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a female friend’s son was hitting puberty several years ago, another friend and I told her about the adolescent male right-of-passage at finding the “porn bush”, that it only appears at the right moment in a young lad’s life and is a sign of moving to a new stage of enlightenment :greengrin
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fruit poppets
decent sherbet fountains
puff crisps
Decent lemon bon bons. Can never seem to find the ones that are covered in powdery lemon flavour on the outside and hard in the middle. :boo hoo:
Opal Fruits
Old English Spangles.
Spangles
Glens, Hutchinsons, Robertsons and Stepek.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Pete
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Thomsons sports shop in Corstorphine.
When green SMT buses weren't allowed to pick up in Edinburgh.
KP crisps
Wham bars
Blokes selling Socialist Worker at the local shopping centre
Collection buckets for people on strike
Nae takeaway deliveries unless you were seriously well off
BT telephones with the dial, available in black, broon, mint green, yellow, bright red or grey.
Only four TV channels and nae remote control
Stray dugs in big packs, roaming the streets
Two telly channels but occasionally being able to pick up Grampian
Bazooka Joe
Texan bar
Whopper bars
Dentene
Beachnut chewing gum
Monkey nuts
Batman
The Monkees
The Man from UNCLE
Michael Bentines Potty Time
Do not adjust your set, yet
Simon Dee
Look In
The Tiger
The Victor
And many more including pubs closing at 10 and not open Sundays
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Video recorders and video hire shops
Vinyl records
Gas board/electricity board shops to pay the bill
Your maw taking a wee ticket from the machine at the Tesco deli counter then waiting for her number to be called
Pishing in the swimming baths being obligatory
When shops would sell cigarettes to kids, no questions asked
Budding windaes and knock-a-door-run
TV-AM
Going Live! With philip Schofield and Sarah Green
Timmy Mallet
Bob Says Opportunity Knocks
Seaside specials on BBC on Saturdays nights in the summer, which seemed so glamourous, being live from Weston-Super-Mare etc.
Wogan chat show
Brookside
Ford Capri, Ford Orion, Vauxhall Astra
Those wee government disabled cars which were always sky blue
The Beano and Dandy and joining their membership clubs
Timmy Mallet was one of my favourites as a kid. My mum made me one of his hammers :faf:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
How far back was this? I can mind getting an SMT bus from clerry to princes St with my granny. The number 86 which went to Mayfield. This would be around 1990/91Quote:
Originally Posted by bringbackbenny
Loved Wham bars. My ma had a green phone with the round dial.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
TV shutting down at night with God Save the Queen being played.
Friday night on BBC2 either before or after Doctor Who?Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
Aye, the old and now long gone Safeways at East Craigs was like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibernia&Alba
Yep, A single fag and a match for 20p. When I smoked 10 Regal kingsize were £1.51 in the local shop, I was about 13 at the time.
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Alive and Kicking on a Saturday morning. I'm sure the phone number was 0181 811 8181 :greengrin
It was in the late 80's, 1986/7 I think. Before then so frustrating as loads of empty greens would fire past!Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
Birds pecking the silver foil on milk bottles to steal the cream.
Surely wasn't a hammer?Quote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
That's women for you, should've just went to the shop like the rest of us! 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
Re Man from UNCLE. You youngsters eh?.... . Thursday night after Top of the Pops in the 60's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
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Before de-regulation they only stopped at each fare stage on the way in and out of town.Quote:
Originally Posted by bringbackbenny
I could always get either the corporation 43/44 or the SMT Balerno bus to and from Kingsknowe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
I could get the 129 but had to get off the stop before or end up half way down Portobello Rd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
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Originally Posted by HUTCHYHIBBY
I was going to make a comment about birds and peckers, but thought better of it!
Doh! Mallet. Clue is in the name.Quote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
U, A and X rated films
My ma found a bed on top of my scud mags.(tam Cowan only funny joke)Quote:
Originally Posted by brianmc
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Originally Posted by Hibbyradge
The red triangle on Ch4
Music on MTV.
I was in a place a few months ago and they had these on the drinks menu. Absolute class.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sudds_1
White dug *****.
What about the wee City Sprinter buses that were about around 80s/90s? Didn't last long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
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Originally Posted by heretoday
I remember one of them went to Lochend or Restalrig.