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I'm Old Enough To Remember...

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Buce

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6 minutes ago, Crinklyfox said:

One more - I'd obviously tried to bury it deep in my subconscious

 

Hard toilet paper - Izal medicated

(Low to medium splinter content, every roll could prove harmful to your health)

 

You had toilet paper?

 

Bloody yuppie.

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Magnetic symbols on the BBC weather map. 

 

Three TV channels

 

Sports biscuits

 

The Ronco record cleaner

 

Filling station glassware

 

Having to buy both the Radio Times for BBC and the TV Times for ITV

 

In an era before Crimewatch, Shaw Taylor and Police 5

 

Buying my Dad a Hai Karate gift set for Christmas

 

Double Diamond works wonders

 

The standard issue of Stig of the Dump at every school library

 

"National" petrol stations

 

The Esso football club badge collection

 

Reg's Mart

 

The school recorder book 1

 

Black plimsolls in my cubby hole and a duffel bag on my peg

 

Top Deck

 

Tootie Frooties and Spangles

 

A bakers bread van that used to visit

 

The advent of digital watches

 

The standard contents of any Quink stained school pencil case...Tipp-ex, compass, protractor, cheap fountain pen and Cumberland pencils

 

Blakeys segs in your shoe heel

 

Using libraries as opposed to the internet

 

TV closedown

 

Green shield stamps

 

A handful of radio stations which broadcasted on medium & long wave A.M and were listened to in transistor radios the size of breeze blocks

 

Rented TV sets

 

The projectors regularly breaking down at cinemas

 

The telephone weather report

 

Party sevens

 

The ever present and imminent threat of nuclear annihilation was stamped upon public consciousness 

 

Pornography was ether the preserve of the top shelf or X rated films at the Cine Centre. I recall the thrill of finding a discarded copy of Fiesta in a field at the age of nine and wondering why the pages were stuck together.

 

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Buce

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2 minutes ago, davieG said:

Watney's Draught red barrel

Double Diamond

Bear at home means Davenports

Allsopps

 

Must be more that I can't think of especially from the bygone local pubs

 

Pretty cool.

 

We just had a scabby old dog.

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15 hours ago, Bayfox said:

Corona pop vans were still in service in the 80s/90s grew up on cherryade, limeade, orangeade, strawberryade, lemonade, shit does that make me old?

I know someone who used to be locked out  in the garden when the corona man came (literally).

 

She didn’t realise for years what was going on, all she cared about was that she  never ran short of cherryade.

 

Only dawned on her years later when she looked back and it all clicked into place. 

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20 minutes ago, davieG said:

Watney's Draught red barrel

Double Diamond

Bear at home means Davenports

Allsopps

 

Must be more that I can't think of especially from the bygone local pubs

Beer at home means Davenports

That's the beer .... lots of cheer

The finest hops with malt and yeast

Turns a snack into a feast

Straight from brewery to your home

Why collect ? We'll deliver

Soon you'll know why folks all say

Beer at home means Davenports.

 

Luckily I was too young to drink it but just remember it from my childhood

... Along with Don Amott ... the king of caravans .... the price is right and the choice is yours 

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Using the wooden steps to get into Bradgate Park removed for H&S reasons ;)

 

Zebra crossings when people were considerate enough to be trusted to stop not these new fangled stupid controlled ones where you end up crossing even when its on red and then forcing the traffic to stop when there's no one there.

 

Listening booths in record shops

 

Radio Luxembourg the only place you could hear the latest sounds even though the signal kept fading and returning.

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35 minutes ago, Buce said:

 

I can't decide if this thread is marvellously nostalgic or a depressing reminder of approaching old age.

For me, it’s a reminder of how much simpler life was back then. We had nowhere near the same amount of choice and availability as we do today, but in the main we were happy I think :)

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48 minutes ago, Izzy Muzzett said:

For me, it’s a reminder of how much simpler life was back then. We had nowhere near the same amount of choice and availability as we do today, but in the main we were happy I think :)

Part of the problem for me is the multitude of choice comes with a total  distrust of businesses and organisations. Most of the customer consideration and caring is just marketing mumbo jumbo. 

That's not to say i don't  appreciate the improvements of the current era but it's come at a price.

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My mum only buying her makeup from the Avon women who would call fortnightly/monthly 

The football pools man knocking on our door for our coupon 

Fags being sold in singles from the shop round the corner

Walking to school from the age of 7 not being a ****ing chauffeur like I am now

Outside toilets

My granddad having his own glass/tankard behind the bar in his local

Going to football busfare there and back hot dog match day tickets drinks and still having change out of a fiver to give back to my mum

being chased by skin heads everytime I ventured out of the house 

Long life beer

British Knight trainers costing a weeks wages to buy (only the lads who had free school meals and lived in a council house could afford to buy them in my school)

 

 

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Oh wow, 1980s porn was so long ago. No selection meant your slapped the meat to the same vhs/beta tape for years on end.  Too much selection nowadays, you want to rub one off and takes you forever to decide on if you prefer POV, asian, bbw, midgets or fisting.

 

Life was much simpler.

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Just now, MrsJohnMurphy said:

Getting the footy scores on the BBC vidiprinter

 

Mum doing some overlocking work in the back room to earn a bit of extra cash

 

Luncheon meat sandwiches...:(

 

Bananas and custard for pudding

My mother used to do that during the summer holidays when she had to look after us and couldn't go work.

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Pogs and Tazos, never completing the latter because you could only get the Tasmanian Devil ones in Dorito’s and no one I knew seemed to eat them as a child. 

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