Off Topic How thinks have changed.

commachio1 said:
A few threads lately. Mostly Billys 'things your parents used to say' and Dorty caravan 'sign needed' threads have got me thinking about how things change. From when you were young.

I honestly cant remember hearing my dad swear. Unless you class bugger as swearing. Very rare did I hear my dad swear...I never swear in the house.

I cant recall ever seeing a woman with a tattoo. They are everywhere now...Our lass hates them though and wasn't happy when I got a Sunderland badge tattooed on my upper arm

Women smoking? Seems that more women smoke than blokes these days.

Going to the caravan. Ok my parents still own one, but this was common at one time. I have no problem at all staying in caravans. Some of them these days are luxury..

Going to the pictures. Always went. Never think of going now. We still go to the pictures a fair bit.. My teenage kids love the pictures.

Never being in the house. Always out to play. Do kids even venture outside these days? Nowhere near as much as we played out.

Going to the chippie for scran. Do you ever go now? We still go to the chippy, and have an excellent one just a short distance from where I live which is very popular..

Getting on a bus. Kids use them all the time for school, but I don't use them anywhere near as much as I used to.

So many things. What differences can you think of?
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Junk mail - leaflets and god knows what else being posted through your letterbox - when did this all start, en masse? Maybe the early to mid 1990s?
 
Being able to watch television without the sound of yelling screaming whooping audiences. Especially when the camera shows a bored looking audience with their mouths closed, so we know the producers have edited in some noise or are using ''canned'' screaming. Canned laughter has always been bad enough
 
Despicable_Tel said:
Cream soda every time <ok>
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When I was a kid and too young to go to the matches on a Saturday, out would come the Cream Soda, mum would cut a thick slice of ice cream off a Walls block into the glass with the soda and a long spoon, could make it last for ages, lasted longer than Grandstand, I can taste it now, can you still buy Ice Cream Soda?.
 
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cumbrianmackem said:
When I was a kid and too young to go to the matches on a Saturday, out would come the Cream Soda, mum would cut a thick slice of ice cream off a Walls block into the glass with the soda and a long spoon, could make it last for ages, lasted longer than Grandstand, I can taste it now, can you still buy Ice Cream Soda?.
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We used to blitz it in a blender with ice cream, then it was like a tangy milkshake, it was probably minging but your taste buds change as you get older I believe.
 
We used to buy a tub of ice cream from the Louis ice cream van on Sunday's and then used to scoop some into a large glass and pour lemonade on top: lovely..
 
mackemwelder said:
Can you remember the ginger ale in those ceramic brown and beige pots?
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you brought back memories of my short trip down the street to my granda's house were I was always guaranteed a ginger beer from one of these bottles, and also often used to get a stick of rhubarb with a bowl of sugar to dip it in..
 
MrRAWhite said:
you brought back memories of my short trip down the street to my granda's house were I was always guaranteed a ginger beer from one of these bottles, and also often used to get a stick of rhubarb with a bowl of sugar to dip it in..
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Aye class mate and if i remember you used to get money back off them bottles. We used to have rhubarb growing wild in the garden and when money was short, which it often was, my mother always made rhubarb pie. But as kids we used to snap a stalk off and dip it in sugar. Imagine asking todays kids to do that?
 
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mackemwelder said:
Aye class mate and if i remember you used to get money back off them bottles. We used to have rhubarb growing wild in the garden and when money was short, which it often was, my mother always made rhubarb pie. But as kids we used to snap a stalk off and dip it in sugar. Imagine asking todays kids to do that?
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I still like rhubarb pie mind..
 
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Anyone have a party line on their phone back in the day? Where you shared your line with someone in your street?

Bloody hell, my son reckons a party line is a number you ring up to have a good time!
 
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