you nostalgia you lose

[Moonhawk]

HTP99 said:

Does anyone remember fluorescent terry towelling socks; they also had to be worn as an odd pair.

Yep - I had several pairs of these, although I never wore the odd.

I have looked since - and you can't get them anywhere - not even places selling retro/nostalgia stuff.

Odd since neon/fluorescent seems to have had a bit of a revival over the last couple of years - although to be fair it does seem to be confined mostly to female clothing lines and sportswear.

[Funkycoldribena]

DoctorX said:

and Fine Fare before Gateway?

Wasn't it Key Market before Gateway?

[gizlaroc]

Black Hole Shrinky Dinks free in Shreddies...

[Funkycoldribena]

gizlaroc said:

Black Hole Shrinky Dinks free in Shreddies...

I remember my mum putting them in the oven for me.What the point of them was,I don't know...

[rxtx]

You coloured them in and put them in the oven to reduce them and make them go hard, so you could use them as badges or whatever.

[gizlaroc]

These were all the rage at school, and the girl down the road was a member of the Stinky Sticker Club, so me and a mate did a deal with her to buy the rare ones, like 'Bones' off her at 25p a pop, and we sold them on at 50p a pop.
We made a fortune that half term at middle school, I remember when we got pulled into the headmasters office to explain why we were taking kids dinner money we had nearly £100 between us.
The headmaster put a stop to it, but he gave us a wry smile as he sent us on our way.






And it wasn't for some years late that I realised what this one actually smelt of, it was called 'grass' btw....






And this was the sticker that made me my fortune....





With the money I bought a pair of these....

Edited by gizlaroc on Thursday 2nd October 20:46

[MarshPhantom]

Blown2CV said:

close enough.


Netto (merged into asda) - not so much old but i didn't realise they'd disappeared

Netto may be on the way back, they have done a deal with Sainsburys to take on Aldi/Lidl.

www.thegrocer.co.uk/stores/property-and-planning/n...

[Blown2CV]

MarshPhantom said:

Blown2CV said:

close enough.


Netto (merged into asda) - not so much old but i didn't realise they'd disappeared

Netto may be on the way back, they have done a deal with Sainsburys to take on Aldi/Lidl.

www.thegrocer.co.uk/stores/property-and-planning/n...

Really... i wouldn't be surprised at all if the troubled supermarkets (looking at you Tezzers) 'come up' with cheapo brand chains in an attempt to tackle the scourge of the Germans, and try to push their main brands up slightly.

[Morningside]

A very small collection of my calculators




Remember these?

[The Don of Croy]

Morningside said:

A very small collection of my calculators



No Commodores?


Remember these?

Gash - if it isn't TDK then it does get into my Technics tape deck. SA preferably, AD mainly, but I did once know a bloke who claimed to have a METAL TDK cassette.

My Mum had a Barclays account and one day she got these;



- which you bought in advance and could exchange in one of these early 'hole in the wall' machines;



Proper cutting edge techonolgy - and a massively weighty metal drawer into which you put your voucher. It'll never catch on.

[Morningside]

Only two cards I remember were Barclays and



And do you remember the old credit card swipe machine that used to copy it onto some counter foil type thing where you had a copy.

[LordGrover]

They were still in use until recently, two years maybe?

[wobert]

I used one in a taxi in NYC back in August this year.....

[Morningside]

Really? I thought they died out in the mid '90s

[RedWhiteMonkey]

Yep, used one of those credit card copy machines in Austria last month.

[bertie]

wobert said:

I used one in a taxi in NYC back in August this year.....

Car hire guy used one with my card a couple of weeks ago in Portugal

[Blown2CV]

Morningside said:

Only two cards I remember were Barclays and



And do you remember the old credit card swipe machine that used to copy it onto some counter foil type thing where you had a copy.

lots of places still have them as a backup facility.

[DSLiverpool]

From 1979 to 1982 my bike history! Makes me feel old

[MarshPhantom]

DSLiverpool said:

From 1979 to 1982 my bike history! Makes me feel old

That yellow Honda looks just like my old fizzer.

[GTIR]

gizlaroc said:

These were all the rage at school, and the girl down the road was a member of the Stinky Sticker Club, so me and a mate did a deal with her to buy the rare ones, like 'Bones' off her at 25p a pop, and we sold them on at 50p a pop.
We made a fortune that half term at middle school, I remember when we got pulled into the headmasters office to explain why we were taking kids dinner money we had nearly £100 between us.
The headmaster put a stop to it, but he gave us a wry smile as he sent us on our way.

Pfft. I sold porno mags at school! (True story, got caught as well)



Anyone know what this is from?