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Things you never see anymore

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Alf Bentley

Alf Bentley

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Handwritten personal letters: I used to love sending and receiving them, up to about the early/mid-90s, when the advent of computers killed them off

 

Full English Breakfast in a can (basically sausage, bacon bits & potato bits in baked beans, as I recall).

 

Instant Whip dessert

 

Milky Lunch bars

 

Babycham for the ladies

 

Gooseberries (not much rhubarb around, either)

 

Earwigs (fewer wood lice, too)

 

Socialist Worker sellers: "Get your copy of this week's SOASH-alist Worker!" (they all pronounced it the same way, stressing the "SOASH" - party training?).

The Workers' Revolutionary Party and the Revolutionary Communist Party seem to have completely vanished.....the SWP were just cheerful, misguided and manipulative, but the WRP and RCP were quite sinister, based on reliable stories I was told.

 

Football: National Front selling vile mags outside grounds and getting counter-demos, mass monkey noises by crowds plus mass chants of "You're going home in a fvcking ambulance!", "You're gonna get your fvcking head kicked in!" etc.

I share the distaste that many have for the sanitisation of the modern, all-seater game, but some aspects of the old game did need some cleaning up

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Parafox

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31 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Far fewer insects on car windscreens in summer. A sure sign of the vast decline. Not good 

 

True this.

 

I remember not that many years ago, having to scrape dead bugs from my windscreen. Last year, hardly any splats requiring anything more than the screen wash.

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leicsmac

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41 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Far fewer insects on car windscreens in summer. A sure sign of the vast decline. Not good 

 

7 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

True this.

 

I remember not that many years ago, having to scrape dead bugs from my windscreen. Last year, hardly any splats requiring anything more than the screen wash.

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.

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RobHawk

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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

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RobHawk

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9 minutes 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

I don't know why I don't Google stupid things I think I know before posting. Turns out it was bonemeal, not chalk, but the result was the same

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Blarmy

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On 17/01/2024 at 10:09, fazzyfox said:

One Man Band

 

Busker type guy who would sing with big drum on his back triggered by foot pedal , harmonica, acoustic guitar, cymbals between his knees and saxophone somewhere else.

Detested by the musicians union for taking six peoples jobs!

I saw a standup routine once -  can’t remember who it was - and he said something along the lines of “some musicians, like Neil Young and Bob Dylan sing, play guitar and have a harmonica around they’re necks, and people call them geniuses.  But if you make one small addition and strap some cymbals to your knees? You’re a nutter.”

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String fellow

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22 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Motocross or as it was called Scrambling on BBC. The days of Dave Bickers, Jeff Smith etc. Seems no tv audience for the modern version of the sport

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. 

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leicsmac

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7 minutes 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. 

And when the teleprinter printed out a score with the number in words afterwards, like...

 

Southampton 0 Leicester 9 (NINE)

 

... then one of the teams had a bad day.

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Foxdiamond

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22 minutes 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. 

Yes. Much better if we were away and the home side was....0 you knew at least we had a draw

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