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

Without giving your age away list 3 things from your childhood that kids these days wouldn't understand. My 3 are below

1."Taping " the charts on a subday trying to make sure I stop before the cheesy DJ talks over it

2. Going to the shop with 10p and buying black jacks , space disks and a huge flump

3. Wet look gel !!

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

1. Tracing paper loo roll.

2. 5p Freddos

3. OHPs

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By *nnocentimesMan
over a year ago

over there by that tree

1, only 4 tv channels.

2, being told to come home when it gets dark

3, no internet

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By *ooking4othersMan
over a year ago

Here ...

Playing down the burn on a dodgy rope swing.

Leaving the house after breakfast and going back at dinner / bedtime.

A party line on the telephone.

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

Pulling the ch*ke out to start the car

Waiting till after 6 to make a phone call and literally dialing the number

Looking in a dictionary to find the meaning of a word.

And so much more!

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

Going to HMV to buy a single .

Marbles.

And Grandstand on a Saturday.

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


"Pulling the ch*ke out to start the car

Waiting till after 6 to make a phone call and literally dialing the number

Looking in a dictionary to find the meaning of a word.

And so much more!"

Pulling the ch#ke out...jeepers imagine how many people dont even know what that is!

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

Buying records, LPs, from Woolworths

Wearing new _omantic blouse

Playing with stylophone

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

First car Austin A35

Going to Grandma's on the tram

Started work on the day we went decimal

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

Hanging about borders in Glasgow before going to the cathouse

The candy apple man

Zzzap!! On citv after school

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By *r laidbackMan
over a year ago

London & New Brighton

1) Six million dollar man on tv

2) Atari 2600

3) My favourite cartoons Dungeons & Dragons... Scooby doo

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


"Pulling the ch*ke out to start the car

Waiting till after 6 to make a phone call and literally dialing the number

Looking in a dictionary to find the meaning of a word.

And so much more!"

Is that sexual..pulling the cho ke ....i just had a message saying cant accept the word c h o k e

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


"Pulling the ch*ke out to start the car

Waiting till after 6 to make a phone call and literally dialing the number

Looking in a dictionary to find the meaning of a word.

And so much more!

Is that sexual..pulling the cho ke ....i just had a message saying cant accept the word c h o k e "

Yeah. There’s a few words you can’t say on here lol

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

1 having only 3, yes 3 tv channels to choose from

2 wagon wheels being as big as your face

3 mc Donald’s being a rare treat as there was almost non of them around

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

1) being given safety advice from a cat called Charlie

2) A squirrel showing you how to cross the road safely

3) history lessons at school were shorter

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

1, being locked in your bedroom was a punishment, nowadays it's a treat !

2, dad used pawn to make ends meet, nowadays dad uses it to masturbate to

3, kids were called Nigel, Sarah etc and didn't have stupid names like tinkerbell,

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


"1) being given safety advice from a cat called Charlie

2) A squirrel showing you how to cross the road safely

3) history lessons at school were shorter "

I've still got my Tufty Club badge!!!

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By *ikingCoolMan
over a year ago

carmarthen

Road runner

Pans people

Mary Middleton

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By *ooking4othersMan
over a year ago

Here ...

Sticking to TV theme ...

Black and white only

The white dot at the end of the night

The test card

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By *ightkitty4uWoman
over a year ago

Epsom

The relationship between a Cassette tape and a pencil

Everything closed on a Sunday, early closing on a Wednesday too

Being told to eat what your given, there was no choice

No child line to report above behaviour

Playing outside until it got dark, being able to roam a massive area where the neighbors looked out for everyone

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

DOS (operating system)

Around the twist

Bewitched (the pop group)

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

cahoots

Gigs at the Rainbow theatre

Being caned at school

Being able to get to every part of your engine and fix it without the need for diagnostic.

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By *utchersDogMan
over a year ago

Orpington

Grotbags the witch

Wacaday

Repeats of Pigeon Street at lunch time.

Lucozade was considered a medical drink and only sold in chemist's

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


"The relationship between a Cassette tape and a pencil

Everything closed on a Sunday, early closing on a Wednesday too

Being told to eat what your given, there was no choice

No child line to report above behaviour

Playing outside until it got dark, being able to roam a massive area where the neighbors looked out for everyone

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I’m sure childline was around when I was younger. I remember me and my brother always saying we were going to ring Esther every time we got told off!

