Remember when.......

[CharlieH]

4 minutes ago, faraday said:

Leon Brittain & Ted Heath.... truths only coming out now.

 

Let's discuss happy times though, otherwise some unmentionable members will turn this into the predictable spite-fest.

 

Moving on...

 

Never did like 'Dandelion & Burdock'.

What on earth is a 'Burdock' ? Dandelions made you pee the bed!! ????????

Remember taking the "empties" of beer and pop bottles back to the Pub and getting 2d ! Then jumping the wall at the back to get em  take em back again !......????????????

[fangless]

7 hours ago, bobandyson said:

Missed meals meant a note on the dining table saying 'Dinner's in the oven'.

Or if you were late back from the pub "your dinner is in the dog"!

[Mutt Daeng]

9 minutes ago, fangless said:

Or if you were late back from the pub "your dinner is in the dog"!

If you didn't have a dog the dinner ended up in the coal fire...

[OneMoreFarang]

And nobody was counting calories, talked about carbohydrates, etc.

[CharlieH]

4 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

If you didn't have a dog the dinner ended up in the coal fire...

First one up in the morning had to light the fire ! Stinky parrafin white blocks " firelighters", sticks/newspaper and coal.

[HAPPYNUFF]

And I always got into trouble asking the waitress for a quickie,until  I was told it was pronounced  QUICHE

[MRToMRT]

3 hours ago, faraday said:

 

 

School milk in the little bottles.... awesome.

 

All those memories....☺️

 

 

In winter it was lovely but on hot summer day (remember those ;+) when it had soured slightly, urrgghh. 

[BritManToo]

Through some odd quirk of fate I'm drinking the same band of Tea as my parents were drinking 60 years back.

(and the same brown sauce)

 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

First one up in the morning had to light the fire ! Stinky parrafin white blocks " firelighters", sticks/newspaper and coal.

I was still doing that in 2009 back in the UK.

[bobandyson]

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

When the street lights came on was the signal to go home

 

One area in my town had a solitary gas lamp. A remnant of days earlier gone by.

 

Our house had a gas socket where you could plug in a gas fire poker that would help to get the coal fire going.

 

In my Nan's house the living/dining room had a rack for drying clothes that you hoisted up by a cord to the ceiling.

[CharlieH]

3 minutes ago, bobandyson said:

In my Nan's house the living/dining room had a rack for drying clothes that you hoisted up by a cord to the ceiling.

Those same racks used later in kitchens as a designer rack for pots n pans ! ????

[Pilotman]

God but wasn't it a boring time?  I think that I was 8 years old before I first saw a banana, never mind ate one. Fruit choice was either an apple or an orange and only in season. And I wasn't even living in Scotland. 

Edited June 9, 2021 by Pilotman

[Excel]

Remember the days when if you walked up to someone and said "show us your tits", you would get a smack in the face from the guy you were asking ????????????

[CharlieH]

2 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

God but wasn't it a boring time?  I think that I was 8 years old before I first saw a banana, never mind ate one. 

Nahhh "boring" comes with being an adult ! When your a kid there is too much to do, explore, make, discover. ????

[Excel]

7 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

God but wasn't it a boring time?  I think that I was 8 years old before I first saw a banana, never mind ate one. Fruit choice was either an apple or an orange and only in season. And I wasn't even living in Scotland. 

You forgot about plums and that brings  me to a phenomena that never was explained. Why was it that the plums you nicked from other peoples trees always tasted better then the ones in your own garden ? strange that

[Pilotman]

8 minutes ago, Excel said:

You forgot about plums and that brings  me to a phenomena that never was explained. Why was it that the plums you nicked from other peoples trees always tasted better then the ones in your own garden ? strange that

same with apples, and indeed girls.  Its all about plucking forbidden fruit. 

 

Edit:  consensually of course. at least for girls, not apples. 

Edited June 9, 2021 by Pilotman

[CharlieH]

44 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

same with apples, and indeed girls.  Its all about plucking forbidden fruit. 

 

Edit:  consensually of course. at least for girls, not apples. 

You see that right there ? One thing that really bugs me these days is that we have to "qualify" remarks instead of just saying it ! Now we are conditioned, cant say that, this or the other.

 

I think you were referring to other fruit......cherries ????

[Pilotman]

5 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

You see that right there ? One thing that really bugs me these days is that we have to "qualify" remarks instead of just saying it ! Now we are conditioned, cant say that, this or the other.

 

I think you were referring to other fruit......cherries ????

indeed.  It just entered my head after I posted my comment, that I needed to add a qualifier, even to a joke, sad really. 

[NCC1701A]

here is what I remember...

 

 

[KarenBravo]

There were lots of flavoured crisps from the early sixties. Salt'n'vinegar, cheese and onion and smokey bacon are just three that I can remember.

[faraday]

33 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

You see that right there ? One thing that really bugs me these days is that we have to "qualify" remarks instead of just saying it ! Now we are conditioned, cant say that, this or the other.

 

I think you were referring to other fruit......cherries ????

 

Absolutely Charles...

 

Bit like the old rhyme:

 

"When roses are red & ready for plucking...

 

 

And if  write the rest I'll get banned for life ????????????

[faraday]

1 minute ago, KarenBravo said:

There were lots of flavoured crisps from the early sixties. Salt'n'vinegar, cheese and onion and smokey bacon are just three that I can remember.

Then there was unsalted crisps with the little blue bag of salt in 'em.

 

Not the recent (?) revival, but the original from around 1962.

[Rampant Rabbit]

4 hours ago, faraday said:

Leon Brittain & Ted Heath.... truths only coming out now.

 

Let's discuss happy times though, otherwise some unmentionable members will turn this into the predictable spite-fest.

 

Moving on...

 

Never did like 'Dandelion & Burdock'.

What on earth is a 'Burdock' ? Dandelions made you pee the bed!! ????????

Ohh  no DB  was  lovely, also sterilised  milk to drink.

[Rampant Rabbit]

1 hour ago, CharlieH said:

at least for girls, not apples

You'd  better ask Granny Smith if you  like oldies!!

[Rampant Rabbit]

2 hours ago, Excel said:

Remember the days when if you walked up to someone and said "show us your tits", you would get a smack in the face from the guy you were asking ????????????

Yeah except  now i can  look at  my own☹️

[Surelynot]

12 hours ago, blackcab said:

 

And brussel sprouts.

Swede.....every school dinner along with cow's liver.

[Excel]

Just now, Rampant Rabbit said:

Yeah except  now i can  look at  my own☹️

Implants ?????

[Rampant Rabbit]

Just now, Excel said:

Implants ?????

nah them are  in my gob!

[Surelynot]

1 hour ago, faraday said:

Then there was unsalted crisps with the little blue bag of salt in 'em.

 

Not the recent (?) revival, but the original from around 1962.

Tudor crisps our way. Henry VIII on the front.

[Rampant Rabbit]

Come to think of it when I was young if a girl had a c  cup they were huge..............seems todays  bras are over inflated.