FabGuys.com forum: Nostalgia..things from your childhood/yesteryear you remember? Or miss?

By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
4 weeks ago

Warminster

A thread about cards replacing cash got me thinking about things from yesteryear that have gone by the wayside...things you remember but you don't see much at all now if not at all, doesn't have to be but could be things you remember with fondness that you miss?

Lard

TCP

Phones that you had to finger dial with that big clockwork ring

Verucas

What happened to verucas? Did they cure them... like smallpox?

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By *pa2024Man
4 weeks ago

Pembrokeshire

White dog poop....don't see that anymore

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By *attersbyMan
4 weeks ago

cotswold

White shopkeepers

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By *irtyfacesMan
4 weeks ago

near

"White shopkeepers

👍

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By *attersbyMan
4 weeks ago

cotswold

Foot baths at the swimming pool

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By *ral b..Man
4 weeks ago

Proper jam roly poly ..

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
4 weeks ago

Warminster

Me and my mates used to love getting a verucas. We used to chase the girls and when we caught one, the joy of the slow foot sock unsheathing, then the rubbing over the face!

"No" "no" "stop" "not the eyes"

Boys!!

Liked them until they stopped you from swimming club, previously you could wear flip flops 😭

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By *oxymusicMan
4 weeks ago

Cowbridge

Tooty Fruties

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bedford

Lava bread in barrels at the market xx

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
4 weeks ago

Warminster

My mum's treacle steamed pudding

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By *ikeitrealMan
4 weeks ago

huercal overa SPAIN

Proper wrestling on TV Saturday afternoon

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
4 weeks ago

Warminster

My mum's home shopping catalogues

Although gay (ISH) I was fascinated by all sex and I remember going to the ladies underwear part of her Kays and Freemans catalogues. Looking for the see through knickers for a hint of pubes!!?

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By *ral b..Man
4 weeks ago

Flared jeans

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By *ishop666Man
4 weeks ago

ls19

Happy to forget about that

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
4 weeks ago

Warminster

My action men.... especially when I got the 'bear' one with a beard..he was smoking hot....called tom stone maybe?

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By *ugged NorthernerMan
4 weeks ago

North East

The insurance man coming round collecting insurance money

Milkman on his Milkfloat

Using the pay phone to phone someone and hearing the beeps as the money was running out

Getting up to turn over the portable TV that only had 3 channels

Hearing people talk about Tupperware parties

Roll down windows on Cars

Dustmen carrying the metal dustbins up the Garden Path

Seeing Policemen on the Beat and being shot scared when you saw one

10 pence Mixups

Collecting Pop Bottles and taking them back to the shop for the money

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By *0yguyMan
4 weeks ago

Cumbria

The co-op book

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By *upertedMan
4 weeks ago

Nelson

"A thread about cards replacing cash got me thinking about things from yesteryear that have gone by the wayside...things you remember but you don't see much at all now if not at all, doesn't have to be but could be things you remember with fondness that you miss?

Lard

TCP

Phones that you had to finger dial with that big clockwork ring

Verucas

What happened to verucas? Did they cure them... like smallpox?"

I still do chips 🍟 in lard. A block at Lidl is only 50p.

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By *oxymusicMan
4 weeks ago

Cowbridge

When Christmas was special.

David Bowie.

Old ladies with a zip up the middle of their comfy, slipper like shoes.

Men smoking pipes.

Benny Hill.

Black football boots/refs in black.

Kojak/Columbo/Streets of San Francisco.

TOTP.

Hokey Cokey at Butlins.

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By *ugged NorthernerMan
4 weeks ago

North East

Lard

TCP

Phones that you had to finger dial with that big clockwork ring

Verucas

What happened to verucas? Did they cure them... like smallpox?

I still do chips 🍟 in lard. A block at Lidl is only 50p."

Best chips ever 👌

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By *d seekerMan
4 weeks ago

Skelmersdale

YO Yo s

Not as in Hello Wats apin in ?

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bedford

Shops closed on Sunday xx

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By *dstefiMan
4 weeks ago

Solihull

The mobile shop. Overpriced and not much choice but it stopped outside your house.

