The FOC thread.

normskih said:
I still cook my chips in a chip pan and will until I can no longer do so. I don’t use beef dripping like my dear Mum though.
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My mother was cooking chips one day; I was being chased by my brother through kitchen. I caught the pan handle and knocked the contents over my leg (short trousers). Yellow blisters came up the size of ping-pong balls. Mother took me to the local hospital where a nurse cut the blisters off, for some reason it didn't seem to be that painful.
Now, when ever my son or daughter cook on the hob, I always turn the handles in.
 
HorlocksWalk said:
Get Mr LaDiDa Corona, their vans would not come to Longsight we had this. I guess you will be having Corona limeade in your mansion when your butler fetches it. ;-)
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On a cruise in November and in a suite (good price) it comes complete with a butler.
 
A friend at uni got a summer job as a pop man. After six weeks, he was the boss of the depot as everybody else had left.
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
Our regular order was cream soda, D&B, lemonade and a soda water for dad's whisky.
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We were one of only two houses to take deliveries in our close - the driver always used to park outside the other customer (inevitably 'Uncle' Bill :-) ) and carry ours 150 yards to our house. This went on for years.

Then Bill moved, but the driver continued to park outside his old house and walk to ours until Mum asked him why, a whole year later. He replied 'Oh, yeah - I s'pose it is silly' and parked right outside ours from then on.

What a Muppet - nice guy, though.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Started smoking No.10 aged 9 ffs Minging. Kid at school asked me if I could NAIL it.

The thick **** meant inhale.
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Being upper class, we smoked No.6 and looked down on No. 10 smoking peasants and always thought No. 10 were made from the shite they swept up after making the No. 6s. As far as I remember ten No. 6s were 23 1/2p and ten No. 10s were 22p.

I must be a younger FOC as fags had stopped being sold in 5s, though I do remember Ma having packets of 5 Park Drive.
 
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Djibrilshairdo said:
Being upper class, we smoked No.6 and looked down on No. 10 smoking peasants and always thought No. 10 were made from the shite they swept up after making the No. 6s. As far as I remember ten No. 6s were 23 1/2p and ten No. 10s were 22p.

I must be a younger FOC as fags had stopped being sold in 5s, though I do remember Ma having packets of 5 Park Drive.
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At my local corner shop, in the late 50s, I could by a single cigarette, and it was wrapped in a little triangular paper bag, the same as used for serving loose sweets.
 
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