johnd Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 11 hours ago, doilum said: When faced with a price rise for beer, petrol,whatever and realizing that the new increase is greater than the price you first paid. Beer at 1/10d or petrol at 30p per gallon.... When i started driving you could get 4 UK gallons for a pound and a few pence change, but then take home pay wasn't as much as today . Going further you were likely to get only about 25mpg around town driving and possibly low 30s if you went for a run out in the country. Servicing included items like nipple greasing, remember them and service intervals of 5K. Ah the golden days. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stubby47 Posted June 16, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 16, 2021 Going to the Motor show in 1980 and seeing brand new Austin Metros. Passing my driving test in a Metro in 1982 and realising I've been driving almost 40 years. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 Two football related ones. Those that think that football didn't exist or was somehow different pre Premier League. Therefore anything that happened pre 1992 is irrelevant..... Adults buying Panini sticker books and a big box full of stickers. That's cheating! https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08P91KPBF/ref=emc_b_5_i 1 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium zarniwhoop Posted June 16, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 16, 2021 Wine glasses! Many years ago I had some basic flutes for white wine or fizz, from Woolies (and if that doesn't show my age, what does ? ) - 125ml, or 6 glasses per bottle. Not so long ago, the last of them broke. No problem, supermarkets have wine glasses - I got the smallest I could find (silly huge stems so they won't fit on the shelf, about 200ml each). Now I need to buy a second bottle to get my 6 glasses. 2 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 I think you need one of these. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Giant-Wine-Glass-glass-bottle/dp/B000HT1YSG 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted June 16, 2021 Share Posted June 16, 2021 2 hours ago, zarniwhoop said: Wine glasses! Many years ago I had some basic flutes for white wine or fizz, from Woolies (and if that doesn't show my age, what does ? ) - 125ml, or 6 glasses per bottle. Not so long ago, the last of them broke. No problem, supermarkets have wine glasses - I got the smallest I could find (silly huge stems so they won't fit on the shelf, about 200ml each). Now I need to buy a second bottle to get my 6 glasses. I can do you some very nice, though I say it myself, handmade porcelain goblets which are (astonishingly, as we didn't aim for it) exactly 185 ml, if that helps at all [/shameless plug]. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendo54 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 1 shilling and 6 pence as a Stretford End Junior in 1966 to watch Best. Law and Charlton. When I left the UK in 2018 it was £43.00 to watch Fred, Rashford ( Fine person but needs to locate where the goal is) and, take your pick from Martial, Young, Dan James, Shaw and McTominey etc. No fear of being cancelled from social media because I have not the faintest ideas of how social media "works". I am either "asleep" or I am "awake". Where does "woke" enter the discussion?. I apolopgise if the correct punctuation may confort some people sensitivities on here and they find it "aggressive" !!!!! Isn't 2021 marvellous when us "old gits" have to say that we will live the rest of our life by our old standards/values and god help the one's left whenj we are gone? C'est la vie . I am sure my parents thought the same, however, the Western world seems to be on self detsruct. 1 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 17, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 17, 2021 For this day and age your user name is wrong, it should be Kendon't54! Mike. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Realizing that, unlike all my workforce, I have been alive under the reign of two British Monarchs (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II). 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trofimow Posted June 18, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2021 Flicking through some old railway magazines and seeing articles on well remembered layouts such as David Jenkinson's Little Long Drag and Vivien Thompson's Eastbourne and realising that was half a century ago.... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 The fact that most of the current England football squad weren't even born when England & Scotland last met, at Euro'96. Probably true for the Scotland team, too. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 18, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2021 Looking back on a Saturday trolleybus trip from Hammersmith to North Finchley and back. The local kids were off to the cinema to watch a St Trinians film. 60 years ago. Looking at the 1964 skool photo, and realising that the pretty 13-y-o in the front row had become a grandmother, by the time she married you 51 years later.... 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gopher Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 (edited) Seeing a pub change it's name back to the name it had 40 years ago. (Shame the prices aren't the same as 40 years ago) I should add the recent name change caused consternation amongst some people who did not realise it was simply reverting back to it's original name. Edited June 19, 2021 by Gopher 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 Finding out that an actress, who you considered an attractive older woman when you were 17, died 3 years ago at the age of 78. 