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[KinoKe]

Does anyone remember when all money was handled in the cashier's box in a store? The shop assistant would put the handwritten bill and your money in a screw-topped container, attach it to a wire, pull a handle to send it flying across teh ceiling and the receipted bill and any change would be sent back.

Ah, yes, I remember it well (as Maurice Chevalier might have said). I particularly associate it with stores where the merchandise was kept in glass-fronted drawers behind the counter. One shirt on display... the rest behind the counter.

 

[Btq97]

I remember my aunty having funny shaped milk bottles that had awful tasting milk in. Sterilised I think it was it was awful on cornflakes.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

My mother had a sixpence jar which was a Martell bottle about 2 ft tall. It was always on show between the telly and the orange flame effect electric fire. The top was glued on with a tiny slit cut in.
My sister would watch for my mam coming back from 'the shops' as l shook it desperately.

 

[sixfoot4]

My cousin in Norway has a walk-in-refrigerator built into her house. She has a couple chairs in there to escape the heat of summer.

What, like a sauna? Are they nude?

 

[Lucy_Lastic]

Do you remember when... nah, I'm not that old!

 

[English_guy_bkk]

Do you remember when... nah, I'm not that old!

Come on Lucy.....you must have a remember when

 

[Lucy_Lastic]

OK, I remember when... Netflix started streaming.

 

[daystate]

Do you remember when... nah, I'm not that old!

I used to be just like that.Id regularly take the piss out of the old uns when they were reminiscing.
Now I have the piss taken out of me.lol
Sands of time.

 

[Lucy_Lastic]

My dad used to tell me that one of our relations, who was like 104, had seen everything from the wright brothers to the space station. Imagine that. She's dead now of course.

 

[Btq97]

Do you remember when... nah, I'm not that old!

I remember being that young.

 

[Titsandclits]

I remember when our TV was black and white, you had to get up to change the channels and fiddle with the aerial lots to get a decent picture

 

[Btq97]

Back in the day I remember being in the pub after work and one of the sales men brought his mobile phone a pilots case sized thing that weighed a metric fuck ton

 

[Btq97]

I remember when our TV was black and white, you had to get up to change the channels and fiddle with the aerial lots to get a decent picture

Yes had a Dial not buttons. Then we got well rented one that had a sonic remote control.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

I remember when our TV was black and white, you had to get up to change the channels and fiddle with the aerial lots to get a decent picture

And give a slight thump to the side of the casing. Our first colour telly was a 'Bush'

 

[Lucy_Lastic]

I remember when our TV was black and white, you had to get up to change the channels and fiddle with the aerial lots to get a decent picture

My grandad told me about that. and when cars didnt have electric windows. Barbaric times.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

My grandad told me about that. and when cars didnt have electric windows. Barbaric times.

Yes... imagine winding a window down.

 

[Anastasia1999]

That was the same for my first car - an Imperial gallon for half a crown - 2 shillings and sixpence or 12.5 new pence later.

Much later I had a large, fast, fuel-thirsty car. It had twin petrol tanks totalling 30 Imperial gallons. But it was the time of quadruple Green Shield stamps. Every time I filled the car, I also filled at least one Green Shield stamp book.

I remember Green Shield stamps too. My Mum used them to buy more expensive household items.

My brother’s wee tricycle was bought using those stamps. Nice memories!!

 

[Lucy_Lastic]

Is it true that cars used to not have aircon?

 

[daystate]

I remember when our TV was black and white, you had to get up to change the channels and fiddle with the aerial lots to get a decent picture

Ha..we had one of the first colour tvs on our street but still paid a license for a black and white tv.
When there was a knock on the front door the first job was to turn the colour setting to black and white in case it was the tv license man.

 

[Anastasia1999]

Back in the day I remember being in the pub after work and one of the sales men brought his mobile phone a pilots case sized thing that weighed a metric fuck ton

I had a mobile phone in the early 90ies when I was in Ireland doing a post grad and people used to ask me if I was selling drugs.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

Is it true that cars used to not have aircon?

Yes, we'd stick heads out of the window

 

[Lucy_Lastic]

According to my dad, my great grandad had the first TV in his street. During the war he drove a cadillac he bought from an american airbase and bought black market plane fuel to tun it cos the fuel ration would last about 3 miles.

 

[Btq97]

Is it true that cars used to not have aircon?

Yes and they also had a hole in the front where you put the crank handle to start them. The posh cars had an 8 track

 

[Lucy_Lastic]

Yes and they also had a hole in the front where you put the crank handle to start them. The posh cars had an 8 track

now you're just making shit up.

I'm kidding. I saw an 8 track in an antique shop once.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

According to my dad, my great grandad had the first TV in his street. During the war he drove a cadillac he bought from an american airbase and bought black market plane fuel to tun it cos the fuel ration would last about 3 miles.

According to my dad....my great grandad invented the worlds first telescope. ...