The middle aged thread

a time when women knew their place!

Captain Pugwash and seaman Staines
Wafer biscuits
Bar six
Bus inspectors
All football matches started at 3 on a Saturday
Then that teleprinter with the results
Dixon of doc green
Pontinental holidays

Urban Myth.

If you can remember the cycle track at Paddington Rec then you are middle aged and for my sins Paul Cook and Steve Jones went to my school when I was there.

Harlow outdoor track as well - I've still got the splinters

a time when women didn't know their place!

Fixed that to preserve your testicles

a time when women knew their place!

And mums knew how to cook.
Dads knew how to repair things.

Seeing a queue around the block and finding a shop with a fresh delivery of sweets at the front of it.

#more Polish memories.

And 38 hours in the queue to get to Germany.

Johnny Morris dressed up a a zookeeper, talking to a gorilla.

"Think of a number" when Johnny Ball wasn't just Zoe Ball's dad.

James Burke's Connections.

Tomorrows World, it looks like a piss-take now, but everyone believed everything they said.
Tomorrow's World: Mobile Phone 13 September 1979 - BBC - YouTube

The Adventure Game.

The world cup in England
Subbuteo
Collecting vouchers for random shit at garages and never having the full set
Swopping batman cards to make the big picture on the back
Lego

It's a state of mind. Look at DJ.

All chocolate bars being sold in paper wrappers not plastic.

that was my first job between school & uni working at an ink lab working on the new ink for mars bar wrappers..................

and why was my granny fascinated by snooker on a b&w telly and refused to change to colour as was no need.................

What happened to the bit of cardboard that used to be inside the Bounty Bar wrapper?

And mums knew how to cook.
Dads knew how to repair things.

when Dads had proper forged socket sets!

Fixed that to preserve your testicles

i am covered, she thinks i am looking for nanny shares... alt tab... alt tab

14 pages in 2 days, whoda thought a bunch of oldies could move so quick.

Was going to drop in with the obligatory Spangles recollection but it was covered on page 1, so I'll revert to the other age old standard...

Have Wagon Wheels got smaller?

when Dads had proper forged socket sets!

AF and whitworth as well as the new fangled metric.

King Dick spanners

feeler gauges. the funny spanners for bleeding mini brakes. engineers blue in a crumpled alloy tube, taciturn old men in brown coats, lathes controlled by men not computers. tool handles made of wood.

My grandad wearing proper overalls when repairing things and machining himself broken or missing bits, so the stuff he owned lasted forever.

I mean he looked like this on a day off.

flat caps not worn as some hipster affectation.
hats not worn indoors.

Hats never worn at the table or in restaurants. Now a common sight with baseball caps - my personal pet hate.
And sunglasses indoors?

and those peanut boards in pubs with the bikini women behind the bags of peanuts

Corporal punishment at school.

Cane

Ferrula.

Now only found in sex shops.

http://www.mccustoms.co.uk/item_pics/big/ferrula.jpg

Only £33

you know you're middle aged when you have to lift your glasses to read print (but you won't yet admit to yourself that bi/vari-focals are necessary)