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Veruccas? Are they still about? I go swimming once a week and the pool has never had that little paddley bit on the way through into the main pool like they used to have filled with sulphuric acid or similar..

Rissoles? Are they still about? What actually are they thats different to a beef burger? How come theyve gone and Mr Brains faggots are still going?

White dog poo?

Any others, questions/explanations?
 
Well.....they invented Bazuka's for verrucas......... Rissoles are still around, there are a few on the forum............the white poo has gone because very few owners feed bones to dogs these days, the water evaporated (from the poo) and left the calcium deposit.

Cadbury's Spira? They seem to have disappeared! 2 lovely swirls of flake in a pack, mmmmmm.
 
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Common sense, seems to have evaporated from most people over the last few years.
 
I've often wondered what's happened to "acid rain"? Seems to have been the big worry of the eighties...

Maybe industry has cleaned up its act.
 
wontolla said:
Well.....they invented Bazuka's for verrucas......... Rissoles are still around, there are a few on the forum............the white poo has gone because very few owners feed bones to dogs these days, the water evaporated (from the poo) and left the calcium deposit.

Cadbury's Spira? They seem to have disappeared! 2 lovely swirls of flake in a pack, mmmmmm.
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Did bazuka not used to be a bubble gum? wonder how many verrucas made a bazuka, no wonder the tasted horrible.:rolleyes::eek::)
 
frank said:
Did bazuka not used to be a bubble gum? wonder how many verrucas made a bazuka, no wonder the tasted horrible.:rolleyes::eek::)
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You ate verrucas? :puke:
:LOL:
 
My sister asked yesterday where all the house flies have gone. I remember they used to fly under the lamp clusters hanging from the ceiling, turning at right angles as they went. We never see them now, horrible things but where have they all gone?

PS.
I wish my neighbours would just... go...
 
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frank said:
Did bazuka not used to be a bubble gum? wonder how many verrucas made a bazuka, no wonder the tasted horrible.:rolleyes::eek::)
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That was Bazooka Gum, from the states just after WW2. 'Bazooka Joe' was the character (comic strip) that came inside the gum wrapper in the 50s. I remember it quite well, it
was shaped like a marshmallow.
 
I think you could get it well after the 50's, I was born in the 60's and I remember it :D
 
woof woof said:
I think you could get it well after the 50's, I was born in the 60's and I remember it :D
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Oh yeh, you can still get it now! It don't taste the same though. HERE
 
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Quoth said:
I've often wondered what's happened to "acid rain"? Seems to have been the big worry of the eighties...

Maybe industry has cleaned up its act.
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Very few coal powered power stations left - in fact usage of coal in general has gone down. Petrol has a lot less sulphur in it now and air pollution control in general is much stricter.
 
DorsetDude said:
Veruccas? Are they still about? I go swimming once a week and the pool has never had that little paddley bit on the way through into the main pool like they used to have filled with sulphuric acid or similar..

Rissoles? Are they still about? What actually are they thats different to a beef burger? How come theyve gone and Mr Brains faggots are still going?

White dog poo?

Any others, questions/explanations?
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White poop has been mentioned a lot over the years, on this very forum. :)
 
john.margetts said:
Very few coal powered power stations left - in fact usage of coal in general has gone down. Petrol has a lot less sulphur in it now and air pollution control in general is much stricter.
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It has gone much further lately

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39675418

In the 50s and 60s the weather and coal burning caused smog problems which created severe health issues. This was particularly bad in 1952.

I remember bad smog events in the late 50s and up to 1962. You could taste what you weee breathing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

Bazooka bubble gum was banned in my primary school. If adults got it on their clothes it was a nightmare to remove! If you got it in your har the it was scissor time...

Ahh the good old days
 
I'm not normally in favour of banning things but the state of our spot covered town centres does make me want to do one of two things, ban chewing gum or the more attractive option, put a bounty on those making a mess with it and encourage the public to kick the cr@p out of anyone spitting it out or sticking it on fixtures and fittings.
 
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Whatever has happened to all the flies and other airborne insects that used to cover the front of cars when I was a youngster in the 1970’s? :(

I remember an aerosol, 'fly squash remover' that my father used to get me to use when cleaning his car.
 
Cartus said:
Whatever has happened to all the flies and other airborne insects that used to cover the front of cars when I was a youngster in the 1970’s? :(

I remember an aerosol, 'fly squash remover' that my father used to get me to use when cleaning his car.
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They are still around - the fronts of cars have changed shape so you don't notice them as much. Never saw much on the Freelander - but the C-Max went up to Crieff recently and the state of her front when she came back ............... I've not seen as many dead flies as that for a very very long time :(
 
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camerassassin said:
They are still around - the fronts of cars have changed shape so you don't notice them as much. Never saw much on the Freelander - but the C-Max went up to Crieff recently and the state of her front when she came back ............... I've not seen as many dead flies as that for a very very long time :(
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Yup. I don't do many long fast runs now but went from the Middlesbrough area to Manchester airport and back on a nice day and it was just as much of an insect massacre as it always was.
 
Hugh Jarse said:
In the 50s and 60s the weather and coal burning caused smog problems which created severe health issues.
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And I'm sure you will remember when smokeless coal was the "in thing" Late 60's IIRC?
Coke, now there is fuel you don't hear about, these days, unless of course its the type ( of fuel) the B(w)ankers shove up their noses :D
camerassassin said:
the fronts of cars have changed shape so you don't notice them as much.
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Yeah now, they just slipstream over the front of my van and splat on the windscreen instead :rolleyes:
(MIB starting title anyone? :D )
 
I miss the really thick fogs we used to get in London (and even up here in Oxfordshire in the early 90s) but appreciate that cleaner air is better for everyone.

As for flies, there's no lack in these parts. :p Joking aside, with wider lenses and small apertures I've been noticing an increase in the number of small specks that show up when hunting for dust bunnies, and wondered if there was a sensor problem. Closer investigation shows it to be flying insects - can you see any here? ;)

Flying display by Toni Ertl, on Flickr
 
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My sister asked yesterday where all the house flies have gone. I remember they used to fly under the lamp clusters hanging from the ceiling, turning at right angles as they went.
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This has taken me back, a long way back, Alan.

I remember being amazed they could fly that way. I think hearing years ago (ie around the mid/late 1960s) if an aircraft could be built that would do the same, the pilot would mush on the inside of the cockpit after the first right angle maneuver.

It seems it is all down to the hind wings. They have been modified into organs called halteres that sense air flow over the fore wings and move to alter how the fly, flies, allowing it to perform some amazing aerobatic moves.

Your sister's view is the same as mine. I haven't seen a 'proper' housefly for years.

I blame these foreign flies coming over here :)

Dave
 
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