Things you never see anymore

[The Bear]

19 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I used to get £11 per week doing my paper round back around '89-91. I did the weekday evening paper (Burton Mail) and the Sunday morning tabloids. Sundays were the worst because of all the extra supplements and magazines included on that day, I used to have to go back to the shop for a second trip as they wouldn't all fit in the bag! 

Edited 4 November 2025 by The Bear

[sharpylcfc]

Leicester strikers scoring goals. 

[Parafox]

Flies on TV screens

[foxfanazer]

4 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Flies on TV screens

Or tea towels in living rooms

[Scanchez]

wHeN BinMEn weRe pRopeR BinMEn.

NoT LikE tHese WOKe FaiRiEs yOu geT thESe DAyS.


Oh, and Time Out chocolate bars.

[davieG]

Snake belt, had one of these to hold up my 'short' school trousers when I was 11 and was the only pupil in the class wearing them.

[Foxdiamond]

Remember when electrical items sold without attached plug which had to be bought separately 

[davieG]

15 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Remember when electrical items sold without attached plug which had to be bought separately 

It's amazing more people weren't electrocuted. I've seen some terrible ones when I've taken over a house.

 

 

I bought house that had an electric fire fixed to the wall above the bath and wired into the lighting. One gentle pull on it and it came off the wall in my hand, was screw straight into the plaster board with no wall plugs.

[NAKC20]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

It's amazing more people weren't electrocuted. I've seen some terrible ones when I've taken over a house.

 

 

I bought house that had an electric fire fixed to the wall above the bath and wired into the lighting. One gentle pull on it and it came off the wall in my hand, was screw straight into the plaster board with no wall plugs.

Shocking 🙄

[ozleicester]

A fair balanced discussion in the General News thread

Edited 5 November 2025 by ozleicester

[Free Falling Foxes]

Cannot remember seeing a milk float around for ages.

[Jon the Hat]

23 hours ago, Parafox said:

Flies on TV screens

Come round mine, the flight isn’t cheap but I can guarantee you a fly or three.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

On 25/10/2025 at 09:38, The Bear said:

Though my mum and dad used to just chuck them in the chip fat. I hated them because they were so greasy and disfigured. 

 

Bit harsh, I'm sure your mum and dad aren't that bad!

[Wymsey]

3 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Cannot remember seeing a milk float around for ages.

Still going, Kirby and West, aren't they?

[Free Falling Foxes]

2 hours ago, Wymsey said:

Still going, Kirby and West, aren't they?

Possibly, but milkfloats were everywhere most mornings of the week. Now though?

[Trav Le Bleu]

8 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Cannot remember seeing a milk float around for ages.

Could you imagine this driving round most council estates without losing half its load? Obviously people have always nicked the odd bottle off milk floats, but nowadays?

 

Not to mention speed bumps

 

[davieG]

22 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Could you imagine this driving round most council estates without losing half its load? Obviously people have always nicked the odd bottle off milk floats, but nowadays?

 

Not to mention speed bumps

 

When I was in the CofE children's home we used to go to Great Yarmouth every year.  One year, I must have been about 14 we had a Polish lad about 17 join us for a couple of weeks and my brother and I were asked to keep an eye on him and show him around. 

 

We were walking down this street, towards the harbour with houses on both sides when we came across one of those milk floats. Out of the blue he ran up to it and grab  this large bag of cakes and started shoving them in my coat before I could stop him the milkman came out of one of the houses, saw us and shouted running towards: not knowing what to do and frightened we all ran off down the road with him chasing us all I could think of was to get rid of the cakes stuffed in my coat so I  threw them over the garden walls of the houses shouting for him to do the same.. 

 

Fortunately we managed to outrun him. My brother who's a year older than me and much mature gave him a right bollocking.

[davieG]

[Parafox]

Anyone ever use a dictaphone?

 

I used my finger. 

[davieG]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

Anyone ever use a dictaphone?

 

I used my finger. 

Upgraded to a digital one but not used it for years, not sure I could find it now. 

[davieG]

[Parafox]

22 minutes ago, davieG said:

 

I assume the pegs are to stop the choke closing too quickly. My first car had a manual choke and it did just that and would close causing the engine to misfire. I just kept pulling it out until it stopped doing it.

 

I never really understood what a choke did but I imagined it restricted air flow to increase the richness of the fuel to air mixture. 

 

Along a similar theme, quarterlight side windows and only one wing mirror.

 

Edited 19 November 2025 by Parafox

[davieG]

5 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

I assume the pegs are to stop the choke closing too quickly. My first car had a manual choke and it did just that and would close causing the engine to misfire. I just kept pulling it out until it stopped doing it.

 

I never really understood what a choke did but I imagined it restricted air flow to increase the richness of the fuel to air mixture. 

 

Along a similar theme, quarterlight side windows and only one wing mirror.

 

You were lucky to have wing mirrors my first had none I had to  buy separate ones and clip them onto the drivers window which didn't have a winder just small piece of glass stuck to the window that you had to pull down with the ends of your fingers.

 

The good old days certainly doesn't apply to cars well not the ones I could afford.

[Parafox]

4 minutes ago, davieG said:

You were lucky to have wing mirrors my first had none I had to  buy separate ones and clip them onto the drivers window which didn't have a winder just small piece of glass stuck to the window that you had to pull down with the ends of your fingers.

 

The good old days certainly doesn't apply to cars well not the ones I could afford.

 

As a child I remember being in a car where there was a leather strap on the side window that could adjusted by lowering or raising the glass and latching a hole in the strap onto a little brass "nodule", a bit like a trouser belt.

 

The closest image I can find is this:

 

[Parafox]

Convalescent homes.

 

When they were a thing, there was no backlog in hospital and people being kept in A&E waiting for a bed or on the back of ambulances.