Those Barbie dolls with a knitted dress over a loo roll.
Tissue box on the parcel shelf of a car, maybe with an ornamental cover.
Chewits
Fires with plastic logs that glowed when on.

Those little glass ducks – Whimsies I think they are called.

yellow or blue sunstrips across the top of Ford Capri windscreens bearing the names ‘Geoff Linda’

Park-keepers and school caretakers in policemen style uniformwho have an inherent hatred of children and anything which might be construed as being fun.

yep we still have those round here.

boy scouts doing bob a job weeks,
ice cube holders in the shape of pineapples,
fondu sets, what ever they where,
swingers parties,
pet bricks,
dr martens,
dogs shagging,
torpedo shaped tea dispensers push a button for a spoonful of tea,
cushions and blankets on rear shelf of cars,
rubber boots on towbar towing ball,

Policemen clipping young boys around the earhole on grounds of insolence.

Shame they’ve gone really.

Hairy lady gardens that were in above Hedgerow porn!!

Silk plumeria lei (flower garlands) are the new fluffy dice.

There’s a chap lives up road with a CB radio in his Volvo. Judging by the amount of big aerials stuck all over it.

djglover – Member
Mongrel dogs with strings of sausages in their mouths being chased down the street by big, fat, ruddy-faced butchers.

Runaways with all their belongings gathered up in a handkerchief at the end of a stick.

Bobbies who bend at the knees whilst saying “‘Allo ‘allo ‘allo”.

Burglars in stripey tops and masks, clambering over garden walls with bags marked “SWAG”.

People with toothache wearing a bandage wrapped right the way around from the jaw to the top of their head.

Postmen, Milkmen and Bus Conductors who wear their hats at a jaunty angle.

Vicars falling off their bicycles after being distracted by a lady with large and lovely breasts.

Escaped convicts prowling the streets in arrow-covered all-in-one suits with ball and chains attached to one leg.

Policemen clipping young boys around the earhole on grounds of insolence.

People slipping on banana skins.

Blokes with rattles at football matches.

Park-keepers and school caretakers in policemen style uniformwho have an inherent hatred of children and anything which might be construed as being fun.

Big fat women and their small skinny husbands at the beach.

Cuts and grazes dressed with 2 plasters in the shape of a cross.

Detectives looking through huge magnifying glasses.

I was wondering where Ron Manager went to.

TV rental shops
The Electricity shop (you know, the ones that were for the company you bought actual electricity from)
all that ‘Humphrey’ stuff from the milkman (not that you see many of them now either)

Watneys Party 7

Wanters Red Barrel keyrings

I reckon that dogs are still shagging

Hells Angels. Runners running in the road while people in cars wonder why they are running in the road.
Donkey jackets with plastic shoulders.
Brown cars.

Hooch / 2 dogs alcopops
Ford Sierra’s

multi track cartridge players in cars,

vhs / betamax and video 2000 tv recorders

Yorkie Wagons
V Brakes
Robin Reliants

Tea cosy’s

Those little air deflector thingys on windscreen wipers

Teasmaid – Alarm with a lukewarm cup of stewed tea attached

Plain black football boots

Who remembers these?

…and Tonka toys = proper old ones with skin your knuckles sharp edges, not the namely pamby nonsense they make these days

Please.
Thank you.
Sorry.

Nodding dogs on the back shelf of cars
Gun shot transfers people used to put on windows
Soda syphons
Athena posters
Drivers wearing driving gloves
Teasmaids
Proper chip pans

brown slugs with orange bits round the edges

TV remote control.
The one with the small box on the end of a wire.

brown slugs with orange bits round the edges

Nah, we get them here. I can probably find some and send them to you if you want

Drivers wearing driving gloves

This I saw last week, I think his arms were straight with elbows locked too. I didn’t see any A3s in the vicinity though.

I loved those Piedi!

cassette and disc walkmans,

Dandruff.

Those Parker pens you hung around your neck.

Bedford TK pop wagons

mullets

Overfishing?
I haven’t seen a payphone for a while

Harrington jackets
Texan bars
Teasmades
Blakeys on shoes
Woollen leg warmers
Big shopping catalogues
Boys playing kurby
Corduroy

Dusty Bin
Gameshows
people without any tattoos

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davidtaylforth – Member

Cars with CB radios

just about every Polish car i see on the Autobahn has one on the roof….

Nipper99 – Member

Ford Cortinas, not even rusty ones in hedgerows. Like they were all beamed off the face of the planet.
really smart one used daily around the corner from me.

i’m going with cassettes… although i did see one of those cassettes with a jack in a store the other day. almost bought it for a laugh.

Is this thread a BREXIT inspired future Tory manifesto?

Those fluffy covers for toilet lids

…….libdems

Instant mash
Those clocks that were supposed to look like the sun, with wooden “rays”

I’ve seen several Cortinas in the last year or so, a couple of Mk1’s, a Mk2 and a Mk3 or 4.
Not surprised you don’t see cassettes in the hedge any more, they’ve become very trendy wiv da yoof.

pottery cats climbing into a glass vase

Still got the cat and the mouse out in the kitchen on a little shelf, the vase got broken years ago.
They were my mum’s so I can’t bring myself to get rid of them.

Jim’ll Fix It

Connie from AOL /swoon

I was practically in love with her.

Sod it. I still am.

G-plan dining room and sideboard, telephone shelf by the door, polished parquet floor, flowery wallpaper, fake brick, pot pouri

This sounds like my ideal house! 🙂