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"Chest expanders, Bubble cars." With regards to chest expanders I was going to add Bullworker to the list, I used to have one when I was a skinny teenager. A quick Google search and I find out they're still available and certainly not as cheap as you would expect. Amazon has a few. | |||
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"Concord " Apart from this case, I think people are in agreement quite a lot... | |||
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"Those rubber showers that you pushed on your bath taps. 3rd degree burns every time your mum washed your hair 🥵" ..or an ice cold rinse......awfull invention  | |||
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"CRT television sets" stil got my B&O crt tv. Great picture and even better sound. | |||
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"As a paperboy the extra workload of a radio times or tv times once a wk... im guessing these magazines dont exist now ? X" you can still get the Radio Times I think it's now priced at about £3.50 .btw I was lucky being a paper boy as I got to deliver a porn magazine to a fellow every week. | |||
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"Windows 95" I have two 1993 IBM PCs in my loft, they run on Windows 3.1. They might be worth some dosh one day. | |||
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"CRT television setsstil got my B&O crt tv. Great picture and even better sound." B & O were very expensive, top drawer. | |||
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"Woolworths xx " especially the pick and mix's | |||
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"Woolworths xx " I have an 8ft rosebush, at least 35 years old, that I purchased as a bare-rooted plant from Woolworths. As always, it's producing a magnificent display this spring. | |||
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"Grammer, punctuation, spelling, travel agents." Was that intentional? | |||
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"Grammer, punctuation, spelling, travel agents." Are you being serious ? Grammar and Travel Agents. | |||
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"Fondue parties Tupperware Filofax Arctic Roll Toast toppers" Arctic Roll still available - had one over the weekend | |||
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"Chopsticks. " I used them | |||
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"Public toilet attendents" Metered in my town | |||
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"VHS and Betamax cassette players. I was a big fan of rotary dial phones." Dont write off physical media. VHS, dvd/bluray, Vinyl and cassettes have seen a very large resurgence in the last few years. Lots of people are discovering them for the first time, while many others are rejecting the constant "pay, pay, pay" culture of digital downloads, which you never actually own and which can and often are, removed after a certain period of time. "Buy it once, own it forever" is an old marketing slogan that is very much doing the rounds. | |||
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"Public bushes" No bushes outside anymore? | |||
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"Public bushes No bushes outside anymore?" Not true - there’s several in the park in town. | |||
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"Birdsong, the dawn chorus." not in my garden xx | |||
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"Those rubber showers that you pushed on your bath taps. 3rd degree burns every time your mum washed your hair 🥵" You can still buy them but they don't fit on most modern taps. | |||
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"Fondue parties Tupperware Filofax Arctic Roll Toast toppers" Filofax still very much a thing I remember the first remote VCR we had with the cord  | |||
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"Fondue parties Tupperware Filofax Arctic Roll Toast toppers" Toast toppers… What were we thinking? | |||
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"Public toilet attendents" Still about in Southsea (D-Day museum) & they have award winning toilets. They are flushed with success. | |||
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"White dog shit " I remember that lol 😂 | |||
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"Those rubber showers that you pushed on your bath taps. 3rd degree burns every time your mum washed your hair 🥵" Fun fact, in a previous role i created the different colours that you could get them in for the company that used to make them. Also created different colours for rubber bog seat buffers as only did them in black and white and the customer used to complain they marked and looked odd. jesus just realised thats over 30 years ago | |||
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"Claudia Winkelman, Sandy Toksvig, Steven Fry , the ex unlamented Duke and Duchess of Yawn Peter Mandelson, Nicola Sturgeon , the Blair Family en masses Ant & Dec (shudder) Alexander Armstrong, Dan Walker, Alan Titchmarsh" That's just another long list of people and things you don't like. Obviously you've cut it short. | |||
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"Pan Yan pickle which was a tasty and very popular British condiment made by Maconochies. It was a sweet-sour, mildly curried pickle with a smooth texture and gentle flavour, made from apples, dates, sultanas, vinegar, sugar and curry powder. Commonly served with ploughman’s lunches, cheese and cold meats, it was milder and much nicer than Branston Pickle. After Maconochies changed hands and a factory fire destroyed the original recipe, the authentic version was sadly lost forever. " I remember my Gran buying pan yan pickle instead of branstone pickle by mistake my and my Grandfather complaining I am eating that foreign muck. | |||
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"Pan Yan pickle which was a tasty and very popular British condiment made by Maconochies. It was a sweet-sour, mildly curried pickle with a smooth texture and gentle flavour, made from apples, dates, sultanas, vinegar, sugar and curry powder. Commonly served with ploughman’s lunches, cheese and cold meats, it was milder and much nicer than Branston Pickle. After Maconochies changed hands and a factory fire destroyed the original recipe, the authentic version was sadly lost forever. I remember my Gran buying pan yan pickle instead of branstone pickle by mistake my and my Grandfather complaining I am eating that foreign muck." A nice memory there Peepeter, although the "foreign muck, was made in Millwall on the Isle of Dogs and later at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The "Pan Yan" name was just a marketing ploy - a purely made-up exotic name to sell bog-standard British pickle made in the middle of London’s docks. 😆 | |||
