Do You Remember............

...........no, not your President Nixon but things that are no longer with us and you miss?

Red Telephone booths, I really miss them. I know it was annoying as **** when you stumbled across one and required to make a call and some utter ****wits had vandalised it. For those of us of a certain age, long before cancer inducing mobiles became prevalent, they were a nice sight.

Anything that you miss from a bygone age?

 

Alzheimers is a cruel diseases.

 

What a ****witted ***** you are sonny

 

Good threads.

 

Do you remember that TV drama "Threads" back in, oh, I don't know '83 or '84?

 

We've never had red ones, ours are cream*. They do use a different design now, but I remember them having a bit of a promo about 'self cleaning' phone boxes, which were similar, but with no door or sides at the bottom so the wind blew through and 'cleaned' it.


*It's actually got some arty farty designation, but they look cream to me.

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I would always call it a telephone box, not telephone booth.

 

The good old days before the ghost town.

 

WTF, who has albino phone boxes?

 

We do. I've just told you.

 

That’s a wrong ‘un and no mistake.

 

That tends to describe the main users of public call boxes these days.

 

aaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwllllllll night..

 

Are there actually any left?

I really do miss them, vandalised or not.

 

There's quite a few in rural areas that have been repurposed as libraries. shops or bike repair hubs.

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Yes and it was heavily sampled on Conflict's The Ungovernable Force.

 

Really?

I don't think "Threads" has ever been repeated on the TV. Unless I'm talking ****, which is usually the case right enough.

 

I sort of miss Sundays when no shops were open, for one day a week the roads were quiet.

 

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