Do you remember when

[Stanleymag]

Anyone have Boily.

A cup of hot milk, bread crusts torn in to bits, sugar.

Carnation milk if me Dad had done overtime.

[ghostrider]

Anyone have Boily.

A cup of hot milk, bread crusts torn in to bits, sugar.

Carnation milk if me Dad had done overtime.

I remember the bread milk and sugar.
I also remember having carnation in my tea as a treat and even in my porridge as a swirl around the bowl in the feast times.

I used to love my mothers fatty cakes and flour pancakes with brown sauce on when the cupboards were bare.
Generally we used marvel dried milk for everything, with fresh milk being in short supply in our house.

And plastic sandals for us scruffy falookers. I never imagined a plastic sandal designed for cheap footwear and worn by a fair few as a sort of need, would turn into a fashion item in later life.

I never imagined ripped jeans being a fashion item.

[Zippity]

I never imagined ripped jeans being a fashion item.

Funny you should say that. As a student in '87, one of our group-who was the only one arsed about 'fashion',( the rest of us spent our money on beer and, well,,,beer)-came back in from town (Leeds) with a pair of ripped jeans. And they were ripped all the way down at regular intervals.

He was genuinely proud of his designer gear and they had cost him 35 quid...which was absolutely frigging ridiculous then.

'lads, d'you like me new jeans?'

The replies were based around 'no, you look fucking ridiculous' and 'you paid how much????' to 'are you ok' and 'I'd take them back, mate, they've got a rip in 'em'.

Mind, he got away with it cos he was called Zag and he was from Ashby de la Zouche which none of us had ever heard of and sounded canny exotic so we reckoned it sort of came with the territory (i.e. wearing ridiculous clothes )

But who's laughing now??


Well, it's us, still, really. I mean, it is, isn't it.

Howay, man...pre-ripped jeans??

"Boss, the sewing machines went beserk...look at all this ruined stock...we'll have to hoy all these torn jeans out'

Boss: "ah, bollocks, that'll come out of our wages...unless, wait...no-one would be stupid enough to buy...."

And the rest is history.

[TheOtherTerryMac]

Remember the tin bath in front of the fire

The coal fire on full blast in the middle of Summer to get hot water

[Cannylad]

Remember the tin bath in front of the fire

The coal fire on full blast in the middle of Summer to get hot water

Ah, you beat me to it man.

[Stanleymag]

How many have crashed on Watergate Bank. Look at the stone wall on the left hand side. Many did die.

Put a camera in, no more crashes, no more deaths.

[Jammy89]

Well i'm not quite as old as most of you

But kids playing football outside. When i was young i'd be out for hours kicking a football around with the kids who lived near me. Never see that these days, all online fifa etc.

[Stanleymag]

How do you know.

I reckon you're about 58.

Just a guess like.

[ex_pat_magpie]

I remember in the 1940's when you could get in to the Coatswrth cinema and pay a part of the admission with an empty pop bottle deposit.

Also the fish man and ice cream man coming around with horse and carts, both the fish and the ice cream inches away from the horses rear end.

[Stanleymag]

No green houses to hide behind on Galaxian, you were out there on your own, albeit with three lives.