Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: Highlander on February 10, 2010, 20:54:06 PM
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All the girls had ugly gym slips
It took five minutes for the TV to warm up
Nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the kids got home from school
Nobody owned a thoroughbred dog
When 3d was a decent allowance
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny
Your Mother wore nylons that came in two pieces
All your male teachers wore ties and female teachers had their hair
done every day and wore high heels
You got your windscreen cleaned, oil checked, and petrol served, without asking, all for free, every time And you didn't pay for air And, you got trading stamps to boot
Washing Powder had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents
They threatened to keep children back a year if they failed. . and they did it!
When a Ford Zephyr was everyone's dream car...
and people went steady
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '
Playing cricket with no adults to help the children with the rules of the game
Bottles came from the corner shop without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger
And with all our progress, don't you wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savour the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the head's study was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
As well as summers filled with bike rides, cricket, Hula Hoops, skate hockey and visits to the pool, and eating lemonade powder or liquorice sticks.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yes, I remember that'?
Remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
This is for those who can still remember Mr Pastry, 6.5 Special, The Army Game, Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Emergency Ward 10, the Lone Ranger, Hancock's Half hour, Trigger and Sgt Bilko
How Many Of These Do You Remember?
Sweet cigarettes
Coca Cola in bottles..
You're never alone with a Strand .
Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjacks and bubblegums.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with tinfoil tops.
Newsreels before the film.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Mayfair 3489). Party lines.
Peashooters.
Andy Pandy.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Shield Stamps.
Adding Machines.
Scalextric.
Do You Remember a Time When..
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest? Catching tiddlers could happily occupy an entire day?
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was'chickenpox'?
Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a catapault?
Saturday morning television wasn't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Cigarette cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!!
This is for anyone who may need a break from their 'Grown-Up' Life.
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Excellent H, and as you and I are of a similar mature age I can relate to most of that :)
Remember saturday morning pictures well, 3 pence admission !
So we have both lived :D
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"If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived"
Problem is that in a few years we may have forgotten them
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I Will never forget 'Zoro' on a sat morning
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Got this on an e mail myself today (The magic of technology) The main message of my received e mail was that in those days we were surrounded by LOVE and felt SAFE!
I agree we LIVED and had no FEAR can't be said with what happens with this generation!
They are not allowed out to play, they have to watch what they eat, they are not allowed to walk to school on their own with their friends, they have no freedom at all. To me this is society today!
Luckily my kids were the in-between generation and I allowed them a certain amount of freedom and they both have grown up with values! They have goood jobs and are to an extent "Street wise".
Believe you me we were lucky! The amount of times that I hitchhiked home from town on a Saturday night so we could have an extra drink looking back was just a way to broaden our horizon cos we knew nothing would happen and we were SAFE!
Even hitchhiked arund Sicily nearly 40 years ago!
TODAYS SOCIETY SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Flash Gordon and Fatty and Skinny on Saturday morning pictures.
Journey into Space and Mrs Dales Diary (I'm worried about Jim), Round the horn and Archie Andrews on the wireless.
Spivs and Teddy boys, riots and Rock around the Clock.
Young men dressed like their dads and all mums wore headscarves
fish on Fridays, Cockles and Winkles for Sunday tea
Sunday School, London smogs, Woodbines and Players (It's the tobacco that counts)
John Colliers (the window to watch), marble tabled Pie and Mash shops
Senna Pods kept you regular and Cod Liver oil kept you healthy
Outdoor toilets, tin baths in front of the fire, rushing out of the Cinema before having to stand for the Queen.
You have opened a floodgate here H 8)
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Ah nostalgia, its not what it used to be.
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Originally posted by mike A
You have opened a floodgate here H 8)
Maybe not Mike. There's been several similar threads on here before. But...
Coal scuttles
Footballs with laces
Lucky tatties
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How old are we who can remember,
Being sent to the corner shop for a bag of broken bisquits (tea for that day). Buying cigs loose for your mum or dad. The tally man etc.
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I remember most things on there, but not many of the tv programmes, lovely memories!
We were only speaking yesterday about the small glass bottles of milk delivered to school-and being made to drink them when they were warm! Yuk!
We played on some disused allotments ALL day, making dens! And nobody had to check on us, we just went home when we were hungry, happy days! :)
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Blimey Peter wer'e not that old :D
Of course we remember the telly man - from D E R :)
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I remember our 1st colour tv, a Finlandia, we were the 1st to have one in our street. The neighbours used to come in and watch Corrie in colour!
My sister and I used to do a little song & dance routine at End of Part One for sweet money!
Going now before I send you all to sleep!! :D
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Brylcream stains on your pillow.
Flick knives.
Male homosexuality was illegal and queer bashing was a popular pastime.
Polio.
People were imprisoned for attempting suicide.
Ah, the good old days.
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Pale Ale
Sycamore seeds (Natures Helicopters)
Gobstoppers
Itchy balls
Running boards on cars
Cigaret cards
Kiss chase
Smoking was cool
short trousers
tonsillitis
Diphtheria and Scarlet fever
Bird nesting
Toby Twirl
Hop picking
Holiday camps
and Flower pot men
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The old 2 shillling gas and electric meters being emptied we would hover while they counted out the money and wait for the difference to be refunded, always got a sweet treat when that happened:D
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The Flower Pot Men,Wooden Tops,and one of my favorites Rag Tag and Bobtail............
When fresh food actually tasted like it should,much like the taste here in Turkey now..........
Penny mix up of sweets and what a lot we got!!!!!!!!!!
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A time when kids wouldn't have dared answer there parents back.
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Smacks on the back of the legs by teachers with rulers.
George Warner (Good evening all)
Clips round the ear by local beat bobbies
Steam loco's
listening booths in record shops
Big Bands
Family Favourites
Robin (pass the bottle) Day
Knees ups
Skiffle groups
Lyons corner houses.
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You know you are getting old when your children start taking your ornaments home and asking how much the house is worth. : :)
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It was Jack Warner not George.:D He played George Dixon in Dixon of Dock Green. ;)
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When you went to have a haircut and the barber would ask you "Any thing for the weekend Sir ?"
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When Crabbit was a regular on the Forum.
Sadly missed:(
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Also Jukebox, have we lost him to facebook ? :)
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No Badger don't miss him at all ;)
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The ragman shouting "toys for rags". and selling bottles of aunt sally,I remember my mum getting a mouth organ and mastered some good tunes on it,dont know if my dad ever missed his coat though. ;)
and when it did snow, going on the hills with a home made sleigh and socks for gloves, happy days, now the gloves have to be North Face,
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We used to dream about having socks for gloves :D
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Now hang on a minute Dreamon, we did have a few bob. ;)
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The children of today will look back on these as the "good old days" makes you wonder what is in store for them.
I was one of 11 children my mother had 10 children in 10 years (one set of twins) they made up for lost time after the war.
We all had to sit to the table for meals, nobody left the table till everyone had finished, we were lucky my father had a good job, but we still had 3 to a double bed.
First up best dressed for school
Mark
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Remember my school mate, who had 8 brothers, asking me home for tea, When I said 'Are you sure your mum won't mind' he said, 'She won't even know your there, just take a plate':D:D
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Originally posted by karaokemark
we still had 3 to a double bed.
I think you've strayed off topic Mark. I understand there's alot of that going on today. ;)