Older Brits, what is something that you used to do as a youth, that you cannot do any longer?

Posted by Deep_Banana_6521@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 367 comments

I have fond memories of my teen years hanging out in the back room of cafes drinking tea and smoking cigarettes because we weren't old enough to go into pubs. I also remember going into head shops and buying magic mushrooms legally. what are your fond memories?

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marshy51@reddit

We used to get magic mushrooms from smelly alley in Reading. Those were the days✌️

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

Dr Hermans in manchester, it's still open. they had a fridge with loads of different types. If you went into Afflecks palace the bloke in the rip of DVD shop had them wrapped in kitchen roll and if security weren't sniffing around he'd sell you weed as well.

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pablo_of_mancunia@reddit

God I miss that guy, Andy I think he was called, what a shop and what a time that was.

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ChipCob1@reddit

Missions up to Dovestones for me!

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mandraketehmagician@reddit

I remember buying shrooms from that fridge as a youth 🤣 good times!

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

My first time was buying Colombian shrooms from there because they were the biggest and putting them on a mcdonalds cheeseburger and tripped balls on the train back to buxton. Good times.

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mandraketehmagician@reddit

Pretty sure we bought the ugliest looking ones we could find, can’t remember the strain but they were equally unconventionally consumed, in bacon butties ha ha

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UrMomDotCom666@reddit

all the year 9s at my school buy vapes from smelly alley now lol

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lostmyselfinyourlies@reddit

That just opened a memory I hadn't looked at in years! Me and some mates getting weed from there, it was sketchy as hell lol

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Boroboy72@reddit

Holy crap, I haven't thought about smelly alley in years. Great times indeed, thanks for the reminder.

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The_Fox_Confessor@reddit

Would that be the smelly alley with the rather good board game shop on it? I called it Smelly Alley, but I'm not local but called it that as it seemed fitting,

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BigFluff_LittleFluff@reddit

Do something stupid and not have it plastered all over the internet.

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

i never deleted anything from my myspace page, but literally cannot even access it anymore. So i could have done so much more cringe that I would never have to answer for now.

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MudgetBinge@reddit

After Justin Timberlake bought MySpace they purged a bunch of peoples stuff randomly, so most people lost the majority of their photos and videos lol

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GillGunderson@reddit

They also accidentally deleted everything a few years ago.

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MudgetBinge@reddit

That's what I was also referring to. It seems very random who kept what. Quite odd really as there's essentially no backups of that!

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Virtual-Guitar-9814@reddit

> Justin Timberlake bought MySpace what silly timeline is this???

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Tabby_Road@reddit

"if it's on the internet, it's on the internet forever" Or not in this case

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samsaBEAR@reddit

My one regret was not saving all my MySpace photos, yeah they were all cringe but they were also the only place they existed.

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Chemical_Film5335@reddit

Heard that this period of time is extremely weird as there’s more information than ever before about the lives of every person in the world yet for future historians sorting through the rubble of our civilisation, they’ll have a harder time because it’s all digital and not as much physical evidence in form of photos, music or videos

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SketchupandFries@reddit

I had a Geocities page way before Myspace! I can't remember the address, it might have even been archived. I remember my email address at the time, so maybe I could look it up. I don't even remember what was on it.

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-TheHumorousOne-@reddit

FB memories consistently remind me how cringe I was in my 20s...

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Virtual-Guitar-9814@reddit

seems like 'old myspace' is unreachable and my page was never (sadly) archived by waybackmachine.

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EmperorOfNipples@reddit

That's a huge thing now. Many people are seeing their careers marred over something that would be a barely remembered story 20 years earlier. Royal Marine shenanigans come to mind.

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pajamakitten@reddit

Even when camera phones were more common and social media came around, those videos never made it beyond close friends. They were also not filmed at every possible moment. You could get drunk at a party and know video evidence might be seen by one or two people at best.

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Pargula_@reddit

This is extremely underrated.

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night-owl64@reddit

Sleep through the night 😴

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Deep_Audience_6562@reddit

Hear a landline ringing in my house. Watched a movie with my daughter the other day. Someone was called away to the phone. She asked me what it meant. Sigh

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MysteriousTelephone@reddit

Find half a copy of Mayfair in a hedgerow

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LagerBitterCider197@reddit

Club International was always my favourite

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cider-with-lousy@reddit

In the 60s it was H&E

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LagerBitterCider197@reddit

What is H&E?

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cider-with-lousy@reddit

Health and Efficiency, allegedly linked to the nudist movement, but really topless shots, at a time when censorship was very strict in Britain

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LagerBitterCider197@reddit

o i c

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WinkyNurdo@reddit

I’m pretty sure I could still spot some discarded hedgerow grot at a thousand paces. That particular hyper awareness has never left me.

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OSUBrit@reddit

Look at porn Jedi over here

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WinkyNurdo@reddit

We’ve all got a shit superhero skill. This is mine.

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

The whole mag stinks of piss, Someone's drawn silly faces all over the models, And the handwritten words "your mum" pointing to one of the older models. Those were the days

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Palace-meen@reddit

This made me Mutley laugh. Captured the memory perfectly.

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Appropriate-Wasabi94@reddit

Sadly, Free range grot has no place in the digital age it seems.

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elethiomel_was_kind@reddit

Razzle was always on railway sidings…

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Bosshoggg9876@reddit

Razzle was the best.

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Lumpy_Ad104@reddit

yeah, with some of the pages stuck together.

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Takseee@reddit

Hedgeporn was a national legacy.

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jj_sykes@reddit

I jumped from a not so high wall today (approx 4ft). Iwill be feeling that in the new year

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TheEnglishDominant2@reddit

Congratulations on doing it was watching my nephew doing run ups to a bed that’s to high for him and falling and then trying again till he completed it!

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jj_sykes@reddit

Got to 38 and it feels like I have aged ten years on top of that

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TheEnglishDominant2@reddit

Yea I feel ya!

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boredathome1962@reddit

Buying beer for 36p a pint...

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cider-with-lousy@reddit

My first (underage) pint in 1973 was £0.18

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revrobuk1957@reddit

I remember talking to a bunch of students about getting a grant for higher education. Everything was paid for; tuition, accommodation, travel, books were all covered by the grant and claimable expenses. I added “I even had about £10 a week spending money” which was usually sneered at until I pointed out that a pint of lager in the union bar was 16p…

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cider-with-lousy@reddit

Yeah that was me too. I was at university in the late 70s on a full maintenance grant. It was absolutely brilliant.

