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".

The Magic Roundabout was my favourite program.

I was a raver in my late teens/twenties.

When I was at uni there was no internet and we looked things up on microfiche. No one had mobile phones yet except yuppies.

Corporal punishment was no longer practised but wasn't outlawed until I was in secondary school.

The seatbelt in my mum's car was her arm. And I used to travel long journeys asleep lying down in the backseat. It was common for kids to pile into (and fight to) travel in the boot.

Salads were served as individual items on different plates with a bottle of salad cream.

We had no central heating until I was about 11 and in the depths of winter, we all slept in the front room as it was the only room with a gas heater. We used to get a lot of condensation and iced up windows in the winter.

I was in secondary school when we had the big "Michael Fish" storm, which I slept through! My school was closed though as loads of the massive old trees had blown down 😢

We had three channels on the TV (and no remote) until Channel 4 started when I was in primary school.

My mum kept "Mrs" and her married name when my parents split as being a single mum was stigmatised.

Marilyn Monroe died

Strikes, it was cold and dark, and summers were hot and dangerously dry. The only takeaway was fish n chips. Leather shoes were polished and everything else ironed every week.

I went to school with 2 Clare Louises, Hayley Louise, Katie Louise, Caroline Louise, and a lot of Lauras and Alisons! My primary school was extremely progressive (finger painting! The Apparatus! Teacher playing Beatles songs on guitar crosslegged while we just wanted Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode! Disgustingly warm milk in small glass bottles distributed by milk monitors - until Thatcher Milk Snatcher.)

The secondary school routine requiring sitting at a desk for an hour then moving to another room to sit at another desk came as a hell of a shock. At least when the teachers went on strike we barely had to show up and when we did we could strut through the corridors in pixie boots and legwarmers while dodging the sexual harassment!

At the end of the day we would visit the Neighbours on sunny Ramsay Street. No phone calls until 6pm and those were made from the freezing hall. Too of the Pops was a lifeline to all things cool and modern. I literally read every single book in the town library.

Duh and doing O level papers to practice for the GCSE exams. Shambles.

The Beatles were at their height at the time l was born.

@SteStellaAndCrow
It was tge long hot summer of 1976

We stayed in a caravan in Blackpool and every morning had to sweep thousands of them out.

The beach and prom were millions underfoot.

Same decade here!

Yo stop, collaborate and listen....

😂😂😂 me too

I was born the year of decimalisation.
I was given the slipper at primary school, drank disgusting warm milk and learnt my green cross code (first introduced a year before i was born).
As a teenager my first concert was in a Mad World but my music taste soon moved to fringed suede jackets, denim with band badges and I've kept the faith ever since!

@gandeysflipflop early 80s but close :)

Guessing you were born in the mid 90s? So you are either a young millennial or old Gen Z.

I am a classic millennial. We are now grumpy about being almost middle aged and find Gen Z baffling. 😂

You were born 1971. GCSEs went live I think in 1987?

My whole bedroom was Groovy Chick.

You are the same age as me. I would add Impulse O2, Topshop, Miss Selfridge nail varnishes for £1, Clueless and The Craft. That phone that slid open from The Matrix - two boys at school had it in S6. Playing Snake on Nokia 330s. My first proper mobile flipped sideways to open and came with Girls Aloud pre-loaded as the ring tone. CK One. The X Files, Ally McBeal, Friends and ER. When I was younger, Rollerblade Barbie, Cassie dolls with ponies and Sylvanian Families.

Most of the girls at school were called Jennifer, Alison, Claire, Laura or Heather. There were a lot of Andrews and Alans as well.

@AppleDumplingWithCustard
Born in Mid-50s like me?

StellaAndCrow · Yesterday 16:38

Anyone else remember a year of LOTS of ladybirds?

Yes, my eldest sister was bitten in the hot summer of 1976.

My baby photo album has a picture of Charles and Di's engagement on the front

I was 13 when I first heard live forever by oasis

teaandtoastwithmarmite

1980?

My teens was The Clash, Bowie, Madness Queen and the Sex Pistols. It was also the deaths of Elvis, John Lennon, Keith Moon and John Bonham

TV was Morecambe and Wise, Yes Minister, Fawlty Towers. The Two Ronnie, Dave Allen

At the movies we went to see Jaws, Star Wars, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Alien

It was the Winter of Discontent, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Iran-Taq War and right at the end Mikhail Gorbachev

LakeTiticaca
I recognise all of those, especially being blamed for everything.

@SubtleUserName you were born between sep 1970 and Aug 1971. Last year to sit O levels with some odd exam boards like the Joint Matriculation Board where you received both an o level & cse exam certificate.

I know all the words to the Pokemon theme song but can't believe how many bloody pokemon there are these days.

I spent most of my teenage years running over pedestrians in GTA Vice City and as a result am now an amoral delinquent. (Not really).