I'm Old Enough To Remember...

[Carl the Llama]

Yeah you tell them @leicsmac, stupid old people making us have stupid warning labels.  *shakes fist angrily at the sky*

[davieG]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

Yeah, having the print too small rather defeats the purpose.

 

However, I believe that the vast majority of such regs have been put on there because something bad happened when they were not, and as I'm no social Darwinist I think that makes them necessary.

Can shaking a drink without the top on really cause such an event to warrant it. In my mind I see that someone did it and threatened to sue. 

 

Anyway it is what it is and will get more nit picky as time goes on.

[enmac]

On 01/05/2020 at 20:50, Parafox said:

Lol. I was a DJ at Grannies and Scamps back in the day. Met Stringfellow, Shilton, Clarke and our very own current Ambassador of Football as well mas a few others that would come in for a get together in Grannies in the top lounge.

Remember seeing Dennis Rofe there. Couldn't happen today could it? 

[davieG]

1 minute ago, enmac said:

Remember seeing Dennis Rofe there. Couldn't happen today could it? 

No they'd be accused of enjoying themselves and having a life outside of football plus finding pictures of them selves on every Social Media site in the world.

[enmac]

On 30/12/2017 at 19:24, Izzy said:

When your Granny had a Pantry instead of a fridge

 

Penny chews

 

Snickers were Marathons

 

£1 notes and 0.5p

 

Subbuteo and blow football

 

Shirt numbers were 1-11 and no names on the back

 

Football boots were only black and needed dubbing every week

 

Reversing the charges from a phone box

 

 

10 Bob notes, half crowns, threepenny bits and tanners. 

[leicsmac]

12 minutes ago, davieG said:

Can shaking a drink without the top on really cause such an event to warrant it. In my mind I see that someone did it and threatened to sue. 

 

Anyway it is what it is and will get more nit picky as time goes on.

Look at it this way: why else would it be put there?

 

I can see why it might be annoying because of the sheer stupidity of people sometimes, but I'd rather it be this way.

[enmac]

On 30/12/2017 at 23:02, separator said:

Fat middle aged men!!! those lads were the peak of physical fitness 

 

Remember seeing this pair live in Digbeth, Birmingham in the 70s. Someone presented Big Daddy with a big card was claimed to be from an orphanage of which all the kids had supposedly signed. Haystacks immediately marched up to BG, grabbed the card and tore it to shreds. The reaction of the crowd was as if he had murdered their cat. Very entertaining as long as you knew it was fake. 

There was then a scuffle and very disappointingly, Haystacks was eliminated before the fight had even begun. Should have demanded our money back. Complete con. 

[enmac]

On 31/12/2017 at 10:38, Line-X said:

Magnetic symbols on the BBC weather map. 

 

Three TV channels

 

Sports biscuits

 

The Ronco record cleaner

 

Filling station glassware

 

Having to buy both the Radio Times for BBC and the TV Times for ITV

 

In an era before Crimewatch, Shaw Taylor and Police 5

 

Buying my Dad a Hai Karate gift set for Christmas

 

Double Diamond works wonders

 

The standard issue of Stig of the Dump at every school library

 

"National" petrol stations

 

The Esso football club badge collection

 

Reg's Mart

 

The school recorder book 1

 

Black plimsolls in my cubby hole and a duffel bag on my peg

 

Top Deck

 

Tootie Frooties and Spangles

 

A bakers bread van that used to visit

 

The advent of digital watches

 

The standard contents of any Quink stained school pencil case...Tipp-ex, compass, protractor, cheap fountain pen and Cumberland pencils

 

Blakeys segs in your shoe heel

 

Using libraries as opposed to the internet

 

TV closedown

 

Green shield stamps

 

A handful of radio stations which broadcasted on medium & long wave A.M and were listened to in transistor radios the size of breeze blocks

 

Rented TV sets

 

The projectors regularly breaking down at cinemas

 

The telephone weather report

 

Party sevens

 

The ever present and imminent threat of nuclear annihilation was stamped upon public consciousness 

 

Pornography was ether the preserve of the top shelf or X rated films at the Cine Centre. I recall the thrill of finding a discarded copy of Fiesta in a field at the age of nine and wondering why the pages were stuck together.

