What we used to do back then...

[tyred]

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[hoopdriver]

This is one of those threads blindly ignoring how much of a ballache some stuff used to be eh?
I might need a quick refresher before wiring a plug these days, but that's because I can't remember the last time I needed to. Quite happy with that personally.

Anyone still refer to years old encyclopaedia books or some copy of Encarta that were always pretty dreadful at being useful/correct?

Encarta - now there's a blast from the past. I'd forgotten all about that old chestnut

 

[Globalti]

Back to milk deliveries.... it may be expensive but we support our milkman as a way of protesting against the tactics of supermarkets and because fresh milk, delivered daily to your house in glass bottles is a sign that we still live in one of the most civilised countries in the world.

 

[luckyfox]

I have a friend who will text a couple mins after her first text asking if I am there and am I ignoring her. WTF!!!

Give over, bless her. Why doesn't she just call if it's important?

 

[Venod]

This one baffled me a bit

"When going for a walk ,i walk there and then walk, i dont drive for an hour to somewhere to go walking for 30 mins"

OK the 30 mins is a short walk, but I did in the 80 and 90's & before drive great distances to go for a decent walk (still do) if I was to walk to the lakes before climbing Helvellyn it would be a months expedition

 

[IDMark2]

I really enjoyed this part of my childhood in school one day... made me feel all safe and warm..

she'd already stopped the milk in glass bottles.

 

[MarkF]

I've had people question how I can manage to drive a car without power steering

Or without air con, I don't live in LA and I've never switched the air con on.
I miss my pager, it had no memory, so I never received your call, sorry.
If it doesn't have "Solid State " or "O-Matic" displayed on chromed plastic, then, whatever it is, I don't want it.

 

[Speicher]

I'd been hoping the use of the word chequer was ironic

Yes, it was ironic.

 

[slowmotion]

Go to the pub in 1980, and get 2 pints and two packets of peanuts for £1

Pah! Go to the college bar in 1973 and get a packet of twenty Rothmans and a pint of Adnams for 41 pence ......

....and you could see white dog poo on the way home.....in stereo

 

[AndyWilliams]

Give over, bless her. Why doesn't she just call if it's important?

She is a nice person and a laugh but 'cant talk I'm working' type, so texting when working, why not call on her break .

Annnnyway.............

 

[Accy cyclist]

Being self employed i can wear whatever i like for work.(as they used to do before health and safety stuff came in). Unlike the ones who have to wear high viz and safety helmets for whatever job they're doing

 

[EltonFrog]

What we used to do back then was get on our bikes wearing jeans, t shirt and trainers, if it was raining our anoraks too and go for bike ride, ride about for hours and get lost until it was time to come home for our tea.

Now we have wear special clothes, shoes, wear helmets, cycling gloves and glasses, and have sat nav gadgets so that we don't get lost, wear HRM's so we know if we can eat cake or not and then race against our imaginary friends on Strava.

 

[AndyWilliams]

What we used to do back then was get on our bikes wearing jeans, t shirt and trainers, if it was raining our anoraks too and go for bike ride, ride about for hours and get lost until it was time to come home for our tea.

Now we have wear special clothes, shoes, wear helmets, cycling gloves and glasses, and have sat nav gadgets so that we don't get lost, wear HRM's so we know if we can eat cake or not and then race against our imaginary friends on Strava.

How many miles in a day do you think you cycled back then?? I used to be on my BMX bike from the moment I woke up until the moment I was called in. It feels now like it would have been around 20 miles a day, probably more like 6 haha

 

[slowmotion]

What we used to do back then was get on our bikes wearing jeans, t shirt and trainers, if it was raining our anoraks too and go for bike ride, ride about for hours and get lost until it was time to come home for our tea.

Now we have wear special clothes, shoes, wear helmets, cycling gloves and glasses, and have sat nav gadgets so that we don't get lost, wear HRM's so we know if we can eat cake or not and then race against our imaginary friends on Strava.

Back then, we were lucky...we had white dog poo...

 

[AndyWilliams]

I haven't seen any of that for years