Back in my day......

is_that_so · 16-09-2007 04:28PM

Bus ticket machines (not sure what they were called), where the conductor wound a handle to get a ticket and the old buses where you could just hop off the back.

LadyE · 16-09-2007 04:49PM

is_that_so wrote:

Bus ticket machines (not sure what they were called), where the conductor wound a handle to get a ticket and the old buses where you could just hop off the back.

How old are YOU?

16-09-2007 08:13PM

is_that_so wrote:

the old buses where you could just hop off the back.

The old Routemasters were running in London until only a year or so ago.

kowloon · 16-09-2007 09:12PM

The wierd shaped cinema tickets that were inked, similar to the bus tickets in a way.

Points ignition, Carburetors, that flash bastard around the corner with METALLIC paint on his starlet.

Knowing you wouldnt be able to get a good job in the country when you were older and not caring because everyone else was in the same boat. vs Knowing you can get a job and earn decent money but stressing over how you will be able to afford that extra 50" TV that you absolutely need to keep up with the neighbours :rolleyes:

16-09-2007 09:33PM

Yeah I truly believe kids don't have it as good as we did (I'm 30)

We'd be out playing all day during the summer, running ourselves ragged climbing trees, having grass fights when the council would come to cut the grass (!) camping in each other's back gardens, going swimming etc.
You'd come in for food, manky dirty, and run back out to play until you were called in to go to bed.
Hallowe'en meant badgering your ma to buy you a plastic mask and digging out a sheet/dad's dressing gown to make an outfit.

Nowadays *puts on old woman hat* kids are stuck in front of feckin Playstations and ferried to and from their 'after-school activities' in an SUV.

And the crap we used to eat, Wham bars, Banshee Bones, Mr Freeze cool pops .. none of yer organic farmer's morkesh stuff.

I think we were tougher too. I can count on my fingers the amount of days I missed in school because I was sick. Last winter my neices and nephews were out for weeks with all sorts of nasty tummy bugs and infections, kids seem to pick up everything going today.

DEmeant0r · 16-09-2007 10:56PM

The only thing I missed about "Back in my day" were Mr Freezes, and well, you can still get them in some shops

Terry · 17-09-2007 12:21AM

is_that_so wrote:

Bus ticket machines (not sure what they were called), where the conductor wound a handle to get a ticket and the old buses where you could just hop off the back.

yep. and the buses were black and cream and you could hop on at the back.

veryangryman · 07-03-2020 11:34PM

White dogsh1te

paulbok · 08-03-2020 12:04AM

When there was only one thread on the old days.
It was a simplier time.

Nostalgia, not what it used to be anymore.

Graces7 · 08-03-2020 09:38AM

pretty-in-pink wrote: »

I miss 10p sparklers (yummy ice pops), and fat frogs, and vicks sweets, and super ted vitamins, and proper sized mars bars, and all the other yummy sweeties (thundercats I think) and bosco. he rocked. oh an twink magazine, and gay byrne doing the toy show, when you were allowed stay up late to watch it.

My early memories ( way before TV was invented and in the UK) sweetwise are of gobstoppers, lucky bags, liquorice laces, sherbet dips... … Cadbury;s Roses were around too, sold loose and you could persuade a small shop to sell you a couple or three …. sweets were slow to come into post war rationed shops, US soldiers stationed here often had chocolate.

Ger Roe · 08-03-2020 10:48AM

Terry wrote: »

yep. and the buses were black and cream and you could hop on at the back.

'Bang, Bang!'

Back in my day......

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