 

I remember when the local barbers had porn mags to read while you were waiting. Remember reading these as a youngster. Imagine now? Mind you, when I say porn we're talking more like page 3.

[Paninistickers]

3 minutes ago, enmac said:

I remember when the local barbers had porn mags to read while you were waiting. Remember reading these as a youngster. Imagine now? Mind you, when I say porn we're talking more like page 3.

Haha, yes. I'd imagine what was considered porn then was basically just page 3 stuff plus the gash out. 

 

I suspect that'd all be a little too basic for today's tastes

 

 

[Buce]

 

I'm old enough to remember when Spurs last won the league...

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

The obituary pages in the Mercury being full of blokes dying in their 50s.

 

I can remember the generation of men in my own family who not only smoked heavily all their lives, drank a fair bit and did no exercise beyond wandering occasionally down the road to place a bet or buy a paper, and didn't eat healthily either - I remember a cousin or an uncle on my Granddad's side that had a heart attack in his 40s, and literally would have steak and chips for dinner pretty much every day. Full fat milk was the norm, and butter on and in everything - no low fat spreads or anything like that, and certainly no fibre at all.

 

My Gran has been widowed for 36 years, and has outlived both her brothers by a similar amount. Blokes just didn't used to look after themselves at all, it felt like

[enmac]

13 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Haha, yes. I'd imagine what was considered porn then was basically just page 3 stuff plus the gash out. 

 

I suspect that'd all be a little too basic for today's tastes

 

 

This sort of rings a bell. How times change. 

https://www.google.com/search?q=parade+magazine+uk&client=tablet-android-huawei-rev1&prmd=insv&sxsrf=ALeKk02v7137Cc-jz62fIqiRbmKJsB3_2g:1615984507079&source=lnms&tbm=isch&biw=600&bih=960&dpr=2#imgrc=4EyCun71RyBaIM

 

[Stoopid]

8 minutes ago, enmac said:

I remember when the local barbers had porn mags to read while you were waiting. Remember reading these as a youngster. Imagine now? Mind you, when I say porn we're talking more like page 3.

Remember as a kid when barbershops used to sell Durex ('something for the weekend, sir?').

Being young and innocent, I thought they were razor blades. Bought a packet for my Dad's birthday...'Thought these might be useful, Dad'

Thinking back, imagine the barber got a good laugh out of it. Might even have taken the ever-present fag out of his gob for a second or two.

 

[lcfc278]

4 hours ago, Stuntman_Mike said:

Red squirrels. 

I went up to Aberdeen for an exhibition a couple of years ago and the place I stayed in backed on to a forest, the place was teeming with red squirrels and couldn't believe it, never saw any before in Leicester in my 30-odd years.

[Countryfox]

I remember when older male relatives had trousers that came up just below their chin ..  and they never seemed to move from the chair they were in ..  and they smoked a lot ..  often broke wind ..  and put their glasses on whenever a female under 60 entered the room ..  

 

Those were the days ..  

[davieG]

42 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

The obituary pages in the Mercury being full of blokes dying in their 50s.

 

I can remember the generation of men in my own family who not only smoked heavily all their lives, drank a fair bit and did no exercise beyond wandering occasionally down the road to place a bet or buy a paper, and didn't eat healthily either - I remember a cousin or an uncle on my Granddad's side that had a heart attack in his 40s, and literally would have steak and chips for dinner pretty much every day. Full fat milk was the norm, and butter on and in everything - no low fat spreads or anything like that, and certainly no fibre at all.

 

My Gran has been widowed for 36 years, and has outlived both her brothers by a similar amount. Blokes just didn't used to look after themselves at all, it felt like

I used to have Sugar and lard (real stuff left over from cooking the meat) sandwiches, never saw a banana or peach until I was older but we used to scrump apples and pears.

[Bellend Sebastian]

13 minutes ago, davieG said:

I used to have Sugar and lard (real stuff left over from cooking the meat) sandwiches, never saw a banana or peach until I was older but we used to scrump apples and pears.

