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Everyday things from back in the day that seem really weird now
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Cigarette adverts, then the ban on the. So they had to put a warning on them so you knew they were cigarette adverts.
Seems absolutely mental now.
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My old man did this his entire life and finally got caught and done about ten years ago, his response was “country’s gone”.ValleyGary said:Drink driving. My dad used to be the worst for it. 10 pints down the football club then drive me home. Then a big campaign come out and the whole attitude changed. Mental cos he was a fireman and always told us stories of a bloke getting decapitated and cutting people out of cars from doing it. Not one to be proud of but it was definitely worse 25-30 years ago.17 -
Sfill use it. A bit industrial but love the smell.Stuart_the_Red said:Wright’s Coal Tar soap. Not seen that in ages.
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You can't beat a ready rubbed vagina 👍guinnessaddick said:
Asking for a half ounce of golden vagina ready rubbed.southamptonaddick said:My dad sending me over to the newsagents to buy his fags and get sweets with the change. I was about 8 and nobody worried about it.
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My grandad wouldn’t eat anything that he described as “foreign”, cos “ya dunno where it’s bin”. I think now most of us eat “foreign” 7 days a week, maybe not Sundays.1
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Cars with mechanical indicators.4
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Same old geeza (RIP) when he had a cold or flu, never went doctors or took paracetamol, instead he’d neck a large scotch first thing in the morning and just before bed. He genuinely thought it worked.BR7_addick said:My grandad wouldn’t eat anything that he described as “foreign”, cos “ya dunno where it’s bin”. I think now most of us eat “foreign” 7 days a week, maybe not Sundays.2 -
Only 32 so not a huge pool to gather from, but:
Having to choose between internet and a phone call
Having to watch a show live or miss it entirely
Penny sweets costing a penny
Having a mobile phone that didn't have the internet, or a camera, or apps, but you could change the entire case for a few quid
Not knowing about major events unless you watched the news or bought a paper the following day
Parents sending you home in a taxi while they stayed out on the lash
People spending their entire weekends at sports clubs for 5 or 6 months a year
Tits in papers
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Lumbago, Chilblains, Dropsy,Donkey jackets with Ford written on the back.2
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Only one kid in each school year having asthma and nobody at all having a nut allergy
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Beat this then. It bolted onto the dashboard in the days before lighters and held a match box that could be struck while driving. This one's my uncle's, but my dad had one just the same.AFKABartram said:Cigarettes lighters built in cars. Providing the ability to take your eyes off driving on the motorway to fiddle around with a small fire hotter than the sun
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Having to smoke 500 packs of Cigarettes just so could use the Tokens to buy a Umbrella
Having to smoke 1000 packs of Cigarettes to complete your Album collection of Tall Ships
Mobile Librarys
My Dads concoction for colds , Honey with Mashed Onion !
Pigs Trotters for Tea
Spratts or White Bait for Tea , puts you off having your dinners looking at you.
Toffee Apple Man
Rossi`s Ice cream Man , Hand made ice cream and Teddy Bear Lollys
People Knocking on your door asking if you want to buy a carpet / Mattress
Ice Cream man selling Hot Dogs & Burgers
Parafin Man , buying a couple of Gallons of highly inflamimble liquid to heat your house
Putting the Cat out for the Night and letting it back in before School
Slot Meter TV`S4 -
TV sets that were as deep as they were wide. Huge wooden cabinets stuffed full of valves which could be changed when the picture went, 'on the blink'. Horizontal and vertical hold knobs that could be twiddled to fix the picture in place.6
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One that I’m too young to experience but have seen in films. The idea that you had offices with rows and rows of desks but no computers.1
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Video Plus on VHS too.SuedeAdidas said:
Putting Sellotape over the holes so you could record over a ‘read only’ cassette.The Red Robin said:Recording songs off the radio via cassetteBuying metal TDK cassettes to show off.Comparing how smooth the eject was on the cassette player compared to your mate’s one
fucking about randomly with a graphic equaliser that seemed to make no difference to the sound.1 -
Charlton in the Premier League0
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Being told the ice cream van only plays music when they've run out of ice cream and not being able to Google it to check if mum was a liar.19
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Before TVs my dad (and uncle) after school would listen to the children's programme on the radio.
Their favourite one was the ventriloquist!3 -
Of all the posters on here ... and you didn't know?Mr. Happy said:Being told the ice cream van only plays music when they've run out of ice cream and not being able to Google it to check if mum was a liar.
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Being told by the nuns at school that I would regret not taking typing lessons.
I'm not going to be a secretary you sexist old hag.
Queue one of the first jobs in the Met, typing out employnent contracts for new recruits.........with one finger 🙄13 - Sponsored links:
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In the 90s when i was at School it was about 1 in 8 kids having Asthma. Sports days weren't very exciting!IdleHans said:Only one kid in each school year having asthma and nobody at all having a nut allergy0 -
Being forced to attend Mrs Das computer science class.
I left that school in 1987, there were still NO COMPUTERS.2 -
Not going to the phone box to call your girlfriend due to heavy rain.Covered End said:Going to the phone box to call your girlfriend.
Not seeing your girlfriend ever again, due to the above.11 -
Watching Concorde fly overhead....12
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I was on the phone listening to Charlton Club Call (0898 12 11 46) when Danny Mills scored the goal that kept us up for a week. That game cost me about 50 quid in pocket money.North Lower Neil said:Calling Clubcall for football news.2 -
sawdust on the floor of the butchers.11
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Doing computer programming at school (no computers naturally), so filling in punch cards in a random fashion, then getting them back a week later after they had been run through Freddie Lakers mainframe computer at Gatwick (absolutely no reason why other than he had a computer!?) then chucking the ticker-tape print outs at each other. Absolutely no idea what we were doing or why, no wonder the country went to rack and ruin, and Laker went bust.3
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from the age of about 7 being allowed to out over the park with friends for the whole day as long as back in time for dinner at 6306
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Children getting one present for Christmas (plus, perhaps, a bar of chocolate and an orange)
Smoke-filled carriages on trains
Walking to New Cross from Charlton when there were train strikes/snow
Wearing a cap to school
Addressing or referring to an adult as Mr or Mrs
Medicine that tasted revolting (as a cure to stop you feeling ill)
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