The Nostalgia Thread

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 2175116, member: 259"]When I first started driving you pulled up at the garage and you would tell the attendant how much you wanted, while you remained seated in your car.[/quote]

Our local garage still has attendants for the pumps, fuggin expensive fuel mind. Last time I was in New Joisey it was all attendant pumps at the gas station, think it's state law or summat, fuggin cheap fuel mind.

 

[subaqua]

[QUOTE 2178292, member: 9609"]sex[/quote]
isn't that wot posh people get coal delivered in .

as in 2 sex of coal my good man. pop it into the cellar

 

[asterix]

..thinking of Beirut as a war zone.

 

[mangaman]

Ken Bates

Nice one!

The days when Chelsea and Man Utd could get relegated on merit.

Here is the League table from 1980 - when I was 14

http://thechels.info/wiki/1980-81_season

Of course it's the 2nd division and Chelsea finished respectably mid-table - level with Cambridge UTD but not as good as Grimsby.

The days of Mickey Droy and Kerry Dixon et al

 

[mangaman]

With this thread, (and the anti one), I can only conclude that the past was great, the present is crap and the future frankly doesn't bear thinking about !

Hey Glow Worm.

(This is a somewhat niche post - sorry) - Jerry Goss / Chris Sutton/ Efan Ekoku/ Ian Crook/ "Disco" Dale Gordon/ Robert Fleck / beating Bayern Munich/ finishing 3rd in the Prem.

See the past wasn't all bad.

 

[mangaman]

smoking on buses. Smoking on the telly. Smoking in the classroom (my teacher in the third year of junior school smoked in the classroom).

Thanks for that - I remember when I was very young - in the 70s - my parents (non-smokers) if they invited people round had ashtrays out and even bought some fags for people to enjoy.

A bit like we may leave some snacks around for visitors.

I'd forgotten that.

 

[User169]

Dancing in stilettos in the snow.

 

[mangaman]

Dancing in stilettos in the snow.

Those were special magical memories for us both DP, but I'd have hoped you'd have kept it away from a public forum.

 

[User169]

Those were special magical memories for us both DP, but I'd have hoped you'd have kept it away from a public forum.

Do you remember? I thought it was confetti in our hair.

 

[Cheddar George]

Thanks for that - I remember when I was very young - in the 70s - my parents (non-smokers) if they invited people round had ashtrays out and even bought some fags for people to enjoy.

A bit like we may leave some snacks around for visitors.

I'd forgotten that.

Making an ash tray in junior school art & craft class ...... those were the days.

 

[mangaman]

Do you remember? I thought it was confetti in our hair.

How could I ever forget

 

[accountantpete]

Dinky toys of Bluebird and thinking that the style would seem dated in another 10 years or so

 

[EltonFrog]

..thinking of Beirut as a war zone.

I thought it was after shave... "Splash It All Oveeeerrrr"

 

[colly]

It's a knockout.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2bTwSfWtsE

 

[Trickedem]

Not sure if it came up already, but bars of soap. I know you can still buy them, but the only bar of soap in our house is the one I use in the shower. I have been accused of being tight fisted, by the rest of the family for trying to stop them using shower gel. I reckon it must cost about a tenth of the price. Plus I get to smell of coal tar.