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Only 3 channels on yer black & white TV

Playing British Bulldog on the village green

Vesta curries

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

Opal Fruits

Pogs

Captain Planet

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

1)Just a choice between BBC and ITV - no BBC2 or Channel 4

2)Ice on the INSIDE of metal-framed council house bedroom windows in winter

3)Using payphones (or borrowing a better-off aunt's telephone) because the vast majority of homes didn't have phones of their own

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

when MTV began

No remote for the tv

( I’m stuck since most of mine are US specific and no one will get them).

Here’s two US ones on the off chance

I learned it from watching you dad

Waiting for the muppet show on a Sunday night. - Mrs

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By *imply_SensualMan
over a year ago

Widnes

Encyclopedia Britannica

Having to go over to the TV to change channels

Forgetting your PE kit and having to do it in your pants

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

I've never smoked but if your parents or grandparents gave you a note saying they were for them you could buy cigars or cigarettes for them from the shop or pub

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

Evil Kenivel

Space Hoppers

1/2 penny sweets

The Clangers

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By *ack again100Man
over a year ago

Tamworth

A) hurrying to insert a 2p coin when you heards the beeps from a pay phone

B) choosing between 2* or 4* petrol

C) having to turn the knob on the TV to choose a channel

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By *utchersDogMan
over a year ago

Orpington

Computer games taking half hour to load each level from a cassette.

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

Raleigh Chopper

Texan bars

Michael Jackson was still black

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By *lbinoGorillaMan
over a year ago

Redditch

Why Don't You...? on TV

French cricket on the grass outside the house

Chopper and Grifter bikes

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


"Encyclopedia Britannica

Having to go over to the TV to change channels

Forgetting your PE kit and having to do it in your pants

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Oh god yeah the pe kit! Imagine that now! That would never happen

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


"Evil Kenivel

Space Hoppers

1/2 penny sweets

The Clangers"

Sorry, I did four

Must have been a Brucie Bonus. (five now)

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By *nnocentimesMan
over a year ago

over there by that tree

Ha just remembered having to manually tune in the tv with a twist dial on our old black and white.

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

1. Tiswas (sally james mmm)

2. Renting your tv

3. Only 2 political parties

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By *azinga71Man
over a year ago

Angus

Dial up internet, you could be online or use the phone, not both.

Going to your pals house to see if they wanted to go out to play.

Mobile phones you could only use for phone calls

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

1. AOL and dial up internet

2. Cassette players

3. Floppy disks - we used to hand homework in on them in high school yet kids now don't even know what they are. That makes me feel old.

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


"when MTV began

No remote for the tv

( I’m stuck since most of mine are US specific and no one will get them).

Here’s two US ones on the off chance

I learned it from watching you dad

Waiting for the muppet show on a Sunday night. - Mrs "
Muppet Show is great, remember that on a Sunday night

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


"Floppy disks - we used to hand homework in on them in high school yet kids now don't even know what they are. That makes me feel old."

Which size of floppy disk though

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By *azza80Woman
over a year ago

Your wildest Dreams

Button Moon..loved that

Fragile rock..another fave of mine.

Gameboy

Xx

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By *ust PeachyWoman
over a year ago

Prestonish


"Without giving your age away list 3 things from your childhood that kids these days wouldn't understand. My 3 are below

1."Taping " the charts on a subday trying to make sure I stop before the cheesy DJ talks over it

2. Going to the shop with 10p and buying black jacks , space disks and a huge flump

3. Wet look gel !!"

I remember all this - plus 3 (yep - I remember the birth of channel 4) tv channels! I even remember when ITV went on strike and we only had BBC1 and BBC2 (so as an aside I remember when BBC had a whole different connotation!) - god I missed Tiswaz!

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

VHS recording

No seatbelts in the back

Permed hair

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

Flooding my car because no one told me you had to push the ch*ke back in .

It costing 2p to get the bus into Birmingham city centre

Winding tapes with a biro so I could record the charts, and always trying to stop before the DJ spoke (always failed )

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

And getting up to change the channel as there were no remotes!

