Things That Just Seem To Have Disappeared Or Faded

Is that what they were called? I simply remember them as Spangles.

 

They were just one set of flavours (the best).

 

Old ladies with a blue rinse perm, thick glasses, false teeth, a sort of waterproof hair hankie thing and a shopping trolly.

 

I saw Mary Berry at the flower show.

 

Honestly can't remember those.

 

Wiv da spangles now.

 

Sweet cigarettes and even the hand rolling stuff circa early 1970s !!
Old Jamaica chocolate bar
Inverted honey

 

They were a regular accompaniment for me at matches at Vicarage Road during the first GT era.

 

people lying on a bed of nails

 

Candy sticks?

 

i know. I used to laugh as a kid when I bought them and then held them like smokes. I also remember they used to come with a card in the box.

I won a couple of packets at the funfair on Croxley Green a few months ago by shooting them off a shelf. Either you can still get them, or the carnies just have a stockpile of 30 year old sweets.

 

I believe they have a use by date of 3052. The half life of those sweets was circa 150 years.

 

@Chumlax .
RIP, a true bastion of the forum. Or at least I think that's what someone called him.

 

Aren't we all mugs for buying them?

 

Three wheelers like this. Where did they all go, they don't rust!

 

I love Rolo but I'm an old Bstard.

 

3d televisions

 

I was thinking about this the other day. Remember that weird, awful period where they started making loads of films with pointless, gimmicky 3D effects?

What a terrible time in cinema.

 

Oh gosh, yes! Jaws 3D was one I recall with horror.

 

3D only really works for animated films, for live action only the things in camera focus were OK, anything out of focus, particularly something in the foreground, would look terrible.

 

I remember Jaws 3D. That was the only way to sell that tacked on and awful sequel, I guess.

But there was a more recent resurgence of 3d gimmickry about 10-15 years ago.

 

Not quite 3D, but I have memories of seeing a movie as a child called Earthquake, which I recall was shot in something called sensurround which was supposed to make you feel as if the whole cinema was shaking.

Anybody else recall this?

 

When you were a child? Was it a talkie?

 

Luton Town fc from the Championship .

 

Armed robbery

 

I saw something Marvel related in the Planetarium tacked on to Madam Tussauds that was 4D. It was quite impressive.