The Vitamin C and fibre in those justified the crime in my eyes, DG

[Countryfox]

1 minute ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

The Vitamin C and fibre in those justified the crime in my eyes, DG

Can’t recall my mum ever mentioning  that when she tossed a lard sandwich in my direction and said get that down you ..  

[davieG]

2 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

The Vitamin C and fibre in those justified the crime in my eyes, DG

Probably, oranges were also a rarity and sweets apart from the 1/2d and 1d ones from the corner shop* were for birthdays and Christmas.

 

Gob stoppers, Black Jacks, Sherbet Dips etc.

[Izzy]

21 minutes ago, davieG said:

I used to have Sugar and lard (real stuff left over from cooking the meat) sandwiches, never saw a banana or peach until I was older but we used to scrump apples and pears.

My wife still thinks bananas are a ‘luxury’

 

The weirdo

[davieG]

2 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

Can’t recall my mum ever mentioning  that when she tossed a lard sandwich in my direction and said get that down you ..  

The worst food at the time for me was Sago Pudding that was served as a single lump and marrow both used to make me heave but no one was allowed to leave any food on their plate, no waste for recycling in them days.

[Countryfox]

4 minutes ago, davieG said:

The worst food at the time for me was Sago Pudding that was served as a single lump and marrow both used to make me heave but no one was allowed to leave any food on their plate, no waste for recycling in them days.

Jeez sago pudding .. nasty stuff !! 
 

We had to clear the plates too ..  mind you I was usually so hungry it never was a problem .. however ..  one day I recall helping my dad by having one of his lamb chops when he left the table for a minute ..   we all had one and he had two ..  big mistake ! ..  out came the belt ! ..  a big heavy thing he used to strop his razors on when he was ships barber in the navy. 

[davieG]

39 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

Jeez sago pudding .. nasty stuff !! 
 

We had to clear the plates too ..  mind you I was usually so hungry it never was a problem .. however ..  one day I recall helping my dad by having one of his lamb chops when he left the table for a minute ..   we all had one and he had two ..  big mistake ! ..  out came the belt ! ..  a big heavy thing he used to strop his razors on when he was ships barber in the navy. 

Ouch, had a few whacks of the cane on my hands and bum but the sole of a plimsol across the arse from a 17 stone rugby playing PE teacher for coming last in the weekly run around Victoria park was not something I looked forward too, the big overweight lad being excused.

[Izzy]

47 minutes ago, Countryfox said:

 

We had to clear the plates too ..  mind you I was usually so hungry it never was a problem .. however ..  one day I recall helping my dad by having one of his lamb chops when he left the table for a minute ..   we all had one and he had two ..  big mistake ! ..  out came the belt ! ..  a big heavy thing he used to strop his razors on when he was ships barber in the navy. 

 

5 minutes ago, davieG said:

Ouch, had a few whacks of the cane on my hands and bum but the sole of a plimsol across the arse from a 17 stone rugby playing PE teacher for coming last in the weekly run around Victoria park was not something I looked forward too, the big overweight lad being excused.

Bloody hell, imagine doing that these days, you'd be arrested.

 

We had a metalwork teacher at high school (Mr Greatorex?) who would prowl around the classroom carrying a metal ruler. If we pissed about he'd whack us over the knuckles with it when we least expected it. Proper bled and hurt but never gave it a second thought. Fair to say he kept pretty good discipline in his class (unlike Mrs Smalley in RE who frequently hid herself in the cupboard when we kicked off )

[davieG]

8 minutes ago, Izzy said:

 

Bloody hell, imagine doing that these days, you'd be arrested.

 

We had a metalwork teacher at high school (Mr Greatorex?) who would prowl around the classroom carrying a metal ruler. If we pissed about he'd whack us over the knuckles with it when we least expected it. Proper bled and hurt but never gave it a second thought. Fair to say he kept pretty good discipline in his class (unlike Mrs Smalley in RE who frequently hid herself in the cupboard when we kicked off )

I'd forgotten about the knuckle whack, we had an RE teacher who used to drag you out of the class room by your hair and if you had them sideburns.

 

I've also just remembered in junior school at meal times although I was lefthanded I had to eat righthanded with a knife and fork and got the knuckle whack if caught and still do it righthanded today although lefthanded with a spoon.