Things You Never See Anymore

[City Hobgoblin]

National Health specs

 

[.db.]

It's possible there is one...we just don't get to see or hear it any more.

Could be a thread of its own this but, for me, the British band scene is gone. Australia’s band scene is huge, USA have one n’all (always have had)… but we used to lead the world and it’s proper barebones stuff these days.

I wasn’t a fan of every one of these, but the scene was massive in the 00s:
Oasis, Doves, The Coral, The Bees, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, Badly Drawn Boy, Radiohead, Elbow, early Coldplay, The Libertines, Harrisons, Supergrass, The Zutons, South, Last Shadow Puppets, The Rascals, The Subways, The Go! Team, Starsailor, Franz Ferdinand, Ian Brown, Courteeners, 22-20s, Razorlight, Dogs, Jim Noir, The Fratelis, Ordinary Boys, Twisted Wheel, PJ Harvey, Pigeon Detectives, The View, Maximo Park, Editors, SchwaB, The Rumble Strips, The Twang, Sunshine Underground, The Moons, Archie Bronson Outfit, The Music, Babyshambles, The Rifles, Little Flames, The Enemy, The Rakes, The Futureheads, Broadcast, The Cribs, Stereophonics, The Kooks, Mystery Jets, The Wombats, Glas Vegas, Reverend and the Makers, The Horrors, Richard Ashcroft… and probably as many again that people were into back then.

I was at a gig or two every week in the 00s.

Two decades on, our best bands are mostly still from that list but none are in their prime making their best music now.

 

[He’stheleftbackremember]

Don’t see these anymore

 

[ninjamonkey]

The pusher. Manchesters mystery serial killer who pushed people into the canal late at night.
Stray dogs.
Police On the beat.
Cars that have had their badges nicked. (We called it spooning)
C list celebs "caught" getting their tits out on holiday for a publicity boost.

 

[55yr old teenager]

Winters with prolonged periods of snow lying. Bastard Baltic temperatures that lasted. Then a slight thaw and hated refreeze. Slipping and sliding with every step. Even as a fit, agile, with perfect balance and hair, kid, I ended up on my arse many times.

Fern patterns of frost on the windows, although close to death in my bedroom, I always loved looking at them close up, until the icy hands of death would force me back under the covers and a few coats. Billy Connolly wasnt kidding. The tops of bottle of milk freezing in the doorstep.

The snow lying long enough to make death defying downhill slides, normally ending onto a busy road. Get a sledge on it, 8 of you pile on and it's a 50/50 chance you receive up to and including fatal injuries.

Leaving the living room with the fire on and the drop in temperatures momentarily removes your ability to breathe. Toilet visits were brief. The dreaded bedtime walk along the hall, then into your somehow even colder room. Into a bed, whose sheets felt as though they had crystallised ice covering every square millimeter. Going in and that horror of waiting for your body heat to raise the temperature enough to reach a survivable level. My bedroom was so cold, the SAS used it for Artic training, when the trains were off. We lost a lot of good men in there.

Building Snowmen that could take a fortnight to return to the earth. Nothing of what was once a proud and volumous chap, that was now no more than a disintegrating carrot, a scarf and a couple of stones, lying abandoned. I always felt a bit sad as a kid when they disappeared. Once we built an Igloo, but that's another story.

Brilliant post. Brought lots of memories from my childhood. Made me laugh in parts as well.

 

[55yr old teenager]

Bogey Carts ...... in the 60s we used to build them out of wood and old pram wheels and ride them ... usually straight into the nearest lamp post !

Nowadays the kids are far too fk'n lazy to build anything .... even friendships with other kids in the street!

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I fell off one when i was about 10 yesrs old and broke my front tooth in half. Ran home crying, looked in the mirror to see only half a tooth left and swore I was never going out ever again!! .....







Before I get called all the names under the sun for being soft, pathetic or whatever, in my defence I am female, and we can be a bit over dramatic at times.

 

[55yr old teenager]

Toast Toppers looked like Cat sick but they were epic.

Especially the curried chicken flavour, that was my favourite.

 

[Eaststander1]

Trolley buses

Probably my biggest memories of the 60s ... Trolley buses !

Here's one on 60s Portland Street in Manchester City Centre.

 

[chris63]

Emus.

 

[Eaststander1]

I fell off one when i was about 10 yesrs old and broke my front tooth in half. Ran home crying, looked in the mirror to see only half a tooth left and swore I was never going out ever again!! .....







Before I get called all the names under the sun for being soft, pathetic or whatever, in my defence I am female, and we can be a bit over dramatic at times.

Lol, it must have felt like it was the end of the world back then, when that happened ... and especially for a young girl.

 

[55yr old teenager]

Lol, it must have felt like it was the end of the world back then, when that happened ... and especially for a young girl.

It did, which is why I said I was never going out again!!

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Carry On films on the BBC.

 

[Blue Mist]

I fell off one when i was about 10 yesrs old and broke my front tooth in half. Ran home crying, looked in the mirror to see only half a tooth left and swore I was never going out ever again!! .....







Before I get called all the names under the sun for being soft, pathetic or whatever, in my defence I am female, and we can be a bit over dramatic at times.

On the plus side, at least you were able to spit your baccy out easily.

 

[Stelea]

Muddy sanded Goal Areas

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Milkmen delivering free milk to schools, and milk monitors.

Kid's doing the paper round.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Corona pop lorries.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

The pusher. Manchesters mystery serial killer who pushed people into the canal late at night.

Jack The Dipper / The Moston Angler

 

[ctidcarl]

Hitchhiker’s

White dog poo

Manchester City full backs

I started a thread on here a while back about hitchhikers........they were rife in the 70's early 80's
You'd see them everywhere and they were going........everywhere!!

Where have they all gone??!!

Another thing you don't see anymore is kids playing conkers

Or kid's playing with muck bombs

And kids chasing each other with dog shit on sticks..........no wonder they are all soft, they don't build up immune systems anymore!!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I started a thread on here a while back about hitchhikers........they were rife in the 70's early 80's
You'd see them everywhere and they were going........everywhere!!

I used to hitch everywhere, I think the last time I dd, I was put off by the bloke who pulled over....... I asked where he was going, he replied "how far do you want to go" as I noticed him rubbing his erection on the inside of his jeans. Sort of put me off and I got the train after that.......









If he didn't have a tache like from someone out of Village People, I may have jumped in....... ;)

 

[city2]

Jehovah witnesses ain’t seen them for years