Things we used to do

[PaulSecteur]

Have proper Sherbert dips that were just as potent as any of the white powders todays yoofs seem so keen on.

 

[ianrauk]

 

[Haitch]

@PaulSecteur, there are so many things you no longer do. Is there anything you still do do ?

 

[PaulSecteur]

@Alan H I do plenty thanks... Just my Atari 2600 is getting dusty.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Judge your peers based solely on their ability to make a paper aeroplane.

 

[cyberknight]

If you had an old motorcycle you would kick the engine over with the clutch held in to free the clutch before you tried starting it.

Riding a motorbike across the common that had a thumb lever for a throttle, when i was about 11-12.

 

[Illaveago]

="cyberknight, post: 4163512, member: 4970"]Riding a motorbike across the common that had a thumb lever for a throttle, when i was about 11-12.[/QUOTE]

Wasn't that the choke lever?

 

[Illaveago]

@PaulSecteur, there are so many things you no longer do. Is there anything you still do do ?

I still like to make models whenever I get the chance which is rare now. But the urge to make and fiddle with things is still there.

 

[Illaveago]

Having to get up and clean the stylus on your record player as it had grown a beard while you were playing a record.

 

[Matt1705]

I know payphones have been mentioned a few times...

I stopped to use one a couple of years ago as my mobile was dead. Found some change in my pocket, walked into the phone box only to be told by a sign there that said "This payphone does not accept coins"

 

[Illaveago]

We used to have mik delivered, as per usual the blue tits used to peck the lids but we couldn't understand how on earth they managed drink so far down until one day when the local farm dog popped round my wife caught her helping herself.

 

[EltonFrog]

Play with Action Man figures, I had the one in the orange jump suit. I still have it.

 

[further]

Wasn't that the choke lever?

Advance and retard lever,for those old enough to remember them.

 

[cyberknight]

="cyberknight, post: 4163512, member: 4970"]Riding a motorbike across the common that had a thumb lever for a throttle, when i was about 11-12.

Wasn't that the choke lever?[/QUOTE]
You might be right , it was 25-30 years ago .

 

[MontyVeda]

Play with Action Man figures, I had the one in the orange jump suit. I still have it.

I had the adventurer (white polo neck), the sailor, the bog standard trooper and various others including...

...and god knows how many outfits (it's not a doll... it's an 'action' figure).

A few years ago i was clearing out my M&Ds loft and found Tom Stone... wearing a pair of American Indian style pants and the sailor's top. I think his last mission was joining the Village People