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revrobuk1957@reddit

Oh yes…brilliant times! https://preview.redd.it/l1u73gllheae1.jpeg?width=1168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76cb30752b2311df01568373bc5487785c5295c2

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Drillingz@reddit

About £300 worth of pints now 😂

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Extension_Common_518@reddit

Mine was (also underage) was 62p. Me, 15 year old nervously approaches bar. Barman asks “ Yes, son?” in a neutral tone. Me, in shaky voice, “Pint of beer please mister” Him: what kind of beer do you want then? Me: (pause) Er, what kind have you got?” Him: Well, we’ve got lager, mild, bitter and stout. Me: (cogitating a bit) pint of lager please. Him: (Pours beer) That’ll be 62p son. Me- proceeds to count out 62p in 5p, 10p and smaller coins. Him: Looks on indulgently Me: There you go mister- (pushes heap of coins across the counter.) Him: Mind how you go son. Me: ( beaming & holding big handle of dimpled pint mug) cheers!

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

i remember 1p cans of beans. I'm still in that transitional phase where I still think I'm not old (36)

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intolauren@reddit

36 is literally not old. Social media and diet culture and so-called beauty standards just want you to think it is.

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Lost-Ad2864@reddit

1p baked beans? I'm 44 wtf are you talking about? 🤣

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Gullible_Mode_1141@reddit

Lol yep I was just thinking the same. My youngest son is now 35 and he has never heard of 1p beans.

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feralhog3050@reddit

Do you not remember the Bean Wars?? The supermarkets were all dropping their prices to outdo each other, so you could literally buy a tin of beans for 1p. Or a loaf of bread for 5p (shitty white) or maybe 12p (marginally less shitty brown). Probably around mid-90s?

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anninonymouse@reddit

36 is arguably not old at all

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Fenpunx@reddit

Thanks man, I was having a rough day.

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Trilobite_Tom@reddit

Trust a fart.

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cider-with-lousy@reddit

Never pass a public toilet without having a piss?

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PresterLee@reddit

Waste a hard on?

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Leroy-Leo@reddit

ProstateLee, that you?

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another_online_idiot@reddit

Getting a full cooked breakfast with black pudding and fried bread and no bloody hash browns in a cafe.

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Western-Hurry4328@reddit

Hash Browns are an abomination, and an offence against God. If you're going to import potato-derived comestibles from the USA thn the obvious choice would be Home Fries, which are basically chips and delightful.

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fookreddit22@reddit

Hash browns absolutely deserve their place on the full English. You pop your egg on top of em and mop up the bean sauce.

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another_online_idiot@reddit

That is what the fried bread and toast is for.

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fookreddit22@reddit

Nope, that's what you use to make bacon and sausage sandwiches. You should have your British passport revoked sir.

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R05579@reddit

Pop round to my nan and grandad on a Saturday morning as a teenager for a cup of tea and bacon sandwich, in the blink of an eye its lunchtime. Sit and watch grandstand Saturday all afternoon with them. Before you know it, eating fish and chips with them for dinner.

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EfficiencyLarge2925@reddit

Wow yep. So many memories linked to my gran and grandads. It’s been a decade since they died and I can’t go a day without missing them.

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inevitablelizard@reddit

For me it's like grieving for an entire period of life that's now gone and done, not just grieving them as individuals. I find things not even linked directly to them will sometimes trigger it, lots of things that remind me of childhood in general. Because it reminds me of a world that no longer exists which they were part of.

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EfficiencyLarge2925@reddit

Yeah, I do that a lot as well. Not healthy, but I can't shift it.

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pajamakitten@reddit

I still expect to bump into my granddad in Tesco like I used to.

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Tao626@reddit

I have taken it on myself that whenever somebody is wearing a new coat, jumper or whatever, I purposely pinch their arm so I grab the skin and say "ooo, that's thick material". It's what grandad would have wanted.

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--BooBoo--@reddit

My Nan passed away about six years ago and I stood in a queue in the co-op the other day and the little old lady in front of me smelt exactly like my Nan used to. I don't think Nan ever used perfume so it must have been talc or maybe soap, but I had to go sit in the car afterwards and have a proper cry it made me miss her so much.

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Western-Hurry4328@reddit

Palmolive soap. My Auntie Louie.

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soulbored@reddit

💕

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EfficiencyLarge2925@reddit

Damn. Even visiting the co-op with her is a core memory!

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WinkyNurdo@reddit

Grandstand. Ski Sunday. Saint and Greavsie. Sunday dinner with slightly over boiled veg. Nan’s suet pudding smothered in golden syrup. Sat in the living room with the fire slowly crackling, Grandad stoking the coals with a woodbine in the corner of his mouth. All Creatures Great and Small. A Question of Sport. Tea and custard creams. Hoping to stay up long enough to watch Match of the Day. Falling asleep in the car home.

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GroupCurious5679@reddit

That's beautiful. Sundays used to be the best. Just felt different back in the day.

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IntelligentDeal9721@reddit

And being able to watch the sport there without 14 subscriptions at £9.99 a month

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Automatic_Isopod_274@reddit

I lived far away from my Nana for most of my life, except a brief period where I was in N Wales and she was in Chester, and I went over every day after school. Sat on her 70s brown sofa, watching the Rugrats on TV. She was just the most lovely magic Nana - would slide down the stairs with us in a pillow case. She died a year ago yesterday and I miss her so much.

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candiebandit@reddit

I could have written this! Bless nan and grandad

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badmother@reddit

Just knocking on a friend's door to see if they want to come out to play. Could be an impromptu football or cricket game (30 kids between 5 and 13), or a made up assault course challenge. Maybe knock and run or telling ghost/ripper stories. Maybe go to the railway bridge and wave at the driver hoping for a toot back.

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Lost-Ad2864@reddit

Paints a Gorgeous picture x

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onebodyonelife@reddit

Leave my front door open and unlocked, without any risk some low life would burgle my house.

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rev-fr-john@reddit

Cycle 16 miles to work, do a day's work and then cycle home, now walking the 50 yds to the truck and doing a 6 hour day and walking the 50yds back is more than enough, some day's just thinking about it is beyond my limit.

