Just hope you didn’t get your Gladiators Annual & your Rupert Annual mixed up
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Oh man I did this. Created whole divisions worth of made up football teams, played out their seasons over miles of paper. I was a sitting duck when Ant’s mob came along tbh.
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weirdly these days i’d much rather kiss Rupert and p- ABANDON POST
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Set myself weird challenges like seeing if I could walk the length of a street or travel X bus stops or something whilst holding my breath.
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This one is definitely weird… you used to be able to cut out a coupon from the likes of Just 17 magazine and send off for a free sample of Tampax. My friends and I would send off for them but use the address of boys we fancied. That’s psychologist worthy behaviour right there, I can’t fathom why we did that.
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Went through a period of doing ‘double thumbs up’ in every photo though I guess that was fairly normal at the time
probably the equivalent of dabbing or flossing or whatever these days
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Used to write to Subbuteo with drawings of football kits I wanted them to produce figures of.
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Did they ever write back?
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Used to play football endlessly in our back garden and commentate to myself, play out fixtures etc. Sometimes when I got tired I used to take a little break and commentate that there was a fight or something involving other players and I was just looking on in disgust.
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depends, had you given it the rupert treatment first…?
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I think I got some kind of generic thing back with a Subbuteo catalogue enclosed. Was just exciting to get post really.
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it’s like you were posting rudimentary anatomical instructions and priming future boyfriends in menstruation 101
you were performing a service to mankind
An absolute trailblazer for smartphone users 
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We used to call up an insurance company with a freephone number and ask to speak to their mascot (an owl). Got many patient people in call centres telling us he was in a meeting.
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Yes that’s definitely what 10 year old me was thinking 
. Think it was more along the lines of ‘I’m too shy to talk to this boy so I’ll send him tampons instead’ 
Used to pretend I had my own TV channel (Jack TV, obviously) and would write out full listings for the next week.
9am: Saved by the Bell
9.30am: Fresh Prince
10am: Football Italia
etc
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Would watch.
Like that 
Used to make football magazines sometimes with puzzles, made up interviews and drawings of players.
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That photo
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