Thank god we don't have that anymore.....

In response to the Blast from the Past thread where we all get nostalgic for things from the past that we miss, I thought it would be good to also have a thread that highlights the things we hated about 'back then'...


I'll start :

Troglodytes : Cave Dwellers who judge people by the type of drink they drink in a pub. I'm sooo glad people don't do that anymore.

 

Smelly boiled cabbage

 

I don't miss Yugoslavia .....USSR.....or training wheels

 

Towel nappies in a bucket under the sink Poooooooo

 

Drying clothes on one of those hanging rails in the kitchen, Travelling 50 yards up the garden to go to the toilet, Those shiny grease proof look alike toilet paper or worst still the squares of newspaper hanging on a piece of string or on a nail....

 

Tin baths in front of the fire

 

EU Membership ....

 

Being last to use the tin bath...

 

Dial up connection. Couldn't go online without disconnecting the phone first. And that god awful noise

 

Having to adjust the tracking on the VCR

 

Betamax

 

'Jim'll fix it'.

 

I had a Betamax which cost me over £600. What an inspired purchase.

 

Taking a leak in the toilet at the back of The North Bank, at my beloved Vetch Field.

 

Reddifusion

 

I think a lot of us have done that. I remember other peoples' urine washing around my new Dunlop Green Flash trainers. Great stuff.

 

Kevin Cullis

Tony Petty

 

Old ringer washing machines ...put my arm through once . Not to smart back then ...Come to think of it , I'm still a shingle short of a bundle but most know that around here ..but I try for moments of brilliance , like keeping Guidolin ( whistling )

 

Grandstand : They would ruin sports by filling the day with horse racing ???? It's not even a sport.

 

ITV wrestling on Saturday afternoons.

Jackie Pallo; Mick McManus; Big Daddy; Billy Two Rivers, et al.