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

I would get up at 5am to get the 6am bus that was 2 miles from my house to the nearest stop to my school, which was still a 1 hour walk away and get there for 830am. then get 3 hours of busses home. the only positive that experience gave me was getting to know music that i brought, reading books and gaining the ability to think and reflect, because what the fuck else are you gonna do?

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rev-fr-john@reddit

You had music? On what may I ask?

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2xtc@reddit

Walkman's have been around for 45 years...

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rev-fr-john@reddit

I'd almost forgotten about them, I have a vague memory of having one for a few months, they weren't great memories partly because the moving around caused the sound to warble, and the batteries didn't last long and the headphones were a bit crap, possibly because knowing me I probably had the binatone version.

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Rushin17@reddit

Getting off my tits on pills and dancing all night

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e1-11@reddit

What’s your name? what have you had? Reach for the lasers, safe as fuck

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Rushin17@reddit

Good to meet you mate. I'm off for a dance

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TreatFriendly7477@reddit

Proper nights out, pub till 11, club till 2, kebab, and fight club on the beach, then afters at a random strangers house till the next morning. Trying to work out where the fuck you are and which way home is, awesome. Dance like a dick, chat shit when off my face and get shot down by women way out of my league, safe in the knowledge that none of it would appear on social media and the only memories would be hazy and laughed about at the pub the next day. Mid 90's free parties....

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Gc1981@reddit

If camera phones had been around in my day me and my friends would have been in a lot of trouble.

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Kitchen_Owl_8518@reddit

Get a case of Carling for under a tenner from the offie and sit in the park drinking all night. When I passed my driving test petrol was 99p meaning my little Clio at the time was full on £20. So much time spent just driving around listening to music. Before the heady days of driving finishing work at 2pm on a Friday walking the 2.2 miles to town after being paid weekly and going to gamestation and picking up the new Xbox 360 releases. Working OT on Saturday and Sunday for 1.5x and double bubble and never saying no because the opening hours were 8-1 & 8-12.30. I miss the belief that keeping your head down and working hard will bring it's own rewards.

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Cool-Caterpillar-630@reddit

Get out of bed without some sort of new pain/problem 😂

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FlockofCGels@reddit

Backhopping. Late in an evening, you and a bunch of friends would try to make their way up the street via back gardens. Jumping over fences and through privets, as fast as possible, without being caught by the homeowners and/or dogs. If I tried it today I think I'd struggle to get through two yards before knackering myself in.

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Kitchen_Owl_8518@reddit

I remember as a kid someone tried this going through front gardens and fucked the hedge up and woke my Dad up. He was fucking fuming. Until he went to cut the hedge found the guys wallet with £100 in 😂

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4BennyBlanco4@reddit

Call things gay

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

Pretty good thing that's fucked off, in fairness.

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pajamakitten@reddit

You are both correct. It is something you cannot do anymore; there is a very good reason we should not be doing that.

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Upbeat_Ad5749@reddit

Erh tbf I like bumming a feller as much as the next strapping formerly young bisexual but gay is a top class insult People have tried to come up with all sorts of modern things but they're all very contrived and lack the caliber of "ok gayboy" or the less PC term I'd likely catch a ban for saying Tbf calling people gay wasn't ever about sexuality, it was pretty much man up Like Ronnie Kray liked bumming fellas but he'd never be called gay in an argument. Owen Jones could bed a hundred women a night and he'd still have a better claim to being called gay in an argument

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4BennyBlanco4@reddit

What a gay response

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

Didn't realise casual homophobia was still so popular. I'll just climb back on my penis and pipe down.

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4BennyBlanco4@reddit

Not everyone is a gay woke libtard

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

Wow you hit the hattrick! How do you find the time to get anything done when you spend so much of it hating people for stuff that doesn't affect you? I bet you HATE when Derek from 3 streets over has honey in his morning tea don't you? The massive poof!

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4BennyBlanco4@reddit

I don't hate people who put honey in their tea but it is pretty gay

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

What's the gayest thing? Short of actually doing gay stuff with another man, of course. Is honey more gay (gayer?) than sweetex? Is tea more gay than coffee? Is unsmoked bacon gayer than smoked? I don't want to consume the wrong thing and get accidentally outed, so your help is greatly appreciated.

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4BennyBlanco4@reddit

Getting riled up like you seem to be is pretty gay.

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

I'm not riled, I'm trying to learn. Last thing I want is to accidentally be gay.

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4BennyBlanco4@reddit

Secondary school 20 years ago was a better time and place you had to be there.

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

I left secondary school in 2002. I was there.

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koyanostranger@reddit

Buy a ticket from the bus conductor whose machine to issue the ticket had a handle that rotated and made a specific noise.

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cgknight1@reddit

Travel freely around the EU as I did as a young man.

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Teembeau@reddit

Sorry, but what's stopping you going to France on holiday or to work there? If you've got a job to go to in France, you get your permit from the local mayors office and can stay. I know people living and working in France.

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cider-with-lousy@reddit

You are limited to 90 days in one year unless you have a visa or residence permit. Previously when we were an EU member we had the right to live and work in EU countries.

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queefmcbain@reddit

But you can still work there. It's undeniably harder yes, but you can do it

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cider-with-lousy@reddit

It’s not impossible I agree. The French employer would have to show that nobody locally or within the EU was available to do the job. As a citizen of a third country a British person would also be in competition with people from other third countries - USA, Australia etc. Not impossible, but for a permanent position, very difficult.

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PresterLee@reddit

Happier times

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pajamakitten@reddit

It is harder to compete with candidates who have freedom of movement within the EU.

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FishingNetLas@reddit

This. Employers have to prove they’ve exhausted all EU options before even considering a non-EU candidate.

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Lowlands62@reddit

I live and work in an EU country but the need for visas means that the sense of "I could up and go anywhere in the EU, whenever I like" is gone. You can no longer just rock up to a country and find any old job, but need to have that job (one good enough to sponsor your visa) well in advance.

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Opening_Cut_6379@reddit

You beat me to this one by a minute. Driving across the France/Italy border in the middle of the night in a clapped out car with three drunken friends and nobody at the post being bothered when we didn't stop

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Magneto88@reddit

You can still do that.

