You're getting old if...

[Yompa]

you can remember getting free school milk.

[maimie]

the very reason i drink black tea! :001:

[Heilandee]

If you can remember threepenny bits and sixpences .

[+Gringo]

can remember when the Baggies won the FA Cup...  :004:

[caley100]

Pounds Shillings and Pence.

Remember near pissing me pants when an Auntie gave me a ten bob note for the holidays.... 50p for you younger people.

[Yompa]

Oi Gringow... oi can remember being up the Oltend at the semi foinal... who was it the Baggies beat again?  :016:

[Charles Bannerman]

.... you can remember penny dainties (which filled your gob right up), MacKintosh's lemonade and the Palace Cinema.

[Guest Fife Flyer]

......dread a hangover so much you readily agree to drive........

[+Gringo]

Oi Gringow... oi can remember being up the Oltend at the semi foinal... who was it the Baggies beat again?  :016:

Touchee.... :004:

[Scarlet Pimple]

Charles--Aye!--make mine a "sparkling special".

And don't forget Ration Books --came in during the early 1940's and disappeared early fifties if I recall correctly.

Trying to get going in the morning after getting out of bed when  arthritis in the feet is a problem--ulp!

Ha! :005:

[Scarlet Pimple]

Not to mention starting the car in the morning with a starting handle...

and not forgetting to **** your thumb so that if the handle  kicks back the thumb  does not get injured.

[Guest Cotter]

when your mind goes blank in the middle of a conversation. (senior moment) :017:

[Guest Bob the dog]

when you remember Spangles ie sweeties. :wave04: :

[Johnboy]

...old if you have an inclination to add to this thread.... (not that I have - I'm just pointing it out....!!)

[Yompa]

you still refer to Marathon bars and Opal Fruits....

[Yompa]

and you still listen to the wireless.

[Guest Cotter]

when you bosted about havin a commodore 64 or spectrum zx :003: computor

[Charles Bannerman]

.... you can spell (with reference to another thread on this forum) "haemorrhoid" correctly.

SP - I have a recollection (of reading rather than remembering directly) that sweetie rationing stopped in around 1954. I think a lot of the other rationing stopped round about then as well. It seems that the era of post war austerity lasted a long time, so possibly the only pleasures at the time involved the procreation of a generation of Baby Boomers!

[Guest Cotter]

you listened to elvis on an 8 track in an old rover p5b  :016:

[f*ballers wife]

oh my!!!

half pences,

players plain ciggis,

bonacord (?) red cola and saving the bottles for money back..

sorry a bit of an odd combination there... i am getting on a bit after all!!!  :004:

[Heilandee]

Eh canny mind whit i was on here for......... :006:

[Guest Cotter]

you remembere the first series of only fools & horses :016:

[tm4tj]

I like the cut of yer cloth dee :015: :015:

[caley100]

' when your mind goes blank in the middle of a conversation'

Yeah, i noticed that about you last time you were in for a chat and a coffee, bloody shame... :016:

[Johnboy]

When teams played with a centre half - rather than two centre backs - Centre halfs were often referred to by the press as "pivots"..... A dirty centre half was a "robust pivot" .....!!!