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 On 18/06/2021 at 10:27, Trofimow said: Flicking through some old railway magazines and seeing articles on well remembered layouts such as David Jenkinson's Little Long Drag and Vivien Thompson's Eastbourne and realising that was half a century ago.... In a similar vein - sitting here looking through 'Railway Modeller' April 1980 with that wonderful shot of 'Chiltern Green' on the cover and remembering delivering that issue on my paper round to the house a few doors down from where I live. I remember it so well because I slowed down a bit so I could have a sly read before popping it through the letterbox! 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium petethemole Posted June 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20, 2021 Reading the above post and remembering going over Chiltern Green viaduct and seeing an ER train on the branch below. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doilum Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 When daughter's classmate is grumbling about grey hairs, wrinkles and an approaching fourth decade....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 55 minutes ago, petethemole said: Reading the above post and remembering going over Chiltern Green viaduct and seeing an ER train on the branch below. I've been driving over it for nigh on fifteen years and always think back to that issue of Railway Modeller as I waft along the slow lines. The only time I've ever driven under it was when I collected my Cooper S from Hertford the day I bought it, it's quite an impressive sight from road level. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted June 20, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20, 2021 My 17 year old nephew stating his favourite (and in his opinion the very best) Star Wars film was 'Phantom Menace' and that the originals were 'rubbish' (or words to that effect). Apparently they are too old and clunky. "Too old?!" quoteth me with indignation, pointing out that everything since the original trilogy is derivative rubbish (or words to that effect), an that 'Empire' is, and forever will, be the greatest of the films. Then it dawned on me; Star Wars is as old to him as Titfield Thunderbolt is to me... Not knocking the Thunderbolt I should add - quality film. 4 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 32 minutes ago, Claude_Dreyfus said: My 17 year old nephew stating his favourite (and in his opinion the very best) Star Wars film was 'Phantom Menace' and that the originals were 'rubbish' (or words to that effect). Apparently they are too old and clunky. "Too old?!" quoteth me with indignation, pointing out that everything since the original trilogy is derivative rubbish (or words to that effect), an that 'Empire' is, and forever will, be the greatest of the films. Then it dawned on me; Star Wars is as old to him as Titfield Thunderbolt is to me... I recall trying to explain to an underwhelmed teenager who had just seen Phantom Menace, the impact the original Star Wars had had when it was released. 4 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 The problem is they watch them wrong so they don't get the whole "I AM your father!" which to be honest is the entire story. Otherwise it's just a story about a small planet wanting to leave an exploitative trade bloc and them being embargoed. It's virtually Brexit before Brexit happened and you wouldn't watch a film about that! I'm not putting SPOILERS as if you haven't seen it yet, tough! You've had 40 odd years. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 On 14/06/2021 at 09:42, Coldgunner said: Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see kids ... building dens. Does this not happen any more Here's one I pass on my daily walk. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Reorte Posted June 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) 18 hours ago, Claude_Dreyfus said: My 17 year old nephew stating his favourite (and in his opinion the very best) Star Wars film was 'Phantom Menace' and that the originals were 'rubbish' (or words to that effect). Apparently they are too old and clunky. Just lack of taste there - Rogue One's the best Star Wars film since the original trilogy. To be fair the pacing and polish of The Empire Strikes Back is quite a step up (no doubt at least partially due to the success of Star Wars enabling a rather bigger budget). Edited June 21, 2021 by Reorte 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 5 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said: Here's one I pass on my daily walk. Aaaah, but does it have wi-fi?? 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 2 hours ago, Reorte said: Just lack of taste there - Rogue One's the best Star Wars film since the original trilogy. To be fair the pacing and polish of The Empire Strikes Back is quite a step up (no doubt at least partially due to the success of Star Wars enabling a rather bigger budget). it was alright. Worth watching and can be watched as a stand alone movie. But it's more of a remake of an old war movie set in space.... I won't give any spoilers on that one, but think The Dirty Dozen and other war films mixed with a few westerns, with elements of martial arts films. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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