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Teembeau@reddit

Is there a post now? There shouldn't be because of the Schengen agreement which Italy and France are a part of.

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SubsequentBadger@reddit

Last time I drove across the Belgium/France border there were soldiers checking everyone, though that was a while back and not long after an incident. The borders aren't always entirely open.

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Virtual-Guitar-9814@reddit

them internal eu borders are weird, they strip most of the infilstructure so you can barely tell its a border yet they still leave enough stuff there so some customs officals can come running back at any moment.

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thombthumb84@reddit

Some borders have barriers that can be closed - but most of the time they are open. Some borders you can barely tell. The back roads are marked with flags signs only.

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Opening_Cut_6379@reddit

... this was in about 1980, haven't been back recently

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Virtual-Guitar-9814@reddit

there was an old bloke being interviewed by Vice about money smuggling in the alps in the 1960s, he said his group had to hike over the mountains and the gendarme/carabineri flew next to them in a helicopterand started shooting at them. times have changed

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sp2861@reddit

You can still travel around the EU freely

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KeyLog256@reddit

I still do this.

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noughtieslover82@reddit

We used to get served alcohol at 14 then at 16 we were allowed in the back room of the local pub. My boyfriend was was 34

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faa19@reddit

£1 shots. Clubbing at decent rock nights. That one pub in the area that let 15-17 year olds drink and everyone turned a blind eye too.

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butt3rflycaught@reddit

All nighters at raves/house parties. Nowadays I can barely stay awake past 10pm.

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imokaytho@reddit

You can go to shops to buy magic mushrooms now. But illegally.

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

Sitting in an old man pub with a pint of McEwan's best scotch with a book/paper. Still love the pub but back then something was great about a proper Edwardian/Victorian pub with green leather seats or a dumpy pub that hadnt seen a lock of paint since the 50s

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Gave the a quick Google as "a pint of scotch" made me do a double take and, damn.. not seen that logo in time..

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

Ha ha always remember going to the pub with the missus a few years ago, had it on and was like "pint of scotch please" she was all "you can't have that at midday you'll die!!!!?!?" Like calm down pet it's just beer

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

>calm down pet it's just beer Northeast?

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

Correct. Via north Wales. Has lead to an interesting accent

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Fairs. Durham lad, who's moved around a LOT.. Got little drips and drabs of other accents melded into mine now.. It's made me VERY good at doing impressions

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Extension_Common_518@reddit

Same- Scots, then Cumbrian, then Geordie during my formative years. Pretty good at imitating all kinds of accents now.

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Zero-Credibility@reddit

Brush my hair

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saladinzero@reddit

Looking school friends up in phonebook by calling all the numbers listed under their family name and asking to speak to them.

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

I used to regularly look up the McManus's in the phone book and ask to speak to "Mr McAnus" until they hung up. good times.

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Extension_Common_518@reddit

Me and my mates used to call up a Mr. Oliphant and then say in a weird Dick Emry voice “ eeeer, Tarzan’s looking for yew.” And then hang up. We also called up a unit on the local industrial estate. The lass in the office would answer the phone and say, Hello, Orion pumps” to which we would answer, “Does he?” And then hang up and we would all collapse in gales of laughter. Oh, the simple pleasures of childhood in a provincial town in the 1980’s.

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Prestigious_Wash_620@reddit

Haha I used to work with someone that had McManus as a surname and this is one of the names I called him. Also McNoManners

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true_honest-bitch@reddit

This is the best thing I've heard all day I'm dying of laughter 🤣🤣🤣

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Flea-Surgeon@reddit

We used to do the odd prank call and found the most ridiculous name we could one evening and rang that. When he answered I said, "Mate, that is a mental name. Can I ask what your ancestors did?", and he said, "They were Vikings". I don't think we even did it again lol

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Big_Fruit_2348@reddit

😂😂😂😂😂😂 I can imagine how funny it was! I’m howling!

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

"141" was my best friend as a child

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Big_Fruit_2348@reddit

😂😂😂😂 mine too!!! Until someone answered & said this is the police 141 does not work 😂 put that phone down rapid!!

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Glad-Group1353@reddit

Imagine talking to someone on the phone! Scary times.

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saladinzero@reddit

More that there was a public directory of numbers for normal people that you could just look up and call, not that you'd have to talk to people on the phone.

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batch1972@reddit

sitting on a park bench on my own minding my business (male)

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Neither-Drive-8838@reddit

Enjoy the smell of a freshly opened pack of Benson and Hedges.

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true_honest-bitch@reddit

There was something so special about a new box of cigarettes back then

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ChipCob1@reddit

I don't think I knew anyone who knew what to do with Embassy points cards

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Palace-meen@reddit

I got a little cool bag emblazoned with the Embassy logo. And a CD of driving music from Silk Cut. Happy days!

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HurloonMinotaur@reddit

Collecting a bazillion gratis points to redeem a bic lighter

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TheEnglishDominant2@reddit

Great smell that was core memory unlocked.

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Weary-Carob3896@reddit

LSD. Strawbs, Keys, Dots, Mbs.... I fucking LOVED Acid from when I was 16-20. I really miss it. I couldn't deal with it now, but it was fucking amazing.

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Mrmrmckay@reddit

Check ceefax 😆😆 I used to quite like it as a kid

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IntelligentDeal9721@reddit

It isn't all quite dead yet eg [https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/](https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/) Still better than reading all the advertising spam laden news sites.

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Palace-meen@reddit

Thank you this is brilliant. Like a time machine!

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Folkwitch_@reddit

I remember looking at the ‘looking for love’ ceefax pages with my cousins at my nans house and having a giggle. Excellent waste of time, I loved it.

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Mrmrmckay@reddit

That was a laugh 😁😆

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SSMicrowave@reddit

Reading Digitiser before school. Stay away from my bins!

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Awkward_Stranger407@reddit

I love digitiser on YouTube

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ILightFarts@reddit

Bamboozle!

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Littleleicesterfoxy@reddit

The GOAT

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revrobuk1957@reddit

I remember when I was a teacher and the weather in August was particularly rubbish, we got a bottle of scotch, lit the fire, and checked ceefax. The next day we were in Greece on a cheap, last minute bargain holiday.

