WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
A nostalgia trip for anyone in the UK who grew up on dial-up Internet, Findus Crispy Pancakes, and playground rumours that couldn’t be fact-checked online. We’re not historians — we don’t do dates, and we barely do facts — but science says reminiscing gives your brain a dopamine hit, so think of us as your weekly dose of hazy memories, childhood flashbacks, and confidently misremembered events.
Expect frequent arguments about who remembers things properly as we rummage through the UK’s collective memory box.
WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
Things That Vanished From British Life: The Yellow Pages, Milkmen, Football Pools & More
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Welcome And The Missing Britain List
SPEAKER_03Hello and welcome to Who Remembers the UK Nostalgia Podcast? And in this episode, we are asking who remembers the things you used to see everywhere in Britain? But don't anymore?
SPEAKER_02Hello, yeah, this is w I mean we're remembering back back when Britain had some balls, aren't we?
SPEAKER_03This is it. This is for St. George's Day. It's for St. George himself, isn't it, this one? Yeah, so it's St. George's Day this week, um, as this was this.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's the 23rd, so we're we're a tiny bit early on the release, but it is it is this week. Um and yeah, we're talking about things things that you used to see that you don't see anymore.
SPEAKER_03You know them uh that meme, um I'm setting my clocks back to 1945 when this when this country had some bollocks or whatever, 1942, sorry, when this country had some bollocks. Uh this is our version of that.
SPEAKER_02We were taking our podcast back to 1991 when the the streets of Britain had some things worth seeing.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. So this is the things really that we used to when we were growing up, 80s and 90s, that we used to see everywhere. And we've got categories for these, and then they just seem to vanish, maybe like slowly vanished, or sometimes just poof, like that, isn't there in a in a in a in a duck, what was it, a a poof of smoke, poof. A puff of smoke. A puff of smoke, poof. That's what they do though, innit? Like a who does? Isn't that like a sound effect for a puff of the stuff?
SPEAKER_02That's what they do. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Poof, poof.
SPEAKER_02Right, let's get into it. I mean, we're good at impressions. I didn't I didn't know we're moving into sound effects.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, sound effects as well, like him off uh police academy. Did he ever do that? Hold on, there's a helicopter.
SPEAKER_02Just give me a second, I think there's a helicopter going past.
SPEAKER_03So you knew what it were, that's all you need to do. Um sadly, I reckon but with AI now, well, probably but way before AI, in fact, that you don't need him anymore, do you? The sound effects man from Police Academy. I'm not I'm not sure he ever did, to be honest, but yeah, no. Um didn't he have a I'm sure he had an album out where it was just him doing sound effects. I'm sure that's true. Anyway, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02I don't know. I mean some of these as we get to them I I think they vanished for logical reasons, some of them just fizzled out.
SPEAKER_03Well, I'll try to start with segment one, Liam.
SPEAKER_02Let's let's start at the start. I think that's a good place.
SPEAKER_03Let's start at the start, the vanished everyday things. And the
Yellow Pages And Pre Internet Life
SPEAKER_03first thing that the first thing that came to my mind when we thought of doing this was the yellow pages. I don't know about you, Liam. Um no, I I don't know if that's the first thing that came to mind. Uh Deadbat asked us to do an episode on the Yellow Pages, and this is what he's getting, by the way, because we can't do a full episode on Yellow Pages. I don't know, I think we could pull it off, but we're not.
SPEAKER_02We're just mentioning it very briefly. Yeah, yeah. It's uh I I find it amazing that people won't know what it is, but obviously if you're on the house, every house had this, every single house had this, yeah. Yeah, I think I believe it was a it was a free issue item that was sent to every household. I don't think you had to I don't think you had to buy it or request it. I just think it was delivered to every house. Is that right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, I think so. I I I don't remember it's hard. I when it when I can't imagine thinking about it. It's mad to think that one day they just stopped sending you the yellow pages and no one battered an eyelid, did they?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so for for those who don't know, and for those who do and have forgotten, which I'm sure they won't have, but anyway, it was a huge, thick book with really thin sheets of paper. It was all yellow, hence the name. Um and it was basically a list of local businesses. So it was if you needed a plumber, you'd skim through to the plumbing section, you'd find all the the people in the area who'd put an advert in the yellow pages. I assume they paid to be in there, and that's why it was free to be sent out. Probably a small cost, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03But yeah let us know in the comments if you ever advertise a bit yellow page. Is that the advert, innit? J.R. Hartley. That's the yellow pages, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the the kind of advert was like whatever you need, the yellow pages can get it for you if it's free.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's a good point. Maybe blow all the that's why they don't do it anymore, blow all the money on J.R. Hartley then looking for his book.
SPEAKER_02I wonder if they're advertising it so that businesses would contact them and say, Can we be in your yellow pages? I wonder if that's the thing about can we be uh as the supplier of JR Hartley?
SPEAKER_03Oh you do, that's great. Anyway, in 1883, a printer in is it Woming? Woming ran out of white paper and used yellow instead, and that's why it is yellow. So it's a it's it's just a bit a quirk, a quirk of uh, you know, someone running out of ink and is that true? That's what it's that's what I've read on on Wikipedia, so I can't see them lying.
SPEAKER_02So they're gonna print thousands of copies of this built, this book, yeah. They say, I ain't got any white paper, let's let's who has loads of yellow paper lying around?
SPEAKER_03I don't know, but this is the 1800s, isn't it? Maybe that everyone had yellow paper. Maybe you couldn't move for yellow paper in the 1880s. 1800, when was it at first out? 1800s, did you say?
SPEAKER_021883. I don't even know if yellow paper was a thing back then.
SPEAKER_03Well Well, anyway, you've done the research. This definitely happened. People used to use it for um for loads of things that wasn't like designed for. So like I remember our table.
SPEAKER_02I can think of one use that I'm gonna see for you mentioned, but the the one thing that I sort of think that was I uh everyone well not everyone could do it actually, so that's a bit of a clue.
SPEAKER_03One of our I think it might have been our main table, our dining room table, definitely had one of the uh one of the yellow pages like holding up one of the legs that were all level because like it was that thick, it sort of do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02I I'm I'm sounding like it knob Eddie. I'm I'm being really skeptical.
SPEAKER_01I don't believe that it was about three inches thick, you didn't have one of your table legs like three inches off the ground.
SPEAKER_03No, folded up there, so no, what had happened is the the table leg of it.
SPEAKER_01On the other side, you've got like a wheelie bin holding it up.
SPEAKER_03Listen, the t the the tell the the leg had a broke a bit, so you used to put it underneath things. That was really common, I'm sure that's common.
SPEAKER_02Misremembering, I think. I think it was used to prop things up.
SPEAKER_03I don't think I'd be very surprised if anyone had a table with a leg so I'm not saying that Imagine if we hit we ate on that like low table, like on his knees. No, I'm saying that the table leg had broken, so just to sort of balance it out, you'd put that underneath it just to sort of keep it sturdy. Anyway, what we what were you gonna say anyway? What did you think? I think of strongmen trying to rip them in half. Ah, rubbish! Yeah, you're right, actually. Um yeah, strongmen.
