OT - You know you're getting old when...

......when your daughters feel comfortable swearing freely in front of you (and vice versa)

 

have had a smoke with my old dear, that was weird as **** i tell you.

 

My daughters have had several smokes and vapourisers with me. Their mother would go spastic if she found out

 

We used to have a washing machine with a mangle on the back. I only remember it dimly though. We had no hot water then so I'm buggered if I know how me mam got it to work.

 

Don't remember not having hot water. That must have been a bit of a twat.

 

While the mangle bit was manual, the washing tub bit was electric, you plugged it in and it heated the water - don't tell me you didn't have electricity either

 

Suppose so, but you don't really think about it when you're a kid do you? It's just the way it is.
No boiler, no inside lavvy, one socket for the entire house.
When I was round 10 or 11 we finally had a bathroom extension built on. Boiler and everything. Smart.

 

See above.
We had one socket which I remember being festooned with a spectacular array of double adaptors- lucky we didn't burn the place down. Smaller electrical items you used to plug into the light socket.

 

Actually I think the mangle may have been automated as well. Just found this picture which is the same one as ours -

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I can remember having to wait an age for the tape cassette to load my computer game #realproblems

 

not as old as you feckers but remember having to change the fuses on the old system, they was a bastard to feck about with all the time.

also the old outside toilets, they was great in the winter wasn't they lol, my partners parents have a house that the bathroom is down stairs, i believe its because the house was built during the war period and obviously upstairs was a no go area during the air raid sirons.

 

I grew up in the 90's so didn't have all these problems. Tape cassettes I remember, old Nintendo's, CD's were a next big thing, etc.

 

Looks too clean and white. Ours was a lot cackier than that.

 

I know the fuse boxes you're talking about but only because my house still has one!!!

 

I remember tape cassettes being invented.

 

you want to get that **** sorted asap, now days if the fuse goes it just trips the box and you just need to find out what triggered it, none of this rewiring malarkey lol

you have any mates who are electricians?

 

At my work I have one of the old radiator type heaters and one of them is right next to the toilet!!! needless to say when it is on, it is quite a workout!!

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Ours was a dark cream colour, the one I posted must have been a newer model ... but I remember those things on the front were four big red switches.

Maybe yours was one of these

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Ours wasn't

 

My downstairs toilet is the grid in the back yard

#****thestairswithmyknees