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Gary_James_Official@reddit

I'm not sure if I'm misremembering this, or if it actually had a whole kids section, but I would swear there used to be (admittedly really simple) games on there as well as text. Something along the lines of **Frogger** or whatever. There definitely used to be joke pages on there, but I remember most of the jokes were absolutely abysmal, even at the time. **Gamesmaster** used to have both a "record this, then play it back frame by frame" bit at the end, as well as a presence on Teletext.

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QOTAPOTA@reddit

Yeah they had games and jokes. “Press Reveal”.

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Cheese_Dinosaur@reddit

Oh just smoking full stop! 🤣 Being able to sit quietly in the corner of the pub with a drink, a good book and smoke!

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Weary-Carob3896@reddit

£1.17 for 10 Regal Blue

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

or just sit in the park smoking with your mates. It was an activity.

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Cheese_Dinosaur@reddit

Oh wasn’t it just!

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HamsterEagle@reddit

Stand up without something hurting.

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

You know those Hollywood scenes where a sniper assembles a rifle on a rooftop and theres just like a solid minute or two of clicks and clacks as he puts everything into place? That's what I sound like

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ILightFarts@reddit

[I may not look or fight like Bruce Lee, but at least I sound like him.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lxYH5Q_zCE)

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WinkyNurdo@reddit

Always loved it when he starts doing the Muhammad-I’m-Hard-Bruce-Lee dance. Great stuff.

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Man that was a good watch. Thanks for that

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ILightFarts@reddit

It was on telly the other night, the "crack off" thing made me laugh, along with Bruce Lee's dubbed American voice.

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Watching that back, what gave me a giggle was when Bruce grabbed chucks chest hair out and he did that silent finger wag in response. I've seen far too many of those 5 minute craft type videos where they do the finger wag to say "wrong" and it just reminded me of that

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365BlobbyGirl@reddit

I'm no longer a man I'm a marionette

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Next-Project-1450@reddit

Yeah, and like when you fell over when you were younger, you pretty much bounced. Do it now and you're likely to shatter.

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Afraid-Astronomer886@reddit

I was thinking, get uo without groaning

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revrobuk1957@reddit

You’ve got that right!

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Miss_Type@reddit

Touch my toes with ease.

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HamsterEagle@reddit

This is correct, I can no longer touch u\miss_type’s toes.

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Miss_Type@reddit

What a coincidence! Neither can I!

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BigFluff_LittleFluff@reddit

Daily stretches can help massively with that.

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WinkyNurdo@reddit

Run. Jog. Walk fast. Kneel down without gently spluttering OOOFFFMMPF! Rugby scrum knees well and truly shot. I loved playing it in my youth but fucking hell.

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OkMarket7141@reddit

Buying a computer game and just being able to play it instantly, without having to install it for ages, download extra stuff, pay for extras and be forced to play with people online. They were also games you could just throw on for 5 mins at a time if you wanted and enjoy it. If you got a game for Christmas and it was shit you’d just have to accept it and play it anyway as that’s all you had!

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Interesting-Scar-998@reddit

Look in a mirror without feeling horror.

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invisiblette@reddit

Came here to say this.

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AuroraDF@reddit

Smoke anywhere I want (planes, buses, the staffroom at work, church, the railway station, pubs) Ride in the boot of an estate car next to the luggage. Risk being whipped in school. Drink more than a single whisky in Scotland and then drive safely. Let kids ride in the car without seat belts, boosters, or car seats. Chuck a woman out of the clubhouse at the golf course.

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mmoonbelly@reddit

Having a pint after rugby training as an U16. Nothing better.

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MadWifeUK@reddit

Mr Mad and I went for a walk around my home town at the weekend. I pointed out all the places I used to drink in (and what they were called back then!). He commented I must have been permanently drunk in my late teens/20s. I wasn't, but I did have a lot of fun in those days! And I'm glad I did, but I'm also absolutely fine that those days are behind me. I have absolutely no wish to get dressed up, wear high heels all night, dance like a mentaller then walk 6 miles home eating a kebab or baked spud at 4am. I like cardigans and slippers, cups of tea and early nights now.

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Gauntlets28@reddit

>walk 6 miles home eating a kebab or baked spud at 4am Jesus yes, the walking, oh my God the walking. I don't know how I got by hiking back home late at night, I really don't. And that was just considered a normal thing to do on a night out! Really sucks to be drunk and have no money for a lift home - and not want to wait for the designated driver, who seems to have infinite dancing stamina and will be there until they turn the lights up.

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sparklychestnut@reddit

On my first date with my husband in the 90s, my stupid heels were really uncomfortable (but so beautiful). My husband took his shoes off for me to wear instead, and he walked home barefoot. He somehow lost his socks on the way, too. I knew he was a keeper.

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Gullible_Mode_1141@reddit

Walk home? No chance. We had to pass by the cemetery. We ran past that thing as fast as possible and most of the way home.

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TheEnglishDominant2@reddit

Cold pizza was one to that was always on the menu. 😂

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irv81@reddit

Drinking on a Saturday afternoon in the George and Dragon pub in Newcastle, pints of crap lager and bags of Brannigans Crisps. The pub was part of the Eldon Square shopping centre and was frequented by the police doing their rounds. We were underage (15/16) and the barman used to tell us to stay around the corner from the main bar towards the back when the police came in and he'd let us know when they'd gone. I can't do this any longer as I'm now 43, the pub hasn't existed for some time and Brannigans crisps were discontinued!

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warm1789@reddit

Clubbing. …… the whole scene is dead. My go to was mainly Trance but went to numerous DnB & House nights. 97-03 were my favourites. Later electro house was fun upto 2008 max

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IronSkywalker@reddit

Other youths

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Immediate_Sherbert47@reddit

Egging, hedgehopping

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SceneDifferent1041@reddit

Sitting down without going "ummpppthhh"

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Clioashlee@reddit

My dad booked us a holiday on teletext once. I still don’t understand what or how this event was.

