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Post by rhaegyr on Sept 26, 2024 12:09:28 GMT
This has reminded me that Atmosfear existed. And that it was fucking shit.
That's where the nostalgia hits, looking over old winter catalogues. We had the game Taboo, that was good to play, just a jazzed up version of Charades but with words you can't use on a card. Bloody hell, that takes me back - used to love playing Taboo with my brother and parents.
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Post by cubby on Sept 26, 2024 12:15:44 GMT
I might have mentioned this before, but I used to take the Argos catalogue to school with me. They had to ask me to stop. That slab of paper was the bible as far as I was concerned.
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Post by hedben on Sept 26, 2024 12:25:59 GMT
Real ones remember Index catalogue shops - like Argos but even more chavvy
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2024 12:47:19 GMT
Real ones remember Index catalogue shops - like Argos but even more chavvy I worked there aged 15 (somehow). The second worst job I ever had. Imagine threatening a skinny 15 year old with violence as a full grown man because they can’t find your item in the stock room. That was my job, threatening the 15 year olds. No, not really, of course I was the 15 year old. Index was Littlewood’s answer to Argos. It actually sold good stuff just like Argos but my word was my branch badly run.
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Post by rawshark on Sept 26, 2024 12:59:58 GMT
Real ones remember Index catalogue shops - like Argos but even more chavvy I worked there aged 15 (somehow). The second worst job I ever had. Imagine threatening a skinny 15 year old with violence as a full grown man because they can’t find your item in the stock room. That was my job, threatening the 15 year olds. No, not really, of course I was the 15 year old. Index was Littlewood’s answer to Argos. It actually sold good stuff just like Argos but my word was my branch badly run. I had a similar experience working at a Homebase. Honestly it made me not want to push my son into getting a Saturday job like I was. Not worth the £3.60 an hour. (Minimum wage may have changed since my day).
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 26, 2024 13:01:48 GMT
My worst job is still being 16 working at Toys R Us. The irony of a toy store being so depressing and hellish was not lost on me.
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Post by Zomoniac on Sept 26, 2024 13:03:06 GMT
Was Atmosfear the one with the VHS with the old dude in a hood?
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Post by rawshark on Sept 26, 2024 13:20:14 GMT
Was Atmosfear the one with the VHS with the old dude in a hood? Yep
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Post by Aunty Treats on Sept 26, 2024 13:51:28 GMT
Bloody hell, that takes me back - used to love playing Taboo with my brother and parents. You can watch loads of that on Porn Hub for free
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Post by Binky on Sept 26, 2024 14:05:45 GMT
Bloody hell, that takes me back - used to love playing Taboo with my brother and parents. You can watch loads of that on Porn Hub for free That's STEP-brothers and... er... probably.
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Post by rawshark on Sept 26, 2024 14:13:17 GMT
Yeah if you put Step in front of everything it’s all good in porn. And actually drives you up the SEO a bit.
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Post by Aunty Treats on Sept 26, 2024 14:26:08 GMT
I assumed the 'step' part was for legal reasons because people are fucking animals. I don't understand half the stuff you see. Why in a washing machine
I genuinely can't fathom the thinking behind that
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Post by zisssou on Sept 26, 2024 14:35:16 GMT
I can remember we used to get the Grattan catalogue. And it was that time prior to being a teenager, where I would sneak a look at the lingerie. Now kids are probably looking at porn on their phones.
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Post by Binky on Sept 26, 2024 15:09:14 GMT
I assumed the 'step' part was for legal reasons because people are fucking animals. I don't understand half the stuff you see. Why in a washing machine I genuinely can't fathom the thinking behind that People are doing WHAT to animals in a washing machine?!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2024 16:12:11 GMT
So about this spooky board game with the tape…
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Post by rawshark on Sept 26, 2024 16:13:56 GMT
I'm just curious as to how he became her step-uncle.
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Post by rawshark on Sept 26, 2024 16:16:44 GMT
Yes, Atmosfear...
Gatekeeper: "How old are you"
My brother "I'm nine"
Gatekeeper: "HAHAHA! You will be called THE OLD ONE!"
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Sept 26, 2024 20:38:12 GMT
My worst job is still being 16 working at Toys R Us. The irony of a toy store being so depressing and hellish was not lost on me. I'm depressed even walking around those kinds of shops, the Toys R Us near us (apparently I last visited on 27 December 2017 (thanks Google)) was replaced with a Smyths but basically the same shit, I think I'm finally past it at last thank goodness, truly soul destroying. God you walk in those places and security is immediately ushering you to walk the correct route into the store, god forbid you make a B-line to the ridiculously over-priced games racks that are always right next to the exit. I did get some raised eyebrows sat in the fake car seat in the baby seat department whilst I browsed on my phone waiting for my dopey kids to do 20 laps of the store deciding on what crap they had to leave the shop with in order to spend that holiday money. Leaving empty handed is not an option. At least pre-covid we could all have a go on some of the bicycles, the drift trikes were always a favourite. Now it's all chained up the boring shits.
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Post by retro74 on Sept 26, 2024 20:57:20 GMT
Toys R Us was a truly magical place as a kid though. One of the very best places to buy games
I had to go to IKEA a week or two ago and the old Toys R Us building is just beyond so went out of my way to see it. Was a fuckng car showroom - sacrilege!
