Donkey Jackets
Where has this legendary working mans jacket gone? i still wear mine daily with my Dr Martens work boots or monkey boots.
What can you think of what you don't see anymore.
Bus conductors with lovely ticket machines and change dispenser belts. Loved those.
Max Boyce tells one about his wife wanting a new coat for her birthday, he asked what sort and she said any animal skin, so he bought her a donkey jacket. :lol: I was there
Bet she was an ex wife after that, i would of been over the moon if i was her.
You never see an honest politician anymore.
anymore?
Good point, they didn't exist in the first place.
White Dogshit! Haven't seen that in years!
Cheers
Cadbury fuse and marble chocolate bars.
I'm sure johnny dispensers used to offer a wider variety back in the old days*
*more of a range, not extra large
Affordable housing.
Cars you can fix yourself.
Hedge porn.
Where have all the Milkmen gone, perhaps delivering off planet.
They've taken the Milky Way...
I'll get me float.
Good anime.
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 22 April, 2017, 05:59:48 PM
They've taken the Milky Way...
I'll get me float.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcYppAs6ZdI
Quote from: Suede1971 on 22 April, 2017, 05:48:25 PM
Where have all the Milkmen gone, perhaps delivering off planet.
There's a bloody milk float that delivers on my way to work! Got caught behind the bloody sod a couple of times on a stretch of road that it is virtually impossible to pass on if you aren't careful.
Colour me surprised, they are probably just fed up of lads from barnsley nicking milk off the back round my end(not sure if anyone will get that reference).
Quote from: NapalmKev on 22 April, 2017, 12:18:31 PM
White Dogshit! Haven't seen that in years!
Cheers
There is an explanation for that which I recall hearing on James O'Brien's mystery hour. Apparently Dog Food used to have something like chalk in it which led to the white colouration. Its not in the feed anymore so you no longer see it.
Proper flashers
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Quote from: Tony Angelino on 22 April, 2017, 07:59:01 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 22 April, 2017, 12:18:31 PM
White Dogshit! Haven't seen that in years!
Cheers
There is an explanation for that which I recall hearing on James O'Brien's mystery hour. Apparently Dog Food used to have something like chalk in it which led to the white colouration. Its not in the feed anymore so you no longer see it.
'Twas bonemeal.
There is a milk float around my parts (oo-er) too.
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Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 23 April, 2017, 08:34:16 AM
Quote from: Smith on 22 April, 2017, 06:18:02 PM
A good anime.
Ah give over!
Okay,I didn't understand that. :o
I did.
Im going to sleep thaaaaat much better because of that. :P
Glad I could help :)
Quote from: Tony Angelino on 22 April, 2017, 07:59:01 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 22 April, 2017, 12:18:31 PM
White Dogshit! Haven't seen that in years!
Cheers
There is an explanation for that which I recall hearing on James O'Brien's mystery hour. Apparently Dog Food used to have something like chalk in it which led to the white colouration. Its not in the feed anymore so you no longer see it.
I did not know that. I always thought it had something to do with dehydration or oxidation.
Quote from: Hawkmumbler on 23 April, 2017, 11:09:36 AM
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Quote from: Smith on 22 April, 2017, 06:18:02 PM
Good anime.
Ah give over!
Okay,I didn't understand that. :o
Every years has it's good and bad anime, like any medium, is what i'm trying to say.
Could be,could be.TBH I not in the loop anymore.IDK,I look at a chart,and cant really find anything for myself.
There's still good anime, but it's not like it's everywhere you look, and I guess it depends on what you're looking for. Recently, I thought Prison School was kind of a hoot, a little more quirky than you'd expect from something ecchi. There are some weird ones out there.
Yeah,the whole fanservice/school/moe mainstream of the past few years is really,really not my thing.
Quote from: Smith on 23 April, 2017, 12:22:59 PM
Yeah,the whole fanservice/school/moe mainstream of the past few years is really,really not my thing.
I know what you mean. Me neither.
Proper arcades with more than just fruit machines within.
Quote from: Satanist on 28 April, 2017, 02:30:58 PM
Proper arcades with more than just fruit machines within.
Three weeks today, I will be in Tokyo (https://www.google.ch/search?q=super+potato+japan&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1-fnrocfTAhXDFiwKHcxpCQIQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=950#tbm=isch&q=super+potato+japan+arcade).
Quote from: Satanist on 28 April, 2017, 02:30:58 PM
Proper arcades with more than just fruit machines within.
There's a current practice of releasing updated versions of classic games, repurposed as ticket winning machines.
There's a Galaga one, a Pacman one and a Space Invaders one on Yarmouth sea front.
They're not as good as the real thing but still quite nice to see.
You very rarely see decent old comics or retro games at car boot sales anymore.
And you never get Jumble Sales. They're always 'Vintage Fairs' or 'Collector's Markets' where everything is overpriced.
