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

McToot

Those little Black Cat bangers and playing the game of inserting them into fresh dog turds, lighting them and playing the game of chicken to see which one of us would be the last to flee. 

I don't miss cleaning dog chod out of my ears though. 

guitars4you

Conkers

Don't see it at all now, anywhere - In fact a few trees I know and they are just left on the floor

Spent hours lobbing a stick in the air trying to knock a few down from the upper branches of the trees 

Tried various tricks of soaking them in vinegar etc - Can't remember if that worked or not

midlifecrisis

who remembers phoning up companies and actually get to speaking to someone without numerous automatic options and hanging on for hours

Sassafras

ronnyb said:

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

If you count hipsters as men, they smoke pipes, usually long curved ones.

RaymondLin

Who remember the old rotary telephones where you turn that plastic ring all the way to the end, wait for it to go back with that sound and turn again? 

I liked the sound and the satisfaction.

Philly_Q

RaymondLin said:

Who remember the old rotary telephones where you turn that plastic ring all the way to the end, wait for it to go back with that sound and turn again? 

I liked the sound and the satisfaction.

I've still got one somewhere.

hollywoodrox

RaymondLin said:

Who remember the old rotary telephones where you turn that plastic ring all the way to the end, wait for it to go back with that sound and turn again? 

I liked the sound and the satisfaction.

I have one in advocado green , I also had a trimfone and a cream rotary but sold them . I love my 60s 70s 80s retro stuff .have got loads of LED calculators and stuff like psi on organisers and Casio pocket computers 

guitars4you

RaymondLin said:

Who remember the old rotary telephones where you turn that plastic ring all the way to the end, wait for it to go back with that sound and turn again? 

I liked the sound and the satisfaction.

I always thought it would be fun to have this as an option on a mobile phone 

Sassafras

guitars4you said:

RaymondLin said:

Who remember the old rotary telephones where you turn that plastic ring all the way to the end, wait for it to go back with that sound and turn again? 

I liked the sound and the satisfaction.

I always thought it would be fun to have this as an option on a mobile phone 

Now that mobiles are getting bigger, that could well happen.

Emp_Fab

Re Spangles...   My dear late mum used to work in Mars in her youth - on the Spangles line.  Her job was to separate individual Spangles that had stuck to each other on a conveyor belt, using a wooden baton thing.  For 8 hours a shift.

Danny1969

Emp_Fab said:

Re Spangles...   My dear late mum used to work in Mars in her youth - on the Spangles line.  Her job was to separate individual Spangles that had stuck to each other on a conveyor belt, using a wooden baton thing.  For 8 hours a shift.

I worked at Smiths Crisp on the Chilli crisp production line. My job was to look out for crisp with black bits in them and remove the offenders before the crisp were bagged
I did that for 8 hours a shift, dreaming of moving up to a more exciting job with prospects like multipack cardboard box maker

JerkMoans

Hairy porn

stimpsonslostson

Sassafras said:

guitars4you said:

RaymondLin said:

Who remember the old rotary telephones where you turn that plastic ring all the way to the end, wait for it to go back with that sound and turn again? 

I liked the sound and the satisfaction.

I always thought it would be fun to have this as an option on a mobile phone 

Now that mobiles are getting bigger, that could well happen.

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone-apps/10-off-the-wall-iphone-apps6.htm

tone1

JerkMoans said:

Hairy porn

There’s specialist sites for that....,so I’m told.

Kalimna

guitars4you said:

Conkers

Don't see it at all now, anywhere - In fact a few trees I know and they are just left on the floor

Spent hours lobbing a stick in the air trying to knock a few down from the upper branches of the trees 

Tried various tricks of soaking them in vinegar etc - Can't remember if that worked or not

My two boys are 7 and 9, and we still go out collecting conkers - I reckon we had about a carrier-bags'-worth by the end of 2019's conker season
There were especially productive trees near the uni in Stirling where Isaac has his swimming lesson, and we adapted a home-made apple picking stick to collect conkers Not as much fun as throwing a stick, but gven that the tree was right next to a busy car park.........

guitars4you

Kalimna said:

guitars4you said:

Conkers

Don't see it at all now, anywhere - In fact a few trees I know and they are just left on the floor

Spent hours lobbing a stick in the air trying to knock a few down from the upper branches of the trees 

Tried various tricks of soaking them in vinegar etc - Can't remember if that worked or not

My two boys are 7 and 9, and we still go out collecting conkers - I reckon we had about a carrier-bags'-worth by the end of 2019's conker season
There were especially productive trees near the uni in Stirling where Isaac has his swimming lesson, and we adapted a home-made apple picking stick to collect conkers Not as much fun as throwing a stick, but gven that the tree was right next to a busy car park.........

Showing your age now with that last sentence - No 7 and 9 year old boy would be bothered about that 

Kalimna

guitars4you said:

Kalimna said:

guitars4you said:

Conkers

Don't see it at all now, anywhere - In fact a few trees I know and they are just left on the floor

Spent hours lobbing a stick in the air trying to knock a few down from the upper branches of the trees 

Tried various tricks of soaking them in vinegar etc - Can't remember if that worked or not

My two boys are 7 and 9, and we still go out collecting conkers - I reckon we had about a carrier-bags'-worth by the end of 2019's conker season
There were especially productive trees near the uni in Stirling where Isaac has his swimming lesson, and we adapted a home-made apple picking stick to collect conkers Not as much fun as throwing a stick, but gven that the tree was right next to a busy car park.........

Showing your age now with that last sentence - No 7 and 9 year old boy would be bothered about that 

To be fair, it was their 44yr old dad, not the 7 and 9 yr old boys, that was concerned

boogieman

Danny1969 said:

Emp_Fab said:

Re Spangles...   My dear late mum used to work in Mars in her youth - on the Spangles line.  Her job was to separate individual Spangles that had stuck to each other on a conveyor belt, using a wooden baton thing.  For 8 hours a shift.

I worked at Smiths Crisp on the Chilli crisp production line. My job was to look out for crisp with black bits in them and remove the offenders before the crisp were bagged
I did that for 8 hours a shift, dreaming of moving up to a more exciting job with prospects like multipack cardboard box maker

A girl I dated at college had a summer job working on the Pontefract Cake line at a sweet factory. They were allowed to eat as many as they wanted. She ate loads the first day and spent the second day with the raging squits. 

mudslide73

Azimuth adjustment and discussions about Dolby.

Sassafras

I miss the days before cosmetic surgery.
Seems like a huge percentage of the population has had some sort of "work" done.