Off Topic Things that you take for granted

[Jack Ford]

Getting my dinner on the table at 17:00hrs. Still do.

 

[Nordic]

Exactly what I was thinking!

"5847911" - it's seared into my brain.

snap "520998" - that was 30 years ago ffs

 

[Nig]

getting a video player top loader ! about 1981 wow they were about £250 lol but great tech. Me dad had a vauxhall vx490 (randell & Hopkirk) but ours was green We had no toilet in our house or hot water and used to use a galvanised boiler from the "larder" and cart the hot water up stairs in buckets to get a bath. in 1968 we had the large tin bath in front of the fire, just like what the miners used. Kids today have it easy. Talking anbout the wind our kitchen wall blew in in Selbourne street about 1967 !

Vauxhall Victor fd series,
Me dad had one in blue, lovely car, rusted in front of your eyes though .

Used to get left in the fooker outside the pub with a packet of crisps and a coke and yerd stick to the plastic seats in the summer ffs.

 

[Gil T Azell]

I grew up in the 80s - born in 75. Our phones were the ones you literally had to dial! Those were the days that a million quid would see you earn >£100k a year in interest - but on the other side of that, you paid massive interest on a mortgage!! Crazy

We had an Escort (mk 1), Then fiesta, cortina, escort again - my dad worked for Ford!!

I took my mates for granted! That's the one thing that's for certain! We all did in the 80s though!! So much so that there's only 3 of them I'm still mates with now - despite us playing 18-20 a side every weekend in the park!!

Knocked about with 1 lad since we were at Infant school. Went through the other schools together, left got jobs and have went out for a pint every week at least once until about 2 yrs ago. Still get out once every 2 to 3 weeks. An age thing I think.
Still got another 10 or so mates I have known since for 40 odd yrs from college. We still get out once a month for a drink.

 

[Blond Bombshell]

Growing up a kid in Fulwell in 1950's and 1960's we never had a phone. When we got one ( 1966 or 1967 ) it was ( what was called ) a party line. This being 2 houses having to share 1 line . It wasnt really an inconvenience as not many people we knew had a phone so it was a case of looking at it waiting for it to ring.
My ganny was scared stiff of it ( unsurprising as she was born in late19th century ).
The phone now would be a museum piece and I doubt anyone under 16 would know what it was.
Similarly a car.The first car I remember was a ford prefect or popular. It did 0-60 in 25 minutes it seemed. We drove from the lake district back to fulwell after a 2 week caravan holiday in keswick. The day we drove back was the 1966 world cup final day.
It never seemed a big deal. You either had them or you didnt.

No more fulwell Bri negative drivel

 

[Toddius]

snap "520998" - that was 30 years ago ffs

Gah. 30 years!!!