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Post by cam7777 on Feb 16, 2012 10:13:47 GMT
Now that spring is in sight and more bikes are coming out, the following short film should be observed for increased road safety
Please ride carefully
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Post by showaddydadito on Feb 16, 2012 10:24:03 GMT
Ah - the olden days.
We had a lot of things in them days they don't have today . . . . whooping cough, diphtheria, Hitler . . . .
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Post by CD on Feb 20, 2012 11:43:23 GMT
Dont forget rheumatic fever and outside bogs.
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Post by teejayexc on Feb 20, 2012 12:00:01 GMT
Dont forget rheumatic fever and outside bogs. Why would you forget outside bogs? It's where I learnt to sing. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2012 12:08:52 GMT
Thankfully, I'm too young for all this nostalgia.  I didn't realise outside bogs actually existed in living memory.  I suppose Lincs could be a special case.  |
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Post by m40man on Feb 20, 2012 12:20:04 GMT
.... didn't realise outside bogs actually existed in living memory. You young kids - living in clover. My Gran's house in Leicester just had an outside bog , no inside bathroom. That was the case until 1974, when she died. Maybe the new tenant's got a refurb  . |
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Post by Deeps on Feb 20, 2012 13:07:29 GMT
I didn't realise outside bogs actually existed in living memory. I remember the long trips from Germany with Mum and Dad, to Sheffield to spend leave with the Grandparents, their houses had outside loo's. They both had strange machines on the wall as well that dispensed a set quantity of loose leaf tea, with a push of a button, great fun for a youngster. ;D |
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Post by teejayexc on Feb 20, 2012 13:08:15 GMT
Thankfully, I'm too young for all this nostalgia. I didn't realise outside bogs actually existed in living memory. I suppose Lincs could be a special case. The wooden YMCA hut in the village had the luxury of an inside bog, luxury to be seated in relative warmth....drawback was all *deposits* were collected in a bucket, involved the weekly* ritual of going around the back of the building, opening a small door, and retrieving/emptying said deposits over wasteland.** *sooner if there'd been a midweek dance. **amazingly turned into the most fertile land in the area, leeks 10' long were not uncommon and sometimes came up pre-wrapped if they'd found a condom whist growing  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2012 13:18:26 GMT
Thankfully, I'm too young for all this nostalgia. I didn't realise outside bogs actually existed in living memory. I suppose Lincs could be a special case. The wooden YMCA hut in the village had the luxury of an inside bog, luxury to be seated in relative warmth....drawback was all *deposits* were collected in a bucket, involved the weekly* ritual of going around the back of the building, opening a small door, and retrieving/emptying said deposits over wasteland.** *sooner if there'd been a midweek dance. **amazingly turned into the most fertile land in the area, leeks 10' long were not uncommon and sometimes came up pre-wrapped if they'd found a condom whist growing 10 foot leeks ? What the 'El do you lot eat down there ?  |
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Post by tomcat on Feb 20, 2012 16:07:14 GMT
Ah - the olden days. We had a lot of things in them days they don't have today . . . . whooping cough, diphtheria, Hitler . . . . The biggest shock for me was the fact Hitler was living in Macclesfield in 1955! |
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Post by bobh on Feb 20, 2012 16:35:40 GMT
Not long after we got married we went (on my beloved Velocete Venom Clubman) to visit my wife's cousin on the sheep farm on the Denbigh moors where her mother had grown up.
As soon as we arrived we were taken on a tour of the wonderful new facilities - a kitchen with running hot and cold water, an inside toilet and a bathroom, all lit with amazing electric lights that came on at the press of a switch.
The sheep still had to use the outside bath, though - baa.
That was in 1971.
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Post by showaddydadito on Feb 21, 2012 8:10:19 GMT
The Hitlers lived quiet, unobtrusive lives in a faded victorian villa called, inexplicably, "Paraguay".
When we got married in 79, we looked at a lot of houses. There were still some then which had only outside bogs, and there were even some which had only an "earth closet". A few were still lit by gas.
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Post by teejayexc on Feb 21, 2012 8:21:30 GMT
When we got married in 79, we looked at a lot of houses. There were still some then which had only outside bogs, and there were even some which had only an "earth closet". A few were still lit by gas. Yep, it was methane build up that did it ! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2012 8:26:51 GMT
The Hitlers lived quiet, unobtrusive lives in a faded victorian villa called, inexplicably, "Paraguay". When we got married in 79, we looked at a lot of houses. There were still some then which had only outside bogs, and there were even some which had only an "earth closet". A few were still lit by gas. 1879 ? |
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Post by TwoHat on Feb 21, 2012 16:18:01 GMT
I remember the long trips from Germany with Mum and Dad, to Sheffield to spend leave with the Grandparents, their houses had outside loo's. They both had strange machines on the wall as well that dispensed a set quantity of loose leaf tea, with a push of a button, great fun for a youngster. ;D A tea dispenser? In the outside loo? That IS definitely luxury! |
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Post by Deeps on Feb 21, 2012 21:35:03 GMT
Maybe I should have said, the tea dispenser was in the kitchen. |
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Post by Sean on Feb 21, 2012 21:50:47 GMT
"And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you. "
;D ;D
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Post by sledgegreen on Feb 21, 2012 22:59:07 GMT
I can't believe they have condoms to fit the 10' leeks.
Might explain why they all walk funny over there.
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Post by showaddydadito on Feb 23, 2012 10:07:56 GMT
The Hitlers lived quiet, unobtrusive lives in a faded victorian villa called, inexplicably, "Paraguay". When we got married in 79, we looked at a lot of houses. There were still some then which had only outside bogs, and there were even some which had only an "earth closet". A few were still lit by gas. 1879 ? I resemble that remark! |
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