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

By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
11 hours ago

Hindon wilts + Weymouth

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
11 hours ago

Pembrokeshire

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

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By *attersbyMan
11 hours ago

cotswold

White shopkeepers

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By *irtyfacesMan
11 hours ago

near

"White shopkeepers

👍

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By *attersbyMan
11 hours ago

cotswold

Foot baths at the swimming pool

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By *ral b..Man
11 hours ago

Proper jam roly poly ..

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
11 hours ago

Hindon wilts + Weymouth

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
11 hours ago

Cowbridge

Tooty Fruties

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
11 hours ago

Bedford

Lava bread in barrels at the market xx

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
11 hours ago

Hindon wilts + Weymouth

My mum's treacle steamed pudding

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By *ikeitrealMan
11 hours ago

huercal overa SPAIN

Proper wrestling on TV Saturday afternoon

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
10 hours ago

Hindon wilts + Weymouth

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
10 hours ago

Flared jeans

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By *ishop666Man
10 hours ago

ls19

Happy to forget about that

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
10 hours ago

Hindon wilts + Weymouth

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
10 hours 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
10 hours ago

Cumbria

The co-op book

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By *upertedMan
10 hours 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
10 hours 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
10 hours 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
10 hours ago

Skelmersdale

YO Yo s

Not as in Hello Wats apin in ?

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By *ammy aka SammyTV/TS
10 hours ago

Bedford

Shops closed on Sunday xx

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By *dstefiMan
10 hours ago

Solihull

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

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By *oxymusicMan
10 hours ago

Cowbridge

"Shops closed on Sunday xx "

Half day Wednesday

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By *ldergent321Man
10 hours 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
9 hours ago

Bedford

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

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By *ondonjeansMan
9 hours 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
9 hours 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
9 hours 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
9 hours 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
9 hours 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
9 hours ago

Chester

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

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By *hisMeMan
9 hours 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
9 hours 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
9 hours ago

Cowbridge

Eiderdowns

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
9 hours ago

Hindon wilts + Weymouth

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
9 hours 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
9 hours ago

Halesowen

Mens mags in bushes in the park

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By *ub4daddyuk OP Man
9 hours ago

Hindon wilts + Weymouth

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
9 hours 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
9 hours 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
9 hours ago

Hindon wilts + Weymouth

"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
9 hours 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
8 hours ago

Swansea West

Green Shield stamps

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By *eepeter4Man
8 hours 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
8 hours 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
8 hours 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
8 hours ago

Bournemouth

Kiwi Save supermarket's

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By *ttmcdguyTV/TS
8 hours 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
8 hours ago

Hindon wilts + Weymouth

"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
8 hours ago

Gloucester

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

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By *al423Man
8 hours 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
8 hours ago

lancashire

Littlewoods or Vernon's football pools

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By *ootsockMan
7 hours ago

Earl's Court, London

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

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By *unlad777Man
7 hours ago

Cornwall

Woolworths

Blockbuster Video Rentals

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By *operamMan
7 hours 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
7 hours ago

Stoford

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

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By *abreukMan
7 hours 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
3 hours 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
2 hours ago

Solihull

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

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By *atureDOMABCMan
13 minutes 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
12 minutes ago

all over

Water fights in the cul de sac

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By *ennthebigMan
10 minutes ago

Erdington

Hot banana crunch pudding.

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