The Oldies Thread

[peteblue]

Rabbit stew's ace.

I guy at my local shoots the randy buggers on a regular basis, so rabbit stew, or rabbit casserole as I like to call it to appear posh, is cooked in Woolly Towers on a regular basis



Ex-mods draw a pension mate.
This mainly involves pencil and paper though

That was the old joke though about one lad having cheese toasties and then someone suggesting having rabbit toasties who is then told no, because he doesn’t want mixinmetoasties.......crap but was once topical......

 

[Woolly Blue]

That was the old joke though about one lad having cheese toasties and then someone suggesting having rabbit toasties who is then told no, because he doesn’t want mixinmetoasties.......crap but was once topical......

Go to bed the pub mate.

 

[peteblue]

What have Europeans got to do with decimalisation? Your memory's gone Pops

I’ll tell you when you’re old enough......

 

[Eggs]

...interest rates going up is good for us old folk with savings but I feel for youngsters who still have mortgages.

 

[degsy]

...interest rates going up is good for us old folk with savings but I feel for youngsters who still have mortgages.

It's all relative really, it's low now and a 1% raise is a big percentage jump
But from 1970 to the early 90's if you got below 8% you were on a winner, but you'd never find that. Maggie/Lawson had it up to 16% about 82

 

[PITA]

Vesta chow mein was ace - those crispy noodles on top at to be done bob on or they would brake your teeth!lol

Now we're talking. Used to love them.

 

[Eggs]

It's all relative really, it's low now and a 1% raise is a big percentage jump
But from 1970 to the early 90's if you got below 8% you were on a winner, but you'd never find that. Maggie/Lawson had it up to 16% about 82

..yep, remember those days.

 

[degsy]

And beer went from about 1s6d to about 12p(about 2s41/2d for the kids reading this), absolute scandal, bleeding Europeans.......

beers not been 1/-6d since alex parker was playing, your memories playing tricks on you mate...but I take the general point in principle

 

[Joey66]

Now we're talking. Used to love them.

You can still buy them in some supermarkets!

 

[COYBL25]

It's all relative really, it's low now and a 1% raise is a big percentage jump
But from 1970 to the early 90's if you got below 8% you were on a winner, but you'd never find that. Maggie/Lawson had it up to 16% about 82

And inflation too.

Everytime you went to the shop, stuff had gone up.

I remember when I first started work, older lads nearly coming to blows over who got two hours overtime

 

[Eggs]

You can still buy them in some supermarkets!

..my old Mum regularly made that for me. Remember it was all in different sachets, including a little one with the soy sauce.

 

[degsy]

I remember in the summer we would play from 10 in the morning till 10 at night and then it was next goal the winner.
Never had an overweight friend or any of the girls we knocked about with were overweight either
You were afraid to go in for food in case you were kept in and not allowed out.
We drank mi wadi and ate sugar sandwiches
Collected lemonade bottles to get the refunds
Robbed orchards and collected blackberries ( they are 3 Euro for a handful in the shops now )
You had fights with purely your arms and legs and the crowd stopped it when they decided the winner , no weapons allowed.
4 TV stations 1 telly and you watched what your parents watched.
Begged your dad to watch TOTP on a Thursday
Put a small tape recorder beside the radio to tape the top 20 on a Sunday at 6
We all had part time and summer jobs at 13/14 and handed up most of the money
Fighting with your siblings for the cream of the milk for your cornflakes in the morning
My kids ( 34/32/29) used to be shocked at some of our stories.
I spent the first 7 yrs living in one room with my parents and 2 younger siblings in an old tenament house with a sink with a cold water tap and an outside toilet
The inset was taken out of the top loading washing machine and we were bathed every night in that.
Started drinking at 16 in 1976 and it was 30pence for a pint of lager
I could go on and on

Go back 10 yrs and

nobody was allergic to peanuts or had asthma
Collected jam jars got 1/2 a penny each from Irwins
2 tv stations
effectively 1 radio station; The light programme (R2 now) + Luxy of a night...the 3rd programme (R3) and the home service (R4) didn't really count for us plebs.
started drinking in 1966 and beer was 1 and 9 pence a pint

 

[Brendan Janus]

And inflation too.

Everytime you went to the shop, stuff had gone up.

I remember when I first started work, older lads nearly coming to blows over who got two hours overtime

Pathetic when you think about it !!

 

[COYBL25]

Pathetic when you think about it !!

It was, but everything was just going up and up, especially food and petrol.

I was too young to appreciate what was going on, but there was plenty I worked with at the time were in a bad way with their mortgages etc. They had a fund set up in work, similar to a credit union, to bale people out.

 

[degsy]

one man's wage rise is another man's price increase, said Harold Wilson.
Remember when for some reason Ted Heath's Govt.(spits) decided that if prices went over such and such a level your wages went up, never thinking that it would, but it did and up went my wages...how crazy was that.