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Signs of being an old git

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  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,424
    happyvalley said:

    Remembering dashing from a Kent pub to Eltham to get another couple of pints in before chucking out time.

    Was gonna say remembering that the 2 main criteria for a pub were it doesn't operate Kentish hours, and it had an off-license.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,750
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Finding your first grey chest pube. My poor missus is still traumatised.

    Did she find one of yours or one of her own?

  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,200
    For footballers, it would be your club sending you out on loan to Charlton.
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,236
    Still chuckling when I remember the old Smash advert. "And they peel them with their metal knives........"
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,907
    needing a pair of glasses to find the glasses that you are looking for
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,613
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Finding your first grey chest pube. My poor missus is still traumatised.

    Wait until you start getting them down below mate.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,574
    lolwray said:

    needing a pair of glasses to find the glasses that you are looking for

    Thats not a sign of old age... I struggle like a blind bat when I dont have my glasses on
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    edited February 2016
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Finding your first grey chest pube. My poor missus is still traumatised.

    So was it her's or yours?

    With respect to SuedeAdidas.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Thinking
    Nostalgia's not what it was.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    seth plum said:

    Thinking
    Nostalgia's not what it was.

    You think so? It gets better and better for me!

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  • east terrace peanuts
    east terrace peanuts Posts: 486
    One of the best Woody Allen quotes........"I was sitting there chatting with some of my old friends, and when one of them said 'Do you remember when, I knew it was time to go"
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited February 2016
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  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,929
    Taking longer than my Missus to have a pee...goes on forever! She has to wait outside for me now.
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,929
    Ah! The old smokey Valley, when you could stroll around the ground at half time.
    After the game the old man would take me to see cartoons at a cinema up town.
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,815
    No son you can't have that on your iPad, it doesn't sound like real music to me.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Forgetting you opened this thread. ........
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    iainment said:

    AddickUpNorth said:

    Finding your first grey chest pube. My poor missus is still traumatised.

    So was it her's or yours?

    With respect to SuedeAdidas.

    @iainment and @SuedeAdidas - sorry fellas, should have clarified. It was my grey chest pube. My missus has been waxing her chest since she was twelve.
  • limeygent
    limeygent Posts: 3,217
    Miserableoldgit said:

    Forgetting you opened this thread. ........

    What thread?
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,722
    I_was_Floyd said:

    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

    Justin20474 said:

    Only being able to buy school uniform from Eric Thomas in Bexleyheath, not Asda, tesco, poundshop or anywhere else.

    You just reminded me that the Abbey Wood Comprehensive School uniform could only be bought from the Co-op or Cuffs in Woolwich..
    The Co-op uniform came with a separate school badge which had to be sewn or pressed on; the Cuffs badge was integral to the fabric.
    Anybody remember the huge Christmas trees that Cuffs and Co-op had on their awnings every December?
    Used to love Woolwich when I was a little boy; the open and covered markets, the old ferry approach; the Odeon and ABC cinemas.My Mum says there were 5 cinemas in Woolwich when she was young.
    When MacDonald's opened their first UK outlet they said they chose Woolwich because it was a "typical English town".
    God help us if it still is!
    Remembering Cuffs of Woolwich!

    Lived in Bexleyheath until I was 5. If my mum couldn't get something she wanted in The Broadway, we'd be off on the bus to Woolwich for a nose around the market and into Cuffs. Her other favourite expedition was to Lewisham to go to Chiesmans.

    There was another Department Store - Garretts. Remember looking in the window of Sidney Ross the toy shop in Powis Street and envying any kids who got toys from there.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,332
    Garretts of Woolwich. Had my first summer job there. Shut down soon after.

    Not surprising really, it was like Grace Brothers and so badly run. They employed me for a start.

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  • GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull Posts: 2,351

    Just in case anyone missed it first time around, go to thread SE18: Impressions of a London suburb (1964) ....
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,128
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:

    Justin20474 said:

    Only being able to buy school uniform from Eric Thomas in Bexleyheath, not Asda, tesco, poundshop or anywhere else.

    You just reminded me that the Abbey Wood Comprehensive School uniform could only be bought from the Co-op or Cuffs in Woolwich..
    The Co-op uniform came with a separate school badge which had to be sewn or pressed on; the Cuffs badge was integral to the fabric.
    Anybody remember the huge Christmas trees that Cuffs and Co-op had on their awnings every December?
    Used to love Woolwich when I was a little boy; the open and covered markets, the old ferry approach; the Odeon and ABC cinemas.My Mum says there were 5 cinemas in Woolwich when she was young.
    When MacDonald's opened their first UK outlet they said they chose Woolwich because it was a "typical English town".
    God help us if it still is!
    Can't believe I forgot the 3rd cinema that was still around when I was a boy, The Granada.
    Later a Bingo Hall (still?)
    Saw Mary Poppins there in 1964 and the queues were round the block to the old ferry approach!
    The Stones played there, also in '64, but sadly I was too young for that.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,353
    You become very fussy about how comfortable a bed is.
  • Jdredsox
    Jdredsox Posts: 535
    Waiting for teletext to scroll round to see the football scores.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,421
    Visiting the karzy in my old mums sheltered housing, spotting the cord with the "red triangle" on it and appreciating why that would be useful.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Jdredsox said:

    Waiting for teletext to scroll round to see the football scores.

    302 football, 340 cricket. Can never remember my bloody PIN number though.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,574
    Jdredsox said:

    Waiting for teletext to scroll round to see the football scores.

    God it was frustrating when the page would load on the scores you'd want but would move to page 2/8 before you'd get the chance to see what it actually is... Did anyone else constantly press and unpress Hold to try and speed it up?
  • AddickFC81
    AddickFC81 Posts: 4,053
    Hearing a certain track on you tube and then thinking I can't believe this track was 10 or 15 years ago.
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,929
    Waiting outside Forest Hill station for a pink classified football results paper!
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    AddickFC81 said:

    Hearing a certain track on you tube and then thinking I can't believe this track was 10 or 15 years ago.

    You're not that old then!

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