Pin-seeker
Well-known member
I'm with you now. Never heard it called that before.
I'm with you now. Never heard it called that before.
CliveW
Tour Winner
I remember when petrol pumps didn't have a price on them and it cost less than £5 to fill my car up. 6/3 a gallon!! That equtes to just over 7p a litre.
S
Snelly
Guest
I remember when most people had good manners. Now just a minority.
Slightly off topic but I also read this week that next year, the forecast is for over 50% of children to be born to unmarried parents in the UK. The interesting comparison was that this figure was just 8% in 1979.
Progress? I don't think so.....
Slightly off topic but I also read this week that next year, the forecast is for over 50% of children to be born to unmarried parents in the UK. The interesting comparison was that this figure was just 8% in 1979.
Progress? I don't think so.....
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Im a unmarried parent. Been with my partner 10yr & we've got a 5 yr old son. Don't see a problem.
bluewolf
Money List Winner
Don't see a problem with it either. Marriage is one choice, becoming a parent is another. You shouldn't be judged on either. Only on whether you are a good parent/spouse. Too many people judge on the wrong things....
Birchy
Money List Winner
williamalex1
Money List Winner
Thet didn't have MOTs or tyre tread laws back in them days.:smirk:
HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
Foxholer
Blackballed
National Anthem was played before Films at Theatres - and everyone stood.
Cricket was only played in whites
Tennis Racquets were made of Wood
Daytime TV starting with Ride of the Valkyries (quit recent and 'back home')
A 3-3 result in Rugby was from and entertaining game and was 1 Try apiece
10 Shilling Note
The change to Decimal Currency
The Osborne Portable Computer
Apple Lisa
Motorola Brick Phones
Cricket was only played in whites
Tennis Racquets were made of Wood
Daytime TV starting with Ride of the Valkyries (quit recent and 'back home')
A 3-3 result in Rugby was from and entertaining game and was 1 Try apiece
10 Shilling Note
The change to Decimal Currency
The Osborne Portable Computer
Apple Lisa
Motorola Brick Phones
chrisd
Major Champion
The smog in Croydon, so thick and acrid that you couldn't see 2 feet in front and had to cover your nose and mouth with a scarf on the way to school
MegaSteve
Tour Winner
The days you could have a casual 'jump' and if she said she was... she was... You weren't just being 'used' to obtain a ticket for a 'free ride' for 18 years or so...
stevie_r
Tour Winner
Inter City trains with those fantastic little 6 seater carriages off a corridor!!!
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
Atari 4600 with Q-Bert and Centipede
Commando the arcade game
When our local chippy had a "pool room" out back where the cool teenagers hung out
Bonfires built by the local kids without the need for health and safety and where no one was hurt by using common sense instead.
Like Bob, building a bogey out of crates and planks (although it was wheelie-bin wheels that we used - many a wheel-less wheelie bin in Crossgates
), again no health and safety directive to tell us not to.
Snow days at primary school had higher attendance than normal days and there was not even a thought of closure
Building "snow forts" for almighty snowball fights against your mates on said snow days
Commando the arcade game
When our local chippy had a "pool room" out back where the cool teenagers hung out
Bonfires built by the local kids without the need for health and safety and where no one was hurt by using common sense instead.
Like Bob, building a bogey out of crates and planks (although it was wheelie-bin wheels that we used - many a wheel-less wheelie bin in Crossgates
), again no health and safety directive to tell us not to.Snow days at primary school had higher attendance than normal days and there was not even a thought of closure
Building "snow forts" for almighty snowball fights against your mates on said snow days
Texan Bars & Thistle Pops
Crazyface
Tour Winner
Coke cans with ring pulls that came away from the can and you could fire at each other. The coke in the can was sharp and refreshing and the bubbles went up your nose !!!! The resultant noise after the expulsion of gas after half the can had been gussled would wake the dead.
gripitripit
Tour Rookie
Near Kellybegs in Donegal where I spent most of my summers as a lad we made them out of fishboxes with one of the short sides cut off..on a wooden chassis with pram wheels. Even had fancy paint jobs and there was a serious rivalry.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
School...
Coloured wooden rods for practicing addition (the two was red I think)
Milk came in litte bottles then tetrahedon cartons in a hexagonal plastic orange box
Teachers had a tawse - and used it
British bulldogs in the playground (a killer on the knees)
Football, American Civil War (gruesome), Man from Uncle and High Chapparall cards (with a bit of chewing gum)
Cardboard new money to practice for change over
The tables down the side of the classroom with empty packets of food with old and new money prices.
Wearing your blazer when out of the classroom unless allowed to take it off
Walking to school
Being dinner table monitor and dishing out the food to my table
Being told to wait outside the heads office over lunchtime - and in fear of getting the belt for a minor misdemeanour;
Using Izal toilet paper and your comb to play music;
Climbing two stories up drainpipe onto the roof of the school to get our football back
Doing IQ tests in Primary 7
36 to a class - all sat at our wooden desks in neat rows.
Teachers always wearing black gowns
Coloured wooden rods for practicing addition (the two was red I think)
Milk came in litte bottles then tetrahedon cartons in a hexagonal plastic orange box
Teachers had a tawse - and used it
British bulldogs in the playground (a killer on the knees)
Football, American Civil War (gruesome), Man from Uncle and High Chapparall cards (with a bit of chewing gum)
Cardboard new money to practice for change over
The tables down the side of the classroom with empty packets of food with old and new money prices.
Wearing your blazer when out of the classroom unless allowed to take it off
Walking to school
Being dinner table monitor and dishing out the food to my table
Being told to wait outside the heads office over lunchtime - and in fear of getting the belt for a minor misdemeanour;
Using Izal toilet paper and your comb to play music;
Climbing two stories up drainpipe onto the roof of the school to get our football back
Doing IQ tests in Primary 7
36 to a class - all sat at our wooden desks in neat rows.
Teachers always wearing black gowns
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Silver Cross prams made the best bogeys. Brilliant wheels.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Rolled up giant snowballs and put them together and packed the gaps with snow. Defenders make huge pile of snow balls and store in fort. When under attack and running out of snow balls send out parties to gather more snow and get back to fort without being caught. Nol holds barred snow-balling!!
MegaSteve
Tour Winner
SilH's post has just reminded me of this... Shiny loo paper... Bronco and Izal being the brands I remember...
