year ago

Derby

Black and white TV

Jim will fix it

Dial House phone

Pot black

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

Kick start

Are you being served

Love thy neighbour

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them"

yes always use to rap my knuckles with them! lol

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them

yes always use to rap my knuckles with them! lol"

Broken wrists!

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Proper club nights, where everyone loved everyone else and you wouldnt get stabbed

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them"

I still have some. But my mom banned me from using them as I almost broke my wrist and covered myself in bruises. I had to resort to marbles

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

Bay city rollers

David essex

David cassidy

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Tomorrows World

“In the future you’ll be able to see people in your phone and talk to them”

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

Bejam

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Girl playing noughts and crosses with a clown on the test card on the telly

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Sounds of the seventies with John peel

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

"Girl playing noughts and crosses with a clown on the test card on the telly"

Wooooaaaahh that a good shout, fuck me I forgot about her, I wonder if the girl is still alive?

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

"Sounds of the seventies with John peel"

Old grey whistle test

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

"Black and white TV

Jim will fix it

Dial House phone

Pot black "

The Goodies!!

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By *slite1Man
over a year ago

ludgershall

10 bob

Farthing.

Half a p

Pound note

I'm showing my age

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

"10 bob

Farthing.

Half a p

Pound note

I'm showing my age"

Same here

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By *ewtoyouXXXMan
over a year ago

rochdale cowboy

Green giant corn ??

Edwin P Lees tv rentals

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

The CLANGERS

Rainbow

coat hanger television antennas

Picnic bar

Cadburys in purple foil

Pink custard & brown sponge

Shellsuit's

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

Taz chocolate bars

Nintendo 64

Motorola flip phones

Polly Pocket

Hit Clips

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By *slite1Man
over a year ago

ludgershall

Hair bear bunch

Land of the giants

Stingray

Joe 90

And of course in the 70s first fuck

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

"Taz chocolate bars

Nintendo 64

Motorola flip phones

Polly Pocket

Hit Clips

Yay! Somethings I actually remember!!

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

Robinson crusoe in black and white, Saturday morning

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By *udistnorthantsMan
over a year ago

Desborough

Finding porn mags for the first time in hedgerows while out bike riding as a teen

Fiesta seeing as you asked

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

Casy Jones

High chaperal

Bonanza

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

Sherbet dips

Flying saucers

White mice

You might still be able to get these, I don't know

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Cop cops

Aniseed balls

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

Razzle magazine

(inc. Readers Wives edition)

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Cold winters

Coal fires

Family values

Activities

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

Little house on the prairie

Dukes of hazard

Grange Hill

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Wonder woman

Hulk

Bionic woman

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"Can you still get curly wurlies? "
yes

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

"Bay city rollers

David essex

David cassidy"

You have just described my bedroom wall

The Alpine pop man

The fish monger ringing his bell when he was in the street

Coloured Plasticine strips, best present ever

Fuzzy felts

Skyscraper platform shoes and flared trousers

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By *ny1localMan
over a year ago

READING

Spangles sweets, toffos,penny dainty, black jacks,mojo.

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL

Bahamas

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

"Casy Jones

High chaperal

Bonanza"

Champion the wonder horse

Robinson Crusoe (badly dubbed)

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By *hisCharManMan
over a year ago

South Manchester

Proper Lego

When you could use your imagination to build anything you wanted.

As long as it was a house or tower

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

"Bejam"

We did the big shop in Bejam on a Friday night

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

"Bejam

We did the big shop in Bejam on a Friday night

What's a bejam?

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By *hisCharManMan
over a year ago

South Manchester

It’s what bees have on there toast

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By *ny1localMan
over a year ago

READING

Or for those old enough to remember, cigarette, chocolate, chewing gum (beech nut) machines in railway stations and outside newsagents.

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

"Or for those old enough to remember, cigarette, chocolate, chewing gum (beech nut) machines in railway stations and outside newsagents. "

Yes!

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

"It’s what bees have on there toast

Did you know all the bees you see out and about are all female

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By *irenGuy70Man
over a year ago

Cirencester

Cigarette sweets

Sweet tobacco

Rainbow drops

Fish n Chip crisps

Big Trak

Putting cards in your bike spokes to turn it into a motorbike

Nike windbreaker jackets

Ski jackets

Red Hand Gang tv series

Pipkins

Flimsy records on the front of pop magazines

Double tape decks

Far simpler times

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Chopper bike

Beano

Dandy

Jackie

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

"Chopper bike

Beano

Dandy

Jackie "

Raliegh chipper, the smaller cousin to the chopper

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Peashooter anyone? Like Dennis the Menace had?

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By *hatterley64Couple
over a year ago

Hertford

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them

Yes, I had some clackers"

Me too. And bruises all over my arms from them!!

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

Fireball xl5

Joe 90

Captain scarlet

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By *isa 59Woman
over a year ago

Newcastle

Cars came in one colour...black...and the indicators were little orange triangles that popped out/up from near the roof, between the front and back doors

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

"Peashooter anyone? Like Dennis the Menace had?"

