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All buses in the 50's had a sign on the platform which read "NO SPITTING" some people must have needed the reminder

Nearly all packaging was paper and you used that to light your open fire, which nearly all households had then

Very evocative. Notice, no obese people

Exactly! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2063476/UK-unemployment-1m-young-Britons-dole-motivated-foreigners-job-vacancies.html

After 41 years of owning and maintaining second hand cars, Ive bought my first brand new car. In June I traded my 56 plate Focus 1.6 for a new C Max 1.6. All I can say is I am happy with it. I drove it from Wearside to my sons in Norfolk and it, according to the instruments, achieved over 51...

Replaced a broken headlight n my son's Golf, as you say the whole front bumper had to be removed. @#**+<> stupid car. Id rather do the Focus pollen filter

Its not the Poles, Its our lack of abillity to compete as a country. We operate in a world marketplace. To be a successful economy one or more of 3 conditions have to exist 1/ You conquer/ run a vast empire and rake in the proceeds and efforts of your dominions. Those days are long gone...

Ahem!- Not everyone Joe = Page 4 last post here :- http://www.diynot.com/forums/general-discussion/the-uk-debt.295917/page-4 We should all make an extraordinary effort to realy enjoy the forthcoming festive season, for it is a strong possibillity/probabillity that we will need it for fond...

Its Sky News modus operandi, the cult of celebrity, ie people who are of no consequence to anyone but themselves. They align this strategy with one of salaciousness based on their assumption that the news pulls a mainly adult mail audience. Just look at the line up of Sky totty flashing their...

I am a frequent news watcher. In the morning and evening I spend 1/2 hour with BBC News 24. then 1/2 hour with Sky news the the same with Euro news, getting their differing slants and sense of priority/importance. This mind numbing Jackson doc. trial has now reduced me to 2 news channels...

As a youngster in the 1950,s and early 60,s I used to make my own black powder, with which I would make crude fireworks and small bombs with bits of pipe. I bought the potasium nitrate at the chemist outside the school. These I would set off in the fields opposite our house, it was great fun. Ok...

On the local news last night it said that the customer who wrestled him to the ground was a retired military policeman.... Nice one, hurah !

There are 2 debt problems 1/ private personal debt which mainly affects the Anglo Saxon economies ie UK and USA and this we can blame in the ghastly greedy bankers. They were imprudently lending huge sums of money to people who they knew did not have a hope in hell of maintaining repayments...

World population out of control......for while! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15445092

Is there any sound better than a Rolls Royce Merlin? Well, yes there is -- the sound of multiple Merlins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYC4qKrJQFQ&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaJJ2rpOk3A "In 1940 I could fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but now! it makes me...

Space shuttle flight deck. Gosh!!! Staggering. Use the mouse to rotate, even the ceiling is a mess of controls http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html

If the police catch and successfully convict the individuals who murdered the 3 young men in Birmingham recently, would there be much objection to Sharia law being applied, if it were possible. Does anyone know what sentence Sharia law would meat out, in this instance?

On this mornings news " Met bringing in reinforcements from Cleveland" Middlesbrough has to be the next place for it to kick off then.

I am not sympathising with them, I am trying to understand their mind set and putting froward a theory as to why this ghastly thing is happening now. and why in my opinion in my 64 years I have seen society crumble to this state of affairs. You say " brought up" I hark back to an era when the...

Are this ignorant scum not just following the moral example set by the leaders of our society, MPs, stealing £millions in false expense claims and basically getting away with it. Police, taking bungs from newspapers and god knows who else, Cleveland police and the Met. just lost their two top...