The middle aged thread

Interestingly enough, when I visited London in the 90s, there were still people waiting patiently in the queue to the bus or train. I haven't seen it since.

asking for a buscuit then getting a plate and eating it sat at the table.
getting a shoe thrown at you for having your elbows on the table.
asking to leave the table.
having the same food served to you the following mealtime if you didn't eat it.
gift vouchers
brown and purple underpants.
jim-jams

Hairy and clumsy porn...

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no. but george VI shillings remained as 10p pieces for quite a while.

No they didn't. Those were florins or two shilling coins.

Shillings became 5p.

Oh the youth of today. What were they taught.

winfield fishing tackle in woolworths

Meetings in unairconditioned offices in which no one wore deodorant.

cold wet flannel thown under the covers if you didn't get up

Bus queues

Teachers having pet pupils (who decades later, after years of therapy, brought charges of abuse).

Meetings in unairconditioned offices in which no one wore deodorant.

And everyone smoked.

Teachers having pet pupils (who decades later, after years of therapy, brought charges of abuse).

Did you get a result?

They proved nothing.

I skinned my knees so much trying to be Barry Sheen

Riding like a twat and being pulled over by the cops on my air-cooled RD125 twin and asked if I thought I was Barry Sheene was probably the highlight of my entire life.

instead of photocopies at school you had weird purple ink stuff that gave you a high if you sniffed it

Did you get a result?

Not me. Teachers didn't like me.

When the police mounted an investigation into abuse at my school, some 25 years after I left, they interviewed everyone who had been there apart from me. I was traumatised. Someone must have told them that I was such a singularly unattractive child that I could never have been abused.

Through much playground trading completed both.

never got Ian Rush

still looking...

Chapped knees on snowy days.

Those charming little collectibles that came with marmalade....

Plastic spacemen with cornflakes

The Black and White Minstrel Show

wtf

Mods and rockers kicking off.

Falling in love for the first time.
Really falling in love.

Cap guns

Pen knives. Every kid had one in the pocket.

^every kid still does