SPEAKER_02That was like supposedly a huge sort of feat to be able to grab it with with both hands and just rip it down the middle. I mean, if it was ever genuine or if they were sort of weakened, I don't know, but certainly I associate it as a test of strength.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think that used to happen all the time on every single show in the 80s. I think you know, like the the the variety shows, there'd always be somebody on ripping um yeah yellow pages in half just to show how hard they are. What were the there's nothing really now that you could do, is he, in the house that you show how hard you are. You can't rip Smash an iPad in half on your thread. Smash an iPad in half, yeah. Just imagine that headbutton iPad. But yeah, that way I mean I another thing that like came from the research is encyclopedia Brit uh Britannica sets, which I I don't really I do remember them, but I don't remember having them. I don't remember seeing them around.
SPEAKER_02I I never had one. I mean a lot of mates did. So it I remember it being a bit of like a cheat. Like I sort of didn't and and I also remember the fact that I didn't have one. It almost kind of felt like you couldn't do your own work. Like teachers would say, I want you to come in and write something about Charles the First. But it felt like if you didn't have the Britannica sets and you didn't obviously this is pre-internet, yeah, I don't know where you were supposed to get that information from.
SPEAKER_03You should do a polls do a poll sites, go out and have a look.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I don't need to I don't need to encyclopedia Charles I don't need yellow pages, I go out and have a look, don't I? Um but yeah, I didn't I don't think I had this.
VHS Tapes And Home Recording
SPEAKER_03One thing I definitely did have, um, and I don't know if you had this, is VHS tapes in boxes. Peter K talks about this in one of his stand-ups, where the whole episode is quite Peter.
SPEAKER_02I mean the whole concept is Peter K, isn't it?
SPEAKER_03The whole concept is Peter K. He literally is Peter K. You've been doing a lot of reading, aren't you? You've been doing a lot of reading Yeah, the videos, the video tapes. Did you have these boxes what look like books? Is that what you meant? Yeah, the ones that were. Yeah, the video book, yeah. So they they look like like chronicles of like, you know what I mean? Some like top secret sort of stuff, but they were actually just holding VHS tapes in. Probably pouring.
SPEAKER_02I don't know, I've certainly seen them. I don't know if we had any. We obviously we had VHS. I I thought you meant the you know the re-recordable ones that with a sticky label on.
SPEAKER_03But I don't want to go too far on this because I think we should do an Al episode about videotaping and stuff, because there were so many like I mean, I'll not get into it all, but yeah, that is definitely an episode in itself, I think, VHS tapes, because there were like long play, there was short play.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean they had everything huge decisions. I know you can do it all, you can have long play, you can have short play. Short play, yeah. But you had to like you're right. Well, we'll maybe we'll go into this more, but yeah, there were certain times where you have to make quite a big decision. You you might have your favourite film recorded on a on a recordable VHS and something's coming on that you want to watch. Are you gonna get rid of it or not? What which which where are you going?
SPEAKER_03Well, another thing as well, this is not really something you saw, but used to happen is uh reverse uh call charges as well.
SPEAKER_02Yes, have you ever made a reverse call? I think I have to call it.
SPEAKER_03I don't think I don't think so. Maybe when I were on holiday, maybe when I were abroad, when I were about 17 or something, and I I might phone my mum up and say, Can you reverse the the but I don't I don't really know how it works.
SPEAKER_02So you phone the operator and you say, Can I reverse call to give them a number? And then they contact that number and say, Are you happy to make the call?
SPEAKER_01Because you're right.
SPEAKER_02It's like say if you're out somewhere and you needed to let let your mum know you're gonna be late back. Yeah. So I think I think I've done it just to kind of see if it worked. But I I wasn't a regular reverse charger. Yeah, I take reverse charges.
SPEAKER_03I take I take charge. Um another thing that uh you did use to see a lot, um, up until quite recently is people writing checks. Remember the last time you saw someone writing a check?
SPEAKER_02My neighbour still writes checks.
SPEAKER_03Oh, just kind of get her head round it. There's the porn addict neighbour that you've got. Yeah, that's the 90-year-old. Yeah, yeah. If you've not heard that, if you've not heard a I don't even know what episode it was. I don't know what episode. Yeah, go back through them all.
SPEAKER_02Listen to trying to go. Go through them all.
SPEAKER_03I think it was actually I think it was Sunday night TV when we got on to she got um. Stuck on like a babe station type channel. I didn't know how to get off. Yeah, yeah. Can't remember which one it was, but that's why she's wrong writing checks out for Babe Station.
SPEAKER_02But yeah, she she said something to me recently about she'd paid something by check or something, and she got a checkbook out. And I said, Well, I I can't believe you still pay by check. I can't even believe that's still a thing.
SPEAKER_03I don't, yeah. I don't know if I ever had a checkbook. I don't think I ever had a checkbook. You'd never get away with that now, would you? Like society. Well, you're ripping that out and giving that licking it, I imagine. Like getting your pen out.
SPEAKER_02Are you basically saying, like, trust me, I've got the money in this account, is a bit of paper.
SPEAKER_03Like, yeah, it's an it's an IOU, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, basically. I think later further down the line, you could kind of check check the balance or something. I'm not sure, but I think in the early days it was just uh yeah, trust trust me, there's money in my account. Checks used to bounce, didn't they? When like the Yeah, yeah, yeah. You bought something with a piece of paper, and actually you didn't have the money to buy something.
SPEAKER_03I never really understood what that means, and if I'm going to be completely honest, I still don't really know what that means when a check bounces.
SPEAKER_02So it means they've tried to take payment from the bank and there's not enough money in the account, so that that that check, that piece of paper's worthless. Bring it back. This sounds like a really easy way to do that. Well, I've done RD, you just go into shops and take things with you and just walk out. That's uh a couple of chaps around here that I've seen doing that.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, yeah, oh yeah. I mean, the this shoplifting is is yeah, that's one thing that you'd have thought of like you wouldn't see anymore with like CCTV and so. Imagine if we've got it all wrong, and it turns out they have been paying it just by check, they've been leaving a check on the way out. Yeah, but a check on the way out. Oh come on. Um another this this is no reason why this went out of fashion, but I I think it did anyway. This
Coins In Cards And Mixtapes
SPEAKER_03reminds me of like my great nan doing stuff like this. Uh birthday cards with one with a one pound coin taped inside of it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, I remember this well, yeah. In fact, we once went to my auntie and uncle's for Christmas. And they'd obviously not like sort of bought us or anything. So they just sellotaped a lot of 50p's together. I think we got like £35 each and 50 Ps, just like in a bowl of cellotape, I think.
SPEAKER_03Ridiculous. We used to get uh when I was a little young.
SPEAKER_02Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER_03Merry Christmas. Yeah, we used to um I've got relatives in Canada who I've never met, and they used to send cards over to us even though we'd never met 'em. And they'd like they were a big cellotape pounds and fifty pences in it. Or sometimes a Canada coin, which were a complete waste of time because I were like a 10-year-old child. I'm not gonna go to the bureau de change, am I? I'm like gonna sort of get that.
SPEAKER_02Can you change his 50 pence fees, please?
