What can you remember that makes you seem ancient?

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I remember us getting our very first colour TV.

I can remember a rag and bone man coming up my granny’s street - can’t remember if it was a horse drawn trailer or not.

Granny had an Anderson shelter.

I remember not having to wear seatbelts.

When everyone used to smoke at work and in pubs.

High Karate and Brute aftershave

Coal man coming.

But also Winter of Discontent. My dad did it in history.

Oh, and '70s public information films, some of which were as bad as actual horror films.

When John Lennon was killed.
My friend’s mum playing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on repeat after it was just released.
According to my kids: being alive before iPhones were invented.

The fact that 2019 will see our 40th Wedding Anniversary . . .

Anyone here remember what the Vertical and Horiziontal holds did;?..

Threepenny bits, half-crowns. IBM mainframes, bomb-sites, Space Patrol.

In Infant school kids being smacked by the headmistress (over her knee sometimes.) Kids getting the slipper from the Head in Junior school. (Not in public.) My kids find it funny.

Den serving divorce papers on Christmas Day

Anyone here remember what the Vertical and Horiziontal holds did;?..

Yep I do, it was to stablise the tv picture.

Sanitary belts before self adhesive pads.

My work computer still has floppy disks!

where the fuck do you work?

The telex machine

National Anthem when the TV closed down for the night.
Fry's Fives.
Half-day closing on a Wednesday.
It's a Knockout!
My nan and grandad having a bucket in the bedroom because it was too cold to go to the outside loo at night.
Ra ra skirts.
Every family having a tub of vaseline in the bathroom.
The smell of coal and smoke in the streets in winter.
The smell of stale smoke on the top deck of buses which lingered for years after smoking on buses was banned.
Smoking carriages on the tube.
Compartments on trains.

And it wasn't that long ago, but it gives me a huge nostalgia rush thinking about it - jumping on and off Route master buses to beat the traffic on Oxford Street.

I remember far too many of these, but the thing that freaks my kids out the most is the fact that when I worked in an IT consultancy in the early 90s, and moving from DOS to Windows was a big thing, a chap came in to show me how to use a mouse. Now babies come out of the womb knowing how to move a cursur, point and click. I was taught that shit.

Scraps...yes 😀😄.

Twin tub washing machine

Reel to reel tape machine - def not portable!

element electric heater on the wall in the bathroom with a pull cord

Candlewick bedspread

Bri nylon and crimpolene

Vesta meals

I remember so many mentioned and it's making me feel old. Main ones for me are
Rotary phones
£1 notes
Top loading VCR
Tvs with dial to turn to find channel and stand up Ariel
No seatbelt and sitting on the shelf on the boot of the car
Sleeping in the back of estate car on long journeys
Having to call the operator to book an international call
The milkman
Soda stream
Perm hairstyle being 'in'
Breakdancing in town
Wimpy
Provident cheques and stamps
Shops closing half day Wednesday and Sunday

Brick sized mobile phone when they came out

I remember:

Churchill's funeral being broadcast on the Home Service, on the wireless.

All the Apollo missions, including the moon landings.

The Aberfan disaster.

The investiture of the Prince of Wales.

The first broadcast of Radio One.

Being so relieved when decimal currency came in, as it meant no more hideously difficult LSD sums to do in maths!

Every Saturday morning, I remember ringing 081 811 8181

Once I got through and asked Elton John a question!!!

Quite a lot that's here, plus:
Testing the air raid siren on the roof of the school every week,
The mournful sound of the foghorn,
Penny for the guy,
every child wearing black wellies to school in the rain, so we had to have a wooden peg with our name on to prevent total wellie mayhem,
Streetlights that changed the colour of clothes, shoes, etc
Coal stoves in British Rail waiting rooms
Reading lights in the back of our car- and travellators, not indicators
Cars overheating as normal, going up steep hills
Silk or cotton socks, pre nylon, which had to be eased over the heel or they'd stretch
Far fewer seagulls inland
The smell from lots of small local breweries
Rows of women sitting under beehive shaped hairdryers for ages in the hairdressers
Jumble sales and junk shops - much better than car boot sales
Hovercrafts
Bubble cars
Not having to wear crash helmets on motorbikes

Lots of the things others have said.

This is not a cheery one but I remember when the same job was advertised at a lower salary for women than men.

The 4 day week.
The summer of '76.
Big snow one winter I don't remember which year when my Mum and Aunt walked into town together to buy yeast to make bread as there was no bread in the shops.

Raleigh Grifters.

Just remembered!
The smell of 80s perms. Phew they stank.

John Lennon's murder. 38 years ago today.

The Queen's Silver Jubilee.

The first Space Shuttle launch. Columbia, 1981.

Party Sevens and Vesta curries.

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