Woolworths
C&A
BHS
Our Price
non-shit WH Smiths
Virgin Megastores
Arcade games built into tables in pubs / sports club bars
MacDonalds Cola
Wimpy Burger "restaurants" on the High Street
People pouring water into car batteries
Jacked up rather than lowered suspension on shit cars
Battles to take over House of Fraser
Walkmans (Walkmen?)
Russ Abbott
Rickets.
Woolworths
My bedside lamp still has a Woolies bulb in it. Quite impressed that still works, with the little Woolies logo on the top. It’s only a 12w.
Fast riders on 3 speeds.
Yeah whatever happened to Russ Abbott? Wonder how his brand of humour would go down these days 🤔
Wonder how his brand of humour would go down these days
It'd be about as funny as it was back then. ie. not
Has anyone said white dog poo yet?
White dog poo
Trafficators permanently stuck out the side of cars
Has anyone said white dog poo yet?
I think it was mentioned on page 1.
And 2
Probably 3
Definitely 4.
We used to persuade this kid to eat it when we were nippers. Nasty. I wouldn't do that now. Well, not now you don't see it anymore anyway.
Stoneloaches, bullheads, sticklebacks, hedgehogs, butterflies, bees, cuckoos, I could go on
******* depressing to be honest.
Seen in the last week -
Krooklock - on a VW Golf in Pittenweem, Fife yesterday and one 2 weeks ago in Benllech, Anglesey
Telephone boxes with phones in them x 2 (within meters of where I am currently sat)
Roundpin electricity plugs on 5 amp lighting circuit - in a building at work
Ropeswing - over the river near where I live
26" wheels - 4xbikes in my garage
Skooshy water toys - in the shop at work
Public safety adverts that scared the crap out of you (with or without the help of Jimmy)
A council road squad using a pneumatic jack hammer to properly repair a road, nowadays a wee drop of tarmac pushed down not even a sharp square edge with a seal of bitumen
I have some white dog poo in the back garden, if anyone wants it.
Small dog's started making it.
Come and help yourselves.
Food with use-by dates.
Rabbits hung outside the grocer's.
Tub lollies. Was that just a local thing? Home-made ice lollies sold in corner shops.
Car door edge protectors with little reflectors in. Should be bloody mandatory these days.
Aftermarket Moss car alarms.
Fish & chips wrapped in newspaper.
Roundpin electricity plugs on 5 amp lighting circuit – in a building at work
I have one of those in my living room at home. No idea whether it's still live.
Detachable ring pulls on cans.
Yeah, that you could snap in half and use the tongue bit to ping the ring half at people.
Hairs on my legs.
Mostly gone, apart from small outcrops around my knees.
Must be an age thing.
Tramps, the 'old man of the road' type that you'd see out in the sticks. Where have they all gone????
Schools television.
And F R E E D O M !
(actually, maybe freedom is something you feel?)
Slide rules
TV repair men
Black donkey jackets instead of orange hi-viz
Dustmen who'd come into your garden, pick up your bin and carry out to the lorry on their backs.
Krook-loks are coming back, thanks to these no-key cars.
Old cars? Ten years old was ancient when I were a youth, but now thats nothing.
Badges on cars - AA, RAC, IAM. Sun visors on car windscreens.
Dustmen who’d come into your garden, pick up your bin and carry out to the lorry on their backs.
Complete with anything of value within a 20 feet radius of said bin.
My feet