SPEAKER_03Can I change yeah? Can I change his 50 pence Canadian fees, please? Yeah, so that were a waste of time. That I don't know, it were a nice touch. It were almost like uh you said before, I think that I might be putting words into your mouth here, but you said you don't like people buying new selection boxes because you think it's it's the lowest. There's like basically it's just the lowest offer, isn't it? What do you call it? The there's no thought got into it, it's just a case of oh yeah, have that.
SPEAKER_01Uh I don't think you said this.
SPEAKER_02No, I don't I don't think I have. I quite like selection boxes because I'm not using it. I don't like chocolate. I may still like chocolate, but I don't eat a lot of it anymore. And I think it's nice to have a few little little selections of and like certain things I'd never buy, but in a selection box I might think, oh yeah, no, I've quite quite fancy. I I'd never buy a Milky Way, but I might have one in a selection box.
SPEAKER_03I know what it was. It were our mate Russell Paul Jones, um, who we talk about on here. He um he bought he were good on a he just started dating someone and he bought a sport selection box, yeah. And you said that is the lowest thought. No thought has gone into that, that were it, sorry. So yeah, take it back.
SPEAKER_02I mean I I suppose if uh if when our younger mum or dad just just got me in selection box, I probably wouldn't be very happy with that. But as a supplementary part of the selection of gifts, I'm I'm fine with it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, uh and the last thing on my little section for this um this opening segment, uh everyday things, burning CDs for each other. That would be huge. And again, I don't want to go too far into this because I do want to do uh how we to listen to music episode at some point. I'm surprised you've gone for that though, because uh that's much later.
SPEAKER_02Uh and uh I I associate you more with doing mixtapes when I had my first car, you did me a couple of mixtapes to get me into some indie stuff.
SPEAKER_03I preferred mixtapes, I definitely prefer mixtapes. CDs to me, I mean it's like a Spotify playlist now. There's not as much thought, like I say, we're gonna do an episode on it, but there's not as much thought that goes into it. With the mixtape, you had to actually you would listen to the songs as you were recording. Yeah, you're sorry, experiencing it. You know, you were playing with that.
SPEAKER_02Good and bad, I think like it it it got you into songs you perhaps wouldn't have listened to on a CD, you'd have skipped them, but at the same time it meant you had to sit uh sit through a song that you didn't enjoy sometimes. Are you gonna go about the rolling people again by the verb? Well, I mentioned it in the last episode, so I don't want to spend too long on it again. But yeah, the rolling people by the verve. I used to be a big thing.
SPEAKER_03It's such a meme, this yeah, the rolling people by the verve. Yeah, but it's um I think that uh like I say, uh the CD burning thing never really I'd had loads of burn CDs, but obviously since when Spotify came out and all that sort of stuff. I I I still think it's a it's a miss because I you would listen to a CD that I burnt because you couldn't you didn't have every single piece of music available to you like you do now. Yeah, yeah, no, it's true.
SPEAKER_02You uh had a bit less choice back in those days.
SPEAKER_03Anyway, Liam, go you go to your bit
Smoking Culture And Street Changes
SPEAKER_03now. I think you've done the street scene.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the the second thing we're going to talk about is the vanished street scene. So these are things when you're out and about. Um yeah, I mean the the first one on the list. I don't even think this is just specific to to people walking, because I actually think you very occasionally do still see this, but it's people walking and smoking at the same time.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I haven't seen anyone having a cigarette, a good old this is a advert. We're bringing back adverts for cigarettes, that's how one we are. Having a smoke uh uh I don't know, like a a Hamlet and Hamlet and Butler. Is that what it were? What were they called? Lambert and Butler. Lambert Hamlet and Butler, Lambert and Butler. Hamlet's like a cigar, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, having a Lambert and Butler or a Berkeley blue, having a smoke. Unless there's people in pubs and they're having a smoke outside, I don't see anyone smoking anymore.
SPEAKER_02Or maybe on a dinner break at work. It's really common, yeah. People sometimes go out for a like smoking shelter, but we're talking more just like I say, to me, I mean this this is kind of more nostalgia about when we were younger and when we were kids, but the one that still blows my mind, so I I worked on a site in Manchester about I don't know, say 12 years ago, maybe something like that. Um and yeah, as I was working on as a steel fixer at the time, but but the guys I was working with, quite a lot of them, were just smoking as they worked all day, just literally chain smoking all day as we were working.
SPEAKER_03But another thing we could have here is another thing we could have here is uh it's on my next one actually, but I picked out, but we may as well talk about it now, is um well, smoking indoors, obviously smoking in pubs, but also cigarette machines. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cigarette machines like in pubs, where they look really when I was really young, I could see why they got rid of them because I was like, what's that? That's like a game, you know, all these like really like sort of bright coloured cigarette packets, and you'd like, oh that's my favourite cigarette packet colour. You still get that abroad, you still get that in certain places abroad.
SPEAKER_02You can still find them. Obviously, when when we were sort of, I don't know, 17, 18 or whatever, and going out, you you wouldn't all want a packet of cigarettes, but like you might say, Oh, should we all chuck a quid in and just get yeah, get a couple of you that's why you got severe asthma. Well, no, that's when I made it really bad, weren't it? But yeah, yeah, I had it before then, but yeah, that's that's when I used to be smoking and then struggling all the time. Um well clear and all that now. So we've promoted that and then we've we've there's like like talent. We've promoted it and we've banished it. I do miss smoking in pubs, even though it was terrible for my health. You can't say that.
SPEAKER_03You can't say that. That's that's could terribly on PC. These days, you can't say that.
SPEAKER_02I just I like I'm talking even when I were a kid and my mum and dad had been who didn't. I remember me saying this actually realistically, though, yeah, yeah, yeah. I liked the smell of them coming back, like I knew they'd been on a night out. It was like uh I mean, there's a there's a difference, in it. There's that stale cigarette smoke that's awful, like yeah. But no, I qu I quite liked the the smell of sort of someone being out and they've got that smoky smell to them. My my grandmother was told he had to stop smoking, so he used to smoke. I might have told this story before, but he used to smoke uh players like so again, mini cigars, so it's really strong smelling. But he used to think if he he got a clothes peg and put the cigarette in the clothes pegs instead of his hand, that no one would know. And he smelled like the porch smelled, the house smelled, but he he thought he'd beat the system with a clothes peg.
SPEAKER_03Amazing. Bring it back, bring back get big nigging, big niggas for all. Do you need I heard like he would try to bring smoking back? It wasn't, but I like the idea of him just coming back and say, We're bringing smoking back into pubs. What's a policy, yeah? Yeah, it's a policy, bringing it back, come on.
SPEAKER_02Local man people, this is definitely one for me that I I miss. So they used to be. I mean, to be fair, it maybe it's a terrible thing, but I I don't know. They must have had a home because they weren't how can I describe it? There were a couple of like mad old women near us. And they just used to sort of wander around talking to themselves and shouting things and like they, you know, they probably needed some help, but they they were they weren't homeless to my knowledge because they had sort of fairly smart clothes on and they they seemed to have a place to go back to, but yeah, they just used to wander around shouting, but they were nothing they were nothing nasty, and uh No to be honest, not not so long ago I walk into a bus stop before a Chef United game and um a guy came up to me where yeah, you were like, Alright mate, are you going?
