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Reminiscing for the over 40s

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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

 

It took five minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when they got home from school?

"Ooops, word censored!"ody owned a purebred dog?

When a shilling a week was decent pocket money?

White dog poo in the street?

You only had to be home when the street lights came on?

Your Mum wore stockings that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore ties

Female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?

Cereals had free toys hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

Schools threatened to keep kids back a year if they failed. . .and they did?

When a Ford Capri was everyone's dream car?

 

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a ……’

 

Playing footy and cricket with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the shop came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

When being sent to the headmaster's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited you if your parents heard that you had been sent to the headmaster?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today?

 

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc.

 

Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat!

But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

Can you can still remember Laurel and Hardy, The Famous Five, Secret Seven, Biggles, the Lone Ranger, Phantom, Roy Rogers and Trigger at the flicks.

As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket games, Hula Hoops, monkey bars,

frozen jubblies, visits to the beach and lemonade powder.

 

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say,

'Yeah, I remember that'?

I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dare to pass it on.

 

To remember what a double dare is, read on.

And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.

How many of these do you remember?

Sweet cigarettes,

pogo sticks,

marbles,

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with foil tops

Newsreels before the movie

Sandshoes/Desert wellies

Four digit telephone numbers

Press button A then button B

45 RPM records

Hi-Fi s

Metal ice cubes trays

Mimeograph paper

Spud guns

Ford Capris

Twin Tubs

Izal toilet paper

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

houses made of cards

Meccano Sets

Anglo/Bazooka Joe pink bubble gum

MoJos/black jacks/fruit salads

Two bob for a gallon of petrol

Do you remember a time when...

Decisions were made by 'eeny-meeny-miney-mo'?

'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'boy or girl germs'?

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a catapult?

There were no Saturday morning cartoons with 30-minute adverts for action figures?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The worst embarrassment was being caught playing doctors and nurses by your parents

Putting playing cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant the Polio injection in school

Nitty Nora

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'grown-up' life ... I double-dare-ya!

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Richard T All Knowing Superchicken

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Can I add Skinny rib polo neck jumpers - still have nightmares about those!

 

:shock: I hated how those grabbed you round the neck and tried to strangle you. I don't like polo necks of any sort.

 

I can't do polo necks either (which is why I never became an antarctic explorer :whistle: ). I used to work with a girl who was fond of wearing sleeveless polo necks. :think: What's the sense in that? You have the polo neck for warmth but then there's no sleeves so you're cold! I never understood it.

 

As for Izal toilet paper . Progress is not always bad. :wink:

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I can rememer most of the list too :lol:

 

I remember white dog poo being referred to in Life On Mars and thinking yeh why isn't it white anymore?

 

It didn't mention polyester flares that your mum had made you with a matching waistcoat in emerald green and brown :vom:

 

it also didn't mention football crazies and pacers and spangles

 

or cars with holes in the bottom and everywhere else

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I can rememer most of the list too :lol:

 

I remember white dog poo being referred to in Life On Mars and thinking yeh why isn't it white anymore?

 

It didn't mention polyester flares that your mum had made you with a matching waistcoat in emerald green and brown :vom:

 

it also didn't mention football crazies and pacers and spangles

 

or cars with holes in the bottom and everywhere else

 

Apparently because more people now feed their dogs on processed food rather than raw meat and bones.

 

Useless fact no. 12!!! :lol::lol:

 

All my cars have had holes in them to some degree :roll:

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I can rememer most of the list too :lol:

 

It didn't mention polyester flares that your mum had made you with a matching waistcoat in emerald green and brown :vom:

 

Yes I remember these, but did your mum put the crinkly, zig zag ribbon thing roung the outside of your waistcoat? Mine did (actually I thought it was quite cool :oops: ).

 

I've also got pictures of me in rather natty crocheted dresses (and I wasn't even a baby) and of course my younger sister and I were always in matching clothes :D

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