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Old 30th May 2015, 15:51
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^ I agree about milk in glass bottles. Just like fish and chips were better wrapped in newspaper
Same as the little cardboard trays under a Bounty made it taste so much better.
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Old 30th May 2015, 15:54
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Same as the little cardboard trays under a Bounty made it taste so much better.
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Old 30th May 2015, 21:15
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^ I agree about milk in glass bottles. Just like fish and chips were better wrapped in newspaper Only problem with the glass bottles was the foil tops which the birds used to peck a hole in to get the cream
haha yes! we used to have to rescue the milk 1st thing from the sodding blue tits!.

Oh fish and chips with newspaper
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Old 30th May 2015, 23:30
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Old 31st May 2015, 03:07
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When you see a young couple holding hands and thinking they look so young, then think Wow I'm getting old lol
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Old 31st May 2015, 11:27
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When you get up from crouching and your knees sound like a fat arse on bubble wrap.
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Old 2nd July 2015, 21:41
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You remember the late Val Doonican on Saturday night TV. Ah, the good old days.
I remember that programme too actually, it was shit tho'


you know you're getting old when you don't actually recognise yourself in reflections,.
I keep thinking,"who's that old git"? - oh dear,.. that's me
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Old 3rd July 2015, 21:06
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^
mmm,. I recall some old robust geezer spouting all these long-winded sentences with huge amounts of superlatives flying about, and the audience woo-hoo'ing at all the big words,. lol
then, some old maids would start waltzing across the stage in gingham,. - scintillating stuff
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Old 4th July 2015, 00:25
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Quality thread this. Has me pissing myself and reminiscing at the same time! John Shuttleworth is a blast from the past, went to see him at the Civic in Donny in the 90's. The only song that sticks in my head though was about Mars / chocolate bars.
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Old 4th July 2015, 01:32
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Little milk bottles at school. Thatcher thought taking them away would give us all rickets, she was wrong. But that was before my time too. IDK Tamagotchi's?
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Old 4th July 2015, 17:26
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^our milk bottles were little orange cardboard pyramids,.
they were a bugger to open, but t'was good getting some milk in the morning
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Old 4th July 2015, 21:27
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You discover nasal hair. Men only of course.
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Old 8th July 2015, 16:05
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You start listening to music by artists such as Oleta Adams and Kenny G.
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Old 28th July 2015, 14:07
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You start watching Gardeners World on Friday nights on BBC Two.
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Old 28th July 2015, 15:44
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You have to wear your glasses in order to read a text message.
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Old 28th July 2015, 19:56
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^Me too! Or I just squint badly!
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Old 28th July 2015, 22:49
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^ Eer, you young whipper-snapper, what are you doing in the ol' fogey section?

Today I've reached half a full stack, in Minecraft terms. I'm now as far from the day I first got with my hubby as that day was from my birth.
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Old 28th July 2015, 22:54
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What if you're older than 81?
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Old 28th July 2015, 22:54
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^^ Yeah but the worst that'll happen here is we'll poke you with our canes.

^ You get admitted to the ultra-secret (very)OAP section of SAUK.
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Old 29th July 2015, 21:08
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You have to wear your glasses in order to read a text message.
gah,..me three.
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Old 1st August 2015, 20:05
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You see an oversized recliner armchair in a department store and think...that looks comfy
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Old 1st August 2015, 20:43
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hehe, My lounge just has a single massive lazyboy in it. And I make a noise when I sit down and when I get up. I see that as a perc, there is no downside.
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Old 2nd August 2015, 04:41
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You remember when you could get on the bus and buy some crisps with the 50p in your pocket
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Old 2nd August 2015, 05:49
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You keep converting prices into £ s d
What does the d mean? The only thing that I know about old money is that 10 bob is 50p, or so I'm told anyway.
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Old 2nd August 2015, 05:53
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d means p, not sure why they used to use d instead.
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Old 2nd August 2015, 17:55
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You remember when petrol came in 2,3 & 4 star. And it only cost 80p a gallon, not a litre!
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Old 2nd August 2015, 22:05
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d was derived from the Roman denarius, which was a common coin in Roman times.

Yes, Amplexor, 50p was 10 bob (bob is a slang word for shilling), 12 1/2p was half a crown (2s 6d) and 8/- was often referred to as a dollar, reflecting the exchange rate of US$2.50 to the £1. 6d was known as a tanner and a 2/- coin was called a florin.

There were 12d to every shilling, 20s to every pound (so 240 pennies to the pound, which means that 1p = 2.4d on average, which is why we used to have a 1/2p coin, the nearest in value to the old penny).

I don't remember farthings (1/4d coin), but the coins with which I grew up were the halfpenny (pronounced ha'p'ny), penny, threepence (or thru'penny bit), sixpence (or tanner), shilling, 2 shilling (or florin), half crown and crown (5/-). We had notes for ten shillings and £1.

Only two coins survived decimalisation: the shilling and florin remained legal tender and the 5p & 10p coins were (initially) the same size and weight; now that both coins have been downsized, the "new" 5p is roughly equivalent in size to the old tanner, while a 2p coin is roughly the same size as an old ha'penny.

NB: all pronunciations are in South East London dialect (NOT cockney, as I am often incorrectly called)

Edit: when I was little, a halfpenny would buy 8 fruit salads or blackjacks, so it wasn't uncommon for my mum to give me a ha'penny in the shop to buy some sweets!
That sounds rather confusing, thank god for decimalisation!
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Old 3rd August 2015, 01:02
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You have to explain what vinyl is because that's what 99% of your music is on
More people probably know what vinyl is than cassettes - or even CDs - these days as it has ironically become quite popular again in this digital age. Some people seem to want to hear a crackle and tick in their music again.
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Old 9th August 2015, 13:42
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when I reminise about "the good old days" without even thinking if they were actually good.

Lol the biggest one is erections are not every five seconds lmao
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Old 9th August 2015, 14:22
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You go on Facebook and see pictures of friends children who you haven't seen for a while and are stunned to find a grown up child and not the little baby that you remember.
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