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By *azza80Woman
over a year ago

Your wildest Dreams


"VHS recording

No seatbelts in the back

Permed hair "

And crimping hahaha I done both xx

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

1. Raggydolls

2. Microsoft Encarta

3 Not being able to use the internet and the house phone at the same time and waiting for ages while it dialled up and connected ....

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


"VHS recording

No seatbelts in the back

Permed hair

And crimping hahaha I done both xx"

Dont they still do that in Liverpool;)

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Fiddling with the ariel to get a picture on the tv

Taking the little plastic tabs off cassettes and videos so they couldn't be recorded over

Taking empty juice bottles to the ice cream van to pay for your sweets.

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

Pop deliveries

Mixed tapes

Milk in school

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By *azza80Woman
over a year ago

Your wildest Dreams


"VHS recording

No seatbelts in the back

Permed hair

And crimping hahaha I done both xx

Dont they still do that in Liverpool;)"

Hahaha cheeky..I don't know, I got straight hair now xx

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

Waiting till after 6 to make a phone call and literally dialing the number

This one made me chuckle as I had forgotten about that

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

Blowing out Games Cartridges

Rewinding tapes with a pencil

Feckin Shellsuits

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


"Pulling the ch*ke out to start the car

Pulling the ch#ke out...jeepers imagine how many people dont even know what that is!"

My first bf had one of these and his is the only one of these I saw so I can imagine not many adults, certainly under 40 would know this.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

Just three channels on the b&w telly

Hand me downs from the girls next door

Frost on the inside of the windows bbrrrrrrrr

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By *azza80Woman
over a year ago

Your wildest Dreams


"Pulling the ch*ke out to start the car

Pulling the ch#ke out...jeepers imagine how many people dont even know what that is!

My first bf had one of these and his is the only one of these I saw so I can imagine not many adults, certainly under 40 would know this. "

My mothers first car after passing her test was a metro..I remember her always cursing cuz of the cho ke.. My dad had different cars but mother wouldn't drive them as too fast for her so she had the metro xx

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

Being charged for phone calls. All kids I know only make calls when at home and using the WiFi for WhatsApp. My daughter wouldn't dream of calling me the normal way. And actually having to call someone rather than convenience of texting

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle


"

Waiting till after 6 to make a phone call and literally dialing the number

This one made me chuckle as I had forgotten about that "

In the phone box it was 2p for a quick call or 10p for a longer call

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

Mobile Shops, usually converted coaches or trucks, travelling around housing estates selling groceries, fruit & veg, bread etc. They'd stop at regular points, for Mums to queue up to buy goods.

No takeaways, except Chippies.

Bus services at all times & running to time.

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

1) reminding a VHS with a pencil

2) Captain Caveman

3) proper rock music on kerrang

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By *empsey and hotpieceMan
over a year ago

North west

1. Finding wank mags in hedges

2. Actually using your legs to get places instead of expecting to get chauffeur driven everywhere

3. Swap shop on Saturday mornings

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


"1. Finding wank mags in hedges

2. Actually using your legs to get places instead of expecting to get chauffeur driven everywhere

3. Swap shop on Saturday mornings "

Yes sorry that was probably me.. i recycle to make up for it now

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

Cadbury bar 6 cost 6d my first pint I brought light n bitter was 1s6d and my first gallon of petrol cost 33p omg I'm old

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Finedon ,

Walking to school in all weathers, One and a half miles.

Ration Books

Picking up the telephone and waiting for operator to ask what number you wanted

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

Chesterfield

I’m so old I can remember this thread from yesterday

Mojos for 1/2p.

Pop van

Video van with VHS and Betamax

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

Body shop dewberry perfume oil. Smelled hideous then, smells hideous now, but we all doused ourselves in it.

Avon iced champink lipstick. Possibly the least attractive lipstick in the world, beloved of every 10 year old way back when.

Supergran. Weird show, amazing theme tune that if memory serves actually got into the charts.

