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 tang
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Blimey, brings back some memories. Was a particularly tough year as a kid, many hours of distraction were spent in the Argos catalogue (and the littlewoods, but I wont go into that).


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 10:12 am
 Drac
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Brilliant find, so many thing in there have hardly changed in price.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 10:21 am
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Cracking stuff.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 10:23 am
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Look how much optimus prime is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592674735/in/photostream/

I used to have that Optimus and the decepticon plane (wings kept falling off)

What is the current one? £60-70?


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 10:31 am
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so many thing in there have hardly changed in price.

You've not seen the new one then...


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 10:38 am
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You've not seen the new one then..

The one sitting next to me that I looked at? Yes I've seen it.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 10:54 am
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wow, that's a great find, cheers 🙂


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 11:43 am
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Look how much optimus prime is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592674735/in/photostream/

I used to have that Optimus and the decepticon plane (wings kept falling off)

What is the current one? £60-70?

ha ha, my brother had the pneumatic excavator! I think it's still in my parents loft somewhere.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 11:45 am
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Racing bike for £50! 🙂

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3589297369/in/photostream/


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 11:49 am
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No Sony Walkman 😐


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 12:12 pm
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Racing bike for £50!

How long are those cables?!


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 12:17 pm
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Cliff hadn't popularised them by that point pieface

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Posted : 24/01/2012 12:21 pm
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Wired for Sound.

*kills self*


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 12:27 pm
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Racing bike for £50!

A mate had that, and killed it trying to huck off curbs following me on my Raleigh BMX with plastic wheels and battery-powered siren etc.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 12:29 pm
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I had half the Star Wars and He Man stuff at various points in my childhood... Still have some of it, in a well played with state.

And STARSHIP EXPLORER! Awesome.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 12:29 pm
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And STARSHIP EXPLORER! Awesome.

The "Galaxy Commander." Uh, 6980? I wanted that set [i]so[/i] badly, it was the coolest Lego I'd ever seen. Got it for Christmas one year. Ace.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 12:36 pm
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592636739/in/photostream/

That brings back memories. I love those VHS video boxes thay you had to try and fool people in to thinking you had a full set of leather-bound encyclopeadias on your shelf in the living room.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 1:10 pm
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Look how much optimus prime is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3592674735/in/photostream/

£15.95. Bargain! In mint condition they go for over £200 now!


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 1:19 pm
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errr, apparently, so I'm told by a friend of mine...
err... you can, errr... I'm told that Argos catalogues of that era sold showers and there may have been pictures of people using those showers...
no idea whether, errr, whether it's true. ahem.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 1:22 pm
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i was told, by a friend, that the old index catalogues had pictures of ladies in bras?!
told by my, ahem, friend, like i said.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 1:28 pm
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593128800/in/photostream/

*giggles*


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 1:31 pm
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oooh, I forgot about the sunbeds, errrr....
I mean I wasn't told about the sunbeds. yup. no idea if it's true.


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 1:55 pm
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A far more innocent age, teenagers now view hardcore porn in much the same light as (other)teenage boys of the 80's viewed the sheer collection in the littlewoods catalogue. (that is with one hand....)


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 2:29 pm
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Does hedge-porn still exist?

The newsagents still seem to sell jazz periodicals, but I wonder if the nations hedgerows still rustle to the sound of soggy copies of Razzle?


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 2:42 pm
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Binners - at the start point of one of our normal night rides we found the modern equivelant of hedge pron - it was in the form of a DVD.

Sadly we didnt have a DVD to hand.

With the advent of modern phones just who does buy printed material these days ?


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 2:55 pm
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Cliff hadn't popularised them by that point pieface

Wired for Sound was 1981, catalogue 1985......clearly Cliff was light years ahead of his time


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 3:08 pm
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/3593486122/in/photostream/ ]Return of the Jedi! Ha quality find this...[/url]


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 3:26 pm
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[i].clearly Cliff was light years ahead of his time[/i]

Either that or he killed the idea cos people didn't want to look like a complete CLI[s]NT[/s]FF


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 3:46 pm
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Its amazing how much more stuff there is now in the argos catalouge for sale...or in face generally for consumers


 
Posted : 24/01/2012 3:53 pm