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Things our children will never know...

Starter: MisterPants Posted: 15 years ago Views: 8.2K
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There is a lot of stuff in this thread that I'm pretty sure will be known for some time.
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Watching football (soccer for our american friends) and having an all British first team playing in the top division.
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Most of you guys never had to use one of these! "whats that round thing on that...phone??" lol

Oh yeah, going to a library to do research
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Card catalog at the library using the Dewey Decimal System to locate your books.
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Good old RED premium gasoline.
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Quote:
Originally posted by hydrahead

Good old RED premium gasoline.


For that matter: Regular LEADED gasoline
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Quote:
Originally posted by Honda_X

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Fuck you man...Fuck you.




What did I say?!
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Quote:
Originally posted by MisterPants

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What did I say?!




Hondawg is still on dial-up.

High speed innernutz ain't available to igloos.
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Chip shops which arent chinese!
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Quote:
Originally posted by Notech

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Do you mean Tie-Dye?

Or Blacklight Tees ?


The hypercolour T-shirts were heat sensitive and supposed to change colour with your body heat.

But fashion travel the circle, so expect them back one day. Along with two-tone trousers and shirts. Hell, if you look hard enough we might even find they never went away.
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Originally posted by TheItch

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The hypercolour T-shirts were heat sensitive and supposed to change colour with your body heat.

But fashion travel the circle, so expect them back one day. Along with two-tone trousers and shirts. Hell, if you look hard enough we might even find they never went away.


Never having to listen to 'young' folks (we had respect)
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Bicycle paper routes.

Mailmen door-to-door on foot.

Telephone party lines.

Spankings in school.

$.05 candy bars (big ones) and $.10 Cokes.

Mystery Theater on the radio.
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not having drug cheats in sports, just the alcoholic footballers and smoking tobacco not weed.
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cameras with film in them
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Real, full-size spare tires. Not those little "donut" temp spares.
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Liberty
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Lvl 22
Quote:
Originally posted by thegame14

cameras with film in them


You had a camera with 135 film, new found for thegame
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natural selection
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Assuming most people here are Americans:

Your children will never know what it was like to live in "classical" America
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David Prowse as the Green Cross Code man.

Oh, and here's something I just remembered for people in the UK; breaks in the TV day. Yep, times during the day when TV channels actually didn't transmit and you got the test-card, and I don't just mean at the end of the evening!
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