I'm Old Enough To Remember...

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

On ‎02‎/‎05‎/‎2018 at 18:26, davieG said:

...and it exploding out of the top on a freezing cold morning.

Right; and if you also had orange juice delivered, you had a ready made ice lolly.

[notnow john]

When Sky Sports

was flying kites.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

...when BBC Sports Personality Of The Year used to be a good watch.

[Izzy]

2 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

...when BBC Sports Personality Of The Year used to be a good watch.

Just started a thread on it. Used to be on of the highlights of the year for me but it's all a bit MEH these days

[Max Wall]

8 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

...when BBC Sports Personality Of The Year used to be a good watch.

It had gone a little bit mini Oscars. Haven't watched it the last 5 years or so. With a partial exception

Edited 16 December 2018 by Max Wall

[davieG]

12 minutes ago, SouthStandUpperTier said:

...when BBC Sports Personality Of The Year used to be a good watch.

I lost interest when they, the BBC created a list of contenders for the public to vote on rather than letting the public nominating people.

[Izzy]

A mate just sent me this. Happy memories 

 

 

[Alf Bentley]

3 minutes ago, Izzy said:

A mate just sent me this. Happy memories 

 

 

 

Happy memories.....of Lockerbie, the Falklands War, devastation in Chernobyl, John Lennon being shot and Tommy Cooper dying on stage?!?

 

We can do without sickos like you ruining Christmas! 

[fuchsntf]

Time of freedom,

on the road!!....the beautiful Jane Mansfield

Edited 26 December 2018 by fuchsntf

[Guest]

Leicester fans that didn't complain all the time.

[fuchsntf]

Just now, FIF said:

Leicester fans that didn't complain all the time.

That was another time,in another dimension......not of this world.....

 

I should of never given up my Dr Who role...

[nnickn]

On 31/12/2017 at 10:57, davieG said:

 

The Lido on scrapy lane, seems as though I was there every day in the school holidays, must have been a lot more sunny days in the past.

[Dahnsouff]

Eli Electronics (sp?) at the bottom of Rowan Street, where it meets Beatrice Road. In their with pennies, rooting  through the boxes of tat.

Then off to the chippy up the road. Childhood heaven.

Edited 29 April 2020 by Dahnsouff

[Dahnsouff]

5 hours ago, nnickn said:

The Lido on scrapy lane, seems as though I was there every day in the school holidays, must have been a lot more sunny days in the past.

Remember it, but think when I was a nipper it had become some discount carpet place or some such?

[Stivo]

Corona pop lorries

[Dahnsouff]

Rag and Bone man - not him, the guy with the cart and a horse

[Carl the Llama]

When this song took over the world.  

Aaaaaaaaand now you want to play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on your neighbour's playstation.

 

Edited 29 April 2020 by Carl the Llama

[Nalis]

Probably been discussed already but do we know who the oldest person is who uses this forum regularly? Any members in their 80s (or 90s)?

[Stivo]

British Shoe Corporation buses

[Rain King]

2 hours ago, Carl the Llama said:

When this song took over the world.  

Aaaaaaaaand now you want to play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on your neighbour's playstation.

 

Wow, took me back to year 9 at school. Love it 

[Paninistickers]

3 hours ago, Dahnsouff said:

Rag and Bone man - not him, the guy with the cart and a horse

A Local eBay and Freecycle community service, using low carbon transport repurposing unwanted items and/or applying techniques as seen on BBC's repair shop.

[Paninistickers]

Oadby pictures. And Wigston. ATV. The start of Channel 4. Lady Di. Barry Sheen. Amateur Rugby (Midlands v the north). The alphabet scoreboard at Notts County. Rabies posters at airports. Deadly F1 crashes. 

 

 

 

 

[Dahnsouff]

The birth of the internet (That does not even make me THAT old ffs  )

[Suzie the Fox]

42 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

The birth of the internet (That does not even make me THAT old ffs  )

Windows 3.1 :O Can't believe that was over 25 years ago. 

[davieG]

I used to manage a training centre as part of my job and there were people coming in who thought you had to roll the mouse across the PC screen and that was in the late 90's