Things That Just Seem To Have Disappeared Or Faded

Thankfully it's gone, watching the scores come in on teletext. If the page updates 1/4 we might have scored when it comes round again.

Yep, my childhood was sad.

 

We always used to go here before/after a meal in Chinatown. It was always 'odd' to hear Cloggies using the place asking for "Orange Tree".

 

Yes I find them really irritating. A quick WA message gets to the point and is there when you forget what was agreed a week later. These flippin' voice notes .....issue 1 - which note was the info I need in ? Issue 2 how much message will I have to listen to before I get the info I need......"Hi, i'm just leaving you a note, because, well, I'm not sure when I'm next going to...Sophie please put that down.....anyway, i just wanted to let you know that next weekend I will be....I'm just leaving a message, ......for TuT, ....about next weekend....yes in just a minute, ........sorry about that Steve says "Hi"....anyway where was I, lets meet at 10....no, 11....no, 10...tell you what, call me and we can discuss...."

 

They haven’t disappeared for earlier generations! Mrs K spends an hour on the phone to her parents every Sunday.

 

I have no idea what a voice note is.

 

It's a bit like a spoken version of those telegrams you used to send when you started out in the world of work. Though without the 'STOP'.

 

Fading, perhaps?

May not be true globally, of course.

 

That's because you have no friends.

 

Hilarious. No, it’s because I scarcely ever use my mobile, so no one would bother contacting me this way.

 

Of course, all your correspondence still arrives by pony courier, which is often delayed because the beast is traumatised by a hideous monster of a man hurtling past in dayglo, skintight clothing on some new fangled contraption.

 

Hilarious. No, it’s because he scarcely ever uses pony courier, so no one would bother contacting him this way.

 

Indeed. What’s wrong with a fax?

 

Hang gliding

 

Hanging.

 

I used to do that, it was a very enjoyable albeit expensive thing to do. I don't think a hang-glider would get me off the ground anymore unfortunately.

 

Bar billiards
Salvation Army visiting pubs on Friday nights
People visiting pubs selling shellfish from baskets
Jam sandwiches
Sheepskin coats
Briefcases
Dictaphones
Bent serated knives for preparing grapefruits

 

Cash
3 piece suits
Blockbuster Video
Catalogue Shopping
Petrol incentives such as free glasses, world cup coin collections
Thermos flasks

 

Loved bar billiards and I'm having a jam sandwich later now you mentioned it!

 

Fluorescent jam sandwich with flashing blue light ?
Stereotype.

 

Without clicking the link, I'm gonna presume it's De Hemmes? Meeting place for my footie predicting website's diaspora.

 

Arcade game machines, apart from retro ones in hipster places.

 

Computer games where you could just play the game, without having to collect coins/gems to upgrade your abilities, armour and weaponry.

I don't wanna faff about with developing weapons, I just wanna sneak around Afghanistan and kill some Russkies.

 

And by the same token, phone games where you could pay £2 or £5, own the game and then play it, without having to buy coin packs if you want to have a chance of progressing beyond level 1, or put up with some advert every 3 minutes. I remember paying a few quid for a Tiger Woods golf game and an Olympic sports button basher. Hours of fun without having to pay another penny or watch an advert for some game with a confused king pulling pins which drop him into fire or drown him.

 

De Hems. Used to enjoy going there.

 

Took a punt. Got it wrong. Soz. Best Oranjeboom in the Soho area.

 

Delicious bitterballen too

 

ISTR I only ever drank the Heineken Export bottles there because it was the only place in the country that you could get 'Dutch' Heineken.

Was/is the Oranjeboom they sold/sell brewed in Holland or on an industrial estate near Bedford?

 

Both peeling the label off a beer bottle…. and then someone also telling you you’re sexually frustrated.

 

Can you still get Double Diamond anywhere. I used to love that.

 

Works wonders.