Things you don't see any more

skunkwerx

Opportunity. 

thecolourbox

Optimism, cheerful people, young people being able to buy a house, kids walking to school

strumjoughlamps

scrumhalf said:

Road sweepers.

Still a few in Leicester. I see 50 road sweepers, 8 applied sweeper drivers and 14 estate caretakers every day. 

EricTheWeary

thecolourbox said:

Optimism, cheerful people, young people being able to buy a house, kids walking to school

WBA in the Premiership. 

skunkwerx

strumjoughlamps said:

scrumhalf said:

Road sweepers.

Still a few in Leicester. I see 50 road sweepers, 8 applied sweeper drivers and 14 estate caretakers every day. 

I always get stuck behind them around here haha. Almost always on my way to work. 

skunkwerx

I also see the milkman quite a lot. Most nights infact. 

Anytime from 1-4am, but always seems to happen when I step out for a smoke. 
Seems to have a few drops in this street. 

His vans not the electric float anymore, just a regular closed cab type thing. But I can’t blame em, those electric things were open doored and they must freeze in winter doing that shit all night. 

VimFuego

skunkwerx said:

I also see the milkman quite a lot. Most nights infact. 

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chortle, guffaw etc. 

jdgm

Ford Cortinas with medallion man driving.

But - my neighbour has THREE Reliant Robins.

Butchers, bakeries, greengrocers.

And I totally agree about opportunity and optimism.

Kilgore

Rickets
Boy scouts doing 'bob a job'
Hopscotch on the pavement
Coal lorries
Wattle and daub hovels
Vikings

thecolourbox

EricTheWeary said:

thecolourbox said:

Optimism, cheerful people, young people being able to buy a house, kids walking to school

WBA in the Premiership. 

Harsh, you cut me deep I think the ones I listed could be seen again sooner than that though

skunkwerx

VimFuego said:

skunkwerx said:

I also see the milkman quite a lot. Most nights infact. 

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chortle, guffaw etc. 

Haha I walked right into that... 

skunkwerx

Yellow street lighting! 

Sporky

jdgm said:

Butchers, bakeries, greengrocers.

We've got 'em in Woking and Guildford. One of the bakers is stupid-expensive and always seems to have a huge queue, the other chain is a bit crappy.

The greengrocer has fruit and veg that is markedly worse quality than the Sainsburys that's 2 minutes' walk away, for significantly more money.

fandango

Football Pools (no, not the muddy kind in Hackney Marshes), but the one where a score draw gets you 3 points.

mudslide73

thecolourbox said:9

EricTheWeary said:

thecolourbox said:

Optimism, cheerful people, young people being able to buy a house, kids walking to school

WBA in the Premiership. 

Harsh, you cut me deep I think the ones I listed could be seen again sooner than that though

Eric likes football now it seems Slightly depressed after Bolton Pulised us yesterday... the best way to ruin a summer's day. The only highlight was seeing someone dressed as a boiler mascot feeling as hot it would be inside a real boiler. Rather them.than I. 

crunchman

EricTheWeary said:

thecolourbox said:

Optimism, cheerful people, young people being able to buy a house, kids walking to school

WBA in the Premiership. 

They weren't in the old First Division a lot of the time either.

Grumpyrocker

Kilgore said:

Rickets
Boy scouts doing 'bob a job'
Hopscotch on the pavement
Coal lorries
Wattle and daub hovels
Vikings

Still get coal lorries where I live. Our village doesn't have mains gas and most folks have oil-fired central heating and a large oil tank outside. But most of these houses also have a real fire.

So as well as seeing oil deliveries one regularly sees the coal lorry making deliveries.

cpcompany

Cans of Quattro.

Tarzas down the woods.

 Younguns doing jumps off home made ramps on their bikes. 

Games of hop scotch, hide and seek and Kerbsy. I never see the younguns on the estate I grew up in playing any games like that. They barley even play football in the field. 

bingefeller

ICBM said:

People working on their cars at the weekend.

It was only last week that a man in Belfast was crushed to death doing just that in his very own driveway.

One thing you don't see these days is Tennents lager tins with pictures of women on them.  

octatonic

Here in Singapore it would be women wearing more than the bare minimum.
It is extremely nice of them but it is also very distracting.