Things you never see anymore

[davieG]

4 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

We used to play cricket with a dice and a ruler on the school desks.

I remember playing with dice, I can't remember what numbers were related to how you were out/ no ball / not out.

 

What was the ruler for.

 

 

PS reminds me of an engineering lecturer who used to go into a rant if we said ruler and not rule.  

[The Bear]

I had the Test Match board game. With the weird octagonal green mat and plastic bowler with the little funnel that rolled the ball down to the batter. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

27 minutes ago, The Bear said:

I had the Test Match board game. With the weird octagonal green mat and plastic bowler with the little funnel that rolled the ball down to the batter. 

Anyone ever play the subbuteo rugby?

 

I'd guess if you still owned one it would be worth a bit.

[Heathrow fox]

41 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Anyone ever play the subbuteo rugby?

 

I'd guess if you still owned one it would be worth a bit.

My Dad found the plastic scrum devise thing at a church fete when I was a kid.We then bought two teams from the toy and pram shop on Charles Street.The all Blacks and Wales.They came in really fancy brown rectangle boxes.Thats about as far as it got  

We had a huge collection of the football side of things but the rugby was real niche stuff.There’s not a great deal about it on YouTube either.

[Trav Le Bleu]

3 hours ago, Heathrow fox said:

My Dad found the plastic scrum devise thing at a church fete when I was a kid.We then bought two teams from the toy and pram shop on Charles Street.The all Blacks and Wales.They came in really fancy brown rectangle boxes.Thats about as far as it got  

We had a huge collection of the football side of things but the rugby was real niche stuff.There’s not a great deal about it on YouTube either.

I could never get anyone else to play, so used to play against myself. I'm so sad I'd even write my own match reports

 

[davieG]

 

 

 

 

Any of these still sold.

[Guest worth_the_wait]

On 21/02/2026 at 11:27, Trav Le Bleu said:

Anyone ever play the subbuteo rugby?

I'd guess if you still owned one it would be worth a bit.

Not the subbuteo Rugby.   But me and a m8 used to play a sort of DIY table rugby game.  

 

We used to fold a piece of paper into a triangle, and then from the other end of the table - you flicked/shoved it, trying to get it to overhang the other end of the table (without dropping off it).   tbh It was a bit like shove-ha'penny really - just with paper, instead of coins.

 

If it overhung the other end, it was a "try".   At which point, the opponent made a goalpost by putting their two 2nd fingers together, with thumbs sticking in the air.   You then put the triangle on one corner, and tried to flick it over the "goalposts".   If you succeeded, it was a "conversion".    Classic home-made game, eh?

 

The things we used to invent as kids ...................     

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Cannot remember the last time I saw one of these in the back of a car.

Edited 8 March by Free Falling Foxes

[Guest worth_the_wait]

8 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Cannot remember the last time I saw one of these in the back of a car.

Late 1960's. I remember my dad having to "run in" a new van at 28 mph, all the way to Cromer!

[DJW1]

Do they still make cars that have chokes?

[DJW1]

I was never one, but do "pen pals" still exist? That is, schoolchildren living in different places  who exchange letters and perhaps finally meet up

[DJW1]

While I'm on a roll.....

Little numbers on Leicester home game programes that you could cut out to get priority for Cup tickets (the more you had, the better your chances). That was in the 70s

[DJW1]

Also

Leicester having an all-white home kit

 

FA Cup 5th round games kicking off at 3 p.m. on a Saturday 

[Wymsey]

These, without any solar panels on them..

 

[Izzy]

8 hours ago, DJW1 said:

Do they still make cars that have chokes?

They stopped making cars with manual chokes in the early 90's I think. My first car was a Talbot Samba and that had a choke.

 

Also, the only car I ever stole and crashed (my mate Rob's) was a Vauxhall Chevette and that had a choke.

 

I was so drunk that I didn't realise why it was revving so hard as I crashed it into a lampost because the choke was fully out.

 

Edited 8 March by Izzy

[DJW1]

57 minutes ago, Izzy said:

They sopped making cars with manual chokes in the early 90's I think. My first car was a Talbot Samba and that had a choke.

 

Also, the only car I ever stole and crashed (my mate Rob's) was a Vauxhall Chevette and that had a choke.

 

I was so drunk that I didn't realise why it was revving so hard as I crashed it into a lampost because the choke was fully out.

Are you Hamza Choudhury?

[DJW1]

1 hour ago, Wymsey said:

These, without any solar panels on them..

 

And without knitted decorations on top.

There's one in the centre of Leicester that is "VR", venerable indeed

[Stuntman_Mike]

[FoyleFox]

10 hours ago, DJW1 said:

I was never one, but do "pen pals" still exist? That is, schoolchildren living in different places  who exchange letters and perhaps finally meet up

I had a penpal from Germany, started communicating in 1987, visited each other numerous times and are still doing so to this day. It's via email now rather than letter, used to love receiving the old air mail letters. 

[davieG]

 

There used to be a few of these around the centre.

 

Was out with a few mates one evening having had a few beers when one of my mates,  who'd had a few too many saw one went up to it and kicked it saying out loudly you're not a spastic (accepted word back then) I've just seen you around the corner whilst kicking it. 

 

This massive giant of a guy saw him went up to him and nutted him knocking him to the floor and out cold. 

 

Can't say he didn't deserve it.

[davieG]

[Free Falling Foxes]

I can't understand why you can no longer buy it, it looked so realistic sprinkled over our Chistmas tree.

[Trav Le Bleu]

16 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I can't understand why you can no longer buy it, it looked so realistic sprinkled over our Chistmas tree.

True story - as recently as the early 1970s, talcum powder had asbestos in it.

[hejammy]

20 hours ago, davieG said:

Oh boy were these disgusting! Felt like throwing up every time one was released! 

[The Bear]

1 minute ago, hejammy said:

Oh boy were these disgusting! Felt like throwing up every time one was released! 

Yeah I can still remember that rotten egg ammonia smell!