Cassette tapes,
Betamax and video 2000 tapes,
reel to reel tape recorders,
cine cameras,film projectors, slide projectors,
Krooklocks for cars,car seat bead cushons,
Tricycles,adults and childrens,
outside toilets,
tv rental shops,
Pottery horse pulling a cart,
Large glass with a cat climbing up the side,
anything made by K TELL,
Fury toilet seat covers,
Fondue sets,
Extra single track points if you still actuallyn own one of the above, along with your suggestions of tat that should never have been made.
Hedgeporn
Jesus, I still remember a bloke with a horse & cart coming round the houses selling paraffin!
I have an ironic dolly loo roll cover, it’s not furious but does gave a Derby County badge on it. Approx 30yrs old, still going strong.
I went to a fondue recently, I work with someone with a krooklock and a couple of years ago on the same weekend saw white dog s**t and hedgeporn!
I just found Now 11 and Now 20 and a load of other cassettes!! Now I need a tape deck!
have seen trainers on overhead cables for years
Wham bars
Pacers
This thread is thick with cliche and thin with real experience.
Those rear-facng extra seats in the boots of estate cars
Telephone boxes with telephones in them
Antimacasas
Not really see, but pubs smell very different nowadays
Sonic the Hedgehog
Deposits on glass pop bottles (when Corona meant limeade not nasty lager).
Candy cigarettes and cigars. I owned a great many of these but only ever briefly. Never quite reached a 40 a day habit.
My grandparents?
Cathy Robertson
I own too many of the things in this list. I feel I should reassess my hoarding....
Rickets
The National Front.
Thank God we don't have any of that nonsense these days.
Bicycle tyres thrown over lampposts.
Milk men
coal men
chimney sweeps
black and white TVs with dials for tuning
children playing in the streets
paper bags
Hmmm! I still see a lot on your lists.
Fuzzy Felt.
When I were a lad runners used to run in the road and we all said”I wonder why they run in the road.”
We still don’t know.
Hells Angels.
A man with a stone wheel on a push bike who would sharpen knives on a Sunday morning.
Dolly birds. I miss Dolly Birds.
White dog poo
Parents telling their kids to shut the **** up when they're annoying everyone else in a ten mile radius.
People in cars than don't try and kill you because you've stopped them joining the back of the next que by 30 seconds.
And Alpine pop lorrys.
I miss Alpine pop lorrys.
A bottle of cola and a bottle of dandeilion and bird shit was enough to last a family of four for a week back then.
Reebok pump!
Hot dogs
Jumping frogs
Albequerqe
My feet and my wanger
Bay City Rollers fans.
Poor council house folk in vauxhall vivas letting their children smoke No6.
Cassettes? Srsly? Bands sell the bloody things at gigs! Do keep up at the back, boy!
26" wheels
Royal Variety Shows
People keeping cloths pegs in their car to help choke the car in winter and err...chokes
My father in law still has a crook lock . My local loop sees me pass a pair of trainers hanging on the over head cables
Jim’ll Fix It
Those Round Tuit plates or any other plates inexplicably on display stands in peoples houses.
Rope swings on trees
Rotary telephones
Camcorders
I lived with my grandparents until I was six years old in a pit village in North West Durham ..and while I don't remember the exact day it came around but " Pie & Peas ( mushy) " van used to come around on a week day lunchtime ..the smell was to die for ( before & after ! ).
Polystyrene toilet seat warmers for the outside loo..pure luxury !
Those were the days !
Tracing paper that could also be used as toilet paper but very slidey
Snakebelts!
Oxford bags, starry jumpers and patterned shirts with huuuuuge collars.
oh, and platform wedgies
mh, a child in the 70’s.
Berni Inns - height of decadence as a lad
Sun-burnt kids covered in dried camomile lotion - did we have affordable sun cream in the 60s and 70s?
Nicotine-yellow ceilings in all public buildings
Cars that rusted away before your very eyes and cars with visible wood that was a) real wood and b) structural
Window cleaner with a ladder that was wooden and strapped to the top tube of his bike
Glass pop bottles with a refund notice
Parrafin heaters.
"TV repairman".
Round-pin electricity plugs.
33/45 rpm portable "record players".
Mutton stew.
Frost on the inside of single-glazed windows.
"Hire purchase".
Rag and bone man.
15 minute pause between the programmes on BBC television.
One television channel only. In black and white (see above).
The "Weather man" (always a man) putting magnetic weather symbols on a wall map.
Mass grovelling deference.
I could go on...
But I won't.
Them plastic water games for kids with white buttons that you pressed to skoosh little plastic rings onto a hook inside. You got doublers with skooshers at either end or single skooshers.
Bri-Nylon
Cream Soda
Tuf shoes
Light and bitter
Donkey jackets and monkey boots
Cigarettes in packets of 5
Dunn and Co
Sonic the Hedgehog
I have him on my iPhone 👍 try the App Store.
Laser Sunfish (dinghy)
Alligators
Cottonmouth Moccasin and Copperhead water snakes..
Oldsmobile Vista Station Waggons
Wendys Burger Bars
Oranges the size of footballs
Kids wearing wellies in the summer ... even when its not raining.
Discarded copies of Razzle up the mountain.
Police who scare you even if they were not in uniform.
Wagon wheels as big as your face, curly wurlies as long as your arm
And these..
Empty streets.