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By *ust the ticket1Couple
over a year ago

Kirkcaldy


"1. Finding wank mags in hedges

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And taking them home to dry out if they were wet

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester

Manners

Courtesy

That classic cars aren't

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By *moothdickMan
over a year ago

stoke

Policemen walking the streets

Mary, mungo & midge

Brian Moore commentating on football

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By *ust PeachyWoman
over a year ago

Prestonish

Was contemplating this thread on the way to the park and ride!

On the down side I can also remember Apartheid!

I remember singing along when ‘free Nelson Mandela’ and ‘Something inside so strong’ were in the charts - and feeling outraged but totally useless!

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

Watching snooker on a black and white tv

Having to get up off your arse to change the channel

Arrange to meet friends without the need of a mobile phone

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By *azza80Woman
over a year ago

Your wildest Dreams


"Body shop dewberry perfume oil. Smelled hideous then, smells hideous now, but we all doused ourselves in it.

Avon iced champink lipstick. Possibly the least attractive lipstick in the world, beloved of every 10 year old way back when.

Supergran. Weird show, amazing theme tune that if memory serves actually got into the charts."

I loved the white musk perfume/spray xx

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"1. Finding wank mags in hedges

And taking them home to dry out if they were wet "

Could never peel the pages apart

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"Policemen walking the streets

Mary, mungo & midge

Brian Moore commentating on football "

Mary and Mungo's minge did you say?

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By *hekaiserMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Taping/recording songs from the radio...on alert to stop recording just as the song ended and prayed the damn DJ would not pipe up before it ended.

Returning videos but making sure the tapes were reminded and lastly,

Buying roll and chips for 35p....

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

Having to buy a game on disc and waiting for it to install.

Saving work on floppy disks.

Having to use the cable box to chat ge channels when we lost the remote.

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By * and M lookingCouple
over a year ago

Worcester


"Policemen walking the streets

Mary, mungo & midge

Brian Moore commentating on football

Mary and Mungo's minge did you say? "

Was going to say must have been on Channel 4 but that didn't exist back then either.

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


"Having to buy a game on disc and waiting for it to install.

Saving work on floppy disks.

Having to use the cable box to change channels when we lost the remote. "

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

The banana splits on a Saturday morning..

Playing catchy kissy

Playing safely in the streets..

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By *ust the ticket1Couple
over a year ago

Kirkcaldy

Making bogeys ( go karts) out of wooden crates and pram wheels and hurtling down the street with no brakes.

Getting the belt at school.

Teachers wearing black gowns ( at a comprehensive) and chucking blackboard dusters at children in class.

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


"Body shop dewberry perfume oil. Smelled hideous then, smells hideous now, but we all doused ourselves in it.

Avon iced champink lipstick. Possibly the least attractive lipstick in the world, beloved of every 10 year old way back when.

Supergran. Weird show, amazing theme tune that if memory serves actually got into the charts."

Wow yeah I had iced champink! And poncho pink and twilight teaser from boots everyone had too. Hated dewberry but loved white musk. Also anais anais and Lou Lou were favourites too. And men had mandate or kouros. Oh the memories!

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By *r Man.Man
over a year ago

London

Going up to the first stranger you met and asking them to hold your hand to take you across the road

Forced to eat your liver and bacon at lunchtime

Fighting with your mate at breaktime, and by the close of play, best friends again when school ends

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By *ust the ticket1Couple
over a year ago

Kirkcaldy


"Watching snooker on a black and white tv

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For those of you watching in black and white. The blue is behind the green! Classic ted Lowe.

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By *azza80Woman
over a year ago

Your wildest Dreams

Going live with Philip Schofield and Gordon the Gopher xx

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By *moothdickMan
over a year ago

stoke


"Policemen walking the streets

Mary, mungo & midge

Brian Moore commentating on football

Mary and Mungo's minge did you say?

Was going to say must have been on Channel 4 but that didn't exist back then either. "

Never checked the spelling .. but bet u could see mungos minge or was it Mary's ?

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


"Having to buy a game on disc and waiting for it to install.

"

Game on disc and waiting for it to install is still a thing. I rarely download over the internet. . I like a physical disc and box. I just miss the instruction booklet inside the case. I used to collect them

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

Playing elastics

Singing times tables at school

Wasn’t allowed to wear trousers !

