O/T Things You Once Did Until Technology Came Along

[animallittle3]

Working out how to set the timer on the video recorder , only to find out later on you'd fecked it up yet again .

Rushing in from the garden to answer the phone and shouting " I'll get that then shall I ya deaf bleedahs "

Buying the Atlas Of Great Britain and having it in the car at all times in case you got lost on the way to an away game .

[Exiletyke]

Think Ponte's still doin' it

[animallittle3]

Think Ponte's still doin' it

Ha ha , not after 10 pints of strongbow he isn't mate .

:-) :-) :-)

[Ponte_Steve24]

Never drink n' drive

[perkytyke]

Getting a phone call from the Mrs in the pub asking if i’m bothering coming home for tea!
Going upstairs to turn the heating on, with my hand?
Reading the gas and electric meters outside!

[animallittle3]

Applying for a job and actually writing a covering letter , a hard copy cv and putting it in the post .

[bankendbfc]

Goin out on the "pull" nowadays cos no one can afford t go art, its all done on yr blower! Nuts.

"You looked like julia roberts in yr picture, so why do you look like alf roberts in person?"

Dint get that in my day, ad t work hard gettin actual knockbacks not a left hand swipe or whatever. Makes a man of you.

[Fileytyke]

Turning the electric light on for the first time in the 1950s. I lived in Wath-on-dearne opposite the Manvers main pit where I used to work before joining the Royal Navy.We only had gas lighting and the house was 2 up 2 down with one cold tap in the kitchen and the toilet down the yard.The only entertainment was the radio which was worked by a accumulator which was a battery as big as a car battery which we had to take to the garage about a mile away in a barrow to be charged.Our bathroom hung on a nail outside,it was a tin bath and us kids had to get in one after the other hoping that the ones before you had not peed in the bath.The first TV I saw was in London when my Dad took me to watch Barnsley play Arsenal in the FA Cup which we lost 4-0,Skinner Normanton was taken off on a stretcher in the first 15 minutes after a foul by the Arsenal hard man which I think was Jimmy Logan.We went to my uncles house in London for tea and that was where I saw the TV for the first time,it was a great big cabinet with a 9 inch screen.Our playground was any spare bit of ground where we could play football or cricket failing that it was in the back street with coats for goalposts and a dustbin lid held up by a house brick for wickets when we played cricket. I think we had a better childhood than the kids now a days because there were no drugs,mugging or thieving because we had nothing to pinch and you could go out without locking the doors knowing that nothing would be missing when we got back.These were the “Good old days”when people had nothing and sometimes we went hungry but we were safe.

[Exiletyke]

Coats for goalposts Filey

Coats bluddy luxury

Wat no kick can?

First tv I saw was a neighbours 9" screen with a magnifying glass on a stand[bit like a parrot stand]
But were we appy?

[SBRed48]

Top pooast Filey, the Father of the Board (azzin Father of the House, not shaggin all aar mams )