SPEAKER_03How's it been going? Then I didn't know him and I thought I just got wrong person, but then I realised um he was quite clearly mad. Um and yeah, and he I it's a it's a difficult one to to judge, innit, without because you're like some some some people are quite clearly mad, are also very dangerous. This guy wasn't, but I'm thinking Jimmy McCorcall. You wouldn't want to be stubborn with him, would you, when he's on one of his, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02And I've I've been to Birmingham with work a few times sort of fairly recently, and there's people around the train station that I think are like keep well clear of this this type of mad person, like that they seem like they could be dangerous. Whereas I'm I'm talking more like harmless, just used to walk around sort of laughing themselves about things and things like that.
SPEAKER_03Like, yeah, good old-fashioned nutjobs as the yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, um, yeah. I mean, again, I I think this one is still a thing because I've seen it recently, but I I kind of get the vibe that you mean. So teenagers hanging around outside corner shops. I think that's still a thing. Um I I've I've seen it very recently, and in fact, I I once went like Ronnie Corbett as if I'm gonna tell a great anecdote, then I've I once wear it. It's not a great anecdote. I wanted to go up about a month ago and I reckon there's about 30 kids in there. And I said to the producer.
SPEAKER_00No, that's it.
SPEAKER_03That's brilliant. That's absolutely fantastic. Did you ever get asked? Um, did you ever stand outside in fights and ask someone to buy you beer? No, I'd find all that embarrassing. Um I'm sure I did that a couple of times um when I were younger. Go, mate, can you give me your fiver? Can you can you get us four counter stones or whatever? Someone asked me, yeah, someone asked me about 10 years ago, and I said I said, I'm I'm really sorry, lads. I felt really guilty, and they went, Oh cheers, mate, thanks for nothing. Like, I shouldn't say. I've had it a few times recently. You idiots. And you don't want to start on that stuff anyway. Go on.
SPEAKER_02And my my response is no, because oh well, for one, I think you could be prosecuted, and for two, it's probably not a good thing to do, is it? I don't know, I don't know what their situation is. Yeah. But I was just saying no, and this if they say, Oh, come on, why not? I say, well, because I I've got a daughter who's not four or f your age, and I I don't like the thought that people would go in shops and buy her beer, so I can't I can't buy it for other people's kids. That's my that's my response. And then walking out, yeah, they said that they and then I was beaten to a pulp.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, you know, no, anyway.
SPEAKER_02I wasn't I steamed through them. I didn't. I just came to the case.
SPEAKER_03Imagine that. Yeah, again, you can't you can't say that.
SPEAKER_02Uh
Kids Outside Shops And Tree Climbing
SPEAKER_02kids climbing trees. I mean, personal experience. I I used to love climbing trees, and I don't see anybody climbing trees anymore. Well, I know, but you're dyspraxia, aren't you?
SPEAKER_03You'd be sc probably is a little bit of that. Scared of heights, scared of heights as well.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, not a not a natural born climber.
SPEAKER_03I'm not an outdoor, I'm not an outdoorist, yeah, at all. I prefer I prefer I know what I'll I know what I know, I like what I like, and it's indoors.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we we had a mad mate who uh I mean we still have the same mate, but I don't see him anymore. But he uh neither do I yeah, but he once took me climbing out in the peak district and I climbed up this rock face and hit my head on a branch at the top and fell off and like fractured my ankle. But because I hobbled back to the car and didn't ask for any help, when we got back to the car, he saluted me and said uh he's very proud of me for not asking for assistance.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. This guy was in the army uh for people who are yeah, he was probably a local madman as well. Yeah, yeah, he probably well he will be now, yeah, definitely.
SPEAKER_02Uh pogo sticks. I I don't remember seeing a lot of pogo sticks anyway, but it's on the list, so we'll mention it. Did you used to see a lot of pogo sticks?
SPEAKER_03Um not really, no, not really, no. I I think it were more of a yeah, I don't know if we just missed the boat a little bit with Pogo sticks, to be honest.
SPEAKER_02But you think like five years before us, there were people.
SPEAKER_03I think it would have been all we'd have been still on now, yeah. Bouncing. I had those, what do you call those? Uh that round thing where you sat on. You're like a shape like a it was shaped like uh the the the planet of Saturn. That's a terrible light thing to do what I mean though, don't you? Planet of Saturn.
SPEAKER_02Um do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03Like with the I think you're mixing two things up there.
SPEAKER_02I think you're mixing two things up. There was like one that you stood on that was like like the planet of Saturn where you kind of gripped the ball with your feet.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Sorry, the other one with the uh the other one had like I don't know, like almost that horns you grabbed onto.
SPEAKER_03Tentacles. Orange tentacles jumping up and down, are there? Yeah. And that one was mainly round, wasn't it? Like the planet of Mars. The planet of Mars. What a way to describe something that is. It's very much like uh the planet of Pluto, not a planet anymore. What that's another thing.
SPEAKER_02Who remembers Plato Pluto?
SPEAKER_03Who remembers Pluto? Yeah, Pluto used to be when we were at school, Pluto were a planet, and it's not a planet anymore, is it?
SPEAKER_02No, no, but that was back in the good old days, wasn't it? When you could still call Pluto a planet. Pre-woke. Anyway. Uh again, I don't know if this one was ever a thing, but it it certainly seemed to be a thing, but I don't know if anyone ever did it, or if it was just purely done in films, but somebody carrying a ghetto blaster playing music. Do you didn't know what's going on?
SPEAKER_03The only thing like seen once. Once, yeah, once. We went to play football. I think about it might be our mate Brendan. I'm sure he brought a ghetto blaster and we listened to Oasis as we're playing football, and it wasn't in any way cool. Um, you couldn't really hear it, and it was just a waste of time.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I I don't know why I paused then, as if I didn't want to tell the story. Well, I've got I've got nothing to be ashamed of. I went out of work for about two months once, so I had to sign on. And yeah, a guy came in the job centre blasting out.
SPEAKER_03Joey from Bread. Sorry.
SPEAKER_02But it was like the most sort of cliche thing I'd ever seen, like a sort of a guy came trudging into the job centre with a ghetto blaster on.
SPEAKER_03Oh my word. That but that was awful. Yeah. Well jungle with jungle music as well.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, almost certainly, but I d I don't know, but yeah, probably. Yeah, um spiky hair. Uh I remember that being a big thing. I remember I remember having to phone my mum, my auntie was a hairdresser to say, can I have my hair spiky? And they're like saying, Well, yeah, it's like you can flatten it again, it's not permanent, is it?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I never had spiky hair. Something that I uh I don't know if it happens at all anymore, actually, is a lot of people die their hair blonde, didn't they? In in homage of MM.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but I think the spikes were even before that. The yeah, yeah, definitely. Curtains another spike phase. Yeah, there was a curtains phase, but the spike the curtains come and go, but I've not I don't think we've had another round of spikes yet, have we?
SPEAKER_03No, spiky air reminds me I don't know, it's like I don't know, from the punk era, I'm not sure. But yeah, I never had spikes.
SPEAKER_02No, no, it was just gels, it was just gelled up into like a sort of hedgehog thing.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it looks awful anyway. No offense, people, if you've got spiky hair, but baseball caps.
SPEAKER_02I mean, people still wear them. I'm I've actually started wearing a baseball cap very occasionally.