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By *moothdickMan
over a year ago

stoke

Sunday bath night

Top of the pops (always thought j saville was a nonce)

Sweeney

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By *mmoMan
over a year ago

Lichfield


"Without giving your age away list 3 things from your childhood that kids these days wouldn't understand. My 3 are below

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I think they’d probably wonder why grown-ups want to discuss the same things day in, day out on the internet.

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By *oved Up 2Couple
over a year ago

nottingham

1. Eubank

2. 10p mix lasted for days

3. Twin tub

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By *azza80Woman
over a year ago

Your wildest Dreams


"Playing elastics

Singing times tables at school

Wasn’t allowed to wear trousers ! "

We used to play 'Cats Cradle' with string xx

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

Only time you saw a music video was on Top of the pops every Thursday night

Waiting on the grocery van coming round your street to get your bread, milk and a pack of cigs

Being hit with a leather strap at school as a form of punishment

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull


"Making bogeys ( go karts) out of wooden crates and pram wheels and hurtling down the street with no brakes.

Getting the belt at school.

Teachers wearing black gowns ( at a comprehensive) and chucking blackboard dusters at children in class. "

I went to a High School in Fife where the teachers were able to throw a blackboard duster with so much accuracy, if it was an Olympic Event, they'd have won Gold! Don't get me started on their success with a piece of chalk too - that could sting!

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull


"Only time you saw a music video was on Top of the pops every Thursday night

Waiting on the grocery van coming round your street to get your bread, milk and a pack of cigs

Being hit with a leather strap at school as a form of punishment"

Remember the Bakers van, which would pull up, and the driver usually pulled out a canopy panel from the roof to protect you from the rain?

But the Belt!! Whilst most teachers struck you across the palm of the hand, by standing sideways to you, some sadistic sods would face you, so you received the blow up over the wrist.

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

Chopper bicycle

Telephone table with a seat

Music centres

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire


"Without giving your age away list 3 things from your childhood that kids these days wouldn't understand. My 3 are below

1."Taping " the charts on a subday trying to make sure I stop before the cheesy DJ talks over it

2. Going to the shop with 10p and buying black jacks , space disks and a huge flump

3. Wet look gel !!"

A)Black jacks and fruit salads

4 for 1d

B) buying 5 cigarettes at the local shop

C) Petrol 45p a gallon

D) a pint being 23p

E) telly being black and white and having to get up to change channel

F) cars being unreliable

G) no traffic

H) Britain was still great

I) Vietnam war on tv every night

J) summers being sunny

K) no daytime tv

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


"Only time you saw a music video was on Top of the pops every Thursday night

Waiting on the grocery van coming round your street to get your bread, milk and a pack of cigs

Being hit with a leather strap at school as a form of punishment

Remember the Bakers van, which would pull up, and the driver usually pulled out a canopy panel from the roof to protect you from the rain?

But the Belt!! Whilst most teachers struck you across the palm of the hand, by standing sideways to you, some sadistic sods would face you, so you received the blow up over the wrist."

I still remember the lovely smell from the bakers van

Yeah I'm sure my primary school head master got some sick pleasure from giving pupils the belt

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By *unkym34Man
over a year ago

London

1. Buying fags from the news agents with a note from your parents.

2. Tracing paper loo roll

3. Tapes and VHS

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

Decimalisation

3 tv channels

VHS vs Betamax

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

Buses invariably had open rear platforms, so you froze on board in winter.

Supermarkets, such as they were, closed at 5pm & were all shut on Sundays + Bank Holidays.

Woolworths on a Saturday was busy for 2 things, getting your latest 7" single record, and making your selection from their vast Pic 'n' Mix range!

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By *ightkitty4uWoman
over a year ago

Epsom

We used to have a bread man come round...

Was a bakery in a van and mum would get the bits she needed on her doorstep...

I remember getting a cake, if I was off school ill and good and not to tell my dad or brother!

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

Only two TV channels BBC & ITV ( BBC 2 became available but you required a special aerial to receive it)

Black & White telly, colour TV's were out of the affordability of most families.

Having to use the public phone box - not all homes had phones & mobiles were unheard of.

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

Mine would be

Gravity Jeans

Round the Twist

Phones were only at home, attached to the wall

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

Black & white TV.

