Things you never see anymore

[filthyfox]

2 hours ago, Likely Fox said:

Cheap beer 🍻 

Thats because mininum wage has made it unaffordable.  Same as a cheap meal out

[The Bear]

You can get cheap beer if you go for Aldi and Lidl who do their own versions of major brands. 

 

Poretti and San Marcos are good examples. I bought 4 cans of 440ml San Marcos (San Miguel) for £3.99 from Aldi and it tastes just the same as the real thing. 

[davieG]

 

Probably things you don't do anymore

[David Hankey]

Leicester City in the third tier, but that wouldn't be true would it?

[Parafox]

 

String vests.

[Parafox]

On 17/06/2026 at 17:05, The Bear said:

You can get cheap beer if you go for Aldi and Lidl who do their own versions of major brands. 

 

Poretti and San Marcos are good examples. I bought 4 cans of 440ml San Marcos (San Miguel) for £3.99 from Aldi and it tastes just the same as the real thing. 

You have to like European lagers though, and I don't.

 

Ales and such just don't taste the same out of a can or bottle.

[Free Falling Foxes]

1 hour ago, Parafox said:

 

String vests.

I recall walking past the clock tower many moons ago one glorious afternoon, when a young lady walked just in front of me. She was wearing a yellow coloured string vest with absolutely nothing else underneath.

It quite literally stopped me in my tracks. 

When I regained my senses, I noticed there was a few more of us young lads who had been equally and momentarily transfixed by this most satisfying view.

 

Edited 26 June by Free Falling Foxes

[davieG]

Might have been posted before.

[Trav Le Bleu]

4 hours ago, davieG said:

Might have been posted before.

I know someone who owned a fairly new Lada in the 80s, that could be crank started.

[Trav Le Bleu]

On 26/06/2026 at 14:05, Free Falling Foxes said:

I recall walking past the clock tower many moons ago one glorious afternoon, when a young lady walked just in front of me. She was wearing a yellow coloured string vest with absolutely nothing else underneath.

It quite literally stopped me in my tracks. 

When I regained my senses, I noticed there was a few more of us young lads who had been equally and momentarily transfixed by this most satisfying view.

 

I hope you reported her to the police!

[DJW1]

On 26/06/2026 at 12:04, davieG said:

 

Probably things you don't do anymore

Been there done that. I think it was illegal, whereas recording the same song off TOTP wasn´t.

A certain radio show used to play dance megamixes, which I taped, although they always included a voice saying "you´re not taping this are you?" 

[Grebfromgrebland]

1 hour ago, DJW1 said:

Been there done that. I think it was illegal, whereas recording the same song off TOTP wasn´t.

A certain radio show used to play dance megamixes, which I taped, although they always included a voice saying "you´re not taping this are you?" 

Essential mix was 45 mins times 2 and he'd tell you to turn the tape over. 

[String fellow]

Recording radio programmes has never been illegal in the UK, provided it's for time-shifting, personal, private or domestic purposes.

My first recordings involved placing a microphone next to the radio, hoping there'd be no noises off, and that the (open-reel) tape was long enough.