I used to think the comment "do you remember when" and "back in the day" was exclusively the province of the elderly. Thinking back, "I can remember when" as relatively young men we used to reminisce about days gone by. I find when talking to friends, we will often dredge up events and people from the past. **I can actually remember when crisps actually had a blue paper twist in them containing salt**, not a sachet, but a bit of twisted blue paper. I even remember my very first packet and coming across this contrivance, having to be shown what to do. Untwist, shake the bag, of course with the level of motor control of a very small child, this usually ended badly. Within a very short period they changed to "ready salted"…and innovation, then came flavours, starting with salt and Vinegar…which I swear tasted better than todays artificial version. Or perhaps you remember the time when gas cookers had a pilot flame (permanently on) in the centre and a little gas wand on a tube (clipped to the side of the cooker) with a button. You lit the wand from the pilot and then used it to light the oven or overhead grill. Incredibly dangerous, especially as it was coal gas, but no one thought anything of it. As a small child I wasn't allowed to touch the gas wand…My mum had a Parkinson Cowan like this, right up to about 1975, [upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/GeL7IuH.png]

God, this thread is made up for old timers! I can remember when a Mars Bar was 2d and you needed two hands to hold it. The chocolate was soooooooo thick! My neighbour (I was around 4 or 5) used an Isetta Bubble Car for her everyday drive. In winter, you woke up (pre central heating) to chipping ice from the inside of thesingle glazed windows and you wore jumpers indoors. You ran downstairs when it snowed to find the bloody Blue Tits had pecked through the silver top milk bottles and had stolen the inch or so of cream that used to settle on the top. I remember watching the first episode of a new cutting edge drama, Z Cars.......I could go one and on! Tell you one thing though, life was simpler but were they really the good old days?

@"dfk41"#p2934 Definitely remember the ice on the inside of the windows and as a kid dragging my cloths into the bed to warm them up. Big old cottage with no central heating brrrrrrrrr.

Do you remember Spangles? When Curly Wurlys were massive, you could use them for a ladder. Bri Nylon shirts. Nylon bed sheets! Some shops still had Lamson pneumatic tube systems that would shuttle away your payment and bring back your change.

> @"Gagaryn"#p2938 Do you remember Spangles? > > 1. Bri Nylon shirts. > 2. Nylon bed sheets! > > 3\.Some shops still had Lamson pneumatic tube systems that would shuttle away your payment and bring back your change. Spangles, yes..my favourite sweet, I like the old english ones too, but only certain flavours…the red one was to die for.. 1. Mum thought it was a brilliant idea for school, I hated them. I think it was the stain resistance and one shake they were dry. Remember the little blue sparks that came off them in a dark room in the morning. 2. Nope, I refused to sleep in those…absolutely refused…used to make me itch like mad all night 3. Bentalls used to have those back in the day, always fascinated me as a kid. Shluwooop, pshhhhh. I always wondered where they went and they used to come back with the recpt as well I think. We had another shop near us, Digbys general store, like something out of 1920…used a system of wires, The stuff was put in a tube on the wires, then a sharp pull on a handle, and it went flying across the roof of the store. Those cheap bastards kept the store the same and the system going until the mid 60s..open sacks of flour, beans, tea in large cases, butter pats etc.. Can you imagine how well that would have all gone down now. [upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/bY3zuoy.png ] [upl-image-preview url=//i.imgur.com/HbHmfM2.png ]

@"Gagaryn"#p2938 If ever you go to Beamish Museum, my friend provided the tube system they use in the shop. To carry on, card with starter handles although by my time they were more of a standby than actually needed on the modern car. Telephone kiosks with the old A & B system for putting your money in (ask your parents!), bus conductors!

Sharing your phone line with the neighbors "party line" I think it was called. Picked the phone up and you caught half their conversation - nuts!

> @"Lake_M"#p2943 Sharing your phone line with the neighbors “party line” I think it was called. Picked the phone up and you caught half their conversation - nuts! As a kid my parents had one…It always puzzled me how both phones didn't ring when an inbound call came in, and it was only years later I found out how they did it.

