Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Fridge is now "Full-a-Salad".

Hmm, that reminds me of the Men Behaving Badly episode when Tony came back from holiday after Dorothy had moved in. He opened the fridge to find it totally bereft of lager but, confusingly, full of "green stuff".
:rotfl:

ivyleaf

zagubov wrote: »

Stumbled through a time warp here. John Collyer, John Collyer , the window to watch". Er, slightly more aimed at blokes that ad.

"Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet" was another one that I do not endorse in any way as tobacco has nothig whatsoever to reccommend it.;)

I remember all those...and "Let's all go to Civic, let's all go to Civic, your friendly store, we'll give you more!" with Harry Worth

"You'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!"

Those were the days...you could watch an advert and be absolutely clear about what it was advertising :rotfl:

Welcome back, Spirit! I bet the holiday did you good. So glad about the driving and the puppy. Any chance of a photo so we can go "Aaaah!"?

bugslet

PasturesNew wrote: »

When you buy "the salad basics" it's enough for 4-6 people... then you add in the other stuff you want/like .... and it's a huge amount.

I invariably chuck stuff out, mostly celery and radishes, rest usually gets eaten up

@Spirit, is there no legal obligation to post a puppy picture? What breed is it/ To me dogs are family and therefore we all kip together. Only one of them climbs on the bed, so that's OK.

Reminds me of one of my favourite cartoons, which is a fairly accurate representation of Chez Bugs

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

I remember all those...and "Let's all go to Civic, let's all go to Civic, your friendly store, we'll give you more!" with Harry Worth

"You'll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent!"

Those were the days...you could watch an advert and be absolutely clear about what it was advertising :rotfl:

The.......Esso sign means happy motoring,
The Esso sign means happy motoring,
The Esso sign means happy motoring,
Call at the Esso sign!

michaels

Not sure I would remember what to do at a petrol station anymore - it is bit like the telephone being on a table in the hall, it is amazing how quickly the common place becomes a relic of the past.

Generali

Advertising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI

Now used to advertise a T-Shirt:

http://yowzers.com/viewitem.php?productid=232

Still no sign of winter, 23C and utterly glorious today. I went for a big long walk in the botanical gardens. I have decided to return to my old habit of long walks at lunchtime seeing as the gardens are right by where I work.

Pyxis

Can anyone remember when self-service petrol stations came in?



I can remember when self-service grocery stores started. I was often sent on errands to the little Coop grocers as a child, and then they said you had to pick the things off the shelves yourself! I was terrified in case they thought I was stealing them!
It was only a little shop.

I can still remember our Coop dividend number, too. I was always terrified of forgetting it, so would keep repeating the number, and what I was sent to the shop for, over and over like a mantra until I got to the top of the queue at the till.
:rotfl:




Edit. Just read your post Generali! Seems unbelievable now, doesn't it?

hjd

PasturesNew wrote: »

For those full-time workers who have just had a pretty rotten weekend's weather, this morning as they're commuting to work it's a scorchio day. Bet they're well miffed.

I spent all of Sunday (7am to 7pm anyway) in the gallery of a swimming pool operating the computers/timing consoles. Whatever the weather was totally passed me by.
Sunny here today, luckily not a full day at work but plenty of other stuff to tie me to the pc all day.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

The.......Esso sign means happy motoring,
The Esso sign means happy motoring,
The Esso sign means happy motoring,
Call at the Esso sign!

"Put a tiger in your tank" - complete with the tail that you could hook onto your filler cap

Generali

Pyxis wrote: »

Edit. Just read your post Generali! Seems unbelievable now, doesn't it?

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

I don't remember cigarettes being advertised on the TV. I do remember the Hamlet ads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbdxm8Ia0Wc

and the billboard cigarette adverts:

http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/images/cigarettes/silkcu1.jpg

And pipe tobacco ads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7lbdq9sqP4

For a long time in The City a million quid was known as a 'Bernie'. The reason? Bernie Ecclestone, head of Formula 1 racing, gave the Labour Party a million quid shortly before Tony Blair's Government announced that Formula 1 would be exempt for a time from the Labour Government's tobacco rules!:T

I was born in 1971 so I missed that thing of shops being places where you got served for the most part. When I was very small (less than 5 years and 7 months old) and we still lived in London I remember going to the greengrocer and so on to top up on veg and meat, and meet their terrifying dog, although even back then we were going to Sainsbury for the weekly shop on a Friday when Ol' Pa Generali finished work.

I remember my mum had a typed list of all the products in the supermarket in the order they were in on the shelves so they could find everything! I guess it was because they were used to having a shop girl get stuff for them. We also used to take bags with us because they charged a penny for a small bag and 2p for a large one (I'm not 100% on the price I confess).

It's funny the stuff that comes back when you start to think about it. I also remember the plumber coming over to fix something or other and then bleeding the radiators when he was done as a bit of value add to keep the customers sweet I guess. I'd seen my Dad doing that in the past and knew what to do so I distracted him as best I could so the water came out of the radiator. In my fallible memory the plumber got soaked but TBH I doubt that was the case.