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.

Raleigh Burners (top of Christmas list for a couple of years just before BMX hit the big time)
The left-field prizes on game shows like the Generation Game (Can you imagine things like a cutlery set, caravan holiday, silver goblet, board game going down now?)

The man coming out at the petrol station and my dad telling him how much petrol to put in. He paid him and he brought back the change.

silver sixpences
Thru'penny bits - had one in my purse until I lost it last year
the pop man
outside toilets with wooden seats, 3 toilets shared between 6 neighbours.
Going to outside toilets with a candle at night, which went out when it was windy.
My mum, a city girl, introducing the radical notion of going to toilet with a battery operated torch (extravagant nonsense: batteries need replacing FGS)
Nasty turquoise coloured nylon sheets on the bed.
Carving my name in the frost on the inside of my bedroom windows in the winter.
Tin bath in front of the fire on a Sunday night. With the clothes horse draped in sheets for privacy.

No phone then my husband having one of the first shoebox sized car phones.
Outside lavatory.
Sunburn you peeled in strips.
FHW for shoes.
Winkles.
The girl in the middle of the BBC screensaver picture.
The moon landing.
Aberfan
Bill and Ben, Tinger and Tucker, Andy Pandy. Magpie and Tizwas.
Elastic bands to hold socks up.
Rafts in the sea.
Fun park equipment. Genuinely fun and scary.
Vesta curry. Smash. Instant Whip.

Xmas lights with glass bulbs and my dad replacing them.

That little intro thing on bbc1 that changed every year. I remember it saying 'into 86....' so clearly.

Giggorata

Yes! we had black welly mayhem too and pegs with names were introduced. (Yorkshire Dales village school, total population 30 in the 1960s).

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

Oh god yes, this!

I was shit at maths (or sums as we used to call it). Doing it all in 12s was ridiculous!

Does anyone else remember measurements as Chains, Perches, Furlongs etc?

I remember the day Elvis died.

Soviet Union.
Stamped library due date sign.
black and white tv although it was very rare even in my childhood.
test screen. teletext.
the modem noise.
clipart.

ooooh…. yes... clipart!

We had a street party for the royal wedding and I got a paper plate full of Smarties. I named my blonde ballerina Sindy doll Diana in honour of the new princess, and my DD1 has the doll now. (Still called Diana even though I'm now a staunch republican.)

In the bath I would spike up my hair and be Johnny Rotten. When the water was drained I would skate around on the slippery enamel, being Robin Cousins. I had a red dress that I would wear and be Debbie Harry, and that must have been before my brother was born because I mostly had unisex clothes after that, so they could be handed down I suppose.

I remember my first Barbie, called Pretty in Pink. Plus ça change...

I remember being told off for pointing at Punk Rockers and laughing, when I was in my pushchair.

Going down the bottom of the garden and singing Super Trouper without embarrassment at the top of my voice, or Stop the Cavalry. (Stop the caterwauling, more like.)

Outside toilets at school and the marvellous skiving opportunity they represented, except when I actually did get locked in. :)

My mum complaining about "only" having a semi detached house, even though it was massive with a huge garden and in the London commuter belt (though nobody commuted very far back then) and my parents bought this house at age 25! Hard to imagine the alleged 'snowflake' youth of today feeling hard done by in these circumstances, just saying...

Glass milk bottles with foil tops that use to be pecked open by birds and pop up in the frost when the milk froze.
Green top milk ( unpasteurised) tasted so much better.
Policemen directing traffic instead of traffic lights. They wore big white gloves.
Telephones with a dial.
Watching the test card on the tv until the programmes started and the pottery wheel film they put on when the broadcasting broke down.

Camera reels, remember having to go with older sister to chemist to get processed photos.
Recording on tapes from radio
Tamagotchi
Yikes pencils (loved them)
Smash hits magazine

Lol...Yes im a 90s child lol

Oh yes! The fashion for nylon sheets...
It meant every night you had your own personal lightning storm if you moved around in bed.
My parents ran a pub and had a barrel of sherry that people would come and get their bottles filled from (in the 'slip' which was an off-licence part of the pub).
And I can remember from my early years, when they used to have to 'tap' each barrel with a brass tap as there were no pump systems then.

Granny had a wringer and a scrubbing board & laundry dolly. I think there's a photo of me floating about using the dolly.

Having the main family tv was black & white and to change channels you had to NOT ONLY get off your arse and go to the telly but you had to retune it with a dial (and adjust the rabbit ears wire coathanger ) knowing exactly where to thump it when the "vertical hold" went 😂

Milk floats, everyone got their milk delivered daily.

Not having to wear seatbelts (but our parents made us & even paid to get back seatbelts fitted when we got our first family car)

Had a rotary phone at home until I was 16 - I learned a few years ago that dd didn't have a clue how to even use a pay phone! Mum STILL has a rotary phone style address book! The grandchildren are fascinated by it.

Ch4 and brekkie tv being game changers!

When watching tv late when visiting family in Scotland. The last programme was an IM Jolly type lecture (only scots folks will probably get this!)

m.youtube.com/watch?v=isQq155YLDM

Coin operated gas/electric meters

"I sometimes still convert prices to old money. "What? Ten shillings for that???"" My dads had to stop this it was giving him heart attacks at the prices now! (Not even kidding)

Ha'pennies & ha'penny sweets!

It BLOWS MY MIND that I can now hold in the palm of my hand a powerful computer with voice recognition!

"The introduction of £1 coins and 20ps." Oh yes! And I still very much remember £1 notes (beginning of the end getting rid of them!)

Smoking EVERYWHERE yeugh!

"Recording songs off the radio on cassettes." Yep on Sunday's when the charts were on, being poised to hit the pause button soon as dj started talking.

My mum complaining when the public toilets in central station went up to 2p a go!

Shops closed half day weds, early sat and not open again till mon.

Casio calculator watches being "cool" not sure what the Apple Watch wearers would make of them!

Video shops BEFORE blockbusters, Betamax vcrs, having to rewind hired videos or else you got fined.

Another one for scots - creamola foam.

Cash machines had "opening hours"

In first job as a checkout operator using these (see pic) to process credit cards.

Chernobyl happening and being shit scared of nuclear holocaust happening.

Clip art?! That's modern!

If asked, in the first instant I still think of Bonn as the capital of "Germany" which was how I thought of West Germany. (So in my head there was Germany and East Germany.)

When baked potatoes were considered healthy.

Dial a disc (16)
The speaking clock
TVs that you had to thump to adjust the horizontal hold
Crossed lines when you phoned somone
Being able to get your money back in the phone box if you pressed the A and B buttons in a certain order
Remote controls on a long cable
Us having one of the very first microwaves - it was huge
Frozen orange juice
Vesta meals
Twinkle and Bunty
Whizzer and chips
No supermarkets
Fruit salads and blackjacks 4 for 1d

The man coming out at the petrol station and my dad telling him how much petrol to put in. He paid him and he brought back the change.

We used to call this "Elf Service" as the local one that did it was called "Elf" and the chap who came out was slightly short and always wore a bobble hat even in summer.

Smoke so thick you couldn't see through it in the girl's toilets at school.

Disco 45 magazine with all the song lyrics in.

Loving Olga Korbut.

I was just thinking printed song lyrics, either in an album or from Smash hits for singles.

Jackie magazine. The free gift of a plastic red heart badge which you could wear split down the middle if you were single.

Was it smash hits? It was my mates mag so I don't remember.

Being taken down to the doctors as an ill child with no appointment and waiting your turn for ages in the packed out waiting room.