SPEAKER_03This is this is your pick, this. I do not agree. Baseball caps are all over the place. They're absolutely all over baseball. I've got a baseball cap.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but I don't think I think people wear baseball caps, but they're now sort of more of a fashion item for adults. I I'm talking where kids were all walking around in. Do you remember a big massive peaked baseball cap?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, wearing them back to front.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, hey, what's going on with the ghetto blaster?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um, I mean this, yeah, this is a big one, and this one's kind of does make me feel nostalgic, actually. Uh, I mean you you've put men, I think it probably was mainly men, but I think it was men. There might be some female listeners who'd say, but I used to do that.
SPEAKER_03I do if I'm gonna go even further, I think it's bold men as well.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, well, okay. Yeah, uh, this is bold men washing their cars on a Sunday with a bucket and sponge.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think that that that is a pure memory of a Sunday.
SPEAKER_02Our neighbour who who passed away, he certainly used to do that all the time. So, yeah, that is definitely something I used to see.
SPEAKER_03I haven't seen anyone washing the car outside for ages. Not on a Sunday, not on this time on a Sunday. I've never jet wash is too easy now, isn't it? You just go and Yeah, uh a bucket and a sponge as well. Like it's such a I don't know if that is a proper English thing, I think that. I I might be wrong. You know, we've got a couple of American listeners or Australians and stuff, that is now, but that just seems like a proper English thing, especially when sun were out. Sun's out, sponges out. That's what it seemed to be.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, okay. Um and TV aerials being adjusted with somebody shouting, yeah, that's it. Yeah, that were always happening. People completely gone, hasn't it? Like and you used to have to sometimes move it sounds so Peter K, even as I'm saying it. Do you remember? Do you remember when you had to move in a little bit of a couple of things?
SPEAKER_03No, move over there, move over there, move over there. Yeah, but that's that yeah, that did happen.
SPEAKER_02Yeah Particularly like if you had a TV in your bedroom that wasn't connected to the the aerial on the top of the house, you had a little kind of mini aerial on top, you had to move it around and change it for different channels. What a mad, what a mad time we lived in.
SPEAKER_03Obviously, our uh Rod Hall died, um and Tony Hares off Alan Portridge, but yeah, Rod Hull died, didn't it, changing the aerial? What were he doing on the bloody roof?
SPEAKER_02What was doing on the bloody roof? Well, he was aerial. No, no, I was being what is it? I was being metaphorical.
SPEAKER_03Metaphorical, but that that's philosophical. I don't know. Now, if you watch that partridge now and you're probably under 30, you'll think, what do you mean? What aerial what should be called?
SPEAKER_02Well, not much there for you is it? Because you wouldn't get necessarily a castoral GTX jacket either, would you?
SPEAKER_03No, you won't get that neither, no. Ah, what a shame. Anyway. And has anyone got a battery for an Ericsson?
SPEAKER_02You wouldn't get any.
SPEAKER_03You won't get any of it. No, it's not for you. It's not for you.
Milkmen Neighbourhood Watch And Jumble Sales
SPEAKER_03Um I'm onto my segment of now of Lost Public Services and Community Rituals, as I've called it. Because I did it's a bit of everything. Rituals. I know I didn't like now what to call this community rituals. Milkmen, milk bottles in the morning, and milk wrath some having all as one. So milkmen do still exist, but I've not seen a milkman for time, as the kids used to say.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think we we had not all that long ago. We had a guy come round like saying I'm delivering milk, and I felt really bad for him, but I I just thought like you you're 30 years late. Like that I get it from a supermarket.
SPEAKER_03I thought he many set off 30 years ago, like to deliver his milk, like some sort of episode.
SPEAKER_02I kinda I admire what you're trying to do, but there's a reason these things moved away because it's it's not convenient like to have your milk sat outside in the morning.
SPEAKER_03I used to do it. No, I wasn't a milkman, but when I was younger, there were this uh how do I put it, uh a bit of a jack the lad milkman at our estate, and he were always late. And he used to say, I'll give you ten pounds if you can give us an hand uh with milk. So I used to go out like about 6 a.m. and I'd just go around with this man who we didn't know, me and Fat Nigge. And um we used to go around and yeah, get a £10. Different time then. No, no one no one were bothered. But they used to get up at like obviously apparently, and I don't know how true this is, but like Batman, they stopped a lot of crimes, you know, because they were up so early. Ah, I remember hearing this, yeah. I remember Milkman, that's why they never make that as a superhero, Milkman.
SPEAKER_02It's just him doing his job, good he.
SPEAKER_03That's it.
SPEAKER_02Trundling down the road on his little electric cart and it it foiled another burglary.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, oh my god, it's milkman driving off, it'd be amazing.
SPEAKER_01Tired man just driving down the road.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, just a man like knacker at 3am. Um, customers used to leave chalk marks on the doorstep. Can you remember this? So a circle meant I want two pints, and a cross meant none today.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and and then you'd put, I think my mum would put like a rolled up bit of paper in the bottle if they wanted something different. So if you fancy like a I'm gonna have a bottle of orange juice as well today, actually.
SPEAKER_03I'm about to say the orange juice ones. I remember walking past people's houses and we used to used to have milk. I think you know, bloody love to have that bottle. Why can't we have orange in ours? Just orange, just parts of orange. I don't know if you as you could ever get anything else.
SPEAKER_02I only think of milk and and orange juice. But uh There were a thing as well, weren't there? Where like I don't know if this is ever a thing or just something that people used to say, do you remember? But didn't like birds used to peck at the tops to get to the cream. Yeah, they did.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah. You speck at the tops and get the cream and stuff like that. And and apparently people used to write notes for the milkman saying, another uh my milk's been ruined again, you need to sort this out. I'm not sure what he could have done, really. But you're keeping burgers away, but the the birds are getting past you, mate. Raise your game. And it's interesting we say milkman, by the way, because I don't remember a single milk woman at all. I don't think that's a I don't think that's a sexist thing at all. I genuinely I I I think if you'd have seen a woman milk milk uh I mean woman milk milk.
SPEAKER_02Like how there's not even a word for it in your mind.
SPEAKER_03If you could see a woman milk w woman, yeah, I think that would have been like a oh I don't know it would that again nowadays obviously rightly so you get uh women can do obviously the same job as men.
SPEAKER_02They could do all sorts these days, yeah.
SPEAKER_03They could do all sorts these days women, but I don't know and then it would definitely seem as a manly job, and it I don't really know why.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_03Well, that's probably true for a lot of a lot of things back then, it's all in it, but yeah. But in the 70s there were over 40,000 milkmen who worked in the UK, uh, and today there's around 3,500, apparently. But it's still more than you think, innit? Yeah, yeah. Well these backwards towns are you know what I mean? These you know what I mean? You know, you know the sort. Not everyone's cosmopolitan as us, are they? No, no, they're not, no. Yeah. Anyway, bus conductors with ticket machines, this is something you don't see at all anymore. And again, not really sure why this died out other than weight because I I don't really know.
SPEAKER_02So I think that died out because I'm guessing this is when you got on a bus at the back and you you didn't pass the driver and pay your ticket.
SPEAKER_03I were gonna have bendy buses, but you apparently you can still get them, but I've not seen a bendy business.
