Memories of the 70s-80s-90s

big soft moose said:
Totally off topic , but yesterday i discovered that with care you can inject peach schnapps into a jaffa cake , and it sort of combines with the orangey jelly without soaking into the sponge.
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Is this your way of announcing you're just about to become a mod? :suspect: :lol:
 
The banana bunch great tv prog and tiswas fantastic saturday mornings.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
Is this your way of announcing you're just about to become a mod? :suspect: :lol:
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No i'm finalising my plans for 'chatting up' Yv at the next convention

normally i'd just rely on my rugged manly charm and rough good looks, but I understand that there may only be a ... short... window of opportunity :lol:
 
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point blank said:
I miss the proper double decker buses with the open platform at the back so that you could jump on and off while the bus was moving. Imagine trying to get a design like that past the H&S culture we have now.
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I used to work for London Buses when they were still around (late 80s, early 90s), I even got to have a drive of a routemaster albeit just around the garage. Great buses.
 
Yves Geza said:
Fruit Salads or Black Jacks were four for an OLD penny!! :eek:

You've got to be really old to remember how to count in pounds, shillings and pence because you have to be old enough to have had pocket money before 1971!! :runaway:


..... here's an unashamed plug for a firm who sell 1970s sweets - albeit at 2012 prices!
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Oh yeah blackjacks i loved them. :clap:
 
pepi1967 said:
Oh yeah blackjacks i loved them. :clap:
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You can still get them Scott....Little sweetie shop here has them.
(They still turn your tongue black) :)
 
viv1969 said:
You can still get them Scott....Little sweetie shop here has them.
(They still turn your tongue black) :)
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:clap: that was the best bit. Playing kiss chase with the girls. Chasing them round with you black tongue hehe
 
Yves Geza said:
Fruit Salads or Black Jacks were four for an OLD penny!! :eek:

You've got to be really old to remember how to count in pounds, shillings and pence because you have to be old enough to have had pocket money before 1971!! :runaway:
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Hmm. My first pay packets - not pocket money - were in £sd, and I'm not that old!
 
sso you were at least 16 in 1971 - so you've got to now be at least 57 , trust me you're ancient :lol:
 
sherbet fountains :gag: hated those things
 
pepi1967 said:
:clap: that was the best bit. Playing kiss chase with the girls. Chasing them round with you black tongue hehe
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Vampire ice lollies did the same thing.:lol:
 
viv1969 said:
Vampire ice lollies did the same thing.:lol:
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Hehe forgot about vampire ice lollies :clap: And those wrinkled plastic tubes you could swing around your head and made the same kind of noise as you get blowing across the top of a bottle and those idiot mittens your mother made you wear. The ones with the string that went through your sleeve :D
 
pepi1967 said:
Hehe forgot about vampire ice lollies :clap: And those wrinkled plastic tubes you could swing around your head and made the same kind of noise as you get blowing across the top of a bottle and those idiot mittens your mother made you wear. The ones with the string that went through your sleeve :D
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Oh god...idiot mittens!

The connecting string was never long enough so when you pointed to the left, your right hand would smack you in the mouth. :lol:

Come to think of it, maybe my parents shortened the string on purpose just have a bit of a giggle. Oh god now I feel suspicious, but I can't ask them as I'm a 42 year old orphan :thinking:
 
viv1969 said:
Oh god...idiot mittens!

The connecting string was never long enough so when you pointed to the left, your right hand would smack you in the mouth. :lol:

Come to think of it, maybe my parents shortened the string on purpose just have a bit of a giggle. Oh god now I feel suspicious, but I can't ask them as I'm a 42 year old orphan :thinking:
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And if you grew quicker than your parents adjusted the length of the string you walked down the street like a bodybuilder :D
 
viv1969 said:
Oh god...idiot mittens!

The connecting string was never long enough so when you pointed to the left, your right hand would smack you in the mouth. :lol:

Come to think of it, maybe my parents shortened the string on purpose just have a bit of a giggle. Oh god now I feel suspicious, but I can't ask them as I'm a 42 year old orphan :thinking:
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Chris L said:
And if you grew quicker than your parents adjusted the length of the string you walked down the street like a bodybuilder :D
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I didn't have mittens, I had gloves and they were on elastic, so no problems as I grew.:thumbs:
 
Not sure what they were called, but they were often a freebie given away on comics in the 70's. It was a triangular piece of card, folded in half with a smaller sized piece of triangular brown paper stuck to the sides of the open end of the card triangle, then folded inside. The card was held on the folded end with the opposite end slightly open. This was then swung rapidly downwards the air filled the paper end pulling i tout resulting in a loud cracking bang noise. Anyone remember them?
 
