Blast from the past - remind us of a thing

[eldar]

I saw a young man with a most impressive kipper tie, wandering the mean streets of Coventry.

[bigpriest]

eldar said:

I saw a young man with a most impressive kipper tie, wandering the mean streets of Coventry.

Noddy Holder accent - "Did he spill any of it?"

[Abbott]

bigpriest said:

eldar said:

I saw a young man with a most impressive kipper tie, wandering the mean streets of Coventry.

Noddy Holder accent - "Did he spill any of it?"

[generationx]

Abbott said:

bigpriest said:

eldar said:

I saw a young man with a most impressive kipper tie, wandering the mean streets of Coventry.

Noddy Holder accent - "Did he spill any of it?"

[nobrakes]

DoctorX said:

FMOB said:

The Crossfire game from the 80's

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZpCHsiC238

Would nver happen today, giving kids the chance to fire ball bearings towards each other as quickly as you can, reload and fire more..

I can still recall the blisters from playing that.

Yes!

Only worked well if the table was absolutely flat though.

[bowder]

Stag beetles. Once under every old log, but seem to have vanished.

[blueg33]

bowder said:

Stag beetles. Once under every old log, but seem to have vanished.

You are not looking hard enough. My daughter found loads this week. Mind you she is a zoologist and does random things with her spare time like recording beetles in the garden, counting dragonfly species by our pond and the lake etc

[bowder]

blueg33 said:

bowder said:

Stag beetles. Once under every old log, but seem to have vanished.

You are not looking hard enough. My daughter found loads this week. Mind you she is a zoologist and does random things with her spare time like recording beetles in the garden, counting dragonfly species by our pond and the lake etc

Good for her Most kids have no idea such a creature exists...

[blueg33]

bowder said:

blueg33 said:

bowder said:

Stag beetles. Once under every old log, but seem to have vanished.

You are not looking hard enough. My daughter found loads this week. Mind you she is a zoologist and does random things with her spare time like recording beetles in the garden, counting dragonfly species by our pond and the lake etc

Good for her Most kids have no idea such a creature exists...

It has its downsides - came home after a week away to find she was cleaning the yuk off a deer skull in the kitchen sink. She found the skull in the woods. When she was younger she kept a live collection of different slug types in her bedroom.

Right now she is doing a phd on lizard venoms, fortunately she cant bring venomous lizards home

[Sticks.]

blueg33 said:

It has its downsides - came home after a week away to find she was cleaning the yuk off a deer skull in the kitchen sink.

To be fair, I'm not sure they're dishwasher-safe.

[bowder]

Sticks. said:

blueg33 said:

It has its downsides - came home after a week away to find she was cleaning the yuk off a deer skull in the kitchen sink.

To be fair, I'm not sure they're dishwasher-safe.

Many are. Interesting google search, hope I don't become a suspect in a missing person case(!)

https://www.taxidermy.net/threads/123815/

[FiF]

anonymoususer said:

DickyC said:

Telephone party lines.

Prehistoric communication cost saving absurdity.

The paryty line button in all it's glory well ~OK it's labelled here as recall but it could be used for various functions. Depended on what the engineer wanted it to do.
It was more to do with capacity than saving money. The very first phone I had in my own lane was an Ivory GPO 746 party line phone

Or Swedish phone system before privatisation, you got one handset and only one handset, woe betide if you wanted another. Förlåt kamrat inte tillåtet.

[EmBe]

My 13 year old thought I was joking this morning when I told her fresh Orange Juice used to be considered a starter in many pubs and restaurants when I was a kid.
And when we had it at home, which was rare, it came as a concentrate in a can that you dissolved in water.

[DodgyGeezer]

EmBe said:

My 13 year old thought I was joking this morning when I told her fresh Orange Juice used to be considered a starter in many pubs and restaurants when I was a kid.
And when we had it at home, which was rare, it came as a concentrate in a can that you dissolved in water.

oh yes! Mum used to tell me off for getting it out of the freezer on the basis that OJ was for 'special' not just for thirst/drink as and when...

Edited by DodgyGeezer on Friday 28th June 19:52

[otolith]

blueg33 said:

It has its downsides - came home after a week away to find she was cleaning the yuk off a deer skull in the kitchen sink. She found the skull in the woods. When she was younger she kept a live collection of different slug types in her bedroom.

Right now she is doing a phd on lizard venoms, fortunately she cant bring venomous lizards home

We had a student house entirely populated by undergraduate biologists. One of the guys once brought a dead polecat home he'd found on the road and proceeded to skin it, cure the skin, and put the head in the garden for the flesh to rot off the skull. We had an axolotl and a garter snake living in the house (the snake once literally, it got out of its tank and disappeared for a week).

[DickyC]

Chrome windscreen wipers.

You occasionally see dramas set in the forties, fifties and sixties featuring cars with black wipers.

Outrageous behaviour.

[hidetheelephants]

DickyC said:

Chrome windscreen wipers.

You occasionally see dramas set in the forties, fifties and sixties featuring cars with black wipers.

Outrageous behaviour.

Or lacking a tax disc! The country is going to the dogs.

[CammyN]

DickyC said:

Chrome windscreen wipers.

You occasionally see dramas set in the forties, fifties and sixties featuring cars with black wipers.

Outrageous behaviour.

....and windscreen wipers on Fords that slowed down when you went up hills,


Windscreen washers that were not electric.

[DickyC]

hidetheelephants said:

DickyC said:

Chrome windscreen wipers.

You occasionally see dramas set in the forties, fifties and sixties featuring cars with black wipers.

Outrageous behaviour.

Or lacking a tax disc! The country is going to the dogs.

You mean...

there might be black wipers and no tax disc...

in the same shot?

[DickyC]

CammyN said:

DickyC said:

Chrome windscreen wipers.

You occasionally see dramas set in the forties, fifties and sixties featuring cars with black wipers.

Outrageous behaviour.

....and windscreen wipers on Fords that slowed down when you went up hills,


Windscreen washers that were not electric.

Vacuum operated wipers.

Now you're talking.