― jel, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Madchen, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
They also do those ACE adverts with loads of bright colours and OK, so it's the Quo but the adverts ACE.
Argos sells clothes now. If they start selling food as well then I'M NEVER SHOPPING ANYWHERE ELSE.
― jamesmichaelward, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. (rifle past Action Man pages) Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Pass catalogue to mother. No need to write to Santa. Hey presto!
― ogden, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 25 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Laetitia, Wednesday, 26 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pennysong Hanle y, Friday, 28 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 12:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Plinky (Plinky), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 November 2002 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
a man after my own heart. i have never succeeded either though :(i never buy anything, just be a nuisance and play with them things.
― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 11 November 2002 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob zemko (bob), Monday, 11 November 2002 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― -- (688), Friday, 25 August 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Even in the kitchen afterwards, I had no remorse. My attitude was, fuck it. What goes around comes around. It got his just rewards. It fucked me over and my attitude is an eye for an eye
― -- (688), Friday, 25 August 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 26 August 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― JTS (JTS), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― M�dchen (Madchen), Sunday, 27 August 2006 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― secondhandnews (secondhandnews), Sunday, 27 August 2006 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link
OK boys & girls, it's the laminated book of dreams from your childhood:http://www.flickr.com/photos/38301877@N05/sets/72157619206330728/with/3593461754/
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
OMFG
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
chillwave cover art needed this discovery
― salvia divanorum (nakhchivan), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
To work out the prices today taking into account inflation, multiply the price by 2.3
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
p225 - ZX Spectrum was £119, how on earth did we have one?xp cheers!
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Today's Argos: Xbox with Kinect + game = £250, so cheaper in real terms...
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Casio keyboards: back then - starting at £70, now - £5 at a car boot sale / £70 on eBay (circuit bending hipster dollar at work)
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i remember looking at my nes games and seeing that some of them were £49.99, and we were fairly poor.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 12 December 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
They still sell those faux art deco table lamps.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i think some SNES games were up to £60, i think my mum musta been running a crack den out of that little cupboard in the kitchen no one ever went in to.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Surprised that you could still buy those sun ray wall clocks new in 1985. There's not a lot in this catalogue is there? Not surprisingly, the electronics section is very empty compared to today.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
The 1976 catalogue looks really utilitarian. It's amazing how much stuff we're surrounded by now. Also I remember the black cover of the 1986 catalogue - remember thinking back then that it was very swanky!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
1985/1986 is really when they went from 'crummy little catalogue store' to 'crummy big catalogue store', right?
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah just thinking that - there are loads more toys and toy brands in the 1986 one.
― Not the real Village People, Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the year they started selling Yamaha keyboards alongside Casio, including the mighty SK-1 - only £99.00! wait WTF?!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Matt through. Fuck...
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
YES YES YESY YESY EYESY YESY ESY YYESY YESYY YES!!!!WAND OUT!!!
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 12 December 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
lol wrong thread sorry...
Argos catalogue: Life lessons from the 'book of dreams'
That's how millennials and boomers have been lamenting the loss of the Argos catalogue. One Twitter user even wrote that it was his entire childhood.
^^^ I guess us Gen-Xers don't give a fu... oh that's right we don't.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Thursday, 30 July 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
Weird. I knew that Habitat had kind of merged into Argos but hadn't quite expected the Habitat website to suddenly basically be selling Argos stuff.
― djh, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
argoooos
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link