Things we used to do

[Bromptonaut]

Anybody tried a bare Jetex engine on a DIY zip-wire? They reach impressive speeds.

ISTR the 'Naval Warfare' in Scarborough's Peasholm Park featuring something similar. These days the 'aeroplanes' run down the zip wire by gravity - bit boring really..

 

[Profpointy]

Watching snooker in black and white and not knowing what coloured ball they were talking about.

..or watching it in colour on not greatly caring

 

[vernon]

What like very small skyscrapers.

They're called bungalows.

 

[User482]

Watching snooker in black and white and not knowing what coloured ball they were talking about.

"for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."

 

[EltonFrog]

Rent TVs from Radio Rentals or Granada.

 

[Dirk]

Remember when the only item you owned, that had a rechargeable battery, was a car? (Or a large wireless radio, if you are of a 'certain age').

 

[Illaveago]

Rent TVs from Radio Rentals or Granada.

We had D E R whatever that meant I don't know.

 

[Illaveago]

Getting up to thump the telly because the picture had stuck half way.

 

[Illaveago]

Does wearing rose tinted glasses make your teeth look whiter?

 

[Illaveago]

When I was young we used to go up the field , break off some branches, stick a blob of clay on the end and go mud twanging. Great fun, we used to get plastered.

 

[Easytigers]

Rent TVs from Radio Rentals or Granada.

Wow, that took me back! The dad of a friend of mine used to rent out TVs - even up to then of the 90's.

 

[Poacher]

Rent TVs from Radio Rentals or Granada.

We had a "state of the art" TV with light touch controls which you didn't need to press, probably worked from the capacitance of your finger, or summat.
All it needed was a bluebottle walking over one to change channels, so someone had to be stationed close to the TV to swap back to the cup final, or whatever we'd chosen to watch before the accursed insect had intervened.

 

[Poacher]

There is nothing better in life than writing on the soles of your slipper with a biro.
(c) Half Man Half Biscuit

 

[MontyVeda]

When I was young we used to go up the field , break off some branches, stick a blob of clay on the end and go mud twanging. Great fun, we used to get plastered.

as i recall... it wasn't clay.

 

[MontyVeda]

There is nothing better in life than writing on the soles of your slipper with a biro.
(c) Half Man Half Biscuit

it's the only way to get the ball rolling.