Things you never see anymore

[foxfanazer]

@Lamby

[Daggers]

Inflatable dinosaurs at football matches.

[davieG]

Anything inside the ground other than the badge and the LCFC logo hidden behind the video screens to see our stadium is the home of Leicester City FC

[FoyleFox]

2 hours ago, String fellow said:

It was usually on Grandstand before David Coleman's or Frank Bough's presentation of the football results. Watching the teleprinter typing out the results was always very entertaining, especially if it paused in the middle of a line. 

People standing outside the TV shop for the footies results. Or going in and looking the latest scores up on Teletext.

[David Hankey]

LCFC winning the EPL again.

[Daggers]

Players who love steak and milk

 

[Daggers]

Favourite food?

 

Sandwiches 

 

[Parafox]

10 hours ago, RobHawk said:

The loss of white dog poo is because dog food manufacturers used to bulk out dog food with chalk. Believe this was stopped in the mid 90s and therefore now you just have poo, not chalky poo

 

This explains why I thought most of teachers at school wrote a load of crap on the blackboards:

 

[davieG]

Cold Milk Machine - There used to be one of these on Clarendon Park Road which was very handy after a night up town.

[Parafox]

7 hours ago, Torquay Gunner said:

Toffee apples.

 

Plentiful in supermarkets around bonfire night.

[Foxdiamond]

4 hours ago, Stadt said:

People don't talk about adverts very often now, what was the last classic ad?

Most modern ads do seem for the most part functional at best

[Parafox]

4 hours ago, lcfcsnow said:

I liked the McDonalds teletext one

That's current so it can't yet be a classic.

 

4 hours ago, Stadt said:

People don't talk about adverts very often now, what was the last classic ad?

If you don't mind @Stadt, I'm going to start a new topic around this.

[String fellow]

Star Soccer on ATV (Midlands ITV) on Sunday afternoons. They wouldn't dare to refer to football as 'soccer' now. Hugh Johns commentated and Billy Wright did the analysis.

[Daggers]

47 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

This explains why I thought most of teachers at school wrote a load of crap on the blackboards:

 

Resonance is cool and I’ll fite anyone who thinks different. 

[Grebfromgrebland]

19 hours ago, leicsmac said:

 

Don't worry guys, biodiversity will spring back in due course, as it has in the past.

 

It might just...take a little while and there might be a few changes first.

Are you talking post modern civilization? 

[leicsmac]

20 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Are you talking post modern civilization? 

Possibly.

 

It'll happen one way or another.

[Manley Farrington-Brown]

7 hours ago, Stadt said:

People don't talk about adverts very often now, what was the last classic ad?

It'll be one from back when everyone watched the same telly as each other so we all saw the same ads. So from back before phones, internets and streamings. Something from the 90s maybe?

[Stadt]

4 hours ago, Parafox said:

That's current so it can't yet be a classic.

 

If you don't mind @Stadt, I'm going to start a new topic around this.

Fire away 

[SkidsFox]

17 hours ago, Stadt said:

People don't talk about adverts very often now, what was the last classic ad?

My top favourite is "Skip Ad"

[ozleicester]

16 hours ago, davieG said:

Ahh the back of my bedroom door for years... waking up Sunday morning to hear the ABC presenter (with the most british accent ever) read out the results and then working out where things went... or if you were lazy.. waiting a few days for them to be printed in the paper.

[Torquay Gunner]

13 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

Plentiful in supermarkets around bonfire night.

Not where I live.

[Foxdiamond]

1 hour ago, ozleicester said:

Ahh the back of my bedroom door for years... waking up Sunday morning to hear the ABC presenter (with the most british accent ever) read out the results and then working out where things went... or if you were lazy.. waiting a few days for them to be printed in the paper.

I always had Leicester at top of the old division one despite the real table. 

[David Hankey]

Fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.

[Trumpet]

Saw one the other day, so not strictly true, but - hot air balloons.

 

Remember growing up as a kid in 1990’s Leicester and there would often be hot air balloons knocking about in summer, or atleast it felt that way.

[String fellow]

Quiz Ball on the BBC. City participated on several occasions, with John Sjoberg, Graham Cross, Derek Dougan, Club Secretary Eddie Plumley and Lady Isobel Barnett all playing for us in some of the series, then later on Mighty Mike Stringfellow and Nicholas Parsons were in the team. Lady Isobel scored 5 goals in one game, although even she couldn't match the scoring feats of Arsenal's Ian Ure. Annoyingly, we lost the last ever inter-club final to Dunfermline Athletic in Autumn 1971, after the Mighty String had scored a hat-trick in the semi-final win against Blackpool. Lady Isobel, of course, lost her life in tragic circumstances in 1980, following a conviction for shop-lifting. 

Edited 19 January 2024 by String fellow