Things you never see any more No.361

[Mad Doug Biker]

Modems which, on connecting to the Internet, audibly dialled your number before making some whirring noises and then going

'CHHHHHHHH B-DOING B-DOING CHHHHHH CHHHHHHHH!!'

Or some such variation (I always liked the B-DOING bit for some strange reason, although hearing it now it actually sounds oddly sinister )

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Kids thinking they were 'IT' just because they had a Gameboy which was the size of a small brick. Kids with Walkmans which were the size of a small brick. Kids with their first mobile phone which was the size of a small.... You get the idea.

 

[swee'pea99]

The centre I work at is in the middle of an urban nature reserve, which used to be a brick quarry, and then a landfill site. We recently started a local Oral History project with the aim of producing a book, and someone suggested for a title "I remember when it wasn't all fields round here!"

You bring to mind Talking Heads's (Nothing but) flowers:

This used to be real estate
Now it's only fields and trees
Where, where is the town
Now, it's nothing but flowers
The highways and cars
Were sacrificed for agriculture
I thought that we'd start over
But I guess I was wrong

Once there were parking lots
Now it's a peaceful oasis
you got it, you got it

This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it

I miss the honky tonks,
Dairy Queens, and 7-Elevens
you got it, you got it

And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention
you got it, you got it

I dream of cherry pies,
Candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies
you got it, you got it

We used to microwave
Now we just eat nuts and berries
you got it, you got it

This was a discount store,
Now it's turned into a cornfield
you got it, you got it

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The latest tabloid picture of Princess Di on holiday somewhere hot and impossibly expensive.



I'll get me coat.

 

[Chromatic]

Casual racism on the BBC, I think we all miss that.

Love Thy Neighbour was an ITV 'comedy'.

 

[Maz]

Remember that ITV series called Mind Your Language?
It had every foreign national stereotype under the sun! The sexy French girl, the randy Italian bloke, the dumpy ugly German fraulein, the over-apologetic Indian, the Spaniard who kept saying '¿Por favor?', the Maoist Chinese woman, etc. It was brilliant!

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

The Innovations catalogue.
Tracing paper toilet roll.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

[QUOTE 2070785, member: 259"][/quote]
Hateful stuff,you may as well wipe with a piece of wet fish for all the good that tracing paper stuff does.

 

[slowmotion]

That's because it's medicated. It'll never be killed off.

 

[penguinking9]

Hateful stuff,you may as well wipe with a piece of wet fish for all the good that tracing paper stuff does.

Did you do a comparison?

 

[martint235]

Izal was one brand of it. My parents have only just stopped buying it after years of us saying we wouldn't visit unless they stopped

 

[accountantpete]

TV Repair Men

 

[slowmotion]

Izal was one brand of it.

That reminds me.....

 

[Davidc]

Black & White TV sets

Cameras that use real film

And if Amazon get their way - paper books!

 

[Norm]

[QUOTE 2071801, member: 259"]Gas fridges[/quote]
Holes in the ozone layer.