Do you remember.
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Nightclub toilets were the worse overflowing urinals and blocked toilets you made sure you didn't slip in there however ****** you were.
Who remembers school desks with ink wells?
Did you use the ink well with a pen similar to the one below?
I can vaguely remember using them.
Did you use the ink well with a pen similar to the one below?
I can vaguely remember using them.
Had the desks...not the pen.
I remember using the pen but it was just a basic stick with a nib on not fancy like the one above. needed plenty of blotting paper.
Cheshire Cat
Landlord.
You had ink luxury, we had to use our own blood.
...scratched out of your eyes!
Choice of two channels
I bet the stuff was better on those two than the dross we have spread over tens of channels.
It’s not much different now. Then we had two channel showing current stuff and now we have two channel showing current stuff and 450 channels showing stuff that was on those two channels yesterday, last week or years ago!
Getting the TV and Radio Times....but ONLY at Christmas.
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(Born in the 80s) Who remembers when..
All the phone numbers went from "oh" to "oh-one"?
Channel 5
That weird modem dial up squeal that was like plugging into the The Matrix (until someone picked up the phone)
Almost nobody having a mobile phone, to suddenly everyone having one, in the space of about 12 months, with a green LCD screen with pixels the size of a Lego brick and naff ringtones
The millennium bug
When fancy coffee wasn't a thing
Primary school class drinking milk from glass bottles
99% of beers were commercial lager and "bitter" was the other option but something a bit strange (thats how it seemed to me at the time anyway)
All the phone numbers went from "oh" to "oh-one"?
Channel 5
That weird modem dial up squeal that was like plugging into the The Matrix (until someone picked up the phone)
Almost nobody having a mobile phone, to suddenly everyone having one, in the space of about 12 months, with a green LCD screen with pixels the size of a Lego brick and naff ringtones
The millennium bug
When fancy coffee wasn't a thing
Primary school class drinking milk from glass bottles
99% of beers were commercial lager and "bitter" was the other option but something a bit strange (thats how it seemed to me at the time anyway)
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A lot of companies made a lot of money out of that one.
BBC -
I certainly do - in the late 1990s, I interviewed a number of experts warning many computers would not cope when the date flicked over to 01/01/2000.
Huge sums were spent to prepare for the consequences of this bug - or rather feature - in the way some older systems handled dates.
But midnight passed on the 1 January and the crisis failed to materialise - planes did not fall from the sky, power stations did not melt down.
And the chewing gum stuck under the lid to stop you opening it
Football boots that had what looked like half coconut shells for toecaps.
For PE, which was then called PT, the girls wearing their tops tucked in their knickers.
For PE, which was then called PT, the girls wearing their tops tucked in their knickers.
The days before text messages.
Scary rumours that when you moved up to comprehensive school the older boys would either throw you in the pond or stick your head down the toilet... BRING IT ON!
posh school 
