The FOC thread.

[RadcliffeRick]

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.


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Knit nurse you say?? :-)

 

[Shirley]

The old telephone box on the corner, quickly learned how to tap them to make a call.

 

[Newman Noggs]

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Can't remember the name of the drawing ointment.

Was it Lyons Ointment ? It came in a wooden tub. That's what my mum used anyway.

 

[Newman Noggs]

This was the forerunner to the new improved, improved and improved again soap powders :)

Bloody hell, I could have sworn my mum used to put it on bee/wasp stings when we were kids and we'd go round with blue patches on our skin until it wore off.

Just googled it;

How it was used for stings:

• A small amount of the blue powder was mixed with water to create a paste or a solution.
  
  
• This paste or solution was then applied directly to the sting, often a bee or wasp sting.
  
  
• The alkaline nature of the blue (due to the baking soda) was thought to help neutralize the venom and reduce inflammation.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

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.

Perhaps I may have misremembered with Granada Rentals. No need for the Hmm's and the snide inuendo.
I checked with my brother and he too thought the same, so a genuine error (he did recall the TV was made by Ultra).
Wikipedia "The company (Granada) also established a chain of television rental shops from 1959 onwards, expanding in 1968 by purchasing Robinson Rentals for £8 million from David Robinson.<a
I also remember attending a street party in 1953 for the queen's coronation. You can Google that if you wish.

 

[normskih]

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.


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Blimey, our Mum did that every Sunday after our once a week bath and for us girls with longesh hair it bloody hurt.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Perhaps I may have misremembered with Granada Rentals. No need for the Hmm's and the snide inuendo.
I checked with my brother and he too thought the same, so a genuine error (he did recall the TV was made by Ultra).
Wikipedia "The company (Granada) also established a chain of television rental shops from 1959 onwards, expanding in 1968 by purchasing Robinson Rentals for £8 million from David Robinson.<a
I also remember attending a street party in 1953 for the queen's coronation. You can Google that if you wish.

Correcting factual errors is snide innuendo?
I don’t need to Google your irrelevant addition as you have clearly cut and pasted it.
You also clearly need reminding that 1959 was three years after the 1956 cup final you claim to have watched on a Granada tv!
Pathetic, old man.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Correcting factual errors is snide innuendo?
I don’t need to Google your irrelevant addition as you have clearly cut and pasted it.
You also clearly need reminding that 1959 was three years after the 1956 cup final you claim to have watched on a Granada tv!
Pathetic, old man.

 

[KS55]

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. :)

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Rags.

 

[mexico1970]

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Imagine being that much of a knob you get triggered by someone misremembering the name of a fucking telly brand ?

:)

 

[johnny crossan]

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.


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nit nurse I believe.

 

[KS55]

Imagine being that much of a knob you get triggered by someone misremembering the name of a fucking telly brand ?

:)

Mrs KS gets triggered when I forget a name……………usually hers.

 

[johnny crossan]

Was it Lyons Ointment ? It came in a wooden tub. That's what my mum used anyway.

Not to be confused with Golden Eye Ointment, for poukes.

 

[mexico1970]

Mrs KS gets triggered when I forget a name……………usually hers.

Calling anyone any name you can dig out of your memory is a privilege of age mate.

EXCEPT THE WIFE'S OF COURSE

 

[johnny crossan]

....I also remember attending a street party in 1953 for the queen's coronation. You can Google that if you wish.

We've only got your word for that! The seeds of doubt have been planted ;-)

 

[mexico1970]

This stuff was applied liberally to any child having a cold sore, neon bloody purple it was hard to miss.

 

[Fiftyyearsandcounting]

Correcting factual errors is snide innuendo?
I don’t need to Google your irrelevant addition as you have clearly cut and pasted it.
You also clearly need reminding that 1959 was three years after the 1956 cup final you claim to have watched on a Granada tv!
Pathetic, old man.

I've been called the same

 

[Lavinda Past]

Imagine being that much of a knob you get triggered by someone misremembering the name of a fucking telly brand ?

:)

 

[KS55]

Perhaps I may have misremembered with Granada Rentals. No need for the Hmm's and the snide inuendo.
I checked with my brother and he too thought the same, so a genuine error (he did recall the TV was made by Ultra).
Wikipedia "The company (Granada) also established a chain of television rental shops from 1959 onwards, expanding in 1968 by purchasing Robinson Rentals for £8 million from David Robinson.<a
I also remember attending a street party in 1953 for the queen's coronation. You can Google that if you wish.

In 1953 all us school kids got a Mug to commemorate the coronation. I broke mine by attaching a rubber band to the handle and using it as a yo-yo.

 

[mexico1970]

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If you can't tell the difference between..

Grundig
Rediffusion
DER
Granada

You're a pathetic old **** :)