Who Remembers...

[McD]

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Finding a certain type of magazine discarded in a hedge/on waste ground.
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Recycling at its best!

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


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fruit poppets
decent sherbet fountains
puff crisps

[Hermit Crab]

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.

[marinello59]

Opal Fruits
Old English Spangles.
Spangles

[Pete]

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rental tvs with the coin slot.

Radio Rentals, Tandy.

Glens, Hutchinsons, Robertsons and Stepek.

[Hermit Crab]

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Glens, Hutchinsons, Robertsons and Stepek.

Thomsons sports shop in Corstorphine.

[bringbackbenny]

When green SMT buses weren't allowed to pick up in Edinburgh.

[Hibernia&Alba]

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

[O'Rourke3]

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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[Hibernia&Alba]

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

[Hibernia&Alba]

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

[overdrive]

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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

[Hermit Crab]

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When green SMT buses weren't allowed to pick up in Edinburgh.

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 1990/91

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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

Loved Wham bars. My ma had a green phone with the round dial.
TV shutting down at night with God Save the Queen being played.

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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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Friday night on BBC2 either before or after Doctor Who?

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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

Aye, the old and now long gone Safeways at East Craigs was like that.
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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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 showBrookside
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

Alive and Kicking on a Saturday morning. I'm sure the phone number was 0181 811 8181

[bringbackbenny]

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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 1990/91

It was in the late 80's, 1986/7 I think. Before then so frustrating as loads of empty greens would fire past!

[Hibbyradge]

Birds pecking the silver foil on milk bottles to steal the cream.

[Onceinawhile]

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Timmy Mallet was one of my favourites as a kid. My mum made me one of his hammers

Surely wasn't a hammer?

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

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Birds pecking the silver foil on milk bottles to steal the cream.

That's women for you, should've just went to the shop like the rest of us! 😁

[O'Rourke3]

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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 1990/91



Loved Wham bars. My ma had a green phone with the round dial.
TV shutting down at night with God Save the Queen being played.



Friday night on BBC2 either before or after Doctor Who?



Aye, the old and now long gone Safeways at East Craigs was like that.
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.




Alive and Kicking on a Saturday morning. I'm sure the phone number was 0181 811 8181

Re Man from UNCLE. You youngsters eh?.... . Thursday night after Top of the Pops in the 60's.

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[Killiehibbie]

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It was in the late 80's, 1986/7 I think. Before then so frustrating as loads of empty greens would fire past!

Before de-regulation they only stopped at each fare stage on the way in and out of town.

[Peevemor]

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Before de-regulation they only stopped at each fare stage on the way in and out of town.

I could always get either the corporation 43/44 or the SMT Balerno bus to and from Kingsknowe.

[Killiehibbie]

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I could always get either the corporation 43/44 or the SMT Balerno bus to and from Kingsknowe.

I could get the 129 but had to get off the stop before or end up half way down Portobello Rd.

[Hibbyradge]

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That's women for you, should've just went to the shop like the rest of us! 😁

😂

I was going to make a comment about birds and peckers, but thought better of it!

[overdrive]

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Surely wasn't a hammer?

Doh! Mallet. Clue is in the name.

[Hibbyradge]

U, A and X rated films

[WoreTheGreen]

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Finding a certain type of magazine discarded in a hedge/on waste ground.
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Recycling at its best!

My ma found a bed on top of my scud mags.(tam Cowan only funny joke)

[Hermit Crab]

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U, A and X rated films

The red triangle on Ch4

[Hermit Crab]

Music on MTV.

[Haymaker]

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Putting a dod of vanilla ice cream in a glass of cream soda
....then scooping up the froth 😛

I was in a place a few months ago and they had these on the drinks menu. Absolute class.

[Hibrandenburg]

White dug *****.

[heretoday]

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Before de-regulation they only stopped at each fare stage on the way in and out of town.

What about the wee City Sprinter buses that were about around 80s/90s? Didn't last long.

[Hermit Crab]

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What about the wee City Sprinter buses that were about around 80s/90s? Didn't last long.

I remember one of them went to Lochend or Restalrig.