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

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  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,621
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    We had a knife sharpening bloke come round who'd operate from his van - knives, scissors, shears, tools - he was quite popular.

    Also the French onion man on his bike.  


    Gordon, or Mr Kaye as we used to have to call him, used to shop in my shop.  In his later years he was, let's just say, difficult.  But that's for another thread.
    He was seriously injured in a car accident during a storm in 1990 - piece of wood went through his car windscreen, causing major head injury, needed brain surgery - this altered his personality quite a bit for the remainder of his life - his recovery was helped by watching videos of ‘Allo Allo’ in hospital to try and help him remember who he was etc

    Very sad - good actor 
  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408
    LenGlover said:
    Renting the telly and buying the Evening classified after watching Charlton.
    Or taking the Telly down the repair shop in North Cray and hoping it could be repaired.
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    edited May 2023
    SuedeAdidas said:
    The Red Robin said:
    Recording songs off the radio via cassette 
    Putting Sellotape over the holes so you could record over a ‘read only’ cassette. 

    Buying metal TDK cassettes to show off. 

    Comparing how smooth the eject was on the cassette player compared to your mate’s one

    fucking about randomly with a graphic equaliser that seemed to make no difference to the sound. 

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,978
    palarsehater said:
    AFKABartram said:
    Bloke going round the pubs with a basket full of sweets
    Fella used to up until a couple of years ago do this on a Friday night round the red barn strangest thing is I know his son. 
    He used to have dirty DVD's at the bottom of his basket to sell.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    May have already been mentioned - having letters in a phone number.

    The number of the first home phone we ever had was PLU 4514
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,134
    As a nipper watching the older generation sit down with their cup of tea then watch them pour the tea in to the saucer and drink from that instead of the cup. 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Lordflashheart said:
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    We had a knife sharpening bloke come round who'd operate from his van - knives, scissors, shears, tools - he was quite popular.

    Also the French onion man on his bike.  


    Gordon, or Mr Kaye as we used to have to call him, used to shop in my shop.  In his later years he was, let's just say, difficult.  But that's for another thread.
    He was seriously injured in a car accident during a storm in 1990 - piece of wood went through his car windscreen, causing major head injury, needed brain surgery - this altered his personality quite a bit for the remainder of his life - his recovery was helped by watching videos of ‘Allo Allo’ in hospital to try and help him remember who he was etc

    Very sad - good actor 
    His partner also died, which had a massive effect on him.  I would have come across him in the early 2010s.

    He normally came in early on a Saturday morning.  One Friday night he came in about 8.30pm and kicked off we hadn't got the morning papers out yet.  He wouldn't have it that it was Friday night not 8.30 am Saturday morning.

    Sometimes under the confusion amd ranting the "old him" would surface.  It was very sad. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    stockportaddick said:
    As a nipper watching the older generation sit down with their cup of tea then watch them pour the tea in to the saucer and drink from that instead of the cup. 
    Had no idea that wasn't just something Compo from Last of the Summer Wine did.
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,134
    North Lower Neil said:
    stockportaddick said:
    As a nipper watching the older generation sit down with their cup of tea then watch them pour the tea in to the saucer and drink from that instead of the cup. 
    Had no idea that wasn't just something Compo from Last of the Summer Wine did.
    It was a strange one, I never got my head round why the older folk did it.
    I can still hear my nan tearing a strip off my granddad if he dared do it 'in company'
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    stockportaddick said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    stockportaddick said:
    As a nipper watching the older generation sit down with their cup of tea then watch them pour the tea in to the saucer and drink from that instead of the cup. 
    Had no idea that wasn't just something Compo from Last of the Summer Wine did.
    It was a strange one, I never got my head round why the older folk did it.
    I can still hear my nan tearing a strip off my granddad if he dared do it 'in company'
    I didn't know it was a thing, but the reason was presumably to cool the tea down more quickly.
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  • Return of the SE7
    Return of the SE7 Posts: 518
    As a 14 year old going to bed with a trannie every night.

    Watneys Party Seven.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,598
    Return of the SE7 said:
    As a 14 year old going to bed with a trannie every night.