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By *oxymusicMan
4 weeks ago

Cowbridge

"Shops closed on Sunday xx "

Half day Wednesday

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By *ldergent321Man
4 weeks ago

South Coast

"The insurance man coming round collecting insurance money

Milkman on his Milkfloat

Using the pay phone to phone someone and hearing the beeps as the money was running out

Getting up to turn over the portable TV that only had 3 channels

Hearing people talk about Tupperware parties

Roll down windows on Cars

Dustmen carrying the metal dustbins up the Garden Path

Seeing Policemen on the Beat and being shot scared when you saw one

10 pence Mixups

Collecting Pop Bottles and taking them back to the shop for the money

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They are certainly good memories

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bedford

Spending days and nights at the beach where I lived as a kid xx

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By *ondonjeansMan
4 weeks ago

London WC1

In the days before mobile devices existed, making a firm arrangement by phone to meet someone at a certain time and place, and both actually being there (give or take a few minutes)...

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By *ugged NorthernerMan
4 weeks ago

North East

"Spending days and nights at the beach where I lived as a kid xx "

Love this 😊

I use to spend a lot of my youth at the beach and would often sit and listen to the waves crash on the beach just as the sun was setting

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bedford

"Spending days and nights at the beach where I lived as a kid xx

Love this 😊

I use to spend a lot of my youth at the beach and would often sit and listen to the waves crash on the beach just as the sun was setting "
yeah pure magic x

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By *ugged NorthernerMan
4 weeks ago

North East

"Spending days and nights at the beach where I lived as a kid xx

Love this 😊

I use to spend a lot of my youth at the beach and would often sit and listen to the waves crash on the beach just as the sun was setting yeah pure magic x

Yep 👍 and I still do it now when I need to clear my head and get away from everyone

It’s great for the soul 😊

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By *oxymusicMan
4 weeks ago

Cowbridge

"White dog poop....don't see that anymore "

I believe that’s because canned dog food back in the day was poor quality.

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By *55uk4yngrMan
4 weeks ago

Chester

Dirty old men hanging around phoneboxes. Mobile phones have fucked that!

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By *hisMeMan
4 weeks ago

Forfar, Angus

TCP? - Use it regularly

Phones that you had to finger dial with that big clockwork ring? - Have one, still works...

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By *oxymusicMan
4 weeks ago

Cowbridge

"TCP? - Use it regularly

Phones that you had to finger dial with that big clockwork ring? - Have one, still works..."

Yes, always keep TCP in cabinet

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By *oxymusicMan
4 weeks ago

Cowbridge

Eiderdowns

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
4 weeks ago

Warminster

I came across it at a friend's house after not seeing it for literally decades...I thought it had disappeared.

It used to cure everything, mum was always getting it out and you had to stink of it at school the next day...few spots tcp...sore throat TCP...broken leg "where's the TCP?"

Dad's having a stroke "can someone grab the TCP'

Oh that smell that lasted for days if not weeks.

Im surprised they didn't test it with COVID

Is it expensive?

Any shop brand knock offs available nowadays?

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By *manMan
4 weeks ago

wiltshire near stapleford

"White shopkeepers

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I quite often see white, British, shopkeepers and shop workers. Also still hear from racists pricks, so no change there

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By *hubbyGinger76Man
4 weeks ago

Halesowen

Mens mags in bushes in the park

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
4 weeks ago

Warminster

Phones that you had to finger dial with that big clockwork ring? - Have one, still works..."

Wonder if it's worth owt?

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By *MB9Man
4 weeks ago

Northampton

Spangles

White dog poo...what happened to it?!

Shit loads of snow

Chopper bikes

Capris

Clubcall

Stylophone

Crackerjack

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By *eepeter4Man
4 weeks ago

Bournemouth

Every Countryside village or town had a Claud Greengrass ,(Heartbeat ) look alike who always up to something.

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
4 weeks ago

Warminster

"Spangles

White dog poo...what happened to it?!

Shit loads of snow

Chopper bikes

Capris

Clubcall

Stylophone

Crackerjack "

Always wanted a Capri...pretend to be dukes of hazard and do bonet slides

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By *MB9Man
4 weeks ago

Northampton

"Spangles

White dog poo...what happened to it?!

Shit loads of snow

Chopper bikes

Capris

Clubcall

Stylophone

Crackerjack

Always wanted a Capri...pretend to be dukes of hazard and do bonet slides"

Always wanted to be Terry from Minder with his white Capri

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By *ucker.27Man
4 weeks ago

Swansea West

Green Shield stamps

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By *eepeter4Man
4 weeks ago

Bournemouth

Market day bus service from out laying village's and Hamlets for example you could always tell it was market day in Dorchester or Ringwood with all the buses parked up ready to take the shopper home.

