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Everyday things from back in the day that seem really weird now
North Lower Neil
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- The fact that you had a book delivered to your house with absolutely every in town's home phone numbers in it (bar a few ex-directory people).
- Not being able to contact people if they weren't in. Basically make plans and hope they show up in the right place.
- Smoking in offices, pubs, on planes etc.
- The fact that you had a book delivered to your house with absolutely every in town's home phone numbers in it (bar a few ex-directory people).
- Not being able to contact people if they weren't in. Basically make plans and hope they show up in the right place.
- Smoking in offices, pubs, on planes etc.
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Going to Blockbuster in a group on a Friday night to pick one film to rent.10
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Oh, and forgetting to set the video for a TV show and having to accept that you will never get to see it.7
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Party lines on home phones!13
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Everything wrung up on a till - lack of bar codes.4
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Your mum taking 3 photos of the garden flowers to use the film up so she could take it to Boots to be developed.23
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Waiting for a disk to load on a computer. Including lots of whirring.
Even better a cassette load... that took even longer
Swapping mix (cassette) tapes with your mates6 -
Huddling around someone's pocket radio after the match to hear the other scores!14
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Or rushing back to the car to try and get in before Sports Report at 5.killerandflash said:Huddling around someone's pocket radio after the match to hear the other scores!
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Nailing leather studs into your football boots, pumping up the football then lacing it up.6
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Pressing button B3
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Holding the indoor tv aerial in a stupid position so my dad could watch his horse racing on our b&w tv and getting bollocked if I moved just an inch32
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When I was a teenager, no computers, mobile phones, electronic games, all day television, no worrying about inflation, mortgages. I thought I was happy just watching Charlton, going to the pub and to the Roxi cinema every Sunday to see the new film of the week. Now everybody expects a lot more1
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Having hair28
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Recording songs off the radio via cassette19
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Typing in three numbers on the TV and waiting for 4 pages to find out Charlton had lost.43
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Trying to cut it off before the DJ started talking over it!!The Red Robin said:Recording songs off the radio via cassette16 -
Calling Clubcall for football news.8
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Soccer Saturday was letting Ceefax scroll through the three / four pages whilst the game went on.
Was how I kept up to date of our promotion @ Blackburn in 2000
Finding porn magazines thrown in the bushes6 -
Green Shield Stamps.6
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Dial up
White dog poo
Getting a paper payslip
Clubcall
Teletext and Ceefax
MSN Messenger
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The girls in your 6th form class having 25 year old boyfriends that picked them up in their Fiesta.
Weird one that, looking back.12 -
Asking if you can borrow 'Batman Forever' and being told 'no, it needs to be back by Tuesday'.North Lower Neil said:Going to Blockbuster in a group on a Friday night to pick one film to rent.8 -
Indeed porn mags at allForeverAddickted said:Soccer Saturday was letting Ceefax scroll through the three / four pages whilst the game went on.
Was how I kept up to date of our promotion @ Blackburn in 2000
Finding porn magazines thrown in the bushes
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Sitting watching ceefax for a whole afternoon2
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Finding bushes in porn magazines.ForeverAddickted said:Soccer Saturday was letting Ceefax scroll through the three / four pages whilst the game went on.
Was how I kept up to date of our promotion @ Blackburn in 2000
Finding porn magazines thrown in the bushes83 -
High streets being completely dead on a Sunday.
Bank Holidays too - used to work at a cinema and it was basically us, the pubs and McDonalds open.4 -
Dialling 196, dial-a-disc2
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Jumping off the bus when it was starting to slow down before your stop. Ditto opening the train doors and jumping out on the platform when the train was still going to try to beat the crowds off at Cannon Street.15
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Sitting in the back of the car while one parent was driving and another looked at a paper map
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Bus drivers leaving the door open to let a breeze into the bus in the summer.Davo55 said:Jumping off the bus when it was starting to slow down before your stop. Ditto opening the train doors and jumping out on the platform to try and beat the crowds at Cannon Street.0
