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Re: I'm getting old

Posted: 18th May 2022 at 8:55am
by thecaretaker
Rockstar wrote: 18th May 2022 at 8:47am And the HMV dog is 100 years old. But what is his name? [Big grin.png]
I do know. But when I was a "Nipper", he was on all the 78rpm HMV records in the UK [Big grin.png] [Big grin.png]

Re: I'm getting old

Posted: 18th May 2022 at 8:56am
by Keyolder
unkiefest wrote: 18th May 2022 at 6:07am I was clearing out my attic one day and i had some boxes of my old vinyl records. My daughter shouted up to me "Dad how big were your cd players when you was growing up" [Big grin.png]
Very similar situation:

I remember clearing out a stock room in school a few years back, I found a box with 5.25 floppy disks and compact cassettes in. The young teaching assistant that was helping me asked, what are these used for? I explained the floppy disks were used in computers and the cassettes were used mostly for music playback. Wow, how big were old computers then he asked…
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Re: I'm getting old

Posted: 18th May 2022 at 8:58am
by Keyolder
thecaretaker wrote: 18th May 2022 at 8:55am I do know. But when I was a "Nipper", he was on all the 78rpm HMV records in the UK [Big grin.png] [Big grin.png]
[Big grin.png] I see what you did there [Big grin.png]

Re: I'm getting old

Posted: 18th May 2022 at 10:54am
by Drone
It is now 19 bob to post a letter. Does anyone recall the days when you could have made yourself really sick by putting that money into the Five Boys chocolate machine that seemed to be on most railway station platforms?

Re: I'm getting old

Posted: 18th May 2022 at 3:24pm
by Rockstar
And you know you are old when...... You used to look in the shoe shop window and think "Oh, they look trendy" and now you look and say "Oh, they look comfy"! And I remember when Snap, Crackle and Pop was a breakfast cereal. Now its the noises my body makes when I get up! [Big grin.png]

Re: I'm getting old

Posted: 18th May 2022 at 3:52pm
by Nigel
I remember getting 6d back on empty bottles of Tizer [Success.png]

Re: I'm getting old

Posted: 19th May 2022 at 8:46am
by beagle
Nigel wrote: 18th May 2022 at 3:52pm I remember getting 6d back on empty bottles of Tizer [Success.png]
Our local 'Offie' used to store the empty bottles around the back. We used to climb over and 'borrow' a couple to get the refund. [JawDropped.png] Free sweets. [Thumb_up.png]

Re: I'm getting old

Posted: 19th May 2022 at 8:59am
by Keyolder
Nigel wrote: 18th May 2022 at 3:52pm I remember getting 6d back on empty bottles of Tizer [Success.png]
I remember looking for Corona bottles for the money back on the bottle, used to buy Jamboree bags with the money. Also, when the real Rag and Bone men came down our street pushing their large wooden cart shouting ‘Ol rags an lumber’. I got thruppence in exchange for a bag of rags once from one of them.
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Re: I'm getting old

Posted: 19th May 2022 at 10:54am
by Nigel
Near where I used to live as a kid was a golf course and we used to find lost golf balls, we knew where to look [Success.png]
Used to sell them back to the golf club for 6d each, nice little earner [Big grin.png]