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By *ugged NorthernerMan
4 weeks ago

North East

"Every Countryside village or town had a Claud Greengrass ,(Heartbeat ) look alike who always up to something."

Claud Greengrass was my favourite character he was always up to some dodgy dealings with Alfred his dog by his side

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By *manMan
4 weeks ago

wiltshire near stapleford

Only 3 channels on the telly, the test card, black and white telly. Radio that needed to be tuned in, trying to find radio Luxembourg! Buying your favourite single, 45's . Woolworths, pick n mix, and of course lots of cottages for fun times!

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By *eepeter4Man
4 weeks ago

Bournemouth

Kiwi Save supermarket's

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By *ttmcdguyTV/TS
4 weeks ago

"Spangles

White dog poo...what happened to it?!

Shit loads of snow

Chopper bikes

Capris

Clubcall

Stylophone

Crackerjack

Always wanted a Capri...pretend to be dukes of hazard and do bonet slides

Always wanted to be Terry from Minder with his white Capri

When you see how eye wateringly expensive a capri is nowadays I think the very last thing you would want to do with it would be to slide across the bonnet

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
4 weeks ago

Warminster

"Spangles

White dog poo...what happened to it?!

Shit loads of snow

Chopper bikes

Capris

Clubcall

Stylophone

Crackerjack

Always wanted a Capri...pretend to be dukes of hazard and do bonet slides

Always wanted to be Terry from Minder with his white Capri

When you see how eye wateringly expensive a capri is nowadays I think the very last thing you would want to do with it would be to slide across the bonnet

Obviously I'd be wearing an extremely thick onesie to avoid scratches

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By *xtraoneMan
4 weeks ago

Gloucester

Clear blue skies in summer with no contrails to spoil it.

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By *al423Man
4 weeks ago

Stoke-on-Trent

Living in a house with no central heating, no hot water tap, no bathroom, tin bath hanging on a nail outside, toilet outside at the top of the yard, playing football in the street or climbing the coal heaps at the pit at the end of the road and pitching coal for the fire at home, oh the good old days , no wonder I went in the army at 16

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By *iscreetly100Man
4 weeks ago

lancashire

Littlewoods or Vernon's football pools

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By *ootsockMan
4 weeks ago

Earl's Court, London

The smell of people, and cigarette smoke, almost everywhere, overpoweringly in some places

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By *unlad777Man
4 weeks ago

Cornwall

Woolworths

Blockbuster Video Rentals

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By *operamMan
4 weeks ago

Bournemouth

Steam Trains station and old toilets and the fun fish and chips in old newspapers with real salt and vinegar

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By *avenMan
4 weeks ago

Street

Mothballs.Guess moths don't have them, now 😁

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By *abreukMan
4 weeks ago

orrell

Weekly pop deliveries with pineapple ,American dream side , dandelion and burdock and the rest

Duncan's walnut whip whose filling was yellowish not like the white filling now.

And maybe it's a Wigan thing but shops used to sell one cigarette with a match more often than not wills wild woodbine no filter tips then. I remember them but don't smoke myself

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By *amsoonMan
4 weeks ago

stornoway

Ice on the Windows on the inside in winter. Dad always kept panes of glass in the shed along with putty for when a window got broken. Single pane windows broke easily. Coalman carrying a hundredweight bag of coal to the bunker. Weekly issue of concentrated orange juice in a medicine bottle to stop rickets. Calculating what to buy in the sweet shop. Fierce concentration when you only had thruppence.

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By *dstefiMan
4 weeks ago

Solihull

School milk in the little glass bottles. Always warm and creamy on top in summer.

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By *addy TypeMan
4 weeks ago

Liverpool Mancs Warrington Chester Wirral, St helens

Brassy Women smoking in

Leopard skin tops

Blonde bobs

Huge circle earnings

Don't miss any of them !

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By *inimee1Man
4 weeks ago

all over

Water fights in the cul de sac

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By *ennthebigMan
4 weeks ago

Erdington

Hot banana crunch pudding.

