Things we used to do

[ianrauk]

Going to buy a gallon of pink paraffin for the heater at home.
Had to go to the local hardware store where they had a huge tank behind the counter.

 

[slowmotion]

Going to buy a gallon of pink paraffin for the heater at home.
Had to go to the local hardware store where they had a huge tank behind the counter.

We had a couple of those heaters. They used to leave the windows dripping with condensation but the burnt parafin smelled rather pleasant. Lord knows how the house didn't burn down. I think that the later models had some self-extinguishing mechanism which snuffed out the flame if you managed to kick it over.

 

[marzjennings]

Going to buy a gallon of pink paraffin for the heater at home.
Had to go to the local hardware store where they had a huge tank behind the counter.

Holy crap, paraffin heaters. I remember my old man teaching me how to fill one, set the wick and light it.

I think we used to have a small one for the car for winter trips up to Nan's.

 

[Pale Rider]

Stand for the national anthem which was played in the cinema at the end of the film.

 

[Mrs M]

Getting dressed in front of the fire as the rest of the house was freezing.

 

[mrbikerboy73]

A clothes peg and a playing card in the spokes for that authentic motorbike sound!

 

[Dirk]

Buying 'Cleveland Discol' petrol - 4 gallons for a quid.

 

[Mrs M]

Pile into the back of my friends fathers estate car, no seats or seat belts, great fun.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Stand for the national anthem which was played in the cinema at the end of the film.

Joining the stampede for the exit as the credits started to roll to avoid having to stand for the national anthem.

 

[User19783]

Running a two stoke motorbike, and asking for a shot of 20 to 1 , every time I filled up.

 

[swansonj]

Stand for the national anthem which was played in the cinema at the end of the film.

As "recently" as my student years, I remember a massive argument. We were putting on Iolanthe for one of the reserved student weeks at the local professional theatre. The Director wanted to break with tradition and not play the national anthem before the overture; the MD (who had, as MDs were wont to do, done his own super-fancy arrangement of the anthem, in which it was almost impossible to discern the tune) refused. I think we played it on the last night only or something in the end.

Mind you, we can't have been too traditional, because we also did a Marat-Sade with an all-nude male cast and lots of simulated sex...

 

[ianrauk]

Never used to get punctures.

 

[TissoT]

Collect and lick the back of green shield stamps to put in a book .

 

[Slioch]

Non-absorbant toilet paper at school and in public lavvies.

 

[Padraig]

I had a vacation job in Unigate Dairies, where they had that toilet paper. Izal Medicated, I think it was called.