To want to know something you've experienced that current/future generations won't.

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I'm throwing in the disgusting smell of telephone boxes.
Smoking and/or drinking at work

Looking up Video Plus codes in the paper and the recording sometimes cutting off before the end.

Going to the Edinburgh Festival fringe, after phoning around to find somewhere to stay, then sending a cheque for the first night as a deposit, having the programme sent in the post, and phoning up to book tickets.

Steve Coogan won the Perrier Award that year.

Now that’s one thing my 11 year old has experienced!! Although nowadays she does like to listen to an audiobook whilst travelling, she was quite content when younger just to watch the world go by!

Oh yes my Fiat Panda Rio? Special addition had one - which was fun!

This - and no seat belts.

Just four channels on TV

Having no remote to change the channel.

Far less traffic on the roads

No NHS issues.

Metal bins carried by binmen on their back

Coalbunkers and coal being delivered.

Ironmongers who would sell you one nail if you wished.

Marks and Spencer Dairy and Deli Hall.

Travelling in the boot of an estate car waving at the people behind, sitting on laps in the back of normal cars so you could all fit in

phys queuing for gig tickets, sometimes with a camping chair and thermos

What is a plug on if it's not a chain? An apple i-chain?

Credit card machines with the triplicate paper that took an image of the card and the cashier filled in the details in biro.

“Physically”

Visit Venice. Might be under more water by the time my kids grow up.

And yes to blockbuster video, recording the charts, having photos printed.

The freedom of less tech, and also the responsibility of being where you said at the time you said to meet someone. No flaking out and sending a text!

Less porn everywhere - normalising some practices and aesthetics.

Less plastic surgery or procedures like lip fillers etc accessible to anyone, and currently normalised.

If you were a girl who liked toy cars you were just a tom boy!

Bane of my life - always ripped or failed to copy!

Having to change channel on the colour and only TV in the house not only by walking up to it but tuning the channel in with the dial! I remember the luxury of when it changed to being able to push the button for the pre-tuned in channels - all 3 of them 🤣

Having to buy and fit plugs to electrical items as they where sold separately

Being off sick from school & being really happy there was a couple of hours of programmes for schools on the TV to break up the boredom.

Your hair and all your clothes reeking of smoke after a night out even if you didn't smoke, so having to have a shower as soon as you got in and leave your disgusting smoky clothes outside your room until you could get to the laundrette (this was when I was a student).

Trying to press record at just the right time on your cassette player to make sure you didn't get too much of the DJ talking over the track.

Using a telex machine and a manual, golf ball or daisy wheel typewriter.

Choccy bars that were a decent size and not containing palm oil.
Buying a quarter of your fav sweets from a big jar.
Having to cover your school books in brown paper.
Scrumping apples from the orchard.
Being excited when the Freemans catalogue arrived so you could make your Christmas wish list.
Writing and posting letters.
Getting letters back and postcards !
Having penfriends.
Using a cheque book.

Sending messages by Telex, the crushing disappointment when Blockbusters had rented out the film you wanted to see

Politicians that don't act like 12 year olds.

Teletex Bamboozle

One of our local farmers used to run a taxi service back from The Dance on a Saturday night with his tractor and hay trailer! About 15 of us stacked together in the trailer. Halcyon days ...

Walking around your local town centre and seeing only people who look like you, dress like you, sound like you, share your culture and speak the same language as you.

I’m absolutely not suggesting that today’s diversity is a bad thing, just that it’s a completely different world from the one in which I grew up in Derbyshire in the 1980s.

Losing all my friends at a Festival and not finding them again until morning (I had some brilliant nights doing that). Meeting amazing people while travelling around the world and either putting their address somewhere so we could write or never seeing them again. Being given a mixtape knowing how much work went into it. The dial up noise. No social media growing up (thank God)