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lame plumber
tried it and loved it as a teenager, asked for it a while back and got an odd look, times are a changing and not for the better 🙁
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REDSAW
you have to read that to yourself again lol.
the preferred word is 'black' now! lmfao
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Ermintrude
Not true on the phone number..... I saw it on the back door of the services bogs on the M1 :-O
Scrimping customers or ones telling you how to sort the job. erm.... Maybe not....somethings never change!
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tamz
I remember when it was that for a gallon Stan and when 20 Embassy tipped was 26p and a pint was about 40p
There is another thing we'll never see. Embassy coupons!
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tamz
Fish and chips in real newspaper (there was a scare in the 90s about the carbon black in newsprint being potentially carcinogenic so its not used now).
Getting £1 as a kid for fish, chips and mushy peas (it's almost £5 here now!)
Jubliee Stout (nana's favourite tipple)
"Nutty" bar (a toffee wafer bar with peanuts stuck to it, in transparent brown cellophane wrapper) which resembled a turd, probably accounting for its decline in popularity.
Mars / Twix / Bounty / Marathon (old name for Snickers) etc in wax paper wrappers (changed to film in the mid 1980s
Beech Nut chewing gum
Altoids mints
People saying "hello" on the streets. (Tyne & Wear and Northumberland are the only places I have been to recenty where people are still friendly and will still say "morning" to people they pass who they don't know).
AM or MW radio
Laundry blue (came in a little block wrapped in muslin and disappeared about 10 years ago, probably due to the fact nobody has net curtains anymore)
Getting £1 as a kid for fish, chips and mushy peas (it's almost £5 here now!)
Jubliee Stout (nana's favourite tipple)
"Nutty" bar (a toffee wafer bar with peanuts stuck to it, in transparent brown cellophane wrapper) which resembled a turd, probably accounting for its decline in popularity.
Mars / Twix / Bounty / Marathon (old name for Snickers) etc in wax paper wrappers (changed to film in the mid 1980s
Beech Nut chewing gum
Altoids mints
People saying "hello" on the streets. (Tyne & Wear and Northumberland are the only places I have been to recenty where people are still friendly and will still say "morning" to people they pass who they don't know).
AM or MW radio
Laundry blue (came in a little block wrapped in muslin and disappeared about 10 years ago, probably due to the fact nobody has net curtains anymore)
Audio cassettes
Video cassettes (grandad was one of the unfortunate ones who opted for V2000 which was the shortest lived format (double sided cassetted you flipped over for the "B" side
Vinyl records
Making a "Trunk call" - (phoning the operator on "100" to make a long distance or international phone call), telephone switchboards
Floppy disks for computers
Rawl Drills (however did we manage before SDS?)
Asbestos products (new)
White guttering and soil pipe systems
Typewiters and word processing machines
The Rolodex and card files (an early card inedexing system rendered obsolete by computers)
Film cameras and polaroid cameras
Record shops
Junk shops (since ebay)
Video cassettes (grandad was one of the unfortunate ones who opted for V2000 which was the shortest lived format (double sided cassetted you flipped over for the "B" side
Vinyl records
Making a "Trunk call" - (phoning the operator on "100" to make a long distance or international phone call), telephone switchboards
Floppy disks for computers
Rawl Drills (however did we manage before SDS?)
Asbestos products (new)
White guttering and soil pipe systems
Typewiters and word processing machines
The Rolodex and card files (an early card inedexing system rendered obsolete by computers)
Film cameras and polaroid cameras
Record shops
Junk shops (since ebay)
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tamz
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kay-jay
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kay-jay
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kay-jay
Can get manns brown in asda. I have a bottle somewhere. I use it in a cake recipe. At 2% its not worth drinking.
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Ray Stafford
ZX81
Commodore Vic 20 with 16k (!) expansion pack and tape drive
MS DOS 3.xx
Supercalc
Line-numbered programs
Commodore Vic 20 with 16k (!) expansion pack and tape drive
MS DOS 3.xx
Supercalc
Line-numbered programs
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Ray Stafford
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Gray0689
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Gray0689
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Ray Stafford
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kay-jay
still get em round our way, not like they used to be though, eu balls about recipes and amounts of certain ingredients.
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Rickster123
That was amazing stuff! I'm gutted they stopped making it. I was never aloud bubblegum as a kid and that was the next best thing!
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mountainman
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tamz
Oh wow, remember that as a kid.
Another thing you don't see is the local fields heaving with parents cheering their kids on. Every street had its own footy team when I was a kid.
I feel old all of a sudden, only 36. 🙁
When we was kids, you played footy any minute you got chance.
3 an inn, heads an vols !!!
Kids nowadays got no go in them, rather sit on their arse on their play station or smoke weed
Thankfully my boy is football mad, forever got a ball at his feet, and youngest is looking same way too. Most parents are happy for kids to sit on computers all day as means they don't have to get off their own fat arses or entertain them
Me uncle youse to have that any so etching else in a tin, sure it was snuff or something ?
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Toxic Ted
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Kyle87
i was a pump jockey when i was about 16 and it was 4and 6 a gallon then around 1970
i was a pump jockey when i was about 16 and it was 5and 6 a gallon then around 1970
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TBServices
One of my good friends is now head or PR and Marketing for 2000AD
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Ermintrude
Faggots,
metal bins,
bin men carrying bin bags,
coal sheds with lumps of coal size of footballs.
BMS In pyro
Fuse wire
Copper waste pipes
Plumbers smoking in houses when working.
Browning instead of dot and dab
metal bins,
bin men carrying bin bags,
coal sheds with lumps of coal size of footballs.
BMS In pyro
Fuse wire
Copper waste pipes
Plumbers smoking in houses when working.
Browning instead of dot and dab
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Dotty
M
Masood
He's only after you for the comics Tom, can't you see that? He'll use you and dump you, you mark my words! 😀
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julesverne
J
julesverne
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Ray Stafford
Working in a house yesterday, the dad shouted to his kid "here's the lemonade man"
what ever happened to kids washing cars for 50p or Carroll singing ? I was minted when I was young !
what ever happened to kids washing cars for 50p or Carroll singing ? I was minted when I was young !
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Ray Stafford
30p a bucket picking blackcurrants. On a good day, if it had rained hard overnight, you could pick 12 buckets a day.
4 weeks backbreaking work, enough money to last until Xmas. 🙂
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Centralheatking
You know what Ermin - i read this and was just going to do a like BUT HEY YOU SHOULD
be on telly - I remember all this stuff nice post CHK T/Q
be on telly - I remember all this stuff nice post CHK T/Q
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Ermintrude
Isn't wales a developing country still tho? Bit confused that you have copper waste pipes? Didn't realise you had fresh water pipes yet?
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Ermintrude
If I was on telly I would squash it. I've snapped a worktop or two kneeling on it too close to the sink cut out .
Wanted to say Caramac the other day but couldn't think of the name. Where did you buy this latest one from?
Also, another thing I thought I wouldn't see again was one of Britain's former most wanted. He got out early and was hugging me in the pub earlier, why he thinks I was glad to see him is beyond me. Can't stand him.
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Ermintrude
Bit more violent than Mr Brittas I'm afraid. Anyway, The Brittas Empire can still be seen on one of those dementia channels, Dave or something.
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Ray Stafford
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tamz
Fig rolls
Lemon puffs
Gypsy creams and
Clubs you can bite the chocolate off before you ate the biscuit
Lemon puffs
Gypsy creams and
Clubs you can bite the chocolate off before you ate the biscuit
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