Who remembers and used.

[Stevieboy]

Anyone else remember these? I think they were called semi dons or something like that - I suppose they're all made out of plastic and what not these days.........progress eh?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Can anyone remember having a "tranny", well before the idea of transgender was even a twinkle in its mummy's eye?
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I had several.

Who remembers listening to Radio Luxemburg on their transistor radio the signal used to come and go but the station was the business.

 

[Rover69]

Common sense

 

[Hop_it]

View attachment 56786Anyone else remember these? I think they were called semi dons or something like that - I suppose they're all made out of plastic and what not these days.........progress eh?

They are demijohns, and I still have several in the loft dating back to when I used to make country wines (blackberry, elderberry etc). I have used them more recently for large batches of sloe and/or damson gin

 

[Chippy_Tea]

When you were skint so made your own bell bottom jeans out of an old pair of straight leg jeans.

 

[An Ankoù]

Anyone remember these little monkeys?

or these mothers:

These old pennies were about a foot across and weighed half a CWT if I remember correctly.

 

[Hop_it]

My aunt lived in a house with my grandad up to the early 1960s with no electricity. They had gas mantles on the wall for lighting, and she still did her weekly wash with a washing dolly in a galvanised metal tub She wrung it out using a hand operated mangle. The water was heated in a very large black kettle on the coal fired kitchen range. Its hard to believe but I can still remember visiting as a young boy and watching her using these things.

 

[Hop_it]

When you were skint so made your own bell bottom jeans out of an old pair of straight leg jeans.


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I did that too. This is me in ~1971

 

[m_kc]

Our first family computer:
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Ahh havent thought about our first computer in years. I miss that 80s aesthetic! And the loading sounds from cassette.

 

[Stevieboy]

They are demijohns, and I still have several in the loft dating back to when I used to make country wines (blackberry, elderberry etc). I have used them more recently for large batches of sloe and/or damson gin

I was extracting the urine old chap!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Anyone remember these little monkeys?
These old pennies were about a foot across and weighed half a CWT if I remember correctly.

Yea and i remember this when we got rid in 1971 -

 

[chopps]

I can't believe I just listened to all of that.
Quite the rapper in the middle bit :)

 

[Hop_it]

I was extracting the urine old chap!

No problem. It's not always that obvious when you don't know someone

 

[An Ankoù]

Yea and i remember this when we got rid in 1971 -

That's horrendous, Chippy. You've scarred my soul with that one. I don't recall ever having heard it although I can remember ever word (almost) of the song used in Australia in 1966. To the tune of "Click Go the Shears".

 

[An Ankoù]

When you were skint so made your own bell bottom jeans out of an old pair of straight leg jeans.


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Yep. I did it. Weren't they called "flairs"?

 

[Clint]

Yep. I did it. Weren't they called "flairs"?

Flares...or is that summit you fire into the sky when your boat is sinking?

 

[dad_of_jon]

Flares...or is that summit you fire into the sky when your boat is sinking?

Not sure how throwing your trousers in the air would help in that situation.

 

[dad_of_jon]

These are still current , but my kids used to take them to school much to the mirth of all their friends ( and some teachers)

What are you doing at the back sam?
I'm having a plop miss.

 

[devexwarrior]

Lava lamp, anybody?
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Got one in my shed

 

[TonyT]

What did you own or use back in the day that the youth of today wouldn't believe existed if you told them today.


Who remembers these public phones, if i remember right you put your 2p in pressed A dialled the number then when someone answered pressed B.



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2p? Oooh you young whipper snapper! I remember when it was 1d!