Go on, have a larf...

[veryoldfart]

Ive been accused of bring old, well.....


Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.

Ratings at the bottom.


1. Sweet cigarettes
2. School milk
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Newsreels before the movie
5. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and
were there until TV shows started again in the morning.
6. Peashooters
7. Andy Pandy
8. Spangles
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-Fi's
11. Sparky and his piano
12. Blue flashbulbs
13. Cork popguns
14. Standard Vanguards
15. Wash tub wringers
16. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
17. Ignition switches on the dashboard.
18. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
19. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
20. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.



If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-7 = You are getting older
If you remembered 8-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-20 = You're older than dirt!

[Nolar Dog]

I'm not telling you my age.

[Getragdogleg]

I only fail to remember number 11, i might have forgotten it though so I am doomed to be seen as old.

[Simpo Two]

1. Sweet cigarettes - yep, Z-Cars ones
2. School milk - yep, 1/3 pint bottles (something to do with Mrs Thatcher I think)
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles - I still have my milk delivered!
4. Newsreels before the movie - no, but there used to be two films not just one.
5. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and
were there until TV shows started again in the morning - yes, much more intersting than the st they put on now!
6. Peashooters - yep
7. Andy Pandy - just
8. Spangles - yep
9. 45 RPM records - yep
10. Hi-Fi's - you mean the thing in my house that plays music?
11. Sparky and his piano - nope
12. Blue flashbulbs - yep, on a Polaroid camera
13. Cork popguns - yep
14. Standard Vanguards - nope
15. Wash tub wringers - nope
16. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor - yep, my father's Herald
17. Ignition switches on the dashboard - nope
18. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards - 'bicyle clips' - yep
19. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner - nope
20. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals - nope

Score 13!

[Steamer]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I'm glad I'm of an age where I can still remember those things, appreciate some of them but also survive without relying on: Porn In The Woods

[ChristianZS]

im 22 and scores 9!

Somethings wrong there..

[AndrewW-G]

Can you remove the points gained by the motoring ones if your involved in the classic car trade? (He says desperately trying to move down a grade)

[driverrob]

I admit to remembering all of them though I never had to use no. 19, thank goodness.
No. 20 was my wife's Morris Minor. It did (used to) have flip-up indicators until her sister misjudged a corner and ripped one off.

[Famous Graham]

I get shafted on "17. Ignition switches on the dashboard" thanks to the S2000 7 without that.

Edited by Famous Graham on Sunday 27th September 19:52

[cazzer]

Milk delivered in glass bottles is not a feat of memory.
They were on the doorstep this mornin.

Is this rare these days or something?

[voyds9]

Not blue flashbulbs - flash cubes that had 4 flashes one on each side

[B19GRR]

veryoldfart said:

20. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

Hmmm, people still use hand signals whn turning, they're just not as helpful these days!

[Los Palmas 7]

voyds9 said:

Not blue flashbulbs - flash cubes that had 4 flashes one on each side

My Dad used to work for Kodak, so we always had plenty of these lying around. I remember them getting a bit hot after use!

[matty_doh]

veryoldfart said:

Ive been accused of bring old, well.....


Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.

Ratings at the bottom.


1. Sweet cigarettes - Y
2. School milk - Y
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles - Y, Still have it
4. Newsreels before the movie - N
5. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and
were there until TV shows started again in the morning. - N
6. Peashooters - Y, have a metal one somewhere
7. Andy Pandy - N
8. Spangles - N
9. 45 RPM records - N
10. Hi-Fi's - N
11. Sparky and his piano - N
12. Blue flashbulbs - N
13. Cork popguns - N
14. Standard Vanguards - N
15. Wash tub wringers - N
16. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. - N
17. Ignition switches on the dashboard. - N
18. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. - Y
19. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. - N
20. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. - N



If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-7 = You are getting older
If you remembered 8-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-20 = You're older than dirt!

= 4

If you remembered 3-7 = You are getting older.

Damn, considered old at 18!

[cazzer]

matty_doh said:

veryoldfart said:

Ive been accused of bring old, well.....


Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about.

Ratings at the bottom.


1. Sweet cigarettes - Y
2. School milk - Y
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles - Y, Still have it
4. Newsreels before the movie - N
5. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and
were there until TV shows started again in the morning. - N
6. Peashooters - Y, have a metal one somewhere
7. Andy Pandy - N
8. Spangles - N
9. 45 RPM records - N
10. Hi-Fi's - N
11. Sparky and his piano - N
12. Blue flashbulbs - N
13. Cork popguns - N
14. Standard Vanguards - N
15. Wash tub wringers - N
16. Head lights dimmer switches on the floor. - N
17. Ignition switches on the dashboard. - N
18. Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards. - Y
19. Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner. - N
20. Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. - N



If you remembered 0-3 = You're still young
If you remembered 3-7 = You are getting older
If you remembered 8-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-20 = You're older than dirt!

= 4

If you remembered 3-7 = You are getting older.

Damn, considered old at 18!

You can tell yer 18. You can't count to 5

[karona]

cazzer said:

Milk delivered in glass bottles is not a feat of memory.
They were on the doorstep this mornin.

Is this rare these days or something?

I remember not just the milk bottles, but the paper cup over the top on frosty mornings, so when the cream froze and pushed off the foil top (colour coded!) the blue tits couldn't peck at the iced cream.

In fact I remember every one of the original list, but I cant remember where I left my Zimmer Frame!

[karona]

cazzer said:

Milk delivered in glass bottles is not a feat of memory.
They were on the doorstep this mornin.

Is this rare these days or something?

I remember not just the milk bottles, but the paper cup over the top on frosty mornings, so when the cream froze and pushed off the foil top (colour coded!) the blue tits couldn't peck at the iced cream.

In fact I remember every one of the original list, but I cant remember where I left my Zimmer Frame!

[s3fella]

Never smoked but I flipping loved them weet cigarettes!

You could get "candy sticks" ( the same less the red ends!) up to a few years back IIRC?

[robinhood21]

It would appear I am older than dirt as I remember all of them. Oh, and I had a Standard Vanguard.

[RDMcG]

16/20...definitely antedeluvian.