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Gen X where are you ????

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JRHartleysmum · 06/06/2023 16:39

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’

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JRHartleysmum · 06/06/2023 20:34

Was it Five Star that got called shit on a Saturday superstore phone in ?

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quirkysitcom · 06/06/2023 20:35

BreakfastClubs · 06/06/2023 20:32

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

I say this every time I pick up a knife. So much so that my son says it not too whenever we're out for dinner!

PrincessHoneysuckle · 06/06/2023 20:36

I've got the key I've got the secret

quirkysitcom · 06/06/2023 20:36

AliasGrape · 06/06/2023 20:27

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!)

I forgot the Castemaine XXXX but instantly read it in the accent!

InMySpareTime · 06/06/2023 20:36

@Neverknowinglysensible we had a PCSO visit at a community event and he had a bag full of them.

stringbean · 06/06/2023 20:37

'Texan - sure is a mighty chew'. (They were horrible as I recall).

'Choc ice and chips? Don't tell your mother'. (Can remember the tagline but have lost all memory of what this advert was actually advertising!).

Anyone remember Pocketeers? Was desperate for the fruit machine one and was given it for Christmas in about 1975.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 06/06/2023 20:38

This is a box, a musical box
Wound up and ready to play
But this box can hide a secret inside
Can you guess what is in it today?

Inkypot · 06/06/2023 20:39

Tiredmum21 · 06/06/2023 20:13

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..

Yep along with Flight of the Navigator.

Watched Big a few years ago with my own kids and suddenly realised it's kinda uncomfortable. A grown woman getting together with a child... nope nope nope

MaidOfSteel · 06/06/2023 20:41

This thread is doing me a power of good tonight! Thanks, OP.

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JRHartleysmum · 06/06/2023 20:41

Pugh
pugh
barney magrew
cuthbert
dibble
grub

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BreakfastClubs · 06/06/2023 20:42

I say this every time I pick up a knife. So much so that my son says it not too whenever we're out for dinner!

I love that!

MaidOfSteel · 06/06/2023 20:43

MissMogwai · 06/06/2023 18:54

We were talking about chocolate bars at work last week. I said I used to love a spira, only 1 person remembered them.

I googled an image of it to show the whipper snappers who acted as though I'd shown them a picture of a chocolate bar from Ancient Rome 🤣👵🏻

I'm 43!

I remember the Spira well!

BasilParsley · 06/06/2023 20:43

JRHartleysmum · 06/06/2023 20:41

Pugh
pugh
barney magrew
cuthbert
dibble
grub

Noooooooooo! It was HUGH, PUGH, BARNEY etc...

BreakfastClubs · 06/06/2023 20:45

"Everybody knows, Badgers loves, mashed potato!"

littleburn · 06/06/2023 20:46

Can I have an E please Bob?

Pharos · 06/06/2023 20:46

You and me, me and you
lots and lots for us to do
lots and lots for us to see
me and you, you and me
do doo….

BreakfastClubs · 06/06/2023 20:46

It was Pugh, Pugh because they were twins.

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littleburn · 06/06/2023 20:46

Or was it 'can I have a P please Bob?' 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

NooNakedJacuzziness · 06/06/2023 20:46

No, there were two Pughs, they were brothers!

BasilParsley · 06/06/2023 20:47

BasilParsley · 06/06/2023 20:43

Noooooooooo! It was HUGH, PUGH, BARNEY etc...

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I stand corrected. It was NOT Hugh, Pugh ... it was Pugh, Pugh. A childhood misrememberance...

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JRHartleysmum · 06/06/2023 20:48

Brian Cant the voice of our childhood

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StaunchMomma · 06/06/2023 20:49

Fireworks thrown around corners can cause blindness.

LorraineInSpain · 06/06/2023 20:50

While we’re on about children’s TV - anyone else remember Willo The Wisp?

Leela2 · 06/06/2023 20:50

Derrick Griffiths Play Away, and Rag Time.

Thank crunchie it's friday.

Bernie Clifton on that mad ostrich.

Basil Brush booom booom

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