Things you never see anymore

[Daggers]

23 hours ago, davieG said:

 

 

Grandad owned a chain of toy shops in South Wales; I got the Johnny 7 gun for free one visit. It probably created my lifetime of self-entitlement.

[Daggers]

[Jon the Hat]

24 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Never clear whether Y2K bug was a real thing solved by lots of very expensive IT consultants in a marvel of modern human solution finding, or not.

[The Bear]

Kids playing this: 

 

 

[FoyleFox]

On 01/01/2025 at 10:57, Jon the Hat said:

Never clear whether Y2K bug was a real thing solved by lots of very expensive IT consultants in a marvel of modern human solution finding, or not.

I'm not sure the 'bug' wasn't overhyped but a lot of  computer programmes didn't work with a date format beyond 99. A lot of IT people did a lot of work to keep things running smoothly. So, in the end no-one noticed any issues. Speaking as someone who spent a good 2 years testing and fixing those systems. Sadly, I wasn't an expensive or well paid consultant. 

Edited 2 January 2025 by FoyleFox

[Daggers]

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[davieG]

[Parafox]

8 hours ago, davieG said:

 

This.

 

And those medicine balls. What was that all about? It was impossible to play any kind of ball game with them. You could only manage to chuck one about 3 inches. 

Edited 12 January 2025 by Parafox

[davieG]

4 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

This.

 

And those medicine balls. What was that all about? It was impossible to play any kind of ball game with them. You could only manage to chuck one about 3 inches. 

Murder Ball was a favourite for the big guys.

 

At the end of every P E lesson we had to run around Viccy Park last one home got a big rubber slipper across their arse which was often me with the big fat lad being excused. I hated PE, in the summer we only played Rugby as Van Hopkins the Radio Leicester Rugby commentator was our Deputy Head. I was always made to be the hooker.

[Parafox]

5 minutes ago, davieG said:

Murder Ball was a favourite for the big guys.

 

At the end of every P E lesson we had to run around Viccy Park last one home got a big rubber slipper across their arse which was often me with the big fat lad being excused. I hated PE, in the summer we only played Rugby as Van Hopkins the Radio Leicester Rugby commentator was our Deputy Head. I was always made to be the hooker.

 

Sounds like you went to a public school 

[davieG]

1 minute ago, Parafox said:

 

Sounds like you went to a public school 

It was known locally as a Prep School but for Borstal.

[Torquay Gunner]

 

 

 

[davieG]

1 minute ago, Torquay Gunner said:

 

 

 

We had the orange juice ones which came back in 2015 apparently

 

 

No, Jubbly ice lollies are not discontinued. In fact, Calypso brought back the iconic tetrahedral-shaped ice lollies in 2005 after they had been off the shelves for over 20 years. The lollies are now made with real fruit juice and mineral water, and are available in four fruity flavors. 

The "Lovely Jubbly" slogan for the original Jubbly ice lollies was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. The campaign is said to have inspired the catchphrase from the TV show Only Fools and Horses. 

[Parafox]

1 minute ago, Torquay Gunner said:

 

 

 

 

I don't think I've ever seen one of those before.

[Parafox]

[Torquay Gunner]

3 minutes ago, davieG said:

We had the orange juice ones which came back in 2015 apparently

 

 

No, Jubbly ice lollies are not discontinued. In fact, Calypso brought back the iconic tetrahedral-shaped ice lollies in 2005 after they had been off the shelves for over 20 years. The lollies are now made with real fruit juice and mineral water, and are available in four fruity flavors. 

The "Lovely Jubbly" slogan for the original Jubbly ice lollies was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. The campaign is said to have inspired the catchphrase from the TV show Only Fools and Horses. 

Don’t remember these as much as the milk cartons, but it was a long time ago! 

[davieG]

Just now, Torquay Gunner said:

Don’t remember these as much as the milk cartons, but it was a long time ago! 

The orange ones were sold frozen

[Parafox]

[Alf Bentley]

15 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

A trafficator!

 

I learned that word a couple of years ago, when I worked out that it was the focus of my earliest childhood memory.

 

All my life, I'd assumed that my earliest memory was my horror at my Dad being thrown on a bonfire when I was 3 (it turned out to be a Guy Fawkes effigy - both wore suits, I suppose).

 

But I'd always had this vague memory of being very young and being in the back seat of a fancy old car with my parents, pissing myself laughing at this orange light coming in and out of the side of the car. It turns out that my uncle, who lived across the road, had just such a vehicle with just such a trafficator but sold it when I was aged 2.

 

True story. I hope you're more entertained with that one than my post about Brexit, Para? 

[Izzy]

10 hours ago, davieG said:

Would have been about 1979 and I was at primary school doing PE.

 

Climbed one of those ropes, got to the top, my hands slipped, and I fell to the ground and split my head open - claret everywhere.

 

Remember Peter Kempton standing over me and shouting "ERRRR, YOU CAN SEE HIS BRAIN!!!!"

 

You can still see the scar 45 years on...

[Daggers]

[davieG]

 

Leicester Memories

Peter Taylor  

 

People collecting their Holiday snaps from Cecil Jacobs on Granby Street Leicester . August 1955 .

[Tommy G]

15 minutes ago, davieG said:

 

Leicester Memories

Peter Taylor  

 

People collecting their Holiday snaps from Cecil Jacobs on Granby Street Leicester . August 1955 .

Look at the state of the UK now vs that pic!