What has Disappeared?

[Dave Ward]

I have also a Mamiya 120mm

Before I went Minolta, I had a Mamiya 645 - lovely piece of kit, but too heavy & unwieldy & slow to use 120 film had too few exposures per roll! I did a straight swap for a Minolta SR-T101.........
I still have a Rolleiflex 2.8 TLR, but that was my fathers & it's just a sentimental ' ornament '
Dave

[stona]

WELL Conkers eh as ive said i had a 20er but i cheated an soaked it in vinegar lol
chrisb

Did that too, but you're right, that was considered cheating. It was also a bit obvious as the resulting conker looked a bit like a very pale prune once the skin was knocked off

[Guest]

Computers that had style and character! These days they all look the same, give me the old ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and BBC Model B!

Pretending to smoke with those candy/chocolate cigarettes that even had a red end on them.

Car cigarette lighter that you'd burn your finger on, just to see if it still worked.

Ten bob notes.

a handful of 10p's would get you a full days enjoyment an in arcade

'bowl' haircut done by your mum in a hurry

Playing in the local woodyard and getting splinters everywhere.

Building a go-kart with pram wheels you dredged up from the canal and wood you nicked from said woodyard.

[stona]

I remember being given a ten bob note by a rarely seen uncle, and feeling as rich as the Sultan of Brunei!

[Gern]

I remember being given a ten bob note by a rarely seen uncle, and feeling as rich as the Sultan of Brunei!

Apparently the 10 bob note was withdrawn from circulation back in 1969. I was about 16 then and although I'd seen plenty from working in a petrol station - anybody remember the days when the assistant came out and served you? - I never got to actually own one. I reckon if I had I would have considered that Sultan to be a pauper!

[Miko]

I hate gardening

Maybe if it's a chore, you're not doing it properly,

Miko (horticulturalist)

[Dave Ward]

Bank notes! My fathers maiden aunt passed away ( early 80's ), and we got the job of clearing her house - not a nice job, she still had the blackout curtains rigged! There were several musty dusty sets of Victorian Encyclopedias - we had a dealer round - he took a few odds and ends, but the books? Worthless - only fit for the skip! We hired a skip, loaded it up with the weighty furniture, gas stove etc, then started chuckng the heavy books in - when we had got to about 30 of 48, one carelessly thrown book hit the edge of the skip & fluttered open - out fell a Bank of England White £5 note - the very old sort, printed on one side only & twice te size of a modern note - they went out of circulation in the late 50's. Of course we had to climb into the skip & go through all the books! We amassed over 40 fivers! My father, being a bank manager knew that you could change them for face value at a bank BUT, they were worth far more to collectors & that's where they went! After expenses, skip hire etc, my Father, brother and myself shared over £600! Some were in poor condition, but others were mint ( and musty! ) and were worth around £50.
The money had been there for the best part at least 30 years, the Aunt had gone senile in later years, and been sectioned. We thought we were on a winner with the house - but a long lost closer relation turned up ( after we'd done all the work ) and claimed inheritance - Oh well - don't count your chickens before they're hatched!
Dave

[Jim R]

Simple cars. Now I'm far from mechanically minded but there was a time when I could recognise a few things under the bonnet. I kinda knew where oil and washer fluid went. Now I don't even open the bonnet between services. If I have any concerns it's straight into the garage.
There are more lights and bleeps coming from my dash board than on a space ship. Reversing cameras, cruise control, auto braking, etc etc. I'm sure they are all useful in their own way but if there's an auto setting then that's what I settle for. Auto wipers, auto lights and auto gearbox. Even the tailgate closes on its own!!
It's not just cars either - my telly has a mind of it's own. The Sky man showed me how to talk to it!! I don't. At my age there's no way I'm holding a conversation with a Samsung telly!!
And don't get me onto the subject of the self service checkouts in Sainsbury's. They see me coming and go wrong!!!

[peterairfix]

People that said hello when you phone a company or doctors instead all you get nowadays is press this for that and another for that by the time you got to speak to someone it could be all solved quicker if they just picked up the phone and said hello

[minitnkr]

"Woke garden".....thought it meant the garden was replying/holding up its' end of the conversation.....

Joke records, recordings of standup or lounge acts. Unedited and hilarious, even the hecklers back & forth.

Gern, I was that guy for many years, always part time. Started when 10yrs old for my uncle's Mobilegas (Pegasus logo) service station. Then for a war vet w/one leg at same station but Sinclair (Dino logo). Then for son of sister's godfather at same station but Texaco (Star logo) and followed him as he moved to better stations through the years until I moved my family to California where I worked a Chevron station part time till we moved to Escondido, so almost 20 years.

[Guest]

People that said hello when you phone a company or doctors instead all you get nowadays is press this for that and another for that by the time you got to speak to someone it could be all solved quicker if they just picked up the phone and said hello

oh yes!! that drives me potty.

[boatman]

Simple cars. Now I'm far from mechanically minded but there was a time when I could recognise a few things under the bonnet. I kinda knew where oil and washer fluid went. Now I don't even open the bonnet between services. If I have any concerns it's straight into the garage.
There are more lights and bleeps coming from my dash board than on a space ship. Reversing cameras, cruise control, auto braking, etc etc. I'm sure they are all useful in their own way but if there's an auto setting then that's what I settle for. Auto wipers, auto lights and auto gearbox. Even the tailgate closes on its own!!
It's not just cars either - my telly has a mind of it's own. The Sky man showed me how to talk to it!! I don't. At my age there's no way I'm holding a conversation with a Samsung telly!!
And don't get me onto the subject of the self service checkouts in Sainsbury's. They see me coming and go wrong!!!

YES Jim my car has cruise controll which i use alot an same with the tv i can talk to it as its a smart sony 43incher but i havnt yet as jen thinks its spooky lol an building a den from bales in a corn feild after harvest as i havnt seen any kids do that now as the bales wheigh about half a ton what a shame an stackin them up to ride on them

Apparently the 10 bob note was withdrawn from circulation back in 1969. I was about 16 then and although I'd seen plenty from working in a petrol station - anybody remember the days when the assistant came out and served you? - I never got to actually own one. I reckon if I had I would have considered that Sultan to be a pauper!

YES Gern i owned a ten bob note after doin a full days work back in 1967 cartin pigs crap around our shop keepers garden in a wheel barrow emptyin into small heaps an i was hopein for a fiver but he was a bleedin cheapscate

AN CHILDREN in the harvest feild

[Gern]

Maybe if it's a chore, you're not doing it properly,

Miko (horticulturalist)

Hardest gardening task I have is digging into my wallet for the cash to pay the guy who cuts my grass once a month. Easy peasy!

[David Lovell]

Deep heat that actually generated some heat ,gripe water didn't it used to work because it was laced with morphine ,got a feeling fisherman's friends lozenges were the same ,I used to love em buy em loose like sweets mates would say give us a sweet then na its ok there horrible never had to share em ,oh and the hard black shiny sweets army and navy?

[Ian M]

got a feeling fisherman's friends lozenges were the same

What happened to Victory V lozenges used to love those.