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18 Nov 18
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Pop man Mum and Dad got fizzy drinks off back of Larry or track
VHS van or video shop !’
Pools man , spot the ball Christmas special
Tv times !
VHS van or video shop !’
Pools man , spot the ball Christmas special
Tv times !
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Stockings and suspenders for the wife.Now its a pair of comfy slippers.
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Only Fools And Horses Christmas specials on the telly when the telly was worth watching on Christmas day
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Proper tasting Satsumas and Macintosh Reds.
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Going down the pub with your Dad on Christmas Day and getting Bollocked by your Mum for coming home p1ssed
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.. and judging by the other thread taking a sh1t in the christmas stocking!
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Siddy
its a ritual i still do to this day (not wiv me dad though sadly) - off to the pub at 11 - refuse to pay ridiculous prices for a dinner - few jars and then back home for 1.30- 1.45 for me dinner - everyone happy cos i aint been under her feet whilst she combusts fretting over the turkey  |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m_0ENIw4os
Woolworths Xmas ad 1981 ("Have a cracking christmas") - @ 1m 21s - a tin of quality street cost £6.89!  - admittedly a much bigger tin than you get nowadays but still seems expensive. |
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Much better then, safe to go out as well.
Pubs were full, people were better off. Less pig-ignorance around then compared with today's working class rabble. |
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roses,quality street once a once year treat ,now been chucked at us in their millions for a few squid,and available in all sorts of guises tins,tubs,boxes,pkts 12 months a year, I,m 59 reasonably well of as kids and my mam was a housekeeper for a couple who give her a tin for us,can remember staring at the tin for a week or more before xmas,but not allowed to open it.
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what people pay a 100 quid a tkt for these days ,we got free of charge every xmas day at the club, chubby brown for an hour,
little ormesby tute , near/in boro |
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you can pay £6.99 for an empty tin these daze
always a fight for who got the tin.....scratch your name into it, ...  |
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our golf club had connection to theatre royal in newcastle, often got a lock in during
panto season, with some half decent comedians having to do a turn to justify their lock in. local polis had ringside seat. |
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panto trip with club,bag of sweets,orange,tangerine and 5 bob in a brown envelope
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Getting a postal order from your nan as a present.
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...or a Garfield to stick in your car
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oh yeah postal orders from auntie oh very yes
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Go back to the 70's and it was 'The Famous Five' books from my auntie... she was a teacher btw
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sexist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Subbuteo sets!
(Or Scalextric if you'd been really good / were upper middle-class) |
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Beano, Dandy, Beazer Annuals.
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Oor wullie or the Broon's annuals
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xmas 1980 we went to midnite mass with a guy dressed in a plastic santa suit
straight from the pub he got kicked out for shouting last orders when a bell was rung. happy days |