Things we used to do

[midlife]

Clothing.......Harrington Jackets, sta-pressed trousers, fluorescent socks, Brutus, Ben Sherman,....Crombie for those with money with a bit of red card cut to look like a hanky in the breast pocket. ,

Shaun

 

[Oldbloke]

Blag your way into an X rated film...

Or send the oldest one in to pay, he/she then went to the exit door to let the rest of us in.

Worked a treat until one day we were spotted by an usher, film was stopped, lights on as we were ejected.

 

[vernon]

Or send the oldest one in to pay, he/she then went to the exit door to let the rest of us in.

Worked a treat until one day we were spotted by an usher, film was stopped, lights on as we were ejected.

It used to be the usherette that let us in. She was my friend's sister....

 

[JtB]

One thing I used to have do (which I absolutely hated) when I was in the cub scouts was "bob a job".

 

[SD1]

Soda Stream.
Pile of crap but the kids liked it.

 

[SD1]

Watneys Red Barrel. I used to actually drink it, mind there was little choice. Well that's my excuse.

 

[Mrs M]

Trimphones.
Never had one as a kid so I got one now. (Mr M hates it, scares him when it rings).

 

[Levo-Lon]

Drive after a beer or two, ..smoke..sleep with different women after a night out..
I hate getting old but it is a lot less stresful...i think

 

[Slioch]

Watneys Red Barrel. I used to actually drink it, mind there was little choice. Well that's my excuse.

Oh god. This has reminded me of those party 7 tins of beer. We even had one of those beer tap thingies that you put on top with a CO2 cartridge.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

We used to pop into the sweet shop and buy a quarter of kali.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Trimphones.
Never had one as a kid so I got one now. (Mr M hates it, scares him when it rings). View attachment 109380

We had three of those when they were new and fashionable. The first two died during thunderstorms.

 

[mybike]

We had three of those when they were new and fashionable. The first two died during thunderstorms.

Sounds like overhead telephone distribution. It wasn't a party line was it? Of course, in those days the phone belonged to the PO/BT so you shouldn't have been charged for replacement.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Sounds like overhead telephone distribution. It wasn't a party line was it? Of course, in those days the phone belonged to the PO/BT so you shouldn't have been charged for replacement.

No, it wasn't a party line. The issue was that the pulse from nearby lightning strikes killed the ringer. The phone still worked but we wondered after a couple of days why no one was calling us. (Cue panicky messages from relatives wondering why we hadn't been answering their calls).

The third one survived fine so it may have been that the first two came from a bad batch, or they'd modified the design of the ringer for the later one.

 

[postman]

Jump off the back of buses when they slowed down on corners.

 

[roadrash]

passing bus tickets down to kids on the backof the school bus , so the conducter thought they had paid ,....
ohh .. the panic among the kids when the inspector got on