Things We Had Growing Up

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    My dad insisted we used this stuff!
    At last you could use it as cheap tracing paper! o_O
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    Yup, wipe your arse with too much vigour and before you knew it you had a skid mark up your back!!
     
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    Oh! I thought that was the normal state of affairs! :blush:
     
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    I remember that stuff at school
    The teacher ran out of tracing paper so I went and got a few pieces of this stuff...worked just fine. She didn't beleive I got it from the boys bogs and insisted I showed her, soon after we had the nice soft fluffy bum wipes
     
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    White dog poo! :poop:
     
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    Ring pulls on the path
    The smoke in cinemas and pubs

    I don't miss it but there is a sense of sentiment
     
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    Bloody poofter, I bet you went to one of those namby-pamby co-ed schools full of girls of the opposite sex! :laughing:
     
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    Scrofula.
     
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    When I was really young.......you just couldn’t beat the real thing.....

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    Yeah, sorry about that. Where was I?
     
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    Leg Braces
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    Yes. Polio was something we had eliminated just as I was starting school.......fearsome chrome and glass hypodermics before dosed sugar lumps arrived a few years later.
     
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    My first rides, back in the 80s. Good times!

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    I remember the overbearing nuclear threat of the CCCP
     
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    _20180314_003541.jpg Pans people
     
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    _20180314_003454.jpg It ain't half hot mum
     
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    Trench coat on my bed....and ice on the inside of the windows ...ah fond memories :p
     
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    William Hartnell as Dr Who
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    Peter Cushing as Dr Who in the 1965 film "Dr Who and the Daleks"
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    Ursula Andress
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    Or Usula Undress as my dad called her !!!!
     
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