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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:14 pm
by J.R.
englishangel wrote:Vonny wrote:There's a similar one for the 90's - have also seen good ones for the 70's & 80's but can't find them at the moment.
How you know you experienced the 90's:
1) 10p Mr Frosty Ice Pops on long summer days!
2) Gordon the Gopher!
3) You could do or tried to do the Prodigy step. 'You're no good 4
me....'
4) You owned or longed for an Adidas three stripe tracksuit
5) You owned a compilation tape with TOP TUNES such as "Mr Vain","What
is love" and "Rhythm is a dancer" and 'How Bizarre, How Bizarre"
6) Girls thought Blue Mascara was cool!
7) Girls actually fancied Garry Barlow more than Robbie Williams
The Racoons! (nuff said)
9) You owned a pair of Nike Air Max, and wore them to death
10) Mr Motivator (What ever happened to him?)
11) Running on the spot dancing!
12) You wore leggings/cycling shorts with long t-shirts
13) You owned a Bennetton, NafNaf, sweater shop jumper or waistcoat
14) Girls owned scrunchies in an array of colours and tacky headbands
with their names written on in thick glitter
16) You bought Smash Hits for the song lyrics and the immense amount of
stickers that you would stick everywhere!
17) You had a pen pal
1 You could only watch the Simpson's on sky
19) On a Saturday afternoon you watched Catchphrase, Gladiators,
Generation, Game, Noels House Party and ! then Casualty
20) You taped the Pepsi Chartshow on radio one and tired in vain to
pause the tape before the annoying guy talked and ruined the whole
thing.
21) Cans of Coke were 25p
22) 10p Space Raiders Crisps
23) A grey Fruit of the Loom jumper was a must have
24) Sharkie & George were the crimebusters of the sea
25) Puffa jackets
26) You used the line "it's a free country" every day
27) The Sky Sports Blimp!
2 Impulse body spray for girls
29) Hooch Alcoholic Lemonade (where's it gone?!)
30) 'Don't forget your toothbrush', 'TFI' and Big Breakfast with Chris
Evans
31) You had at least one troll
32) You know the dance to Macarena and Saturday Nigh! t. You also tried
to scat like Scatman John! Bi bat ba ba da bo...
33) You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that Eddie & Sharni got
together!
34) You watched Byker Grove 'ha ha ha whatcha laughin at!' (thethemesong
ending), and saw PJ get shot in the eye with a paintball!
35) PJ and Duncan not Ant and Dec! Dodgy Pop Not Dodgy Presenting!
36) Shellsuits & bumbags!
37) You longed to live in Beverley Hills 90210
3 Home and Away was a prime time ITV programe watched by millions
39) You owned a Spice Girls album
40) Fruit salads and black jacks!
41) Strike it lucky on a sunday night with Michael Barrymore when he was
straight & married
42) Chain letters
43) You had fake ID
44) You remember Todd Landers in Neighbours
45) You religiously watched Saved by the Bell on a Saturday morning!
46) You more than likely lost/nearly lost a wobbly tooth on a wham bar!!
47) CK one (probably the fake one from the market)
4 Going Live, then Live and Kicking was the place to be on a Saturday
Morning - you know you remember the number 0181 811 8181
49) You knew every word to the theme tune from Fresh Prince of Bel Air
50) You collected Premier League Stickers and did swoops at playtime
51) Girls wore crappy lipstick such as - coffee shimmer, heather shimmer
and birthday suit!
52) You wore kickers and wallaby's with the tags hanging from them
53) You thought saying - "I know you are, you said you are but what am
I" to every cuss that that came your way!
54) "love got the world in motion" with the John Barnes Rap
55) when you used to run away from some thing and shout ' legiiiiiitt'
Fruit Salad and Black Jacks were 2 a penny (old pennies) if you are over 40
4 a penny when I was a kid in the mid 50's. They were known as 'farthing chews'.
(WOOOOPS ! Showing my age again !!)
