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Who remembers "The Man"
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By *teborah OP Couple
over a year ago
warrington |
I say the man I am referring to the various "Men" that used to visit us and pick up money on a Friday when I was a lad?
1 The alpine POP MAN.
2 The COAL MAN
3 The CLUB MAN (insurance man i think)
4 The RENT MAN
5 The POOLS MAN
6 The MILK MAN
7 The WINDOW MAN
8 The Veg MAN
Look how many people direct debit put out of business. wonder how many of them were swingers  |
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"I say the man I am referring to the various "Men" that used to visit us and pick up money on a Friday when I was a lad?
1 The alpine POP MAN.
2 The COAL MAN
3 The CLUB MAN (insurance man i think)
4 The RENT MAN
5 The POOLS MAN
6 The MILK MAN
7 The WINDOW MAN
8 The Veg MAN
Look how many people direct debit put out of business. wonder how many of them were swingers "
You ever even said BREAD man or Rag n Bone man ..... sheesh |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
I remember The Man. Friday evenings spent sticking the Green Shield Stamps into the little book. Doing the Pools all together. Spot the Ball.
The Insurance Man remained a long-standing family friend. We still went to him long after he stopped collecting our subs door to door and until his retirement. My father still keeps in touch with him. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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George the Fish. A local fella who used to come into the local working mans club and pubs selling little pots of seafood and polystyrene trays of prawns for snacks. Remember my grandad buying jellies eels off him... boarkkkk |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You forgot ... les onioooon man 
Stripey jumper, bicycle, string of onions round his neck, authentic Glasgow accent "
Oo'or we used to had one of those ,,,, and every few month he'd double up as a itinerant knife sharpener too  |
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By *teborah OP Couple
over a year ago
warrington |
"Nooooooooooo
The club man was the 'never never' man or the tontine man.
You know .......buying or saving on the weekly."
Yep your only right. he was the man you had to turn the telly down to and hide behind the settee. |
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Funny how in 'our lifetime' how society changes through progress.
for some folk the man, which it usually was would have been important on the human contact aspect..
yes, communities were a bit closer then and still are in some places but with progress and the benefits it brings there is a downside also..
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By *teborah OP Couple
over a year ago
warrington |
"I say the man I am referring to the various "Men" that used to visit us and pick up money on a Friday when I was a lad?
1 The alpine POP MAN.
2 The COAL MAN
3 The CLUB MAN (insurance man i think)
4 The RENT MAN
5 The POOLS MAN
6 The MILK MAN
7 The WINDOW MAN
8 The Veg MAN
Look how many people direct debit put out of business. wonder how many of them were swingers
You ever even said BREAD man or Rag n Bone man ..... sheesh"
Arr yeah the rag man. he used to shout something down each entry couldnt for the life of me understand a word he said?? we have a rag and bone man now but instead of a hand cart he now has a twin wheeled Transit and an Irish accent  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"What about the telly man - our telly was on a meter, had to feed it every few hours, guy used to come and empty it, take the rental, then give us back the extra.
Exciting times,"
I'd forgotten about him. The exciting day when we got a colour television. |
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"What about the telly man - our telly was on a meter, had to feed it every few hours, guy used to come and empty it, take the rental, then give us back the extra.
Exciting times,
I'd forgotten about him. The exciting day when we got a colour television."
remember half the street jammed into on of the neighbours front lounges to watch the moon landing..
the only one to have a telly..
its sometimes easy to get all nostalgic etc but no one got mugged for their trainers or i phone in those days..
as kids we used to have such fun, happy days... |
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By *UNKIEMan
over a year ago
south east |
"What about the telly man - our telly was on a meter, had to feed it every few hours, guy used to come and empty it, take the rental, then give us back the extra.
Exciting times,"
OMG i remember him ...if i remember rite it was 50p piece for 4 hrs tv  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My mum used to make me stand next to her at all times when the insurance man came,he gave her the creeps and she did'nt want to be alone with him |
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By *wanzMan
over a year ago
Swansea |
In my pub we used to have :
the FISH man - sold his wares at room temperature from a wicker basket.
the DVD man - sold copied movies very cheap
the LOOKIE man - would have 'knock off' stuff for sale
...... Ahhhh - I miss that old pub  |
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We had the fish man come round the working mens club. Alpine pop man, ice cream van on a sunday where we would buy a block for tea on sunday. The insurance man, football pools man. When on holiday a man would walk up and down the beach selling pints of shrimps.
My mum was the first family in her village to have a television as the people from the farm gave them it as the outside had been slightly burnt.
After sunday school all the kids would go to my grandmas to watch the lone ranger.
My dad and friends would blackberry or mushroom picking and then sell them to the people on the train (when trains stopped at every little station.
My dad also used to go to the off license and cash in on the pop bottles, then they would sneak round to the back yard and pick them up again and cash in on the same bottles lol |
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"What about the telly man - our telly was on a meter, had to feed it every few hours, guy used to come and empty it, take the rental, then give us back the extra.
Exciting times,
OMG i remember him ...if i remember rite it was 50p piece for 4 hrs tv "
Yes, and we had a plastic ornament on the top of the telly of a Red Indian, no idea which rental company gave us it, but it came with the TV lol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"You forgot ... les onioooon man
Stripey jumper, bicycle, string of onions round his neck, authentic Glasgow accent
Oo'or we used to had one of those ,,,, and every few month he'd double up as a itinerant knife sharpener too "
I'm afraid ours wasn't multi-talented... but he certainly he did know his onions |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We had all those men and more round our way. The 'men' who come under cover of darkness after spending all day out with their dogs were really special.
They would come back laden with fish and game, selling a few trout or a salmon, or a brace of pheasant. No questions asked no answers given, a rabbit or such saw many of us through the week. |
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We used to have a 'chip man'
my mum and dad used to be the pools 'man', going round their different parts of the village on a thurday night picking up the coupons, and a bloke used to come pick them all up with the money on a friday night. |
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By *ucky_LadsCouple (MM)
over a year ago
Kidderminster+ surrounding areas. |
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its sometimes easy to get all nostalgic etc but no one got mugged for their trainers or i phone in those days..
as kids we used to have such fun, happy days... "
i remember we could play out till late playing in the street at night(in the dark sometimes)playing kick the can,chasing,but for footy on dark nights we used to go up to the empty supermarket car park to use their lights as floodlights,but thst was before they stayed open 24 hours.  |
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