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Tell me you’re old (part 2)
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Can’t believe the first one filled up.
Simply Tell me you’re old, without telling me you’re old.
I had a phone hardwired into my company car |
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I have a shoehorn by the front door. |
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50p for a cone of chips |
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By *avexxMan 11 weeks ago
cheshire |
i was 30 when i first watched captain scarlet  |
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Using a biro to wind the tape back in after it got eaten by the player |
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I have a coffee table with puzzle books, pens, tissues , eyedrops n the doofahs and a BLANKIE on the couch behind me... |
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At a festival last night. Symphonic Ibiza were playing.
The guy on the mic said "We are going old school - back to 2012"
My 1999 Ibiza trip never made me feel older 🤦🏼♂️ |
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By *an8iMan 11 weeks ago
Bilston |
I'm sat waiting to go into my acupuncture and cupping appointment for my back |
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Remember using the half penny at the corner shop and not being able to move vigorously without pulling something |
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I dont have a lot of memories of my grandad as he died when I was 5, but I do remember he used to give me Spangles. |
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Getting frustrated at new tech that my kids can use in an instant 😬 |
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Shelf full of fake books housing video tapes |
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By *usie pTV/TS 11 weeks ago
taunton |
half pint bottles of pale and brown ale were 6p in the pub, cant remember if that was sixpence or 6p. Wages were £6.50 for 47 hour week then after a couple of months had a 1p an hour rise thought it was fantastic, took two years to save up for a radio to fit in my car, the car was passed down from older brothers. |
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No mobiles or colour tv existed !! |
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We explained the ‘pop man’ to my son the other day…he thought it was amazing someone brought your favourite drinks to your door step in a lorry.
He couldn’t get his head around Dandelion and Burdock! 😂
American Cream Soda probably had thousands of E numbers in 🥳
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I bought a sound system in my teens that had cassette decks, a record player and it even had a cd player (revolutionary at the time)😁 |
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"We explained the ‘pop man’ to my son the other day…he thought it was amazing someone brought your favourite drinks to your door step in a lorry.
He couldn’t get his head around Dandelion and Burdock! 😂
American Cream Soda probably had thousands of E numbers in 🥳
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My first alcoholic headache was courtesy of Grandma's homemade Elderberry wine, aged 7 !! |
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I measure in yards, feet and inches |
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By *arkus1812Man 11 weeks ago
Lifes Departure Lounge |
The publicity for the up and coming VE day
celebrations reminded me of the street parties we had way back in 1945 when I was all of 5 years old. |
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What’s an app
Ford capri
Talking to people face to face   |
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By *hechonkyduoCouple 11 weeks ago
Alphabet Mafia HQ, Dudleyish. |
Taping songs off the radio onto cassette tape.
Sitting there with your fingers over play and record so you can get the songs you want from tbe Top 40 |
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Went to village before school and got sweets that were weighed lol |
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Had a Dansette record player (could stack 5 singles) |
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I still measure in feet n inches. Also remember when petrol cost less than a fiver to fill the tank. 😭😭 |
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Penny sweets cost a penny each. |
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"Smash Robots 🤣🤣🤣"
For mash get smash 🤣🤣 |
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Grange hill
Pong ( the game not a smell )
VHS v betamax
The Goonies |
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Going to the phone box to ring a girl and having to speak to her mum first |
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We have a complete shelf of VHS tapes (very boring tapes may I add) |
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I have to stretch before and after my workouts |
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"I have to stretch before and after my workouts"
Oh shush you 🤣🤣🤣 you're a spring chicken.... |
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When the people you work with are young enough to be your children 🤣🤣🤣🤣 |
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England had just won the world cup. |
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The Clangers & Captain Pugwash. |
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By *pthillMan 11 weeks ago
st shithole |
Moses was in my class at school |
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By *enatton2Couple 11 weeks ago
West Midlands |
Looking to see where all my friends bikes were so I knew which house they were all in |
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I remember when politicians actually cared about improving lives ! |
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If I went ice skating and fell I'd never get up. |
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To be a contestant on Fun House, or Get Your Own Back were my life goals! |
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I’m 34 with grey hair |
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By *obbfcMan 11 weeks ago
Livingston |
collecting 'Esso' football coins |
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You tell your FWB about Maradona’s “la mano de Dios” the 1986 Mexico World Cup and ask him of he saw it with detail…
He was 1 year old at the time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 |
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My son turns 31 this weekend. How the hell did that happen 😱 |
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Pic n mix... where sweets cost a penny.  |
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Queueing at the phone box to call gf. |
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I worked in a garage where I put the petrol into the customers car, checked oil and water |
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Having a good toke of 4* petrol
Was there a better smell in this world? |
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By *arkus1812Man 11 weeks ago
Lifes Departure Lounge |
Buying petrol for 5 shillings (25p) a gallon (4.5l)
Happy days |
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Having to go collect a takeaway |
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Looking fur a number in the Yellow or White pages |
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A hand held calculator was science fiction . |
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Shops closing for half a day on Wednesday afternoons |
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"Can’t believe the first one filled up.
