glasshalffull
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Plenty of those still around, just automated. Where we stayed earlier this year, we could see 4 at night.
Fair enough! Just a lot of them obsolete then.
Plenty of those still around, just automated. Where we stayed earlier this year, we could see 4 at night.
Yes I can imagine! We used to stand in the SS and then moved to the west. Just as a matter of interest, why do you refer to it as the Scrattin shed as opposed to scratching?As a kid at school, getting a nod and a name check off the great man in the Scrattin Shed was great. I still remember so many of his little phrases, 50 years later.
Still have a rag and bone man in Hartlepool.Rag n bone man …with give away goldfish
Milk float… miss that for some reason…
Is Ernie still going?I still do the Pools. Its all the same company now.
Empire were the local company on Preston New Road.
That’ll make a comeback this winter!We had ice inside ours
I guess we always called it that.Yes I can imagine! We used to stand in the SS and then moved to the west. Just as a matter of interest, why do you refer to it as the Scrattin shed as opposed to scratching?
He was a lovely, interesting man and always very interested in what I had to say too.
I actually had my first win in nearly 60 years of having some 3 months ago. Not on the Fylde anymore, though.Is Ernie still going?
Was teletext channel 4 ? Ha!oracle on itv lol
Not at MartonIs Ernie still going?
Won't get a ton! You've smashed blood out the park recently, batting averages are off the scale. Best thread in ages by the way, really enjoyed it.I know this won’t get a ton because it’s hard to remember the random things that you don’t miss.
But thinking back to the norms that now seem like a distant daft memory….
I’ll start with the ‘choke’ on a car. Like I had an escort mk2 in 1989, no-one ever explained the science of the choke to me, so I just pulled it out and hoped for the best. I’d heard rumours of flooding the engine but had no guidance on the right amount of pulling before ignition
And the immersion heater before you could have a bath ?
Bright copper kettles
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver-white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my obselete things
When my team lose
When I've no booze
When I'm feeling mad
I simply remember all of my dead friends.........
And then I don't feel so bad
Gosh I loved mineAA Road Maps
Carbon copies, omg, we used carbon paper at work when I first started , weird.Anyone mentioned typewriters? And Tippex. And carbon copies
Flexi-disks free with pop mags. I remember in 1972 getting a free flexi-disk of samples from The Faces. I wish I still had it.The Beano, Dandy, Smash Hits magazine.
Thing with Sat Nav's is it puts you centre of everything; my kids struggle to understand where they are relative to everything else.Gosh I loved mine
Still refuse to get a satnav.
Bloody Luddite!Gosh I loved mine
Still refuse to get a satnav.
Looking ahead without doubt the European Union.
Still got one from 2013. Just in case. It's in the boot.AA Road Maps
I'm blackberried up.Works pagers. And didnt we all feel important when we carried one .
Party seven and snowball alsoWatneys red barrell
Obsolete? Speak for yourselfShagging while listening to Barry White
Nil Sine LaboreAs a kid at school, getting a nod and a name check off the great man in the Scrattin Shed was great. I still remember so many of his little phrases, 50 years later.
Party telephone lines. If you picked up the phone and your neighbour was making a call you could hear their call.In fact, we even had a little ‘telephone room’ off the hall with a telephone seat and a door so that you could make calls in private.. but I just knew my dad would be trying to listen in if he thought I was up to no good .
We had ice inside ours
Darned socks
Dictionaries are so obselete that I didn't even know what one was. So I had to look up the meaning of the word in this old book I have that lists all words and their meanings. Having looked it up, I can confirm I agree that dictionaries are completely obsolete ;-)
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