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Originally Posted by semah
Ggoing to make you heave now. My wife, kids and grand children —— oh and real ale?
That's a lovely thing to say.
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Originally Posted by silver fox
You’re lucky when I was a kid nobody or very few had fridges, freezers just didn’t exist domestically, ( a certain poster won’t like this) the biggest change came as cars became more affordable to ordinary working people.
True, and not many of us had home phones either!
There are so many things that have improved our lives, but the huge advances in medicine has to be one of the most important things. When I think of all the people I've known who would still be alive today if we'd known then what we know now, it's an awful lot of people.
... On a more base note, I do agree about soft toilet paper. That horrible hard and slippery San Izal paper basically just spread it around! You would have been better off with the Visiter
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Originally Posted by Toodles McGinty
Both great. Especially ring pulls.
Noooo, especially not ring pulls! They are the bane of my life with my poor little arthritic fingers.
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Originally Posted by seivad
On a more base note, I do agree about soft toilet paper. That horrible hard and slippery San Izal paper basically just spread it around! You would have been better off with the Visiter
Biggest downside with newspaper cut into squares and threaded onto a piece of string was:
the ink always came off, leaving the user with a black bottom!
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Originally Posted by The PNP
Biggest downside with newspaper cut into squares and threaded onto a piece of string was:
the ink always came off, leaving the user with a black bottom!
How did you know this ??
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Originally Posted by Blackrock
How did you know this ??
Rumour has it that on those cold and lonely nights, he would relieve his boredom by performing some pretty wild contortions and read his own a$$. He talks out of it a lot of times, so why not?
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Not at all funny, thinking of the trail of destruction and ill health that you personally have created.
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Originally Posted by seivad
... On a more base note, I do agree about soft toilet paper. That horrible hard and slippery San Izal paper basically just spread it around! You would have been better off with the Visiter
In the 70's a bloke on an opposite shift always left The Morning Star when he went home off day shift, he stopped after I kept cutting it into 4" squares and putting it on a nail in the wc.
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[QUOTE=seivad;6787651]Rumour has it that on those cold and lonely nights, he would relieve his boredom by performing some pretty wild contortions and read his own a$$. He talks out of it a lot of times, so why not? [/QUOTe the ring of truth sought by many ,it seems!
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you know seeing how things are going ,glad was brought up abjectly poor,can always go back an survive,but yep allthose home comforting things like og paper central heating,as for the techy stuff well good as wellas bad,double edged sword there,hooked on something soo banal for most,not essential but addictive for many.as long as youve home warmth food an wine on table,occupation for wages,oh an if your really lucky the grace of good friends and family then owt else is a bonus.
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Well the current downing of Bookface et al has to be good for so many.
Trouble is it will be back........
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Originally Posted by seivad
True, and not many of us had home phones either!
There are so many things that have improved our lives, but the huge advances in medicine has to be one of the most important things. When I think of all the people I've known who would still be alive today if we'd known then what we know now, it's an awful lot of people.
... On a more base note, I do agree about soft toilet paper. That horrible hard and slippery San Izal paper basically just spread it around! You would have been better off with the Visiter
Oh, yes - that was the name of those crisp packets you had to use. San Izal.
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Originally Posted by Blackrock
For those of us of a certain age (born around the 1950's or 60's), lifestyles have changed significantly over the last sixty or seventy years.
Apart from big technical stuff - phones, flat screens, microwaves etc, what little things have made your life easier?
For me, it was the introduction of soft loo rolls and tea bags
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Originally Posted by said
Oh, yes - that was the name of those crisp packets you had to use. San Izal.
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