Simply Tell me you’re old, without telling me you’re old.
I had a phone hardwired into my company car"
I used to love my ZX Spectrum 48k |
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Having to actually knock on to see if your friends were coming out 😎😎😎😎😎 |
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By (user no longer on site) 11 weeks ago
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We used to have souvenir photos of our holiday in tiny little red key rings that you held up to the light and looked through a little magnifying glass.
Who else remembers those? |
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I can only stay erect for 6 hrs now use to get 12 hours out of a hard.lol |
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I watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon live. |
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By (user no longer on site) 11 weeks ago
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Bringing back a fluffy donkey from my holiday in Spain. |
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Also, using bostik glue to make my airfix models and ending up high as a kite at @7years old! |
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By *arkRichMan 11 weeks ago
Manchester City Centre |
Watching the Football Scores refresh on Teletext |
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It's a word association game where you mustn't pause or hesitate, repeat a word or say a word I don't like. Otherwise, you get a bash on the head like this... |
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They didn’t have computers when I went to school |
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Having the choice of 2,3,4 and 5 star petrol at the local garage.
Filling my first motorbike with premix from the same pump. Oil added as the fuel went in.
First computer was a ZX81 with 1k of RAM. |
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My first computer was also a Sinclair ZX81, it was better than the ZX80 as it could do floating point arithmetic!
Next computer was an Atari 520ST which had 512K memory, 3.5" floppy disc and a mouse!!! |
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Talking to my work colleagues and realising that I’m older than their parents |
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"Esso Tiger tails  "
Tiger tokens for free cd's and videos.
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What were those things called that looked a bit like binoculars and you looked through with a disk of often disney films and you clicked through the scenes? |
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By *tr8MrEMan 11 weeks ago
somewhere near Sheffield |
My profile says so |
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By *vaRoseWoman 11 weeks ago
Ankh-Morpork |
My school lunchbox had Roland rat on it |
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By *valarfMan 11 weeks ago
Tamworth |
Just managed to buy 3 pints for a pound note, within days it was a squeeze to get two! |
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By *aizyWoman 11 weeks ago
west midlands |
"What were those things called that looked a bit like binoculars and you looked through with a disk of often disney films and you clicked through the scenes? "
3D view something |
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By (user no longer on site) 11 weeks ago
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Having a giant tortoise that lives in my my back garden.
Hatched him from an egg around 1832.
(not really.) |
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If I was good, I would get a curly wurly for seven and a half pence.
If I was bad I got a snack |
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I had a Raleigh Grifter bike
Someone on here must have had a chopper
(sorry if already mentioned...I haven't looked at all replies) |
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Had to change the batteries in the vibrator u2s |
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I had two choppers then a grifter xl.
The xl referred to the weight as it was a heavy bastard.
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"I had two choppers then a grifter xl.
