Gen X where are you ????

[JRHartleysmum]

What are you ‘I’m old’ references that younger folk might not understand ?
I’ll start: ‘too orangey for crows, it’s just for me and my dog’

J R Hartley

Scholastic book fairs anyone? I loved looking through those little catalogues almost as I enjoyed reading my chosen book.

Oooh, I could crush a grape!

I saw this recently I can't remember where I think it was a ch5 countdown programme or something Maureen lipman wasn't even old enough to have a grandson with an ology 😅

Ooooh I could crush a grape!

@Washyourfaceinmysink well thanks for that 😂 Now I'm going "we're having a ball!" Haha! You've unlocked a memory of me and my friends walking round the playground, arms linked, singing that at the top of our lungs and randomly getting more and more kids to join in!

@theblackradiator Prudential I think.

I want to be a TREE!

The Raoul adverts were hilarious! Yo ladies!

I have the chicken soup on 7" vinyl. It was awesome and utterly inappropriate of course. The B side was worse and very racist.

Song not soup

Accrington Stanley? Who are they?
Exactly!

Great thread!

Not a phrase but was in a group of under 30s -
mentioned the film Big with Tom
Hanks and no had a clue what I was on about.. I feel like that film was on repeat on TV during my childhood! Felt v v old..

There's a loose, moose about this hoose

Me too. And the Bermuda Triangle

And is Elvis really dead?

Supergran!

Shhh, don't tell the children. Charmbourcy chocolate mousse.

What's in the truck? Cans of cola. Pepsi cola? Nah. <Let's the truck fall off the cliff>.

Wall's! woofed out by a dog

Whyyyyyy dooooooon't yoooooouuu

"Just switch of your television set and go and do something less boring instead!"

Acrington Stanley, who are they?

Puffin book club

Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet

When I looked after DSD for the first time, she needed entertaining and i hadn't been around small children for about 15 years at that point.

I had the idea of making finger puppets.

An hour later, she had five Scampi wriggling on her fingers and one perfect Fingermouse. I hadn't seen either for over 40 years, but they were absolutely perfect.

When I took her to meet her Dad, she insisted upon wearing them and as we sat on the bus, all the Xers recognised them.

The Trebor Softmints ad with Mr Soooooooft

Also we used to sing ‘Trebor mints are a minty bit stronger, stick them up your bum and they last a bit longer’.

Australians couldn’t give a Castlemine XXXX for anything else … (it’s only now I’m writing this that it dawned on me what the ‘four x’ thing actually meant!)

By the power of Greyskull.

I'm with the Woolwich

"That's not a knife. That's a knife!"

Why don't you just switch off your television set and go out and fo something less bring instead.'