The Oldies Thread

[Charles Hawtrey]

Miners used to take cheese & Jam butties down the pit for the dinner.... My late father in Law ate cheeses & jam butties as an ex miner he loved them ....yuk

My old man used to like a Scone with Jam and sharp cheese with a strong cuppa. Its actually really good.
His other one that I grew to like was a toasted cheese sandwhich but do not cook the cheese at all, just butter the hot toast and put the cheese in to 'sweat ' for a minute.

 

[tommytowne]

A random conversation with my wife got us talking about the days when owning a television was unheard of.
All those shops making a fortune out of renting sets to us plebs. Radio Rentals, Visionhire, Granada and so on.
It got worse when video recorders entered the market place, then even worse colour TV.
In 1983 I think I was paying £34 per month to rent both. The equivalent of almost £100 in todays money.

 

[PaulPowersTash]

A random conversation with my wife got us talking about the days when owning a television was unheard of.
All those shops making a fortune out of renting sets to us plebs. Radio Rentals, Visionhire, Granada and so on.
It got worse when video recorders entered the market place, then even worse colour TV.
In 1983 I think I was paying £34 per month to rent both. The equivalent of almost £100 in todays money.

And now we pay the same in streaming & subscription fees to watch TV and they still make a fortune
out of us

 

[peteblue]

TWO tangerines?

Tories...

 

[Methuselah]

A random conversation with my wife got us talking about the days when owning a television was unheard of.
All those shops making a fortune out of renting sets to us plebs. Radio Rentals, Visionhire, Granada and so on.
It got worse when video recorders entered the market place, then even worse colour TV.
In 1983 I think I was paying £34 per month to rent both. The equivalent of almost £100 in todays money.

When we moved from Leeds to Maidenhead in 1969 we had to send our old black and white rental set back because the rental company didn't cover Maidenhead. We then rented our first colour tv. The colour definition wasn't brilliant (from memory, red's always looked like purple.) When prices came down and salary went up, we started buying.

 

[tommytowne]

When we moved from Leeds to Maidenhead in 1969 we had to send our old black and white rental set back because the rental company didn't cover Maidenhead. We then rented our first colour tv. The colour definition wasn't brilliant (from memory, red's always looked like purple.) When prices came down and salary went up, we started buying.

The popularity of renting the VCR shot through the roof (an unfortunate turn of phrase) when porn videos became more available.

 

[LEONARD]

We were the schmuck family that chose Betamax.

 

[tommytowne]

We were the schmuck family that chose Betamax.

Twist. I chose Everton.

 

[Chewbacca]

We were the schmuck family that chose Betamax.

Although it was the technically superior system

 

[Ducans elbow]

A random conversation with my wife got us talking about the days when owning a television was unheard of.
All those shops making a fortune out of renting sets to us plebs. Radio Rentals, Visionhire, Granada and so on.
It got worse when video recorders entered the market place, then even worse colour TV.
In 1983 I think I was paying £34 per month to rent both. The equivalent of almost £100 in todays money.

Help me out here, did we use to put money in the slot on the back of the telly, the rental ones from the shop

 

[chrissyjack]

Help me out here, did we use to put money in the slot on the back of the telly, the rental ones from the shop

We had one . The slot thingy was on the side . Took 50p's

 

[tommytowne]

Help me out here, did we use to put money in the slot on the back of the telly, the rental ones from the shop

I can recall that. Wasn't from a tv shop though. It was through the man who supplied the Sturlas cheques. All mine when I got married was from one of the aforementioned high Street outlets.

 

[kev]

The popularity of renting the VCR shot through the roof (an unfortunate turn of phrase) when porn videos became more available.

In early 1981 a local factory closed and about 900 blokes were made redundant.
It seemed as if at least 100 of them used their redundancy money to buy vans and enter the 'mobile video rental business'
It was booming at the time and seemed like easy money and regular income lol

 

[tommytowne]

In early 1981 a local factory closed and about 900 blokes were made redundant.
It seemed as if at least 100 of them used their redundancy money to buy vans and enter the 'mobile video rental business'
It was booming at the time and seemed like easy money and regular income lol

The guys that visited twice a week with a couple of suitcase full of pirate vids all of dubious quality. Paid full whack for the Electric Blue series though.

 

[johnnydawg68]

Candy cigarettes for kids.