OT: Those Born 1930 - 1979...

[madasahatstand]

IM the same. whats wrong with stones and feet for goodness sake. one thing that really got me confused is the gallon measurement. apparently a uk gallon is differrrent from a usa gallon. now how am i suppossed to know how much water to put in my herb tea? depends on the recipe and where it comes from i suppose

lol

LOL you make tea in 7 pint pots?

yes i was making this special cancer cure tea called essiac and had all the chemist bottles all sterilised and my tea boiling away and sitting overnight. my mum shouting over, 'eye of toad, leg of newt' . it was the latest herbal cancer cure we were trying.
ive ordered bulk from a shop is usa so if anyone knows anyone who needs essiac, let me know cause i got a whole load of stuff i wont be brewing up now. ive also got the whole kit for bottling and wuld be happy to give it away

[suzanne]

IM the same. whats wrong with stones and feet for goodness sake. one thing that really got me confused is the gallon measurement. apparently a uk gallon is differrrent from a usa gallon. now how am i suppossed to know how much water to put in my herb tea? depends on the recipe and where it comes from i suppose

lol

LOL you make tea in 7 pint pots?

yes i was making this special cancer cure tea called essiac and had all the chemist bottles all sterilised and my tea boiling away and sitting overnight. my mum shouting over, 'eye of toad, leg of newt' . it was the latest herbal cancer cure we were trying.
ive ordered bulk from a shop is usa so if anyone knows anyone who needs essiac, let me know cause i got a whole load of stuff i wont be brewing up now. ive also got the whole kit for bottling and wuld be happy to give it away

I read about this not so long ago. Apparently there was a Canadian clinic back in the 1950 (I think) that found this tea could cure cancer. The big pharmaceuticals tried to buy the copyrights but the person refused to sell and was found to have died myseriously with all paperwork on the recipe having disappeared and the clinic was closed down.

Makes you wonder doesn't it....

Back to the original thread...I was walking through a car boot last summer when I spotted a STYLOPHONE. OMG does that bring back memories. I couldn't wait to get home to play with it. My kids looked at me like I was mad 

Turns out it was £2 well spent as they are selling on ebay for about £30 ...but im not ready to give it up just yet.

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[Newmanseye]

Here's another thing about modern toys, I remember I had Transformers the first time round, and when they were a car or a boat or a plane, you had no idea it was a robot it was so well designed.

These days it's like the designers could not be arsed to finish the job and design them properly

[Card_Shark]

22.08.64

20 years ago i used to leave my yuppie car golf gti unlocked in my driveway overnight. it was never touched.

[peeveen]

Born in 75, it was all good until the nineties.
I remember one summer, the scaffolding went up around a block of nearby houses ... we would clamber up and down it like monkeys, firing catapults at anything and everything from two storeys up.
And using the piles of scaffolding wood to build the biggest mother of a bike ramp I've ever seen ... about five feet tall, it was ... must've knackered my bike, but it was fun fun fun.
Going long walks into the wilderness with my pals, eating elderberries. We once found a load of coils of metal wire that someone had dumped in the middle of a field, so we carted the whole lot down to the scrap merchant ... backbreaking work, but he gave us a fiver for it all, which we spent on sweets and the 10p arcade games.
If I was born these days, I doubt my folks would let me wander past the front gate.
And whatever happened to PROPER SNOW?? The stuff you get these days seems to last about ten minutes before turning to mush, and is never anymore than an inch or two deep. Absolutely pathetic. I remember one winter, it was like the entire town went sledging on this one particular hill, most of us on dustbin lids ... a brilliant night ... does anyone do that kind of thing anymore?