Things you don't see any more

Heartfeltdawn

@MagicPigDetective I got into using multibiros as a chef. Having multiple colours to hand when doing my inventory checks and order sheets made things so much easier. Order sheets would generally be a list of everything we used on a grid, maybe six sheets depending on where I was ordering from for a particular order. Anything I was fine for would get a black X, a green number would denote how many things to order of one item. A red circle would denote me being unsure and would act as a reminder for me to check against another order sheet pile rather than to order too much. Having multiple colours in one pen = way easier than carrying three pens around and helped me be more accurate with orders. 

Then writing prep lists: different colours for different sections.

Now they get used for everything possible. The chunkiness helps me write better. 

west

pintspiller said:

Flashing Blade

ah chevalier de recci , i start my watch of this in 2 days just about to finish robinson crusoe , i always watch them in the school holidays like i always did  ...  youve got to fight for what you want etc ...

shugz

Don't know if this culturally sophisticated high brow point reached Englandshire and beyond but Tennents Lager Lovelies.

Google's yer chum on this one......

H

JerkMoans

Lager ads generally

Castlemaine xxxx
Paul Hogan Fosters ads
The Lager of Lamot 

EricTheWeary

shugz said:

Don't know if this culturally sophisticated high brow point reached Englandshire and beyond but Tennents Lager Lovelies.

Google's yer chum on this one......

H

Not quite gone...

https://i.imgur.com/dAew7Nf.jpg

Nitefly

shugz said:

Don't know if this culturally sophisticated high brow point reached Englandshire and beyond but Tennents Lager Lovelies.

Google's yer chum on this one......

H

I did the brewery tour last year, saw the lot!

Also, they have a video showing continuous TV commercials (which of course we never got in England) - some of those are absolutely priceless!

guitars4you

Fountain Pens and those ink pots + blotting paper - no you can still buy them but can't recall last time I saw one in use

England test cricketers making a 100 opening partnership

midlifecrisis

broken cassettes on the roadside with piles of brown tape curling over the place

57Deluxe

Rsoles

guitars4you

I need help and I can't remember what they are called

Kids soap box/trolley cars - pram wheels etc - build your own - find  a hill and make  a death trap but good fun

smigeon

guitars4you said:

I need help and I can't remember what they are called

Kids soap box/trolley cars - pram wheels etc - build your own - find  a hill and make  a death trap but good fun

Bogeys (yes, really).

underdog

guitars4you said:

I need help and I can't remember what they are called

Kids soap box/trolley cars - pram wheels etc - build your own - find  a hill and make  a death trap but good fun

That was a gambo in my neck of the woods 

richardhomer

guitars4you said:

Fountain Pens and those ink pots + blotting paper - no you can still buy them but can't recall last time I saw one in use

I write all the cards I send and all gift tags on presents with a fountain pen - a Montblanc I bought in Harrod’s nearly 30 years ago.

I’m probably a walking anachronism....

Gagaryn

underdog said:

guitars4you said:

I need help and I can't remember what they are called

Kids soap box/trolley cars - pram wheels etc - build your own - find  a hill and make  a death trap but good fun

That was a gambo in my neck of the woods 

It was a guider down ma bit!

TTBZ

I think the white dog poo thing is due to bone in their diet. If you feed them crap food like Baker's etc then it won't have that in it but feed them raw or higher quality biscuit foods and you'll get your beloved white poos back. Bone helps with digestion or something - we used to feed our GSD raw chicken carcasses. Disgusting to store in the fridge but he loved it!

57Deluxe

guitars4you said:

I need help and I can't remember what they are called

Kids soap box/trolley cars - pram wheels etc - build your own - find  a hill and make  a death trap but good fun

go carts in the south...

https://www.google.com/search?q=homemade+pram+wheel+go+kart&num=50&safe=off&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=Er4C1dRTBwHCOM%253A%252CDI0wvHeutZr_BM%252C_&usg=AFrqEzctswdgudwXQk3lodGlqqPtpTh5Qw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiG47CQ4-TcAhWQGewKHbs3ACEQ9QEwAXoECAUQBg#imgrc=9aK6sdiptbsjAM:

ICBM

Citroën BXs - or most of the other hydraulic-suspension models.

I had a BX less than 20 years ago, and although they were getting rarer then there were still quite a few about. Now you don't seem to see them at all - the long-term prospects were not good for all that hydraulic tubing, which corroded away. Although you could get stainless steel replacements, it was cost-prohibitive to do the whole car.

You don't even see many Xantias, which was the following model - mine went for scrap nearly ten years ago, although it was the engine management controller which killed it, not the hydraulics.

57Deluxe

@ICBM ; -- yes I took over my Father's BX when he died and put 120,000 miles on it. When it came to sell it nobody was interested even though was still a clean car with an engine that really tramped.

I did sell it for £50 to a guy that had another GTi that needed a replacement tacho and buying (and scrapping) my whole car was the cheapest option for him!

http://i67.tinypic.com/5mwk8h.jpg

boogieman

ICBM said:

Citroën BXs - or most of the other hydraulic-suspension models.

I had a BX less than 20 years ago, and although they were getting rarer then there were still quite a few about. Now you don't seem to see them at all - the long-term prospects were not good for all that hydraulic tubing, which corroded away. Although you could get stainless steel replacements, it was cost-prohibitive to do the whole car.

You don't even see many Xantias, which was the following model - mine went for scrap nearly ten years ago, although it was the engine management controller which killed it, not the hydraulics.

That seems to apply to lots of cars. Considering the  millions of Mondeos and Cavaliers that were sold, you hardly see any on the road. 

Phil_aka_Pip

boogieman said:

That seems to apply to lots of cars. Considering the  millions of Mondeos and Cavaliers that were sold, you hardly see any on the road. 

I think they weren't designed to last this long, and although some of them might have been reliable runners they don't have the character that causes people to cherish them