[Closed] Things you don't see anymore...

A sense of humour.

Pay rises.

hedge porn

I can't remember the last time I saw a Hells Angel

Go to Morzine every second summer for the Harley Days festival

(probably a Geneva lawyer rather than a hells angel but in his head he thinks he is)

Dont drop litter signs / keep britain tidy and dust bins.
BT phone boxes with working phones
4* petrol?

My self respect.

Go to aviemore for the harley festival.

Anyway my contribution - tv rental shops (ignoringrhe fact most folk just rent everythig via hp now)

The man from prudential going round taking folks money for their savings

The lemonade lorry.

The milk float with kids hanging of the back collecting the money on thursday night.

People walking!!

My luxuriant head of hair. Ain't seen that for about 15 years.

An aside - I remember me and a friend, when we were about 10, painting our fake leather jackets to look like Hell's Angels.
We thought we looked the biz until someone pointed out we'd painted
"Hell's Angles" 😆 woulda been all over Facebook these days, no doubt.

I haven't seen a massive bunch of kids playing football in the park with jumpers for goalposts. We used to have games of about 20 a-side.

I saw a Hells Angel

Overtook about 2 dozen of them at the weekend only to have to turnaround, pass them going the other way and then forced to turnaround and overtake them all again. They were very considerate warned each other and other road users with hand signals as flew passed them.

Anyway you don't see.

TJ.

My feet

ntb - yes, hedge pron. what ever happened to that. I remember finding my first bongo bush on Prestwick golf course as a youngster. Never see it any more. Is this due to all pron now living on the interweb?

Women with scabby knees

Pitchforks

Milk churns

Bees

My [s]feet[/s] genital

*Edit - oi Binners stop posting my jokes before I do!

I saw some white dog poo the other day. I was tempted to take a photograph.

yes, hedge pron. what ever happened to that. I remember finding my first bongo bush on Prestwick golf course as a youngster. Never see it any more. Is this due to all pron now living on the interweb?

I blame the rise of recycling!

Fizzy pop from the milk man.

Picket lines

If you want patched up bikers head to the Bull Dog Bash, they may even start a shoot out.

Charity collection boxes in the shape of life sized orphan children in leg callipers or sad looking labradors.

Grim faced men standing at bus stops first thing in the morning in donkey jackets and overalls clutching a home wrapped pack of sandwiches.

Kids catching bees in an empty jam jar.

Football in the street.

Choppers and Grifters.

Witches Hats, Swing boats and huge tubular steel spiders and caterpillars

Budgie smugglers

I saw a Hells Angel too, well about 30 of them overtook me going up the A32 at the weekend. I'd just came down into Warnford from the Millburys and about to turn right up the lane onto Old Winchester Hill. I only needed to be on the A32 for about 200mtrs but it took me about 10mins for them to all ride past. Strangely for motorbike'ists they were riding reeeaaaallllllyyyyyy sllllloooooooowwwwwllllyyyy..

Also, seems that the council have now strategically placed traffic lights going south into Wickham about 500mtrs just before you enter the village. I guess this is to calm all the moterbike'ists down, because you know.. it ain't a frikin race track that road is it now..

finger wag on, finger wag off

The rag and bone man (only those of a certain age will even understand what this means)...

You don't often see proper mad 1% angels any more, even the road tramps and blue angels and the like seem to be growing old disgracefully.

Every Sunday morning we used to have a knife sharpener do the rounds.
He had a rotating stone on the back of his push bike.

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The collection statues for disabled charities

Choppers and Grifters

yeah, but thank ****, Choppers were unridable and Grifters weighed the same as the moon 😆

Milk Churns

+1

As a kid used to see these outside every farm in the dales....

Rusty cars is another one, when we were young all cars had rust on them.....

Every Sunday morning we used to have a knife sharpener do the rounds.
He had a rotating stone on the back of his push bike.

Still see them in Italy though, normally a tiny car with a stone wheel in the boot driven off the engine.

Don't see so many punk grandads as I used to.

Road bikes (racers) with the handle bars turned upside down 8)

You don't often see proper mad 1% angels any more

I think what most people are seeing these days is members of the Harley Owners Group dressed like pirates out for a pootle on a sunny day. Back when I was a kid Hells Angels would be killing one another with axes in the New Forest every summer.

Spangles, golliwog's, pink NHS glasses. That sounds like a very short summary of my childhood 😀

<edit> current Harley crop are mainly bad ass accountants and dentists...

I think all the proper Hell's Angels are all dead now aren't they?

White dog poos are now dog poos in little black plastic bags

weird and wonderful bike designs & suspension layouts, made out of odd materials, like the kirks, trimbles, whyte prst1, slingshots, softrides etc.

used to love opening up MBUK to see what random new, expensive designs were upcoming, flexible plastic, magnesium frames, wire for downtubes, ll with mental paint jobs.
None of them worked particularly well, they all cost a small fortune, but it was amazing times.

now everything just works and looks the same, it's kind of taken the fun out of it.
*not the riding mind, stuff that works is cool, just not as much fun to see what people are coming up with.

The rag and bone man (only those of a certain age will even understand what this means)...

Still (sort of) get them down my way but it's all about the scrap metals now...

Pay rises.

Kids gathering/playing with conkers.

Probably an app now init

Kids with lollipop sticks wedged against their spokes for that authentic motorbike sound effect.

Fizzy pop from the milk man.

On a similar note; glass bottles with a deposit on them. Why are we encouraging recycling [i]less[/i] now?

White dog poos are now dog poos in little black plastic bags

You've got a point there. I wonder if in another quarter century kids will be on singletrackuniverse.com bemoaning the lack of poo-fairy bags?

Glue sniffers.

Thalidomide birth defect sufferers. Is that in bad taste? Not sure, but you don't.

Cougar - Moderator
On a similar note; glass bottles with a deposit on them. Why are we encouraging recycling less now?

Irn Bru have only just stopped that 🙂

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33995081

Permed hair..

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Calm down, calm down.

Glue sniffers.

I appreciate this is completely random, but I was only thinking about that this morning. It is just easier to get a bag of pills than a catering pack of Evo-Stick these days or something?

Tracksters.

All this kind of shenanigans

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The local chapter run a music venue in the town centre.
Ironically it is the safest place on a Saturday night for a drink.