Remember when ...

Phil_aka_Pip

Wireless was something you listened to the Home Service on?

Coke was something you put in the Rayburn?

Sambostar

Jesus you must be really old Phil.  We were having this discussion last night.  2005 was 10 year ago.

richardhomer

You borrowed an 'album' and 'taped' it....

iseverynamegone

rush hemispheres was released closer to the end of ww2 , than today.

Where the fuck does the time go?

Spangles.

Hootsmon

listen tae the radio on Sunday for the number 1 countdown.....

Grunfeld

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Wireless was something you listened to the Home Service on?

I often say "wireless" instead of radio.  I dunno why but that word doesn't seem anachronistic to me.

But that Rush "Hemispheres" factoid was startling. 

Budgie

Taping John Peel's Festive 50....

Hootsmon

a gram o' hash was a 5R

monofin

hootsmon;546956" said:

a gram o' hash was a 5R

Wouldn't that have been a 1/8th?

Hootsmon

5R for a gram.....1000mg

harpo

Curley wurleys were really chewy

DesVegas

The idea of spending 3 days in a muddy field watching bands seemed like a good idea

rsvmark

When albums and singles were 'records' and not the nine o'clock news was as funny as f.....oh sorry, it still is

Alnico

A hard drive was London to Glasgow in a Mk 2 Escort.

Bellycaster

........A Tweet was only a sound from t'birds dawn chorus.

........Metrosexual was getting a bit on the Underground Platform.

.........50 Shades of Grey was describing a Naval Fleet.

.......Fire in the Hole was only something heard of after eating a Curry.

richardhomer

Fender only made four variations of the Strat - you could choose a maple neck or a rosewood board - with or without a trem. In one of five colours....

viz

iseverynamegone said:

rush hemispheres was released closer to the end of ww2 , than today.

Where the fuck does the time go?

Spangles.

Wow. The beginning of the 80s was basically as close to D-day as to today?!! Omg.

MtB

The only way to make a copy of a letter was to use carbon paper!

British Leyland cars had the dip switch for the headlights on ….the floor, next to the clutch pedal.

Ha’penny chews

When you got a sixpence in your Christmas pudding

The gears on your bike were made by Sturmey Archer

You could buy 4 star, 3 star and 2 star petrol, and unleaded hadn’t been invented.

richardhomer

There were only three TV channels....

Phil_aka_Pip

MtB said:

The gears on your bike were made by Sturmey Archer

Mine still are. The Sturmey Archer 3-speed box is a triumph of British engineering. Did you ever see a pushbike at the side of the road with a broken gearbox? And how many people actually serviced their gearboxes? Compare that with the numbers of swanky racing bikes at the side of the road with the chain hanging out of the Derailer mechanism.

richardhomer

When pedals were only made by MXR and Boss....