Things we used to do

[MontyVeda]

After watching a couple of episodes of Back in Time for the Weekend last night... i recalled how we'd always have a 5p, 10p or (later) a 20p piece just in case we needed to use the phone. These days we all carry a bulky mobile instead of a few coins. We struggle to find a decent signal and hope the battery has enough power. It's bonkers.

 

[midlife]

Having to get up and clean the stylus on your record player as it had grown a beard while you were playing a record.

Putting a coin on the stylus to stop it from jumping........

Shaun

 

[swee'pea99]

Putting a coin on the stylus to stop it from jumping........

Shaun

A half crown could see you through even a fairly energetic party.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Heres one thing i had used to do...

Not reflect the suns rays back from my scalp.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Play with Action Man figures, I had the one in the orange jump suit. I still have it.

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Funny, that looks like GI Joe, exactly.
Except for the uniforms.
My Dad always used to say the beard was not regulation, until photos in the family album showed him with a long beard and shorts, among native forces in New Britain, during WWII.

 

[Billy Wizz]

standing in the corner shop and asking, "can I have a box of matches, they are for my mum",

 

[MontyVeda]

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Funny, that looks like GI Joe, exactly.
Except for the uniforms.
...

GI Joe was called as Action Man in the UK... British kids don't know what a GI is, unless of course, they watched too many Elvis films.

Another thing i used to do... want a scar just like Action Man when I grew up. Instead i got a really bad complexion.

 

[EltonFrog]

Getting 3d for going down the shops.

 

[MontyVeda]

standing in the corner shop and asking, "can I have a box of matches, they are for my mum",

LOL... the old for my mum used to work when buying cigarettes too.

 

[Oldbloke]

Back in the 60s on Southend railway station, there was what looked like a large phone box, which you go into and make a recording, vocal/small instrument, the unit then produced a disc record of your performance.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I'll bet that could make one heck of a "Greatest Hits" album.

 

[Rezillo]

Hoping (in vain) that the rust around the front suspension mountings of your Austin/Morris 1100 was just superficial.

 

[Tim Hall]

Back in the 60s on Southend railway station, there was what looked like a large phone box, which you go into and make a recording, vocal/small instrument, the unit then produced a disc record of your performance.

"You wanted a recording of my voice, well here it is. What you want me to say is, 'I love you'. Well I don't. I hate you, you little slut..."

 

[PaulSecteur]

Have a conversation along the lines of...

"Have you heard about these things called computers and the internet? Well, you don't need to know about them cuz only the 5 richest kings will be able to afford them, and only the 5 cleverest people will know how to work them"

 

[TVC]

Hoping (in vain) that the rust around the front suspension mountings of your Austin/Morris 1100 was just superficial.

My dad always had a pot of Isopon P38, some wet and dry, and a can of spray paint around. A 10 year old car was basically a rust heap with the arches, door seams and cills gone, and potential for holes in the floor pan. Now 15 year old cars can look immaculate.