(Basically a nostalgia list thread: the type of stuff that keeps lazy, hack stand-ups supplied with an unending stream of tedious observational material...)
Things you don't see much of thesedays...
White dog poo...
Showaddywaddy...
The Salem Witch Trials....
Quote: Tim Walker @ January 28 2012, 1:14 PM GMTThings you don't see much of thesedays...
These days written as one word.
Quote: chipolata @ January 28 2012, 1:17 PM GMTThese days written as one word.
Typical Chip, pointing out the spelling deficiencies of others in a desperate attempt to win Aaron's affection. Anyway, I believe "thesedays" has been used sufficiently in print over the years to justify it being used as acceptable syntax.
I miss.
I've seen nowadays, but not thesedays.
Anyway. White dog poo, was it actually real or a myth?
Quote: zooo @ January 28 2012, 1:27 PM GMTI've seen nowadays, but not thesedays.
Anyway. White dog poo, was it actually real or a myth?
zooo, you are so young!
Quote: Tim Walker @ January 28 2012, 1:21 PM GMTTypical Chip, pointing out the spelling deficiencies of others in a desperate attempt to win Aaron's affection. Anyway, I believe "thesedays" has been used sufficiently in print over the years to justify it being used as acceptable syntax.
Pff! I've never seen it written down like that. However, in the spirit of "joining in", I shall add Monika Lewinsky.
Whatever happened to her?
Quote: zooo @ January 28 2012, 1:27 PM GMTAnyway. White dog poo, was it actually real or a myth?
it was very real when I was a kid. I think it disappeared after they became stricter on what legally could constitute a tin of dog food. It used to bulked out by stuff like wood ash, cobwebs, cocaine, ghosts etc... I think making it actually contain some meat led to the demise of the white dog poo. A sad loss.
Blimey! Well I feel quite sad I missed out on such a spectacle.
No one says 'wotcher' anymore as a form of greeting.
The old way of signalling wanker using only the thumb and index finger has disappeared.
Milk floats and by extension, the milk man.
The rag and bone man.
Iron Mongers - Ricky Gervais is probably responsible for that as well. 
People dressing up to fly on a plane.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 28 2012, 1:36 PM GMTMilk floats and by extension, the milk man.
We've got one of them.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 28 2012, 1:36 PM GMTIron Mongers - Ricky Gervais is probably responsible for that as well.
You don't see so many unabashed, outrageous old queens mincing around thesedays, as in the style of Quentin Crisp...
Older gays seem to have become far more boring and conventional thesedays and all look and act like Ian Mckellen.
Paradoxically, you now meet a lot more very camp young men who, on closer enquiry, surprisingly turn out to be heterosexual.
It's a crazy world we live in!
Quote: zooo @ January 28 2012, 1:37 PM GMTWe've got one of them.
Then grab him and never let him go. They are a dying breed.
The disappearance of the rag and bone man has already destroyed the credibility of Steptoe, if the milkman goes, then Father Ted will suffer.
Lollipop men/women
Quote: zooo @ January 28 2012, 1:36 PM GMTBlimey! Well I feel quite sad I missed out on such a spectacle.
I remember seeing it as a kid. Tim's right, tasted of ash and cobwebs.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 28 2012, 1:39 PM GMTThe disappearance of the rag and bone man
I heard one of those the other day.