Walking more than 5 miles to school.

Sixpence.

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


"Without giving your age away list 3 things from your childhood that kids these days wouldn't understand. My 3 are below

1."Taping " the charts on a subday trying to make sure I stop before the cheesy DJ talks over it

2. Going to the shop with 10p and buying black jacks , space disks and a huge flump

3. Wet look gel !!"

Lol.....this is my list

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By *ucidityWoman
over a year ago

Nottingham


"1. Tracing paper loo roll.

2. 5p Freddos

3. OHPs"

5p Freddos...those were the days...and the 10p ice poles from the corner shop.

Having only one computer in the classroom.

Does anyone remember using Roamer at school? It was that round, domed robot type thing that you’d programme a route into.

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

Binatone Master

Wired remote control

Adidas Tango

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By *weetlips1000Woman
over a year ago

Sleaford

The list is endless

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By *ust the ticket1Couple
over a year ago

Kirkcaldy


"Making bogeys ( go karts) out of wooden crates and pram wheels and hurtling down the street with no brakes.

Getting the belt at school.

Teachers wearing black gowns ( at a comprehensive) and chucking blackboard dusters at children in class.

I went to a High School in Fife where the teachers were able to throw a blackboard duster with so much accuracy, if it was an Olympic Event, they'd have won Gold! Don't get me started on their success with a piece of chalk too - that could sting!"

Must have been the same school I was at!

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By *unkym34Man
over a year ago

London

- our price

- rotary phones ( and having to order takeaway over the phone )

- shower heads attached to the bath taps

Just a couple more lol

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By *Jones19Man
over a year ago

Evesham, Worcester, Pershore

Reminding VHS/Cassettes with a pencil

Dropping your mobile without a care in the world (cause Nokia should have been building tanks, not phones)

Bruce Forsyth game shows. Lol

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

Running down the stairs to beat my brothers to the milk delivery. Then drinking the delicious creamy bit at the top that just doesn’t exist anymore. What have they taken out or put in milk as it used to go off very quickly but can now last weeks?

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

Putting jelly aliens in the fridge so they would reproduce.

Only having the internet if your Mum and Dad had a few bob.

The video shop.

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


"1, only 4 tv channels.

2, being told to come home when it gets dark

3, no internet "

4? Luxury lad!

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By *WbaMan
over a year ago

Maidstone

Italian footie on C4 Sunday afternoon.

Are you afraid of the dark.

Picking up the other house phone to secretly listen to calls.

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places

V-neck diamond patterned Pringle jumpers

Religiously tuning into TOTP on a Thursday evening

The mass explosion of a TV dominated sport involving multi coloured balls, wooden sticks, and a twelve foot green baized table

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Finedon ,

Outside Loo

No central heatimg

Tin bath in front of an open fire every Friday night

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

Chamber pots

Gas Lights

Steam Trains

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Skinheads

2 shilling for 20 cigarette.

Jackson 5

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

Actually buying the top 40 songs from our price/HMV and not downloading!! Tapes as well as CD's

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

Push pops

Marathon bars

Smarties with e numbers in tubes with off lids

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By *ed and WolfieCouple
over a year ago

Gravesend

That wedding on Neighbours

Playing out until dark

Going to the library and actually paying to reserve a book

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By *omaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Moon landing on a black and white TV

Jimi Hendrix

Ford Zephyr

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Arcade space invaders

First Star Wars at the Flicks

Pong

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

Ceefax

Trimphones

5p deposit on a bottle of Corona

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


"Playing down the burn on a dodgy rope swing.

Leaving the house after breakfast and going back at dinner / bedtime.

A party line on the telephone."

Party line

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

Thinking Jimmy Saville could fix it!

Playing kerby.

Never being allowed a Mr Frosty! "Because he'll make a mess!"

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By *r Man.Man
over a year ago

London

Watching around eight binmen hanging of the back of there dust cart

How cool was that

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By *asilForty77Man
over a year ago

a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road

Betamax

BBC computer

Frogger

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

Also...Kappa, Gola and Fila weren't retro, they were avoidable...now, they're 4 times the price.