    Watneys Party Seven.
    Whaaaat???
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,134
    Covered End said:
    stockportaddick said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    stockportaddick said:
    As a nipper watching the older generation sit down with their cup of tea then watch them pour the tea in to the saucer and drink from that instead of the cup. 
    Had no idea that wasn't just something Compo from Last of the Summer Wine did.
    It was a strange one, I never got my head round why the older folk did it.
    I can still hear my nan tearing a strip off my granddad if he dared do it 'in company'
    I didn't know it was a thing, but the reason was presumably to cool the tea down more quickly.
    After a quick google, it seems drinking tea from a saucer was more popular than even I realised, below is a lighthearted explanation..

     https://www.mylondon.news/news/tv/only-fools-horses-fans-left-25884823


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    Paraffin heaters. 
    Having asbestos panels screwed on to doors as fire breaks.
    Playing with Mercury in school chemistry lessons.
  • LouisMend
    LouisMend Posts: 5,446
    Netaddicks 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    stockportaddick said:
    Covered End said:
    stockportaddick said:
    North Lower Neil said:
    stockportaddick said:
    As a nipper watching the older generation sit down with their cup of tea then watch them pour the tea in to the saucer and drink from that instead of the cup. 
    Had no idea that wasn't just something Compo from Last of the Summer Wine did.
    It was a strange one, I never got my head round why the older folk did it.
    I can still hear my nan tearing a strip off my granddad if he dared do it 'in company'
    I didn't know it was a thing, but the reason was presumably to cool the tea down more quickly.
    After a quick google, it seems drinking tea from a saucer was more popular than even I realised, below is a lighthearted explanation..

     https://www.mylondon.news/news/tv/only-fools-horses-fans-left-25884823


    People who used to claim that drinking a hot cup of tea would cool you down quicker than drinking a cold drink.
  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,426
    SodaStreams
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,959
    Using the mangle, washing done in the kitchen sink. Later the great invention (for my mum) a twin tub washing machine.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    CharltonKerry said:
    Using the mangle, washing done in the kitchen sink. Later the great invention (for my mum) a twin tub washing machine.
    Just the fact that only one parent worked and the other stayed at home.  


  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    For mash get smash.
    The adverts were way better than any Star Wars film.
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  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,677
    bobmunro said:
    May have already been mentioned - having letters in a phone number.

    The number of the first home phone we ever had was PLU 4514
    Not just letters, but a proper name too - Plumstead!  I was Hither Green. 

    There was a proper procedure to answer too - none of this 'ello business, you had to say the name of the exchange clearly and the following numbers distinctly.  






  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    people outside train stations and pubs with trays of bic cigarette lighters
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Footballers knocking the ball back to goalkeepers to pick up with their hands. 

    Goalkeepers habitually bouncing the ball twice (regardless of whether the pitch was a bog heap) before launching a drop kick
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,104
    bobmunro said:
    May have already been mentioned - having letters in a phone number.

    The number of the first home phone we ever had was PLU 4514
    I guess you lived in Plumstead  

    When we first got a phone, my mum used to answer the phone saying ‘Eltham 4274’ .. Mrs Bucket eat yer heart out. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    edited May 2023
    Ahhhh is that why my grandparents always answered the phone with the last few digits?

    Always reminds me of this too:

    https://youtu.be/e0tiNwOpZ68

    Why is it I can't remember what I need to buy in the supermarket, or what day of the week it is, but I could remember clear as day that the number from a TV show from 20 years ago was '4291'?
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Blakeys Shoe Protectors.
  • scidbox
    scidbox Posts: 535
    edited May 2023
    Gary Glitter. 

    7.62mm SLR

    Getting up to chance TV station.

    Watching the white dot fade when you turn off the TV.
  • Charlton_Charlie
    Charlton_Charlie Posts: 1,427
    The Nolans
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,619
    The rag and bone man’s horse having a dump in the road as it went along and your mum bribing you with sixpence to take the bucket and shovel to get the horseshit to put on the roses in the garden 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    Attaching a football card, by means of a peg to your bike wheels, so they made a noise. 

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