I had a spud gun aswell

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

"Does anybody remember clackers? Girls usually had them"

Yes I had them, god knows how I didn’t break my knuckles x

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Top loader Betamax video recorder

Playing OUT

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

"Top loader Betamax video recorder

Playing OUT"

We had one of them, do you remember the Philips 2000 it played both sides of the tape

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By *cgkcCouple
over a year ago

Hitchin

Joining the EEC.

The summer of 76.

The Winter of Discontent.

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By *rK1973Man
over a year ago

ashington

Nightclubs, when the last couple of songs of the night were the 'smoochie' ones....final chance to cop off or head off home alone

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By *100Man
over a year ago

Essex

Dial up

Bing bing bong screech

Kids today have no idea how bad and slow the internet used to be.

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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago

Stoke area

Black Beauty

Skippy the Bush kangaroo

Lassie

Blue Peter with John Knowles and Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton

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

Do they still have space hoppers?

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

"Do they still have space hoppers? "

You know, the big orange round things you sit on and bounce around

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

Going to the dentist and getting a boiled sweet from him for being brave.

A sugar cube for the polio vaccination.

A hearing test that consisted of the doctor sticking his fingers in my ears and shouting “ Can you hear me!”.

Someone getting cancer and it being a death sentence.

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By *.nottsbloke..Man
over a year ago

the vale

Blake's 7

Proper dr who the story was 7 episodes with cliff hangers

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

"Do they still have space hoppers?

You know, the big orange round things you sit on and bounce around"

Yes.

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Cats Eyes

Tales of the unexpected

Minder

Bread

Widows

Tales from the crypt

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By *dward_TeagueMan
over a year ago

wolverhampton

Having hair

Dial a Disc

Recording the top 40 on to a cassette

Mary Mungo and Midge

Blokes crowding around outside a TV shop to see the football scores on a Saturday afternoon

Party telephone lines

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

I’ve forgotten where we’re going Dash

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Highway to heaven

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

Chopper bike, pong tv game, subbuteo, footie on the park (jumpers for goalposts!)

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

"I’ve forgotten where we’re going Dash

I see what you did there

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

"Dial up

Bing bing bong screech

Kids today have no idea how bad and slow the internet used to be."
How about pre-internet? Ceefax (still on free view!) and Oracle.

Going to a place called a library and looking at things called books

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

"I’ve forgotten where we’re going Dash

I see what you did there

Afternoon Von Riprock are we there yet

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

"I’ve forgotten where we’re going Dash

I see what you did there

Afternoon Von Riprock are we there yet

Yarp

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

Oh yeah

Evil Kenevil

The Muppet Show

Knight Rider

Mad Max 2

Sony Walkman

Atari 2600

The Commodore 64

Star Wars (the empire strikes back)

Game for a laugh

Blakes 7

Not the nine o'clock news

Cola cubes (possibly the worst designed sweet of all time)

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By *ollydoesWoman
over a year ago

Shangri-La

"Green Cross Code man"

I've got his autograph lol was at comicon when I walked the round the corner and Darth Vader was there the man himself..

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By *ollydoesWoman
over a year ago

Shangri-La

Bamboozle....the quiz on ceefax

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By *100Man
over a year ago

Essex

"Dial up

Bing bing bong screech

Kids today have no idea how bad and slow the internet used to be.How about pre-internet? Ceefax (still on free view!) and Oracle.

Going to a place called a library and looking at things called books

Lol

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Sleeping through the night without waking for a piss

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"Dial up

Bing bing bong screech

Kids today have no idea how bad and slow the internet used to be."

In those days, the internet was in black and white. It was only on for 3 hours a day, we used to dress up in our Sunday best. We'd log on to letsbuyit.com and order a gas mask then when we were finished with the computer we'd all stand up and sing the national anthem

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

"Sleeping through the night without waking for a piss

Tell me about it

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By *uckslut and MCouple
over a year ago

Poole

Green cross code man.

Get smashed with mash.

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

Mini pops on channel 4, I was devastated when they took it off air

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

Stick and a hoop

Ah happy days

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

I remember the terrible / awful winters from my childhood. Yeah - Mike & Bernie!

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

ZX 81

Jackie magazine

Black and white telly

Pong

Pan's People

Tom Baker as Dr Who

Smurf toys free at petrol stations

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

Smurf toys free at petrol stations

Only another 78 gallons of petrol and you'll have enough tiger tokens for a cut glass tumbler

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

I remember when Dash went for a swim.

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

"I remember when Dash went for a swim."

I'm slacking this week, only twice

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

Flying saucers

White mice

Chocolate logs

Sherbet dips

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Only three tv channels (yes kids!)

The Two Ronnies

Four candles

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By *ollydoesWoman
over a year ago

Shangri-La

Betamax player. We had Rupert and the frog chours for it at my grandads house.

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

Scurvy

Smallpox

Polio

Not all the changes are bad

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

"Only three tv channels (yes kids!)

The Two Ronnies

Four candles

Surely you mean fork handles

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