Obsolete things

Town Gas, imagine now piping carbon monoxide into your home.

Cardboard tickets on the bus, and clippies (hands all dirty with the money 🎤)

Bells on bikes
 
TotallyTangerine said:
Vinyls! Digital audio obviously sounds far superior but there was nothing like selecting a record, removing it carefully from the sleeve, putting it on the turntable, lifting the arm over and managing to hit the right spot (especially if it was slightly warped!)

Kraft cheese slices that weren’t wrapped but you had to peel off the block.

Haliborange vitamins. The smell was lovely!

Nurses hats and capes.
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Nonsense..vinyl in great/new condition played through high end equipment is far superior to any compressed digital sound..
It’s all subjective but yes on the old 80s stack systems with a chisel for a needle, cd came along and seemed better, not everything newer is better, I’d say a cd sounds far better than a phone hooked up to your car stereo Bluetooth..🤣
 
Lala said:
I know this won’t get a ton because it’s hard to remember the random things that you don’t miss.

But thinking back to the norms that now seem like a distant daft memory….

I’ll start with the ‘choke’ on a car. Like I had an escort mk2 in 1989, no-one ever explained the science of the choke to me, so I just pulled it out and hoped for the best. I’d heard rumours of flooding the engine but had no guidance on the right amount of pulling before ignition 🤣

And the immersion heater before you could have a bath ?
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Ton up
 
A Co-op with a butchers next door, these were all over the place. You can still spot a few of the buildings if you look carefully or remember them.
 
Billy's Weekly Liar. Gone but not forgotten. Heard people buy The Guardian now instead.Jeremy Corblimey to run for President of Israel is the latest rumoured headline.😛
 
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Bright copper kettles
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver-white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my obselete things

When my team lose
When I've no booze
When I'm feeling mad
I simply remember all of my dead friends.........
And then I don't feel so bad :)
 
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Lala said:
I know this won’t get a ton because it’s hard to remember the random things that you don’t miss.

But thinking back to the norms that now seem like a distant daft memory….

I’ll start with the ‘choke’ on a car. Like I had an escort mk2 in 1989, no-one ever explained the science of the choke to me, so I just pulled it out and hoped for the best. I’d heard rumours of flooding the engine but had no guidance on the right amount of pulling before ignition 🤣

And the immersion heater before you could have a bath ?
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Two ton Tessie has nothing on you! 😀
 
Newholland said:
A mate of mines dad had one of the original MK 2 RS 1800 ... preserved in his garage... unfortunately he died young and it was sold ... oh to have it now!!😍
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Got to be careful if buying as well, lots of ringed VIN plates in the old Ford market, lob it on a 1.1 shell, stick a nose cone on it and a knackered Pinto with some K Seal thrown in.
 
Killingmesoftly said:
Nonsense..vinyl in great/new condition played through high end equipment is far superior to any compressed digital sound..
It’s all subjective but yes on the old 80s stack systems with a chisel for a needle, cd came along and seemed better, not everything newer is better, I’d say a cd sounds far better than a phone hooked up to your car stereo Bluetooth..🤣
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Technically vinyl is awful if you compare the bandwidth to digital - even compressed.

However the mono tone of vinyl gives a warm sound that you are more tuned to accept so that’s why it sounds better to your ears. CD absolutely yes, but any low compressed digital music is by a long way superior both technically and phonically.

🥸 #youjustenterednerdworld
 
TotallyTangerine said:
He was a great friend of my dad’s and used to come to most away matches with us for years and sat with us at Bloomfield Road. He called me his ‘honorary’ grand-daughter. He didn’t have children of his own.. 🧡
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As a kid at school, getting a nod and a name check off the great man in the Scrattin Shed was great. I still remember so many of his little phrases, 50 years later.
 
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