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

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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    Attaching a football card, by means of a peg to your bike wheels, so they made a noise. 
    I remember having these:



    As well as these:



    Which makes me think of another one - free toys in cereal boxes.
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    Hitchhiking
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Playing knock-downs and also penny up the wall (still might happen - I don't know). 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,225
    No mobile phones and not many had ladlines but word always got round that there was a kickabout at the local park.

    I assume because people had real friends that they spoke to and not the imaginery ones they have on social media.
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,220
    edited May 2023
    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”.

    My Dad was the absolute worst for this.  I was grateful he gave up the booze back in 90, more worried about anyone he could have hurt... he got pulled a few times and he would wind down the window and shout... "I've got brothers in the RUC you know"... sounding full pelt Granda Joe from the Derry Girls.  He would get waved on as they just didnt fancy it with him. 

    Do not mistake the RUC for the RAC.  

    Drink driving was very common in the past.  Thankfully it is far less common now.  Well definitely in towns and cities.  

    He had to give it up as early one morning after a belly full the night before he went under the Thames Road Bridge with the tip on his tipper lorry still up... they had to shut the bridge to check for safety.  Still see the missing bricks when i drive under.  I was mortified that night when i overheard someone in the pub moaning about being late for work that day because the trains were messed up due to some paddy driving in to the bridge.  

    Anyway i digress, sorry AFKA. 




  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,959
    Penny for the guy, bangers, Catherine wheels, etc.
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Bunking on a lewis coach to get back from away games.
  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,134
    Being able to walk down Downing St and have your photo taken outside No. 10
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    robroy said:
    SodaStreams
    Just bought one...
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    Being able to walk down Downing St and have your photo taken outside No. 10
    Some people are still trying to drive down it...
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  • MrOneLung said:
    people outside train stations and pubs with trays of bic cigarette lighters
    Also selling small flags with large pins in tray’s 
    (may have been charity’s)
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    edited May 2023
    The Beverley Sisters……All your Own with the irritating Huw Weldon being the compare……The very middle of the road King Brothers seemed to be on there every bloody week, oh how boring they were.
    The Appleyards and Amos & Andy.
    All mid to late 50’s.
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,850
    Curb_It 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”.

    Drink driving was very common in the past.  Thankfully it is far less common now.  Well definitely in towns and cities.  

    Come to SW France, where the locals practice it in the hope it will become an Olympic sport at Paris 2024!
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,906
    The H&S mob of today would have had a meltdown on the 1 day every year when Charlton Boys School along with numerous other south London schools boarded trains and departed for their day trip to France. Cant remember ever seeing a teacher or anyone responsible overseeing anything. There must be thousands of flick knives on the seabed near Dover as everyone bottled bringing them back through customs 😂 it was also the 1 day in the year where we could fratenise with the fairer sex
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,881
    Meat raffles down the pub. Such a weird prize.

    And as I kid was always told it was illegal to put the light on in the car when driving. What was that all about?
    Isn't that true? I won't let me kids put the light on
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,568
    robroy said:
    SodaStreams
    Just bought one...
    Likewise!
  • The Beverley Sisters……All your Own with the irritating Huw Weldon being the compare……The very middle of the road King Brothers seemed to be on there every bloody week, oh how boring they were.

    Bizarre fact, but true.
    For a short while in the 70's I worked in Audit for the Family Division Principal Registry in Somerset House.
    One of my duties was to bank the fees/takings from the public offices.
    One of the bank clerks was Tony King. Turns out he was the Tony King of the King Brothers.
    I guess they never made their fortune in showbiz!
  • Themightyath2
    Themightyath2 Posts: 930
    The Question of Sport board game - it even had the mystery guest round! 
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,104
    The Black and White Mistral Show  
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391

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  • As a 14 year old going to bed with a trannie every night.

    Watneys Party Seven.
    Whaaaat???
    Transistor Radio. Used to fall asleep with it on my pillow listening to Radio Luxembourg.
  • meldrew66
    meldrew66 Posts: 2,561
    www.
  • ads
    ads Posts: 3,224
    Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language, made the Carry On films seem like Oscar contenders.  Jim'll Fix It and Rolf Harris, 'can you tell what it is yet?' yes, a pair of blatant nonces
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    ads said:
    Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language, made the Carry On films seem like Oscar contenders.  Jim'll Fix It and Rolf Harris, 'can you tell what it is yet?' yes, a pair of blatant nonces
    Mind Your Language - staple Saturday evening fair after Grandstand.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    edited May 2023
    8-track cassettes. Those things were huge. Today you could rent one out as a bed-sit.

    (My first ever buy on HP (is that still a thing?) was an 8-track cassette player for my Capri.) It was £30....)
  • HardyAddick
    HardyAddick Posts: 1,637
    2am. Speeding through a red light coming down Shooters Hill by the police station just as a police car pulled out. Being caught up eventually at the Sun in the Sands pub. 

    Got no more than a severe telling off. No breathalyser . Just told them I lived round the corner. Told to go home and get to bed. 

    Did more for me than points, fine and ban. 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    ads said:
    Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language, made the Carry On films seem like Oscar contenders.  Jim'll Fix It and Rolf Harris, 'can you tell what it is yet?' yes, a pair of blatant nonces
    Mind Your Language - staple Saturday evening fair after Grandstand.
    Not in our house ITV was common!.
  • JohnfromNorfolk
    JohnfromNorfolk Posts: 1,324
    A.A. patrol men in brown uniforms on motorbikes with a sidecar waiting at junctions to salute passing motorist with A.A badges on their bumpers.
  • DPFC
    DPFC Posts: 320
    Meat raffles down the pub. Such a weird prize.
    The ship centurion in Whitstable still has one every  sundsy afternoon 

  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,655
    The Beverley Sisters……All your Own with the irritating Huw Weldon being the compare……The very middle of the road King Brothers seemed to be on there every bloody week, oh how boring they were.
    The Appleyards and Amos & Andy.
    All mid to late 50’s.
    Alma Cogan and her husky voice