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Perusing Telextext on a Saturday morning for prices.
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Marking the boards in the local bookies...hectic, but loved it.
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i had a plasma tv that had bbc logo etched in right corner
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Rickets, Diptheria, Smallpox
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Birds phoning me up in the Seventies telling me they were up the duff.
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Polishing my football boots the night before the game.
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Anyone remember the "beechnut" machines ... my sixpence for the collection at sunday school used to go in them
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I do Koi. Chewing gum.
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I can remember the cig machines on the outside wall of the shop.
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The Kid in your class with the Calliper
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The kid in the class always teasing me about my caliper.
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Humour on Internet Forums
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Stopping to look at the fat person in the street. Millions of them now!
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Sunday's with everywhere closed. No traffic.
Bliss. |
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Being stared at in the street.
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The clunk of the Sporting Life shoved through the letterbox at 6:30 am.
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JM. On form this morning old boy!
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Stopping to look at the Black person in the street.
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Buying a " Beatall" for a threepenny bit!
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The sporting life a proper racing paper
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Actually I do miss struggling with the broadsheet Sporting Life on the train, trying to turn the pages without getting most of it on the chap next to me.
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Proper Fish and Chips in Newspaper
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When one had to work for a living. When vile language was only heard in the rugby changing rooms! When good manners reigned.
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Beer at 35p a pint..
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My mate Ben
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Beer at 1/10d a pint!
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The sporting life a proper racing paper
The sporting chronicle for me.. |
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Racecards being less than a pound and only have the races in them.
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The ridiculous so called sports shown between races on Grandstand.
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The chronicle was good too koi used to get both from time to time they did not seem to cost much even in todays terms
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miss almost everything already mentioned on this thread but more than any 2 oclock closing on a sunday then mums sunday dinner 3 hours kip then back out for 7.
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koi
can you remember the last ever headline tip in the chron ? |
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Listening to the results on the radio around 7:10pm to hear if I'd won anything on my Lucky 15. I hadn't.
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The days when I wanted a horse ONLY to win!
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john player league 40 over matches on sunday afternoons
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Yep. Listening to the results on the radio - with anticipation - was magic
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Frozen orange jubbly - in the 3 cornered cardboard packaging.
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east of eden
those john player matches would now be an arbers paradise. proper odds compilers in those days coral 4/6 kent 5/4 sussex hills 6/4 kent 1/2 sussex |
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indeed foxy....
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All the good Tetley boozers in Leeds. The beer and pubs are not the same.
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