Does anyone remember these…. Once a month a man would come round and empty it and if there was more than what the monthly payment was, my mum would get back what was over. It was the only way we could afford to have a telly. Mind you, it was a bit frustrating when you'd be watching a really good programme and the chuffin thing would click off because the timer ran out, and mum and my older brothers would be scrambling around to quickly find a two shilling piece (two bob bit) to put in it. [URL=https://i.imgur.com/ot7CJ0u.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/ot7CJ0u.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

We had a telly like that but mercifully without the prototype pay per view box! Old English flavour Spangles were the best boiled sweets ever. Nobody ever knew what actual flavours they were but they were the best variation of Spangles for sure. I liked the light brown opaque one and the deep red translucent one best but they were all nice. I had a 'piggy bank' from Lloyds that was a black plastic horse head. Anyone remember those 'chocolate vending machine' piggy banks where you loaded them with Neapolitan sized chocolates and had to put a coin in to get one out?

Down Memory Lane

DavecUK

Mostly (Ripley) =
Learning Computer (gasp gasp gasp booom!!!) =
“So you think this is air you’re breathing” = Matrix
20 miles, 20 miles (robot) =
Barada (robot) =The Day The earth Stood Still (1951)

Some extra clues

Gagaryn

5- The Day The Earth Stood Still.

klaatu barada nikto

LMSC

1= Blade Runner, 2= Star wars , 4= star wars 5 or 6 and 5=mad max?

DavecUK

LMSC no <lol> all wrong

LMSC

1 = Alien?

LMSC

Is 4 = 20 million miles to Earth ?

DavecUK

LMSC No, with the clues, you really have to have seen the films, if you have seen the movie 9probably more than once), it’s really quite easy. As a clue…4 is a cult movie.

As for 1…nope,…close, very close though.

LMSC

DavecUK

Ah, Alien They mostly come at night ! 😊

DavecUK

LMSC Close, very close but it’s not Alien (you gotta be like Zeiss)

-Mac

1 = “They come out at night. Mostly.” There’s a great South Park skit on this.
Aliens

DavecUK

-Mac Well done…cartman does the mostly bit as I remember, in a small cartman voice

LMSC

DavecUK I did write Aliens initially! You said No, unless for missing that s…. 🙄😊

That’s harsh! 😂

-Mac

DavecUK -Mac Well done…cartman does the mostly bit as I remember, in a small cartman voice

Mostly.

DavecUK

Mostly (Ripley) =Aliens
Learning Computer (gasp gasp gasp booom!!!) =
“So you think this is air you’re breathing” = Matrix
20 miles, 20 miles (robot) =
Barada (robot) =The Day The earth Stood Still (1951)

Just 2 left, one is super easy….the other a little harder

DavecUK

LMSC That s was important….I could have made it easier with “in the pipe, five by five”

LMSC

DavecUK Am sure Mr Paxman would have given it me!

Giphy - Matt Leblanc Reaction GIF

duty calls!

have a good week every one! :-)

Edit :

If do reply, I’ll be kind of on expected lines!😀

DavecUK

Mostly (Ripley) =Aliens
Learning Computer (gasp gasp gasp booom!!!) =
“So you think this is air you’re breathing” = Matrix
20 miles, 20 miles (robot) =
Barada (robot) =The Day The earth Stood Still (1951)

Just 2 left, one is super easy….the other a little harder

SiblingChris

Doram I think you meant 16kb sir for your zx81 expansion! If you so much as breathed on those to disrupt the connection into the back the machine would crash…and after you’d waited so long to load something from a cassette tape! So frustrating!

Doram

SiblingChris Doram I think you meant 16kb sir for your zx81 expansion! If you so much as breathed on those to disrupt the connection into the back the machine would crash…and after you’d waited so long to load something from a cassette tape! So frustrating!

You are correct of course, 16kb - thank you for setting this straight. It was a decade of two before we had 16mb of RAM, wasn’t it? Now edited and corrected…

Which reminds me of another one: remember the days when we only had a short window to go back and correct mistakes in our posts before they were locked in forever? Here’s to another good thing that came out of the VS acquisition of the Voldemort forum.

SiblingChris

LMSC

MS Dos Command prompt even for basic copying, moving, etc — unlike the current convenience of windows based

56kb dial modem for internet!

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