Things That Just Seem To Have Disappeared Or Faded

TV and radio static.

I know it still exists as it is caused by electromagnetic interference (e.g. CMB) but I haven't noticed it for a while with radio auto tune and streaming services.

 

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Now @Keighley will have double the nightmares.

 

I've not frequented a nightclub for years - do they still have the bog bandits who offer you a splash of aftershave and a towel to dry your hands in return for an extortionate tip or have they disappeared as well?

 

You clearly went to posher nightclubs than me!

 

I don’t think night clubs themselves even exist anymore.

There was one in a restaurant in Notting Hill called Ukai when I went there recently. It was fairly pointless though as I’d assumed they’d told the bloke to not bother the customers and beg for tips, sing stupid rhymes etc. So it was all very awkward as he was silently handing people paper towels and nobody was bothering to tip (and why on earth would you).

 

There were extremely prevalent in the roughest of nightclubs for a while. Basically glorified begging.

 

What do you mean by ‘nightclub’? If you mean a late-hours place playing music and serving alcohol, I can assure you that there are plenty left in Bristol, my students are always talking about them!

 

No idea about nightclubs as I haven’t been in one for years, but there was a guy with paper towels, aftershave, lollies etc in the Walkabout toilets after the game last weekend.

 

I was exaggerating, but certainly in London a number of high profile ones like printworks have closed down and lots continue to do so:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9xkxngy95o.amp

 

Yes, well I don’t doubt that’s true, but same could be said for plenty of pubs.

 

Certainly none of the provincial nightclubs I used to go to 20+ years ago exist anymore, they’re all flats now.

 

Two clubs where I grew up in Falmouth 40 years ago, the good one has closed but the crap one is still going strong.

 

I’m concerned that this character would be hanging around toilets, doused in aftershave, offering lollies to those going in and out, with a stack of paper towels at the ready.

 

Is it near the BBC ?

 

Worrying if true.

 

You're right to be concerned, because that mental image is on the nose.

 

Or Harrods?

 

No armani - no punani
No splash - No gash

 

Careful. Aftershave on a cut can really sting.

 

There's a salsa club I go to in London from time to time, they still have this.

 

No nacho - no snatcho
No guacamole - no getting in her hole
No jalapeños - no wet penis.

 

Sounds like someone can’t make out the lyrics on ‘Tripe Face Boogie’.

 

No spray, no lay was one of my favourites

 

£160 they wanted at the till today! Packed it all back into the trolley and took it to the self service, £48. Every penny counts.

 

My mate had one rule in his campervan. If it slips in, it slips in. Odd fella.

 

No water no daughter

 

That's worrying!

 

Many, many years ago I had a girlfriend who used to amuse me with the expression One up the bum, no harm done. I think the following line is One up the fanny, Mum’s a grannie.

And the answer to your question is ‘no.’

 

LoL!

 

I was distinguishing those from the ‘sexy’ kind.

 

@Malteser2.

 

Luckily, I spray every time. Small spatters of piss on your shoes and jeans are irresistible to women, it's true.

 

They used to have them in Batchwood nightclub in St. Albans. I'd play the game once and engage in some clichéd banter with the bloke early in the night on the assumed understanding that I'd be left alone for all future trips to the bog.

Also, things that disappeared - Batchwood nightclub itself. Saw many Watford players in there over the years. One night I can remember very clearly was after the 1-2 away win at QPR in 99. A young Tommy Smith who'd scored the winner that day present even though he wasn't yet 21 (which is what it was on a Saturday to gain entry, unless you were female in which the rule seemed to be about 14).