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Remember When? (a nostalgia thread)
Remember When? (a nostalgia thread)
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nightmare, I was never arsed with that.
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If you were, you'd of spelled it Knightmare.
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Nothing was better than space invaders imo
Galaxians was always my fav. |
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My fav from the arcades, also from the sports centre where we used to play it for at least an hour after the swimming:
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theres a series on amazon prime called 'angry video game nerd' its a guy ripping the p iss out of old computer games theres loads of episodes and over the years Ive now seen em all
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'someone shot the food remember dont shoot food'
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Unless it was the poisoned food.
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remember when you went to saturday morning pictures at the local cinema and one of you paid to get in and went down the fire escape and opened the door for the rest of yas to get in free
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Having a book of code for computer games that you'd type into a BBC computer. Impressive patience unlikely to be seen today.
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"Dogs called blackie weren't racist back then."
One of my favourite dogs of all time was called "Hello Blackie". He won the Guineas at Hackney in 1990, the same year that Slippy Blue won the Wimbledon Derby. Here is Hello Blackie doing the business at Hackney that day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w4yaPBVRTs |
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lybertyne • April 25, 2019 7:06 PM BST
Having a book of code for computer games that you'd type into a BBC computer. Impressive patience unlikely to be seen today. Good god. I remember you'd have them in the old Crash comp mags (which was a good name for computers back then because you invariably loaded a game without the joystick attached, and you tried to just attach one.....and it did something to the things longterm head f uck. Made the things start crashing at a whim). I did one of those codes, it didnt say what it was specifically in the mag, it was a bit like doing a dot to dot where you saw the pic at the end. Well funk me, if I didnt learn a number of leassons that day. Firstly, it was supposed to be a stars and stripes banner, but I messed it up and it looked like horseshi t. From that day I realised the quitter in me, 'thats close enough' bodger was born Secondly, I realised no matter what anyone said, coding is unnatural, like trying to communicate with the dead and best left to really boring people. |
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The lads what grew up writing code for their speccies now all run their own highly sophisticated bots that are making them a mint for a few minutes work a day.
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cant buy a personality though
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I use the one I was born with and will continue to do so unless I receive a major bang on the head that alters it completely.
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waiting for the paper shop to open on saturday morning to get the shoot magazine ..could"nt wait to read the next episode of billy"s boots...happy days
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I believe Shoot was cheaper than Match but Match was better quality.
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Flicking through the Radio Times film section in the newsagents, looking for films with 'Warning: contains nudity', then watching found films in the anticipation of a bit of breast. Also, watching Eurotrash on a Friday night.
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Waiting for the MEN pink final outside the paper shop at 6 pm on Saturday before going to the pub.
I was a computer programmer from 1984 on a mainframe computer , so the home computer world of the 80s passed me by. cigarette machines on the outside of off licenses as they were often shut in the day........they would be pulled off the wall in 10 seconds now. |
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Packets of Popeye candy cigarettes for kids, dont think you'll see those again
I remember having a black zip up body warmer when I was 5ish It was covered in sewn on JPS badges, I was like a walking advert for cancer |
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They are simply called candy sticks now and they don't have the red imitation light bit on the end.
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They also relaunched sherbert fountains but stupidly designed the liquorice in a such a way that it doesn't function as a straw.
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Now I think about it, you'd find little metal snuff tins scattered all over the place, under hedges or in the gutters
Old men with brown snuff stains down their shirts Another thing that got erased from history |
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I remember sitting on the bog reading pieces from the sporting life,(couldn’t afford toilet roll) it was all downhill there after
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My best mates father was a big bloke, ex Coldstream guard old school type
Had a big moustasche and always had a pipe hanging out his mouth and a pencil behind the ear I can still hear the noise of the pipe catching his teeth |
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Shops that closed for a half day midweek. In my area it was Thursday and in town on Thurs pm you could see the tumbleweeds.
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Pubs closing at 2.30pm till 6pm
Don't know they're born today .... Sundays were worse... 2pm close, 7pm open |
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....there were telephone directories in public phone booths!
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I remember When, terrible song.
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....there were telephone directories in public phone booths!
I can remember when public phone boxes still existed  |
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.....kids such as me wore a sheath, with a knife, on our "Snake Belts"....
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Collecting marbles
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getting chased by school caretakerfor playing football on the school playing fields of an evening
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buying single cigs
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Gobstoppers that seemed as big as a cricket ball and took two weeks to finish.
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Finding the pages in the catalogue book from next door with the pages of women wearing bras and knickers and neglijays
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....buses had "conductors" who all thought they were really important..
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bottle of milk in school at breaktime
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The trains also had conductors instead of a 'train manager'.
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....Summers were Summers....hot every day, and the tar on the roads used to melt,
and we would roll into balls and take home (I don't know why)! |