SPEAKER_02Not in Sheffield, but yeah, you've got to Sheffield, didn't you?
SPEAKER_03And they're the ones that open middle doors so you could jump on, couldn't you, and like you know you don't have to pay your free expense.
SPEAKER_02Obviously, that's why you might need a conductor, but yeah, I I think, and uh anyone out there, correct me if I'm right or wrong, I think the 51 from Sheffield City Centre to Cleadless Town End certainly had some Benny buses on its uh roster.
SPEAKER_03Well, thoroughly boring anecdote that way, Liam. I think the 64 had the Bendy buses and the 51 had the Bendy buses. I'm sure this is the same in every city, it's just that we're from Sheffield or any place. If you put in that Sheffield 1989 on YouTube, I guarantee one of the first four or five videos you'll see is is someone who's filmed buses from that area. It's like a well you know what train spot to be though, don't you? Well in road. Oil in road, yeah. Well we might do an episode on that soon, but you know, maybe not. I'm a bit bored of it all. Neighbourhood watch stickers. So this is you know what I mean here, the classic yellow sticker with the the stern-looking policeman.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean I I think that's I think it's a sad one, this one. Because I think it kind of used to imply that I mean people used to say it's like oh it's busybodies, but yeah, I quite like the idea that people kind of didn't want their neighbours to be robbed or attacked or anything like that.
SPEAKER_03And this is where we obviously obviously tongue in cheek talk about oh woke these days and these days. People, if you talk to people, they probably say, I tell you what, in eighties you could leave your doors wide open, they were nowhere near as much crime. This started in the early 80s, um, and it like it was something something important from the US. And if someone saw a crime, the street would be encouraged to come out and clap, which is do you remember that? Not the clapping, no. I don't remember it ever seeing it, but I remember that being a thing. Um but then criminals realised that the streets with stickers on usually had whole older residents who were scared, so that made a more attractive target. So then it became almost like a a reverse deterrent, if you know what I mean. It was just like these must be scared. These must be, you know, if you have this in your window, you must be pretty old because you can't fight for yourself or whatever. And yeah, that's pretty much apparently why it died out. But yeah, it got to show that all this, like, oh things are worse these days, and you know, things are more dangerous, and all just the same, the same bastards in every era.
SPEAKER_02I suppose so. I do I do think personally it it felt like I knew a lot more of my neighbours by name when I was I do think that's true, yeah. I do think that's true.
SPEAKER_03I mean you kind of give them a nod these days, but I don't know much about them. But we're all hypocrites because I imagine you were the same when Covid happened and they were having these parties and everyone's oh for fuck's sake. Do you know what I mean? You didn't want to get involved, did you? So yeah. But then again, there's that Morris Hillary from the 80s. I never talked to my neighbour, I'd rather not get involved. So maybe that was happening in the 80s as well. This is something that I used to see a lot, and I'm pretty sure I did one myself. Jumble sales.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I do you know what's weird is that I've been to loads of jumble sales, but I don't even know what one is. If I struggle selling things, isn't it? But it could sell anything. Is that what it is? That it was like just could be anything.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, in my opinion, it was stuff that I had in my house that I didn't want anymore. And my mum would say, Why don't you do a jumble sale? And I just put stuff outside for 50p or whatever, and then people come past and go, Oh, yeah, well, very, very much like a car boot. You just very much like a car and put it in a couple of years. Yeah, Major Charles, obviously, uh the great Major Charles is obviously um a massive car boot connoisseur. So he might, you know, might might I don't know whether he's put his uh he's put his nose up at a jumble sale being compared to a car boot sale, but yeah, same philosophy where I think he's uh as uh as a purchaser rather than a seller, isn't he? Yeah, but I would like I think Russell Paul Jones actually used to do what he used to do car boots all the time. You were obsessed with him, weren't he? Um trying to get some bargain vinyls. I've done a few car boot sales, but they obviously still do happen. I don't really see jumble sales, certainly not on my street or anything.
SPEAKER_02No, I don't even I don't know if that's a thing. I think the car boot might have replaced the jumble sales.
SPEAKER_03And this is another one for me that I love, and this is mad.
Football Pools Panels And Collectables
SPEAKER_03We could have done an episode on this, I think. Football pools panels, Liam. Always had the football pools panels at my hands for some reason.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, again, it's another one that does genuinely make me feel quite nostalgic. I remember mum and dad doing the pools panels, the pools coupon. Um I never really knew what it was if I'm honest, but I used to like to spot the ball that they did as well.
SPEAKER_03Spot the ball were fantastic. I always had a go on the spot the ball and never entered. Yeah, no, no. So I'd just be like, yeah, just putting your crossware. Oh, I reckon it's there, I reckon it's there. Um but the pools panel started in 1923, and it was because of snow. So so many matches were postponed due to bad weather that a panel of experts were formed to guess the results, and their decisions were legally binding for payouts, which is crazy. So the panel included a judge, an ex-referee, and a former player, and that were your payout. So someone could just like say after get her away win. What?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, but the the pools the pools must have come first, then before the pool's panel. Is that what you're saying? The pools were the thing, but introduced the pool's panel because of the wall.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the pool's panel because they were then calling sorry, yeah. The pool's panel was created because of the snow. So because so many games are getting called off, they were like, Well, who wins here? There's only been three matches. So they'd get they'd say, Well, I think Liverpool would have won that. And then imagine the arguments in that. You sure? Like this weekend as we're recording, it's maybe passed now, but um Man City Arsenal, it could go either way that. How do you it's a score draw? That's another thing. Score draw and no score draws.
SPEAKER_02If we would have got it right, what do we think the score's gonna be? I think Man City will win 2-1. Yeah, I've exactly the same, I would have said so. That's how pulls that's how uh who remembers panel 2-1 at Manchester City. The biggest ever win was sorry, go on. No, I'm gonna say, I I think for anyone who's got no idea what we're talking about, did you pick home win draw or away win? Was it was it like so people used to try and pick like four draws or three draws?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so no score, I think no score draw, you got more points or whatever it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the score draw is. So it's just like we've won the pools. I'm not I'm not coming into work here, come proper. Imagine the boss going, what you can't just all quit. We've won the syndicate three million pounds, mates.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I sympathise, they're not they're not gonna work their notice out. Imagine that, like finishing a month in a factory making whatever they're making. Like that you you just want out, don't you? If you're a we're we're millionaires.
SPEAKER_03We're millionaires at its peak, ten million people played every week. Wow, I mean that is really impressive, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh and when the lottery launched in 1994, that's when the pool's entries uh sort of dropped by half overnight. Uh they're still going today though, in a smaller digital phone.
SPEAKER_02Which is a weird thing though, isn't it? Because that suggests that that actually people didn't care what the kind of bet was, they just wanted to to have a chance of winning some money at the weekend. And I suppose actually the the the prize part in the lottery seemed a lot bigger, didn't it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02You didn't have to get everything right either. You could get money back with with just getting some of the lottery. So yeah, I suppose I can see it. It just seems weird that that like what one replaced the other when they're not the same thing.
