Do You Remember..........

[MrsD]

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my Dad had one of those

Do you remember having to wear a daft stripey dress and a pudding bowl hat to school.

Always thought the dress smelled of egg, put me off eggs for life

I was brought up in a tenement flat with an outside loo on the downstairs landing, with a horrible big wooden seat which had to be scrubbed everytime you used it.

we didn't have a colour telly until I was around 19

when I started wearing contact lenses they were the wee hard ones, which bounced around like wee springs if you dropped them, and cost a fortune.

Mr D had delicate eyes, he had special soft lenses that had to be boiled every night in a wee individual boiler.............

my kids call my childhood the "black and white days"

I saw the first ever episode of Dr Who with the first Doctor

[IF]

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My Grandad has one of these

[diddlydee]

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The days when hot chocolate actually meant milk + cocoa + sugar, not the insipid "just add water" crud they sell nowadays

I still make it the proper way, and sometimes even indulge in one made with real chocolate melted into milk instead of cocoa powder

[fluffystuff]

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Hands up who used to choose their breakfast cereal according to the free gift/toy inside?

[alland]

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[IF]

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Remember this theme tune?

[IF]

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I make sure my clackers don't get into the wrong hands....

[alland]

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Do you remember Clackers? Lethal little things in the wrong hands!

I make sure my clackers don't get into the wrong hands....

[IF]

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Do you remember Clackers? Lethal little things in the wrong hands!

I do, they were lethal eh!!

[fluffystuff]

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Do you remember Clackers? Lethal little things in the wrong hands!

[fluffystuff]

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Remember Plasticine and accidentally treading on it......ruined some carpets and rugs!!

Yes it used to turn up in the strangest of places. Smelt nice though as did Playdoh!

[IF]

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Remember Plasticine and accidentally treading on it......ruined some carpets and rugs!!

[Pixie]

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My granddaughter is always asking me questions about the olden days, one night we were talking about computers, I told her that we did not have computers when I was a lad. Quite innocently she asked, how did you get on the internet in the olden days then granddad?

The kids at school gasp in amazement when I say we didn't have computers, mobile phones, ipads, PSPs etc...and only 2 tv channels. " What did you do?" they ask, bewildered. We read, we played board games, we played with toys that required us to use our imaginations, we played outside in the fresh air...

[Enforcer]

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A pint for 1shilling and 9pence, petrol at 5shillings and 8pence a gallon.

[Never-In-Doubt]

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My granddaughter is always asking me questions about the olden days, one night we were talking about computers, I told her that we did not have computers when I was a lad. Quite innocently she asked, how did you get on the internet in the olden days then granddad?

to which you answered "we used magazines back then..."