I miss de old dayz!

Jesus Wept · 10-10-2007 1:58am #1

A place to post your old pictures, stories, yarns, tall tales and musics from de dayz of yore.

+++General rambling about how much better it used to be encouraged+++

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7rl3U6JJ64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhquavyMRXU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4AtSJy0vuY

randylonghorn · 10-10-2007 2:33am

In de olden dayz there would have been an Atari Jaguar option! :mad:

10-10-2007 2:37am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Jesus Wept · 10-10-2007 2:39am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Deleted User wrote:

Brilliant, tis well you were lookin', very dashin'!

Tell us more about when yoo were a boy Dolanbaker.

randylonghorn wrote:

In de olden dayz there would have been an Atari Jaguar option! :mad:

but it used to be so much bettorrrr back dens dat no one felt dat way bout anything!

Now get in da mood RLH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3K5uB-wMA

10-10-2007 2:59am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

DOLANBAKER:
Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.
THE-RIGGER:
Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
RANDYLONGHORN:
You're right there, Obadiah.
CHALLENGEMASTER:
Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
DOLANBAKER:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
THE-RIGGER:
A cup o' cold tea.
CHALLENGEMASTER:
Without milk or sugar.
RANDYLONGHORN:
Or tea.
DOLANBAKER:
In a cracked cup, an' all.
CHALLENGEMASTER:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
THE-RIGGER:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
RANDYLONGHORN:
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
DOLANBAKER:
Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
CHALLENGEMASTER:
Aye, 'e was right.
DOLANBAKER:
Aye, 'e was.
CHALLENGEMASTER:
I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
THE-RIGGER:
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
RANDYLONGHORN:
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
DOLANBAKER:
Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
CHALLENGEMASTER:
Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
THE-RIGGER:
We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
RANDYLONGHORN:
You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
DOLANBAKER:
Cardboard box?
RANDYLONGHORN:
Aye.
DOLANBAKER:
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
THE-RIGGER:
Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
RANDYLONGHORN:
Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
CHALLENGEMASTER:
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
DOLANBAKER:
And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
ALL:
They won't!

Matt Holck · 10-10-2007 7:01am

I don't

Jesus Wept · 10-10-2007 4:40pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

DOLANBAKER:

nice work sir!

~Rebel~ · 10-10-2007 8:47pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Ah yes, I remember those old days. Best of me life. Used to have to walk 42 miles to school every day. Barefoot we were. Course we loved it. Used to snow every day back then before this bloomin' "global warming". It was like christmas if you saw a freshly laid cow sh1te. We'd stand in it for hours soaking up the heat so we would. Ah yes. Made of stronger stuff back then. I used to be beaten daily with a lump of iron the size of a goalpost. A GAA one too, not one of them sissy little soccer ones. Loved it i did. When they'd finished walloping me id turn around and beg for more. Now they have their interweb, and their telley-vission, and their PlayBox180's and god knows whatever else. Lord i'd give anything to be given a good clatter for sneaking one of ma's pie's off the window cill. Id only be stealing them to get the beatin' but we kept that from her of course. Mighty pie's they were though. None of that Bananna cream, or apple, or rhubarb. God no. We had rocks in our pies. Loved em we did. Scoff em down we would, and spit out a mouthfull of teeth after. We'd all try and spit out the most. Aye. Made of sterner stuff back then we were.

Jesus Wept · 10-10-2007 10:05pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

~Rebel~ wrote:

Ah yes, I remember those old days. Best of me life. Used to have to walk 42 miles to school every day. Barefoot we were. Course we loved it. Used to snow every day back then before this bloomin' "global warming". It was like christmas if you saw a freshly laid cow sh1te. We'd stand in it for hours soaking up the heat so we would. Ah yes. Made of stronger stuff back then. I used to be beaten daily with a lump of iron the size of a goalpost. A GAA one too, not one of them sissy little soccer ones. Loved it i did. When they'd finished walloping me id turn around and beg for more. Now they have their interweb, and their telley-vission, and their PlayBox180's and god knows whatever else. Lord i'd give anything to be given a good clatter for sneaking one of ma's pie's off the window cill. Id only be stealing them to get the beatin' but we kept that from her of course. Mighty pie's they were though. None of that Bananna cream, or apple, or rhubarb. God no. We had rocks in our pies. Loved em we did. Scoff em down we would, and spit out a mouthfull of teeth after. We'd all try and spit out the most. Aye. Made of sterner stuff back then we were.

That took me back. What a whimsical tale of yesteryear.

~Rebel~ · 10-10-2007 10:17pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Aye. Take a look through me minds eye (through this magic window box). Tis of me journey to the new world. Back then we didn't have planes. No sir. Didn't even have the sea back then! Traveled the whole way by train. Ah magical way of transport is the train. Nice and slow. Grueling journey. Took me 25years on the train to get there. And when i finally arrived i saw it wasn't all it was cracked up to be, all strange and different, so i hopped back on board and spent the next 25 years travellin back home to me dear ma's rock pies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYBnF6WCGMk

10-10-2007 10:31pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

That was was my first train set, tilll beaching took it away.

Had to settle for second best

Jesus Wept · 10-10-2007 10:56pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

The arsehole heart of Ireland.

10-10-2007 11:10pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Athlone docks! sure when I were a lad it was all fields and sand banks (& camels)!

Jesus Wept · 12-10-2007 12:46am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Matt Holck · 12-10-2007 4:43pm

Where's Biko

13-10-2007 11:55pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

http://www.rural-roads.co.uk/m45/m45_1.shtml

Wow some of the motorways in Britain are so old they have gained heritige status.

