THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 1)

oldleedsman · Post by **oldleedsman** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 12:15 pm

fevlad wrote: sluginc wrote: You couldn't do 75% of things we used to do, health and safety and the pc brigade wouldn't allow it. They helped to kill off childhood fun, for instance: british bulldogs would have to be played by kids wearing loads of bubblewrap clothes he he. nothing wrong with being 'pc' it means people get treatewd fairlynobody can stop children playing games like are mentioned on here in their own free time.If childen can't play british bulldog, how come they can play rugby?habits change-there are fewer streets that are avaiulable to play in nowadays because of the presence of traffic or parked cars.people are more aware of perverts-there were probably just as many around back in the day, but people weren't as conscious of these thingsthere are other alternatives-some good: more children have mountain bikes, skate boards, roller blades and so on-all healthy activirties, some when not used in moderation -compuiters, tv and so on. Well said fevlad. As for the halcyon days of anything-goes: we were banned from playing football in the playground if you were wearing 'slip-on' shoes in case they flew off and hit someone. And this was in 1968.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 12:23 pm

[quotenick="oldleedsman"][quotenick="fevlad"] sluginc wrote: Well said fevlad. As for the halcyon days of anything-goes: we were banned from playing football in the playground if you were wearing 'slip-on' shoes in case they flew off and hit someone. And this was in 1968. It's certainly true that at my school, we had to walk around the hall in single file, clockwise, and in silence. The classrooms were lettered and the boys entrance was between rooms "E" and "F" so if you wanted "E" you had to walk all the way round to get there. The idea was presumably that there be some order and no rushing and pushing.

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 1:36 pm

Hey HTB again! Good old 'Cockernee' humour eh?Please don't mention Watneys in this neck o' the woods,tho!It's a dirty word, along with 'Pale' and 'Brown' ales!So many new postings I can't get round em allGRRR!White dog poo,Wiggy? Usually due to being out in all weathers and fading! also, prudent folks take a plastic bag with them,now, so the poo hasn't time to 'mature'(Manure?) if left lying in the grass!Minestew(!)The mobile [edited for content] machines are much better fed withnutritious'Butcher's Dog' meat,these days, so the dumps mayprobably retain their colour.(Don't I talk a lorra dung?Answerson a 'PC' postcard please,not to the webmasters!).(thought this colour changing would appeal to Chameleon!!).Gotta fairly long list here that I lay awake into the early hoursthinking up!(Wife wasn't pleased!).Lever's 'Easy'and Erasmic shaving sticks(Soap) which was offthe ration during the war and certain unpatriotic ladies wouldbuy it for themselves to use instead of Lux and Knights Castile!No fun shaving in Sunlight soap or Lifebuoy carbolic in lieu! (NoLecky razors in them days)Rolls razors ,self stropping, which made a horrible 'clack clacking'noise being sharpened.usually earned a flying army boot forthe perpetrator, when done in a 'billet' full of bods kipping!Kolynos toothpaste slogan(The Greeks had a word for it?)Pepsodent toothpaste (still available?)'Indian Brandee' ,taken with warm water for indigestionCarter's little liver pills and Bile Beans for 'sluggish constitutions'Beecham's pills(Worth a Guinea (£1.1Shilling, <or 30 bob> a box!).Seidlitz powders in a fold of paper for hangovers (Pre.Alka Seltzer or Fynnon Salts. Old joke; Doctor, to sweet youngthing in surgery,'Do you Take Fynnon's,my dear?'SYT, ' Ooh Doctor,I can take all of them, Thin 'un's Thick 'uns, largeor small!Doctor Williams' Pink Pills for pale people! (For your anaemic daughters!)Webbing Anklets(gaiters) for soldiers in battledress,Much time wasted with khaki blanco and brasso(for the buckles),ridiculous if going into action!Now thankfully,a thing of the past for Squaddiesand Raf Regiment erks!Posting now to check back all the prolific postings prior to this!Hope I've not plagiarised anyone?Arry

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 1:54 pm

as a kid, i thought that poodles did white poo.

