[Closed] stuff you used to see but doesnt exist anymore

White dog poo

Snow domes are [b]awesome[/b].

White dog poo

Beat me to it, so I'm going with hedge porn.

Hedgerow porn

Old men flashing.

Anyone remember tiger's tail on the fuel filler?

I still send postcards

Well , I live in Torquay and have today seen holiday postcards, holiday rock and the lesser spotted white dog poo. It looked brittle as buggery too

free gifts with fuel, tiger tales, coins, toys, models etc

I too send postcards.

My vote: handwritten letters (Which I do send).

We moved into a 70's built house last year, rather than completely smother it in new stuff we've embraced it, after all in 30 years time we'll look back at oak furniture land and Ikea in the same way we look at MFI now so may as well roll with it.

G-plan dining room and sideboard, telephone shelf by the door, polished parquet floor, flowery wallpaper, fake brick, pot pouri 😀

In fact, pretty much everything apart from hedge porn in this thread is in our house somewhere!

Margaret Thatcher, thankfully

oh sorry it was stuff, not people

Well , I live in Torquay and have today seen holiday postcards, holiday rock and the lesser spotted white dog poo.

Spooky; I grew up in TQ1 and that was the last place I saw white dog poo, 20 years ago now. Is it a Devonian thing then? 🙂

Acid rain.
Spangles.
Those earthing strips on the back of hatchbacks.
A Cd drag coefficient rating stencilled on the side of a Talbot (or something).
Um Bongo.

29ers
Cassette tape in hedges.

Spooky; I grew up in TQ1 and that was the last place I saw white dog poo, 20 years ago now. Is it a Devonian thing then?

Probably the high percentage of old folk (or maybe serial killers) who still feed bones to their dogs. I believe it's a high calcium intake that's does it

 

"White dog poo" Our dogs lay em after a good bone. Which is often, they have me well trained to supply bone habit.

you don't see Spangles

Sorry to burst the white dog poo bubble, but loads of people feed their dogs on raw meat and bone diets, so it's making a glorious, triumphant calcified comeback.

Broken down cars.

My missus still buys Umbongo

Dogs stuck together.

We moved into a 70's built house last year, rather than completely smother it in new stuff we've embraced it,

Sounds horrific. Pictures?

Broken down Austin Rover cars.
Bobbies (not boobies) on the beat
Boobies ( page 3)
Tracing paper loo roll
Double glazing salesman

Blockbuster video, Connie from AOL, Loot newspaper , foil ashtrays.

Good call on coin collections from ESSO

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thisisnotaspoon - Member
We moved into a 70's built house last year, rather than completely smother it in new stuff we've embraced it...

Same here.
🙂

Retro leather sofas, headache inducing rugs, lots of orange, purple and green, open plan bedroom, oak and teak, some 50's and 60's stuff.
Suits the place.

It looks like the set from Playschool.
Love it.

Ford Cortinas, not even rusty ones in hedgerows. Like they were all beamed off the face of the planet.

Famous Army Stores

Mullets.

Monkey boots.

People having to spend Sunday making sure their cars would work the following week. (see also: P38)

Findus

I collect shit snowglobes so I see plenty of them.

Hedge porn as above

Friendly people

Things I like and can afford.

NAFF jackets

Those car door/boot protectors that were supposed to look like the fingers of someone trapped in the car.

Cars with CB radios

Tracing paper loo paper = Izal. My ring puckers at the memory.

Big cat print on the back of jackets
5.25in disks
ducks and geese ornaments stuck on walls
Keep Britain tidy bins
Bottles of Thunderbird
Tape cassettes players
28.8 / 14.4 modems

Those car door/boot protectors that were supposed to look like the fingers of someone trapped in the car

Mongrel dogs with strings of sausages in their mouths being chased down the street by big, fat, ruddy-faced butchers.

Runaways with all their belongings gathered up in a handkerchief at the end of a stick.

Bobbies who bend at the knees whilst saying "'Allo 'allo 'allo".

Burglars in stripey tops and masks, clambering over garden walls with bags marked "SWAG".

People with toothache wearing a bandage wrapped right the way around from the jaw to the top of their head.

Postmen, Milkmen and Bus Conductors who wear their hats at a jaunty angle.

Vicars falling off their bicycles after being distracted by a lady with large and lovely breasts.

Escaped convicts prowling the streets in arrow-covered all-in-one suits with ball and chains attached to one leg.

Policemen clipping young boys around the earhole on grounds of insolence.

People slipping on banana skins.

Blokes with rattles at football matches.

Park-keepers and school caretakers in policemen style uniformwho have an inherent hatred of children and anything which might be construed as being fun.

Big fat women and their small skinny husbands at the beach.

Cuts and grazes dressed with 2 plasters in the shape of a cross.

Detectives looking through huge magnifying glasses.

Surprising amount of those above you can still see around the valleys 😆

Ford Cortina
Tape on the roadside
Fluffy dice on rear view mirror
Those hand bumper things
Broken down cars
Umbongo - usually in Poundland!
Blockbuster Video stores - closed but still there!
Bobbies on the beat
Tracing paper loo roll in the public loos
Car earthing strips
EDIT: forgot I saw a Garfield stuck to the back of an MPV recently too.

