Cannot have Golliwog brouches - you might upset the ethnics, even though it was a competition with your mates to get the various ones...
Well at least we know where he kept the tiolet roll.....
But you can still watch the original T&G, Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn cartoons on YT. My wife catches me laughing like a drain at them - no sense of humour unless I hit my thumb with the hammer.
Missing the old currency, that is part of the EU religion.
Handshakes, yes I remember that polite greeting from my days covering Europe in the truck.
Used to get the broken chocolate from my grandmother when she worked at Cadbury's, I cannot remember if I ever had a dummy (pacifier), but I can remember the taste of chocolate....
Not been to the cinema in years, when the mobile phone idiot was calling his/her mate to tell them about the film, or the constant noise from crisp and sweet bags or the moron that had seen the film 70 times and was giving a running commentary.
Parafin heater, had one of those in my bedroom during the winter made by Valor. No duvets or quilts back then, it was ex army blankets....
Yes the cane, we became firm friends during my later years at school. Miss Stott had a slash with the cane that really stung, but oh! Miss Stott the dreams I had about her.... Many a time went home with the wealt marks still visible and dad coming home and giving you a swift one around the ear, mother took no nonsense either, it was the wooden tongues from the washing machine....
I remember on politician warning us there would be blood on our streets, he was castigated as being a trouble maker - now look at what we have - well warned Enoch.
Well at least we know where he kept the tiolet roll.....
But you can still watch the original T&G, Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn cartoons on YT. My wife catches me laughing like a drain at them - no sense of humour unless I hit my thumb with the hammer.
Odd, foil with a paper wrapper around it is still the norm here.
I never knew that was a thing until I saw it mentioned in an episode of Life on Mars, when the main character remarks on it.
In the Netherlands, bus services were privatised in the 1990s due to liberal¹ economic theories of the kind best known to British readers from the Thatcher years. Until then, they were provided by public companies that was usually owned by the province (equivalent to a county in UK terms) or, in major cities, by the city council. However, in recent years rural provinces — such as the one I live in — have been getting ever more shortchanged by the bus companies they’ve contracted, with stops and lines being scrapped for not being an efficient use of resources. It’s come to the point where the provincial government here hasn’t been able find a contractor to perform bus services when the current company’s contract runs out in a few years’ time. There has been talk of the province setting up its own bus service once more.
¹ Note for any Americans reading this: in Europe, “liberal” means “right-wing” and very much not “socialist”. Just so you know.
As for things I can think of around here that have disappeared …
I never knew that was a thing until I saw it mentioned in an episode of Life on Mars, when the main character remarks on it.
In the Netherlands, bus services were privatised in the 1990s due to liberal¹ economic theories of the kind best known to British readers from the Thatcher years. Until then, they were provided by public companies that was usually owned by the province (equivalent to a county in UK terms) or, in major cities, by the city council. However, in recent years rural provinces — such as the one I live in — have been getting ever more shortchanged by the bus companies they’ve contracted, with stops and lines being scrapped for not being an efficient use of resources. It’s come to the point where the provincial government here hasn’t been able find a contractor to perform bus services when the current company’s contract runs out in a few years’ time. There has been talk of the province setting up its own bus service once more.
¹ Note for any Americans reading this: in Europe, “liberal” means “right-wing” and very much not “socialist”. Just so you know.
As for things I can think of around here that have disappeared …
- Probably the most obvious one is guilder coins and notes.
- SRV vans. (Somebody mentioned milk floats earlier. These were similar electric vehicles, but bigger, so they were actual mini-supermarkets on wheels that came round your street once or twice a week.)
- Handshakes:
- Petrol pumps at local village garages.
- Local village garages, for that matter.
- Record stores.
- Lack of self-censorship (I mean that as I put it: I notice a lot of people censoring themselves for all kinds of things when they wouldn’t have done so ten or twenty years ago).
- A variety of buildings around my village that I think should still be there, instead of the modern apartment blocks that have been put in their places.
Handshakes, yes I remember that polite greeting from my days covering Europe in the truck.
Used to get the broken chocolate from my grandmother when she worked at Cadbury's, I cannot remember if I ever had a dummy (pacifier), but I can remember the taste of chocolate....
Not been to the cinema in years, when the mobile phone idiot was calling his/her mate to tell them about the film, or the constant noise from crisp and sweet bags or the moron that had seen the film 70 times and was giving a running commentary.
Parafin heater, had one of those in my bedroom during the winter made by Valor. No duvets or quilts back then, it was ex army blankets....
Yes the cane, we became firm friends during my later years at school. Miss Stott had a slash with the cane that really stung, but oh! Miss Stott the dreams I had about her.... Many a time went home with the wealt marks still visible and dad coming home and giving you a swift one around the ear, mother took no nonsense either, it was the wooden tongues from the washing machine....
I remember on politician warning us there would be blood on our streets, he was castigated as being a trouble maker - now look at what we have - well warned Enoch.
TBH, I prefer euros over guilders — no changing money needed in case you go abroad, prices in foreign web shops are immediately comparable without conversion, etc.
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