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

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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    People keeping plastic on their new sofas 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,022
    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.
    Spiffy Spokes
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,963
    Sing Something Simple on Sunday evening radio. Utterly awful but my parents insisted on it.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740
    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.
    (To Italian student)….Give me a sentence with the word “deliver” in it. 

    (Italian student)…..Too much vino is no good for deliver. 

    😫🙄
  • Pulling all rubbish into one bin.

  • Women scrubbing the front doorstep or porch - seemed to carry a lot of importance years ago.
  • Gribbo
    Gribbo Posts: 8,484
    edited May 2023
    Radio DJ's / TV personalities

    Edit / Children's TV presenters

  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    Women scrubbing the front doorstep or porch - seemed to carry a lot of importance years ago.
    They just use WhatsApp nowadays.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    The Council comming around every 5 or so years to redecorated and paint the outside of the house .
     
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  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    Women scrubbing the porch - seemed to carry a lot of importance years ago.
    Still does on the special channels 😉

  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    Penny for the guy, bangers, Catherine wheels, etc.
    Jumping jacks that used to chase you all round the garden.

    My Dad also used to say it was illegal to have the interior light on when you were driving; as so many remember their parents saying this perhaps it was true? I've always believed it.
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,963
    edited May 2023
    My dad always told me that he had a switch for the cats eyes down the middle of the road. Took me years to realise it was just main beam. You can't trust parents at all.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600

  • SidewaysInOz
    SidewaysInOz Posts: 1,340
    Going to Wimpy to eat your Amercian Burger with a knife and fork.  :D
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited May 2023
    Going to Wimpy to eat your Amercian Burger with a knife and fork.  :D
    Going to Wimpy and having that weird round hot dog sausage ring thing.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,740
    Hal1x said:
    Going to Wimpy to eat your Amercian Burger with a knife and fork.  :D
    Going to Wimpy and having that weird round hot dog sausage ring thing.
    Bender
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Hal1x said:
    Going to Wimpy to eat your Amercian Burger with a knife and fork.  :D
    Going to Wimpy and having that weird round hot dog sausage ring thing.
    Bender

    Wimpy grill. Still a nice treat if i'm in Woolwich.
  • Essex_Al
    Essex_Al Posts: 3,582
    Sitting outside The Oak after a game with a bottle of lemonade and a straw while the old man had a pint with his mates inside!
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  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,850
    Cafc43v3r said:

    Another make gone the way of Ronco, K-Tel and many others!
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    Phillip Schofield...
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    Cafc43v3r said:

    Another make gone the way of Ronco, K-Tel and many others!
    I like the ‘sophisticated colour combo, for housewife appeal’
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    Hal1x said:
    Going to Wimpy to eat your Amercian Burger with a knife and fork.  :D
    Going to Wimpy and having that weird round hot dog sausage ring thing.
    Bender
    Bit harsh.
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    Hal1x said:
    Going to Wimpy to eat your Amercian Burger with a knife and fork.  :D
    Going to Wimpy and having that weird round hot dog sausage ring thing.
    Bender
    Bit harsh.
    Thats what I thought, I was only saying thats all!
  • The_Organiser
    The_Organiser Posts: 3,999
    edited May 2023
    Kids queuing up to touch the hair of the (only) little black boy in our primary school. Still remember his name, Timmy and can picture his face. This was early 90’s in Maidstone but it was like he was an alien. Crazy!!

    Videoplus. Blank vhs tapes. Still remember accidentally taping over Diana’s funeral with the spice girl concert at the brits (Geri Union Jack dress) and being mortified at how I’d explain away a clear wank bank attempt to my parents.

    Kids having water fights in the street (super soakers), playing curby, skateboard races, climbing trees. 

    Teachers fighting pupils.

    Huge fights between local schools? Do they still happen? All word of mouth organisation then.

    Gazetta Sat am and Sun pm

    Newspapers a day behind on holiday. My mate collating all the transfer news whilst I was away.

    Cap guns.

    Effectively looking at porn with out IT teacher after school when the internet was not long out.
  • Manic_mania
    Manic_mania Posts: 2,257
    you haven't had your hair washed unless your mum has rinsed it with a plastic measuring jug
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,083
    Kids queuing up to touch the hair of the (only) little black boy in our primary school. Still remember his name, Timmy and can picture his face. This was early 90’s in Maidstone but it was like he was an alien. Crazy!!

    Videoplus. Blank vhs tapes. Still remember accidentally taping over Diana’s funeral with the spice girl concert at the brits (Geri Union Jack dress) and being mortified at how I’d explain away a clear wank bank attempt to my parents.

    Kids having water fights in the street (super soakers), playing curby, skateboard races, climbing trees. 

    Teachers fighting pupils.

    Huge fights between local schools? Do they still happen? All word of mouth organisation then.

    Gazetta Sat am and Sun pm

    Newspapers a day behind on holiday. My mate collating all the transfer news whilst I was away.

    Cap guns.

    Effectively looking at porn with out IT teacher after school when the internet was not long out.
    Schools in Kent were pretty wild. 😕
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited May 2023
    Kids queuing up to touch the hair of the (only) little black boy in our primary school. Still remember his name, Timmy and can picture his face. This was early 90’s in Maidstone but it was like he was an alien. Crazy!!

    Videoplus. Blank vhs tapes. Still remember accidentally taping over Diana’s funeral with the spice girl concert at the brits (Geri Union Jack dress) and being mortified at how I’d explain away a clear wank bank attempt to my parents.

    Kids having water fights in the street (super soakers), playing curby, skateboard races, climbing trees. 

    Teachers fighting pupils.

    Huge fights between local schools? Do they still happen? All word of mouth organisation then.

    Gazetta Sat am and Sun pm

    Newspapers a day behind on holiday. My mate collating all the transfer news whilst I was away.

    Cap guns.

    Effectively looking at porn with out IT teacher after school when the internet was not long out.
    The first time I went to Tenerife one bar we frequented used to phone the UK every day and complile a list of transfers and gossip.  That's how I found out we signed Luke Young. 
  • Kids queuing up to touch the hair of the (only) little black boy in our primary school. Still remember his name, Timmy and can picture his face. This was early 90’s in Maidstone but it was like he was an alien. Crazy!!

    Videoplus. Blank vhs tapes. Still remember accidentally taping over Diana’s funeral with the spice girl concert at the brits (Geri Union Jack dress) and being mortified at how I’d explain away a clear wank bank attempt to my parents.

    Kids having water fights in the street (super soakers), playing curby, skateboard races, climbing trees. 

    Teachers fighting pupils.

    Huge fights between local schools? Do they still happen? All word of mouth organisation then.

    Gazetta Sat am and Sun pm

    Newspapers a day behind on holiday. My mate collating all the transfer news whilst I was away.

    Cap guns.

    Effectively looking at porn with out IT teacher after school when the internet was not long out.
    Schools in Kent were pretty wild. 😕
    It's where Borstal was invented. The Organiser sounds like the star pupil.