Oh and LOTS of mullets 😯

Those Barbie dolls with a knitted dress over a loo roll.
Tissue box on the parcel shelf of a car, maybe with an ornamental cover.
Chewits
Fires with plastic logs that glowed when on.

Those little glass ducks - Whimsies I think they are called.

yellow or blue sunstrips across the top of Ford Capri windscreens bearing the names 'Geoff Linda'

Park-keepers and school caretakers in policemen style uniformwho have an inherent hatred of children and anything which might be construed as being fun.

yep we still have those round here.

boy scouts doing bob a job weeks,
ice cube holders in the shape of pineapples,
fondu sets, what ever they where,
swingers parties,
pet bricks,
dr martens,
dogs shagging,
torpedo shaped tea dispensers push a button for a spoonful of tea,
cushions and blankets on rear shelf of cars,
rubber boots on towbar towing ball,

Policemen clipping young boys around the earhole on grounds of insolence.

Hairy lady gardens that were in above Hedgerow porn!!

Silk plumeria lei (flower garlands) are the new fluffy dice.

There's a chap lives up road with a CB radio in his Volvo. Judging by the amount of big aerials stuck all over it.

djglover - Member
Mongrel dogs with strings of sausages in their mouths being chased down the street by big, fat, ruddy-faced butchers.

Runaways with all their belongings gathered up in a handkerchief at the end of a stick.

Bobbies who bend at the knees whilst saying "'Allo 'allo 'allo".

Burglars in stripey tops and masks, clambering over garden walls with bags marked "SWAG".

People with toothache wearing a bandage wrapped right the way around from the jaw to the top of their head.

Postmen, Milkmen and Bus Conductors who wear their hats at a jaunty angle.

Vicars falling off their bicycles after being distracted by a lady with large and lovely breasts.

Escaped convicts prowling the streets in arrow-covered all-in-one suits with ball and chains attached to one leg.

Policemen clipping young boys around the earhole on grounds of insolence.

People slipping on banana skins.

Blokes with rattles at football matches.

Park-keepers and school caretakers in policemen style uniformwho have an inherent hatred of children and anything which might be construed as being fun.

Big fat women and their small skinny husbands at the beach.

Cuts and grazes dressed with 2 plasters in the shape of a cross.

Detectives looking through huge magnifying glasses.

I was wondering where Ron Manager went to.

TV rental shops
The Electricity shop (you know, the ones that were for the company you bought actual electricity from)
all that 'Humphrey' stuff from the milkman (not that you see many of them now either)
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Watneys Party 7
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Wanters Red Barrel keyrings
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I reckon that dogs are still shagging

Hells Angels. Runners running in the road while people in cars wonder why they are running in the road.
Donkey jackets with plastic shoulders.
Brown cars.

Hooch / 2 dogs alcopops
Ford Sierra's

multi track cartridge players in cars,

vhs / betamax and video 2000 tv recorders

Yorkie Wagons
V Brakes
Robin Reliants

Tea cosy's

Those little air deflector thingys on windscreen wipers

Teasmaid - Alarm with a lukewarm cup of stewed tea attached

Plain black football boots

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Who remembers these?

...and Tonka toys = proper old ones with skin your knuckles sharp edges, not the namely pamby nonsense they make these days
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Please.
Thank you.
Sorry.

Nodding dogs on the back shelf of cars
Gun shot transfers people used to put on windows
Soda syphons
Athena posters
Drivers wearing driving gloves
Teasmaids
Proper chip pans

brown slugs with orange bits round the edges

TV remote control.
The one with the small box on the end of a wire.

brown slugs with orange bits round the edges

Nah, we get them here. I can probably find some and send them to you if you want

Drivers wearing driving gloves

I loved those Piedi!

cassette and disc walkmans,

Dandruff.

Those Parker pens you hung around your neck.

Bedford TK pop wagons

mullets

Harrington jackets
Texan bars
Teasmades
Blakeys on shoes
Woollen leg warmers
Big shopping catalogues
Boys playing kurby
Corduroy

Dusty Bin
Gameshows
people without any tattoos

[quote=jekkyl ]people without any tattoos

davidtaylforth - Member

Cars with CB radios

just about every Polish car i see on the Autobahn has one on the roof....

Nipper99 - Member

Ford Cortinas, not even rusty ones in hedgerows. Like they were all beamed off the face of the planet.

i'm going with cassettes... although i did see one of those cassettes with a jack in a store the other day. almost bought it for a laugh.

Is this thread a BREXIT inspired future Tory manifesto?

Those fluffy covers for toilet lids

.......libdems

Instant mash
Those clocks that were supposed to look like the sun, with wooden "rays"

I've seen several Cortinas in the last year or so, a couple of Mk1's, a Mk2 and a Mk3 or 4.
Not surprised you don't see cassettes in the hedge any more, they've become very trendy wiv da yoof.

pottery cats climbing into a glass vase

Jim'll Fix It

Connie from AOL /swoon

I was practically in love with her.

Sod it. I still am.

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G-plan dining room and sideboard, telephone shelf by the door, polished parquet floor, flowery wallpaper, fake brick, pot pouri

This sounds like my ideal house! 🙂

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