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By *issy crystalTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Hook

The smell of Esso Blue paraffin

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By *dstefiMan
4 weeks ago

Solihull

Tupperware parties your mum went to or hosted.

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By *sal paulMan
4 weeks ago

Walton/frinton

Green shield stamps

Throwing sticks up to get conkers down from trees

Playing games such as runouts ,British bull dog .

Knee ball ,

Jubblies the big triangle ones

Buying a bloomer half loaf taking doe out asking chipshop to fill it soaking it in vinegar and salt mmmmmmm

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By *dstefiMan
4 weeks ago

Solihull

"The smell of Esso Blue paraffin"

I had a paraffin heater as late as the mid-80s in a godawful unheated flat I shared in Cardiff docks.

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By *idiscretepervMan
4 weeks ago

London

Bazuka bubble gum

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By *asioMan
4 weeks ago

Havant

Bubblegum with stick on tattoos

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By *dstefiMan
4 weeks ago

Solihull

"Proper wrestling on TV Saturday afternoon "

Bears in leotards! Mick McManus the dirty bastard

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By *dstefiMan
4 weeks ago

Solihull

"Living in a house with no central heating, no hot water tap, no bathroom, tin bath hanging on a nail outside, toilet outside at the top of the yard, playing football in the street or climbing the coal heaps at the pit at the end of the road and pitching coal for the fire at home, oh the good old days , no wonder I went in the army at 16 "

Big spiderwebs hanging off the cistern with a big fat spider waiting to ambush you soon as your kecks were down

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By *wsuckerMan
4 weeks ago

Mere

Green Shield Stamps

Hamlet ads on TV

Prices on ads on TV

Betamax videos

Fiesta, Razzle, Penthouse mags on top shelf in papershops

Getting a clip round the ear from a copper when caught fucking around

Getting a clip round the ear from your dad when you got home and he found out you'd got caught fucking around

Sunday roast beef leaftovers as mince & onion on Mondays, in sandwiches on Tuesday

Greasy spoon cafes on motorways sticking of fried food and cigarettes, bacon half inch thick

Smell as you walked past the front door of a pub, mix of beer and cigarette smoke

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By *ilthy tracy300Man
4 weeks ago

lancashire

Buses with no doors ,jump on and off ,.. the penny tray ... Play school ... Lard ...school milk ... Park Drive cigs ...fish n chips in newspaper

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By *acingfanMan
4 weeks ago

Huddersfield

Spangles.

Women with corned beef legs.

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By *eardedfella76Man
4 weeks ago

London Essex

Who remembers how SERIOUSLY warm those old gas fires unused to be.

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By *obnsaMan
4 weeks ago

Ferndown

Fruit Salad, blackjack 1/2p each.

Quarter of Pear Drops

Paper rounds

Staying out until it gets dark in the summer when you've barely started junior school

Top shelf magazines with the VHS video - Shaven Ravers, Readers Wives

The test card on BBC when it shuts down at 11pm

3 channel tv you used a switch on the wall for

Ford Cortina

Benny Hill type humour that's frowned upon these days

Looking through your dad's slide collection and wondering how your mum put up with him going to all of those "glamour shoots" (the dirty bastard), and then having a good wank over the blonde with the big tits.

The only thing that was there that I didn't even notice was the cottages. Wish I'd have found them before they were gone.

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bedford

Staying at the beach all night campfire radio Luxembourg or Caroline. Some booze and barbecue xx

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By *wsuckerMan
4 weeks ago

Mere

Penny chews that cost a penny

Cigarettes in 10s

Rolling tobacco in ounces

Cigarette machines in pubs that sold in 18s (or 20 if Royals)

Beer 39p a pint, larger 45p a pint (you really could have a good night on a fiver)

Petrol the cost per gallon what it is a litre now

Catching the paper or milk train back after a night out

Watching Star Wars when it first came out

Blakes Seven

Sapphire & Steel

The Man from Uncle

2000AD

Morecombe & Wise Christmas Special

TISWAS

Star Trek TOS shown at 7.00pm on BBC1 on Monday nights

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By *astenotimeMan
4 weeks ago

Gedling

Spangles

Jamboree bags

Wagon wheels being large

Less stress in my head, as today so many things happening .

Nice people

Courtesy and manners

Considerate drivers

Change given on bus journeys

Glory holes and cottages

To name a few. Lol

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By *erscumdumpMan
4 weeks ago

Watford & Worth Matravers

Concorde flying over at 11am every Saturday and Sunday morning.

