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To want to know something you've experienced that current/future generations won't.

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BobcatDreams · 09/03/2023 19:10

I'm throwing in the disgusting smell of telephone boxes.
Smoking and/or drinking at work

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KnittedCardi · 09/03/2023 22:58

Using a snooker cue to change channels on TV.
Polishing the chrome on your car.
Thinking being felt up by creepy old men, or work colleagues, was perfectly acceptable.

JunkinDonuts · 09/03/2023 22:58

I can remember a friend of mine had a box on her TV which you fed £1 coins into around 20 years ago.

Which reminds me, gas and electric meters which you fed money into and every so often a man from the gas / electric board would come and empty it.

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BobcatDreams · 09/03/2023 22:58

Garden hop

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BOYBANDLOVER · 09/03/2023 22:56

recording on vhs all my boyband performances on TOTP or Saturday morning shows and sitting through music you don't like/not interested in as you don't know if they are going to turn up and just sit there ready to record just in case.
all through the 90s/early 00s i had so many tapes that was watched so regularly.

these days they are all available on YouTube and TikTok so easily

and yes i watch them regularly so its made my life(obsession)so much easier

Bumply · 09/03/2023 22:55

I remember when it was normal to rent your tv (and other white goods).
My parents took advantage of this is the 60s by only renting in the winter months as their way of restricting screen time when they'd rather we were outside playing.

JunkinDonuts · 09/03/2023 22:54

A rag and bone man, who would sharpen your knives, scissors etc in exchange for your rags.
The coal man.
The man from the Pru. He would call on a Friday evening for your insurance subs.
Milkmen in a lot of cases.
Going to the post office to pay bills and tax your car.
Car tax discs.
Littlewoods / Vernon's football pools man.
Pinching your mum's clothes line so you and your friends could skip on the road... laying it flat if a car came.
Playing out with your friends until the streetlights came on.

ghostyslovesheets · 09/03/2023 22:52

crossstitchingnana · 09/03/2023 22:50

Hand writing my uni work.

I remember paying someone to word process my dissertation and save it to floppy disk!

AcrossthePond55 · 09/03/2023 22:52

Listening in on the extension as your BFF calls your crush to (not so) subtly ask him if he 'likes you'. And to really date myself.....party lines.

Going out with friends and your parents having no way to get in touch with you.

DaffodilDiva · 09/03/2023 22:51

Getting the strap at school
Spangles sweets and gypsy cream biscuits
Smoking being allowed on flights 🤮
Country Born hair gel

crossstitchingnana · 09/03/2023 22:50

Hand writing my uni work.

Blossomtoes · 09/03/2023 22:50

BobcatDreams · 09/03/2023 22:41

Was the siren when there was an escapee ??? 😮

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Every week. They tested it on a Tuesday I seem to remember.

Tapenade · 09/03/2023 22:50

BobcatDreams · 09/03/2023 22:41

Was the siren when there was an escapee ??? 😮

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Yes, but it was also tested at 10am every Monday

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LlynTegid · 09/03/2023 19:54

Going to the Edinburgh Festival fringe, after phoning around to find somewhere to stay, then sending a cheque for the first night as a deposit, having the programme sent in the post, and phoning up to book tickets.

Steve Coogan won the Perrier Award that year.

Watching the festival fireworks from Princes Street with about quarter of a million others with no tickets and no barriers

Winemygoodenemy · 09/03/2023 22:44

Doing a degree without internet. Having to go to library to search for journals and photocopy them

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BobcatDreams · 09/03/2023 22:41

Tapenade · 09/03/2023 22:36

Being able to visit the cockpit of a plane during your flight
The Broadmoor siren
Arguing about who gets to sit in the boot of the car!

Was the siren when there was an escapee ??? 😮

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BobcatDreams · 09/03/2023 22:39

Saddogmum73 · 09/03/2023 22:30

The truck coming round on a Sunday evening with lots of crates on the back where you could buy bottles of limeade, Cherryade, cream soda and all sorts of weird and wonderful things. Once the bottle was empty you’d hand it back the following week to get pennies off your next bottles.

Ha yes and we used to walk around and pick up empties in fields for pocket money as well as the then glass Strongbow bottles.

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Elsanore · 09/03/2023 22:38

VeganFromSveden · 09/03/2023 19:32

I’ve still got a plug on a chain in my bathroom… some tech obviously just passes me by!

I bought a new one the other week! Didn't realise they are passé!

Tapenade · 09/03/2023 22:36

Being able to visit the cockpit of a plane during your flight
The Broadmoor siren
Arguing about who gets to sit in the boot of the car!

ghostyslovesheets · 09/03/2023 22:33

Dellow · 09/03/2023 22:32

I have a picture of me somewhere sitting on a circus elephant in Great Yarmouth when I was about 6, can’t see that coming back any time soon !!

Also remember wishing the library was open on a Sunday when I was small as we used to love going there. Ironically now the library IS open on a Sunday we probably wouldn’t have gone since the internet has arrived since then 😬.

Our swimming pool was salt water - they used to have travelling dolphin shows!

Aphrathestorm · 09/03/2023 22:33

Writing a cheque
Signing to use my debit card
Using one of those swipe print machines they used to take card details with
Actual price tags on food
Ring pulls that pulled off
Sugar in drinks
The old McDonald's straws
A bed pan
An outside/garden toilet
A lean to bathroom
A coal fire
Those old index cards in libraries
The yellow pages
AOL teen chat rooms
MSN messenger
Sun in
Aerosol deodorant
Taking all sorts of things onto planes- liquids, scissors etc

Dellow · 09/03/2023 22:32

I have a picture of me somewhere sitting on a circus elephant in Great Yarmouth when I was about 6, can’t see that coming back any time soon !!

Also remember wishing the library was open on a Sunday when I was small as we used to love going there. Ironically now the library IS open on a Sunday we probably wouldn’t have gone since the internet has arrived since then 😬.

MrsMoastyToasty · 09/03/2023 22:31

Taking credit card payments using paper and carbon paper forms.

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