The xl referred to the weight as it was a heavy bastard.
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The Mike Tyson fights were actually on ITV |
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The fist thing I watched on a colour tv was Marine Boy and the first record I bought with my spending money was Paper Lace Billy don't be a hero |
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When the BBC played the national anthem at the end of the nights programmes. |
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"When the BBC played the national anthem at the end of the nights programmes. "
Do they not still do that? |
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When I think I am about to break wind but soon discover it wasn't wind.
Making a noise when I sit down or stand up.
Having to book an erection. If I want one at 7pm I have to start working on it by 5pm
Joking.....possibly
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We were still wearing puttees in the army. |
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Used to have a hard wired rotary dial phone |
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I remember the tv test card with the girl and the freaky doll thing |
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By *ndisMan 11 weeks ago
Liverpool |
Getting excited of the lines in the grass after I have mowed it! |
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"We were still wearing puttees in the army."
I'm guessing that you must be talking about the ones that you wore up to your knees Colin 🤣 |
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By *tr8MrEMan 11 weeks ago
somewhere near Sheffield |
Used to get 10p refund when taking empty bottles of R Whites back to shop |
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By *ANDA2Couple 11 weeks ago
Henley Arden |
The VG ‘ Supermarket’ shops and milk delivery was by those funny electric milk floats 🤣 |
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"I measure in yards, feet and inches"
Inches, feet AND yards!? Just how big IS your cock? Lol |
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Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub |
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My Instagram bikini babes have been replaced by gardening videos  |
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By (user no longer on site) 11 weeks ago
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I've still got loads of green shield stamps and milk tokens keep trying to exchange them they just look and say o bless |
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Tights didn't exist. We wore suspender belts and had to push a rubber button through a metal hole to keep our stockings up |
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Calling the insurance brokers in the Yellow Pages for a quote.
No meerkats for comparison… |
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Living in the middle of the city and still had to use an outside toilet .. |
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I always lie on the sofa with a blanket over me.. |
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"We were still wearing puttees in the army.
I'm guessing that you must be talking about the ones that you wore up to your knees Colin 🤣"
Cheeky! Ankles only... |
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I remember as a child getting Root Beer in McDonald's. |
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By *JandCMCouple 11 weeks ago
cardiff |
Remembering when fish cake n chips was 10p. |
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By *aizyWoman 11 weeks ago
west midlands |
"The VG ‘ Supermarket’ shops and milk delivery was by those funny electric milk floats 🤣"
I'd forgotten The VG, and Happy Shopper. |
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By *fffunCouple 11 weeks ago
Somewhere just outside London |
Greys |
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I got a sixpence weekly for pocket money. In return I had to dry the dishes and polish the shoes daily. |
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By (user no longer on site) 11 weeks ago
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"The VG ‘ Supermarket’ shops and milk delivery was by those funny electric milk floats 🤣"
haha The first gang I was in was called the vg warriors o the memories
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Putting socks on can be classed as an achievemnet for the day. |
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If you had £20 in your pocket on a friday night you was loaded. |
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By (user no longer on site) 11 weeks ago
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Metal dustbins that strongman - type dudes would come into your back yard and launch over their shoulders to empty for you.
- Before wheelie bins. |
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I can now pinch a nerve in my back by wringing out a flannel.
Mrs |
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'My name? Yes, it's J. R. Hartley' |
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I remember my dad putting 50p in the TV x |
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All the way here and nobody's mentioned white dog shit yet |
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By *afkaMan 11 weeks ago
Nottingham |
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I used to love my ZX Spectrum 48k"
I bought a "The Spectrum" at Christmas to play Horace goes skiing |
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There was a time when I'd have to put a £1 coin in a slot box at the back of the television to be able to watch it.  |
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"Football results on Ceefax.⚽️"
Booking a holiday via Ceefax |
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"Calling the insurance brokers in the Yellow Pages for a quote.