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By *ark7219Man
4 weeks ago

Hatfield

Christmas being exciting and getting new star wars figures

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By *allyStockingTopsTVTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Medway

The days before tights when women always wore stockings and suspenders

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By *earlyrichTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Somewhere in time

My hair! Where did it all go?

The Ford Cortina mark 3, my first car...if only I could afford one now lol.

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By *ony AndersonMan
4 weeks ago

Harrogate

Entertainer's in parks during summer Holidays, clowns, magician's, punch & Judy, Saturday morning cinema, people didn't mind queuing at the corner shop, everyone knowing everyone else, Wrestling on World of Sport.

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By *ip71Man
4 weeks ago

Darlington

50 a side football..started 10am saturday finished Sunday some time haha brilliant

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By *olfstarMan
4 weeks ago

Edinburgh

Mary Hopkins

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By *ugged NorthernerMan
4 weeks ago

North East

"50 a side football..started 10am saturday finished Sunday some time haha brilliant "

Great memory 👌

The person who’s ball it was decided the rules 😁

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By *wsuckerMan
4 weeks ago

Mere

British Bulldog in the school playground

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By *elen_BellsTV/TS
4 weeks ago

somewhere in Sussex

My sisters’ dressing up box

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By *addy DaddycoolMan
4 weeks ago

Darlington

NO NO NO It has to to Beef Dripping

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By *ikeitrealMan
4 weeks ago

huercal overa SPAIN

MK1 capris with big wheels and furry dashboards

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By *ndies52Man
4 weeks ago

West Yorks

When Britain had an Army, Navy and Air Force to be reckoned with unlike the present.

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By *iggrollMan
4 weeks ago

BELFAST

Bazoka Joes - collecting the coupons inside for prizes eg camera

May - always was so warm and sunny

Changing the 'points' in my fiat 127

Putting £2 petrol in my car for all week use

Sharing phone line with neighbours

The wee silver lock my mum used to put on the phone to stop me using it

The pen with the plastic coil stuck on the side of the phone

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bedford

Band stands in parks, that actually had a band playing on weekends. Xx

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By *hiteSportsSocksMan
4 weeks ago

Portmarnock

I miss hanging around with my mates. No one warned me that as you get older you stop hanging out with friends

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By *ustcurious778Man
4 weeks ago

Bridgend

When women wore slips

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By *ngel50TV/TS
4 weeks ago

Kinross

My Raleigh Chopper purple and 3 speed.

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By *luvnylonstockingsTV/TS
4 weeks ago

blackpool

I remember it all ,but i dont miss it ,as if i wanted it i would get it .

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By *lphageminiMan
4 weeks ago

Folkestone

I remember when Pompey won the cup in 1939. My dad had a motor business in Fratton Rd near Fratton Park. I saw the open topped bus and the cheering crowds. I was four

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By *astDevonGuyMan
4 weeks ago

Seaton

My Mum…..

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By *ootsockMan
4 weeks ago

Earl's Court, London

"I miss hanging around with my mates. No one warned me that as you get older you stop hanging out with friends

And no-one minded you calling out of the blue just for a chat

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By *usan 749ukTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bangor

"Spending days and nights at the beach where I lived as a kid xx

Love this 😊

I use to spend a lot of my youth at the beach and would often sit and listen to the waves crash on the beach just as the sun was setting yeah pure magic x

Yep 👍 and I still do it now when I need to clear my head and get away from everyone

It’s great for the soul 😊"

Great way to unwind

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By *ina61TV/TS
4 weeks ago

old Coulsdon

The " Rag n Bone man" with his poor worn out horse and cart.

Also the little old man in a suit with some contraption he would push along, used to sharpen knives.

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By *usan 749ukTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bangor

"My Mum….."

Aww that’s lovely

I lost my mum when I was 7 , terrible times

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By *lbert BelkinMan
4 weeks ago

Belfast

"My mum's home shopping catalogues

Although gay (ISH) I was fascinated by all sex and I remember going to the ladies underwear part of her Kays and Freemans catalogues. Looking for the see through knickers for a hint of pubes!!?"

Oh I did that many times too.