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By *hejzxMan
over a year ago

N.E Lincolnshire

As a 20 year old male I can confirm that half of you are talking gibberish to me ??

Expecially the 5p freddo. Think he took a loan shark deal as he was 15-20p throughout all of the childhood I can remember

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By *asilForty77Man
over a year ago

a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road


"Also...Kappa, Gola and Fila weren't retro, they were avoidable...now, they're 4 times the price."

Troop

British knights

Spx

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By *azza80Woman
over a year ago

Your wildest Dreams


"Also...Kappa, Gola and Fila weren't retro, they were avoidable...now, they're 4 times the price.

Troop

British knights

Spx"

And Nicks hahaha xx

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

1.White dog poo.

2,Porn magazines found in hedges.

3,Bottles of Alpine pop being delivered on a wagon Saturday tea time.

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

Three tv channels

Taping the top 40

Using a bic biro to wind the tape back into the cassette after extracting it from the player

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


"1.White dog poo.

2,Porn magazines found in hedges.

3,Bottles of Alpine pop being delivered on a wagon Saturday tea time. "

Dandelion & Burdock

Cream soda

Cherryade

I would take my grandads beer bottles back to the pub, for a shilling

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By *ocodoughnutgirlWoman
over a year ago

Sea of jelly and doughnuts

Gas heaters you had to light with a match

Out door toilets

Being able to eat a grape before buying them to make sure they were sweet.

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By *an_LexaCouple
over a year ago

Sunderland

Redifusion man

Giant haystacks and big daddy

Party lines on the telephone

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By *lueWonderMan
over a year ago

Preston.....ish


"1) Six million dollar man on tv

2) Atari 2600

3) My favourite cartoons Dungeons & Dragons... Scooby doo"

I still have my Atari!!

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By *xfordshireCoupleMFCouple
over a year ago

Nr. Oxford

Dial up internet

Tamagotchis

Jurassic Park

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By *omvampmMan
over a year ago

gillingham

High speed dubbing tape to tape on amstrad tower hi if system buying one copy of now three from Woolworths and running off copies for all me mates

Razle and escort

Wham bars and snickers bars being called marathon ( why they change name? ) they were bigger then to as we're wagon wheels

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Having NO television ( norm )

Films only at cinema about once/twice a year ( norm )

Twisting old newspapers into knots to burn and light a coal fire to heat the house and the bathwater.

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By *azza80Woman
over a year ago

Your wildest Dreams


"High speed dubbing tape to tape on amstrad tower hi if system buying one copy of now three from Woolworths and running off copies for all me mates

Razle and escort

Wham bars and snickers bars being called marathon ( why they change name? ) they were bigger then to as we're wagon wheels "

All chocolate bars were bigger as were the m&ms bags xx

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross


"Running down the stairs to beat my brothers to the milk delivery. Then drinking the delicious creamy bit at the top that just doesn’t exist anymore. What have they taken out or put in milk as it used to go off very quickly but can now last weeks?"

Same with the bread. Day old bread was so dry and hard we made pudding from it with spices and dried fruit.

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

1. Movies that had a story rather than a political agenda.

2. Cassette Tapes

3. Box TVs with a little antenna ontop.

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By *inky kissersCouple
over a year ago

South East

Bod

Paying for fags with milk tokens

Cashing in irn bru bottles for a 10p mixture

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By *ultry SuccubusTV/TS
over a year ago

London

Yugoslavia

CCCP

East Germany GDR

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By *ilsaGeorgeCouple
over a year ago

kent


"Pulling the ch*ke out to start the car

Waiting till after 6 to make a phone call and literally dialing the number

Looking in a dictionary to find the meaning of a word.

And so much more!

Is that sexual..pulling the cho ke ....i just had a message saying cant accept the word c h o k e

Yeah. There’s a few words you can’t say on here lol "

I had to remove that word from a story I posted... I felt all huffy about it for a good 10 seconds

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By *inky kissersCouple
over a year ago

South East

Always thought that any country with democratic in the name was rarely that

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

Button Moon..loved that

Fragile rock..another fave of mine.

