Oztalgian
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Fly2 #56
Now you've done it Fly2. I will have to have and Irish Coffee before I go to bed, light on the coffee but liberal with the Jamesons or Bushmills which ever we have in the drinks cupboard.
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The more I wander around this site the more amazed I am about what is on here.
I certainly remember the proper blue buses (MGO) particularly the B8 which we used to catch to go to Papplewick Lido. It used to turn off before the lido go right round the houses and then back out just beyond the lido, I think. Wandering along through Bestwood, Hucknall, alongside a golf course? and eventually to Huntingdon Street. One thing I do remember is which were the best seats upstairs when going home from watching the Forest on a cold winters day. The seat second from the front on the drivers side got the heat from the vent on the nearside first and sticking your feet against the rear vent when sitting on the back seat.
Perhaps The Pianoman or someone else could be more specific about the B8 route and settle a discussion between my brother and I about the route of the F3 which I think was mostly a single decker.
Having left the UK in the mid seventies I can't recall the MGO blue and MDT green both of which always looked so stylish changing to the red of Trent Motor Traction
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EileenH #70
Round the Horne was one of the funniest radio shows closely followed by I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (ISIRTA) that starred all The Goodies and John Cleese. I remember the singing football results where Forest beat Manchester United four nil. The program always finished with The Angus Prune Tune.
They are all available on You Tube and well worth a listen. Unfortunately none of these programs could be broadcast today as they would raise the ire of the pc police.
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mick2me #499
Don't know about others on this site but as you get older child proof containers become an increasing challenge.
On a similar vein, which packaging numpty came up with the little key method of opening tins of Fray Bentos corned beef. Either the key broke half way round or it was never strong enough to break off the final bit and you had to waggle the top part of the can until the metal fatigued and the top part came off. Forty odd years later I still have the scar on my thumb from trying to open a can whilst on a day trip to Skeggy.
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Bl**dy packaging.
Here in Adelaide we have three bins, one 120 litres for general rubbish collected weekly, one for recyclable items and one for "green waste" that are collected each alternate week both 240 litres.
Even with only two of us at home the recyclable bin is nearly always full or overflowing into the general rubbish and most of it is excessive packaging and before anyone comments about beer bottles and cans these are stored in a separate bin and when full returned to a recycling centre for the 10 cent deposit and therefore another slab of beer.
As an example her indoors prefers a brand of soap that comes in six cakes in a clear cellophane wrap, which after you have struggled to tear this, each cake of soap comes in a little cardboard box thingo and then inside that is the cake of soap enclosed in yet another clear cellophane bag and to add insult to injury each cake of soap has a little label on it. I am sure you know the brand but bl**dy hell it is only soap.
Blister packs really pee me off, you almost need a pair of tin snips or a Stanley knife to get into them and then to find that the sodding product is cable tied to a card inside. If anyone breaks their scissors trying to get through the packaging look out as you will need the snips or the Stanley knife to get into the packaging that the scissors come in.
Almost any hardware item now comes in blister type packs even down to a few screws or nuts and bolts.
Cereal boxes that are twice the size needed for the cereal inside.
Packaging for any electrical item, the cardboard box, then a plastic bag, then formed polystyrene then the little polystyrene bag that the product is in, innumerable other plastic bags that the leads, batteries, instructions etc come in.
Last but not least for this rant, shirts, will anyone explain to me why the shirt has to come in a clear celluloid box (with an incorporated hanger loop) four separate pieces of cardboard and tissue paper, innumerable clear plastic clips and enough pins to keep a voodoo practitioner happy for years and yes I know it is about retail presentation but?
I hate packaging
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Michael, I am sure that the thoughts and best wishes of all Nottstalgians are with you both and anyone else battling this insidious disease.
It won't be long before this will be just a memory and life returns to normality.
I understand what you are going through as coincidentally it was a year ago today that I was diagnosed with a malignant melanoma behind my right knee and thanks to my surgeon who insisted I had a full top to toe scan they also found a brain tumour the size of an apricot, strangely I had had no symptoms. After putting my trust in the surgeons and unusually doing what I was told after the two lots of surgery and the support of my wife and family I am coming good again.
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Trevor S re #45
Certainly do remember "Cold Duck" the Kaiser Stuhl sparkling light red and as for Sangria I remember several hangovers in Ibiza and Minorca caused by drinking jugs of the stuff in the late sixties and early seventies. I believe the damage was caused by the Spanish brandy which I think was called Fundador.
On another grog memory from that era, I was in our local bottle shop recently and saw some Mateus Rose in the classically shaped bottle. Upon tasting I was immediately transported back to meals at the Berni Inns around Nottingham. I know they have been covered extensively elsewhere on this site and I was a little sad to hear that the Chateau has now gone as I recall one magic night where after the meal we came out to find the cars and trees all covered with snow amid the coloured lights.
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G'day Catfan, Fly2 and RobL
From what you guys say it looks like you are getting Chateau de Cardboard or Goon Bag quality wine in bottles.
Fly2 re#10 and the recent experience with Volkswagen are you really getting what you think you are when you buy German wines?
When we first came downunder there was a brand of Leibfraumilch called Blue Nun but better known among the young blokes as
" Legopenermilch"
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Thanks for the topic DaveN
The previous posts on this thread have brought back many long forgotten programs and I have had great fun watching some of them on You Tube.
Much preferable to the endless dross of reality TV, cooking programs and the mindless violence of US crime shows that gets broadcast on free to air TV here in OZ.
I am not sure where sticoms turn into dramedy but I have to varying degrees enjoyed the following.
