Who Remembers Thread

[normskih]

At least the toilet had a proper flush with those loo's, unlike these of today.

 

[mexico1970]

Turning the tv set over with a pair of pliers when the knob broke.

 

[Magicpole]

My old mum had a lock on ours for a while until she realised we could pick it. Well, I could. I remember her going tonto when the bill came in and all eyes focused on me. Even though I would take it off to let my younger siblings call their pals. Talk about being thrown under the bus? When I started work I offered to pay the bill and the old girl calmed down and suddenly started not to worry about being on it to her pal for fucking ages. She was the same with the central heating. It had to be -60 before she even considered sticking it on. The fucking SAS would use my room as training for artic warfare. We lost a lot of good men in there.

One day she was going at us lads as being fucking useless in the house, messy fuckers, blah blah.

She said. What will you do when I'm dead?

My youngest brother, without missing a beat replied.

Put the fucking heating on.

 

[normskih]

Whenever we made a phone call at home we had to we had to put 10p in one of these

 

[Maccblue]

Never managed to get Mum & Dad to splash out on the deluxe model that included a shooting game too!! Boo!

Had the same one. If you set it right you could line em up and walk away just keeping going back and forwards

 

[DrBlueBob]

Telephone party lines. You had to see if Doris from down the street was on the line before you could make a call.

 

[Indaparkside]

Iron on the cooker, to heat it up

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

Never managed to get Mum & Dad to splash out on the deluxe model that included a shooting game too!! Boo!

That's the Mk IV, I had the Mark 8 which had gridball.

Had to fix the contacts in the controllers on a regular basis using some metallic adhesive silver paper my dad had.

 

[blue aura]

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Those were the days.