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Signs of being an old git

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  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,234


    Muriel Young (sigh) ....

    The Five O'clock Club with Ollie Beak and Fred Barker.

  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    Zoo Time with Desmond Morris
    All Our Yesterdays - Brian Inglis
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,651
    Dr Who in black & white.
  • cafcfan said:

    Thinking that an automatic gearbox and a driver's seat that slides backwards when you switch off the ignition to facilitate egress are essentials on a car.

    Using the word 'egress'
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    When you start commenting on how young teachers and police look these days

  • Muriel Young (sigh) ....

    Bloody hell you win. I was going to say Jenny Agutter or Felicity Kendall.
  • Walking downhill to the station and having to get a wiggle on to get the train. Punters at the station telling the office that Michael Flatley got their train this morning.
  • purdis
    purdis Posts: 1,046
    Jenny Agutter - now you're talking.
    Liza Goddard was decent, too.
  • Space Patrol and Burton's Potato Puffs
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,538
    edited February 2016
    Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

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  • Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when footballs weren't white and when they got wet they were like concrete
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,161
    RedChaser said:

    bobmunro said:

    Your first pint was lager 'n' lime.

    Mild and bitter!
    My old Dad would never drink mild, reckoned it was all the regurgitated slops. He drank light and bitter (always got more than a half of bitter) and if the light ale went in first, he wouldn't accept it :open_mouth:
    And he was right. When I worked in a pub in Grimsby they explained me exactly what the bucket was for where I had to pour the slops. This was also where I learnt that Glenfiddich was not (just) a racehorse.

  • Forgetting you opened this thread a little while back.......
  • Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when footballs weren't white and when they got wet they were like concrete
    Oh good, I'm not that old!

  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,906
    iaitch said:


    Muriel Young (sigh) ....

    The Five O'clock Club with Ollie Beak and Fred Barker.

    and a shout out for Wally Wighton !
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217

    Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when footballs weren't white and when they got wet they were like concrete
    And they weighed about twenty pounds, and you kicked them with boots that weighed about ten pounds, three of which was dubbin.
  • Talking to your mates about how many times you go to the toilet in the night and prostate cancer.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Remembering dashing from a Kent pub to Eltham to get another couple of pints in before chucking out time.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,651
    limeygent said:

    Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when footballs weren't white and when they got wet they were like concrete
    And they weighed about twenty pounds, and you kicked them with boots that weighed about ten pounds, three of which was dubbin.
    and when you headed one it left an imprint in your forehead.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    Reading over the top of your glasses.

    Getting excited at those catalogues in the Sunday papers that feature ways to keep warm, phones with big buttons and special toe nail cutters.

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  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 51,004
    iainment said:

    Reading over the top of your glasses.

    Getting excited at those catalogues in the Sunday papers that feature ways to keep warm, phones with big buttons and special toe nail cutters.

    Don't forget your snuggie
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    Wondering how many more pets you'll outlive and realising it's only 1 or 2 at most. :-(
  • Forgetting you opened this thread a while. ......
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,231
    The fact that 5 times a night, (Another Pinocchio ?)
    now means something completely different !
  • Sorry, I've just got round to this thread. Kept coming upstairs to use the PC and forgot why.

  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,651

    Sorry, I've just got round to this thread. Kept coming upstairs to use the PC and forgot why.

    a couple more years and it'll be the WC.
  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,583

    Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when the studs on boots were nailed in and if you headed a football on the lace part f@@k me that hurt!
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,331
    Essex_Al said:

    Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when the studs on boots were nailed in and if you headed a football on the lace part f@@k me that hurt!
    Oh those nails! Came home from playing every week with dried blood on my feet wher the nails had come through and then banging them back on an old rusty anvil for ready for the next week .

    Times and Telegraph Sunday supplements made the best shin pads but unfortunately my dad did not get those papers as the Herald did not come out on Sunday. Used to nick them from the chap two doors up. When my dad realised he compromised on the Express on Sunday as they had decent footie reports.

    Highlight of life was playing Sunday morning, pint at the Falcon, home for Sunday lunch. Big Match, The Persuaders or Randel and Hopkirk deceased and then a crap black and white film so you could nod off until the pubs opened at 7.
  • Finding your first grey chest pube. My poor missus is still traumatised.
  • Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when footballs weren't white and when they got wet they were like concrete
    limeygent said:

    Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when footballs weren't white and when they got wet they were like concrete
    And they weighed about twenty pounds, and you kicked them with boots that weighed about ten pounds, three of which was dubbin.

    limeygent said:

    Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when footballs weren't white and when they got wet they were like concrete
    And they weighed about twenty pounds, and you kicked them with boots that weighed about ten pounds, three of which was dubbin.
    and when you headed one it left an imprint in your forehead.
    Essex_Al said:

    Remembering when football boots were black and footballs white.

    Remembering when the studs on boots were nailed in and if you headed a football on the lace part f@@k me that hurt!
    And that is why footaballers used to know how to head a football, unlike today where it looks like they jump with their eyes closed and the ball bounces off their head if they are lucky to make contact with it