nilagin said:
Not sure what they were called, but they were often a freebie given away on comics in the 70's. It was a triangular piece of card, folded in half with a smaller sized piece of triangular brown paper stuck to the sides of the open end of the card triangle, then folded inside. The card was held on the folded end with the opposite end slightly open. This was then swung rapidly downwards the air filled the paper end pulling i tout resulting in a loud cracking bang noise. Anyone remember them?
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Yes, I remember them...I seem to have the name of "Thunderclap" in my mind...you can probably get cream for it these days! I remember saving up my pocket money until I could get enough postal orders so I could join the Dennis the Menace & Gnasher fan club. There was a little wallet with something I can't remember in it and two badges, including a Gnasher badge that had jiggly eyes and fake fur around the edge :D
 
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nilagin said:
Not sure what they were called, but they were often a freebie given away on comics in the 70's. It was a triangular piece of card, folded in half with a smaller sized piece of triangular brown paper stuck to the sides of the open end of the card triangle, then folded inside. The card was held on the folded end with the opposite end slightly open. This was then swung rapidly downwards the air filled the paper end pulling i tout resulting in a loud cracking bang noise. Anyone remember them?
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Yes i do. We called them paper snaps im sure that wasnt the real name though.
 
Anyone remember the goodies tv show. Tim brooke taylor and bill oddie?
 
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fabs said:
A good authour was Graham Greene but not a Goodie. Graham Garden I think you may have meant. ;)
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:bonk: yes thats it
 
I haven't had so much fun since Jack Kerouac replaced Humphrey Lyttelton on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue! :whistling:
 
multi coloured swap shop
 
Chris L said:
A mate of mine had a Grifter though I preferred my Sun GT10 racer...unlike my mate's Grifter the foam seat didn't fall apart :D

Memories from the '70's -

Being bought my first stereo for Christmas so my father didn't have to panic about whether I was going to ruin the stylus on his fancy stereo

Trying to get my Evel Knievil Stunt Cycle to go over the jump I'd made rather than into my father's flowerbeds :D

Terry Wogan doing the Breakfast Show on Radio 1!
Swimming in the river and making rope swings
Abba & Pink Floyd in the charts
Superbazooka bubble gum
Mojo chews (2 for 1/2p)
Spangles


Memories from the '80's (roughly in chronological order)

John Lennon being murdered
Watching the news footage of rioting in '80 & '81 in St Pauls, Brixton & Toxteth as well as others
Watching 18 cert videos whilst underaged (Dawn of the Dead & Quadrophenia stick in my mind)
Falklands war
Getting a fishtail parka and bowling shoes
The miners strike in the news and footage on the news of running battles between the police and strikers
Dreaming of getting a Vespa for my 16th birthday
Joe Dolce's "Shaddup your face" keeping Ultravox's Vienna from #1:gag:
Recording Bruno Brookes doing the Top 40 countdown on Sunday afternoon/evening (I don't know whether kids today care but it really seemed to matter to us)
Trying my first cigarette
Seeing my first dirty magazine
School discos when all the lads would sit in groups at the edge of the dance floor :cuckoo:
Baggy white shirts, pleated jeans, gold spray on hair highlights & white pointy shoes :$
Football Trendies :lol::cuckoo:
Live Aid
First time getting pished in a pub (16th Birthday...I looked older evidently)
My best mate joining the Army
Choosing to get a car rather than a scooter :cuckoo:
Nelson Mandella being freed
My first car (White R reg Vauxhall Chevette)
Sitting in the passenger seat of said car when some loon came round the corner on the wrong side of the road, hitting us and totalling my car before I'd got a chance to drive it on my own:(
My first hot hatch (Renault 5 Gordini in electric blue):love:
Sitting my GCE's :eek:
Going to college and boarding in digs through the week
Going to the pub (legally) with my mates and playing darts and getting pished...I know what you're thinking...we really knew how to live eh?:lol:
Tiananmen Square massacre
The Berlin Wall coming down

Memories from the '90's

Poll Tax Riots
Getting my first job and hating it
Getting my second job and quitting my first job
Getting my HGV licence
Sega Megadrive & SNES
A few more hot hatches (Scirocco GTI and Renault 11 Turbo being the pick of them)
Atari STFM and Speedball II
Getting my first PC and getting online with Screamin Net
Discovering IRC and ICQ
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Mandela being freed in the 80's.....??????:shrug: Damn I am sure it was..Feb 1990



and no admins "I did not include 13 smilies in my message... just copied and pasted!"
 
Lynton said:
Mandela being freed in the 80's.....??????:shrug: Damn I am sure it was..Feb 1990



and no admins "I did not include 13 smilies in my message... just copied and pasted!"
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:D
 
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