Classic British Flight Sim

Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favourite 'fast food' when you were growing up?'

'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him. 'All the food was slow.'

'C'mon, seriously.. Where did you eat?'

'It was a place called 'home,'' I explained. ! 'Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate, I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

By this time, the lad was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

How many do you remember?
Headlight dip-switches on the floor of the car.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Trouser leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heated on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn indicators.
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Older Than Dirt Quiz:
Count all the ones that you remember, not the ones you were told about.
Ratings at the bottom.

1. Sweet cigarettes
2. Coffee shops with juke boxes
3. Home milk delivery in glass bottles
4. Party lines on the telephone
5. Newsreels before the movie
6. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning.. (There were only 2 channels [if you were fortunate])
7. Peashooters
8. 33 rpm records
9. 45 RPM records
10. Hi-fi's
11. Metal ice trays with levers
12. Blue flashbulb
13. Cork popguns
14. Wash tub wringers

If you remembered 0-3 = You’re still young
If you remembered 3-6 = You are getting older
If you remembered 7-10 = Don't tell your age
If you remembered 11-14 = You're positively ancient!

I must be 'positively ancient' but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

Graham

Baker's Van on home bread deliveries

Supermarkets and most shops that openened 9:00-12:30 then 14:00-17:30.....closed Thusday afternoon.......no late night shopping then.

Mobile shops that stopped at the bottom of the road

Milkman standing at the door with a churn ready to decant the milk into your jug.......remember milk jugs??

Sweetshops with real loose sweets scooped into a bag and weighed

Bicylce lamps turned on by screwing the knob down.

Motorcycle side cars (as every day transport)

Starting handles for cars.

Motorbikes that could only be bump started.

Petroil.....mixed by the forecourt attendant by handpumping the oil into a jug then pouring it into your two strokes tank to mix with the petrol he just put in.

Tv pics that wobbled every time a 'plane flew over

Cans of drink you had to make holes in and pop bottles with crown corks....memories of unquenched thirst trying to open the can/bottle.
Money back returnable bottle....who said we didn't recycle then

And of course Fish and Chips in real inky newspaper.


They were happy days

I can remember going into a sweetshop in Margate and spending a small coin called a Farthing...it bought a small wrapped bar of toffee about three inches long and about a quarter inch square in section

Oh dear!

Now you've really started something:

Petroil, I was always told the oil went in first so the petrol swirling in ensured a proper mix.

Milkman, four wheeled horse drawn cart, the driver stood in a transverse corridor, dispensed milk into the housewifes container.

Pop bottles were taken back to the drinks stall at the local cricket field for refund of deposit. Bottles placed out side back of stall, collected again by urchins who took them to the counter for a further refund. Eventually the staff took to marking the labels and dispensing thick ears.

In my town the dustcarts were pulled round the streets by horses then the horses were unharnessed and a tractor unit took the full cart to the incinerator.

My first job was working for the council treasurer mainly doing wages. One penny extra per hour when workers snow shovelling. Sixpence per day for workers using own bike to get to and from jobs.

We had proper nostalgia in those days, not like this modern rubbish.

LOL....I remember all of the above (in all the posts) so I guess that makes me officially ancient!

My parents didn't get their first car until I was 15 and didn't get a phone until after I'd left home at 20 ish.

I remember the rag and bone man touring the streets on a horse drawn cart and he would give out gold fish in plastic bags to any urchins who gave him any scrap metal or bags of rags. All my dad ever gave me when the cart came by was a bucket and shovel and instructions to follow the horse until I had something to bring home for his roses!

Valve radio.
Black and white TV.
78's.
Dansette record player.
Magnetophone reel to reel tape recorder.
Grinding valves by hand.
Steam trains.
Thruppenny bit, (brass or silver).
Coalmen.
Town Gas.
Winters with snow.
Paper bags.
When a penny was worth something.
Cap guns.
Tripe.
Venison, (cheaper than beef).
Rabbit.

And I'm not that old,
am I.......

Corona lorries, with the bottles of pop in angled wooden crates making it look like a truck of ready-use glass artillery shells

Cars that had a little orange plastic arrows that popped out of the door pillars to indicate turning right or left

'Sing Something Simple' on the radio as my dad made cocoa for mum and himself

Teenage girls whos every other spoken word wasn't 'like'

When 'awesome' applied to things like the Grand Canyon and the northern lights, and not to this latte or KFC chicken wrap

I knew this thread would make me grumpy

Tako_Kichi wrote:
I remember the rag and bone man touring the streets on a horse drawn cart and he would give out gold fish in plastic bags to any urchins who gave him any scrap metal or bags of rags. All my dad ever gave me when the cart came by was a bucket and shovel and instructions to follow the horse until I had something to bring home for his roses!

Well, according to Graham I'm really ancient, but surely I'm not that old really!

My mum remarried and we moved out to South London; we not only had the rag & bone man, we also had a local bakery who used a horse drawn vehicle for deliveries. This was 1970ish, so an anachronism by then - and why do all fathers think the bucket/shovel thing is funny?!!! The coalman used a lorry though.

Actually, the same family still run the rag & bone business (the place is Mitcham) and still use the horse & cart! Reputedly they are part of the inspiration for Steptoe, as Alan Simpson was working in Mitcham when he and Galton had the idea!

Thruppeny bits (but not the silver ones), sixpence (which bought you a Mars bar), half a crown (which was proper money, decent weight in the hand) - the Beano was my special treat, for a princely tuppence!

My siblings are 2-4 years younger than me; when I tell them about using the outside toilet at my grandads, or the tin bath on a Saturday, they look at me in disbelief - the pace of change in the sixties was incredible.

Oh, and my Grandads Ford, with those wonderful popout indicators on the doorframe.

xcuse me now, I'm just going to make my horlicks and lie down in a darkened room!

We still have coal men

Rarely did a car have a radio but some poser put aerials on to make it look like they did and film was black and white as most folks could not afford colour.......slides when it was that came as a roll.

Pics so small you clould hardly make out the subject..I seemed always to be asking folk to enlarge them to 800x600

Models had transfers not decals and an exhibition standard build was one you could still see a small bit of the transparency not covered with glue and not painted with Dulux houshold paint from under the kitchen sink.....There was no filler and the models were suppose to have a replica of the Grand Canyon between the wing and the fuse.

Kids did all kinds of things with glue except sniff it and you were son sort or weirdo if you didn't go to town with a knife in your pocket.

Sex education was making FROG kits and putting the male and female halves of the engine nacelle together

All instructions were written and there wer no idiot proof pictogram assembly guides that no idiot could ever understand.

Decorating the house was a chore as paint took half an hour to mix and the total range contained fewer colours than there are white in the range now.

it took several coat to cover

If you got in trouble at school you never told your parents as you'd get another clout for letting the family down.

The guy who ran the a football team was the manager and the coach was what took them to the away games.

Those were the days..when the whole family would go away together for the weekend and have a gay time

Don't forget that Airfix kits all came from Woolies, and they were in plastic bags!