I can remember when .........
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I remember life being a lot less stressful....
No Cash machines...
Having to go to the bank to pay all your bills and draw out money for the week...
Paying for things by cheque
Going to the local grocers up my road for fruit/veg
A lot less advertising...
No HR departments
No recruitment agencies...scouring the local paper for jobs was the norm
Cheap petrol, no uinleaded
Teachers that actually taught a subject ratehr than prepare kids for passing exams.
Houses were actually affordable
Flying saucers
Hopes and expectations in all aspects of life were simpler and more realistic.
Crime was lower - I never feared for my safety
Healthcare was better (for those who cant afford private..)
Discos
Parents actually parented their children. Breast feeding was seen as natural and no one would bast an eye if someone was feeding their child wherever.
No disposable nappies
Last but not least - there were no chavs.
No Cash machines...
Having to go to the bank to pay all your bills and draw out money for the week...
Paying for things by cheque
Going to the local grocers up my road for fruit/veg
A lot less advertising...
No HR departments
No recruitment agencies...scouring the local paper for jobs was the norm
Cheap petrol, no uinleaded
Teachers that actually taught a subject ratehr than prepare kids for passing exams.
Houses were actually affordable
Flying saucers
Hopes and expectations in all aspects of life were simpler and more realistic.
Crime was lower - I never feared for my safety
Healthcare was better (for those who cant afford private..)
Discos
Parents actually parented their children. Breast feeding was seen as natural and no one would bast an eye if someone was feeding their child wherever.
No disposable nappies
Last but not least - there were no chavs.
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Mr Mag00 said:being 30 seemed along way away, *sigh* being 40 is soon
long hot summers....
watching the rain run down the window and dreaming of you latest crush
when you were grounded, desperate to get outside
I hear that, kids these days reckon they invented emo, nuh-uh.
Wang said:I remember the "Pop Wagon" driving from street to street in the same style as an ice cream van would but selling proper glass bottles of Lemonade/Limeade/Cherryade etc. I think they were made by Ben Shaws and some by Bass. The best part about it was returning your empty bottles to him for a 10p refund.
Ahhhh nostalgia... it's not what it used to be.
There was also the best cola known to man (imho) Strike Cola - really miss it. The glass bottles kept the drinks fizzy way longer than plastic ones do.
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Raleigh grifter or chopper ?
Japanese cars being unreliable rust buckets.
A choice of "star grade" petrol on the forecourt.
Going to the petrol station and asking for 10 pounds worth please.
A £5 note being the stuff of dreams and only availble in christmas card.
20p a week pocket money, and thats 2 big 10p coins.
Whizzer and Chips.
Being able to tune into the police radio band at 100FM.
Going to an airport was exciting, let alone flying anywhere.
Snow every easter.
The exitement of the two tone beeps when I switched on my BBC B. The only simultaneous 2 player game was joust.
Never having to uninstall software!
Wearing a blazer to school.
Ahhhh those were the days I tell you..
A choice of "star grade" petrol on the forecourt.
Going to the petrol station and asking for 10 pounds worth please.
A £5 note being the stuff of dreams and only availble in christmas card.
20p a week pocket money, and thats 2 big 10p coins.
Whizzer and Chips.
Being able to tune into the police radio band at 100FM.
Going to an airport was exciting, let alone flying anywhere.
Snow every easter.
The exitement of the two tone beeps when I switched on my BBC B. The only simultaneous 2 player game was joust.
Never having to uninstall software!
Wearing a blazer to school.
Ahhhh those were the days I tell you..
I got given a radio* one xmass and did just that only to find a group of plod singing 'Merry Christmass'flump said:
Making a go cart out of a few planks of wood and some pram wheels then careering down the nearest steep hill. Oh and brakes weren't part of the design, still not sure how we survived
Making cap bombs
Returning glass bottles for the deposit
* Which still works almost 30 years on, my parents still use it.
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8-bit games (Amstra/Speccy/C64) cassettes in our village newsagent.
Great fields once existing where properties now sit (again in our village).
Crops around the area being sprayed by some low-flying bright yellow plane.
Crop fields being burned out.
Transformers panini sticker album, swapping cards at school.
Getting 'Now 13' for xmas one year with a portable stereo (GHETTO-BLASTER) and learning how to 'dub' tapes.
Dad making fires in the garden whenever we had stuff worth burning, and no one batting an eyelid over it.
Having to travel over 5 miles by car to the nearest library to get some really lame programming books for languages not compatible with my CPC. Learning tech stuff was kinda hard back then!
Great fields once existing where properties now sit (again in our village).
Crops around the area being sprayed by some low-flying bright yellow plane.
Crop fields being burned out.
