The times they are a changing !!!!

8 Mar 2004

Oooh oooh :bounce:
What about newspapers only being black and white ?? blink

I can't remember the first newspaper to go colour or the year, sorry.

8 Mar 2004

I used to have to play all the boys games as I was the only girl in the street!
I loved playing in the local wood (no funny quips please) on the rope swing over a big delph!! I'd have heart failure if any of my kids did that now. We used to see if we could reach the tree on the far side of the delph - grab hold of it then shin down. God only knows how any of us weren't killed or maimed.
We also used to make go-karts with old pram chasses (the big sprung ones from a silver cros pram were best) and planks of wood - we didn't call them go karts though.
I also remember my dad making me some stilts (I loved those).
I remember watching the white dot dissappearing when you turned the TV off, and the test card which lasted all night.
My first pc (which I still have) was the sinclair zx81.
Black jacks, fruit salad, imps, coltsfoot rock, hard licorice and soft spanish, caramel wafers NOT covered in chocolate
The smell of the big stoppers in pop bottles - especially in dandelion and burdock and american cream soda. The Corona pop man.
Oh dear, I'm off again, I'll shut up now

8 Mar 2004

The Corona ( pop) man coming once a week... maybe a northern thing
. damn those supermarkets....
and the hardware man.... scissor sharpeners...
we still get a fish man in his van.....
milk men.... in Northern scotland it cam in plastic bags even 20 years ago.....
Gmanxxxx

8 Mar 2004

MrsFc said, Spangles and space hoppers!

8 Mar 2004

Quote by gmanxxx
board games without electronics.... I still enjoy Scrabble, though we don't play strip scrabble anymore now that the kids also play!!!!
Risk... the worlds best board game
Monopoly where if you cannot pay the rent bodily favours/ promises may suffice
murder mystery dinner parties....
Gmanxxxx

Thank goodness, I not the only one to like risk, or play strip scrabble, and best of all my other half is hopeless at Monopoly so when we tried our first ever favours game a couple of months ago it was worth letting her win :twisted:
Dan Solo - I think it was 'Today' that first went colour.

8 Mar 2004

The Rag and Bone man.
Acid drop spangles..
And when the Ice Cream man sold REAL ice cream not this synthetic mush out of a pump.

8 Mar 2004

Quote by FredFlintstone
However I still have my Nories Tables, my starsight book and a Sextant so if it all goes bang tomorrow and I am in the middle of the ocean I will still be able to navigate! 8)
What a sad git!
Perhaps I ought to start a new thread - the most useless thing you have kept hold of JUST in case you need it!

Wilma, with your long suffering, I reckon that's a thread (Fred) you should start...lol
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Wilma.....cos he won't....!!!!!!
Sorry for hijacking folks...couldn't resist!!!!
Luv
Stu & Fran
xxxxx

8 Mar 2004

Twin tub washing machines.
Knitting - my kids are fascinated to sit and watch their granny knitting, and when she told them their Dad could knit too! :shock:
And I will never forget the confused look on my daughters face when she bought her first car, and came home after driving it the first time with a face like thunder. She had just discovered it only had 4 gears! lol

:lol: :lol: Oh that was priceless!
lhk
Kat

8 Mar 2004

Quote by FredFlintstone
so if it all goes bang tomorrow and I am in the middle of the ocean I will still be able to navigate!
Fred

If I remember rightly the tide did start to come in along your road once fred..... thought you might have needed to visit "flood barriers r us!"
Oh I'm so gonna die for this..........
Ian_Mids

8 Mar 2004

Quote by Dawn_Mids
Does the Green Cross Code still exsist?
Dawn :silly:

