Do you remember when...

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Humour me, I'm counting down the minutes until I can officially log off work for the day (don't worry, I'm SE so I'm not taking the biscuit!)

Let's play Do you remember when...

it can be about anything that pops up in your head!

So mine is -
Do you remember when it was hot and the back of your legs and thighs got stuck on hot plastic car seats (no air conditioning!) and how excruciating it was to peel them off when you had to get up 😳
I'm pretty ancient though so maybe won't get many Yeses!

Going to the cinema and there being a huge queue outside if it was a new or popular film.
If the queue was around the corner and up as far as the car park at our local cinema then you knew that you didn’t have much chance of getting in.

Do they? Who?

Yes, Tip Top and Kia Ora was the one you could buy at the cinema. Kia Ora tasted of plastic and it was really hard to get into.

Do you remember party lines? Where you shared a phone line with somebody nearby?

The flimsy straw was a bugger to get through the wee foily bit

Do you remember when people were able to tolerate a modicum of adverse weather without making a song and dance about it?
😂

I have a convertible with leather seats. For some reason, people can be very ungrateful when I offer to drive!

I remember the national anthem at the end of tv, and the girl with a blackboard, was it? Plus 5 being released, though not 4.

And I remember before '01' was put at the front of phone numbers, it used to just be '0'. And mobile numbers could be any old random jumble, before they got switched to '07'.And I had some sort of card I could use in a phone box to call home without paying, I think I had to type in a load of numbers? Though also remember reverse charges - which I wasn't allowed to do as it was expensive! And of course quick dialling people and hanging up when you were nearly out of credit, and they would know it meant 'call me back'. And how bloody annoying it was if they answered!

I also remember how we all had our names, numbers and addresses in a public book, so anyone could phone us or even turn up at our front door if they were so minded. That seems terrifying now.

Sherbet Fountains and Sherbet Dib Dabs were the best sweets

Jublees
At the cinema a kind of frozen triangular ice with a faint orange flavour.
You'd cut the corner off and suck the ice.
Can't remember how we cut them in the cinema?
Maybe they could be torn or they were pre cut ??
Anyone remember ?

Yes, do you also remember when you could get the same block as a frozen strawberry mousse? 1963 or thereabouts.

Do you want names?

Does anyone from the north-east remember Tudor Crisps? They’re what I used to spend my 10p pocket money on. My favourite flavour was roast pork & apple sauce. Tudor were so good!

Yes, the strawberry one was lovely but my favourite was the mixture of lemon and orange mousse in a block

Do you remember when you had to get up off your bum to switch the tv over to a different channel? No wonder we were slim in them days!

I remember the tv test card before the girl was in the middle.
She was added when colour tv started
To get the flesh tones correct when adjusting the set.
Usually done by supplier.

I don't remember them personally but many people had coin operated tv sets.
Nearly all of them were rented

Not north-east, but I do. You were either Team Tudor or Team Golden Wonder.

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Yep, and you couldn’t pause the programmes so there was a surge of electricity usage in the advert breaks as everyone in the country rushed to boil the kettle at the same time 😀

I do indeed.
And I remember a doctor on tv predicting that use of the new fangled remote control would lead to obesity...
People laughed at such a notion.
He recommended keeping the remote on top of the tv set to avoid this danger.
Which is quite a good idea really.

I've still got one of those! (Not my every day car to be fair).

Yes! No-one I have ever spoken to remembers them! I think they were 10p per min if you were in a phone box but not sure.

*Edited to say I thin you may have meant a shared line but this was one where you dialled a number and other people were able to talk. Like pen pals on the phone.

We used to stick them in the freezer. They weren’t so bad frozen, like an enormous chemical flavoured ice-pop, but all the flavouring would settle on the bottom so the top half was just ice.

Not in the UK in the last about 40 years (as far as I remember back.) We definitely got on with bad snow in North East England. But the song and dance was still made. There were still the warnings to look out for elderly people, local radio phone ins about whether schools should or shouldn’t close - were we less able to cope now than the winter of [insert about 30 years ago]

Talkabout was the. BT chatline. The early precursor of social media and IM I guess!

I used to freeze mine in advance. Stayed cool for ages.