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999tommo
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How about a 10p mixed bag. I used to get a bag full of sweets for 10p, including black-jacks, fruit-salad, dainties, flying saucers, white mice, Chelsea whoppers etc, and it lasted me all day. You'd be hard pushed to buy one sweet for 10p these days.
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OldAfricaHand
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Posted: 10 March 2010 at 12:47pm |
Originally posted by BIkerider
Ordinary floor polish! Practically unheard of. My cottage has exposed wooden floors which would look better with conventional wax floor polish, but I can only buy semi liquid in 5 litre containers at £60 a throw.
Bikerider
I'm coming home to UK for a holiday later this year, I'll bring you some - it's heavy stuff and has a certain heady aroma ........  ..... but it really makes floors look great!
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ranroz
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Posted: 10 March 2010 at 3:04pm |
After spending 6 days in the UK
A Litter bins that was used.
You hear about them but no one uses them or are they just for show?
I saw more rubbish next to most of them than in them.
Edited by ranroz - 10 March 2010 at 3:05pm
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canadianloafer
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Posted: 10 March 2010 at 4:15pm |
Originally posted by ranrozAfter spending 6 days in the UK
A Litter bins that was used.
You hear about them but no one uses them or are they just for show?
That's because litter bins had a tendency to explode in the 80's and 90's......
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Penbwlch
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Posted: 10 March 2010 at 6:20pm |
Originally posted by 999tommo
Originally posted by Penbwlch
Re-usable condoms.
I could loan you some. Send them back when you're done.  Last time I washed some, you should have seen the note I got from the laundry.
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M&MBM
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Posted: 10 March 2010 at 6:36pm |
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You put them in the boil wash, and they shrunk?
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Penbwlch
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Posted: 10 March 2010 at 7:09pm |
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I don't know what setting the laundry used.
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Bouncer
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Posted: 10 March 2010 at 7:45pm |
Originally posted by 999tommo
Scotchlite (silver reflective) arm and hat covers for doing traffic control in dark conditions. Our pandas used to have them as standard kit, but they just disappeared and nobody seems to know where.
I expect they went back to China, due to lack of bamboo shoots in the UK.
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Mac 66
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Posted: 10 March 2010 at 8:24pm |
P45's for MP's caught stealing !!
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BIkerider
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Posted: 11 March 2010 at 12:04pm |
Originally posted by ranrozAfter spending 6 days in the UK
A Litter bins that was used.
You hear about them but no one uses them or are they just for show?
I saw more rubbish next to most of them than in them. There are non one railway stations, they were withdrawn after the bomb in Victoria back in 1990 was placed in one.
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Kingy from Tyneside
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BIkerider
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Posted: 11 March 2010 at 12:05pm |
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Honest MP's or Barristers!!!!
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Kingy from Tyneside
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off - Michael Caine in the original 'Italian Job'
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OldAfricaHand
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Posted: 11 March 2010 at 1:19pm |
Originally posted by BIkerider
Honest MP's or Barristers!!!!
You'll probably find a few honest barristas in Starbucks or Costa Coffee but the chance of finding an honest MP/barrister is slim - particul;arly if you think of the sort of character who is both - one Tony Bliar - I'm sure honest barristers who are MPs must be very upset!
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999tommo
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Posted: 11 March 2010 at 2:17pm |
Originally posted by BouncerI expect they went back to China, due to lack of bamboo shoots in the UK. Fnarr Fnarr 
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ranroz
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Posted: 11 March 2010 at 3:22pm |
Originally posted by canadianloafer
Originally posted by ranrozAfter spending 6 days in the UK
A Litter bins that was used.
You hear about them but no one uses them or are they just for show?
That's because litter bins had a tendency to explode in the 80's and 90's......
Not all of them in the town ware I was they was still around just no one used them plus along the roads it was a mess.
It looked as if I was driving to a waste disposal site in stead of a main road motorways was not that much better, on one road side plastic bottles and rubbish bags I was waiting to see a fridge or kitchen sink.
And this in the Country side not in a Town, City or on a Railway station.
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Brutus
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Posted: 11 March 2010 at 3:24pm |
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I miss some of the retain chain stores like John Collier, March the Tailor, Dunn's, Richard Shops, Chelsea Girl, Cyril Lord's Carpets, Cantors etc.
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ranroz
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Posted: 11 March 2010 at 10:34pm |
Originally posted by canadianloafer
Sweet cigarettes.
Those got banned by the No Smoking people as it gave kids the Idea that Smoking was Cool.
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M&MBM
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Posted: 11 March 2010 at 10:39pm |
You can get them but without the red tips now. They are called candy sticks.
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BIkerider
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Posted: 12 March 2010 at 12:08am |
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Does Ratners the 'total crap' jewellers still exist?
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Kingy from Tyneside
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croberon
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Posted: 12 March 2010 at 1:21am |
Originally posted by Penbwlch
Re-usable condoms.
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Spiders are the most successful terrestrial predators on earth.
One minute your crawling along; next minute splat!
cosmophasis umbratica fluoresce
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Posted: 12 March 2010 at 6:53am |
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You used to be able to get mechanical pencils with thick lead which didn't break easily. I have two and some leads from when I was a kid, but I haven't seen them since. These thin ones are OK but I find the grip on the lead goes, and the lead snaps too easily.
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