The Oldies Thread

[Methuselah]

When I played football, I used to suffer from ingrowing toenails on both my big toes. It was a nightmare at the beginning and end of the season when the grounds were hard. I used to take my boots off after a game and both socks would be soaked in blood. Then we got a new director at the club who was also a chiropodist.
He sorted my nails out and designed some sponge pads which were taped over the nails before each game. Worked a treat.

 

[chrismpw]

And you a chiropodist too. Amazing.

Ermm chiroposist? Chemistry teacher more like (expired). Thinks .... maybe could use acid next time, or explosives.

 

[magicjuan]

The latest trick my body plays on me:

Toenails now grow at varying rates. This morning I noticed 5 nails that were long and definitely needed a trim while another 5 were more or less the same length that I'd left them. Seriously it's hardly worth getting the clippers, goggles, face shield and polyfilla for the walls for just half of them.

Mine same it's one foot v the other, as for the flying shards... kinell

 

[degsy]

Ermm chiroposist? Chemistry teacher more like (expired). Thinks .... maybe could use acid next time, or explosives.

Chain saw?

 

[Joey66]

When I played football, I used to suffer from ingrowing toenails on both my big toes. It was a nightmare at the beginning and end of the season when the grounds were hard. I used to take my boots off after a game and both socks would be soaked in blood. Then we got a new director at the club who was also a chiropodist.
He sorted my nails out and designed some sponge pads which were taped over the nails before each game. Worked a treat.

painful ingrowing tonials on your big toe....

 

[peteblue]

I was just thinking about when I was a kid, my dad was still alive, and he and all the neighbours had served in the various branches of the forces in WW2, and all could tell you a tale, if they wanted. Of course they are all gone now. While materially life is now completely different, I do miss those times as a kid and listening to the ordinary yet amazing people who lived and fought through the crap of that war...

 

[degsy]

 

[LEONARD]

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I found one of these in the street, funded a cracker day in New Brighton on the funfair.

 

[degsy]

I found one of these in the street, funded a cracker day in New Brighton on the funfair.

I had one in my jeans pocket and the arl girl washed them, all that was left was the 2 round bits with 10shillings on and a load of mush. I took them to the bank, told them the tale, filled a form in and they gave me a new one

 

[Alan Whittle]

I was just thinking about when I was a kid, my dad was still alive, and he and all the neighbours had served in the various branches of the forces in WW2, and all could tell you a tale, if they wanted. Of course they are all gone now. While materially life is now completely different, I do miss those times as a kid and listening to the ordinary yet amazing people who lived and fought through the crap of that war...

Even when they talked about everyday life for them when they were at school and growing up. Their lives lives seemed so extraordinary (and brutal at times) yet it would be told mostly without rancour and often with humour. Difficult for a ten year old in the mid sixties to comprehend.

 

[Methuselah]

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Ten bob note. If I ever had one as a kid, I used to feel like a millionaire.

 

[Caolam]

I remember being on the Isle of Man, they kept ten shilling notes after the rest of us, when you put your hand in your pocket after a night out and fel all that paper money you thought you were rich until you counted it.
This was a while ag, today is my 65th birthday looking forward to a derby win, surely not too much to ask on my birthday.

 

[peteblue]

I remember being on the Isle of Man, they kept ten shilling notes after the rest of us, when you put your hand in your pocket after a night out and fel all that paper money you thought you were rich until you counted it.
This was a while ag, today is my 65th birthday looking forward to a derby win, surely not too much to ask on my birthday.

Happy Birthday, and I hope we batter them for you.......

 

[degsy]

Ten bob note. If I ever had one as a kid, I used to feel like a millionaire.

Even in the late 60s you could have a quiet thursday night out - 5 pints or so with 10 bob.

 

[LEONARD]

I remember was called 'a dollar' growing up.