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OriginalStockingfan@reddit

Call round unannounced and ask my mates if they want to play out. 1) they expect a text at the very least 2) I’m 50

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pitchitdown@reddit

Proper good ecstasy

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Spottyjamie@reddit

Buy booze Aged 14-16 it just wasnt an issue from a spar/co-op Aged 16+ every smaller town would have two pubs and two clubs that were lax

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RudePragmatist@reddit

Play games like PlanetSide 2. My eyesight can’t keep up with all the tracer fire, explosions and sheer number of players on screen at one time. No other FPS has ever been close to the chaos of that game. And then to have to wear glasses the eye strain became so bad I had to stop :)

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WestLondonIsOursFFC@reddit

Driving around in the middle of the night and only having police to worry about rather than cameras. Plus anything else that made driving remotely pleasurable before we were told to feel bad about it.

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chef_26@reddit

Sprint

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kairu99877@reddit

Afford a hobby.

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Glad-Group1353@reddit

Drink copious amounts of alcohol without getting much of a hangover.

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Domski77@reddit

Kissing schoolgirls wouldn’t go down too well these days.

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SecurityTemporary849@reddit

Recording the new Top 40 on a Sunday evening by firstly Tony Blackburn then Tommy Vance followed by Bruno Brooks.

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heyyouupinthesky@reddit

Going to a head shop just to buy different rizla other than reds, some patchouli jossticks and a tie-dye hoody. All that effort to smoke a bit of soap bar and think you're a rebel.

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ZroFksGvn69@reddit

Go out on the piss Friday lunchtime, finish up Sunday midnight, be in work 6AM on Monday morning.

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Nyx_Necrodragon101@reddit

Get to the airport 30 minutes before flight take off and still get through security and on the plane.

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MentalJeremyBentham@reddit

Top of the Pops.

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Vyvyansmum@reddit

Poke white dog shit thro peoples letterbox as a “ trick” for Halloween. Or cover the door in shaving foam .

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dinkidoo7693@reddit

Actually go out at 7pm for the night and after the pubs called time at 11 going clubbing in an actual nightclub til 2am, not a late bar.

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FuzzyBreak5678@reddit

As long as you had shoes and a tie.

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dinkidoo7693@reddit

Yeah no jeans, trainers or tshirts

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Danmoz81@reddit

Everyone wearing their school pants

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Ill-Basil2863@reddit

I am a teacher and when i talk to my students about employment, I tell them about my first job at their age... in an internet cafe. They have no idea of the concept.

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pinkdaisylemon@reddit

Spend time with my parents and grandparents. I miss them every day 💔

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-FantasticAdventure-@reddit

£1 a pint.

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Ankerwhyke@reddit

Knocking about in the woods playing ‘army’ with air rifles. We must’ve been fucking stupid shooting at each other with pellets. Nobody ever got hit, probably because all the guns had sights that were way off. This was in the late 80s, but if that happened now no doubt someone would hear the shots and ring the police.

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elcapitana1@reddit

Get a temporary passport from the post office for the weekend and hop to Amsterdam with mates. Basically zero customs or checks.

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QOTAPOTA@reddit

Checking out holidays on teletext. Booking “Allocation On Arrival” and it turning out to be like in the Inbetweeners! What do you expect for £49?! Crazy times.

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EmptyRestaurant2410@reddit

I once got a great beach-front hotel room from booking allocation on arrival!

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pdirth@reddit

See my cock without using a mirror...

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Awkward_Stranger407@reddit

BMX, ebike nowadays

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Ok-Wait489@reddit

Tie my shoelaces without making a grunting straining noise

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bidehant@reddit

Sleeping with my scoutmaster

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AgeingMuso65@reddit

Eat and drink whatever with impunity and without reflux…. I particularly miss cheese after 6pm…!

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Jonut1990@reddit

Roly polys.

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kebabby72@reddit

Burning asbestos.

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Time_Substance_4429@reddit

Buy a pack of 10 fags, sell them for 25p a fag at school and make a profit.

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AwarenessHonest9030@reddit

Used to charge 50p then last fag in the box for £1

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

Bargain! I used to charge 30p a fag. Would make my money back selling 5 then still have 5 to myself.

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Time_Substance_4429@reddit

For a while I ploughed the profits into buying sweets and sold them to undercut the tuck shop for more profit. Until the headteacher banned me from doing it.

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

I used to wait in the lunch line behind my mate, I'd open his backpack and fill it with turkey burgers (they'd be wrapped like takeaway burgers, they were also fucking delicious). We'd go out to the playing field and sell them for half price and make an absolute killing. If people were short of cash (or fags) we'd let them pay with Campino sweets. The school took their time but they shut it down eventually.

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Time_Substance_4429@reddit

Campino sweets!! Haven’t heard of them in ages.

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

They were elite. Strawberries and cream were basically currency at my school.

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Time_Substance_4429@reddit

Those, werthers and fruit polos were popular at mine. We had things called green cards that would be signed for uniform infringements, 3 signatures and a detention was the prize. Blank cards were the currency at mine

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McLeod3577@reddit

I'm pretty sure mushrooms were never legal to sell. Picking them and possessing them was fine. Headshops probably got away with selling stuff they shouldn't. I could quite easily go to pubs and clubs at 15/16 - We would even go for a pint at lunchbreak at school and come back for double physics.. My best A-Level result? Physics!!

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2xtc@reddit

I think the law changed in around 2005, before then you could definitely get them from head shops.

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Western-Hurry4328@reddit

Tony Blair, wrecking the place, again.

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DaveyBoyXXZ@reddit

The law at the time was specifically written so that fresh mushrooms weren't illegal to possess or supply, so that you couldn't get busted for picking them by mistake. At some point in the early 2000s someone realised that they could grow and sell them. A head shop I used to frequent had a letter pinned up on the wall from the cops confirming the loophole.

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GooseGundy@reddit

I first tried mushrooms bought in the main arena of Reading festival. We were young and had no idea about dosage....It was bloody terrifying.

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McLeod3577@reddit

The worst time I had is when we went to Amsterdam and totally ignored the guy in the shop. "Just 3? Nah mate we are British!" Dribbling mess for 24hrs.

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Beatnuki@reddit

Afford to eat

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ZedsDeadB4by@reddit

You could get nonced up and the bbc wouldn’t even talk about it

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Old-Parfait8194@reddit

Now I've got a young son and take him to the park often I was disappointed to find out the hard way that I can't do the monkey bars anymore, not even one rung. My son however can get all the way across easily and he's only 6.

