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

Our teacher organised a protest about the milk. I remember parading around the infants' playground carrying a banner.

Fame was unbelievable when it came out ( 🥰Bruno) first the film, then the weekly show. Leroy was the bad boy everyone loved.

also really good quality BBC docs such as Horizon, Panorama and anthropological programmes on different parts of the world and their people all done in the same reverent tone as Attenborough.

plus who could forget this girl

@FancyAReallyLongUsernameJustForAChange that was it! I loved the mint one!

Ra-ra skirts
Cha-cha skirts
Pedal pushers ,frilly collar elaborate front n cuffs
Oh gawd, in rich colour velvet with co ordered waistcoat (thanks ma) patent shoes with wood heel's n buckles
Flouressnt Sox,mid matched
I wasn't allowed but "streaks" in hair.
Whoa! Flashback alert, woulda bin late. 70s, prob first time actual requested clothes of own choosing. I should of smelled a rat cos mum bounced"ask your father".. I did... ruined Sunday lunch entirely.he didn't just say. 'no'' response in included mild rant no way he goin out break back work n provide nice house food clothes for his beautiful family so I could throw it in his face n bring shame n disrepute dressing like a convict.mostly that went over my head...
I musta pulled full tears cos following week s Sunday lunch (having quickly got changed post being dragged to church) I proudly sat in my fadey proper flared wranglers n a cheeky wee cheesecloth shirt. Grinning Amma ratbag,he never got used to us in. Denim
He was from a different time eh

Specific to me but a maths teacher we called String Vester Stallone cos you could see it through his shirt. What was the point of string vests?
The nonchalant attitude parents had about the local flasher😕

The Fox and the Hound 😪 Absolutely broke my heart ( and I had the sticker book - stickers were so popular)

Picture Box……blimey….the music was a bit freaky 🥴 Absolutely loved Auf Weidersehen Pet, especially Oz, being particularly disgusting and funny at the same time. Electric blue mascara Elnett hairspray (sorry ozone layer) Ravel shoes Loved Toyah when she first arrived on the scene; Duran Duran, then most definitely A-Ha. Most definitely seeing the blackboard rubber being chucked at the naughty lads in the class. O levels. Remembering the ads on tv when AIDS was on the go. Deffo being looked down on if you were YTS…..

All my friends' mums drove, but lots didn't work, or worked PT for their husbands.

Anyone remember "Gentle Ben"

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Why Don't You.

@SusannaNW9 I had a Saturday job at Freeman Hardy Willis. They were crap. Dolcis were top of the tree within the British Shoe Corporation. I think there was also Trumans and Curtis. They were taken over by the American brand Sears in the late 80's.

I remember Smash Hits announcing that one of their staff members was leaving to pursue a music career. It was Neil Tennant.

Willo The Wisp.

Dr Snuggles.

Batfink.

Grange Hill
Bullseye
This is your life
Playing tights ..Thinking we were the dancers from the Malcolm Maclarren video!
2 oz of boiled sweets from the shop
Texas bars
tinned fruit and carnation cream on sundays
vesta curry
FREEDOM
My beloved cabbage patch kids
Going to spain for 17 days on the coach, camping for £99.00
No cars!

The Tufty Club!

Birds Trifle with hundreds and thousands
Mind your language
Queens silver jubilee street party
Charles and Diana wedding (I saw her dress when it went on tour)
Knightrider, Chips - the cop programme,
Roland Rat & Kevin
fluorescent orange and green socks (one on each foot to be cool)
spangles
rubix cube, ET,
small silver stick men/balance ornaments
lava lamps
teasmade
sodastream/soda siphon
“choose life” T-shirt (always wanted one, never got one)
School Summer holidays that seemed to last forever
Jackie magazine
Secret 7/famous 5 books
Grease, (although I wasn’t allowed to watch as it was too risqué)
Sunday school
Fox and the Hound film
Danger mouse
Dallas, Dynasty, Colbies
Minder
Star Wars
Grange Hill
Berni Inns (the height of sophistication)

The generation game
Buck Rodgers
321,dusty bin
Actual' family event - royal variety show
Minder
Going to Bernie inn.(Utilising salad bar/ parents give kids babycham at new years.
(Clue was not in title! We musta bin smashed. Sure at uni two pints cider n babysham = drunk
Chicken in a basket (sing ala message in a bottle) scampi ina clamshell
Snoods. . . Ha! One winter they were everywhere. Like oversized polo bit of polo neck pull over head outdoors OR casually rock the rumfled down thing I doors(?)

