I ain't seen that in...yonks!

[branny]

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I remember a brand of Cola from the 70s called Strike Cola. Haven't seen it since. Porcelain Shire horses, those oversized brandy glasses with a mouse in the bottom and a cat about to climb over the lip and pitch (tar) from the cobbled street. It used to appear between the cobbles on hot days. We used to play with it with lollie sticks. What fun Not seen any of these since my childhood, oh and tomato shaped sauce dispensers is another.

[HG]

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Oh wow I'd completely forgotten about dial a disc, you could get horroscopes and all sorts of things from BT, they must have mada a fortune from people phoning up.

In the days before internet chatrooms they also used to have a chatline service called Talkabout i think where teens could talk to each other. I remember me and my friends used to go it a bit, so much so my parents put a phone lock on, pity they didnt know about my lock picking skills

[ridski]

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Watney's Party Seven - I was too young to drink this but I do remember always seeing them the night after my parent's entertained - always a number of triangles cut desperately into the metal in order to get the beer out quicker!

Dial-a-Disc - before the Internet and MTV, the nearest we had to choosing music to be played to us without having the music ourselves was to dial something like 151(?) and listen to the tinny, quiet and crackling rendition over the 'phone. I can't believe that myself and my friends found it exciting

Good call on Dial-A-Disc. I totally forgot about that service. There were quite a few weird services the old GPO used to provide over the telephone. The speaking clock was virtually essential when you woke up in the morning after forgetting to wind your watch up before going to bed. I used to call it up all the time without realizing it cost money. Oops!

[frame]

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I had a soda stream for xmas when they came out, I think mine had two free flavours with it, one was tonic water and the other was orange I think, the tonic was still almost full when it got made redundant about a year later

[frame]

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Does any one still get a chip van? not a static one - a proper one that drives around and beeps his horn when hes stopped?

We also used to get a Shop Van - a proper shop in the back of a van, you could buy anything a corner shop would sell and get 10p back on your pop bottles

"shamefull" we get one of these twice a week down here

[frame]

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still got these down ere!

[CoteDazur]

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Watney's Party Seven - I was too young to drink this but I do remember always seeing them the night after my parent's entertained - always a number of triangles cut desperately into the metal in order to get the beer out quicker!

Dial-a-Disc - before the Internet and MTV, the nearest we had to choosing music to be played to us without having the music ourselves was to dial something like 151(?) and listen to the tinny, quiet and crackling rendition over the 'phone. I can't believe that myself and my friends found it exciting

[tony ingram]

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If it was flavoured carbonated water ( i.e. Seven Up, Cola, Cream Soda etc)- it was Pop - the only one we'd call ginger would be Ginger Beer / Ale

I think Pop was more of a northern expression. Growing up in South London, the only time I heard these drinks called Pop was in comics, mostly from IPC and DC Thomson. Most of whose writers were northerners. We just called Cola 'cola' and 7Up '7Up'.

[joybee]

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Noticed you all call fizzy juice 'pop' ?? Am I the only kid who called it 'ginger' then?

If it was flavoured carbonated water ( i.e. Seven Up, Cola, Cream Soda etc)- it was Pop - the only one we'd call ginger would be Ginger Beer / Ale

[Caz]

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I always thought it was only white poodles who done the white poo . Noticed you all call fizzy juice 'pop' ?? Am I the only kid who called it 'ginger' then?

[Danny]

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Can't believe they still doing that and thinkin they so-o-o-o funny ,MUPPETS!

[joybee]

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Saw a man in Blackpool with one of those last week but one Danny *rofl*

[Danny]

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Some drunken prat thinking he was the funniest person alive cos he had one of those collar and leads with wire inside to keep it rigid.Pretending his invisible dog is pulling him all over the place - oh how we didn't laugh

[stevef]

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always had a bird in hot pants on the cover. Elton john was one b4 he made it.

lol

[Lisey]

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The village I grew up in still has a red phone box, my high school had chain toilets in some of its buildings and our soda stream is still in existence (although not in use) and still adorned with a decade's worth of fruit stickers after I got banned from putting them on the fridge.
Having said that, there are a few things I haven't seen in yonks:
- the original lineup of books by Jean Ure and Jaqueline Wilson, which were always around when I was young but I think they got superseded by newer and trendier ones by both authors.
- Corona fizzy drinks, with deposits on the glass bottles (yes, I am just about old enough to remember these - and young enough that the returned deposit seemed like a lot of money!)
- Panini stickers and albums, although this might be because I wouldn't know where to look these days.
- The BBC test card, on the TV as opposed to youtube
- Public information films of the sort discussed in the TV forum here - maybe kids today are more easily traumatised than we were then?? (Apaches, btw, was *nothing* to some of the posters the older kids at my primary school came up with themselves when set a competition to design an ad campaign against messing around on farms - loads of red paint!) I always rather liked them for some reason, obviously turning into a goth already...