You still get some machines - although strangely it's massive versions of phone games like fruit ninja.
Either that or Dancing/Driving/Shooting stuff with custom cabinets.
People keep saying that VR might bring it back, but I'm not sure about the sweaty VR helmets aspect.
Quote from: Steve Green on 28 April, 2017, 03:04:12 PM
You still get some machines - although strangely it's massive versions of phone games like fruit ninja.
Either that or Dancing/Driving/Shooting stuff with custom cabinets.
People keep saying that VR might bring it back, but I'm not sure about the sweaty VR helmets aspect.
And yet... people
still rent bowling shoes. :lol:
Quote from: JamesC on 28 April, 2017, 02:45:01 PM
, repurposed as ticket winning machines.
What's that?
Depending on your score the machine pumps out a load of tickets which can be exchanged for prizes in the arcade.
I was at a pop-up arcade at Ocean Terminal in Edinburgh a few weeks ago. It's still there 'til the 28th May (and supposedly returning next year)... http://www.oceanterminal.com/news-events/ready-player-one-the-history-of-video-games-996 (http://www.oceanterminal.com/news-events/ready-player-one-the-history-of-video-games-996)
I'm so out-of-touch.
Quote from: Fungus on 28 April, 2017, 05:23:12 PM
I'm so out-of-touch.
Your avatar looks just like it's saying those words.
:lol:
You're not wrong, JBC :)
Mood is everything, in avatar selection! These things matter!
Three pages and no one has mentioned white dog poo yet?
I was only reading about it last night. There used to be much more bonemeal in dogfood, apparently.
I thought it was something to do with the Milky Bar Kid - you don't see much of him any more, either... What are we not being told?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk-NlvY6O4k (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk-NlvY6O4k)
My 'phone doesn't do FaceTube - which I count as a blessing.
I think you're probably right.
Hey, I'm always right... ;)
An easy thing to miss, as many a ruined winklepicker can attest... :D
Well, except when I'm wrong, of course...
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 28 April, 2017, 10:45:36 PM
Well, except when I'm wrong, of course...
I'm going to quote you on that. At least a thousand times. On the Political Thread. ;)
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The News of the World.
Thank grud.
Hedgehogs. Honestly cant recall last time I saw one in back garden and I live in the country. Miss them
Quote from: Michael Knight on 29 April, 2017, 08:35:20 PM
Hedgehogs. Honestly cant recall last time I saw one in back garden and I live in the country. Miss them
Paging J Campbell. J Campbell to the thread please.
I know a girl who's a hedgehog expert.
Hedgehogs and eels - she loves them.
Quote from: TordelBack on 29 April, 2017, 08:44:29 PM
Paging J Campbell. J Campbell to the thread please.
Currently on three confirmed visitors to the garden. Further bulletins as events warrant.
lol. I do literally miss them in garden
Quote from: Michael Knight on 29 April, 2017, 09:49:40 PM
lol. I do literally miss them in garden
Squeeze, don't pull.
When staying with family in Guernsey, their lovely big garden has a good 6 or 7 regular Hedgehogs. My siblings have taken to leaving cat food out for them, I caught a video of one chap this time last year. (https://twitter.com/hawkmumbler/status/757322341735133184)
Quote from: JamesC on 29 April, 2017, 09:14:27 PM
I know a girl who's a hedgehog expert.
Hedgehogs and eels - she loves them.
I bet you'd never see that recipe on Saturday Kitchen. ::)
Kurt Cobain. Who knew he was still out there...
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Quote from: Supreme Pizza Of The DPRK on 14 May, 2017, 12:49:22 PM
Kurt Cobain. Who knew he was still out there...
(http://www.kerrang.com/wp-content/uploads/Evanescence_press_shot_2017.jpg)
Cobain's now a woman and has dyed his hair black!
That explains a great many things! Not why I saw
Elvis in the chip shop the other day, though!!! :o
Quote from: Michael Knight on 29 April, 2017, 08:35:20 PM
Hedgehogs. Honestly cant recall last time I saw one in back garden and I live in the country. Miss them
There are still a few in Clacton On Sea. I even filmed one (badly)
Fatty Arbuckle's.
Square bread clips. You can buy 'em wholesale, sure, but . . .
My street/ garden is a veritble Attenborough documentary.
In the last few weeks we've had snails, slugs, a frog, hedgehogs and foxes. My kids love it.
We also get deer if it snows too much.
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2017, 09:26:28 PM
In the last few weeks we've had snails, slugs, a frog, hedgehogs and foxes.
Hungry bastards, aintcha?
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 June, 2017, 11:25:43 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2017, 09:26:28 PM
In the last few weeks we've had snails, slugs, a frog, hedgehogs and foxes.
Hungry bastards, aintcha?
I like the fact you ignore the deer.