Transformers panini sticker album, swapping cards at school.
Getting 'Now 13' for xmas one year with a portable stereo (GHETTO-BLASTER) and learning how to 'dub' tapes.
Dad making fires in the garden whenever we had stuff worth burning, and no one batting an eyelid over it.
Having to travel over 5 miles by car to the nearest library to get some really lame programming books for languages not compatible with my CPC. Learning tech stuff was kinda hard back then!
2 Black Jacks & 2 Rhubard & Custard for 1p
Chopper & Tomahawk bikes, the 1st time round
Black & white TVs, with manual tuning
Remote controls for TVs, on a lead
The mumblings when the first non-whites moved in to our street
Disco Tex & the Sexolettes
Teachers being allowed to whack you with a ruler, for fun
Calculators & digital watches
Concorde & the High Speed train
etc...
Chopper & Tomahawk bikes, the 1st time round
Black & white TVs, with manual tuning
Remote controls for TVs, on a lead
The mumblings when the first non-whites moved in to our street
Disco Tex & the Sexolettes
Teachers being allowed to whack you with a ruler, for fun
Calculators & digital watches
Concorde & the High Speed train
etc...
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dmpoole said:
Just slightly older than you but
no.1 was never the truth(called gaspers for the obvious reason)
no.2 I think my doctor smoked but never in a patients presence.
no.3 sounds like a stereotype(James Robertson Justice)
no.5 I remember talking about it but nobody bothered.
no.6 Living together was becoming a fashion in the 70's
Things like unmarried teenage pregnancy was frowned upon.
Hmm some good Nostalgia. I remember
* The first time Star Wars was shown on ITV. What a treat for an 8 year old.
* When Waggon Wheels were actually the size of Waggon Wheels
* The launch of Channel 4 nearly being put back because of a national power outage
* I remember my Gran eating all the food that is supposedley bad for you until she died aged 96
* Joey Deacon was the sauce of much ammusment in playgrounds up and down the country as PC meant your local Bobby
* Sundays feeling like they lasted four weeks as there was no Sunday trading. Unlike today where people moan about the weekends not being long enough.
* A very sexy 18 Year old Sam Fox being the talk of the Playground
* Me and my mates being encouraged by all our parents and neighbours to play on the local field from early morning till late at night becuase back then gangs of kids having fun and playing football for eight hours none stop with the final score being 78-75 was considered a good thing
* "Sharing" Vic 20 games with my two mates, loads of C90 tapes and a double cassette raster blaster
* Our House had a massive 21" TV with fast text
* The first time Star Wars was shown on ITV. What a treat for an 8 year old.
* When Waggon Wheels were actually the size of Waggon Wheels
* The launch of Channel 4 nearly being put back because of a national power outage
* I remember my Gran eating all the food that is supposedley bad for you until she died aged 96
* Joey Deacon was the sauce of much ammusment in playgrounds up and down the country as PC meant your local Bobby
* Sundays feeling like they lasted four weeks as there was no Sunday trading. Unlike today where people moan about the weekends not being long enough.
* A very sexy 18 Year old Sam Fox being the talk of the Playground
* Me and my mates being encouraged by all our parents and neighbours to play on the local field from early morning till late at night becuase back then gangs of kids having fun and playing football for eight hours none stop with the final score being 78-75 was considered a good thing
* "Sharing" Vic 20 games with my two mates, loads of C90 tapes and a double cassette raster blaster
* Our House had a massive 21" TV with fast text
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Dixon of Dock Green on the telly
Getting a clip round the ear from parents for admitting getting the belt at school.
The local motorway was fields with trees and a disused quarry where I hunted for newts.
Any parent able to tell off a kid in my village without getting a mouthful of abuse or threatened with lawyers.
As mentioned - Wagon Wheels were almost a meal in themselves.
Kids able to roam without fear that any adult would want to harm you.
Getting a clip round the ear from parents for admitting getting the belt at school.
The local motorway was fields with trees and a disused quarry where I hunted for newts.
Any parent able to tell off a kid in my village without getting a mouthful of abuse or threatened with lawyers.
As mentioned - Wagon Wheels were almost a meal in themselves.
Kids able to roam without fear that any adult would want to harm you.
Loki said:
you must be my twin...
78-75 LOL ah the memories... and the grifter gear change hehe
Remember Monkey Island on the AMIGA no less than 12 floppies
I remember the 5 minute wait for CM to load from tape only to have a load error at 99.99%.
Programming the VIC 20 with games If (peek 5,20;poke5;21 then poke>=peek and so on for 250 lines only to have an error) spending hours checking the code only to have the error recitifed in the following weeks magazine as a printing error slipped into the previous issue.