To say I was born in the early 70s

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So..

proper Gen X …

the thing that mark my generation out are this :

free school milk at breaks then said milk being taken away

music we were into typically Duran Duran, Wham, Culture Club

common for Dads to drive but not mums

The domestic sitcom - e.g Terry and June being popular when we were prime TV watching age

being at the cusp of the O Level/CSE / GCSE transition

SOME* Less academic kids did YTS - some of the more academic kids looked down their noses at this option

Disco Roller skates in vogue 🙌

VERY un PC language at school

if anyone’s a similar age to me, what are your memories!!

oh and we loved Swap Shop and a good annual !

Liverpool FC winning everything

Take on Me coming out as a single; that album was the first I ever bought.

The video for The Sun Always Shines on TV

MTV starting

Bros

Plastering my "playroom" as a teen with NKOTB posters

Smash Hits poll winners party

topshop

I voted YABU, because the experience of first jobs, YTS being the only thing available will differ between counties. I was born a bit earlier and had my teen/leaving school era during Thatcher's managed decline of Liverpool. The less able kids wasn't the only ones having to take YTS and unless your family could support you into higher education, or a move, you were stuck, especially girls.

Saturday Superstore's Search for a Super Star:

Oh it's orrible being in love when you're 8 and half
Got your picture on me wall
Got your name upon me scarf

And there was an anti smoking campaign with a baddie called Nick O'Teen, I had a badge

Aw now I DID love number 73!

My sister and I were gutted because we wanted the choir singing 'Scarlet Ribbons' to beat Claire and Friends. Though my sister did buy the single of 'It's 'Orrible Being in Love' after it won 😃

THE MINI POPS !!

Don’t lie - I bet you all wished you were on it 🤣

Probably already mentioned but the public information films that left you 😱

Also-

Why don't you?
The boy from space
King Rollo
Mr Ben
SuperGran
Ivor The Engine
Let's Pretend
Playschool
Bagpuss
Bricabrac
Button Moon (still song the theme tube regularly 😂)
Finger mouse
Morph
Moomins
Pigeon Street
Could go on and on....

Fish n Chips served in actual Newspaper.

E numbers in everything.

Hearing the milkman /milk float early hours and leaving empties on the doorstep.

Gosh we must be practically same age !

Being utterly transfixed by Michael Jackson's Thriller video.

Chucky Egg I loved that game!

I loved the current sandwich quiz! My brother and I once got into trouble for using up all of my nan's dried fruit playing our own version! :)

Apologies if someone has already mentioned it:

Duo Tan, which gave us lovely orange and white striped legs with especially dark orange knees because we didn’t know about pre tan exfoliation?

Looked great with the pencil skirt which I was always sewing up because it had split when running for a bus.

Oh and Petrol Stations before the days of self serve where they had an attendant and my dad shouting (nicely).out the window " fill her up please!" then paying cash to said attendant.

Ah yessssss!

I was just thinking of one such petrol station near where I was brought up but has just been an empty space for at least 20 years !!

at these stations you also got free drinking glasses /cups !!

Oh, the Dukes of Hazzard! Didn't the episodes always have a bit where a red car (?) did a jump in the air accompanied by a little fanfare? Or am I mixing that up with something else?
And The A-Team - I only ever watched the intro/titles but I'm sure I could recite the former word for word at one point (although I had no idea what a 'high-security stockade' was).

Sunday evening tea in front of the telly. Highway with Sir Harry Secombe. The Antiques Roadshow, a little later on.

I loved the various quiz and game shows - Blockbusters, The Krypton Factor, Bullseye, Play Your Cards Right, Catchphrase.

On E numbers - that (apparently fake) list that went round in the mid-80s warning of the dangers of said additives and a dash to remove them from foods. I remember 'no artificial additives' being a massive selling point after that.

Jem - truly outrageous (dolls and TV show).

Sindy dolls.

Strawberry Shortcake.

Charmkins.

Care Bears.

Storyteller magazine - came with a cassette tape of stories each month including Gobbolino the Witch's Cat.

Tiny Tears - who would wet her nappy and cry.

80 days around the world.

Press Gang with Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher.

Round The Twist.

Raccoons on Ice.

Tip Top fake cream dessert topping and Ice Magic that hardened on ice cream.

Lunchbox drinks with plastic sides and metal lids you had to push a straw through.

Sweets cost 1\2p - it was awful when they got rid of 1/2p coins and sweets doubled in price overnight.

Exclamation perfume in white bottle with exclamation mark on it.

Bath oil beads from the Body Shop shaped like animals, lips etc. that never dissolved properly.

The electric foot measuring machine at Clarks where the metal walls closed in on your foot.

Lots of people had kitchen storage/utensils shaped like the Homepride man with bowler hat.

Floral Pyrex dishes. Orange cake tins in "lollipop" design.

HOLLY HOBBY !

Blue Thunder, yes
Motorbike one - Street Hawk?

Only 3 TV channels. Watching One man and his dog (sheep dogs herding sheep) followed by Pot Black snooker program on BBC2.

watching Star Trek and thinking Captain Kirk was an absolute sleaze bag!

Trying desperately hard to get on jim’ll fix it.

watching westerns and genuinely fearing I’d die in quick sand

Just came into my head-

TV series- How we used to live, the episode I remember most is the one with the orange mini 🤷🏼‍♀️

Original Jelly shoes and Jelly bags.

Goomie bands- think they haddifferent names all over the country. I'm talking about the rubber bracelets that came in all kinds of fluro/neon colour.

Garage pail kids cards- Sicky Vicky anyone?

Garbage not Garage!

Garbage Pail Kids cards, Sicky Vicky anyone?

Haha yes !!

Does anyone remember Madballs? Glow in the dark balls that had faces on them?

This thread has got me in overdrive 😂😂😂

Blimey, yes! 3 channels and then along came channel 4. My parents were not fans so didn’t get to watch much of it.
My friend got to go on Jim’ll fix it. I was so jealous 😂
No internet and only knowing what was going on outside your own town was watching the news