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Everyday things from back in the day that seem really weird now

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  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,669
    seth plum said:
    The light programme, the third programme and the home service.
    And Radio Luxemberg, 208 on the dial
  • James86
    James86 Posts: 329
    Reverse Charge Calling from a phone box. Be lucky to find a useable phone box nowadays. 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Blackheathen said:
    seth plum said:
    The light programme, the third programme and the home service.
    And Radio Luxemberg, 208 on the dial
    There was something very atmospheric about Radio Luxembourg in the evenings the way it faded in and out.
    Evocative memory.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,119
    North Lower Neil said:
    MrOneLung said:
    not quite the remit of this thread, but what happened to quiz machines in pubs ?  

    Don’t see them at all these days. 
    Do still see them but nowhere near as much as 10, 15 years ago, seems to be going back towards fruit machines if anything at all.

    I wonder whether the quizzies had less of a profit margin given there's some skill over the percentage payout on fruit machines?
    I think also that the people who make quizzes can monetise their work more easily now by making them available on the internet for bored commuters and the like. Back then there were no smartphones to allow this, so the pub quiz machine was the best outlet available. 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited June 2023
    CH4RLTON said:
    Borrowing random things of mates , like yh it seems normal now that you might still borrow things like a lawn mower it Item of clothing peharps, but we constantly lending each other videos , LPs , books and in a strange instance some lent me their warhammer collection 
    Did you type this with your feet? Next time first take your shoes off😉
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,427
    iaitch said:
    Sheeps brains also in the butchers.
    I struggle to get pigs heads and beef hearts too 

  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,907
    Knock down ginger

    creep up to someone’s house only for them to open and tell you to f***k off after watching you on their security camera 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,009
    edited June 2023
    AFKABartram said:
    Knock down ginger

    creep up to someone’s house only for them to open and tell you to f***k off after watching you on their security camera 
    My eldest mentioned it the other day - they call it 'ding dong ditch' now.  Actually makes more sense I think, though its in the days of more doorbells!
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,907
    Announcing to a football crowd and tv audience what town the referee comes from.

    Graham Poll, Tring
    Kelvin Morton, Bury St Edmunds 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,119
    Oh yes, David Axcell, Southend, Gurnham Singh, Wolverhampton. 

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  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,398
    Having to go into School in 20ft Snow Drifts ( a bit of an exageration there )

  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,913
    fadgadget said:
    Having to go into School in 20ft Snow Drifts ( a bit of an exageration there )

    in shorts
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited June 2023
    SporadicAddick said:
    fadgadget said:
    Having to go into School in 20ft Snow Drifts ( a bit of an exageration there )

    in shorts
    ....and sandals, with a satchel.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,708
    Images of Kenneth Williams that looked like this:- 


    rather than ...


  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,907
    Oh stop messing about 
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,131
    Blackheathen said:
    seth plum said:
    The light programme, the third programme and the home service.
    And Radio Luxemberg, 208 on the dial
    Remember Laser 558 on the MW or was it LW?
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,778
    The bloke putting the half time scores up. You needed the programme to know what game the scores related to.
  • RaplhMilne
    RaplhMilne Posts: 4,609
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    The bloke putting the half time scores up. You needed the programme to know what game the scores related to.
    I’m sure they used to go on a wind up. So match A was say Spurs v Arsenal.  They would dig into the box of numbers and slot in a 0 to the pitchside holder, so we all knew it was Spurs 0….. Then pull out a 3 from the box , we,d all go NEVER, FUCKING HELL 3 up half time. Then drop back into the box and get out another 0.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,858
    edited July 2023
    Might not exactly qualify as an “every day” thing but this did make me chuckle. https://youtu.be/O3RaCer964U
  • JohnfromNorfolk
    JohnfromNorfolk Posts: 1,324
    "Official  ear".
    Bloke selling programs outside the Valley.
    "Peanuts tanner a bag".

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  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,398
    Coin Operated TV
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,685
    Ha, that is a great picture.
    Remember loads of people bought into that on the Ferrier.
    House was mysteriously burgled the next day.
    Even had a box removal gang.
    Happy days
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,009
    One of my kids saw a landline in a relative's house the other day and got really confused - we've never had one, just use mobiles.

    She knows what landlines are but always thought they were more a work/office type thing, not that people had them in their houses.
  • nagAddick
    nagAddick Posts: 269
    edited February 27
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  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    nagAddick said:
    Back in the day when the pickle used to be able to get up when the milk man would plough through the town chucking out milk and advertisement papers used to love the little funny riddles and stories on the back of the paper haha lol. 
    is this in a foreign dialect or am I just slow?
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,627
    Hal1x said:
    nagAddick said:
    Back in the day when the pickle used to be able to get up when the milk man would plough through the town chucking out milk and advertisement papers used to love the little funny riddles and stories on the back of the paper haha lol. 
    is this in a foreign dialect or am I just slow?
    I thought it was gibberish as well
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,387
    Biggles books, Jennings books, gobstoppers, getting the cane (or slipper) across the arse at school (often for no good reason other than a sadistic twunt of a schoolmaster getting his kicks)
    Twin tub washing machines, black n white TV, playing football in the street, war games on the bombsites (I am VERY old lol), slam door trains etc etc
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,782
    North Lower Neil said:
    One of my kids saw a landline in a relative's house the other day and got really confused - we've never had one, just use mobiles.

    She knows what landlines are but always thought they were more a work/office type thing, not that people had them in their houses.
    Remember a mate who lived up the road, they had a house phone, but they had a party line (not that) and shared the line with next door and got the line rental for half price. It mean that only one household could use the phone at any one time.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,764
    BR7_addick said:
    ValleyGary said:
    Drink driving. My dad used to be the worst for it. 10 pints down the football club then drive me home. Then a big campaign come out and the whole attitude changed. Mental cos he was a fireman and always told us stories of a bloke getting decapitated and cutting people out of cars from doing it. Not one to be proud of but it was definitely worse 25-30 years ago.
    My old man did this his entire life and finally got caught and done about ten years ago, his response was “country’s gone”.
    PC Lee….”The fat c***” 😄
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,009
    The drink driving comments reminded me of this great clip:

    https://www.tiktok.com/@pedalperspective/video/7197944909876268294?lang=en

    Like the smoking indoors ban I guess, lots of people whinged at the time then realised it made complete sense and got on with it.  

    Feels weird now that your clothes even as a non smoker would stink of cigarettes the morning after every night out.

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