I'm old enough to remember when........

[P5BNij]

Eric Mc said:

glenrobbo said:

P5BNij said:

Back on topic - I can remember when Series 1 Airfix kits came in little plastic bags with a piece of card stapled to the top, a pocket money buster at 30p,

The first ones didn't have a card header, it was the folded glossy paper artist's impression with the assembly instructions and exploded view inside.
ISTR the price for the kits at first was 1/6d (7.5p)

An eclectic mix:
Spitfire Mk 1
The Golden Hind
1904 Darraq
Fokker Triplane
Bristol Fighter
etc

Point of order m'lud. Series 1 Airfix kits never came in plastic bags with card stapled to the top. Originally they came in plastic bags with PAPER "headers" stapled to the top. In the early 1970s, they switched to a card /plastic bubble form of package.

Original style packaging with simple artwork



Later style with glorious Roy Cross artwork -



Card/bubble package from around 1978 -



When I started buying kits, a Series 1 kit in a bag cost 2/6 (12 1/2 p)

I've just let out a rather long nostalgic sigh looking at those Eric...

[vixen1700]

When you had to go on a waiting list with the GPO to have a phone installed.

We had a cool new Trimphone in grey/green.

Had a luminous too.

[Pat H]

I'm old enough to remember Green Shield Stamps.

And hedge porn.

[Captain Smerc]

Hedge porn

[littleowl]

When Michael Jackson was black.

[HTP99]

You would order something mail order and it would take weeks to arrive; nothing was next day or even next week!

Kids would be put in detention, the parents would back the teachers and agree that they were sts and would sort them out when they got home.

[davhill]

I haven't scanned all this but has anyone mentioned...

Green Shield stamps?
No.6 coupons?
Crummy tumbler glasses from petrol stations?
Tiger in the tank tails?
Stick-on bullet holes?
Radweld?
Redex?
Bakelite dashtrays with a rubber sucker?
Disc brake signs on the back of posh cars?
Running in please pass stickers?
When 'Diesel' and 'turbo' never went together?
Some kind of 'sporty' Rovers with a lump of Flymo on the front?
All scooters seemingly came with a parka?
Kids pegged bits of card on their bikes to make motorbike noises?
Motorbikes with sidecars were common, especially the 'egg profile' type?

Ah, memories...and later, mammaries.

Edited by davhill on Thursday 27th September 04:05

[Cliftonite]

.
. . . Range Rovers were classy.

[Dr Jekyll]

….internet cafes were classy and used by wealthy early adopters instead of backpackers and fugitives.

[nonsequitur]

Winston Churchill was prime minister.

[Noyzboy]

I remember smog and people smoking in offices, so I find it hard to believe the stats about so many people falling off the perch 'cos of our polluted air

[Blib]

nonsequitur said:

Winston Churchill was prime minister.

I remember his funeral....just.

[mart 63]

Pubs closings at 3pm and reopening at 7pm
07 added to mobile phone numbers. I still have the same number after 27 years.

[PurpleTurtle]

The nation living in fear of The Yorkshire Ripper, and it being massive news when he was finally nicked.

[StanleyT]

Eric Mc said:

The Mad Monk said:

StanleyT said:

I remember my Mum telling my Dad what a bad idea it was he'd voted to join the EU.

If possible, go back and tell your Mum that your Dad did NOT have a vote to join the EU.

Unless they lived in the Republic of Ireland, as they had a vote on the matter in 1972.

That'll be why then. Although my Dad always called it the Free State.......despite him being born in Lancaste originally. And then next generation ironically I get born in passing back in Gods own y, Yorkste and then go on another generation later to marry a lass from Ulster. Enough to make Michael Collins turn in his grave.

[StanleyT]

Captain Smerc said:

Hedge porn

Dad: "Where have you been out to all these hours my lad".
Me: "I've been at Swotty McSwotfaces house revising for our trigonometry exam".
Dad: "Don't give me that, Uncle Alf saw you and Danny Spud by the layby on the A61 bypass fudging together in the hedge. You've been trying to get some of that anal hardcore trucker porn haven't you, get upstairs and wash the AIDs off you hands, I don't know why you can't just steal readers wives grot mags off the newsagent shelves like your older taller brother Kevin does (don't tell Mum)".

[Captain Smerc]

[colin_p]

At the age of about 13 when 20 Benson & Hedges and a box of matches were £0.99 and a half penny. And when you could buy fags from a vending machine.

Then a few years later at about the age of 16 when in a pub a pint of lager was £1.00 but we drank bitter because it £0.90



And apologies for not reading all the pages but has anyone mentioned white dog poo yet?

[Doofus]

Seriously though, why did dog st used to be white? Is it just that all the calcium-based dogs have died out?

[soad]

Doofus said:

Seriously though, why did dog st used to be white? Is it just that all the calcium-based dogs have died out?

http://www.caninest.com/white-dog-poop/