Things we used to do

[MissTillyFlop]

Drinking Lucozade medicinally when ill and buying it from the chemist in all it's orange cellophane wrapped glory.

 

[martint235]

Letting the neighbours come in to use the phone as there were only 3 on the street

 

[MissTillyFlop]

Oooh queuing up at the phone box to call your parents at uni.

Singing along to Top of the Pops, reading the lyrics out of Look In

 

[slowmotion]

Buying Rawlplugs made from some kind of weird, faintly sticky dark brown wood fibre stuff.

 

[vernon]

Buying Rawlplugs made from some kind of weird, faintly sticky dark brown wood fibre stuff.

Using a bunch of matchsticks hammered into a hole as a substitute for the dark brown wood fibre Rawlplugs.

 

[slowmotion]

Using a bunch of matchsticks hammered into a hole as a substitute for the dark brown wood fibre Rawlplugs.

.....wrapped with about twenty turns of insulation tape when you made the ####ing hole too big.......

 

[howard2107]

Take lemonade bottles back to the shop to get the deposit back.

After going round the back of the shop and nicking them out of the crates

 

[midlife]

.....wrapped with about twenty turns of insulation tape when you made the ####ing hole too big.......

Having drilled the hole with a hand drill . At least the screwdrivers that you pumped up and down (Yankee?) Were fun to use LOL

Shaun

 

[howard2107]

Having respect for my parents, my mates parents, and authority in general

 

[MissTillyFlop]

You know, I am learning new DIY tips every day on here.

 

[slowmotion]

......over time, the plastic tape would creep and it would fall off the wall anyway.....

 

[Aperitif]

Packing Gold Block tins with sodium chlorate and sugar and testing the blend with an ignited Jetex fuse. Mostly it vapourised the lids...
Connecting salvaged (I think, electrolytic capacitors?) from old TV chassis capacitors across the 240v mains
I once offered my friend Nick two wires which were connected to a big SW, MW, LW, VHF mains radio (Hilversum mon amour) - there were a number of outputs on the back and I think he got 6V DC...His Dad came-a-knocking later that evening and my parents were very accomodating; my Mum threw away my Victor comic collection as punishment.

 

[stephec]

Driving cars with bench front seats, no seat belts and a column gear changer - great for courting.

A big Ford Zodiac, we had one.

 

[Profpointy]

It was certainly possible dial numbers like that. You had to get the ting right tho'

certainly works - that's what normal dialling does anyway. The term is "loop disconnect signalling" and it'x exactly what it says on the tin. 0 is 10 pulses, the rest you can work out

 

[midlife]

A big Ford Zodiac, we had one.

Vauxhall Velox

Shaun