Do you remember when...

[BiggyJ]

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!

Steve Wright in the afternoon was terrible for putting voices saying stupid things like 'satin knickers' over the end of songs or in the instrumental bit, many a song ruined

Do you remember the heat wave of 1976?

Yes always had a woman in hot pants on the cover. Cigarette and chewing gum and chocolate machines. Signs in the park saying Keep Off The Grass; and you did or the park keeper would come running out of his hut. White dog shit. The block of ice cream that you put between two wafers. The fug of smoke in the front room and your dad watching the wrestling. Being made to vacate your chair at Christmas if an adult wanted to sit down. Lead paint on cots that we chewed off as babies. Those loopy bonnets that the mums knitted circa 1970. A doll in a wide skirted dress that sat on your bed to cover your nightie underneath. Or a poodle nightdress case. The nans serving up dinner with a fag on.

Do you remember when channel 5 came out? A channel 5 engineer had to come to our house and do something with our TV so that we could watch it 🤔Well, that's what he said anyway 😂

Those were the days …

Shared lines were called party lines, my Mom wouldn’t have a phone until she knew that we wouldn’t be on a party line. She enquired once and was told that we’d be on a line with a family around the corner. We didn’t have a house phone until around 1978.

Yes, I’d just got home from hospital with my baby when someone turned up. It was February 1997. I’ve still got the leaflet about the whole process that was delivered at the time.

Indeed x

Yes. My brother got heat stroke and my grandpa made a thing for his baldy head with a hankie knotted at the corners 🤣

No. Too old for that! Fruit salads and blackjacks were 8 for a penny (by which I mean an old penny)!

When the local newsagents was closed, I was sent out to buy a packet of 10 Embassy from the ciggie machine outside the shop.

@alexdgr8 yes I remember Jubblees. They used to sell them at our local shop, called Alma's. I remember being allowed to walk down there with my brothers and the neighbours kids. They they were a lot bigger than the Sun Lollies you can get now. And they had a little foil hole in one of the corners so you could put a straw in and drink the melted ice.

I was just explaining what telephone books were to my son. I miss them - they were great for pressing flowers and being a mini step ladder! And you could actually find a company's telephone number and have it answered by a human.

They were called "wafers" from the "Ice cream man" (Always a man. Never knew any Ice cream Women)
Do you remember the BBC swirling globe when transition ended at midnight, followed by the Test Card girl?
Or switching over to Open University that ran overnight 😂

@Flicitytricity I remember getting a ride on my grandfather's motorcycle. On public roads, no helmet! I was very little at the time

Do you remember the coal strikes?

And Tupperware parties

Or for men to tear in half on Saturday night TV
Christ we were easy amused 70s

Do you remember Pippa Dee parties? We all had the stripey pyjamas.

I watched Terminator a few months ago so I think of them as the place the psycho killer can go to look up the address of the person he wants to murder. I think it's safer to press flowers in an atlas 🤣🤣

Do you remember using a mangle . I used to love doing the mangling.

@DustyMaiden the mangle! Also, the wash board.

Do remember when Instead of dialling the full
area code, for example, you could just put a 7 ?

I remember when it was 0456, and not 01456.

My next door neighbour didn’t have a telephone so we were their emergency uni contact number.

i think it was 456 then 0456 then 01456?
and the local number went from 5 digits to 6

Hot Ribena at school!

Oh, so many lovely memories here. I’m obviously of a similar vintage to many posters.

Do you remember (or maybe it was just in my house) that the only time you could have the telly on while eating was to watch Ski Sunday while having tea? What a treat. Pretty sure the only reason it was allowed was because Dad loved Ski Sunday. And tea was tea. Bread and butter, Shippams paste, and tomatoes from the garden. You could only have a chocolate biscuit (Viscount) once you’d had two slices of bread.