Signs of being an old git
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Telephone Numbers that began with Letters!2
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....when you was allowed to use the phone, and, other people in the street were not using it.SuedeAdidas said:Remembering dialling 160 to hear the latest Number one record.
*A phone line used to be shared by many houses in a street.
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Cars I used to work on as an apprentice mechanic being restored as "classics".2
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getting all excited at seeing a bit of skirt on the front page of the daily star from a distance. Getting a closer look and realising she's not to nice after all, but still thinking "if I could maintain an errection I'd be all over her like a dog eating hot chips" without actually thinking "as if she wouldn't give me the time of day" mind you 20 years ago.......then going home seeing the wife and setting down to watch the great British bake off.3
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You obviously didn't have a Sparklets Beer Tap. And remembering those is a definite sign you are getting on a bit.purdis said:
The Party 4 used to go flat so quickly - zero fond memories of that pish.bobmunro said:
Talking of (un)real ale - Party 4 or if you were really flush a Party 7. I used to take a Party 4 to a party, say 'here's my contribution', then hunt out the whisky!purdis said:Director's Bitter came out when I was about 18 - it was the beginning of my love for real ale and I still enjoy a new, untried brew with eager anticipation to this day, given the opportunity. Used to love Fuller's ESB.
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Being offered a seat on the tube.0
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Wanting a pair of slippers for Xmas. Frequently telling your kids that you had to scrape the ice off the inside of your bedroom window.3
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Remember going on a lads holiday to Benidorm back in the day, 17 of us and me and my mate ordered a bottle of Blue Nun thinking we were real posh, the waiter took it from a beam in the roof space dusted it down and poured !!!! went back to San Miguel after that4
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Used to scrape ice off the inside of the windscreen in my 100E van, as well, and..................break the ice in the outside toilet!pettgra said:Wanting a pair of slippers for Xmas. Frequently telling your kids that you had to scrape the ice off the inside of your bedroom window.
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Going upstairs to have a fag on the bus.6
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Remembering a real "pea-souper".0
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Having a weak bladder.0
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did Adam Johnson post that?BR7_addick said:Saw this on Facebook, summarises it for me.
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Got me thinking now MOG. I'm trying to think if it was always Tesco or was something else before, like a Fine Fare or similar. And Woolworths - that Cotmandene one was a blinder. Could get virtually everything I wanted there as a kid - as well as stuff my mum decided on, like 'Lofthouse' football boots for me, when what I'd set my heart on was 'Bobby Charlton' boots from Barnetts across the road (the bloody embarrasment and I was school goalkeeper to make it worse!). BTW the toilets down there have been demolished.Miserableoldgit said:Remembering Tescos was a small one single shop in Cotmandene Crescent, St Paul's Cray.
Public toilets being open.
Woolworths.
Such is progress.
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Vauxhalls and Opels I worked on. Things like the PA cresta and one or two Victors I understand. Can't get my head round a Chevette or HC Viva being classics.limeygent said:Cars I used to work on as an apprentice mechanic being restored as "classics".
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When this is a photo of your best side!
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Those were the days. Character building. Brrr.limeygent said:
Used to scrape ice off the inside of the windscreen in my 100E van, as well, and..................break the ice in the outside toilet!pettgra said:Wanting a pair of slippers for Xmas. Frequently telling your kids that you had to scrape the ice off the inside of your bedroom window.
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like only having an outside toilet.pettgra said:
Those were the days. Character building. Brrr.limeygent said:
Used to scrape ice off the inside of the windscreen in my 100E van, as well, and..................break the ice in the outside toilet!pettgra said:Wanting a pair of slippers for Xmas. Frequently telling your kids that you had to scrape the ice off the inside of your bedroom window.
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Waiting at the top of Victoria Way on a Saturday for the pink classified to read about our game that day3
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Party 7s feck me I remember them, you needed a hammer and screwdriver to open 'em then watched as the ceiling got sprayed.Baldybonce said:
Party 7s and party 4 for when you were skint.ross1 said:
Light and bitter or Double Diamondbobmunro said:
Mild and bitter!Baldybonce said:Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.
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Saying you went to St Austin's Secondary Charlton. (Anybody under 30 probably never heard of it).0
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Only having Izal toilet (sand-)paper to go with the above!Baldybonce said:
like only having an outside toilet.pettgra said:
Those were the days. Character building. Brrr.limeygent said:
Used to scrape ice off the inside of the windscreen in my 100E van, as well, and..................break the ice in the outside toilet!pettgra said:Wanting a pair of slippers for Xmas. Frequently telling your kids that you had to scrape the ice off the inside of your bedroom window.
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I bet you wouldn't hang about at the top of Vicky way waiting to buy a pink newspaper now.ross1 said:Waiting at the top of Victoria Way on a Saturday for the pink classified to read about our game that day
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Not sure if I'm an Old Git, or an Old Geezer.0
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Having to go to the public phone box to be able to use a phone.Miserableoldgit said:
....when you was allowed to use the phone, and, other people in the street were not using it.SuedeAdidas said:Remembering dialling 160 to hear the latest Number one record.
*A phone line used to be shared by many houses in a street.2 -
Remembering when indicators were arms that popped out the sides of cars.2
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Jamming a lollystick in the return coin slot, trying to get a few pence out. Not that I ever did that of course, that would wrong. But did hear it could be done............The_President said:
Having to go to the public phone box to be able to use a phone.Miserableoldgit said:
....when you was allowed to use the phone, and, other people in the street were not using it.SuedeAdidas said:Remembering dialling 160 to hear the latest Number one record.
*A phone line used to be shared by many houses in a street.2
