What has Disappeared?

[David Lovell]

You left out blokes with permed hair……

Footballers?

[Tim Marlow]

Ash trays in cinemas
Sparrows
My fashion sense
Paraffin heaters
Yellow pages

No sparrow shortage around here Mark. We get up to a hundred a time on our feeders, and I’m not exaggerating. The hedges front and back are simply alive with the little buggers. No Green or Goldfinches these days though. I think the sparrows have eaten them all….

[Tim Marlow]

Here's another one and it may sound a bit dumb...Remember, way back when, where you made an order with a mail order hobby shop and paid with a money order. You didn't know for sure if they got it or not. You waited, and waited, with high anticipation, and went to the post office everyday to see if your order came. After a couple of weeks, you had a yellow card in you post box, took it to the window, and got your package. A very exciting thing and you couldn't wait to get back home to open it and see the goods inside.......

Today, you can see your payment, track your package and have it in a few days.......All with the tap of a few keys on the computer...

Back in the old days when I was a kid, ordering hobby stuff was a lot more exciting............until your Mom found out where your allowance went!...

Prost
Allen

I remember waiting about six weeks just to get the catalogues, which you got by sending off a stamped addressed envelope. Spent a fortune on stamps so I could spend a fortune on toys……seems a bit weird these days.

[Tim Marlow]

No, Tim. I know the game you meant.

The Magic Brain Calculator is this:

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Ah….it’s a hand held version of the big desk jobs with windy handles. Bit like this only simpler….

[Steve-the-Duck]

I remember waiting about six weeks just to get the catalogues, which you got by sending off a stamped addressed envelope. Spent a fortune on stamps so I could spend a fortune on toys……seems a bit weird these days.

'Allow 28 days for delivery'

[Tim Marlow]

Footballers?

Amongst others…..including my cousins husband. We laughed at him so much he wouldn’t go out until it grew out a bit….

[Tim Marlow]

'Allow 28 days for delivery'

That was for the goods. Catalogues seemed to come when they got around to them, and sometimes needed a postal order to pay for them as well….they were a rip off. If you lost the stub you couldn’t get your money back if the PO was returned……

[Mark1]

Amongst others…..including my cousins husband. We laughed at him so much he wouldn’t go out until it grew out a bit….

I did the perm thing ,spent the next three days trying wash it out and wore a baseball cap to school lol

[Gern]

I wonder how many youngsters we have here who have absolutely no idea what we're talking about! So maybe one other thing we're missing is young people getting into modelling as a hobby.

[RonGlass]

Stick-shifts and manual roll-up windows lol. Never minded either, and still rather enjoy having them on my Jeep.

[RonGlass]

I did the perm thing ,spent the next three days trying wash it out and wore a baseball cap to school lol

I remember my Brother trying the frosted tips-thing with his hair (I guess that was what it was called) He was going for a trendy Surfer / Skateboarder look, this was mid-1980's. The heckling he endured at High School was hellish.

[yak face]

“What has disappeared ?” , well a good nights sleep for one - having nightmares about Peter Wyngardes threatening trouser bulge !!!:flushed::disappointed::smiling5:

[David Lovell]

No form of punishment ,the cane at school never did me any harm(well it did but you wouldn't let the administrator of said punishment know) ,we had a Scott's technical drawing teacher you only played him up once ,he had a slipper wich I swear belonged to coco the clown ,you were made to bend over in front of the whole class only to be told not far enough he wanted to see the stitching in your trousers stretched to the limit only then would he strike ,you never went home and told because you'd likely get one off your dad as well ,you never spoke badly to my mum in the kitchen she could catch you on the elbow with a wooden spoon with ninja like speed.
Smoking in the cinema smokers on the left non sitting on the right ,if you wanted a fag(rember when that meant cigarette) on the bus it was upstairs only.
When with your first car(s) you got stopped by the police for having say a bulb out you made sure you heeded the advice and went straight up the local petrol station and fixed it now rather than point out the problem they get pissed of if they can't find anything to knick you for ,still that goes back to when they were concerned with solving crime not your bulb broken.
Politicians who told the truth only to be dismissed as trouble ,only to find out they weren't far wrong years down the line ,but hey were still all here and all the above thoughts from you guys above have made me smile lets hope that doesn't get forgotten. Dave

[Airborne01]

No form of punishment ,the cane at school never did me any harm(well it did but you wouldn't let the administrator of said punishment know) ,we had a Scott's technical drawing teacher you only played him up once ,he had a slipper wich I swear belonged to coco the clown ,you were made to bend over in front of the whole class only to be told not far enough he wanted to see the stitching in your trousers stretched to the limit only then would he strike ,you never went home and told because you'd likely get one off your dad as well ,you never spoke badly to my mum in the kitchen she could catch you on the elbow with a wooden spoon with ninja like speed.
Smoking in the cinema smokers on the left non sitting on the right ,if you wanted a fag(rember when that meant cigarette) on the bus it was upstairs only.
When with your first car(s) you got stopped by the police for having say a bulb out you made sure you heeded the advice and went straight up the local petrol station and fixed it now rather than point out the problem they get pissed of if they can't find anything to knick you for ,still that goes back to when they were concerned with solving crime not your bulb broken.
Politicians who told the truth only to be dismissed as trouble ,only to find out they weren't far wrong years down the line ,but hey were still all here and all the above thoughts from you guys above have made me smile lets hope that doesn't get forgotten. Dave

Ah yes - a juvenile visit to Approved School followed by a 'holiday' in Borstal :thinking:
Steve

[Guest]

No sparrow shortage around here

There used to be very few or no sparrows here for quite a long time, but in recent years they’ve made a comeback. Ten to twenty years ago, you rarely saw (or heard) any at all, when before that there were plenty.