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Everyday things from back in the day that seem really weird now
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North Lower Neil said:The girls in your 6th form class having 25 year old boyfriends that picked them up in their Fiesta.
Weird one that, looking back.
Bill Wyman having a 13 year old girl friend when he was 47 and he was never charged despite Mandy Smith saying they had sex from when she was 14 !
They married when Mandy was 18 but divorced two years later as dirty Bill preferred younger women !
Gary Glitter has always felt this wasn't fair.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Park keepers and 12 grass Tennis courts that were always busy at the weekend
Seeing local bill on a bike
Just the one bag lady or Tramp in the locality.
Gypsy Tart and custard.
Chocolate pudding and chocolate sauce.
Traveling to London before the IRA or any other terrorists spread their hatred.
Going to Butlins with Parents, Brothers and Aunt, Uncle and cousins.
The smell of the drains at the valley on occasions after entering the Sam Bartram entrance.
Individual fruit pies and getting the classified newspaper on a Saturday evening with the football scores.
The Coal man
Rag and bone man.
The insurance man.
Avon calling lady.
Delivering papers and taking 15 minutes longer on 'girlie mag' morning.
Drinking full cream milk at School.
Being beaten by a psycho teacher when 8.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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The weatherman Laurie West who modified forecasting with his magnetic symbols and laid back approach - would never have done at the BBC.
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Still have meat raffles in the pubs and clubs up here.ValleyGary said:Meat raffles down the pub. Such a weird prize.
And as I kid was always told it was illegal to put the light on in the car when driving. What was that all about?
Second one is that an urban myth that our parents believed or is there more to it than that?0 -
My local still does meat raffles. Its quite a modern pub in other aspects but I guess its an old fashioned landlord!ValleyGary said:Meat raffles down the pub. Such a weird prize.
And as I kid was always told it was illegal to put the light on in the car when driving. What was that all about?0 -
Avon calling lady, didn’t max factor?soapboxsam said:North Lower Neil said:The girls in your 6th form class having 25 year old boyfriends that picked them up in their Fiesta.
Weird one that, looking back.
Bill Wyman having a 13 year old girl friend when he was 47 and he was never charged despite Mandy Smith saying they had sex from when she was 14 !
They married when Mandy was 18 but divorced two years later as dirty Bill preferred younger women !
Gary Glitter has always felt this wasn't fair.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Park keepers and 12 grass Tennis courts that were always busy at the weekend
Seeing local bill on a bike
Just the one bag lady or Tramp in the locality.
Gypsy Tart and custard.
Chocolate pudding and chocolate sauce.
Traveling to London before the IRA or any other terrorists spread their hatred.
Going to Butlins with Parents, Brothers and Aunt, Uncle and cousins.
The smell of the drains at the valley on occasions after entering the Sam Bartram entrance.
Individual fruit pies and getting the classified newspaper on a Saturday evening with the football scores.
The Coal man
Rag and bone man.
The insurance man.
Avon calling lady.
Delivering papers and taking 15 minutes longer on 'girlie mag' morning.
Drinking full cream milk at School.
Being beaten by a psycho teacher when 8.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.2 -
Yeah, and even when that wasn't the norm, when I was at school in the 90s, the 17 year old girls had much older boyfriends.soapboxsam said:North Lower Neil said:The girls in your 6th form class having 25 year old boyfriends that picked them up in their Fiesta.
Weird one that, looking back.
Bill Wyman having a 13 year old girl friend when he was 47 and he was never charged despite Mandy Smith saying they had sex from when she was 14 !
They married when Mandy was 18 but divorced two years later as dirty Bill preferred younger women !
Remember being 15 and taking whe I'm 23, 24 I'll have a car and can pull all the girls in the Upper 6th. Then getting to that age and realising they were all the weirdos who couldn't get girls their own age!3 -
Random / inconsistent price of a larger round in a pub when they didn’t have a screen based till.Whip rounds for a session in the pub.Pools syndicate at work.1
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Hanging out the bathroom window holding my radio, aerial fully extended, to listen to Charlton Live on RTM on a Sunday night.0
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Going to the phone box to call your girlfriend.3
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Having only BBC1, BBC2 & ITV to choose from.
