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Can your remember these ?
- Shops closed on Sundays.
- Pipkins
- Penny mix (15 - 20 sweets mind u)
- 50p pocket money being a fortune
- Football Clubs changing their kits every ten years
- The layer of cream on top of a pint of gold top
- When you had to buy The Radio AND TV Times at Christmas to get a list of all the Channels
- the only phone you have is connected to the wall in your hallway
- only having 3 or maybe even 4 TV channels and some only start at 10am
- not having a car available during the day while dad was at work
- the test card
- The white dot when you turned the TV off.
- hot water bottles
- real leather footballs (so heavy that when wet they wouldn't move no matter how hard you kicked them)
- putting Dubbin on your footy boots
- Choppers, Chippers and Tomahawks
- Huge yellow tonka toys
- Taping the top 40 and trying to cut off Tony Blackburn.
- Grey tennis [censored]
- The Goodies
- Pink custard
- Getting money back on Corona bottles
- Shoot's league ladders
- Roy of the Rovers
- Bread and Dripping for breakfast.
If you can - then you are of a certain age.......anything you miss or remember fondly from your youth ?
😀 lol: 😀
How about Monkey and The Water Margin on BBC2
Top Deck Shandy
Blakes 7
ZX80's and ZX81's
when computer programming only involved 10 Print Mike is Great
20 Goto 10
loading computer games from tape and the high pitched ear bleeding wheeeee noises they made when loading.
Yep im old... 😆 😆
I loved my ZX81.... wish i'd not sold it at a car boot sale for £10
Also i think i had a Boxer bike - my mates had the Striker and Grifters (with 3 gears they were 'it').... does that make me slightly younger though??
I had completely forgotton about pink custard 😮
😀
My kids were complaining that there was nothing on TV the other day - what with over 200 channels to choose from. I told them that when I was their age there were 3 channels and one of which only worked for half a day.
How old do you think I felt?
😕
PS I had a Commodore 64!!! 😆
btw, I had a ZX81 that crashed sooooooo often. And just typing this reminds me of the intermittent keyboard 'press buttons' and the wonderful loading/saving sounds 😎 )
interesting! I must be from before? I only remember my PE shorts which were no different from school uniform the only difference was the colour. 😀 D
Shops closed on Sundays?
I remember them being closed on Wednesday afternoons 😥
[censored] yes I remember Shops closing on an afternoon midweek 😀
Football kits didn't wear sponcers
What about the only football on TV was Match of the Day or the Big Match!!!
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