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By *tephanie SomtimesTV/TS
4 weeks ago

South Derbyshire

"Proper wrestling on TV Saturday afternoon "

Oh yes, I loved watching the wrestling with my nan on a Saturday afternoon. I'm sure that's where I developed my love of big hunky older men.

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By *ubguy54Man
4 weeks ago

Dublin North

"Proper wrestling on TV Saturday afternoon "

Yea big daddy and giant haystacks beating the shit out of each other

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By *heshguy2024Man
4 weeks ago

Halton

Proper sized bars of chocolate!

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By *ikeitrealMan
4 weeks ago

huercal overa SPAIN

Working mens social clubs with live bands

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By *cTodgeMan
4 weeks ago

leeds

Finding black bags full of used porn mags in bushes and visiting to wank over them daily

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By *ustOneBearMan
4 weeks ago

Neath

Cottaging on a wet Sunday afternoon

No one messing about. Men looking for sex

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
4 weeks ago

Bedford

The personal column in the papers xx

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By *tephen_b50Man
4 weeks ago

Bristol

"The smell of Esso Blue paraffin

I had a paraffin heater as late as the mid-80s in a godawful unheated flat I shared in Cardiff docks. "

We had one. Lethal things - they were easily upset.

Later we had one that used a Calor gas cylinder. A bit safer, but exchanging the cylinder & getting the replacement home was a chore.

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By *tephen_b50Man
4 weeks ago

Bristol

"Mary Hopkins "

Those were the days, my friend ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozCoq4osSwk

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By *om9Man
4 weeks ago

Saint Helens

Not that long ago but miss craigslist personals got a lot of sex from craigslist

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By *akeversMan
4 weeks ago

Leighton Buzzard

"Bubblegum with stick on tattoos"

Oh my, that took me right back!!

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By *akeversMan
4 weeks ago

Leighton Buzzard

"Bubblegum with stick on tattoos"

Oh my, that took me right back!!

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By *ildwestheroMan
4 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

Going into a nearby overgrown woodland were no one ever went. Stripping off naked, apart from boots and wandering around enjoying the damp bracken fronds on my skin and often having a crafty wank. Went back to those same woods about 10 years ago. Owned by a woodland trust. All clinical nature walks and signs everywhere. Plus ramblers and families. No chance of re-living my naked youthful rambles.

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By *obnobbonMan
4 weeks ago

conwy

Gloryholes

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By *akeversMan
4 weeks ago

Leighton Buzzard

"Bazoka Joes - collecting the coupons inside for prizes eg camera

May - always was so warm and sunny

Changing the 'points' in my fiat 127

Putting £2 petrol in my car for all week use

Sharing phone line with neighbours

The wee silver lock my mum used to put on the phone to stop me using it

The pen with the plastic coil stuck on the side of the phone

Bazooka Joe also had tiny square cards that were "3 dimensional". You had to move them for the picture to flip.

Batman bubble gum will the collectable cards

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By *om51Man
4 weeks ago

edinburgh

Remember - but don’t really miss

Overt racism and sexism on tele

National Front marches

Getting caned if strapped at school for nothing

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By *iggrollMan
4 weeks ago

BELFAST

"Bazoka Joes - collecting the coupons inside for prizes eg camera

May - always was so warm and sunny

Changing the 'points' in my fiat 127

Putting £2 petrol in my car for all week use

Sharing phone line with neighbours

The wee silver lock my mum used to put on the phone to stop me using it

The pen with the plastic coil stuck on the side of the phone

Bazooka Joe also had tiny square cards that were "3 dimensional". You had to move them for the picture to flip.

Batman bubble gum will the collectable cards "

Omg yes - i forgot about them lolol

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By *lansonMan
3 weeks ago

Sydenham

Men smoking pipes.

C & A

Woolworth.

Ford Cortinas. I had so many of them.

Predecimalisation.

Loved the old threepenny bit and all the different couns, tanners, florin, 2 Bob, 10 shilling notes.

Paper rounds. Does anyone have newspapers delivered anymore.

Public phone boxes with the A and B buttons.

Blue police boxes.

Sawdust on butchers floors. I worked in one as a Saturday boy and had some fun with the old butcher but that's another story.

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
3 weeks ago

Warminster

School fights where you all got I'm a masd ring around the combatants.

