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From: LP12
Today i would like you all to think back. Think back 30 years. Think back to 1996. What happened in 1996? Well it was about 11 months since Jarvis Cocker told the post mid June crwod at Glastonbury, for the first we're now closer to the year 2000 than 1990. And of course it was euro 96 at Wembly and football was coming home with Terry Venables. I'd moved from Birmingham in January 1995 and was then renting a 3 bed bugalow in Croughton just down the road from the USA air base. I'd found a job as un upholsterer in Brackley and my girlfriend or by then finace, a job as a primary school teacher in Banbury. Many people who were then alive are now dead. Many people who were not then alive are now living as 30 year old adults ad able to drive and operate general machinery., and have sex and thier own little ones/bastards. We bought a house in vic semi in North St. Banbury for 63k 8 months later in early 97. 3 years earlier it had last sold for 44k, summat like that) Anyway, the point is, 3 decades ago we were having barbeques in the summer and a lot of stuff that was going to happen hadn't yet (9/11). Also, Auto Trader and Bargain Pages were important. Tony Blair was still in opposition, and 'The internet#' just aroud the caladrial corner. AI was something you said to someone if you live north of stoke on trent, ai ei what's going on? We were all 3 decades healthier, 3 decades poorer or richer both in terms of finance and experience. But seeing as we can forget 80% of what we knew it's debatable. I think with age we do gain confidence if not the outright ability to do stuff. We 'know' how it's done. It's coming home it's coming home it's coming, football's coming home It's coming home it's coming home it's coming, football's coming home It's coming home it's coming home it's coming, football's coming home It's coming home it's coming home it's coming, football's coming home It's coming home it's coming home it's coming, football's coming home (and the Gareth Southgate happened) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFTRy2DjDAw

Current Thread	Author	Time
Today i would like you all to think back....[more]	LP12	08:59:19
>> Last year of uni, just moved in with the Mrs, football was still good but just ... [more]	JonH🍕	09:39:54
>> what did u do at uni Jon? (I mean study)	LP12	11:47:24
>> Economics. Though you probably can't tell 😅😂	JonH🍕	12:13:19
>> Funnily enough no 3 has just picked his A level subjects...[more]	JonH🍕	12:19:00
>> Ancient History A Level ? Never heard of that one.	Free Thinking Doggie	12:28:45
>> Essentially Ancient Greece and Rome	JonH🍕	12:33:35
>> Great choice/s. Be well red, i mean reed, sorry feed. .. well fed, ... [more]	LP12	12:40:31
>> Boris......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	13:08:56
>> .....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	13:28:15
>> Plutarch had this covered years ago	JonH🍕	12:34:39
>> Quite right.	Mike Mike	12:47:16
>> Andy Burnham's older brother is the headmaster and...[more]	JonH🍕	12:20:51
>> Then started programming in COBOL on ICL	JonH🍕	12:14:20
>> Not an ICL DRS 300....	Free Thinking Doggie	13:22:42
>> Just googled it, most probably ICL 2900 series. I often 'go back' to the ... [more]	JonH🍕	13:29:59
>> Ahem,, same people that brought you the Horizon post office system. ...[more]	JonH🍕	13:33:00
>> See......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	13:36:52
>> Maybe 120 mostly cvil servants in the large open-plan office. 5 of ... [more]	JonH🍕	13:59:42
>> WFH ... ?	Free Thinking Doggie	14:14:18
>> Working from home.	JonH🍕	14:23:28
>> Funny but the clubhouse was razed and on it built someone's home....[more]	JonH🍕	14:25:39
>> May 1996 was my pan European motorcycle adventure.....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	09:23:45
>> Sounds like 'top fking banana'. Jobs for ll, Tottenham Court rd HiFi shops, ... [more]	LP12	09:46:17
>> Definitely best decade in my experience.	Free Thinking Doggie	10:02:27
>> Interlaken ......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	09:35:58
>> Your hero in 1996 …...[more]	Denc 🗡	09:28:55
>> that's amazing being at the mill and owning it later. Almost as incredible as ... [more]	LP12	09:34:35
>> One of you hasn’t changed much	Hamsterwheel	09:34:35
>> I was a bit porky at that point.	Denc 🗡	14:23:43
>> The Pablo Escobar period	Denc 🗡	09:30:02
>> I still have the shirt	Denc 🗡	09:32:42
>> My 2nd kid was born. He's just turned 30. Fuck me!	Occhio Pazzo 🇬🇧	09:13:07
>> Soon goes eh.? No 2 is 20 this weekend.	JonH🍕	09:40:59
>> [ituh] (We had one in early 92 ... or would have but she went to a clinic ... [more]	LP12	09:31:13
>> Time to stop his pocket money	Hamsterwheel	09:17:09
>> He should start paying me!	Occhio Pazzo 🇬🇧	12:55:04

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