The Good Life,To the Manor Born, Are you Being Served? Dad's Army, The Vicar of Dibley
Men Behaving Badly, Phoenix Nights, Black Books, Black Adder, Goodnight Sweetheart
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I have a cunning plan - Baldrick
I'll have half - Jacko
Computer says no - Carol Beer
You deaded me - Bluebottle
You can't get the wood - Henry Crun
I don't believe it - Victor Meldrew
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When I had school dinners we always had a choice of custard, lumps or slices
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Seeing as there is an comedy influence to the start of this thread i'll add some from Dad's Army
Dont' panic and They don't like it up 'em
Lance Corporal Jones
You Stupid Boy - Captain Mainwaring
Were doomed - Private Frazer
I am very much looking forward to the upcoming film to see if they can re-create the magic of the original.
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I have noticed the liking to Hobgoblin on this site.
Our BottlO (Off licence) has Hobgoblin Extra Strong Ale at OZ$8.49 for a 500ml bottle That is around 4quid. How does that compare with what you pay?
My brother who lives in Nottingham can often get good Australian wine cheaper that we can get it here.
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#462
Thanks for the link Catfan now got some research to do.
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#455, 456, 457, 458
I think I might be taking Catfan's advice and getting a dash cam.
What with the mobile phone cradle, the GPS and now a dash cam I soon won't be able to see out of the bl**dy windscreen.
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Just brought in a law in South Oz about staying clear of bikes on the highway.
We now have to stay 1 metre clear of bikes on a road with a speed limit of less than 80 kph and 1.5 metres on a road where the speed limit is more than 80kph. To do so we are now allowed to cross double lines in the middle of the road, nearly got cleaned up by some pratt more worried about staying a metre clear of the bike than looking what is coming the other way.
Bikes are now allowed to ride on pavements.
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In Oz some states changed to daylight saving three weeks ago and others did not.
We now have the ridiculous situation of five time zones eat to west instead of the usual three.
Queensland does not have daylight saving and is now one hour behind New South Wales even though they are nominally on the same longitude. NSW people often get flight times from Coolangatta airport which is just over the Queensland border wrong at this time of year.
Here in Adelaide we are half an hour ahead of Queensland which is east of us? Half an hour behind NSW, Victoria and Tasmania which are also east of us. One hour ahead of the Northern Territory which is due north of us and 2 and a half hours ahead of Perth.
I pity those in the UK who have relatives in OZ trying to work out what time to call or Skype them at this time of year or the people that live in the border areas of states in Oz that do not change to daylight saving.
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Loppylugs, Saying that your wife was from Tennessee brought back memories of working in a town in Tennessee and this was where, on my afternoon walk, I used to see two old timers with flannel shirts and bib and brace overalls sitting on a bench whittling sticks. After a few days seeing them doing this I naively asked "what are you making". The reply was "thangs" so I said "what are thangs" whereupon one of them pointed to the pile of wood chips on the ground and said "them thangs".
Loved the soft slow accent, the countryside thereabouts and the practical approach that the local people had to life.
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"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them"
These words and the sounding of the last post always brings a lump to my throat and a tear to my eyes.
Both my late mum and dad fought in the second world war and my mums father in the first.
I am proud to have been named after my mums brother who lost his life at Dunkirk and therefore carry that memory always.
Let us also not forget all those that died on the "home front" particularly during the second world war.
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Re #83 by Ayupmiducks.
I agree, regional and local dialects used to be quite different within just a few miles. I remember a criminal case in the West Midlands in the late sixties being solved by the pronunciation of just a few words which allowed the police to pinpoint the area where the perpetrator lived. They found him by doing house to house enquiries in a very specific area.
It is often said that the north begins at Hucknall as that is where the influence of the northern accent really begins to take effect.
Does anyone have examples of actors doing really bad interpretations of local or regional accents?
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Saw this interesting item on the BBC Sport website. The price of football.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-79ccb1e7-d390-44c1-8857-cfcb0ade2595
It allows you to put in your favourite team and see the costs of match day or season tickets, team shirts, and even pies or cups of tea.
Being a Reds fan since being knee high to a grasshopper of course I had to have a look, 22 to 35 quid for a match or 389 to 633 quid for a season ticket!!! How does the average supporter with a couple of kids afford this?
No mention of my half time cup of Bovril on a cold wet and wintery day standing with mates in the East stand, level with the edge of the penalty box at the Trent End, during the sixties and seventies.
First saw the Reds when I was 6 or 7 in the mid fifties, my granddad used to take me and again in the East stand but at the Kop end. My earliest memory was of the Ivor Thirst, Shipstones man who's rattle used to blink red then off giving the impression it was going round and round every time Forest scored. It fascinated me.
There you go MaggieH now you know how old I am.
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#28 When we have fin-ished please let minnow
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Thanks Ian, I had never heard of Bombay Duck until I did some work in Bombay (Mumbai) in the 90's where it was a local delicacy often served for breakfast. I could never get over the smell so I have not tried it.
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Going back to the original post on this thread does anyone know why it was called "wet" fish, or did this mean fresh or not cooked?
In the 60's I remember the wet fish man in a van coming round our village on Friday's selling fresh Grimsby fish.
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When there were blue buses
in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
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The Pianoman, StephenFord, and Blondie,
Thank you all, so many memories and a wealth of knowledge on this site. I think you have settled the bet with my brother but before I can claim my winnings can you please let me know where exactly are Darcliff Crossroads. I lived in the area until moving to Oz but have never heard that name. Is it where Blidworth Lane meets the A 614 near Salterford Lane?
Blondie, I often caught the B8 in both directions as it was the only bus to where I lived without changing buses.