The small things you miss from days gone by ...

boogieman

Jalapeno said:

JezWynd said:

Danny1969 said:

The pools man coming every week and promising you will pay him next week. Hiding from the provie lady cos you didn't have that weeks vig payment. Looking through the Freemans catalogue on the womens underwear pages because you couldn't afford to buy porn ... making rollups out of butts left in ashtrays, nicking alcohol from your parents and then topping the bottles back up with water

That embarrassing xmas dinner when the pudding wouldn't light cos the brandy was too watered down.

Five Players No.6 from a vending machine in the High St.

It's incredible that anyone started smoking big time after starting with No6, vile things.

I’m pretty sure it’s because they were small and cheap and you could get them in packs of 10 instead of 20s. Easier to hide a 10 pack in your blazer pocket from your mum and dad   Most of us at school started off smoking Numbos. 

The only other cheap fags I can remember were Park Drive.... you could get those in packets of 5 out of the machine outside the newsagents, conveniently placed about 2 minutes walk from the school gates. The PC lot today would have a fit. 

axisus

People wearing baseball hats the correct way around.

Queen and Genesis releasing amazing albums.

Making flying saucer/frisbee things out of lollipop sticks that we found on the street.

Picking up discarded ringpulls and pinging the round bit using the other bit.

Having a stunt kite.

Turning the handlebars up on your racer.

Buying Bazooka Joe bubblegum with the mini comic.

Buying popping moon dust candy.

ronnyb

Not that i miss them but you never see men smoking pipes anymore.

midlifecrisis

anyone else remember buying cans of drink from shops, before ring pulls were invented. they used to piece the tops of the cans for you.

Jez6345789

Maybe I am weird but I am racking my brains and there is nothing from my youth I am nostalgic for like Spangles. 
Sorry.

Jetfire

So my yoof would be late 1980s with my teenage years being around 1995. I miss:

 Every Friday night we had an ice cream man come round selling chocolate and the like. Standing on the wall so I could talk to Tony the ice cream man and buying Mintola, Kinder Eggs or whatever else I wanted. Friday nights was the night my dad scrubbed our black bad white tiled kitchen floor clean (a mop would have done the same job, but a scrubbing sound always reminds me of him)

My A500 (so many good games)

King sized cans of coke 

Buying Kerrang and Raw! Magazine.

Buying lads mags when they weren't full of fake tits and skanks.

Playing Games Workshop games like Blood Bowl

Finding a pub with a good jukebox. My local bowling alley, which had The Black Album and No More Tears on it and a local hideyhole pub had loads of Pink Floyd and Oasis which was great when bunking off from college.

Just putting stuff in the bin.

My old cars (mark 2  VWP and Jetta being two particular faves)

I miss that feeling of hearing Firestarter for the first time and watching it on Top of the pops. 

My parents going away for weeks and having the house to myself to play Wipeout and Grand Theft Auto endlessly.

Bellycaster

Those ITV Ident thingies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMTnxlOc4IE

and Continuity Voice Overs that spanned years like Redvers Kyle 

EricTheWeary

ronnyb said:

Not that i miss them but you never see men smoking pipes anymore.

When I was very young my father smoked although I don’t remember it. My mother tells the story that he decided to take up a pipe, rather than cigarettes, but he didn’t take it to work and she hated having the smelly thing ( the pipe) in the house. So one day whilst my dad was out at work she decided to clean the pipe. She took it apart and cleaned it using Demostos. That evening he lit his pipe up and after the first puff threw up. Anyway, he never smoked a pipe again so that was one pipe smoker gone. 

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

Wade Whimsies!



That just me then...  

No, we had quite a few of them.  I think the Bush Baby was the first one I had.

Having had to clear out my mother’s house this year ( she is now in a care home) there was fifty years of stuff, why no Whimsies I don’t know. I don’t think we had lots but we definitely had some. 

axisus

ronnyb said:

Not that i miss them but you never see men smoking pipes anymore.

I had a wonderful teacher in Junior school early 70s. His name was Mr Peters, he seemed much older than other teachers, but very sprightly and very British (wore a hat, had a long moustache). He would pace to school smoking his pipe upside down. We asked him why once and he said that the rain would put it out if it was the right way up! He was a most inspiring teacher.

axisus

We had whimsies on display all around our porch when I was a kid, including the cool Flintstone ones. Mum probably still has them somewhere.

hollywoodrox

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

Wade Whimsies!



That just me then...  

No, we had quite a few of them.  I think the Bush Baby was the first one I had.

Bush baby was the first I bought my mum  from grand ways supermarket in Grimsby 

hollywoodrox

boogieman said:

Jalapeno said:

JezWynd said:

Danny1969 said:

The pools man coming every week and promising you will pay him next week. Hiding from the provie lady cos you didn't have that weeks vig payment. Looking through the Freemans catalogue on the womens underwear pages because you couldn't afford to buy porn ... making rollups out of butts left in ashtrays, nicking alcohol from your parents and then topping the bottles back up with water

That embarrassing xmas dinner when the pudding wouldn't light cos the brandy was too watered down.

Five Players No.6 from a vending machine in the High St.

It's incredible that anyone started smoking big time after starting with No6, vile things.

I’m pretty sure it’s because they were small and cheap and you could get them in packs of 10 instead of 20s. Easier to hide a 10 pack in your blazer pocket from your mum and dad   Most of us at school started off smoking Numbos. 

The only other cheap fags I can remember were Park Drive.... you could get those in packets of 5 out of the machine outside the newsagents, conveniently placed about 2 minutes walk from the school gates. The PC lot today would have a fit. 

I was still selling singles in a shop in 89 

hollywoodrox

Bellycaster said:

Those ITV Ident thingies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMTnxlOc4IE

and Continuity Voice Overs that spanned years like Redvers Kyle 

And now ........ live from Norwich ....... it’s the quiz of the week 

jonnyburgo

Going out in the morning, meeting up with mates, building dens, making tarzan ropes off the bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal, Spending all day exploring the old steel works site, going in all the old buildings and generally not eating again until tea time. We were skinny but happy!

Hopping on the ladders on the back of Diesel trains and getting a free ride to school, with a well timed jump off behind the school sports fields, invariably somebody would rip their kecks.

RandallFlagg

The insurance man coming round and my Mum getting the little book and then listenig to my dad moaning about him after he left "bloody con" chunter chunter...

boogieman

ronnyb said:

Not that i miss them but you never see men smoking pipes anymore.

We were in the park with our grandson at the weekend and I caught a whiff of a fragrant smelling smokey something. Took me a while to figure out it was a bloke sitting on a bench nearby, smoking a pipe. Must be 30 odd years since I smelt anything like that. My uncle used to smoke a pipe, think he used Gold Block or St Bruno and I’ll always associate the smell of a pipe with him. But yes, you’re right, it’s something that’s virtually died out.... mouth cancers presumably. 

p90fool

I know it's a bit niche, but I miss going on motorcycle runs where everyone ran lashed-up choppers, dirtbikes, ex-War Department heaps and cafe racers in a multi coloured circus of hilarious bodgery, in a mixture of old fireman's greatcoats, army surplus jackets or three pairs of ripped jeans on top of each other. 

A tiny number of us are still at it, but nowadays you'll mostly see a dozen BMWs out together, or a dozen Harleys or a dozen identical sportstbikes.

It's factionalised, regulated tedium for boring people in matching £1,500 uniforms. 

rlw

AlexC said:

Women wearing nylons - particularly stockings and hold ups.

You're not meeting the right women obviously.

Eric_C

I miss Creamola Foam