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Post by rawshark on Sept 26, 2024 21:15:09 GMT
I did two stints at Toys R Us. Once at uni - video game aisle. Apparently my sole purpose was to talk ten people a day into buying an Xbox and keeping older guys off the display machines. Lasted one day.
The second was in Vancouver. Slightly more interesting. Had to build bikes and watch them get stolen by drug addicts. Started at 6am, finished at 2pm, more often than not dropped into the cinema on my way home.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 26, 2024 21:55:31 GMT
My worst job is still being 16 working at Toys R Us. The irony of a toy store being so depressing and hellish was not lost on me. I'm depressed even walking around those kinds of shops, the Toys R Us near us (apparently I last visited on 27 December 2017 (thanks Google)) was replaced with a Smyths but basically the same shit, I think I'm finally past it at last thank goodness, truly soul destroying. God you walk in those places and security is immediately ushering you to walk the correct route into the store, god forbid you make a B-line to the ridiculously over-priced games racks that are always right next to the exit. I did get some raised eyebrows sat in the fake car seat in the baby seat department whilst I browsed on my phone waiting for my dopey kids to do 20 laps of the store deciding on what crap they had to leave the shop with in order to spend that holiday money. Leaving empty handed is not an option. At least pre-covid we could all have a go on some of the bicycles, the drift trikes were always a favourite. Now it's all chained up the boring shits.
Yeah people like you is who we didn't like when working there because we had to make sure you didn't break that stuff because you know they were made to fit a child and they'd be left all over the shop. I'm not all surprised they're chained up.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2024 22:16:46 GMT
We had a Toymaster in our town for years. Not sure if that was nationwide, but that was an awesome, awesome shop. Top floor, everything from Monster in My Pocket and Boglins and the rubber monster frisbees for the boys, and all the shite girl stuff like Polly Pocket and Keypers. Then down a rickety wooden staircase that would not pass H&S now, bikes, balls, and a really comprehensive modelling section with Airfix, Revell, racks and racks of those awesome smelling enamel paints and toxic paint strippers. Planes, tanks, Star Trek, the works.
Sadly it’s a Chicken Cottage now.
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Post by X201 on Sept 26, 2024 22:27:33 GMT
We had a proper independent toy shop in our town. It was on two floors and everyone remembers the ridiculously steep staircase to the upper floor - it was steep tackling it as an adult, but as a small child it was like climbing Everest.
The bloke who ran it was one of those people who loved every second of his job, always smiling and happy to spend ages waiting for a small child to decide between the blue bike or the red one.
Then the internet came and killed it off.
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Post by retro74 on Sept 26, 2024 22:29:38 GMT
We never had a Toymaster as far as I’m aware but we had a Toy & Hobby, which were just in the north west I believe It was an incredible shop, bought my first Star Wars figures from there. I assume the rise of Toys R Us killed it off For a town centre store it was absolutely massive I always remember listening to a radio of commentary of United getting beat 5-0 at Everton in there (Was October 1984)
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Post by rawshark on Sept 26, 2024 23:05:13 GMT
Here’s a real south London nostalgia trip - JH Lorimers. Huh… did a quick google and they’re still going. That’s a surprise. For the uninitiated they felt like toy stores set up in people’s living rooms.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Sept 26, 2024 23:09:18 GMT
Our local toy shop Orme Cycles was one of those that let kids come in and play with the toys. I must have bought a million marbles and dozens of Transformers from there.
It was infamous for its Pearl and Dean advert that played before every show at our single screen cinema, and ended with a shot of a little girl holding her doll looking lost, with the voice over "Some of our customers get quite bewildered!" They don't do retail like that any more 🥲
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Post by rawshark on Sept 26, 2024 23:38:16 GMT
Our local toy shop Orme Cycles was one of those that let kids come in and play with the toys. I must have bought a million marbles and dozens of Transformers from there. It was infamous for its Pearl and Dean advert that played before every show at our single screen cinema, and ended with a shot of a little girl holding her doll looking lost, with the voice over "Some of our customers get quite bewildered!" They don't do retail like that any more 🥲 Ha! I miss those sorts of ads.
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 27, 2024 7:35:35 GMT
We had a Toymaster in our town for years. Not sure if that was nationwide, but that was an awesome, awesome shop. Top floor, everything from Monster in My Pocket and Boglins and the rubber monster frisbees for the boys, and all the shite girl stuff like Polly Pocket and Keypers. Then down a rickety wooden staircase that would not pass H&S now, bikes, balls, and a really comprehensive modelling section with Airfix, Revell, racks and racks of those awesome smelling enamel paints and toxic paint strippers. Planes, tanks, Star Trek, the works. Sadly it’s a Chicken Cottage now. There was a Toymaster in the east end of Glasgow in the late 80’s early 90’s. I got my A Team figures and the van from there when visiting my aunty. There is still a Toymaster in Cupar in Fife. Same logo as always.
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Post by LFace on Sept 27, 2024 8:30:52 GMT
I have fond memories of visiting a Zodiac toy shop as a kid and remember where exactly it was in Barnsley town as well. Only toy I actually remember buying though was an action figure that had a wheel in its back to produce sparks inside it - same kind used in cig Lighters pretty much.
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Post by zisssou on Sept 27, 2024 8:50:48 GMT
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