You know you are getting old when you remember thread

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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    seanoconn wrote:
    When school footballs were made of material that absorbed water and a thunderous sodden smack, on a skinny frozen thigh, in the middle of winter ,would almost bring a tear to the eye.
    Ron Manager wrote:
    Hmm, you know, isn't it? Wasn't it? Enduring image....enduring pain. Marvellous.

    ;)

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    City Boy wrote:
    Swap Shop OR Tiswas on Saturday mornings.

    I was a Tiswas man (boy!) myself. Sally James being a particular highlight :wink:

    Tiswas easily edged it in our house too on the grounds of silliness (Phantom Flan Flinger, Compost Corner, etc.). Plus even at that young age I had an aversion to Edmonds and Cheggers.

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Remember ???? no you'll have to give me a hint.
  • chrispanto
    chrispanto Posts: 1
    The lovely Sally James (Tiswas) plans to appear in pantomime this Christmas at Harpenden Public Halls! She is playing the Fairy in Jack and the Beanstalk.
  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    No she isn't.
  • dmclite-3.0
    dmclite-3.0 Posts: 845
    Cornerblock wrote:
    No she isn't.

    Oh yes she is......
    I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast...
  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    Look out she's behind you!!!
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,930
    When you remember how much you paid for your first pint.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,376
    White dog turds
    Finding old porn mags in the woods
    All road bikes with drop bars being called 'racers'
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • john_kline
    john_kline Posts: 2,151
    Cinema X, ahem, art magazine
    Embassy no.6 fags
    Greenshield stamps
    Vesta paella
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    dan%20dare.jpg

    :shock: :shock: :shock:
    Purveyor of "up" :)
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    would only use ox blood polish on your martens
  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    Park Drive and Woodbine cigs in 5 packs.
  • john_kline
    john_kline Posts: 2,151
    wiffachip wrote:
    would only use ox blood polish on your martens

    This. The 8 hole ox blood DMs with the yellow stitching was de rigueur. As a purist, you had to heat the polish before applying it.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    This http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HeEWtNaW6KE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHeEWtNaW6KE%20made%20me%20think made me think of this thread. Also ties in with all the Apple threads a bit!
  • city_boy
    city_boy Posts: 1,616
    Albert Tatlock
    Statistically, 6 out of 7 dwarves are not happy.
  • john_kline
    john_kline Posts: 2,151
    Jasper Carrott when he had hair
    Peter Gabriel when he had hair
    Amy Turtle
    Mafac centre pulls
    Grunwick dispute
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    City Boy wrote:
    Albert Tatlock
    Coronation Street or The Skids?
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    When a "decent bike" had a 531 frame 'n' forks, campag hubs, super champion rims, Weinemann brakes, Stronglight chainset, Suntour gears and a Sedisport chain...oh, and ESGE chromoplastic guards (if fitted).
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Ballysmate wrote:
    When you remember how much you paid for your first pint.
    When the price of a pint exceeded £1 for the first time.

    (Cue "50p", "a shilling" etc) :wink:
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    John Kline wrote:
    Cresta
    "It's frothy, man!"???? IIRC
    John Kline wrote:
    Cheese Cloth shirts
    First girl I ever fell in love with (Joanne Campbell, can still remember her face) wore these*
    John Kline wrote:
    Top of The Pops records recorded by other musicians and bearing only a faint similarity to the original recording
    The one I had from 1978 came with a poster of a girl wearing only a sheet body stocking

    * I was 10
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    When the price of a pint exceeded £1 for the first time.

    When the price of a gallon of petrol exceeded £1, and my step dad was shocked and disgusted
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • GiantMike
    GiantMike Posts: 3,139
    I remember...

    the hype and excitement around Michael Jackson's Thriller video and waiting up to watch it on Channel 4.

    Channel 4 putting up a red triangle for 'interesting content'

    the first time I heard the Stone Roses LP (vinyl, obviously) and being blown away by it

    the London docklands before they were re-developed

    Tomorrow's World showing how you could put jam on a CD and it would still play

    The start of AIDS and the chilling TV ads

    Seeing the Navy flotilla in Portsmouth preparing to go to the Falklands while on a school trip to the Isle of Wight

    the days when you could do a manual job and didn't have to wear fluro clothing, hats and glasses, gloves etc
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    GiantMike wrote:
    I remember...
    Channel 4 putting up a red triangle for 'interesting content'

    I remember them, some of those films were pretty...raw :shock:
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    rowntree_nutty.jpg
    Always be yourself, unless you can be Aaron Rodgers....Then always be Aaron Rodgers.
  • sadlybiggins
    sadlybiggins Posts: 158
    when you could go into your local music shop and buy tickets to gigs rather than having to phone a premium rate line or log onto a website that then crashes or sells out in minutes or, if you are successful, sticks another 20% onto the price for processing/handling fees.
  • diamonddog
    diamonddog Posts: 3,426
    The Mojo Sheffield
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    You know you're getting old when you CAN'T remember. :lol:
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • john_kline
    john_kline Posts: 2,151
    "George Davis Is Innocent" This was written all over the place in London in the '70s.
  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    Mr Goo wrote:
    rowntree_nutty.jpg

    Wasn't that packaged up squirrel's sh17?
    It's just a hill. Get over it.

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