The FOC thread.

[johnny crossan]

While you still can.

it's what the elderly do

 

[johnny crossan]

I certainly qualify to be a member of this club (clue, I watched the 1956 cup final, live on a Granada rented telly).
I suggest the Bluemoon website has a need for glossary page for those of us who sometimes struggle with the Sobriquets, Acronyms, Initialisms and Satiric Misspelling, so beloved of the witty posters (and the half-witted) and those wishing to demonstrate their status as Mensa candidates. Some I can guess others, not a clue (or scooby)
Incidentally, if I, who has "seen it all" with City, am classed a FOC, what is the collective noun for the 20 & 30 something posters who don't know their Anus from their Humerus. :)

More specifically their Olecranon.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

I certainly qualify to be a member of this club (clue, I watched the 1956 cup final, live on a Granada rented telly).
I suggest the Bluemoon website has a need for glossary page for those of us who sometimes struggle with the Sobriquets, Acronyms, Initialisms and Satiric Misspelling, so beloved of the witty posters (and the half-witted) and those wishing to demonstrate their status as Mensa candidates. Some I can guess others, not a clue (or scooby)
Incidentally, if I, who has "seen it all" with City, am classed a FOC, what is the collective noun for the 20 & 30 something posters who don't know their Anus from their Humerus. :)

Hmmm.
Granada TV rentals started in 1968 when they renamed Red Arrow tv rentals, part of the Granada group, It then changed its name to Granada TV Rentals.

 

[johnny crossan]

Hmmm.
Granada TV rentals started in 1968 when they renamed Red Arrow tv rentals, part of the Granada group, It then changed its name to Granada TV Rentals.

I remember watching Granada TV via my uncle's Rediffusion set. He lived in Hyde and was a victim of Shipman aged 89.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Hmmm.
Granada TV rentals started in 1968 when they renamed Red Arrow tv rentals, part of the Granada group, It then changed its name to Granada TV Rentals.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

The knocker upper was a job paid for by T’mill. They used to have a long pole to reach bedroom windows.

That's exactly what my mother told me about the two up two down she grew up in in Burnley. She never worked in the mill, but my maternal grandmother certainly did. All her working life.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

These last few posts talking about the housing around Manc in the '50s & '60s: did you have a fridge, a washing machine, inside toilet? The answers are pretty obvious guides to social standing back then, whether you were working class or middle class. But I reckon the main one is whether you had a telephone. There was a single phone box (never broken) at the end of our street and on the rare occasions the phone rang someone would eventually go out to answer it; on hearing the caller say they wanted to speak to Mrs. H. at no. 46 they'd go and knock on the door and Mrs. H would put on her headscarf and come out to take the call. I think the only time there was one for our house it was the colliery to say dad had been hurt at work and was going to hospital, fortunately only an injured arm.

 

[xgorton]

Remember 50s and most of 60s 2 up 2 down in Gorton,outside loo always froze in winter Lino on floor no carpets also brown washed wall in my bedroom I covered all over with coloured pictures from the Football Monthly.No fridge also only not water when fire was lit,otherwise boil kettle.

 

[deegee33]

I certainly qualify to be a member of this club (clue, I watched the 1956 cup final, live on a Granada rented telly).
I suggest the Bluemoon website has a need for glossary page for those of us who sometimes struggle with the Sobriquets, Acronyms, Initialisms and Satiric Misspelling, so beloved of the witty posters (and the half-witted) and those wishing to demonstrate their status as Mensa candidates. Some I can guess others, not a clue (or scooby)
Incidentally, if I, who has "seen it all" with City, am classed a FOC, what is the collective noun for the 20 & 30 something posters who don't know their Anus from their Humerus. :)

Puppies

 

[Bill Walker]

what is the collective noun for the 20 & 30 something posters who don't know their Anus from their Humerus. :)

DOBs

(Daft Old Bastards)

 

[Bluechipblue]

Why can't you get calves foot jelly these days?

My mother used to make a lovely cow heel stew.

 

[Bluechipblue]

It was the divi in our house...

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[Lavinda Past]

My mother used to make a lovely cow heal stew.

Did it make the cow better then?

;-)

 

[Bill Walker]

Brings back memories

 

[Bluechipblue]

My mother used to give my hair a good going over with a Durbac comb, over an old copy of the Manchester Evening News, the night before the knit nurse visited our school. Hurt like fuck. She must have known what it was only good for then.

 

[Bluechipblue]

Did it make the cow better then?

;-)

Did it make the cow better then?

;-)

Bastard. I wasn't quite quick enough with editing it. 8-)

 

[city2]

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Brings back memories

Bet there is a few on here who haven’t got a scoobie

 

[idahoblues]

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Brings back memories

Bright downhill

 

[Bill Walker]

Bright downhill

Dull uphill

 

[Bill Walker]

Anyway guys and girls we are lucky to reach the foc stage in life and one big positive is we can't die young. :)