Used to be able to play football in the street, now there's cars parked both sides.
Interest rates at 15%, tax at 30%, no one had disposable income for cars, holidays, Sky packages and throw away consumer goods, but we did have a better funded NHS.
A mate and I spotted some genuine, printed in a glossy magazine hedgeporn the other week - strange how old habits die hard even in the internet age.
Black rubbery sticks with a sort of lightning bolt design on, dangling off the bottom of the rear end of cars.
Iirc they were supposed to be something to do with dissipating static electricity? No idea why that was a thing people felt they needed to do.
Playing kerby on the street trying not to upset the neighbours new mk3 Cortina with the vinyl roof
Car seats that would burn your legs if wearing shorts in the summer
Top Deck Shandy
Raleigh Grifters
Programmes on the telly about stuff from your youth that you don't see nowadays.
VHS Pron
Texan Bars
Curried Mince Pies from Bejam
Rickets
Flat top haircuts
Gallini Sweaters
Reebok pump!
I'm wearing some right now. My parents wouldn't dream of spending that much money on trainers in the 90s. It wasn't worth the wait! 😂
Flat top haircuts
I've literally just got back from the barbers and there was guy getting a flat top. He was probably mid/late 50s though, so has probably had the same hair cut for the last 30 years, just like my old man has!
Cars with manual front windows
Kia ora (drink not a car)
Shell suits 😱
Head bags (carried by one strap over the shoulder, obvs)
Film cameras
4:3 CRT TVs that weighed as much as a house (with Teletext/Ceefax if you were lucky!)
Drawers FULL of CDs
Gini (delicious fizzy sugary lemon drink)
@redmex we had 2 new Morris Marinas in the 70s and my dad left the plastic covering on the seats, probably as protection against a sticky child. The added wrap around effect of the plastic added to the burning sensation!
Cresta (as described by Half Man Half Biscuit https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xi_xvpm4UI&t=2m56s)
Edlong, it was thought that the static contributed to car sickness. There's another one: sick bags in the glove compartment (and tiger tails).
beer flavoured gummy sweets in the shape of pint glasses, complete with frothy head.
Even as kids we'd eat them thinking "I don't think this is setting me a good example"
An excellent companion to Candy Cigerettes without the offending red tip and re-labelled as 'sticks'. What were they made of? - I'm sure we'd find the occasional shard of bone in them.
Plastic louvres on the rear windows of capris. And vinyl roofs.
4:3 CRT TVs that weighed as much as a house (with Teletext/Ceefax if you were lucky!)
Still got one. I hate flat tellies and I had 16:9.
I'll be heartbroken if it breaks
Yamaha DT/BWS 50's, cheap Honda Cubs, Ceefax, announcers on screen between tv programmes, The Young Doctors, Texas Homecare, red-framed pictures of Ferraris, Porsches and Lamborghinis, Biker pubs with proper choppers outside, the way greengrocers used to twirl the paper bags up, 10p mixes, Frido Balls, Italian cafes in elevated walkways (Morellis in Canterbury), B-Boys on lino in town centres, the music you would hear playing in a department store furniture section, public safety adverts, Ritz Cheese Sandwich.
Fab 208 that used to
EU funded projects.
Mr freeze ice pops ... Sweets 4 for 1p..... 1p for 1 stop on the bus..... Going the match for £1.20.... Corner shops would close at 1pm on a sunday..... Tv would start at 9am and only 3 channels
My first day at school I was given my slate and some chalk. Plain slate one side, lines painted on the other for learning to write.
Oranges and bananas were still in very short supply.
My fringe and ponytail .
Woolworths
Sunday afternoon car maintenance. Bonnet up, new points, feeler gauges out.
People washing their cars.
On our street I'm the only person who does this. Everybody else must use the local Romanian wash depot.
We must be a dying breed Derek ..I love washing the car then giving it a good shammy..almost as much as I love cleaning inside too ..
Pound notes.
Half penny coins (and consequently h'appeny chews)
Pre-decimal coins (I was born in '67, so in the decimal era but plenty of pre-decimal coins around).
Matchbox cars.
Children playing outside.
Don't see Berni (of Berni Inn fame) anymore. I used to deliver his Evening post, he tipped well at Christmas, and used to run a gold Roller. Nice chap, liked a good steak.
Bluetits nicking cream from milk bottles.
Afghan coats.
Afghan hounds come to think of it.
Hopscotch squares chalked on the pavement.
Cigarette and chocolate vending machines near the shops.
Baskets for milk bottles with a number of pints pointer.
Luncheon Vouchers accepted here.
Dogs shagging on the croft.
Parents shouting their kids in and the inevitable "five more minutes"
Candy watches and bracelets.
Cars without headrests
Marbles or alleys.
Hostess trollies.
Seven pint beer cans.
Peashooters and catapults.
Deaf folk with amps around their neck.
Cars without headrests
Ay?
Ay what?
I hate flat tellies
Why?
Cars without headrests
Ay?
Common enough in the 80s
Oh wait I read that arse way around.
Okay okay. Forget the headrests one! 😳
The top of the climb...I see stars now instead.
Black rubbery sticks with a sort of lightning bolt design on, dangling off the bottom of the rear end of cars.
Iirc they were supposed to be something to do with dissipating static electricity? No idea why that was a thing people felt they needed to do.
It was probably because people wore clothes made of..
Bri-Nylon