And at the same time I used to spend a lot of my holiday time on my Mum's friends dairy farm. Milk my 'favourite' Guernsey cow, (Mayflower XIII - the herd leader), into a cup in the milking shed and drink it warm. A meal in itself.
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:59 pm
by sejintenej
J.R. wrote:
And at the same time I used to spend a lot of my holiday time on my Mum's friends dairy farm. Milk my 'favourite' Guernsey cow, (Mayflower XIII - the herd leader), into a cup in the milking shed and drink it warm. A meal in itself.
Horror of horrors - unpasteurised milk, straight out of the cow's unsterilised teats pulled by unwashed hands! I'm sure that that would be illegal now and if the council heard about it you would be whisked away pronto into a safer anvironment.
As for playing with teats at your age except under the direction of a specially trained teacher in Se* Lessons - definitely close to incestuous. Into care with you immediately and consider proceedings against your parents for neglect, mental and physical (in respect of the milk) assault
and your favourite female was a cow - beggars belief!
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:34 pm
by J.R.
sejintenej wrote:J.R. wrote:
And at the same time I used to spend a lot of my holiday time on my Mum's friends dairy farm. Milk my 'favourite' Guernsey cow, (Mayflower XIII - the herd leader), into a cup in the milking shed and drink it warm. A meal in itself.
Horror of horrors - unpasteurised milk, straight out of the cow's unsterilised teats pulled by unwashed hands! I'm sure that that would be illegal now and if the council heard about it you would be whisked away pronto into a safer anvironment.
As for playing with teats at your age except under the direction of a specially trained teacher in Se* Lessons - definitely close to incestuous. Into care with you immediately and consider proceedings against your parents for neglect, mental and physical (in respect of the milk) assault
and your favourite female was a cow - beggars belief!
I can only add that both hands and teats
WERE sterilised.
Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:21 pm
by Jude
When I was at CH I had the vast sum of £5 per term of pocket money - I had none in holidays (except if I went to Cornwall and stayed with my Grandmother sadly she died when I was 14)
Blackjacks were 4 for a penny, my post office account book was illegible as it was all hand written, no one had cards of any nature - not even cheque cards that I remember... in 1971 a mars bar went from 6d to 5pence - a massive change of currency caused this and every one alive and kicking then has converted back to £;S:D (pence) to see how things have risen!
at 18 (1981) I could fill up my mini with fuel, buy a pack of 20 Peter Styvudent cigs and still have change from a £5 note... If I put £5 of fuel in my car today I wouldn't get out of the garage!
Has anyone else noticed that more garages are putting up Minimum spends of £10? I got really cross as I had to stop at an expensive garage, so only wanted enough to get me to Trrashco's (who didn't exsist in my child hood!)
There were no laws about smoking at any age, my father used tosend me to the nearest shops (over a main A road to Worthing from Littlehampton!!) and about ½mile onwards to buy his flaked St Bruno in a tin....
Unigate delivered Milk to the door - and there were adverts on tv in COLOUR!! of a red and white striped straw called Humphrey the logo "watch out watch out there's a Humphrey about" to encourage us to drink milk,
we got ½ pint of milk in diddy bottles at primary school.
We ate whatever was put in front of us and said thank you.
We always offered to wash up at a friends house
Clothing was what you got unless you saved up for something special.
we were forced to eat brawn (pigs bits in gelatine - ugh!!)
We also were forced to eat the white stuff from a cows stomach... (can't think of the name)
We played outside regardless of the weather, and girls climbed trees as well as boys..
Where I lived people used to dump the odd car, so we spent many days pushing these wrecks up and down the private road (unattached to the council so they didn't have to maintain it's repair)
we grew vegetables & fruit in the garden,
made all our own jams
we picked fruit to make our jams from the countryside not a cultivated strawberry farms
we made our own cakes, bread, beer, wine etc.
central heating wasn't invented (or rather re-invented) and I had a single pane of glass in my window, my room faced north and i had no heating..
CH was an eye opener!
