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 grandad wouldn’t eat anything that he described as “foreign”, cos “ya dunno where it’s bin”. I think now most of us eat “foreign” 7 days a week, maybe not Sundays.
My grandad wouldn’t eat anything that he described as “foreign”, cos “ya dunno where it’s bin”. I think now most of us eat “foreign” 7 days a week, maybe not Sundays.
Same old geeza (RIP) when he had a cold or flu, never went doctors or took paracetamol, instead he’d neck a large scotch first thing in the morning and just before bed. He genuinely thought it worked.
Cigarettes lighters built in cars. Providing the ability to take your eyes off driving on the motorway to fiddle around with a small fire hotter than the sun
Beat this then. It bolted onto the dashboard in the days before lighters and held a match box that could be struck while driving. This one's my uncle's, but my dad had one just the same.
Having to smoke 500 packs of Cigarettes just so could use the Tokens to buy a Umbrella Having to smoke 1000 packs of Cigarettes to complete your Album collection of Tall Ships Mobile Librarys My Dads concoction for colds , Honey with Mashed Onion ! Pigs Trotters for Tea Spratts or White Bait for Tea , puts you off having your dinners looking at you. Toffee Apple Man Rossi`s Ice cream Man , Hand made ice cream and Teddy Bear Lollys People Knocking on your door asking if you want to buy a carpet / Mattress Ice Cream man selling Hot Dogs & Burgers Parafin Man , buying a couple of Gallons of highly inflamimble liquid to heat your house Putting the Cat out for the Night and letting it back in before School Slot Meter TV`S
TV sets that were as deep as they were wide. Huge wooden cabinets stuffed full of valves which could be changed when the picture went, 'on the blink'. Horizontal and vertical hold knobs that could be twiddled to fix the picture in place.
Being told by the nuns at school that I would regret not taking typing lessons. I'm not going to be a secretary you sexist old hag. Queue one of the first jobs in the Met, typing out employnent contracts for new recruits.........with one finger 🙄
I was on the phone listening to Charlton Club Call (0898 12 11 46) when Danny Mills scored the goal that kept us up for a week. That game cost me about 50 quid in pocket money.
Doing computer programming at school (no computers naturally), so filling in punch cards in a random fashion, then getting them back a week later after they had been run through Freddie Lakers mainframe computer at Gatwick (absolutely no reason why other than he had a computer!?) then chucking the ticker-tape print outs at each other. Absolutely no idea what we were doing or why, no wonder the country went to rack and ruin, and Laker went bust.
Children getting one present for Christmas (plus, perhaps, a bar of chocolate and an orange) Smoke-filled carriages on trains Walking to New Cross from Charlton when there were train strikes/snow Wearing a cap to school Addressing or referring to an adult as Mr or Mrs Medicine that tasted revolting (as a cure to stop you feeling ill)
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Seems absolutely mental now.
Having to choose between internet and a phone call
Having to watch a show live or miss it entirely
Penny sweets costing a penny
Having a mobile phone that didn't have the internet, or a camera, or apps, but you could change the entire case for a few quid
Not knowing about major events unless you watched the news or bought a paper the following day
Parents sending you home in a taxi while they stayed out on the lash
People spending their entire weekends at sports clubs for 5 or 6 months a year
Tits in papers
Having to smoke 1000 packs of Cigarettes to complete your Album collection of Tall Ships
Mobile Librarys
My Dads concoction for colds , Honey with Mashed Onion !
Pigs Trotters for Tea
Spratts or White Bait for Tea , puts you off having your dinners looking at you.
Toffee Apple Man
Rossi`s Ice cream Man , Hand made ice cream and Teddy Bear Lollys
People Knocking on your door asking if you want to buy a carpet / Mattress
Ice Cream man selling Hot Dogs & Burgers
Parafin Man , buying a couple of Gallons of highly inflamimble liquid to heat your house
Putting the Cat out for the Night and letting it back in before School
Slot Meter TV`S
Their favourite one was the ventriloquist!
I'm not going to be a secretary you sexist old hag.
Queue one of the first jobs in the Met, typing out employnent contracts for new recruits.........with one finger 🙄
I left that school in 1987, there were still NO COMPUTERS.
Not seeing your girlfriend ever again, due to the above.
Smoke-filled carriages on trains
Walking to New Cross from Charlton when there were train strikes/snow
Wearing a cap to school
Addressing or referring to an adult as Mr or Mrs
Medicine that tasted revolting (as a cure to stop you feeling ill)