The FOC thread.

[KS55]

Extorting Money...
Two friends and I used to stage mock fights at a bus stop. As soon as anyone approached they would run off. I would lie on the floor "injured" and claim the two lads had stolen my bus fare...could earn two or three shillings on a good night.

Ball some soft white bread and stuff it up the chute for Press Button B.

 

[normskih]

Hard to remember - it was written in a circle but I think you're correct, apologies.

No apologies needed, my friend:)

 

[i kne albert davy]

Are there age restrictions to be considered a FOC ?
At 57 years old I am unsure if I qualify.
But watching my five grandchildren I certainly feel like a FOC.

You can be in the junior FOCs club.

 

[Really_here]

Latest in a long line

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[Lavinda Past]

Radio Caroline was the big thing then. Pirate radio they called it but it played all the latest records. B B C was shit.

Emperor Rosko!

Radio Luxembourg was my preferred source of music 'under the bedsheets' when I first got my hands on a transistor radio. Radio Caroline was really patchy.

On the subject of 'the Emperor', I met Rosko briefly at a party somewhere in North London in about 1972. Seemed a nice bloke. He arrived with two very young girls, chatted with a few of us for a while, before he and his young friends 'retired' to a bedroom, never to be seen by us again... I wonder if they're still in there?

 

[levets]

@Onholiday(somemightsay) I notice everyone has ignored you. Probably because they forgot your question.
I propose the following
60-65 Junior FOC (my category)
66-70 Mainstream FOC
71-75 Senior FOC
76-80 Grandmaster FOC
80+ @oakiecokie FOC

I’m Mainstream then

 

[levets]

Radio Luxembourg was my preferred source of music 'under the bedsheets' when I first got my hands on a transistor radio. Radio Caroline was really patchy.

On the subject of 'the Emperor', I met Rosko briefly at a party somewhere in North London in about 1972. Seemed a nice bloke. He arrived with two very young girls, chatted with a few of us for a while, before he and his young friends 'retired' to a bedroom, never to be seen by us again... I wonder if they're still in there?

Yep, Luxembourg for me too

 

[levets]

The word 'fucking' is unnecessary as the chant doesn't 'scan' if it is included.

T'was indeed, "Sing something simple, you simple twats"

Yes I recall that

 

[flook]

Why can't I find dark chocolate Bounty?


Mars UK has confirmed that the iconic Dark Bounty will be permanently removed from shelves. The move comes after milk chocolate version of the popular coconut flavoured snack were removed from the selection of Celebrations tubs

The loss of the dark chocolate bounty is the biggest travesty of modern times

 

[johnny crossan]

Yep, Luxembourg for me too

Some evocative names on the tuning dial in those days - along with 208 LUXEMBOURG I recall HILVERSUM & ATHLONE

 

[Lavinda Past]

Ball some soft white bread and stuff it up the chute for Press Button B.

As I recall, a short length of strategically positioned lolly stick did a good job of withholding returned tanners in the grey slimmer phones that replaced the 'Button B' models.

You had to check regularly though, as the coins tended to back up very quickly.

 

[idahoblues]

You can be in the junior FOCs club.

aka ‘kids club’

 

[levets]

Anybody do the 'Whit walks'? I remember as a young'un in Uppermill walking behind a big church banner with my Sunday School mates and using pea shooters to bombard other Sunday Schools from Delph and Dobcross. The walk culminated in a brass band contest in the park. For all I know these walks still occur.

Yes on Whit Sunday. My parents would buy me and siblings new clothes specifically for Whit Sunday.

 

[levets]

Some evocative names on the tuning dial in those days - along with 208 LUXEMBOURG I recall HILVERSUM & ATHLONE

My mum, born in Bray, Ireland used to try to get Athlone, but rarely was it clear.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Some evocative names on the tuning dial in those days - along with 208 LUXEMBOURG I recall HILVERSUM & ATHLONE

Still there on some modern wireless sets "-)

 

[Vienna_70]

Who else remembers Whacko with Jimmy Edwards ?

I remember when they brought it back in the early 70s.

 

[Vienna_70]

Sunday tea around 6pm, eating the remnants of Sunday Roast Dinner listening to "Sing Something Simple" on the Radio. Grandparents round our house, Dad finishing the last of the bread and butter with a chocolate digestive sandwich.

Grandparents went home, then out came the Tin Bath which was hung on the kitchen wall, Mum and Sister first, water boiled in kettle and saucepans on the gas gob, in front of the fire whilst me and Dad sat in the kitchen, then, in the same water, me and Dad in the bath. That was it for the week, just a "personal" stand up wash after that.

Kin freezing in winter, no heating, just a coal fire, started by rolling up newspaper into a coil, then some kindle followed by coal, lit it all and put the tin plate (can't remember the name) flush to the wall and a couple of broadsheet newspaper pages over the top to get the fire roaring.

God we were poor looking back but my childhood was so happy with such a loving family.

So much of that resonates with me

 

[Vienna_70]

Ah right, it was called Sing Something Simple not Songs of Praise !

I remember it because me and r kid wanted to listen to the charts whilst we washed and dried the pots but by the time we'd all had tea, Radio one had finished and it was some religous shite we called Warwee Warwee ,(think of the sound a choir makes when you can't make out the words)

I can remember listening to Sing Something Simple on the way home from our grandparents'. It was on after the chart rundown finished at 7:00pm, I think.

 

[Lavinda Past]

aka ‘kids club’

They can sit in the Platt Lane End and behave themselves.

 

[Vienna_70]

Let's say a year older than @Mad Eyed Screamer .. :)

Is that mean ? But he'll be on here with his Morrissey and covered bridges, not to mention his fecking eggheads obsession.

Can we make it six months?

;-)