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Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

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Old 20-06-2008, 11:09 AM   #1
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Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Pogo Sticks

Spangles

Chicken in a basket (pub food)

Space hoppers

White dog Poo

long summers.

those were the days
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Old 20-06-2008, 11:15 AM   #2
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Plenty of white dog poo in my garden.

I miss orange and apricot Ribeena.
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Amazin Raisin Bars.



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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

I miss not getting hangovers. I could go for months on the lash & not feel a thing...
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Old 20-06-2008, 11:26 AM   #5
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Spokey Dokes.
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Old 20-06-2008, 11:29 AM   #6
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I miss not getting hangovers. I could go for months on the lash & not feel a thing...
I hear where you are coming from.

Even now if I only have six or seven pints spread out over 5-6 hours I will have one in the morning.

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Old 20-06-2008, 11:29 AM   #7
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Brian Clough
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Old 20-06-2008, 11:30 AM   #8
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

In the past having just three TV channels. The following day you could talk about what programme you'd watched the night before. Hardly happens now. I prefer the bigger choice but still something different.
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Slim ladies.
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

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Space hoppers
I got one at xmas!
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Old 20-06-2008, 12:54 PM   #11
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

The local barber coming up the street on his bike to do his rounds (and everyone scarpering)
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

You don't see kids playing in the street, like I did when I was young.
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Having the time to lie in the grass on a sunny day and see what objects/animals/etc we could make out of the passing clouds.

Pickled Onion Meanies (crisps).

Sparklers (ice lolly)
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Star Fleet on the TV
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Rubiks cube
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Old 20-06-2008, 1:52 PM   #16
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Yorkie bars that had 7 chunks as standard.
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Old 20-06-2008, 1:53 PM   #17
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Quatro fruit drink and Tab Clear!

Cheers
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Old 20-06-2008, 1:59 PM   #18
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Rubiks cube
Er....you can still buy those in the shops...even Eileen has one in Corrie.
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Old 20-06-2008, 2:04 PM   #19
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Er....you can still buy those in the shops...even Eileen has one in Corrie.
Does she?? I've still got one somewhere but haven't seen then in shops for ages, but not really been looking tbh. I must still be as sad as when they first came out becuase I can still do it in less than a couple of minutes.
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Does she?? I've still got one somewhere but haven't seen then in shops for ages, but not really been looking tbh. I must still be as sad as when they first came out becuase I can still do it in less than a couple of minutes.
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

space dust
jawbreakers
20 redband for 99p
playing fields, all but gone in the area i was born
my chopper
my dt 50
my talbot sunbeam-lotus
both my nan and grandads
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Watneys Red Barrel
Mk10 Jags
Topless sunbathers on my local beach
A view of my tackle without a mirror
The smell of tarred rope
Stop-motion animation
Girls dancing round their handbags
Girls
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Watneys Red Barrel
Mk10 Jags
Topless sunbathers on my local beach
A view of my tackle without a mirror
The smell of tarred rope
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Girls
I may have just found a solution!!
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Stealing sukki's (cartons of orange) from the back of the milk float when the milkman came around on Friday night's to collect his money.





He was more clever than we thought though as he used to add the price of the orange onto my parent's milk bill.
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picking scabs that covered the whole of your knee!!
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

My kids have got space hoppers.
I did hear the reason why white dog poo is not around as much is because the cheaper dog food used to be bulked out with ash so when the faeces dries the ash turns it white. Don't know if it's true,maybe someone can confrim it.

Buying a round of drinks and getting change from a tenner is one thing I miss.
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Re: Things From Yesteryear You Miss Or Just Don't See Anymore

Oxo Crisps
Mint Cracknell
Bacon that released fat instead of white goo
Saturday morning matinee for a shilling
Fish & Chips in newspaper
Ra Ra skirts a la Pepsi & Shirley!
Worthington E
Tin bath in front of the fire
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Bread delivery vans
Pop delivery vans
Steamrollers
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Have fewer friends!!!
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