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a thread for some of the older members to show their age. Post things you remember from yesteryear.

I'll start off with a few:

Typewriters,
Paraffin heaters
Drifters (the choc bar, not the pop group)
Tripe (blimey dad!!!)
Comadore 64
 
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Atari
IBM pc’s with big floppy disk
Tetris
Pegasus console with best game ever, “Contra”
“Turbo” chewing gum with a car mini poster in it
Glass bottled milk with round aluminium lid
MTV playing music
Bavis and Butthead (oh man, I miss these two)

Got sentimental, as these good time will never come back again


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Screwball ice cream from the guy in the van. The one with a bubblegum ball at the bottom
Pyramint chocolate (they were divine, why did they stop making them)
Constant condensation on the house windows (in the days before double glazing)
Amiga console - loved those, but I'd had a 64 and spectrum before, but the Amiga was proper cool
 
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quite a lot of things really but depends on how far back we're talking...haha
 
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I'm not that old .....cough cough, wink wink....but two things that stick in my mind are mutlicoloured tank tops in the early70's and power cuts several nights a week around 8.00pm for a few hours at a time......
 
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What about the original "Top Trump" cards.....they were great, everyone at school had them.
 
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Just Rob. said:
What about the original "Top Trump" cards.....they were great, everyone at school had them.
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Still have around 80 packs of them, hoping they're worth something now :whistle2:
 
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I remember:

3 TV Channels
ZX Spectrum
Atari
Commodore Amiga
Robinson Crusoe (in black and white, dubbed)
Flashing Blade
The Banana Splits
White Dog S**t (you just don't see that anymore lol)
 
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pxr5 said:
Screwball ice cream from the guy in the van. The one with a bubblegum ball at the bottom
Pyramint chocolate (they were divine, why did they stop making them)
Constant condensation on the house windows (in the days before double glazing)
Amiga console - loved those, but I'd had a 64 and spectrum before, but the Amiga was proper cool
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Wow, pyramints were pure indulgence.
Spangles and old English spangles
Old Jamaica Chocolate
Platform shoes
Commodore 64 with data recorder (still have it) I loved the game klax the best
 
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Audi Bairn said:
I remember:

3 TV Channels
ZX Spectrum
Atari
Commodore Amiga
Robinson Crusoe (in black and white, dubbed)
Flashing Blade
The Banana Splits
White Dog S**t (you just don't see that anymore lol)
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Banana splits were brilliant, allways used to be on in the summer hols, what about the Arabian Knights and the flashing blade.......great programs, kids have lost the plot these days , I was never bored and had a shed load of real kids adventures when not at school.
 
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Sandra said:
Wow, pyramints were pure indulgence.
Spangles and old English spangles
Old Jamaica Chocolate
Platform shoes
Commodore 64 with data recorder (still have it) I loved the game klax the best
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Spangles, not heard that word for years ........your not that old surely Sandra.......
 
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Knight Rider (kids TV drama , not an X Rated Google search)
Conkers
Snake game on Nokia phones
Nokia phones
TR7's with pop up headlights
MG metros
Searching through yellow pages for a full day to get car insurance quotes!!!
 
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whatever happened to the trusty Corona soft drinks in the returnable bottles, use to get 5p back if returned .....we all used to go around collecting them up then take them back, the value allways covered the cost of a new full one....good times but sadly long gone now.
 
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We are all in the age that We feel in to be.

I feel like an 80 year old and should have walker

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Phone book + prank calls of funny people names. Entertainment for days.
 
happytalk73 said:
Knight Rider (kids TV drama , not an X Rated Google search)
Conkers
Snake game on Nokia phones
Nokia phones
TR7's with pop up headlights
MG metros
Searching through yellow pages for a full day to get car insurance quotes!!!
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Nokia phones, your not that old then chap.........I remember listening to radio Luxembourg on my old small radio in the evenings..
 
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What about "Folly Foot " my sister loved that program as she was a big horse fan......I preferred the "Ghosts of Motley hall" ....Don't forget the original " Rainbow "
 
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happytalk73 said:
Wrong!

-7 here this week. Seen plenty of the stuff. :welcoming:
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Although extremely sad on my part, in the past I looked into the lack of white ones now and there's an explanation.................. lol
 
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Jamie and the Magic Torch.
Willow the Wisp.
Battle of the Planets.
Proper Star Wars toys and matchbox cars.
My uncle's Austin Princess!
Mojo's, HALF penny sweets...
Kids playground that had a piece of concrete pipe to play in/on...
Playing card attached to bike spoke with a wooden peg!

To name a few....!
 
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Meccano, and sweets for 1d. Saturday morning picture club and making my own scooter with wood and ball bearing wheels, collecting coal in a bag + the accumulator for the radio.
 
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Just Rob. said:
What about "Folly Foot " my sister loved that program as she was a big horse fan......I preferred the "Ghosts of Motley hall" ....Don't forget the original " Rainbow "
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Folly Foot, always a favourite on the TV Theme Tunes albums ha ha!
 
No fancy power tools when i was starting out
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martin1984 said:
No fancy power tools when i was starting out
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Yes ole Yankee. Good in the day but thank goodness we've moved on. I had my 73 year old dad help/hinder me fit a kitchen last year (he lives in Manchester and came to visit me in Scotland, thought it'd be nice to spend time together like old times), anyhow, "all these tools son, you're truely spoilt you lot!"

Of course, in my eyes he is/was a truely talented carpenter. He'd never dream of using a Bahco handsaw or Paslode finishing gun like me.
 
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martin1984 said:
No fancy power tools when i was starting out
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I have two in my tool box, they are a very versatile tool aswell, I use mine on a regular basis for DIY jobs.......it's not allways about having a powertool, its how you use it....and no smutty replies about that either..lol
 
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Dastardly & Muttley
The dot on the screen when you turned the telly off
Evel Knievel stunt cycle
Ricochet Racers (whaddya mean not safe???):
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Bows & Arrows (none of this nerf nonsense!)
Blake's Seven
Spanish Gold sweet tobacco
ZX81's, Commodore Pet's and the good ol' Apple II
and my old Vauxhall Viva... well, ok, so some things are best forgotten...
 
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Kurby (the game played on the street not the overly expensive Hoover.)

Speaking of which, hoovers with a light on the front.

Nowadays they could make a cracking Hoover with mega LED lighting. Imagine a Matrix light system on a Hoover!!!
 
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Black and white 405 line TV with a big clunky dial to select the programme.
"At the time of its introduction the 405-line system was referred to as "high definition", which it was compared to earlier systems"
Great when trying to watch Pot Black, It was a bit of a challenge to tell the blue from the brown :) .
Wired remotes on the VCR that people used to trip over.
Crossply tyres, I complain about cheap ditch finder radials but crossplys were in a different league.
The Horace games for the Spectrum, Hungry Horace, Horace goes sking etc and Jet set Willy.
Hardcastle and Mcormick , I so wanted a car like that
Things were so much simpler back then.
 
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I remember well when my mate said he had a colour TV, 1951 I think it was.

So we goes and looks and it was the same black-and-white TV we had but with a blue-green-whatever colour plastic sheet in front of it.

Oh yeah, for sure, colour it was...
 
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