SPEAKER_03The best thing about the uh lottery as well is there is absolutely zero skill involved, like the pools were. There is a little bit of skill.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, um last two on my list here, SO coupons, which were massive. Do you remember these petrol station coupons where you put so much petrol in it? I don't remember this obviously before I, well, before you were driving, I don't drive because I've I've got a dis uh what's the word? The uh the crippling disease, dyspraxia. Um, but I remember my dad by collecting these and buying all sorts of shit from you know the NSP. What we mentioned before where it was uh only 24 random scan for some football, yeah, yeah, all that sort of stuff. Yeah, I remember him buying Divine Madness on cassette and that brilliant album, to be fair. I got into madness via that actually.
SPEAKER_02But yeah, I used to buy collect when you put your petrol in, you'd get you'd get sort of certain points or something, I can't remember, and then you could you could exchange them for almost like prizes, I think. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Uh you used to get World Cup coins as well, if you remember them. I don't think they died out in like the mid-90s or whatever.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, no, yeah, no, I do know what you mean, actually. Yeah, but no, I I never collected them, but I do know what you mean. And and the last one's Tetley T car collections, which I do remember, but I never had a collection. Same. Aware of them. Quite clever because they kind of made this thing that like these collectibles in tea boxes of tea that people wanted to collect. So yeah, I I did I didn't have them, but I do certainly remember them.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, that's the end of my particular segment for that one, Liam. If you want to go on to yours.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we're moving on to segment four and five, which are probably a bit shorter, but uh numerically we should probably do four before
Woodchip Wallpaper And Car Oddities
SPEAKER_02five. So I'll start with that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wood chip wallpaper with wood chips on the wall.
SPEAKER_03Wood chips on the wall. Uh wood chip wallpaper. Why would you really bumpy weren't it? That white, bumpy wallpaper, sort of putting your hand down it and it will I don't. Yeah, textured.
SPEAKER_02It was like two layers of thin paper, I think, but there was like bumps inside it, so it created like a textured finish. Uh yeah, I I definitely had this on my wall. Yeah, everyone had that, yeah. I mean I I was looking at some notes for this and and somebody somebody on a I don't know if it was a forum, but somebody put uh you could fall asleep against it and you'd wake up with a pattern on your face. I'm not sure that that's a real thing. That can't be true, can it?
SPEAKER_03That can't be true. No. Now, if you have, let us know. Smash a like and let us know in the comments.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, uh Charles and Diana plates. I mean, that's the specific example, but royal family plates, I would say.
SPEAKER_03When we when we were a country, Charles and Die plates all over the place. In my experience, my nan had these and never used them because they were sort of too special to use because they were like these commemorative plates of Charles and Die. Yeah, I never I don't know. What happened? Whatever happened to King Charles. He's still he's still going, isn't it? Wait, Kitty was Prince Charles then. What happened to Lady Die? You don't hear her anymore, do you? Well now she's gone, definitely.
SPEAKER_02Um the Queen of Hearts. Our Queen of Hearts, yeah. Um yeah, they were a strange thing, weren't they? Like exactly what you said, like they were sort of a decorative more than sort of usable. You bought these little cups and plates, and they had pictures of like they were really chintzy and horrible, weren't they?
SPEAKER_03But but people in my opinion, my nan had I'd not be true with this, actually, but this is how I imagine it. My nan had like a what what you class as of like a whiskey cupboard where you'd open it and a little light would come on, and she'd have Charles and Diana plates at back, and then like loads of fucking whiskies and stuff that she'd not touched for like 50 years. Do you know what I mean? And like different drinks.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, definitely. Uh people kept them in in cupboards with lights. That's definitely a thing, though. Like they'd be they'd be lit up, they were that proud of them. They'd be like the only cupboard in the house with like little lights in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Incredible that, yeah. Don't see it, don't see it anymore. Um don't see them anymore. Pub ashtrays. I mean, we've kind of covered this. That's it'd be crazy if they were still there when you can't smoke.
SPEAKER_03They were they were really striking though, big, massive ashtrays with like wards on it or whatever.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, some of them were like uh I don't know, they were like yeah, huge like bricks of glass or sort of rock, solid stone. Um cigarette machines obviously mentioned that before. Uh I didn't actually tell this. So this is Extinct Decor and Household Oddities, by the way. Right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Oh yeah, sorry.
SPEAKER_02That's yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's that's the title. I just I just didn't say it at the start, so I thought I should say it now.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02Uh furry dice. I mean, I don't know if you might still find them in an ironic sense, possibly. Well I did.
SPEAKER_03Why were they massive? Were they like for the yuppers fur cars with furry dice?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I don't I don't know. I don't know the sort of logic behind why that became a thing. I'm not sure.
SPEAKER_03Mad like furry dice, they weren't like they didn't have like scent in them, did they? Like um, what do you call it? You know, like to make your car smelling.
SPEAKER_02Like an air freshener, maybe. I don't I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03I don't know if it was like you still get them in cars now, air fresheners for your car. Yeah, you just yeah, you still get air fresheners, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02But not furry dice ones. And we don't use an STA word. But no. I don't know if it's something like a did Delboy have them in his van and it it was like a an like look look at me, I've got some personality.
SPEAKER_03Maybe, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I think he's been replaced now by I think every every young chap these days has to have uh see them like little miniature boxing gloves you can have hanging from you. Oh yeah. Yeah, I think they're the new version.
SPEAKER_03Do you still get baby on board signs and big yellow baby on board signs? It's a good question. I don't know. I've never seen them for years, baby on board. I see uh things like dad's occasionally. Yeah, yeah, there were comedy ones, weren't they? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Taxi driver or whatever, yeah.
SPEAKER_02People used to have a sign that said on the bike, honk if you're horny.
SPEAKER_03Is that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Honk if you're horny.
SPEAKER_02Tell us the last time you saw a honk if you're horny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tell us the last time that you saw one of those and actually honked the horn because either you were horny or you wanted to like tend you horny, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I well, if when we do our Patreon late night, who remembers, we could do a lot of these that things you don't see anymore that are a little bit controversial, like uh wolf whistling, uh rightly so, does not exist anymore. I've never can you imagine that now, realistically? Maybe I'm being mega woe, but I can't imagine some lads on a building site going, do you know what I mean? Always with the like the fingers in the mouth as well. Do you like so it's loud as you could possibly get?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I don't I don't know if that's still a thing or not. I'm I'm not sure. I I'm sure it probably is, unfortunately. I d I don't know, maybe I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Well, ladies let us know.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, if you've been wolf whistled and if you've been wolf whistled, yeah. Oh dear. Um and the last one is uh I mean obviously it's just because things have changed, but the the the title is Cassette Players in Cars that we've listed, but actually cassette and CDs, I would say, like that you don't see either anymore.
SPEAKER_03It's just and this is a massive shame, this yeah.
SPEAKER_02Radio or you connect your phone. That's that's all you get these days.
