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You listened to a wireless not a radio
Bald people wore a wig not a toupee or hairpiece
You went to the seaside not the coast
You went on holiday not a vacation
You got tablets from a chemist not a pharmacy
You ate a biscuit not a cookie
It was birds not people who used to tweet
MacDonald had a farm not beef burgers
As a child you had sweets not candy
You had coke on a fire not a drink in a bottle or, drugs
You went to the pictures to see a film not a cinema to watch a movie
Remote was something far away not a device for operating a t.v.
People wore glasses not spectacles
Soap was something you used to wash not a type of programme on t.v.
A recorder was a musical instrument not for copying programmes off the t.v.
You took a picture with your camera not a photograph
A mouse was a rodent not a computer accessory
Mobile meant being active not a portable phone
A hard drive was a hard and long trip not part of a computer
If you had the flu, you’d caught a virus not something on a computer
Memory was something you lost with age
Pop was a fizzy drink not a type of music
You wore pumps, baseball shoes or plimsolls not trainers
Notts County and Nottingham Forest played football not soccer
You were paid a wage not a salary
Your mother fried chips not French Fries
STD was a type of telephone call not a disease
A monitor was probably a person who handed out milk at school not a computer screen
A tunnel went under a road not a subway
You put petrol in your car from a garage or petrol station not a filling station
You went for a drink a the pub not in a bar
People lived in a flat not an apartment
Wag was what a dog did with its tail not wives and girlfriends
People played housey housey or lotto not bingo
You went to a show not a gig
A shower was rain not a device for washing yourself
If you had a joint it was meat not drugs
You went to a Beer Off not an Off Licence
A spider span a web not surfed it
Surf was a soap powder
Kindle was to light a fire
A keyboard was a musical instrument such as a piano
Women used to dye their hair not colour it

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You listened to a wireless not a radio Bald people wore a wig not a toupee or hairpiece You went to the seaside not the coast You went on holiday not a vacation You got tablets from a chemist not a ph

Sunglasses only when sunny and definitely not indoors. Hats too should be worn only outside. It pees me off when 'singers and actors ' are interviewed in the tv studio and wear a hat. Ignorant in th

And log rhythms, I thought that's what lumberjacks sang.

My Grandad wore spectacles, not glasses, he was born in the late 1800's. So I think you have it the wrong way around. I know a few people in their late 60's on FB in the UK who use the term "Specs".

I've worn glasses for the last 46 years, never spectacles....LOL

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And I remember when a band was a lot of people playing musical instruments not a few people just singing.

But regarding the word soccer, it seems something of an urban myth that it's a modern Americanism. I used to read the magazine 'Soccer Star' regularly in the 1960s:

http://www.soccerbilia.co.uk/acatalog/Raich_Carter_s_Soccer_Star.html

And as a word for football it's been in British use since the last century.

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You ate a fairy cake, not a muffin.

Muffin was a mule, not a cake

You put fairy lights, not Christmas lights on your tree.

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When our mum's would send us to school with crisps during snack time. I remember the monster munch that turned peoples mouth blue!

Now I'm not allowed to send my daughter to school with a snack, and if I must send a drink, it HAS to be water!

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#13 Michael, this reminds me of what my husband said about his teacher at primary school. He attended a primary school with one teacher and 22 pupils in a small village in East Anglia. The children used to wonder why the teacher had a froth on top of her "tea"! Later they understood! Sometimes they were left to play in the yard until about 10.00 am. Too much "tea" perhaps.

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I think something might go wrong, sending a 3 year old into school with vodka! Haha!

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Perhaps you were waiting until you could do joined-up writing, Merthyr. lol

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The Muffin Club......... Well he is in Wales...LOL

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Sunglasses only when sunny and definitely not indoors. Hats too should be worn only outside.

It pees me off when 'singers and actors ' are interviewed in the tv studio and wear a hat. Ignorant in the extreme !!!!!!

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That says it all !!!!! LOL

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