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"Green Shield Stamps World Cup Coins from Esso garages Raleigh Chopper Bikes" Raleigh released the MK4 chopper last year. Each colour sold out in days. Retail about £1000 each. | |||
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"Finding porn mags in graveyards" lol that was my only method of finding porn when I had younger | |||
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"Spirograph The little paper bags in the shape of a cone which your sweets would be poured into once they had weighed them. Snake belts... " Snake belts were mandatory for any 1960s schoolboy. There are plenty still available on eBay. | |||
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"People caring about climate change. The lunatics and billionaires won." The Medieval Warm Period - which featured unusually warm temperatures from the 9th to the 13th centuries and must have seemed like climate change at the time - is also obsolete. The MWP of course pre-dated the industrial revolution. Also obsolete is the Little Ice Age that followed the MWP. The LIA - a period of particularly cold winters lasting about 500 years - included the Great Frost of 1709 and the Dalton Minimum of the very late 18th century. | |||
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"House phones, 8-track car stereos, cars with vinyl roofs." I use a landline all the time. Got fed up with the mobile as I was always mis laying it | |||
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"Public bushes" No, they are still in most parks and gardens | |||
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"Birdsong, the dawn chorus." I hear the dawn chorus every morning at the moment | |||
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"White dog shit " That's because dog food no longer contains bonemeal (ground/powdered animal bones), as it's no good for them. It's made up mainly of calcium but can't be digested. | |||
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"Birdsong, the dawn chorus. I hear the dawn chorus every morning at the moment" Same, they have been very vocal around here lately! | |||
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"Claudia Winkelman, Sandy Toksvig, Steven Fry , the ex unlamented Duke and Duchess of Yawn Peter Mandelson, Nicola Sturgeon , the Blair Family en masses Ant & Dec (shudder) Alexander Armstrong, Dan Walker, Alan Titchmarsh" You personally may not like them but they are hardly obsolete. Still around and some constantly invading our screens and making more money than we ever will. I agree I cannot stand half the one on your list but like some of the others. | |||
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"Smoking on aeroplanes. Still can’t believe this once happened!" In a similar vein, smoking on the underground in London. I remember standing as a kid with my mum at the end of the platform just so we could get into the smoking carriage. | |||
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"Chest expanders, Bubble cars." ive got a bubble car. Xx | |||
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"Conkers ...banned by the nanny state.. " They aren't. | |||
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"Conkers ...banned by the nanny state.. They aren't." I believe schools banned them yonks ago ? | |||
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"Conkers ...banned by the nanny state.. They aren't.I believe schools banned them yonks ago ?" One or two may have, but that isn't the 'Nanny State'. | |||
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"i pods." Still using mine. It's 18 years old now. | |||
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"10 shilling note " bit like boxes of chocolate xx | |||
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"Where are people finding Arctic Rolls? I loved to know, haven't had one in years." Tesco do them under their own brand name of Miss Mollys | |||
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"Red phone boxes still a few but not many. " Most in villages and small towns have been turned into mini book exchange library. Or sometimes a housing for a defibulator. | |||
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""nitro mors paint stripper " Something called Nitromors is still on sale. But although the label may say "The Original" it's bloody useless now. That's because the H&S maniacs ditched the active ingredient, dichloromethane. (in case someone sniffed it?) Also obsolete courtesy of the bunny huggers, sodium chlorate killer, metaldehyde slug pellets, etc." Meanwhile, the FG rightspeak censor objects to non-pedigree plants, aka whee ds. For killer please read Whee dkiller | |||
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""nitro mors paint stripper " Something called Nitromors is still on sale. But although the label may say "The Original" it's bloody useless now. That's because the H&S maniacs ditched the active ingredient, dichloromethane. (in case someone sniffed it?) No point in using the new stuff As for sniffing it it brings tears to your eyes Also obsolete courtesy of the bunny huggers, sodium chlorate killer, metaldehyde slug pellets, etc." | |||
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"VHS and Betamax cassette players." In Covent Garden Bank Holiday Monday we actually saw a Video Shop selling/renting VHS Videos!!! But a little like Vynil LPs that have had a big comeback, who has the kit to play Videos now?! | |||
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"Windows 95" WOT... mine still works! Just disconnect from M$ who use updates to cripple older OS! | |||
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"Fondue parties Tupperware Filofax Arctic Roll Toast toppers Arctic Roll still available - had one over the weekend" yeah, i did see an Arctic Roll in Asda a few days ago! A quarter of the original size and four times the price! | |||
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"Red phone boxes still a few but not many. " there's a few in London that have been turned into mini takeaway coffee shops I think there's one on either Russell Square or Travistock Square. | |||
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