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 13 June, 2017, 01:08:38 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 12 June, 2017, 11:25:43 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2017, 09:26:28 PM
In the last few weeks we've had snails, slugs, a frog, hedgehogs and foxes.
Hungry bastards, aintcha?
I like the fact you ignore the deer.
D'oe!
Kik Jeans, Stash Pants, Dreadys....whatever they were called in your town
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Oh how I miss the late 90's
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2017, 09:26:28 PM
My street/ garden is a veritble Attenborough documentary.
In the last few weeks we've had snails, slugs, a frog, hedgehogs and foxes. My kids love it.
We also get deer if it snows too much.
We only get robins, cats, squirrels, slugs, snails and puppy fox tails!
People flicking the V-sign. It's been overtaken completely by its inferior yank cousin, the middle finger.
Two fingers: lost in history with the Pistols, Rik Mayall and Liam Gallagher when anyone give a rat's arse about him.
And Pat Mills' origin story for it is a myth.
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After moving to the relative country (well... the outskirts of Dartford, if that counts. One direction, is really towny, but there are fields in the other direction and a river and a bunch of lakes not far away) I was disapponted in the actual lack of wildlife
Near my old place I used to see foxes regularly, and a variety of birds, and squirrels were regular visitors to the garden.
Foxes are about here, (I've heard them) but I've only seen them a mile or so away. We do have a lot of robins though. I think my dad might have seen a squirrel a while ago, but I had to wander in the woods nearby before I saw one, and that was a way into the walk.
I soon changed my mind concerning the lack of wildlife when a toad and a grass snake turned up recently. I never saw snakes in Bromley! (I held the toad, by the way. It's skin is actually dry! I thought it was a slightly unusual frog to start with, but then it walked... They hop too, but they tend to just stroll most of the time. I didn't try to hold the snake, just in case it turned out to be an adder.**)
We have a pond (hence the attraction of the toad and the snake* I guess.) which we inherited from the previous owners. It's full of fish. They're nice to view (when I can see them in that murky water), but I'm not sure they quality as wildlife. When we cleared out the pond recently, there were an abundance of frogs too. (They were a lot of fun to relocate to/from the paddling pool. Hint: curve your fingers around in front of them so they can't use your palm as a launch pad. We had family friend's kids around too, that day. Imagine the squeals...)
*I saw the snake in the pond. Apparently grass snakes like to hang out in water areas. Kinda like anacondas, I guess except much much much much much smaller. Their prey tends to be frogs rather than peccaries and crocodiles. :lol:
**Unlikely, but why stress it? I mainly picked up the toad as I wanted to relocate it off the patio where the sun could fry it, or it might get stepped on.
As I was mowing the campsite the other day, what appeared to be a young starling (possibly on its first flight) came hurtling around a hedge and almost collided with my chest. After a brief moment of panic (for both of us) it settled on the handle of the lawnmower, gasping and quivering, as I continued on. It looked up at me like a cartoon character, seeming to suddenly realise that I might be Wile E. Coyote, and then flew away in an erratic panic (I could almost hear it going, "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit," as it went), hitting and narrowly avoiding becoming entangled in the hedge before weaving off into the woods at an altitude of around six inches.
Streakers.
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 12 June, 2017, 09:26:28 PM
My street/ garden is a veritble Attenborough documentary.
In the last few weeks we've had snails, slugs, a frog, hedgehogs and foxes. My kids love it.
We also get deer if it snows too much.
You lucky so and so. You should take photos....
I saw a couple of badgers the other day - and not long after a bat or two.
Careful now.the government will be popping round to gas them...
white dog shit
That's because they don't put bonemeal in dog food anymore due to EU regulations. Thank god for brexit, eh?
Quote from: Mister Pops on 24 June, 2017, 12:19:12 PM
That's because they don't put bonemeal in dog food anymore due to EU regulations. Thank god for brexit, eh?
I know...
Not so long ago people seemed to keep to the left in tube or train stations/concourses between stations, etc (well not everyone, but due to signs it was the convention). Now it seems the majority keep to the right... Not everywhere, but the places I've been recently, it's increased.
I wondered why. I wondered if it was the influx of tourists in recent years*, but lots of tourism in London is nothing new. Then I saw the signs:"keep right". Wonder when they changed that...
A silly small thing to bug me, but I just get a bit anxious amongst crowds, and getting in peoples' way, so find it mildly annoying seeing a whole bunch of people walking down the steps I'm autopiloting towards... 😂
*, And most of them coming from countries that drive on the right, and and thus presumably walk on the right in train\tube stations, and etc.
Mardroid it has been "keep right" on the tube signage for best part of a decade! :o Still walk on the left on stairs, 'Keep Right' is solely for the escalators so that people can walk past you if they are feeling energetic/in a rush/etc.
Now I know who it is that keeps blocking the escalators at least...
Heh. I want referring to the escalators, young man.
I know what you mean, I've encountered that too...
It might just be the stations I've been encountering lately...