Tell me what decade you were born in without telling me...

[WingedHermes]

Dummy dipped in liquid malt every time I spat it out.
Given liquid Phenegan to make me sleep every night from 0-5 years.
As a toddler and small child, given huge bowls of currents/sultanas to eat multiple times a day as it was "healthy".

Vietnam.

And as one comedian used to say "Mince and squash"

Brown.

No MMR - hadn’t been invented. Desks in rows at infant school. No family car or telephone. Tin bath in front of the fire. Only two channels on the telly. Listen with Mother on the wireless. Canvas plimsolls for sports. No such thing as trainers. No convenience food, always meat and two veg. Only flavour crisps available were plain with a little blue paper twist of salt in. My middle name is Elizabeth.

You are the same age as me.

Ooh, Theunamedcat, I'm interested to hear your ladybird experiences. I'm trying to think what year it was that I was on holiday in Blackpool and there was a "plague" of ladybirds.

Anyone else remember a year of LOTS of ladybirds?

You were a few years above me at school :)
Makes me think of The Four Marys!

I had dungarees as a toddler with an apple sewn on patch on the chest pocket.
There was a long summer heatwave the year before I was born.

Haha, we had Nafco54 jackets off the market.

All my friends were Andrew, Debbie, or Steve. Carried a 2p for emergency phone call home. No central heating, no car.

You could buy a curly whurly for about 10p and they were bigger!!!

Suez crisis

I lived for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch magazine, along with purple vanity case and the make up that came with each issue.

Government information films scared the heck out of us
Tufty taught us to cross the road
My reading book at school was about a black child called Sambo ( yep for real no joke)
Early top of the pops experience had some chap called David put his arm around some chap called Mick
The music of my teens will never be surpassed

A few clues, Vengaboys, nsync and I was given milk at break time in school

Primary: We sang hymns and said the Lord's Prayer in assembly. For two years, we were joined by refugee children from Bosnia. Clarks wouldn't sell shoes for me as my feet were too narrow, and I coveted the shiny black patent Princess Key shoes the other girls had. (In Year 6, I had Nike Air Max trainers, though).

Secondary: we pushed the limits of our uniform with super long socks which we then slouched down. We wore Kickers, scrunchies, and hair mascara. The PE changing rooms smelt of Vanilla Impulse with undertones of asbestos. I can remember a teacher who was taking us in a minibus to a hockey match asking me "Not being funny, but do you have ginger pubes too? Spice up your life!" and all my teammates laughing. The sexual tension between Mulder and Scully marked every Thursday night.

University: We typed up essays in the computer room, saving them on floppy disks and printing them in the library at 5 per page. My mind was BLOWN by being able to type a series of numbers and letters and squiggles (carefully transcribed during a lecture) into a computer, and being able to see the first Folio addition of Hamlet on the screen. We drank Smirnoff ice, smoked Camel Blues, and had ironic slogans on our T-shirts. We burnt CDs for each other and started emailing during the holidays. Texts cost 10p each on our pay-as-you-go scratch cards from T-Mobile. We travelled for 12 hours on a National Express down to London to hold placards reading "Don't Attack Iraq" and "Not in My Name" in Hyde Park.

My mum had to give up her local government job when she got married and the office job after that when she left to have me. Married women and mothers shouldn't have jobs!

I was able to get 20 sweets with my 10 pence pocket money as I always chose the half pence ones - had a full bag 😂

Only good thing Maggie ever did. I hated warm school milk 🤮🤮🤮
70's child

I had OG Care Bears and My Little Ponies. My brother had OG Star Wars toys.

By the time I was old enough to have sex, I, and many people I knew, had lost older family members or family friends to AIDS, but it was so stigmatized (and not really allowed to be discussed in a gentle way school due to Section 28) that nobody talked about it outside the family for years.

As a tween I used to listen to radio Luxembourg in bed and spend my pocket money on aqua manda bubble bath. One of my earliest memories is the assassination of JFK, not details but I can still see the funeral cortège on a tiny black and white tv.

That's me too 😂

Those alien babies! What a con!

Arguing over who got to be which Spice Girl.
The big TV on wheels in Primary School.
Floral dungarees as a child.
Nokia phones as a teenager.
Queueing up for the new Harry Potter book.
Backpacking and using Internet cafes to email home.
Facebook at university. Then leaving Facebook when everyone else joined.
Mr Brightside filling the floor at every wedding.
Sex and the City boxset after a night out.
Crying at Glastonbury after Brexit.
Spending the mortgage on avocado toast.

I used dial up Internet in primary school and Instagram by year 9.
Tracy Beaker and Avril Lavigne were my heroes, but I didn’t know any songs by the Spice Girls.
The Only Way is Essex, Made in Chelsea and Love Island changed the way I saw myself as a young woman, rarely for the better.
I remember birthday parties at McDonald’s and Tamagotchis, but the Kardashians and Zoella ruled our teenage world.
I’m in £50k+ of student debt but still regularly get Deliveroo and go out for coffee; though I’ll probably never afford to buy the house that my parents bought at my age, so I call it a trade off.

You were definitely born the same time as me late 70's?