I’m going to make a thread of pictures of all the things I had and/or found cool in my childhood. This is the first of many of these threads. This one right here was called a Diskman. It was my favourite gadget when I had it.
There should be a pencil in this picture.
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What y’all know about gaming
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How I used to label my cassettes.
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I feel like this is probably still my favourite movie of all time. I once had it on Cassette. Unfortunately someone I went to high school with won’t return it.
No, I’ve never owned one
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One of my childhood fantasies was finding girlfriend who dressed like this
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I can’t remember a single episode but I never missed an episode
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The arcade was such a great place to go to. It gave me so much peace.
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I’m embarrassed but yes.
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This reminds me of when I first went to Quadrant Training as a very young person . What’s mind blowing is I ended working there. RIP Ntate Graham.
I am so grateful to my parents. When my parents took me shopping in Bloemfontein the apartheid laws still existed but my dad had diplomatic immunity and I had the privilege of not realising apartheid existed until I was told about it.
Me, my brother Moshe and my cousin Tinashe used to love to play pretend and we would call ourselves these characters when we played with sticks outside.
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I should actually get another pair. But I remember one of those cool days at the middle school I went to and would bring our blades out to skate.