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Post by bodger on Feb 11, 2021 17:33:35 GMT
1976.It was the year I did my A levels before going to teacher training college.It was the lonnnng,really hot summer that us older folk remember well.After exams finished,the summer was mine !ππ same here - 1976.
I was working in Malta and came home in July to get married, then we returned to Malta where we stayed for another 15 months.
My son likes to tell anyone who is interested that he was born on our honeymoon.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2021 17:35:53 GMT
I'll go for 1986 as it was the first year I got to go out in my own boat by myself on the Thames.
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Post by JohnV on Feb 11, 2021 19:08:21 GMT
1967 Summer in Montreal ...... (Expo)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 11:51:40 GMT
'Interesting' replies thanks. In my case 1984 stands out as probably the most exciting year. I got a new girlfreind who had a BMW and tennis court in her back garden (I think I was her toy boy!). I got my own place to live for the first time. I lost my job but ended up with a better paid one with the opportunity to gain some decent qualifications. The music wasn't too bad either and I was playing in quite a good originals band (which got nowhere sadly).
I did wonder whether it's as much to do with the age (early 20s) than the year. Aren't we supposed to be at our physical and mental peak then?
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 12, 2021 12:55:47 GMT
I think a lot of the time, the present is weighed down with difficulties which are forgotten when you look back to the past. Rose tinted spectacles etc.
Looking back, the year I flew a helicopter across the world to Borneo (1982), worked there for a year, and flew it back to U.K. again at the end (10 days flying each way with 2 or 3 stops a day) was a fantastic experience. But it was bloody hard work at the time, and I was fairly lonely for the year I spent living there. Wouldnβt have βnot done itβ though,
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 12:57:55 GMT
I think a lot of the time, the present is weighed down with difficulties which are forgotten when you look back to the past. Rose tinted spectacles etc. Looking back, the year I flew a helicopter across the world to Borneo (1982), worked there for a year, and flew it back to U.K. again at the end (10 days flying each way with 2 or 3 stops a day) was a fantastic experience. But it was bloody hard work at the time, and I was fairly lonely for the year I spent living there. Wouldnβt have βnot done itβ though, Yes, I think someone else was saying that we tend to forget the pain but remember the good bits. Perhaps that's a good thing really.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 13:02:05 GMT
If I'm being a selfish git I'd say 1995 - finished school, CBT done in the June terrorising the roads immediately after; it was a good hot summer as well, in the following 12 months I did something like 15k on that little Kawasaki AR80!, the wheels must have hardly stopped turning! As @bassplayer points out music is important too, 95' had some cracking albums - in no particular order:- I Should Coco β Supergrass The Charlatans β The Charlatans Zeitgeist β Levellers The Great Escape β Blur (Whatβs The Story) Morning Glory? Different Class β Pulp Dummy - Portishead Everybody Else is Doing it, So Why Can't We? - The Cranberries Jollification - Lighting Seeds Elastica - Elastica The Bends - Radiohead Smash - The Offspring Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy Plenty more you could add to that list! Not being a selfish git - 1998, the year Mrs Gazza and I got together, that wasn't until the end of August but the 8 months preceding it were pretty good - passing my car test in the May of that year helped a lot, many good memories of behaving like a complete bell-end in that Capri Honorable mention for 2014, the year the Dwarf came crashing into our lives.
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Post by thebfg on Feb 12, 2021 14:32:51 GMT
If I'm being a selfish git I'd say 1995 - finished school, CBT done in the June terrorising the roads immediately after; it was a good hot summer as well, in the following 12 months I did something like 15k on that little Kawasaki AR80!, the wheels must have hardly stopped turning! As @bassplayer points out music is important too, 95' had some cracking albums - in no particular order:- I Should Coco β Supergrass The Charlatans β The Charlatans Zeitgeist β Levellers The Great Escape β Blur (Whatβs The Story) Morning Glory? Different Class β Pulp Dummy - Portishead Everybody Else is Doing it, So Why Can't We? - The Cranberries Jollification - Lighting Seeds Elastica - Elastica The Bends - Radiohead Smash - The Offspring Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy Plenty more you could add to that list! Not being a selfish git - 1998, the year Mrs Gazza and I got together, that wasn't until the end of August but the 8 months preceding it were pretty good - passing my car test in the May of that year helped a lot, many good memories of behaving like a complete bell-end in that Capri Honorable mention for 2014, the year the Dwarf came crashing into our lives. Quality year for music with many of those that you mention, but for me that was the year I was introduced to electronica. Prodigy and the orb with the chemical brothers following shortly. It was the year electronic pop got going for me. Even dipped into a bit of jungle and hard-core that year. I was only 15 and starting to go to wild parties and raves. But 1998 was the year that defined me. Coming of age and many many things happened that year that defined who I am today.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 15:28:19 GMT
Suzuki Sportsman - identical to my CBT steed. AR 80 (i mean 50....) Didn't make it passed 1996 when i sold it according to DVLA tax checker
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 12, 2021 19:14:10 GMT
Ok Iβll go for 1956. The year I finally made it out of my motherβs slimy fanny! What year did she start trying to push that head of yours out?
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 12, 2021 19:43:20 GMT
Ok Iβll go for 1956. The year I finally made it out of my motherβs slimy fanny! What year did she start trying to push that head of yours out? 1803
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 12, 2021 19:48:18 GMT
I don't dount it. I bet it must have made her eyes water.
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 12, 2021 19:54:18 GMT
I don't dount it. I bet it must have made her eyes water. All joking aside I was 14 days post-mature and had to be delivered by caesarian. When the midwife brought me in to the maternity ward for my feed, apparently she said "whose is this monster?". Because I was quite big, and not just my enormous brain. And still am, of course.
<resists the temptation to comment on the spelling of a state-schooled person>
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 20:12:38 GMT
What idiot started this thread? Learn to spell! We are not Americans. δ½ ζεζ¬’εͺδΈεΉ΄οΌ
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2021 20:18:01 GMT
Ok Iβll go for 1956. The year I finally made it out of my motherβs slimy fanny! What year did she start trying to push that head of yours out?Β I hate it when people don't notice the joke has already been done previously in the thread.
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