Good clothes being robbed off the washing line!
If it was to be a cold damp night (er….every night nearly) having to put an old blanket or duffel coat on the engine. Otherwise the next morning could be a write off.
I was getting a lift somewhere in a Fiat 126 where the driver did this but forgot to take the carpet off the engine block…
When the Simpsons was funny…
In the 80s There were large no of old buildings in the city centre many buildings were empty. Campaigners had to march to stop those beautiful buildings from being demolished and replaced with bland apartment blocks .it was common for young people to go to the UK or America to work as there was a high rate of unemployment Now there's more jobs than there are people to apply for them
Children in clothes made by the mother. I remember home made shorts being particularly easy to make so there were a few around us that wore them. I don't recall anyone getting a hard time over them either; I think a child today would be eaten alive by their peers turning up in a pair of shorts obviously made from curtains or a hatchet job on a pair of jeans.
Putting covers on school books with wall paper.
Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness having their voices dubbed over for news broadcast and not having any clue what they might really sound like.
Feckin gas
Walking the railway to meet a friend in another estate.
jaysus! i remember that especially the woodchip where you spent the rest of the year picking of the big lumps
The printers of the Beano and Dandy were notoriously anti Catholic and wouldn't hire Catholics for decades.
Yes I was.
😊
Ill see your Hotspur and raise you a Tiger 😁
they were gorgeous - got a few myself back in the day
waking up and everywhere white with snow..
Every single Christmas morning of my childhood alongside whatever the "big" present was (usually Scalectrix or Action-man related) there'd be a selection of the various Annuals waiting for me - Victor , Warlord , Hotspur , The Beezer etc.
I'm pretty certain that my Mother (now in her 80's) who is a bit of a hoarder to be fair has a box of all my old annuals in the attic at home somewhere.
Must go up there and find them next time I'm over there.
I used to bring a lead lamp out of the letterbox and burn a 60w bulb all night beside the distributor on my Fiat 124 :):)
If I forgot, it simply wouldn't start and I'd have the hairdryer going for a good 15 minutes before it'd start. This was even with a new distributor cap, HT leads, plugs, the lot. The spray, what was it called? Absolutely nothing else would work, blanket, plastic wrap around distributor etc. but the lead lamp worked every time :)
Glass milk bottles delivered to your door every morning by the milkman.
I live in Winnipeg. This can happen at anytime for about 50% of the year.
The cover of the Victor Annual for 1981 featured a Kamikaze bearing down on a pair of Royal Navy Sailors shooting at it.
No lock on the only phone in the house and no having to put 10p into the box that Dad put beside the only phone in the house.
No crappy roller skates that strapped onto your shoe and were lethal.
No risking life and limb by doing crazy break dance moves on a piece of lino.
No leather ties, rolled up pink linen jackets or trying to look like Morten Harket, Morrissey or Spandau Ballet.
No "Our Boys" magazine or the missions magazine if you went to a CBS.
Pressure cookers which would randomly explode and blow a hole in the the kitchen ceiling. I think they eventually got banned.
Cooker top chip pans which would burst into flame and burn a house down.
Replaced by the much safer deep fat frier which gave everybody heart disease.
Do you want quick or slow death with those tasty chips?!?
Why do you think this was shit?
AFAIC, that kind of thing was great.
It was great, but the birds pecking holes in the tinfoil bottle tops used to annoy my mum!
Can still get them, the safety valves got better
The dairies eventually provided plastic cloches
The excitement when the dairies put the Christmas bottle tops on.
You knew that it was just around the corner.
I saw a guy hitchhiking today which I haven't seen in along time. Does this go on a lot? I remember doing that in the pissing rain getting drenched cause there was no bus. At least there's a proper bus service now (most of the time)
I can't find anything on the web about them, those old carboard milk cartons that used to have a version at christmas where you could make your own nativity scene.
Candy cigarettes ..
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