Bert Raccoon Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 2 hours ago, The Mantis said: No sure what age you are, but I’m sure that was called “What Every Woman Wants” in the 70s. Just assumed it was the same shop that changed its name. I think in the 80s it changed to What Everyone Wants to have a broader appeal for people wanting to buy cheap shite 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 5 hours ago, Florentine_Pogen said: on the never-never "Old sayings that younger folk won't get any longer" thread for this p... Oh, as you were 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Gwhat Every Woman Wants surely... Known as "Watties" when I was young. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 20 hours ago, Florentine_Pogen said: In the early 70's, my folks basically lived on tick.........Provi cheques and my mother was in various 'clubs' and menages........and even our telly was on the never-never. It had a slot meter on the back which took 50p pieces. Each month, a wee guy from Radio Rentals came round and emptied the meter, there was usually a few quid left over which my old man would take for fags and the bookies. Happy days.......................................not. My M&D had a TV about the same time from Radio Rental, went a paid at the shop every week. Sure after a number of years they went to upgrade and RR wouldn't take the old one away it was old and used. They just kept that and were allowed to stop paying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 Anybody remember coin meters on the telly? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rider Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 13 hours ago, tamthebam said: Gwhat Every Woman Wants surely... Known as "Watties" when I was young. My wife used to call them Gwhat Everys 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted January 26, 2023 Share Posted January 26, 2023 50 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said: Anybody remember coin meters on the telly? Was about to ask that, Gran and Grandad had one in the 70’s…was watching The Longest Day and suddenly had to drop another 10p into the telly! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Thinking this sign means "Beware of Evel Knievel" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbitterandgrumpy Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 4 minutes ago, tamthebam said: Thinking this sign means "Beware of Evel Knievel" Low flying motorcycles duh 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbitterandgrumpy Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 2 minutes ago, oldbitterandgrumpy said: Low flying motorcycles duh Similar to ‘Caution. Men Opening Umbrellas’. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayseed Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Getting sent to shops for a half/pan or plain loaf. heard my old dear mention a “ménage” many moons ago. So it must have migrated to Perth at some stage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Bit before my time, but buying a few cans of Tennents and having some scantily clad women on the cans 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 49 minutes ago, Bert Raccoon said: Bit before my time, but buying a few cans of Tennents and having some scantily clad women on the cans Pretty sure Chick Young was shagging June. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 2 hours ago, tamthebam said: Thinking this sign means "Beware of Evel Knievel" Dolly Parton ahead. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 The DJs flipped the record, and what was supposed to be the B side became the A side 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deegee Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 On 26/01/2023 at 12:47, Newbornbairn said: Anybody remember coin meters on the telly? We used to holiday (mid 70s till mid 80s) to English coast towns. Usually Margate which involved sleeping in the car overnight to give dad a rest or Blackpool we’re favourites. Always stayed in apartments or b&b and always had a metered telly. Mum had a wee bag of change so dad could watch the Generation Game and perv over Anthea Redfern or latterly Isla St Clair. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deegee Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 Youngsters would not get their heads around that when we were at school, a “day in town” involved paying for the telly as said above. We were dragged every Saturday morning to DER or Radio Rentals and a couple of years late upgraded to Granada which was considered a posher shop in the Thistle Centre as they had fancy video recorders to rent too! Getting sent to the shop to get dad’s smokes and getting a 10pence sweetie mixture was considered a treat midweek at primary school. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deegee Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 What would youngsters make of CB radios and the clubs which are in every town in the 70s? We used to, as a 10 year old and my brother go with my dad to the CB club and sometimes watch Bruce Lee movies played on a proper old fashioned projector played onto a screen. Meantime the dads/ older men were getting totally hammered before driving home at 10pm. Simpler times indeed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 2 hours ago, Bert Raccoon said: Bit before my time, but buying a few cans of Tennents and having some scantily clad women on the cans The lovely Norma Bell was 2 years above me at school. (A few years before she appeared on lager cans, obvs) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayseed Posted January 27, 2023 Share Posted January 27, 2023 1 hour ago, deegee said: Youngsters would not get their heads around that when we were at school, a “day in town” involved paying for the telly as said above. We were dragged every Saturday morning to DER or Radio Rentals and a couple of years late upgraded to Granada which was considered a posher shop in the Thistle Centre as they had fancy video recorders to rent too! Getting sent to the shop to get dad’s smokes and getting a 10pence sweetie mixture was considered a treat midweek at primary school. Never mind paying for the Telly. I was in a b&b in Edinburgh in the eighties and they charged extra if you wanted tokens for the shower. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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