Things that time forgot.

[Serial_Apologist]

Cycle clips (?)

Oh you can still get them - plain or in dayglow yellow. And Tippex.

I remember two girls in the office where I worked wearing "Cover your boobs with Tippex" T-Shirts. The manager sent them home, with words to the effect, "I don't know how your parents allowed you out wearing those". I was their union rep at the time.

[P. G. Tipps]

I see Dad's Army being abbreviated to DA on the relevant thread. In my time DA stood for a hairstyle associated with being a Teddy Boy, and meant duck's arse. You'd have to go to a Teds' convention to see one of those today. It's more interesting to see the, er, ubiquitous return of short-backs-and-sides and spectacles in styles to accompany, signifiers of past ages of austerity and men who knew they were men.

This is the first time in my lifetime that males half my age resemble my father and his generation, or characters in a period drama. We really do seem to be going backwards, in so many respects.

We're not really going backwards we're just revolving!

My grandfather had long hair, my father had short back and sides, I had long hair as a scruffy yoof and now it's short again.

It's called fashion. Nothing much really changes.

I would say however that any particular fashion today is a bit hard to pin down, as most people simply please themselves as how they look and what they wear.

Post-Bowie?

[french frank]

I would say however that any particular fashion today is a bit hard to pin down, as most people simply please themselves as how they look and what they wear.

I have three nephews: No 1 is (currently) short back and sides, shaven No2 is bearded with ten year-old uncut dreadlocks No 3 short back and sides, bearded. Of the nieces, one is 'unremarkable' the other (currently) jet-black dyed. And good luck to them all


Add: I meant shaven, not unshaven - the other two are beardies.

[Zucchini]

Scouts asking a Bob a Job.

(Updated to Gissa Tenner An' We'll Make Sure Yer Car Don't Catch Fire)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Updated to Gissa Tenner An' We'll Make Sure Yer Car Don't Catch Fire)

Don't believe them, either - I gave them the 10p and they still let my car catch fire!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Tippex.

I think this is alive and kicking.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Gummed paper

[Roslynmuse]

Gummed paper

That reminds me of homemade Christmas decorations - paper chains...

[ahinton]

Don't believe them, either - I gave them the 10p and they still let my car catch fire!

10p? I'm surprised that they let your car remain in any state of existence at all!

[umslopogaas]

Free cod liver oil. When I was a child in the early 1950s my mum insisted my sister and I had a spoonful every morning. We hated it, but as a reward we then got a spoonful of concentrated orange juice. I assume these items were available free, but I've no idea if you can still get them free, or indeed if you can get cod liver oil at all.

[ahinton]

Tippex.

It's called "correction fluid" now (although that does sound to me rather like a flexible attitude to conduct within a correctional institution) and very useful stuff it still is, especially for a composer who has yet to get around to using Sibelius, Finale et al; I just wish it was possible to purchase it in litre bottles...

I daresy that Sir Michael Tippex had recourse to it back in the day although, in the light of the Ice Crack and New Old Year (we're talking MacMillanosis here once again, otherwise known as "you never had it so bad"), I suspect gross under-use on his part...

[ahinton]

Free cod liver oil. When I was a child in the early 1950s my mum insisted my sister and I had a spoonful every morning. We hated it, but as a reward we then got a spoonful of concentrated orange juice. I assume these items were available free, but I've no idea if you can still get them free, or indeed if you can get cod liver oil at all.

I don't know about cod liver oil although I'd be surprised if it lo longer features in the health food sector, but it seems like a memory as painful as it was shameful that, years ago, most people could only source olive oil at places quaintly and absurdly called "chemists" and then only in tiny quantities for medicial use in the ears in order that one could more easily hear things frying in more respectable quantities of the stuff by those who knew where to find it! - had one wandered into a misnamed pharmacy and asked for unfiltered extra virgin in those days, eyebrows would be raised and disapproving glances dispensed at the very least, I imagine...

[Pulcinella]

Correction fluid is certainly still used in the exam papers my partner marks, despite instructions on the booklet saying that it shouldn't be!
I would be tempted to give no marks: rubric infringement!
But these are important papers, with the student's future depending on the results, so he is prepared to overlook it; sadly sometimes the student has also overlooked the fact that a replacement word needed to be written once the fluid had dried!

[pastoralguy]

Free cod liver oil.

I take cod liver oil but it comes in capsules so you can swallow it without tasting it. Of course, I have to grind the capsules open despite hating the taste!

[Pulcinella]

Free cod liver oil. When I was a child in the early 1950s my mum insisted my sister and I had a spoonful every morning. We hated it, but as a reward we then got a spoonful of concentrated orange juice. I assume these items were available free, but I've no idea if you can still get them free, or indeed if you can get cod liver oil at all.

The orange juice came in small glass bottles with a bright turquoise screw top, I seem to recall!