Chrissie Hynde is 63 today,there's a mind blown thread knocking around atm,that's mine .
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The Oldies Thread
- Thread starter peteblue
- Start date
...she can sing that lady.
anybody remember an arcade of shops under Bold St accessed via the old Central Station
Life before computers was so much simpler.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
Inkwells and blotting paper were hi tech then.......
For the rest — it's a history lesson!
How time and memory have taken their toll.
Have things really changed this much?
EATING IN THE UK IN THE sixties
Pasta had not been invented.
Curry was a surname.
A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
Pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.
All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.
A Chinese chippy was a foreign carpenter.
Rice was a milky pudding, and never a dinner.
A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.
Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.
Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves; it was never green.
Coffee was Camp, and came in a bottle.
Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.
Only Heinz made beans.
Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
Healthy eating consisted of eating whatever was put before you.
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
Indian restaurants were only found in India.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Seaweed was not a recognised food.
"Kebab" was not even a word, never mind a food.
Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being “white gold”.
Prunes were medicinal.
Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.
Surprisingly, muesli was readily available; it was called cattle feed.
Water came out of the tap; if someone had suggested bottling it and
charging more for it than petrol they would have been a laughing stock.
The one thing that we never ever had on our table in those days was... our elbows!
How time and memory have taken their toll.
Have things really changed this much?
EATING IN THE UK IN THE sixties
Pasta had not been invented.
Curry was a surname.
A takeaway was a mathematical problem.
Pizza was something to do with a leaning tower.
Bananas and oranges only appeared at Christmas time.
All crisps were plain; the only choice we had was whether to put the salt on or not.
A Chinese chippy was a foreign carpenter.
Rice was a milky pudding, and never a dinner.
A Big Mac was what we wore when it was raining.
Brown bread was something only poor people ate.
Oil was for lubricating, fat was for cooking.
Tea was made in a teapot using tea leaves; it was never green.
Coffee was Camp, and came in a bottle.
Cubed sugar was regarded as posh.
Only Heinz made beans.
Fish didn't have fingers in those days.
Eating raw fish was called poverty, not sushi.
None of us had ever heard of yoghurt.
Healthy eating consisted of eating whatever was put before you.
People who didn't peel potatoes were regarded as lazy.
Indian restaurants were only found in India.
Cooking outside was called camping.
Seaweed was not a recognised food.
"Kebab" was not even a word, never mind a food.
Sugar enjoyed a good press in those days, and was regarded as being “white gold”.
Prunes were medicinal.
Pineapples came in chunks in a tin; we had only ever seen a picture of a real one.
Surprisingly, muesli was readily available; it was called cattle feed.
Water came out of the tap; if someone had suggested bottling it and
charging more for it than petrol they would have been a laughing stock.
The one thing that we never ever had on our table in those days was... our elbows!
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Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
Kale, firkin kale.
What on earth is that about ?
She came shopping with me the other day and knows nothing about food, but "a mate of hers" swore by kale.
There's a reason we've not been able to buy it until the last few years, basically, it's gash.
The compost heap seems to like it though. There's another thing about getting old. You have a compost heap, I mean ffs, Christ, what have we all become lads ?
Thank you for listening ... those of you who can still hear like.
What on earth is that about ?
She came shopping with me the other day and knows nothing about food, but "a mate of hers" swore by kale.
There's a reason we've not been able to buy it until the last few years, basically, it's gash.
The compost heap seems to like it though. There's another thing about getting old. You have a compost heap, I mean ffs, Christ, what have we all become lads ?
Thank you for listening ... those of you who can still hear like.
I can remember when the height of "haute-cuisine" in our house was a packet of Savoury Rice
Woolly Blue
Player Valuation: £80m
We eat grapes, and neither of us are ill.
I remember when all fruit came in tins.
I remember when all fruit came in tins.
The day the milk bottle shape changed. Mum .."How can that be a pint . It's smaller "
When where mangoes invented ?
There was no such thing as a Supermarket ,nobody done a weekly shop you bought everything from the corner shop and the fella behind the counter was English.
Durham Toffee
Shameless Wool
I had a two hour conversation about the tumble dryer the other day when my brother in law popped round to borrow my socket set.
We had a brew, like. Then we considered the benefits of chest freezers over standing ones.
We're 30.
30 ffs!
We had a brew, like. Then we considered the benefits of chest freezers over standing ones.
We're 30.
30 ffs!
I was 60 the other week mate ,I went into the chemist and they told me I didn't have to pay anymore so I went to the off licence next but the cnut in there wasn't as obliging.