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:54 am
by Great Plum
Jude - I still get my milk delivered in proper bottles - but by Unigate's parent compny - Dairy Crest!
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:42 am
by englishangel
Great Plum wrote:Jude - I still get my milk delivered in proper bottles - but by Unigate's parent compny - Dairy Crest!
MIne is delivered in plastic 4 pint bottles by a local company. and the milkman's name is Colin.
The inside of a cow's stomach is tripe, which I have never eaten, nor have I eaten brawn or pigs trotters.
My father still makes marmalade and grows veg. one brother-in-law has an allotment and another grows fruit and veg and brews the nmost fantastic beer. His wife also makes jam, and they live in solihull, not in the country.
I made my own clothes including my wedding dress (fabric cost £10) but it is not worth it now. I did however make my daughter's prom dress.
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:16 pm
by Jude
englishangel wrote:Great Plum wrote:Jude - I still get my milk delivered in proper bottles - but by Unigate's parent compny - Dairy Crest!
MIne is delivered in plastic 4 pint bottles by a local company. and the milkman's name is Colin.
The inside of a cow's stomach is tripe, which I have never eaten, nor have I eaten brawn or pigs trotters.
My father still makes marmalade and grows veg. one brother-in-law has an allotment and another grows fruit and veg and brews the nmost fantastic beer. His wife also makes jam, and they live in solihull, not in the country.
I made my own clothes including my wedding dress (fabric cost £10) but it is not worth it now. I did however make my daughter's prom dress.
Mary - I AM SHOCKED!!! YOU KNOW YOUR MILKMANS NAME?????????
yes - tripe - disgusting stuff - never forced it on my kids!
The only things I make these days are knit ware - my sewing m/c is rather dead... I used to make dressed and skirts etc when I was first married..... thanks Mrs Newbold...
I still make jame, marmalade etc when I have the ingredients! But I wouldn't make anything clothes wise these days as I need to find a suitable tent first for me to hide in....!
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:41 pm
by J.R.
Jude wrote:englishangel wrote:Great Plum wrote:Jude - I still get my milk delivered in proper bottles - but by Unigate's parent compny - Dairy Crest!
MIne is delivered in plastic 4 pint bottles by a local company. and the milkman's name is Colin.
The inside of a cow's stomach is tripe, which I have never eaten, nor have I eaten brawn or pigs trotters.
My father still makes marmalade and grows veg. one brother-in-law has an allotment and another grows fruit and veg and brews the nmost fantastic beer. His wife also makes jam, and they live in solihull, not in the country.
I made my own clothes including my wedding dress (fabric cost £10) but it is not worth it now. I did however make my daughter's prom dress.
Mary - I AM SHOCKED!!! YOU KNOW YOUR MILKMANS NAME?????????
Shocked, YES !
Surprised - NO !!!
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:47 pm
by englishangel
I don't understand why anyone should be shocked or surprised.
Surprised that I get up so early?
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 6:09 pm
by Richard Ruck
englishangel wrote:... nor have I eaten brawn or pigs trotters.
Both delicious - you don't know what you're missing!
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:23 pm
by Jude
Richard Ruck wrote:englishangel wrote:... nor have I eaten brawn or pigs trotters.
Both delicious - you don't know what you're missing!
OK RR - your avatar says it all - all brawn no brain!
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:05 pm
by J.R.
Oooops !!!
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:10 am
by Richard Ruck
Jude wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:englishangel wrote:... nor have I eaten brawn or pigs trotters.
Both delicious - you don't know what you're missing!
OK RR - your avatar says it all - all brawn no brain!
You leave my gumby out of this!!
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:40 pm
by Jude
Richard Ruck wrote:Jude wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:
Both delicious - you don't know what you're missing!
OK RR - your avatar says it all - all brawn no brain!
You leave my gumby out of this!!
I'm not sure what a gumby is, but it sounds rather painful!!! Obviously JR had something to hide - look at what he wrote!!!
Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:18 pm
by J.R.
I suggest you catch up on Monty Python, Jude !
Incidently - I have NOTHING to hide !