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Upbeat_Ad5749@reddit

Get yourself a gym membership and download a PDF of starting strength. It doesn't take much out your time and you'll feel the benefits but best of all; when your son sees you handling the monkey bars and being able to lash him on one shoulder with one hand you'll be his real life superman

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DontTellHimPike1234@reddit

Just going for a drive for the hell of it.

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Leroy-Leo@reddit

Huge slice of pizza for a quid after a night out

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spoonybum@reddit

Smoking on the bus/train.

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Martinonfire@reddit

Carrying a pocket knife, every boy had one yet no one got stabbed!

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Gullible_Mode_1141@reddit

S'cuse me but we as girls had them too. Needed them for carving our initials into rocks and walls down by the beach.as well as the swings and chute at the park.

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feralhog3050@reddit

To be fair, by the time you've found the actual blade on your Swiss Army knife, in amongst the scissors & the fish descaler & the instrument for picking boy scouts out of horses' hooves, the person you wanted to stab has probably walked off

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ChipCob1@reddit

Wake up after a night out to find a landline number scrawled in lipstick on my arm

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FellatioWanger3000@reddit

Go out on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights drinking, and also work the next day

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camelseeker@reddit

Drugs without (immediate) consequences

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Captain_Kruch@reddit

Going outside without the quite real danger that I'll get stabbed...

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Big-Finding2976@reddit

Hang out with my friends.

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Sgt_Sillybollocks@reddit

Afford things

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Qasar500@reddit

Go to Blockbuster, choosing your film or video game and your snack.

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CarpeCyprinidae@reddit

People watching Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World for the first time will watch [this scene and never understand what that store is or what its customers are doing](https://youtu.be/8Xhlbf0ePvc?t=58)

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Moomahmahiki@reddit

Going to see a band on tour at a local venue for less than £10 a ticket.

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Dr-Maturin@reddit

Have to leave a pub at 3pm then mess around until they could open again at 5:30pm

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h00dman@reddit

Bloody hell I'd forgotten pubs used to do this 😅

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revrobuk1957@reddit

Sundays was worse! Didn’t they close between 2 and 7?

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Hungry-Let-1054@reddit

I am sure they could stay open if they did food. I remember going to pub with my dad, one of his locals would bring massive trays of chips out with bread. Might be wrong and it was just illegal lock in every week though. 😂

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skippergimp@reddit

A mates Dad has a story about that. Left at 3pm on a Friday and went to the bookies to waste some time before the pubs open again. Next thing he remembers is waking up about 20-30 miles away. Turns out it is now Sunday. He has no memory of Friday night or Saturday.

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bradrly@reddit

SooOOooooOo what happened

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skippergimp@reddit

The drinking power of a Geordie sailor with Norwegian ancestry should not be underestimated! He got so drunk, it blocked out the next 36 hours or something.

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SaltyName8341@reddit

Crouch down

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Mog_X34@reddit

I can still crouch down, but I'm not getting up again without help.

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SaltyName8341@reddit

I tried to get something off the bottom shelf in the supermarket I had to get a younger person to do it. I'm 45

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Lost-Ad2864@reddit

Yeah I'm 44 and 6.4 so ideally need a very short shopping partner while I grab the stuff that's stupidly high up even for me

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Purple_Committee_216@reddit

Cutting the toenails on my right foot with ease.

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CarpeCyprinidae@reddit

Quit a job and start a new one within 48 hours - the economic boom at the end of the 1990s was magical. Smoke in a pub - I dont smoke or drink any more of course, but the former was taken from us, not given up. Have differing opinions from whatever is currently seen as "correct" without getting cancelled. I'll be forever in two minds on this - broadly I'm with the woke movement but I do feel there should be a sort of tolerance for the idea that other ideas exist, and a lot of younger people don't have that flexibility - or even an ability to face the fact that not everyone believes the same things.

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Tammer_Stern@reddit

Driving for fun, was a thing years ago when the roads were quieter.

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morbid909@reddit

Those few years 2002-2005 when you could just buy mushrooms in every town was pretty wild.

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FuzzyBreak5678@reddit

Did other towns not go and pick their own by the canal like we did?

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Efficient-Loquat399@reddit

Seeing the little holes that the birds had pecked in the milk bottle tops to get to the cream; seeing the milkman's footsteps in the snow at 5am; watching caterpillars muching on leaves; catching tadpoles; seeing a sky filled with stars at night; collecting pussywillow and conkers.

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Spare_Tyre1212@reddit

Walk up stairs, two at a time. It's hard to believe i ever managed this, but I'm pretty certain I did. Maybe my legs have got shorter?

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Purple_Committee_216@reddit

Or run down them!

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Cool_Whole_7139@reddit

Being able to phone a company, or order something, book tickets etc without a bloody app ...

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Precipiceofasneeze@reddit

All-nighters in the park with whatever alcohol we could pilfer from our parents' supplies. It's how I discovered I hate Cointreau. Getting the local off-license to serve the oldest looking one of your group to 3 bottles of MD 20-20 and 20 Sovereign. Wagging school to go ice skating. Smoking in pubs. Swapping girlfriends with my mates every so often to see what the fuss was about. Some of these things are definitely best left in the past, but nostalgia is strong and youth is fleeting.

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AccomplishedAd3728@reddit

Juuuust a shade too young to have bought magic mushrooms in shops. Old enough to remember seeing them and being super excited to get to try them when I was older..... then they were gone.

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shabbyj@reddit

Popping out of school in my lunchtime and buying 'a cigarette, a strike and light' for 10p from Ogles corner shop in Chatham.

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PlatJC@reddit

Feeling safe just being out and about. Both having money and saving money.

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brum_newbie@reddit

Fond memories of playing arcade machines in cafés

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originallovecat@reddit

Shared a massive 6 bed house with 5 other people for very little rent, we could walk 3 minutes to the nearest pub, or walk a bit further to a much nicer pub, all put a fiver in and get absolutely bladdered, plus crisps, for the evening. It was 1987.

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ShockingHair63@reddit

Perhaps it’s cliché but just knowing all our neighbours, even wandering in and out of their homes in a few cases. And far less pressure from social media etc… to have hyper unrealistic beauty standards

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jonpenryn@reddit

shoot argies...

