A simpler time

[ColinJ]

The change happened when everyone bought >= 1 car.

I (and lots of people I know) bought < 1 car so that definitely isn't true, but yes - there are way too many of them!

 

[Fnaar]

40 years from now, I wonder if the young of today will reminisce about how simple life was in 2017?

Of course they will. As they fettle their air-cycles and try to index their thought-gears

 

[petek]

Our village didn't have the electricity until 1958 and us lads had little notebooks to write down car numberplates.
Upwards of ten numbers a week bought bragging rights.
Most everybody rode a push bike, posh sorts might run to a motorbike and sidecar.
Kids today!
Don't know they're born.

 

[Nonethewiser]

I remember when it was all fields round here.

 

[MichaelW2]

Harking back to simpler times, I tried to buy some plain wooden toothpicks at the pharmacy. Besides having to wade through fish, meat and bakery counters to reach the pharmacy, my quest for plain old wooden (POW) toothpicks was fruitless. I can buy a wonderous variety of high-tech plastic devices but POW is simply unavailable. I guess I will have to find a tree and make my own.

 

[petek]

Harking back to simpler times, I tried to buy some plain wooden toothpicks at the pharmacy. Besides having to wade through fish, meat and bakery counters to reach the pharmacy, my quest for plain old wooden (POW) toothpicks was fruitless. I can buy a wonderous variety of high-tech plastic devices but POW is simply unavailable. I guess I will have to find a tree and make my own.

Wooden cocktail sticks maybe?

 

[Drago]

Did you know that every year 100,000 Americans need hospital treatment for toothpick injuries? Only in America.

 

[MichaelW2]

Did you know that every year 100,000 Americans need hospital treatment for toothpick injuries? Only in America.

Is that from wielding the chainsaw required for their manufacture?

 

[gbb]

You had cycling clips?
What's the matter with tucking yer trousers in yer socks?

You could afford socks! What luxury.

Who could afford socks back in the day?

Ah the old...'eee, that wur nothing'

Good old Monty Python , makes me laugh every time...but not like in the old days when laughter was.....

 

[robjh]

[QUOTE 4991908, member: 259"]1957. You turn 18, you start drinking pints of mild and smoking woodbines, you get married, have all your teeth taken out on the NHS, start wearing a flat cap and buy a whippet.[/QUOTE]
Yikes, I'm married and I've got a whippet (well, a sort of skinny mongrel), and I've drunk a pint of mild in my time. The resemblance is uncanny - I feel you're talking about me.





(OK, not 1957 and the other stuff)

 

[mustang1]

The problem started when we moved away from the unicycle. Once two wheels were introduced, we were destined to get screwed.

 

[roadrash]

@User14044 you should know by now that murder she wrote gets you over exited

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4991908, member: 259"]1957. You turn 18, you start drinking pints of mild and smoking woodbines, you get married, have all your teeth taken out on the NHS, start wearing a flat cap and buy a whippet.[/QUOTE]
It's the white dog poo that I miss.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Now I’m in my 60s, I occasionally get excited by afternoon TV.

When you get a five letter word during Countdown

 

[Tin Pot]

"In my day..." Etc.