Or the 'Tufty Club'?....
(I once worked alongside Dave Prowse on a Road Safety Campaign. He was then 'The Green Cross Code Man', but went on to become Darth Vader. I dug out an autographed picture recently, hoping to impress my youngest daughter: she was totally underwhelmed, giving me one of her 'oh no, not one from Dad's Old Farts Gallery again' looks)...
come to think of it, do children do 'impressed 'these days??....
But back to the thread-and what a good thread too, as ever from old Ern.
The thing I notice most is the (apparent) inability of many young people to use the hand tools which were a big part of my early life. I'm thinking of simple things like brushes and brooms, spades, shovels, picks,mattocks. It's not that they won't use them, it's just that they can't seem to get the co-ordination and look awkward. I'm not saying this in a 'they never had it as bad as us' tone, quite the opposite, I think they are considerably worse off in many important ways. But having worked with young people for a good 15 years, including all types from 'offenders' to 'YTS', it never ceased to amaze me. If there wasn't a seat, or a 'button' or a motor, they seemed to be lost. I've had to 'teach' lads to use a broom and how to use a spade without taking their toes off or wrecking their elbows. why is this: any thoughts?
My own son, watched in amazement while I was scything grass a while back. He'd never seen any one using a scythe except in 'Grim Reaper' films. Even now he asks to see my collection of felling axes and 'brummocks' (billhooks) which I used to lay hedges.
He's amazed that i can trap moles and mink, work ferrets, and, the thing that really had him opened mouthed, was showing him how to use 'dowsing' rods. Well, that and being still pretty good with my old catapult, even at my age..I got some serious 'cred' there. The ability to sharpen a blade or tie knots seems to be dying out. I apologise for this being overtly rural, but that's where I've seen the biggest change. Then again, that's where the greatest change has occured maybe. My own father laughs at me because I can't ride or 'tack up' a working horse.
While I'm at it ,I'll just 'press button 'B' and get my change.....
A.

8 Mar 2004

A set of Master Keys for all known forms of Chastity Belt Locks. Â£1/00/00
20 Cigarettes 2/6d = in funny money.
1 pint of beer 3/- = 15p in funny money
Bottle of Whiskey 70cl. Â£1/10/0 = in funny money.
Bus Fare 1d per 2 miles = 1/2p in funny money.
Newcastle to London by train Â£6 return.
Newcastle to London by air Â£15 return.
A night out with a bird to the cinema, drinks before and a Chinese meal afterwards and a taxi home and change out of Â£10 for the lot.
Condoms 30d =15p in funny money for a packet of three.
Petrol 2/6d per gallon = in funny money. Thats per Gallon not a litre.
A new mini van Â£450.
Bugger, I'm going to cry if I don't stop.
Harry0

9 Mar 2004

Quote by Ian_Mids
If I remember rightly the tide did start to come in along your road once fred..... thought you might have needed to visit "flood barriers r us!"
Oh I'm so gonna die for this..........

That might be an understatement there Ian - you are soooooo much in trouble with Dawn when she sees that!
Fred

9 Mar 2004

Quote by Ian_Mids
Oh I'm so gonna die for this..........

Quote by FredFlintstone
That might be an understatement there Ian - you are soooooo much in trouble with Dawn when she sees that!

No wonder Ian was pleased I never came online when I got in last night.
mad

:x :x :x :x :x
*Dawn wonders If she gives Ian a black eye will it be gone by the midlands munch?
Now I have to think of a suitable punishment hmmmmmm..........
ok I'll stop sex or stop his pies lol

Dawn :silly:

9 Mar 2004

Perhaps the times aren't changing so rapidly - there is hope after all, just a little.
When I was a kid I used to spend hours going through my Granny's ragbag, cobbling fabric together. Now, although my own daughter is a highly sophisticated and mature rock chick, she does the same with my stuff and has spent the last couple of days customising T-shirts. I taught her to sew and embroider when she was six and she still enjoys it.
She can also erect flatpack furniture without help and knows the difference between an allen key and a screwdriver. Washing up? Now there's a mystery. We do have a dishwasher - it's called Mum.
Sappho xxx

9 Mar 2004

AAhh!! women knowing about allen key's and screwdrivers sacre bluer, Is nothing sacred.
(Rushes to the shed, jigsaw-check-hammerdrill-check, AHHhhh!)

9 Mar 2004

Mr FC wrote:

AAhh!! women knowing about allen key's and screwdrivers sacre bluer, Is nothing sacred.

Nope! I can also do tiling, use a mitre saw and change a plug. Not to mention basic decorating, making curtains, plain cooking and I'm a slut in the bedroom. Anything I can do for you? lol

Sappho xxx

9 Mar 2004

Quote by Sappho
Nope! I can also do tiling, use a mitre saw and change a plug. Not to mention basic decorating, making curtains, plain cooking and I'm a slut in the bedroom. Anything I can do for you?