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geth1962@reddit

Go to the gym. Bench almost twice my body weight. Have sex 4 times in a night Drink 10 pints and feel great the next day. Eat chicken phall with no deleterious effects the next day. I dislike being in my 60s

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ASBOswan@reddit

Squat parties!

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First-Banana-4278@reddit

Being able to cycle on country roads without fear of imminent death because there were far fewer cars on the roads.

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Ok-Set-5829@reddit

Throw anything a decent distance. Was a pretty solid Javelin thrower in school. Now, playing with my dog or nephew I struggle to move my arm with any kind of velocity.

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CaptainQueen1701@reddit

Smoking common room in S5 and S6. Early 90s.

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Ambitious_Rent_3282@reddit

Full push ups

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Flea-Surgeon@reddit

Handfuls of drugs.

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TheEternalDm@reddit

Stay up after 9pm.

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Flea-Surgeon@reddit

Me as a kid: "When I grow up nobody is making me go to bed before 11 o'clock" Me as an adult: "Nobody is making me go to bed after 11 o'clock"

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Hairy_Al@reddit

Snog a 13 year old girl. It was fine when I was 13/14, but apparently it's frowned upon now that I'm in my 50s

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deltic12@reddit

Get a doctors appointment…

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cider-with-lousy@reddit

Whilst in the sixth form at school, go to the local nightclub for their lunchtime strip shows and a pint before returning to school for the afternoon lessons.

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alloitacash@reddit

Sleeping all night.

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Xaerob@reddit

Unlimited eating without getting fat.

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Smokweid@reddit

Have a 15 year old girlfriend.

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TheArtfullTodger@reddit

Drink white lightning. Seriously where did that go?

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accidentalarchers@reddit

This is so bad but I loved smoking. I was that dick with vanilla tobacco and clove papers. Thought I was so cool and immortal, until I started wheezing when I climbed stairs. I resent not smoking every day. That’s my terrible secret.

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denjin@reddit

Finding a dog eared copy of Razzle under the hedge on the way home from school.

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zcjp@reddit

Take industrial quantities of speed and go to all-nighters...

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TheEnglishDominant2@reddit

Stay out all night get up for work the next day.

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Gadgie2023@reddit

Buy £10 worth of credit to top up my mobile phone. Scratch off the code and type it into my phone. Buy 8 cans for £5. Play sport with a hangover. Drink Smirnoff Mule Shag more than once a night. Life is a young man’s game.

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perplexed-redditor@reddit

Speak without upsetting someone somewhere!

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

who have you been upsetting?

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perplexed-redditor@reddit

The easily offended

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

who is easily offended? people who are part of minority groups in the UK or knuckle dragging, reform voting mongs?

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Significant-Yak-2373@reddit

Sneeze without farting and/or peeing myself

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Pier-Head@reddit

Sit on the floor with crossed legs

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dimebaghayes@reddit

Skateboarding. I used to be rather good at it. Now? Even the humble Ollie would break my body.

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idontlikemondays321@reddit

Get drunk on £10 on a night out

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Powerful-Note-3243@reddit

i used to be able to climb ropes

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escrementthemusical@reddit

Doing a line off a public bins also is a bit of a no no now hahaha

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escrementthemusical@reddit

Drink white lightning on a park bench isn't as acceptable now haha nah I get it. It was a good laugh for us, who just got together to do shitty freestyles.

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WerewolfNo890@reddit

Not exactly older, but go out with a knife and not have to worry about if your reason for carrying it is legal or not.

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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit

Being able to go to the shop with £1 and getting enough sweets to last you all day at school, you’re lucky to get any change from the pound if you bought a bar of chocolate nowadays

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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit

Knock down ginger/ tap door run (whatever it was called where you were from) , you can’t do that anymore, too many houses with Ring cameras

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BusyBeeBridgette@reddit

Sure you can. Hoodies!

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Alive_Ice7937@reddit

Lactate

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HawthorneUK@reddit

Go into a pub and buy a cider / beer during the lunch break at school.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit

Put up with bullshit. Turns out it was oestrogen, not tact and patience.

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DameKumquat@reddit

Hang out quietly in the back of pubs. If they were crowded, the best way to get a seat was to call out loudly to a mate "Really? The police are coming to do an ID raid? Shit, just as well we're all over 18 now!" Cue a dozen younger kids legging it, half leaving their drinks behind. We'd sit down and enjoy both the seats and the free drinks... (we were age 16-17) Age 12-15, I'd supplement my pocket money by buying fags for people with enough money to say "keep the change". 20 Marlboro - about £1.50. Even if they expected two packs for a fiver, that was quite nice. Drinking with teachers on school trips. Whole class of 25 being crammed in a 16-seater minibus.

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Comfort_Not_Speed_50@reddit

Absolutely nothing, I was born a 50 year old.

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Princes_Slayer@reddit

Bend over to pick something up off the floor….get up off my knees for any reason….walk without tripping over my own feet….sleep a full night without needing to pee at 3am….

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GunstarGreen@reddit

Most things ...

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Recent_Strawberry456@reddit

Bomb Germany

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Redphantom000@reddit

Openly use slurs. Because of woke

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

shh. go away.

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Ok-Tomorrow-7158@reddit

Pump 18 year olds

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Lizzie-P@reddit

What’s a head shop?

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

Hippy/goth shops that sell rolling papers, pipes for ...erm....tobacco and lighters with certain plant leaves on them

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Lizzie-P@reddit

Oh, thanks for explaining 😊 32 years old and never heard to term before!

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

Yeah as a mid 40 year old the term pretty much fell out of use when I was like 16 up where I live, they just ended up being called bong shops ha ha

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Deep_Banana_6521@reddit (OP)

im 36 and head shop is what I always used. Would buy smoking stuff and drug stuff, but also t-shirts and posters. Head shop was a lot easier than saying "drug paraphernalia shop" to my parents.

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phantom_phreak29@reddit

Tie dye t shirts and some shit dragon and crystal statuettes I hope

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Flibertygibbert@reddit

Going to the phone box with a couple of friends to listen to "dial a disc". It was usually the one Top Ten song we hated 😂

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imminentmailing463@reddit

Exercise without a proper warm up/down and feel absolutely fine the next day.

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Breaking-Dad-@reddit

Get out of bed without it hurting? Put my socks on while hopping on one leg? I agree with smoking in cafes with mates after school. Core memory that one.

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