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 2:23 pm

council orange juice/cod liver oil and virol. I used to love virol.men coming out of work on pay day and getting drunk before going home skintracist comedians

HTB · Post by **HTB** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 2:36 pm

Ey up Arry, (now I'm an 'Arry too and there's no h in my name either) Now, no offence taken as you weren't to know, I have to tell you, as my family are from Stepney, not Bow, that associating me with that stuck up bunch, what gives themselves airs, just 'cos they've got ringing in the ears, is like calling you a Lancastrian (assuming you're from hereabouts, apologies if I'm in error.)Now, Virol, is that the malt stuff you used to have a spoonful of every day, along with the cod liver oil and rosehip syrup (oily, fishy and sweet, strangely nice combination)?HTB

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 3:38 pm

HTB wrote: We used to do Ip dip dog S**T, But then I am from the East End, I see Eeny meeny macceracca, is still going, is it based on a foreign number system? Like yan, tan, tetherer, netherer perhaps?

fevlad · Post by **fevlad** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 3:52 pm

Trojan wrote: HTB wrote: We used to do Ip dip dog S**T, But then I am from the East End, I see Eeny meeny macceracca, is still going, is it based on a foreign number system? Like yan, tan, tetherer, netherer perhaps? isn't that a norse system?still used in the dales for counting sheepthere's a folk song called 'Old Molly Metcalfe' which features this.

arry_awk · Post by **arry_awk** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 5:02 pm

Well stuff me! (Get Back, I say!), By'Time I've made and served up dindins and weshed up there's flippin' more postings!Can't keep up wi'it! Not done me emails (spam) yet today. No I'mNot stopping up all neet like some o' you young uns! I need mebeauty sleep" (Not working,you say?).Stevief lad.Our TV(Sony), takes ages to come on still and its 6 years old!We still have woodchip on hall, stairs and landing! Needsa new coat of Dulux now as I haven't time with all this SL posting!Excuses! Town coalgas was far superior to this Northsea and Russian imported 'marsh gas' stuff. AND it stank horrible if you got a leak so not much chance of carbon monoxide poisoning.Unless you intended to say'goodbye world! Wife is certain that Town gas was hotter.too And I miss the oldgasometers at the top of the street in the 40'/50's!The only Hot rice I know of is 'Eggfried'from China Chef.Luvly!Copymachines and duplicators. one we had also was 'Gestetner'.Banda. You typed your script copy onto a special format sheetwhich was rollered onto a bed of jelly substance and the foolscapor A4 blank sheets were fed over the jelly surface and hey prescott!the print was transferred onto your pristine sheets. Easier, nowadays with scanner and printer!Quote: 'Old Hand Cranked Spirit Duplicator?',sounds very muchlike Simonm!!We called the 'three pegs' game ;'Mumbly Peg!'Then, we used to play 'Handball' in the school hall with a great heavy leather covered ball with a 5lb weight inside it! 2 teams.you had to roll or carry the ball from the centre line forward and get it onto a gym mat in your opponent's half Good fun except when you got a 'splinter' from the unplaned floorboards up yourfinger nail!(When I was in the Airforce that ball was called a medicine ball!)Better than a 'Number 9' from the MO!H T B. I think that 'eeny meeny 'maccaraca, eirar dumeracka chicka bocka lollipoppa om pom poosh, came from The Romany.Yes, I'm a 'Strong in'arm thick in'head' true blue Yorkie,but havelived in Surrey,Wiltshire,Essex,Herts(one step ahead of the Bailiff!) for a fair spell But I'm alright now! Joking!Fevlad. Yethera pethera counting was also used up in The Lake District,Durham and Northumberland as well as the Dales.Right,I haveto scarper now and answer emails etcMebbees some more tomorrow!Cheers ArryPS I went to school with Molly Metcalf!

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Sun 16 Mar, 2008 6:13 pm

fevlad wrote: Trojan wrote: HTB wrote: We used to do Ip dip dog S**T, But then I am from the East End, I see Eeny meeny macceracca, is still going, is it based on a foreign number system? Like yan, tan, tetherer, netherer perhaps? isn't that a norse system?still used in the dales for counting sheepthere's a folk song called 'Old Molly Metcalfe' which features this. I'm not sure whether it's Norse or Anglo Saxon, but it's certainly used in North Yorkshire, and Cumbria. I used to deal with a guy in Malton who used "yan" for one and "tiv" for to all the time. He once gave me a large order, and I wasn't sure whether he'd placed it or not, so I asked him if it was correct his words? "Ah's think soa"I would think that the Romany origin of enny meeny is probably more likely.The version my cousin and her mates (all girls) used was "eeny meeny miney mo, put the baby on the po, when it's done wipe its bum, eeny" etc.