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To say I was born in the early 70s

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Jumell · 07/12/2024 12:14

So..

proper Gen X …

the thing that mark my generation out are this :

free school milk at breaks then said milk being taken away

music we were into typically Duran Duran, Wham, Culture Club

common for Dads to drive but not mums

The domestic sitcom - e.g Terry and June being popular when we were prime TV watching age

being at the cusp of the O Level/CSE / GCSE transition

SOME* Less academic kids did YTS - some of the more academic kids looked down their noses at this option

Disco Roller skates in vogue 🙌

VERY un PC language at school

if anyone’s a similar age to me, what are your memories!!

oh and we loved Swap Shop and a good annual !

Liverpool FC winning everything

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AChickenPooAndABiscuit · 07/12/2024 12:51

Staringatthemoon · 07/12/2024 12:30

Angel delight and swiss roll

Bunty comic and Look in?

Edited

Ah you reminded me I used to get Look In! Those were the days… and we had all the best TV programmes then too. Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine, Clangers… 😊

TinklySnail · 07/12/2024 12:51

Watching Monkey on a Friday eating a bacon sandwich for dinner.
Playing out all day eating whatever berries we could and scrumping.
Being in a car with two smoking parents and pleading for the window to be opened 😶‍🌫️
Walking to school in all weathers

suburburban · 07/12/2024 12:51

Hoppinggreen · 07/12/2024 12:27

I remember most of that.
Its true about Mums driving/working. Mine was PA to a local Businessman and drove to work and was a bit unusual. We did live somewhere pretty backwards though

My dm drove/drives and unusually my dgm and mil also drove

walkingnightmare · 07/12/2024 12:50

JoshLymanSwagger · 07/12/2024 12:47

Sam, is that you? Grin

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FatArse123 · 07/12/2024 12:50

Banjo chocolate bars

JoshLymanSwagger · 07/12/2024 12:49

double ended mascara - grey one end and electric blue the other who used the grey?
Avon iced champink lipstick or cafe au lait, with matching nail varnish.
Lace gloves like madonna for summer, fingerless gloves in winter.

smallchange · 07/12/2024 12:49

Getting into trouble because we called a chatline for 10 mins giggling down the phone to some random lads from the estate down the road who were doing the same thing... and ran up a massive bill.

JoshLymanSwagger · 07/12/2024 12:47

walkingnightmare · 07/12/2024 12:46

Sun-in hair spray that was meant to turn your hair blonde, but actually turned it orange!

Sam, is that you? Grin

username299 · 07/12/2024 12:46

Why Don't You
Jackanory
Swapshop
Bagpuss
Willo the Wisp

Angel Delight
Jelly and ice cream
Blue Nun

Ra Ra skirts
Leg warmers
Drainpipe jeans
Shoulder pads

Perms
Pastel lipstick
Blue mascara
Heavy blusher

Taping the top ten off the radio on a Sunday
Walkman
John Peel
Live Aid
Bohemian rhapsody

walkingnightmare · 07/12/2024 12:46

Sun-in hair spray that was meant to turn your hair blonde, but actually turned it orange!

Couldyounot · 07/12/2024 12:44

Staringatthemoon · 07/12/2024 12:20

Grumpy bus drivers in the morning

All day long, where I lived 😬

BlastedPimples · 07/12/2024 12:43

RaRa skirts

Pedal pushers

Those headbands with springs on and glittery balls bouncing around on the springs

Also plastic lace up shoes in red or blue with a white trim.

Pixie boots

Short hair sprayed up into a fan shape in the side of your head.

Fan earrings

Matching plastic earrings, belt and bangles.

Elastics.

WearsBlackEatsChocolateAvoidsPeople · 07/12/2024 12:43

Spending my Sunday afternoons listening to and taping the top 40 so I could listen to it all week on my Walkman.

Hotbrushing my hair into a New Romantics flick then spraying half a can of L'oreal bold hold to keep it in place (I think I single handedly contributed to the hole in the ozone layer).

Watching lots of tv with my parents (my teens never do this now), loved 70's and 80's tv, quality watching.

Mochudubh · 07/12/2024 12:42

Long hot summers. Sunscreen was unheard of and if you got sunburn your mum would slather you with calamine lotion which dried white and powdery so you looked like a ghost.

Then a couple of days later your skin would peel off like filo pastry.

And swimming in the river or loch wasn't called "wild swimming" it was just swimming.

Biking out in a bunch of 10-12 year olds (no adults) to above loch along a narrow, twisty road for a beach barbecue then back again hours later. I drove that road for the first time in years recently and the thought of such young kids doing that today makes me shudder.

JoshLymanSwagger · 07/12/2024 12:41

ZX Spectrum, Daley Thompson Decathlon and a cassette player.

Before that a Binatone "pong" game with dial controllers.

Christmaseason · 07/12/2024 12:40

Why Don’t you and Take Hart on TV.

EdgeOfReality · 07/12/2024 12:38

Staringatthemoon · 07/12/2024 12:29

SaturdaysTV

Zorro
Champion the Wonder Horse
Godzilla cartoon

Tiswas
Multi coloured swapshop

Then Match of the Day with some bloke with a ‘tache

Old black and white films on Bbc2

Man with moustache was Dickie Davis. We were only allowed to watch Swap Shop never Tiswas. Loved Bullseye on a Sunday.

JoshLymanSwagger · 07/12/2024 12:37

@MistressoftheDarkSide I had a burgundy pair, worn with ankle socks and teal/grey corduroy jeans.

Ihopeyouhavent · 07/12/2024 12:37

10p bus fare! Big Daddy wrestling on a Saturday afternoon! Juliet Bravo. Wearing ra-ra skirts and being the remote control for the TV!!

Christmas afternoon watching Wizard of OZ after the Queens speech with the BIGGEST tin of quality street.

JoshLymanSwagger · 07/12/2024 12:36

Arctic Roll, Just 17, BodyShop Ananya, GCSE guinea pigs - Letts Revision guides, proper fairy lights, tissue-paper-thin wrapping paper, Brut 33 or Old Spice for your Dad.

ThatFlightyTemptressAdventure · 07/12/2024 12:34

Staringatthemoon · 07/12/2024 12:30

Angel delight and swiss roll

Bunty comic and Look in?

Edited

I remember Look In and Jackie magazine too. It has multiple choice quizzes about boyfriends that we used to pour over. 😬

MistressoftheDarkSide · 07/12/2024 12:33

Patent black ballet pump style shoes with a bow on the front. (I was not allowed these in 1983. I am still bitter).

The early Walkman - size and shape and weight of a breeze block but the joy of feeling as though your life was a movie with a New Romantic soundtrack more than made up for it.

Listening to Radio Luxembourg in the wee small hours if you were an insomniac because it was that or silence.

Those pink foam Papillon curler things that were supposed to give you a fake spiral perm but left you looking like Crystal Tips.

Just 17 being new, dangerous, and hidden from strict parents.

Staringatthemoon · 07/12/2024 12:30

Angel delight and swiss roll

Bunty comic and Look in?

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 07/12/2024 12:29

Yes ski yogurts are still a thing.

House frozen mousses you used to get out of the freezer - super mousse?

Staringatthemoon · 07/12/2024 12:29

SaturdaysTV

Zorro
Champion the Wonder Horse
Godzilla cartoon

Tiswas
Multi coloured swapshop

Then Match of the Day with some bloke with a ‘tache

Old black and white films on Bbc2

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