Yeh newspapers were less carciogenic than styrofoam.
And if a chip fell between the legs of a page 3, free transexual porn!
Things you miss from previous decades. Page 3
Quote: zooo @ February 11 2012, 6:18 PM GMTAre you saying they saved money by having fewer children, or that THEY ATE THE BABY?
Yes, they would eat the baby 
I have no idea if they taste like chicken because I am a vegetarian 
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ February 11 2012, 4:38 PM GMTI miss the 1940s - you could leave your door open and not worry about being burgled. Mainly because you had nothing worth stealing and you went to the toilet outside.
You could also walk the streets at night without being mugged - as long as you didn't mind be killed by the odd Nazi Doodlebug.
Yes, watching my neighbours children being crushed to death in their own home during the Blitz brings back so many happy memories.
TB, rickets, ration books, racism, nuclear bombs going off - those really were the good old days.
Pah, you are not old enough to remember that first hand.
Quote: billwill @ February 11 2012, 8:25 PM GMTPah, you are not old enough to remember that first hand.
But I remember teaching Tyranosaurus Rex's how to program in C. It was so frustrating they became extinct. I also remember bopping Ursula Andres on the head with a club and dragging her off to my cave to be my wife.
I love your stories Bill!
I miss bizarre adverts in American products for stuff you couldn't get in the UK.
The reality of a twinkie is so much less.
Quote: Bob Hicks @ February 11 2012, 8:09 PM GMTYes, they would eat the baby
I have no idea if they taste like chicken because I am a vegetarian
I expect they taste like pork, suckling pig.
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I miss the Government-Surplus shops of the 60's & 70's in Lisle Street & Tot Crt Rd, where you could buy weird & wonderful bits of wartime equipment such as metal boxes with weird gears inside, which you thought you might be able to make something interesting with, but you later found out was, say, a calculating bomb-sight, of no practical use in peace-time.
I don't go back as far as T.Rex, SootyJ, well I might, but I think I was probably just a tiny mouse-like creature then, not really capable of thinking straight and C hadn't been invented. Hey even in Cro-Magnon times we were still using Mercury Autocode and Leo the Lion was making silly DECIMAL computers instead of the more efficient BINARY ones.
US films of the 80s especially those of John Hughes featuring; Micheal J Fox, body warmers, prenutso Cruisenator, Molly Ringwald, actual humour, people keeping their clothes on, massive mobile phones, music by groups with big hair, punks, cyber punks, digital watches, everybodys working for the weekend, walkmens, wit, profoundity, puff ball skirts, fingerless gloves, more Molly Ringwald, proper cars, Shermer High, irony, lack of irony, Dougie Howitzer.
Quote: billwill @ February 11 2012, 8:31 PM GMTI expect they taste like pork, suckling pig.
This is why I have a cheese and onion crispbake when the others have gammon steaks.
Vinyl.
Starting handles.
younger members look blank
Do you mean like in Laurel and Hardy films?
Quote: zooo @ February 11 2012, 9:20 PM GMTDo you mean like in Laurel and Hardy films?
Can't think of a specific reference but, probably yes.
Quote: Rooface @ February 11 2012, 2:40 PM GMT80s
Punks (I was fascinated as a child by them),
They must have been really old by then as punk had pretty much been and gone by 80s.
old money - coin of the realm such as sixpences and thruppenny bits
pounds and ounces
An NUS card that you didn't have to pay for.
I remember the half penny!
I think...
Or maybe my dad just had some I played with. I shall Google.
I remember when a half pence piece would buy a Mojo or weigh out a teenth of hash 