FabSwingers.com > Forums > The Lounge > For the older people
For the older people
Jump to: Newest in thread
 |
By *emini ManMan
over a year ago
There and to the left a bit |
"Mittens on a string that threaded through your sleeves. Bus conductors. Lino. Sculleries. A big old boiler to do your washing in. Rickets. Polio. "
You wish you still saw rickets and polio?
With you on mittens on string though, although it was elastic round my way, great fun pulling them and letting them ping!! 
And sculleries...what a wonderful word that is - guess they'd be called utility rooms now |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
Kids playing outside.
Setting video up to record.
Looking forward to a film that's advertised to be on at weekend.
Time served and earned entertainers on the tv.
Cars that are made for driving and look like cars.
Ringing people up to actually talk.
Walking into a smoke filled pub with propper music playing on the duke box.
I could go on forever....
Thank God I grew up in the 90's. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"When all of this was fields of wheat. "
You know this reminds of Theresa May when asked what naughty stuff she had been up to in her youth... and she replied running through wheat fields and the farmer not being pleased...  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"Mittens on a string that threaded through your sleeves. Bus conductors. Lino. Sculleries. A big old boiler to do your washing in. Rickets. Polio.
You wish you still saw rickets and polio?
With you on mittens on string though, although it was elastic round my way, great fun pulling them and letting them ping!!
And sculleries...what a wonderful word that is - guess they'd be called utility rooms now "
Oh! Lol. I've done what I'm always criticising other people for...not read the op properly ??. The only thing I wish we still had is bus conductors |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Coal fire,
bread and dripping,
Cart made from an old pram
Blankets and Eiderdowns"
Go carts from pram wheels were brilliant! No brakes, a piece of string to 'steer' with, broken arms and legs everywhere!
Making them taught us how to use our imagination... and how to use hammers. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Mittens on a string that threaded through your sleeves. Bus conductors. Lino. Sculleries. A big old boiler to do your washing in. Rickets. Polio. "
My daughter is 37 and has mittens on a string - all the trendies wear them. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
The 'kerplunk' sound and action of physically pushing a button to change channel. There were only three to choose from as well.
The appreciation of different shades of grey when watching snooker.
Later, the remote control that was attached by an umbilical cord.
The 'kerching', when paying for the bus ride with a strip of card.
I should stop now......
|
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"The 'kerplunk' sound and action of physically pushing a button to change channel. There were only three to choose from as well.
The appreciation of different shades of grey when watching snooker.
Later, the remote control that was attached by an umbilical cord.
The 'kerching', when paying for the bus ride with a strip of card.
I should stop now......
"
Different shades of grey!! 
Using a pencil to rewind a tape. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
Milk bottles in school, whist boiling next to the old skool radiators.
Game of marbles on a drain grid.
Conkers was a prize assets.
Health and safety, what was that.
Great British and wimpy burger resturants. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *renzMan
over a year ago
Between Chichester and Havant |
"Red public phone boxes. Had my first wank off in one of those
FFS there is one in every village up here!!!! poor sutherners you got nowt lol   "
Still have them in the south!
Just many are used as libraries. Even in places you can't get a phone signal! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
Outside Loo
Meat Safe
Bath in front of the fire
Shared telephone line
Kitchen Range
Co-op delivering milk and bread with horse drawn wagons.
Real Winters
I was born in 1940 |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Outside Loo
Meat Safe
Bath in front of the fire
Shared telephone line
Kitchen Range
Co-op delivering milk and bread with horse drawn wagons.
Real Winters
I was born in 1940"
Is a meat safe a pussy?  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"Tapping the two buttons under the receiver on the house phone when my parents used to put a lock on the old phone dials."
Ma Dad used to put a lock on our phone (it was a party line), but a paperclip soon removed that  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Tapping the two buttons under the receiver on the house phone when my parents used to put a lock on the old phone dials.
Ma Dad used to put a lock on our phone (it was a party line), but a paperclip soon removed that "
If you tapped the buttons under the receiver....you could still make calls...tap once for one...tap twice for three.etc and for nought tap ten times. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"Coal fire,
bread and dripping,
Cart made from an old pram
Blankets and Eiderdowns"
Bread and dropping! Oh my god... Bit of salt... Heart attack on a plate but soo good...
May as well go the whole hog and go spotted dick made with suet and proper home made custard |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands |
"Outside Loo
Meat Safe
Bath in front of the fire
Shared telephone line
Kitchen Range
Co-op delivering milk and bread with horse drawn wagons.
Real Winters
I was born in 1940
Is a meat safe a pussy? "
Not quite the interpretation we had in the 1950s but nevertheless a good one, somehow I can't imagine getting a leg of lamb into a pussy though |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Proper windowlene in the pink bottle
Texan bars
Cans of Top Deck
Cider barrel ice lollies"
Top Deck...forgot all about that drink from the past...Thanks for the reminder. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
Making mix tapes for your mates and girls you fancied. Politicians going to prison when they got caught telling lies (Jeffrey Archer/the Hamiltons). There was a LOT less beeping back then (did train doors kill a lot of people before they sounded alarms? I don't remember). Bands whose first album didn't sell that well, being given another go... |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"
Name something from the past you do not see know
But you wish you did
Yoyo
Space jumper
Chopper bike
"
People don’t miss these things, it’s their youth they miss, these are the things they just associate with being young, that’s where the confusion lay. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago
Solihull and Brentwood |
Mars bars or to be precise the size of mars bars....or anything else for that matter....Dey used to be about the length of your hand. Now they're about the size and width of your little finger ffs. Grrr. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
Great thread
Children playing outside so much they were actually dirty from climbing trees etc
A high street that wasn't full of charity shops
80s clothes!
Board games
No shopping on a Sunday
Libraries
|
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
I saw a photo of my street taken back in the 70s from almost outside my house now and there were barely any cars.
Now, almost every house has one outside or on the drive and at least 1 in 5 has 2 or more cars.
|
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
Kids out playing games together, we used to do it all the time, now it’s computer games and mobile phones, cut their thumps off and no one will be able to communicate |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
Weekly national strikes, regular power cuts, 3 tv channels, shared phone lines, racism, sexism, corporal punishment, school dinner, skinheads, swarms of ladybirds and droughts. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Fuck off great snow, mountains of it!
Its on its way, a whole 30cm. Well that was at the beginning of the week, I think the estimate is 5cm now. "
When snow used to fall in inches.... |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *atcoupleCouple
over a year ago
Suffolk - East Anglia |
Going into every red phone box whilst cycling past, then pressing button 'B'. 1 in 10 chance of 4 pennies coming out.
Finding and taking bottles back to the shop and getting the deposit 4d back. When times were hard we waited until dark, went round to the back of the shop where the old bottles were stored, taking them and then going into the shop to get the deposit back. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *ocbigMan
over a year ago
Birmingham |
Your home being just that, not an ‘investment ‘, when a room was a ...room in said home, not a ‘space’.
When things lasted physically or didn’t have built in obsolescence ‘ we no longer maintain that’.
When everything in the house wasn’t capable of being connected to everything else, because my fridge needs to speak to my front doorbell...ooops sorry entry system.
When an ordinary person working an ordinary job could afford an ordinary house. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
Bin Men who'd collect your metal rubbish bins from beside your house, hoist them on their shoulders and once emptied into the truck, would return them.
Watching It's a Knockout on telly.
Mobile Shops which came round housing estates.
Supermarkets closing at 5.30pm on Saturdays and closed all day on Sundays & Bank Holidays. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
» Add a new message to this topic
. Miss them so much. X