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Everyday things from back in the day that seem really weird now
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Video recorders were quite prevalent in the 80s.sam3110 said:Only 32 so not a huge pool to gather from, but:
Having to watch a show live or miss it entirely0 -
Listening to Capitol Radio on Saturdays when not out. Especially Six of the Best and The Best Disco in Town!1
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Remember setting the video to record ten minutes before and after a show in case your clock was out too.Stuart_the_Red said:
Video recorders were quite prevalent in the 80s.sam3110 said:Only 32 so not a huge pool to gather from, but:
Having to watch a show live or miss it entirely
Nothing worse than Gladiators cutting out halfway through the Eliminator.4 -
Baywatch you meanNorth Lower Neil said:
Remember setting the video to record ten minutes before and after a show in case your clock was out too.Stuart_the_Red said:
Video recorders were quite prevalent in the 80s.sam3110 said:Only 32 so not a huge pool to gather from, but:
Having to watch a show live or miss it entirely
Nothing worse than Gladiators cutting out halfway through the Eliminator.1 -
To be fair recording the 10 minutes before would have meant you got some Baywatch too I think!Gary Poole said:
Baywatch you meanNorth Lower Neil said:
Remember setting the video to record ten minutes before and after a show in case your clock was out too.Stuart_the_Red said:
Video recorders were quite prevalent in the 80s.sam3110 said:Only 32 so not a huge pool to gather from, but:
Having to watch a show live or miss it entirely
Nothing worse than Gladiators cutting out halfway through the Eliminator.
Baywatch
Gladiators
Blind Date
Can't think of many better TV line ups!!2 -
Also, and this is veering way into nostalgia etc now rather than odd things from the past, but I absolutely loved the occasions on Blind Date where the couple from last week came back, and they absolutely f-ing hated each other.
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Modern equivalent would be something like Married at First Sight. Absolute trash TV but one of my guilty pleasures.North Lower Neil said:Also, and this is veering way into nostalgia etc now rather than odd things from the past, but I absolutely loved the occasions on Blind Date where the couple from last week came back, and they absolutely f-ing hated each other.0 -
TV listings in the papers have a code next to each programme that you could enter into your video recorder for it to copy1
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I remember going to my parents friends once in late 70's and they had a new fangled video recorder
However it could only tape for 1 hour, and the tv had to be on and the correct channel showing so you could basically on record what you were already watching
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Video +MrOneLung said:TV listings in the papers have a code next to each programme that you could enter into your video recorder for it to copy2 - Sponsored links:
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Blokes f***ing off to football when their missus is about to drop telling her “if the baby comes get the hospital to phone the ground”
Mid game tannoy announcements telling fellas their missus has gone into Labour16 -
I missed the entire first half of a game because my wife was giving birth with my first childAFKABartram said:Blokes f***ing off to football when their missus is about to drop telling her “if the baby comes get the hospital to phone the ground”
Mid game tannoy announcements telling fellas their missus has gone into Labour9 -
I mean that’s fair enough as you were playing, I hope it wasn’t THE match with that bad injury though 😞Gary Poole said:
I missed the entire first half of a game because my wife was giving birth with my first childAFKABartram said:Blokes f***ing off to football when their missus is about to drop telling her “if the baby comes get the hospital to phone the ground”
Mid game tannoy announcements telling fellas their missus has gone into Labour1 -
captainbob said:Tracing paper for toilet paper.
Newspaper cut in squares for toilet paper (apologies if already mentioned as lagging behind on this thread as per usual)1 -
Come on boys we're all the same, as the pedo was first stripped off.captainbob said:Teachers on post-match shower duty.0 -
KBslittlesis said:Drinks pissups at work on a Friday lunchtime 😎
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Blimey we were posh (I think) we had an indoor cellar for the coal.bobmunro said:Pease pudding, faggots and saveloy van pulling up in the road on a Saturday evening.Milkman in a horse drawn wagon.Coal being delivered in a hole in the ground outside the front door.ScurveyRicketsGoing to the doctor's surgery, taking a seat in the waiting room and everybody moving round one seat when the doctor called a patient in.0 -
Giving people three rings when you get home17
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Pen pals. Physically writing letters to people in another country you’ve never met before8
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Prizes on game shows being kitchen cabinets and speedboats1
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Associating Jimmy Hill with lying1
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Snakebite and black.
Old school hash that came in a lump that you heated and didn’t stink like really strong BO3 -
Summer holidays spent at Martens Grove and Crook Log lidos. Seeing hedgehogs and tortoises regularly on your walk to school, even though it was always foggy and you had a balaclava over your eyes as so cold.1
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Press gangs,Covered End said:
You must be around 100?captainbob said:Topping up the barrel of water in the cellar in case of fire
The Queen going to Tilbury
Daytrips to Greenwich for the cleaner air
Latin prep
Going to the Globe Theatre
Scurvy
Hiding from the press gangs
Skating on the Thames
Leeches
Charlton beating Millwall
hmm a bit older than 100 .............likewise beating millwall 1 -
When I was a kid growing up, we referred to my next door neighbour as "Auntie Pauline" when she was no relation whatsoever!0
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Some had a small private barPlumstead_Micky said:
I can't say I remember this, but do recall a lot of pubs had two bars; "public" and "Saloon".0 -
Vw cars with no badge on the front grill... Or back.
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Waiting up on Saturday night to try and catch a glimpse of tit on OTT, which never came0
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Sharing a bath with family because the hot water tank could only fill one bath and took ages to heat up.0
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What do you mean? Chris Tarrant was on screen 90% of the show.IdleHans said:Waiting up on Saturday night to try and catch a glimpse of tit on OTT, which never came1