Chicken in a basket

Oooh, I used to love chicken in a basket - a proper wicker basket with a red paper napkin, the chicken nestled within mounds of chips and soused in vinegar!

ice on the inside of our bedroom windows/no central heating just a coal fire
buying 50 pence worth of ice cream from the van when you took your mums dish to fill !

Being able to be different as a teen. I was a teddy boy, mates were skin heads, mods, rockers, goths, casuals. Music was so very wide range and anything was possible...a lot was actually made by the bands.

We played outside.

Parents were parents
If the police/your mates parents/neighbours/parents friends saw you doing wrong they told you off and you worried about your parents funding out.
You cleaned up after yourself....even the road/lane/field/park you played on.
You could always find something to do
Daytime tv was shocking, the cedar tree/Sullivan's followed by the news. Then painting with Nancy, the crown court...I'd give a million to sit and watch it again

I remember the leg warmers, inspired by the tv show Fame.

I was 13, I'd saved up for ages and bought some, I felt so trendy.

Then the boy I really liked but had never spoken too, came over to talk to me at youth club.
He just said 'it looks like your pants have fallen down' and looked at my leg warmers and walked off.

I was broken. I was so sure my leg warmers would make me look cool.

Watching Grease at the cinema and never seeing anything like it before. Talking about it in the playground and singing the songs.

Gosh yes I remember the Tufty Club. Until very recently I misremembered it as Rufty Tufty but I stand corrected!
I still know many landline numbers by heart.
Lost in space on a Sunday (awful program tbh)
Star Trek
Blake's Seven
Battlestar Galactica
The Fall Guy, A Team, Dukes of Hazard, Knight Rider.
I do remember Gentle Ben but was a bit boring (much like Lassie and the Littlest Hobo).

I was born in the late '60s and nearly all the original ones are true for me!

I think school milk was scrapped after I'd stopped having it though.

There was no TV at home until I was 11, although I think that was unusual.

Most of my friends didn't have a telephone until our teens.

Days off school because of snow when the school bus couldn't get through 👏🏻

Not really remembering 'old' money.

Penny or ha'penny sweets!

Most mums being 'housewives'.

Regular power cuts.

a-ha here too - first concert at Bercy in Paris. We thought we were so grown up and sophisticated. It was a magnificent evening.

The following day, my schoolfriends and I saw Magne on our way home from classe. (No stalking, honestly!) We followed him practically the entire length of the Champs Elysees. Doubt he’s been back to France since!

All the tigs!
off ground tig, scarecrow tig, shadow tig, team tig and...tig!

Grange Hill. Daring storylines about drugs and teen pregnancy (my Friend s mum wouldn't let her watch it)

Key round my neck on a chain for letting myself in after school. No mobile phone so if I forgot my key I sat on the step till parents got home.

I HATED school milk and gave mine to my cousin in the year below at lunch.

"Heating s broken down today kids you can keep your coats on" said by many a teacher during winter months.

I think it was cheaper to phone your friends after 6pm? Coz that's when we had to wait to use the phone.

Paraffin heaters in our dining room at home.

Everyone smoked indoors.

Bunty. Whizzer and Chips. Girl. Jackie. Nikki magazines. Cathy and Claire problem page first bit we read.

School discos. Aerobics for PE.

Things that cost something and a half pee.

Pound notes. (I had one as an "emergency" to get home if needed)

Culture club. Wham. Pet shop boys. The cure.
Debbie Harry. Music you could dance to.

Christmas Annuals of your fave comic

Only dating people you met through school/hobbies/friends etc as no Internet.
My Friend had a secret boyfriend she met from CB radio.

Good tv. Minder on a Monday night. Tenko on Thursday dallas on Wednesday and casualty on Saturday.

Power cuts.
Threat of nuclear war.
Watching Threads at school.
Live Aid.
Scary adverts the AIDS don't die of ignorance and Heroin screws you up.

But despite the bad bits good times and more of a sense of community.

The joy of finding a faulty phone box so you could make unlimited calls. Usually by putting a 20p which got registered but dropped out again.