Gameboy

Button moon what a cracker

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

Buying Tapes

Rainbow

45p a litre

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By *adame 2SwordsWoman
over a year ago

Victoria, London

greensheild stamps

babysham

3 day week

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By *ultry SuccubusTV/TS
over a year ago

London


"Always thought that any country with democratic in the name was rarely that "

I love them in my early teens. Always cheer for athletes from those countries in athletics, swimming and gymnastic.

Wundermadchen.

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By *irth.Minge.FireMan
over a year ago

Seen in far off places


"Also...Kappa, Gola and Fila weren't retro, they were avoidable...now, they're 4 times the price.

Troop

British knights

Spx"

Circa 1989

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By *asilForty77Man
over a year ago

a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road

Dance energy ch4 Normski

The mysterious cities of gold

Euro trash

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By *r Man.Man
over a year ago

London


"greensheild stamps

babysham

3 day week"

I still drink babycham

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By *hekaiserMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

SP and LP when recording something on tv.

Watching tv with your family; a family member (normally the younger sibling) would go to the kitchen and everyone would ask he/she bring something for them...only to shout "its ooooooonnnn!!!!!" so said sibling could get back on time and not miss the rest of the programme/movie etc

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

Hedge porn

Grattan catalogues for the underwear section

Walking to the phone box to call a premium rate over 18s chatline

Hard times but good times

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

Going to the video shop to rent a movie. Choose either VHS or Betamax

The Wombles

Getting the cream from the full fat milk bottle left on front step

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle


"Running down the stairs to beat my brothers to the milk delivery. Then drinking the delicious creamy bit at the top that just doesn’t exist anymore. What have they taken out or put in milk as it used to go off very quickly but can now last weeks?

Same with the bread. Day old bread was so dry and hard we made pudding from it with spices and dried fruit."

Bread pudding, my mum still makes it now

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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago

Craggy Island

Actually going out to play

Saturday morning children TV

not trying to be celebrity

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By *egasus NobMan
over a year ago

Wandsworth

Tapes

Floppy disk

Saturday morning cartoon

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By *uenevereWoman
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Walking to school alone age 7

Chips wrapped in newspaper

I also remember only 3 TV channels and watching them on a 10 inch portable TV

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By *roticGoddessXXWoman
over a year ago

Richmond

My parents were seriously born in the wrong century. My age on my profile is correct!!! You'd never guess it from my childhood though:

1--Grinding wheat by hand to make bread.

2--Using real kerosene lanterns when the electricity (frequently) went out.

3--Slaughtering pigs and chickens in the back yard, canning sauerkraut and pickles, and hand pressing apple juice.

(I'm not 115+ in case you are wondering).

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

1. The test card between tv programmes

2. Readers Digest ( did anyone subscribe.... or win? )

3. Watch with Mother

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By *egasus NobMan
over a year ago

Wandsworth


"My parents were seriously born in the wrong century. My age on my profile is correct!!! You'd never guess it from my childhood though:

1--Grinding wheat by hand to make bread.

2--Using real kerosene lanterns when the electricity (frequently) went out.

3--Slaughtering pigs and chickens in the back yard, canning sauerkraut and pickles, and hand pressing apple juice.

(I'm not 115+ in case you are wondering)."

As a person that somewhat grew up in Africa.

I can relate to using kerosene lanterns when the electricity went out, which is still frequently today so I heard.

Can also relate to slaughtering chickens, goats, cow, hand washing clothes, reason while the modern day complain flies over my head.

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

knock door run.

Taking glass bottles back for the deposit.

no mobile phones

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

1: CB Radio

2: Three TV channels

3: Pound notes

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

Carrier bags from supermarkets that lasted for ever.

Being warned how contagious Verrucas were.

1/2p coins

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

Spangles

Warm school milk n blue straws

Commadore 64 computer

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


"1: CB Radio

2: Three TV channels

3: Pound notes"

I had these in my head

.. I had cb radio

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By *r_FaustusMan
over a year ago

Northampton

“It’s Friday, it’s five to five and it’s....”

Having two postal deliveries per day

Cheap rate phone calls at 6pm

(My, I must be old...! )

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


"1, only 4 tv channels.

2, being told to come home when it gets dark

3, no internet "

Whoa ... you mean there's more than 3?

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

444 26 844,4447777 6665553

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