Things you don't see any more

fandango

Tricycles,
stilts,
ice lollies (esp this summer where i havent seen a single one),
the sound of ice cream vans.

EricTheWeary

Jumble sales. 

fandango

Wimpy burger restaurants ... male perms ... monkey puzzle trees .... 

EricTheWeary

fandango said:

Wimpy burger restaurants ... male perms ... monkey puzzle trees .... 


I've definitely seen a Wimpy somewhere. You just need to get to small town, arse end of nowhere. 

EricTheWeary

Branches of Woolworths or Radio Rentals ( unless you live in Australia) or C & A ( unless you go to the Mugshots Discussion). 
Brentford Nylons. 

ICBM

bingefeller said:

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.

Presumably he didn't support it properly. A lot of people don't realise how unstable a jack or even axle stands are if the remaining wheels on the ground can turn. I do wonder if that sort of knowledge is being lost due to it not being so common to do your own work.

stimpsonslostson

fandango said:

Tricycles,
stilts,
ice lollies (esp this summer where i havent seen a single one),
the sound of ice cream vans.

I've seen all these things (except the sound of ice cream vans) today! 
It's a warm day (hence the ice lollies) and I'm in Edinburgh during August, there are circus performers wandering around. (Hence stilts and tricycles). 

randella

Those things that people fitted to the backs of their cars - a black rubber strip with a lightening flash on it that touched the ground. Some had two. And the inevitable ‘Turbo’ badge to go with, next to the manufacturer’s badging but in a completely different font.

All these things of course bought at the car spares places that you also never see any more. 

Bellycaster

These that used to be used near the Roadwork Tents.

Jimbro66

randella said:

Those things that people fitted to the backs of their cars - a black rubber strip with a lightening flash on it that touched the ground. Some had two. And the inevitable ‘Turbo’ badge to go with, next to the manufacturer’s badging but in a completely different font.

All these things of course bought at the car spares places that you also never see any more. 

And those seventies cars that had jacked-up rear suspension, coloured lights underneath and 8-track stereos inside  -  plus a CB radio.

rawk100

The ex-missis....

...and pints of mild.

WezV

axisus said:

I was watching an old 70s Dr Who episode yesterday and I saw one of these engineer tents. It occurred to me that I hadn't seen oner in probably decades in person, although they were everywhere in the 70s.

What other common sights have gone?

I  think  they just got replaced with modern equivalents, like this kind of thing.



I don't think they bother putting them up a lot of the time.   Maybe the jobs are quicker, maybe they have more rules about working on them in the rain

richardhomer

Guitars that have been set up by their owner, rather than ‘my tech’....

boogieman

bingefeller said

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

Or those cardboard things behind the pub bar with packets of peanuts on. The more packs that got sold, the more of the scantily clad woman on the card you got to see. 

Finding porn mags in parks was definitely a thing, I wonder why? Unfortunately it was usually a heavily stuck together copy of Fiesta. 

skunkwerx

Burnt out cars. Used to play on them as a kid or throw stones at them. They’d be there for weeks. 

EricTheWeary

skunkwerx said:

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. 

Speaking to my mother earlier, she said her milkman delivers at about 4am. Apparently only three houses on the estate have milk delivered now, I’m sure the majority would have when I was a kid ( dunno, I’ll guess 120 houses). Presumably it’s a much,much bigger patch these days to make a living. 

fandango

Despite the fact I saw one of these this very weekend somewhere up near Huddersfield, the last time I saw one of these was a good *cough* years ago.

My best recollection was a great yard at Pease Pottage where the M23 meets the A23 south of Crawley. Think that's still there, but haven't been for a looooooong time.

robgilmo

Common decency, now being quietly killed off by anti Pc freedom of speech extremists.

robgilmo

randella said:

Those things that people fitted to the backs of their cars - a black rubber strip with a lightening flash on it that touched the ground. Some had two. And the inevitable ‘Turbo’ badge to go with, next to the manufacturer’s badging but in a completely different font.

All these things of course bought at the car spares places that you also never see any more. 

Apparently they were for static discharge, or when you got struck by lightning while driving your morris marina.

fandango

robgilmo said:

Common decency, now being quietly killed off by anti Pc freedom of speech extremists.

Free Speech.

Common sense.

Someone taking responsibility.

Dogshit-free pavements.

Consideration shown for others.  If you're the twunt who raced up and down my road on a quad bike today, and then moaned to me about people having the temerity to politely ask you to slow down, but coming back with "I'm all legal, and I'm within the speed limit", then how you gonna feel when your inconsideration for others results in an accident/injury/death? But if you really want to fart around on your quad, why not go do this in front of your own house? /rant over