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

Sunday tea buffet
football pools
angel delight
crispy pancakes
Clearasil soap that burned your face
vosene shampoo as a kid then Timotei as a teenager
perms that needed a whole lot of
mousse and scrunch

And me. I bloody hated that clown, but my mum loved it. 🙄

YY @Projectme the Black Beauty theme tune is like a Time Machine back to the 80s!

Dior Poison and CK Obsession

Summer of 76 and cracked pavements. Also millions of ladybirds!

Dogs wandering around freely

White dog poo

Black and white TV - 3 channels

No seatbelts in the back of cars and not worn in the front

The pop man

Snow! Lots and lots of it and deep

Taping the charts on a Sunday evening

Going to discos and drinking draft fizzy orange pop

Milk man and pools man coming round on a Thursday

HUGE phone directories!

looking through them to find your crush’s phone number!

Board rubbers were heavy hardwood with compacted felt for the ''rubber'' part.
Also teachers chucking bits of chalk at people chatting- but kids were so well behaved in school then.

A bit of chatting, and that was it.

Oh goodness me yes! Nick Stone! Christchurch road .... swoon. {He went to St Paul's Boys} are any of you married to him?!

Sadly not!

I remember them well and I still have a crush on Anthony Head, especially in the TV series Merlin >>swoon<<

Oo no he was naff & middle aged. My ad crushes were the guys in the Levi’s ads.

No I may have known him though, How old are you?

All of that except I was a Tiswas kid, Swap shop was considered posh amongst my friends 😆

People who jogged being pointed and stared at.
Women drivers getting a lot of horrific verbal abuse.
The smell of wet wool and cigarette smoke on crowded buses.

Born in 1971. It felt like a decade of opportunity, prosperity and colour after the 70’s which were quite cold and life was hard. But that may be because we moved from a house with no central heating to a new build when I was 12.

A couple of my friends mums did work full time. (though it wasn't the norm). I have a memory of a good friend's mum returning home from her office job one day wearing a very glamorous shoulder padded jacket and green nail polish.

I did a YTS apprenticeship. I had no idea this was looked down upon. I don't think any of my friends looked down on that. I did well in my career.

The 1980’s culture was big, fun and colourful. Life seemed much simpler.

I remember most of that, but not the free milk or YTS. Most of my friends mums (along with my own) didn’t work, but they did drive and many had cars.

I remember smash hits ‘magazine’ being delivered weekly, and being on the paper bill as ‘S/hits’ which used to made my dad chuckle. People had children younger, and I remember that we (lived in a village) had a lot of freedom to go out and play with friends.

But then I also remember the home computer arriving quite early (spectrum), and the a cast off IBM PC making its way back from Dad’s office. He had a car phone by the late 80s, with a curly cable. And company cars. A new one every two years.

We didn't really have any fizzy drinks at home, but I remember angel delight being a regular desert. As were baked apples. Lasagne / Moussaka / Shepard’s pie, home made, were post school meals. School lunch was terrible, and there was always the option of half a grapefruit, with a glace cherry and a mountain of granulated sugar on as a desert 😂

Then there was the Laura Ashley wallpaper and curtains, and the arrival of the Next catalogue.

The Walkman was revelation, and replaced the ghetto blaster which you recorded the ones you wanted to from the charts on Sunday evening. As you got older the ghetto blaster was replaced by a HiFi stack system. Turntable, tuner, graphic equaliser, CD player and speakers. All in black. Blue LCD display (Sony) or orange.

The clothes and hair are best forgotten 🤣

TV programmes like Rockschool, Wait Til Your Father Gets Home, Why Don't You, strange Open University modules hosted by men in brown polyester shown when BBC2 was on afternoon closedown, Picture Box (which scared the living daylights out of me with that rotating casket and freaky music), Paint Along With Nancy and a Sunday morning Granada show called Aap Kaa Hak which was entirely in Urdu and often the only thing on that wasn't a religious broadcast.

Pedal pushers
Wagon wheels were huge
Melting tarmac in the heat
Horrible free nhs specs
Flicked hair like Princess Di
Findus crispy pancakes
Watching carry on films
George and Mildred, Mind your Language, Are You Being Served
Jackie, just 17
Bunty, twinkle
Smash hits
Smash tv aliens

Can't believe no one's mentioned NME or Bunty.

CHiPs and Fame on a Saturday early evening. Also A team but never really liked that.

Findus crispy pancakes

Seeing a-ha as my first concert - they played locally and I reckon about 30% of the school year went.

Twinkle.

The first issue came with a dainty little ring with a pale blue "gem".

It directly influenced my first thoughts of a career in nursing - due to Nurse Nancy. I had the whole uniform and only stopped wanting to be a nurse when I realised women could have other jobs. I am not a nurse lol.

In later years, Misty was my favourite - and I did become a witch 😆

AHA was my first concert too! Swoon! 🥰
Manchester I think!

Enid Blyton, teachers hitting kids, actually any vaguely related adults hitting you, chopper bikes, scratchy wool blankets, brown/orange things, bare brick wallpaper 🤣.

Ooh yes the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, I loved that. And does anyone remember The Box of Delights?
And the wheeled TV - The Way We Used to Live was my favourite.

Wrestling on the TV on Sunday afternoon
Rented TV
No remote control
No central heating

Wrestling on the TV on Sunday afternoon
Rented TV
No remote control
No central heating