I don't know if it was the same in other parts of the country but our chant was .. bundle...or as we shouted it phonetically

Bun...Dall.....bun...Dall.....bun...dall

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By *tmguylookingMan
3 weeks ago

Chesterfield

"My mum's home shopping catalogues

Although gay (ISH) I was fascinated by all sex and I remember going to the ladies underwear part of her Kays and Freemans catalogues. Looking for the see through knickers for a hint of pubes!!?

Oh I did that many times too."

I jumped straight to the mens underwear section

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
3 weeks ago

Warminster

I ventured there too..but no see through underwear..and they were always a little too buff for me

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By *SArelaxedMan
3 weeks ago

weston s mare

There was a shop called MacFisheries that sold concentrated orange juice in little cylindrical tins. Was it frozen?

The original Forsyte Saga ( got a crush on Martin Jarvis )

Bus tickets printed in purple ink from a conductor

Jamboree bags

Etch a sketch

Father Christmas at Sopers dept store

Green trains with door handles that left Victoria station for a trip to the seaside

Twizzle

The Singing Ringing Tree

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By (user no longer on site)
3 weeks ago

My youth

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By *issy crystalTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Hook

Buying cigarettes without a medical enyclopedia on the packet.

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By *eryCuriousGuyMan
3 weeks ago

Tidworth

Arctic Rolls

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By *ildwestheroMan
3 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

Green Shield Stamps. My mother and aunt gave me several books of these, by way of a house warming present, to redeem at a store, when I bought my first house in the late '70s.

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By *eefandfurMan
3 weeks ago

Edinburgh

Relaxed communal nudity in locker-rooms and showers. Men only days at swimming pool sauna and turkish baths where everyone was nude.

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By *annah1338TV/TS
3 weeks ago

Gainsborough

Block buster video Dad bringing three videos home on a Friday night

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By *eepeter4Man
3 weeks ago

Bournemouth

Turf Accountant's with the shop window's blacked out ,no gaming machine's and strict opening hours with no racing on Sunday or Good Friday.

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Bedford

Girls with beehive hairstyles xx

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By *uy near ArundelMan
3 weeks ago

Nr Arundel

"Relaxed communal nudity in locker-rooms and showers. Men only days at swimming pool sauna and turkish baths where everyone was nude. "

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By *V-SLUT1968TV/TS
3 weeks ago

Sheffield

Learnt a lot through the 80s and 90s with a certain person

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By *rpheus69Man
3 weeks ago

Ebbw Vale

Cottages in every town.

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Bedford

Bit of an odd one ,trout tickling in the shallower part of the river near my home town where then the water was crystal clear xx

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
3 weeks ago

Warminster

"Bit of an odd one ,trout tickling in the shallower part of the river near my home town where then the water was crystal clear xx "

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By *eefandfurMan
3 weeks ago

Edinburgh

lime, peach and cherry flavour angel delight.

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Bedford

"Bit of an odd one ,trout tickling in the shallower part of the river near my home town where then the water was crystal clear xx

I grew up in a village with chalk streams,/river...I did other fishing but also tried this but never worked. I couldn't get my hand near them to tickle, this was when they were under the edge of a bank. They always saw my hand coming and swam off"
takes a lot of patience have to stand in the water with both hands submerged and wait but sooner or later one will swim between your hands and for some reason just stop there. Then flick them out onto the bank xx

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By *ouise DeMureTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Huddersfield

Shiny nylon shorts, with practically no leg

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By *ustychubb46ETV/TS
3 weeks ago

LONDON

SKI yoghurt gold top peach flavour!

CRESTA... it was frothy man!

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By *mrmarkMan
3 weeks ago

Tavistock

White dog poo

Pervy old men on TV

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By *eepeter4Man
3 weeks ago

Bournemouth

"White dog poo

Pervy old men on TV"
now then now then

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By *ngel50TV/TS
3 weeks ago

Kinross

Late 70s

Girls wearing leg warmers and wedge heels

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
3 weeks ago

Warminster

Climbing trees!!!!!!

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By *oxymusicMan
3 weeks ago

Cowbridge

70’s ladies with pert little titties and hairy as fuck minges like a trapper’s hat.

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By *uv2b4uMan
3 weeks ago

carlisle

Public toilets

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By *arriedandeasygoingMan
3 weeks ago

Donegal

Benny Hill

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By *3versMan
3 weeks ago

glasgow

My hairline

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By *ustPeekinMan
3 weeks ago

Alresford

Being thin.