Marry me!!! biggrin

:D
Steve

9 Mar 2004

Quote by Sappho
I can also do tiling, use a mitre saw and change a plug. Not to mention basic decorating, making curtains, plain cooking and I'm a slut in the bedroom. Anything I can do for you?
Sappho xxx

Become the first woman to be mass cloned

9 Mar 2004

Sorry to hijack the thread but Sappho I have a replacement shower that needs installing. Any chance ? You get towatch me try it out to test it all works ... and .....if you make a really good job of it I'll let you close your eyes.
D

9 Mar 2004

:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao:
Sappho xxx

9 Mar 2004

Quote by Sappho
:rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao::rotflmao:
Sappho xxx

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
Steve 8)

9 Mar 2004

Oh sappho if only MrsFc was as good at decorating, Iwould have it all then! smile

:)

9 Mar 2004

Dammit Sappho, I am paying a grubby little man to tile out a bathroom and showeroom, when I would have willingly paid you even more.... and then just sat watching....mind you Will may not have approved...
I can do some stuff but when it is major I am caused to call in someone that can do it that much quicker....
Now in the garden I am as that other Shropshire person ( no longer with us) Percy Thrower
and in the kitchen I am a Floyd or Stein or Roux... I could go on...
Sappho... just a question re sewing etc....My partner is into buying expensive fabric , cutting it up and then sewing it back together.... American quilting.... does look gorgeous though.. do you do anything similar?
Gmanxxxx

9 Mar 2004

Gman wrote:

Sappho... just a question re sewing etc....My partner is into buying expensive fabric , cutting it up and then sewing it back together.... American quilting.... does look gorgeous though.. do you do anything similar?

Yes Gman, I do pieced patchwork and crazy patchwork as well as freestyle embroidery, cross stitch, needlepoint and ribbon embroidery - however I tend to raid the local charity shops for fabrics rather than pay inflated prices for Rose & Hubble!
Sadly though I could never get the hang of knitting - to my chagrin!
Sappho xxx

9 Mar 2004

Quote by ManAlive
I can also do tiling, use a mitre saw and change a plug. Not to mention basic decorating, making curtains, plain cooking and I'm a slut in the bedroom. Anything I can do for you?
Sappho xxx

Become the first woman to be mass cloned
Ahh but then ManAlive we would have to follow the laws of supply and demand as described in the Hitch Hikers book series:

While a cloning machine was making 5 copies of an amazingly attractive and talented girl Lyntylla, another one was making 500 lonely business executives to keep the laws of supply and demand operating correctly.

9 Mar 2004

Quote by tallnhairy
Ahh but then ManAlive we would have to follow the laws of supply and demand as described in the Hitch Hikers book series:
While a cloning machine was making 5 copies of an amazingly attractive and talented girl Lyntylla, another one was making 500 lonely business executives to keep the laws of supply and demand operating correctly.

:doh: :doh: :doh: :doh:
Damn â€“ Douglas Adams knew everything!

10 Mar 2004

WTF is going on here then???!!!
I turn my back for a couple of days (due to pressure of work :sad smile

and everyone tries to muscle in on my bird!! Bloody hell! mad

Right then - SteveG duel

gmanxxx

but as a special treat I will get Kit to administer it - and Sappho can still come and tile your bathroom. After she has done mine now that I know that she can.
tallnhairy - I am going to let you off as you opted to clone Sappho rather than try and steal the original.
Will - posting after one of the worst days in living memory.
PS She does the washing up? :shock: Well, she kept THAT one quiet!

10 Mar 2004

Quote by willxx69
tallnhairy - I am going to let you off as you opted to clone Sappho rather than try and steal the original.

Credit where credits due, manalive was going to do the cloning, I was pointing out the requirement to clone 500 lonely executives to keep supply and demand in order ;)

10 Mar 2004

Look away now Will !!!

Quote by Sappho
and I'm a slut in the bedroom.

That's all I need to know wink

:wink: :wink:
Sappho, Will you marry me??
Oh, bugger!! I've just remembered, I am married :doh: :doh:
lol

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10 Mar 2004

Too late - I looked!!! rolleyes

I do not intend to pass any comment on Sappho's demeanour in the bedroom other than:
:twisted: :happy: :inlove:
If ONE more person proposes to Sappho..............