SPEAKER_03I think this is a huge shame. I think people like yourself who are not like sort of uh obsessed with music probably don't listen to as much as you used to because of that reason. I think it's much harder to piss around getting a Spotify thing set up. You can just put Talksport on and listen to Jason's.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's probably true. We probably do listen to more talksport than anything because I can't be bothered to get my phone out of my pocket and put a play. And also I think podcasts have you know replaced that space and uh you know with gold like this playing out there. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, people if you drive if you're driving now, you know what I mean? Don't don't don't adjust your set. Yeah, don't adjust your set, carry on. Right. This is the
Newspaper Fish Chips And White Dog Poo
SPEAKER_03last one. There's only a couple on this one. This is uh segment five, the weird, the gross, and the unexplainable, as I've called it. Um and there's only two things on here, and fish and chip uh fish and chips being wrapped in newspaper. I've literally just had some fish and chips before we started this. And always a nice treat, fish and chips, isn't it, Liam?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's something I don't have very often, and every time I do, I think, oh, I should have that more frequently, and then I'll go maybe six months without it again. But yeah, no, I like a bit of fish and chips. I would just and fish as uh some people say.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I don't know about that. Um but yeah, yeah, it's like what I thought about I've been a bit busy today, you think I've got it chippy today. Like I'm not bothering putting any T on. But yeah, you know, I think editing a newspaper anyway, that's the thing. I did not edit in a newspaper.
SPEAKER_02I don't think that's I don't think that's done anymore. I I don't know if that would fail any kind of health and safety regs, or if it's just uh Yeah, I I don't know if there's a if you can't if say if you wanted to do it now, could you still do it? Or actually would it give you a poor hygiene rating? I don't know.
SPEAKER_03And the final one and the one I think people will be shouting out if we didn't mention is white dog shit. Because white dog shit was all over, and that is a very common I I I reckon almost I could I'd dread to think how many poor comedians have mentioned what happened to white dog shit? Do you know what I mean? And here we are.
SPEAKER_02Another two now, certainly.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Um but yeah, so obviously I presume but this is one of those, what do you call it, the Frank Skinner thing?
SPEAKER_02Uh uh what where everyone thinks they're sort of remembering something, but everyone knows it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, when you think you know something, I presume you know why there was white dog shit and everywhere and there isn't anymore.
SPEAKER_02I I think so, but I don't know if I know the answer. But I I think I've always sort of told myself what the answer is, but I I don't know if I'm right.
SPEAKER_03Is it go on, is it that you just eat loads of marshmallows?
SPEAKER_02I assume that the food at a time was made up of like just like filler that was not chalk, but like uh I don't know, just like a powdered I I don't know, I'm just imagining that dog food at a time was very low nutrition.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's a bit horrible than that. It's actually uh bulked out with ground up animal bones. Um I don't know if that is horrible. Well maybe not, no, but well I wouldn't want to eat animal bones. A dog likes a bone, doesn't it? Yeah, give a dog a bone, that's the that's the phrase, isn't it? There's a reason behind that.
SPEAKER_02I assume maybe there were more nutrition nutritional than maybe we should be looking to get it back.
SPEAKER_03Apparently there were too much calcium in them, uh calcium in it, uh, and that's what what led to the white excrement that you used to see on the streets of Great Britain during the 80s and early 90s.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean you you see less of it generally, don't you? I I had a go at someone the other day for not picking up their dogs. Um it's a bit like a Larry Davis sketch, because she was in a like you know, one of them mobility scooter things. Ah, for God's sake. Yeah. Yeah, but you shouldn't say you don't if you can't pick it up if you can't pick the dog waste.
SPEAKER_03He needs to go for a walk, doesn't he?
SPEAKER_02Well yeah, I know, but either you know buy yourself one of them handheld poop scooper things or but what is like she said, Oh yeah No, I couldn't have picked it up 'cause it were diarrhea and I said, You didn't see it, you were on your phone. I said, So you just came out with no intention of picking it up. And she like shrugged and I said that that's disgraceful.
SPEAKER_03And this is why I this is what's wrong with this country, people like you not leaving. It could have been white dog shit, and we could have had a celebration like oh you could have had like a moment, so you she'd have said, Yeah, but it's white dog shit, you could have gone, huh? That's interesting. So I do a nostalgia podcast, and you could have like bonded over it.
SPEAKER_02But she could have come on, couldn't she as a guest?
SPEAKER_03Uh the only dog who eats who still shit is white dog shit. Yeah, and that that is basically everything. That that is a tribute, the best tribute anyone's ever made to St George. Because I I was thinking, like, what can we do as a tribute to St. George? And one of the other things I thought of was the best Britons, but I think it'll just take up too many because we've obviously we've got a Barromore episode already ready to go, aren't we? So we don't want to name so we didn't want to do that, and then the other thing I thought of is the best dragons, but I can only think of one dragon. Can you think of any dragons?
SPEAKER_02I I was gonna say then, do you want fictional ones? And then I thought they would all have to be fictional, won't they?
SPEAKER_03But I'll give you a real life dragon.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, what I meant is like ones that are like books, or do you want sort of animated ones or what? Yeah, any dragon.
SPEAKER_03Any dragon, yeah. We should have done that instead instead of that then. But anyway, maybe maybe another time, maybe next St. George's Day. Uh, but yeah, uh, send in, please do send in any photos or anything that you've got of surviving um thing, maybe things that we've mentioned or things. By the way, just to go along.
SPEAKER_02I didn't mention because I have my notes and your notes on a different screen that I found funny when I was again, I think it was on a forum, but someone had put a comment when I was looking at uh wood chip wallpaper. It said, if anyone still has wood chip wallpaper, blink twice for help.
SPEAKER_01I don't know why that really made me laugh. Well, uh yeah, I don't even remember. I don't get it. It's like they can't review they don't want to see it. Wood chip wallpaper though, that was all over.
SPEAKER_03So we just before we go in, what what just have a quick look through your layers? Which one of these would you like to see back?
SPEAKER_02Uh I mean I like fishing chips in newspaper. I I don't know why that stopped. Um that that's I suppose it really in all seriousness, it's the ones that kind of do make you feel quite nostalgic, so I don't know, I'd like to see people climbing trees again, maybe.
SPEAKER_03Sorry, I'll halfway through a cough. I really didn't expect you to say that. Uh I think I'm bringing back CDs or cassette players in cars, so let's get some let's get some new music being. You can't though, can you?
SPEAKER_02You can't, you can't, I know, but yeah. This is kind of what I mean why I know climbing trees sounds ridiculous, but you you could you could have kids climbing trees again. I I just think we you're not gonna go back to tapes and CDs because the the new thing is better, even if we don't like it, it is better.
SPEAKER_03Alright then, let's go back to the start. Let's bring back um yellow pages being ripped in half by strongman. Oh god, yeah, I'll go with that one. I think that's the only forget all your competitions, get rid of the boxing, let's separate you know the wheat from the chaff.
SPEAKER_02First thing you can do is take all your tapes and your CDs.
SPEAKER_03Well, I mean the biggest one you can find.
Send Us Your Nostalgia Finds
SPEAKER_03Right. Anyway, well, at least we've got an impression in before the end. Thank you for that. Thank you for sitting through that nostalgia fest, I think that one liam. Um and we'll be back next time for more Remembering. Yes, thank you very much. Thank you for listening to Who Remembers. If you want to get in touch with us, you can find us at Whorrememberspod at outlook.com. If you are a right wing fascist, you can find us on Twitter at Who RemembersPod. Or if you're a wokener, you can find us on Blue Sky at WhoRemembersPod. Once again, thank you for listening, and we'll see you next time for more remembering.