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By *upertedMan
3 weeks ago

Nelson

Changing the TV channel via Redifussion with the clicker thingy behind curtain on windowsill.

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By *ildwestheroMan
3 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

Bread making machines an Teasmaid alarms. Was given both as presents. Rarely used. Ended up in the attic and thrown out when I moved.

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By *orobi7Man
3 weeks ago

loughborough

Porn mags in bushes

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By *mandaWhenDressedMan
3 weeks ago

around

women making an effort to look great.

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By *enjamin2018Man
3 weeks ago

Gosfield

Having to buy plugs and fit them to newly purchased electrical goods.

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By *wsuckerMan
3 weeks ago

Mere

Pink (mint) custard and tapioca pudfing with school dinners.

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By *b2000Man
3 weeks ago

centre

Penny caramels or petrol that was less than £1 a gallon

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By *ubtitsMan
3 weeks ago

hyde

One television chanel my mate who fucked me

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By *wsuckerMan
3 weeks ago

Mere

"One television chanel my mate who fucked me "

ITV was launched in 1955, if you're 71 thats the same year you were born...how do you remember only 1 chanel?

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By *ubtitsMan
3 weeks ago

hyde

"One television chanel my mate who fucked me

ITV was launched in 1955, if you're 71 thats the same year you were born...how do you remember only 1 chanel?"
oh dear another busy body so are you assuming we got itv immediately???

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By *uck me in KentMan
3 weeks ago

Medway

"Foot baths at the swimming pool"

You get them abroad by pools , sometimes on the beach

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By *uck me in KentMan
3 weeks ago

Medway

"Proper wrestling on TV Saturday afternoon "

Loved that. One of the few things my dad and I did together

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By *uck me in KentMan
3 weeks ago

Medway

"My mum's home shopping catalogues

Although gay (ISH) I was fascinated by all sex and I remember going to the ladies underwear part of her Kays and Freemans catalogues. Looking for the see through knickers for a hint of pubes!!?"

Cameltoes and bulges

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By *partacus69Man
3 weeks ago

Liverpool & Abergele

Lord Toffingham choc ices

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By *uck me in KentMan
3 weeks ago

Medway

"Spangles

White dog poo...what happened to it?!

Shit loads of snow

Chopper bikes

Capris

Clubcall

Stylophone

Crackerjack

Always wanted a Capri...pretend to be dukes of hazard and do bonet slides"

My first car was a Capri S ... Red black vinyl roof and cassette player

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
3 weeks ago

Warminster

"Spangles

White dog poo...what happened to it?!

Shit loads of snow

Chopper bikes

Capris

Clubcall

Stylophone

Crackerjack

Always wanted a Capri...pretend to be dukes of hazard and do bonet slides

My first car was a Capri S ... Red black vinyl roof and cassette player "

Hot...I'd have given so many BJ's for a spin in it,!!!

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By *wsuckerMan
3 weeks ago

Mere

"One television chanel my mate who fucked me

ITV was launched in 1955, if you're 71 thats the same year you were born...how do you remember only 1 chanel? oh dear another busy body so are you assuming we got itv immediately???"

If you're this thin skinned you're not going to get on well in the forum.

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By *ubtitsMan
3 weeks ago

hyde

"One television chanel my mate who fucked me

ITV was launched in 1955, if you're 71 thats the same year you were born...how do you remember only 1 chanel? oh dear another busy body so are you assuming we got itv immediately???

If you're this thin skinned you're not going to get on well in the forum. Thin skinned lol been here for over 10 years pmsl

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By *hyna HutchMan
3 weeks ago

valleys

White dog poo. 😂

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By *lickshortsMan
3 weeks ago

northampton

Waiting outside the headmaster's study and hearing the swish of the cane from within, knowing I would be next.

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By *ildwestheroMan
3 weeks ago

Llandrindod Wells

My body doing what I wanted it to do. Now it blatantly refuses.

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By *om625Man
3 weeks ago

Wigan

"Band stands in parks, that actually had a band playing on weekends. Xx "

Remember them clearly

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
3 weeks ago

Bedford

"Band stands in parks, that actually had a band playing on weekends. Xx

Remember them clearly "
I used to like listening to them something about a good brass band. In my area S.Wales there were loads of them practically every village had one .slight exaggeration maybe but there were a lot. X

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