The First Heritage Motorway - M45 Dunchurch to Crick

New Status for a Historic Road

The M45 motorway was opened to traffic in 1959. Whilst not the first motorway to be opened in Britain, the M45's place in our motorway heritage is assured because it was built as part of the first stage of the M1 London to Birmingham Motorway, opening on the same day as the M1 in November 1959.
Originally intended to be the Birmingham spur off the proposed London to Yorkshire Motorway, the motorway no longer fulfils that purpose - a role instead taken by the M6 a few miles to the north. Consequentially, the M45 carries much less traffic than originally intended, and is in many ways a snapshot of how motorways were first envisaged.
Much further south, work is under way to widen the M1 motorway to dual four-lanes, resulting in the loss of many original features. However, on the M45, the original bridges, designed by Sir Owen Williams and Partners, can be seen in all their glory.
In view of the changes to the M1, it has today been announced that the M45 is to become Britain's first Heritage motorway. This new status is equivalent to Grade 2 Listed Building status and means that over a five year period, many modern features will be restored to their original state. For example, junction signage will be designed to match the original signage on the motorway.

The BBC article is here.
To find out more about the M45, have a look at Steven Jukes's excellent page on Pathetic Motorways, or check out the CBRD Motorway Database.
A historic journey through our motorway heritage

Our journey runs from west to east, starting soon after joining the motorway. You can find the M45 on a map, here. At the time this picture was taken, the motorway was being maintained using modern equipment and signs. It is understood that in future, these will not be permitted.
In the distance we can see the first of the Owen Williams bridges that will now be preserved for ever.
The one intermediate junction on the M45 is not an original feature. It was built in the early 1990s. It is not clear whether the plans to list the road will include the removal of this junction. It was built to provide a bypass for Dunchurch, but the lack of traffic using the M45 suggests that Dunchurch could probably cope with the bypassing traffic back in the town.

Even with a lane closed, the motorway is more than able to cope with the traffic demands placed upon it. In future, according to the BBC article, only classic vehicles will be permitted to use the road. This means that the traffic loading will be further reduced, which should help to reduce the need for future maintenance.

the_syco · 14-10-2007 12:12am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

The-Rigger wrote: »

They all look gay.

Jesus Wept · 14-10-2007 12:38am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

the_syco wrote: »

They all look gay.

awwwww, someone is sad they didn't make the cut.

Irish Wolf · 14-10-2007 1:20am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

The-Rigger wrote: »

Best post I've seen in a good long while*

*since yesterday

randylonghorn · 15-10-2007 7:53pm

PiP

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Matt Holck · 15-10-2007 8:02pm

Amelia is often remembered more for a fashion declaration of independence than for her long support of women's rights.

Her cousin, Elizabeth Smith Miller, visited Seneca Falls after a tour of Europe wearing Turkish pantaloons gathered at the ankle under a long skirt that reached below the knee, with the bodice free of constricting whale bones and corset ties.

The comfortable dress, which did not show any skins except the neck, face and hands, was pounds lighter and cooler than the standard dress of the day. It also allowed free movement and easy breathing without the bones and wires that turned the female body into an exaggerated "figure 8."

Amelia said women had been unpaid street sweepers in their floor-length dresses for long enough and "our forms should be what nature made them."

Amelia endorsed the outfit in The Lily and wore it to speaking engagements. Women around the country wrote to Amelia to obtain a pattern, and it quickly became known as "bloomers" even though she did not create or introduce the dress.

Bloomers and Amelia were attacked as decadent from pulpits to courtrooms and servant's quarters to gentlemen's clubs.

She gave up the dress after eight years because men used it as a target to divert attention from the messages she considered more important, she later wrote.

Amelia Bloomer

randylonghorn · 16-10-2007 2:18am

16-10-2007 2:39am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Jesus Wept · 19-10-2007 4:11pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cMOz_cPAeE

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Jesus Wept · 30-10-2007 5:09am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

HAPPYGIRL · 31-10-2007 2:24am

Mr and Mrs Rigger.

Jesus Wept · 31-10-2007 4:36am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 31-10-2007 8:51am

The-Rigger wrote: »

I miss the old days!

You weren't here in the old days!!!

I remember when tCN was all fields!

Matt Holck · 31-10-2007 2:23pm

Patent illustration for a lever voting machine.

echter · 02-11-2007 6:48pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Jesus Wept · 03-11-2007 9:33pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Black Swan · 03-11-2007 9:36pm

...has lost and found his train of thought?

Jesus Wept · 03-11-2007 9:47pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Black Swan · 03-11-2007 9:50pm

The Rig bumps along the tracks

echter · 03-11-2007 9:56pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Jesus Wept · 03-11-2007 10:01pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Black Swan · 03-11-2007 10:01pm

Likes "traditional" Vegas weddings?

Jesus Wept · 03-11-2007 10:04pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

is asking?

Black Swan · 03-11-2007 10:05pm

Off your knees Rig! They might get the wrong idea...

Jesus Wept · 03-11-2007 10:06pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

but you were asking me.

Black Swan · 03-11-2007 10:20pm

Rig knows well the saying "If wishes were fishes..."

Jesus Wept · 03-11-2007 10:24pm

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

should know that I don't

Jesus Wept · 05-11-2007 10:56am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfDXlgmKFyU

05-11-2007 11:15am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

The-Rigger wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfDXlgmKFyU

Not quite! but I remember seeing the news before the first film then the main feature. Cant remember how much but is was in shillings.

*looks for zimmer frame*

Jesus Wept · 05-11-2007 11:17am

I miss de olden dayz!!! Everyting was betttorr !!

Deleted User wrote: »

Not quite! but I remember seeing the news before the first film then the main feature. Cant remember how much but is was in shillings.

*looks for zimmer frame*

lol! Speak of the divil!!

They showed the news? lol. Tell us more of yore stories from days of yore.