‘What’s your ‘If you told kids about it today they wouldn’t believe you’ thing?’ – 23 unbelievable blasts from the recent past

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15.

‘Eurotrash and Shannon Tweed movies late on a Saturday night being as good as it got.’
–poke_pants

16.

‘That we didn’t have particularly good cameras on our phones, so on nights out at the local nightclub, we used to get excited when the club photographer would offer to take a photo of you and your mates. We would then have to wait a couple of days to see if they ended up on the nightclubs Facebook/MySpace page.

And that was only a few months ago . Sorry, I think I mean 15 years ago somehow.’
–Oh-Its-Him-

17.

‘If there was parking left on your ticket, you would give it to a stranger entering the car park. It’s one good deed that’s been wiped from society.’
–Bum-Sniffer

18.

‘My primary school teacher would smoke in the classroom.’
–maxscarletto

19.

‘On the Christmas theme – children’s TV shows encouraging you to make a highly flammable decoration to put a candle in.’
–Grizzled_Wanderer

20.

‘I told my kids about David Hasselhoff in a light up suit singing on the Berlin wall when it came down and then had to find a video to prove it. To be fair I have told them numerous utter made up lies in the past to mess with them.’
–thecornflake21

21.

‘You used to get paid to go to university. Not just tuition fees, you got a grant that (just about) covered your rent and living expenses.’
–Joeboy

22.

‘The sheer, agonising wait for a specific song to come on the radio so you could hit record on your cassette tape, only for the DJ to talk over the intro or end. Explaining that ritual to a kid with Spotify would sound like describing medieval torture.’
–TypicalEgoLeader

23.

‘One I’ve sometimes had to explain to nephews and nieces is the time between a film being at the cinema and being on telly. Jaws was in cinemas in the UK from the end of 1975. I know this because in third year infants (Year 2), the teacher had David Kelly stand at the front of the class to tell us all about it. David’s parents obviously thought it was an appropriate film for a six year old to watch.

When Jaws was first shown on the TV, we were in second year of secondary school – Year 8. David Kelly saw it aged six, the rest of us had to wait until we were 12/13. And everybody watched it. Every single child in every year group was excitedly talking about it at school the next day.’
–Quality_Cabbage

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