Pavilionaire
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[Humour] What have you witnessed growing up in the 70's/80's would you like to see creeping back
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Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
This should be on the Crystal palace at 10 tonight thread.
My Dad would come home with pockets full of LV's. As for cars, yearn for the old empty roads and free parking.
Me too.
Was this on Lewes Road opp B&Q Fridays? And you had to stay after 2 to get the best show thus being late back to work. And free parking outside in those days. Thought about this today when I saw that they've pulled down the building.Strip at the Ship.
Publius Ovidius
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Love they neighbour
wheeltappers and shutters social club
Mind your language
All good wholesome family fun
wheeltappers and shutters social club
Mind your language
All good wholesome family fun
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Indoor League.
I'll se thee
I'll se thee
I did that soooo many times. The Dandies. Blues Jim. Bloody magic.
Yes but it was still largely shit. And for some, extremely so.
Things are, on average, better now. We live better. We are healthier and less ignorant.
The only thing from the 70s I'd really like to see back is 60 years' of who-knows-what life ahead of me. Like Woody Allen once said, 'I want to achieve immortality by living forever'. But not that....living a fresh life with wonder and expectation, like it was when I was 20. But that would be a bit greedy.....
GT49er
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Not bothered - just that it didn't make any sense. Sorry!
Gregory2Smith1
J'les aurai!
wage packet with real money inside
then pissing it all up over the weekend
and wondering if you had enough petrol money left to be able to get to work for the rest of the week
then pissing it all up over the weekend
and wondering if you had enough petrol money left to be able to get to work for the rest of the week
HalfaSeatOn
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Proper office Xmas parties (as in parties in the office)
Taking your 12 or 20 holiday photos to Boots to be developed and waiting 2 days to discover how crap they looked, esp your photo of your mates (NOT YOU) with some birds from Newcastle. Still stuck them in an album though with labels such as “Mick with a girl at the Champions Bar on the last day, magic”
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Hair on my head
Edit...having read the thread it seems I'm not alone
Edit...having read the thread it seems I'm not alone
Publius Ovidius
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Not arf mate!
Yes but it was still largely shit. And for some, extremely so.
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Things are, on average, better now. We live better. We are healthier and less ignorant.
The only thing from the 70s I'd really like to see back is 60 years' of who-knows-what life ahead of me. Like Woody Allen once said, 'I want to achieve immortality by living forever'. But not that....living a fresh life with wonder and expectation, like it was when I was 20. But that would be a bit greedy.....
All true but income inequality was lower
True. But the issue is whether it is income that is paramount, or inequality. For me it is income. As long as more people have enough, I don't care if some people have insane amounts more. History shows that striving for equality tends to end in more people getting poorer. I give you Venezuela. Even Russia has given up communism. China is just pretending to be communist. Autocracy, more like.
Don't get me wrong, allowing a clique to get rich by theiving off the poor (Thatcherism) is deplorable. But, with some blips, things have been heading towards better for decades (except, perhaps, for the mentally ill; the number of rough sleepers I see between Victora and Westminster each day is getting rediculous....).
Dr Bandler
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How about The Ammonites, The Golinski Brothers and Woody and the Splinters? All at The Alhambra regularly. Do you remember the floor used to move when everyone was pogoing?
Raleigh Chopper
New member
Nostalgic, but people are forgetting something.
If I was to eat a Texan bar today it would pull my fillings out or even a tooth or two, sadly.
I struggled a bit with them years ago.
And if anyone with false teeth thinks they would love to have a chew on one you will have to remember what they were like.
el punal
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I believe that was the Vogue Cinema Club. I was advised that if you wore glasses not to sit in the front row. Apparently a rather buxom lady who was performing there noticed a gentleman, in the front row, peering at her through a pair of bottle stop specs. The lady in question bent down and parted her bosom around the poor man’s glasses and took them off, and, still holding them in her magnificent orbs, continued with her routine. I’m not altogether sure whether the myopic gent fumbled around to retrieve them but I’ll have a bet they were steamed up when he did.
P.S. It was after that incident that I decided to wear contact lenses.