No meerkats for comparison…"
Use to go and knock on the door of our insurance agent. Even on a Sunday just to get a hand written cover note |
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I go back to contact mag days |
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Watching all those Glam Rock stars on Top Of The Pops. |
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I still remember how Blake's 7 ended. |
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"Football results on Ceefax.⚽️
Booking a holiday via Ceefax "
Playing games on teletext!! |
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So old that I remember Michael Fish disregarding a hurricane that was about to hit |
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"So old that I remember Michael Fish disregarding a hurricane that was about to hit "
Do you remember his famous weather jumper? I bought one recently. I love it. 😆 |
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The phone was attached to the wall in the kitchen.. but the long cord meant you could have a semi private conversation in the dining room.
A mini disc loaded with my favourite music sustained me on my gap year travels. |
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I can remember Janet Ellis on TV before Sophie was even an evening of fun with Mr Baxter |
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Getting annoyed that dad had put the lock on the house phone and I would have to go use the phone box at the bottom of the road |
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Being able to get a full tank of petrol in a large car for £20.
Tall bottle milk delivered by the milkman.
Jimmy Saville on prime time TV |
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"If you had £20 in your pocket on a friday night you was loaded."
Absolutely that got you entry to the disco, five pints of lager and some chips after. |
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By *ChubsMan 11 weeks ago
West Midlands |
3 channels on the TV and having to get up to change channel |
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Listening to Simon Bates and Dave Lee Travis on the analogue radio in a Sierra 1.6L....simpler days.... |
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Can't get out of a chair without saying 'ooo my knees' |
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"We were still wearing puttees in the army.
I'm guessing that you must be talking about the ones that you wore up to your knees Colin 🤣
Cheeky! Ankles only..."
I hated them; they took ages to put on and served absolutely no purpose at all. |
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By *luboyoMan 10 weeks ago
North West / Birmingham |
Think I may well spend my Sunday reading a good book |
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By *airybobMan 10 weeks ago
Greenacres Holiday |
Going to the local petrol station where there was an after hours machine for dispensing petrol,You put a pound note in and you got a gallon of petrol ,And the choice of 2 or 4 star |
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By *ltrMan 10 weeks ago
sheffield |
I remember going to a street party for the queen's silver jubilee |
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I deleted the swipe apps and joined Fab |
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By *ltrMan 10 weeks ago
sheffield |
"Used to get 10p refund when taking empty bottles of R Whites back to shop"
Been from Sheffield do you rambert the alpine pop man and the fletcher breadman |
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By *p4funCouple 10 weeks ago
Plymouth |
Wet paper towel cured all injuries |
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By *afkaMan 10 weeks ago
Nottingham |
The cool kids at school had digital watches with built in calculators |
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Tights didn't exist. We wore suspender belts and had to push a rubber button through a metal hole to keep our stockings up |
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By *eavenNhellCouple 10 weeks ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
sports stars I saw debut are now pundits |
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10.5p for 10 No6, 9.5p for 10 No10 or Sovereign |
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Waiting for test card to disappear on Saturday mornings... Ready for Swap Shop or Banana Splits... |
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By *eavenNhellCouple 10 weeks ago
carrbrook stalybridge |
"thatcher stole my milk"
for some she stole thier jobs thier industry and thier community
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Remembering sending text messages that cost 12p...no idea if texts were read until you got a reply...topping up mobiles with service credit...no camera, no internet!
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"thatcher stole my milk"
And mine |
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Running out if tea bags was a pain in the arse. Now it's a mental health crisis. |
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I clean the blades of my lawn mower before I put it away. |
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World war 2 was over 12 years when I was born! |
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"I clean the blades of my lawn mower before I put it away."
Pervert |
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I remember the day Channel 4 was launched |
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Wagon Wheels were as big as real wagon wheels. |
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The A team was biggest think on tv |
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When you accidentally sit on your nuts. |
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In the 1984 Film the Terminator , the year he travelled from the future from is only 4 years away 😳 |
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