Charlton being in the Premier League.1 - Sponsored links:
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On the way to a 1970s match, loads of people pissing in the front gardens on Charlton Church Lane.0
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- Getting change out of a one pound note for a a couple of pints.
- The white letters on a black background grid that were used to display the half times, usually about five minutes before the end of the game.
- Dialing a phone number.
- Not being able to know something without going to libraray to look it up.
- Going to the library to look something up and immediately being the only person you know that knows that thing.
- The National Anthem being played after the last programme each night on telly.
- Waiting for the little white dot finally to disappear after the National Anthem, so you could go to bed.
- Unplugging the telly before going to bed.
- Applause at the end of every single flight.
- Ties.
- "When is the football on telly?" "May, usually".
- Newspapers being the best source of news.
- Writing letters.
- Knowing someone who is sure he knows someone who is friends with someone who works at a place that has an actual computer.
- Powercuts. Meaning you would lose power to all three of your electronic devices: the cooker, the television and the radio.
- The 7pm knock on the door from the Pools bloke. And the rush to fill in the coupon before answering the door.
- Television closing down for the afternoon.
- Polio.
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I honestly don’t know but everyone abided by it as if the old bill would immediately pull you overCafc43v3r said:
Still have meat raffles in the pubs and clubs up here.ValleyGary said:Meat raffles down the pub. Such a weird prize.
And as I kid was always told it was illegal to put the light on in the car when driving. What was that all about?
Second one is that an urban myth that our parents believed or is there more to it than that?0 -
Dial up internet, which meant you couldn’t use the house phone when someone was online.
Usually meant my parents knew I was upstairs having a wank when they’d tried to ring someone.17 -
Mate my mum abided by it to the degree I thought she would get hung drawn and quartered.ValleyGary said:
I honestly don’t know but everyone abided by it as if the old bill would immediately pull you overCafc43v3r said:
Still have meat raffles in the pubs and clubs up here.ValleyGary said:Meat raffles down the pub. Such a weird prize.
And as I kid was always told it was illegal to put the light on in the car when driving. What was that all about?
Second one is that an urban myth that our parents believed or is there more to it than that?1 -
Okay not an everyday occurrence but I remember when we had a visit from a TV engineer to drill the box (wooden bit with the speaker in to the right of the CRT) and fit a 4th button so we could get Channel 4 when it started a couple of months later.Macronate said:Having only BBC1, BBC2 & ITV to choose from.Such magical times….0 -
Seat belts optional in cars
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And coming home from school to watch the first C4 programme, Countdown!Fumbluff said:
Okay not an everyday occurrence but I remember when we had a visit from a TV engineer to drill the box (wooden bit with the speaker in to the right of the CRT) and fit a 4th button so we could get Channel 4 when it started a couple of months later.Macronate said:Having only BBC1, BBC2 & ITV to choose from.Such magical times….0 -
People living in iron lungs.
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Not having a television set, and reading library books whilst walking in the street or under the bedclothes with a torch, and getting told off for doing so.
One sweetie for a farthing and four a penny.
Being so cold ‘jack frost’ would cover your window with ice and getting dressed and undressed under the sheet and blanket. No duvets as such but there were things called eiderdowns.
Four related mixed gender kids all sleeping in the same bed on holidays.
Fetching water from the street pump when visiting relatives in Ireland, where they had wind up telephones in boxes that put you through to an operator.
Button A and Button B in public phone boxes and ‘tapping’ public phones to get a free call.1 -
Booking holidays from Teletext pretty much blind to what it was like.
"SPAIN Costa Del Sol £179PP"0 -
Getting a static shock off the TV
Passing the static shock onto an unexpecting sibling7 -
Mods and rockers being stopped by police down at Southend and having there shoe laces removed.0
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Having to nail the timing on pressing play/record to tape a song off the radio.2
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Portable CD players with 'anti-skip' technology.
Mine had 30 seconds worth so I'd have to stop walking fairly frequently to make it play the song - I was often late to school...0 -
Shin pads with ankle protectors. Like wearing cricket pads.7
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PE teachers making you get in the showers at school.
might just have been mine tho.2 -
I'm surprised you're old enough to have done that,ValleyGary said:Having to nail the timing on pressing play/record to tape a song off the radio.1
