FabSwingers.com forum: Strange things to miss............

By *ranny-Crumpet OP Woman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

I used to be mesmerised when I fragmented a computer and watched all the blue , red and green files being put into stacks or deleted until my computer was as organised as an anally retentive's sock draw.......

What do you miss that you have no need to really ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Old el paso open chicken enchiladas kit!

They were delicious and got discontinued

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Worzel Gummidge

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I used to be mesmerised when I fragmented a computer and watched all the blue , red and green files being put into stacks or deleted until my computer was as organised as an anally retentive's sock draw.......

What do you miss that you have no need to really ? "

Defraging blast from the past lol

I miss coin meters in televisions always ran out when a good bit was coming

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By *ranny-Crumpet OP Woman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

God yeah ...... the coin telly

I miss the white dot after the epilogue.

That'll bring the old folk out

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By *inky Biscuit DunkerMan
over a year ago

Gloucestershire

The whirring, screeching noise of a ZX spectrum game, loading from the tape deck.

You can get lots of different pc based emulators these days but, it’s just not the same.

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Milk men

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By *ranny-Crumpet OP Woman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"Milk men"

Later Yas, tell us what you miss first.

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"Milk men

Later Yas, tell us what you miss first."

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By *ranny-Crumpet OP Woman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

"The whirring, screeching noise of a ZX spectrum game, loading from the tape deck.

You can get lots of different pc based emulators these days but, it’s just not the same. "

Ahhhhhh tennis ...... and trying to cross the road.

A - mazing games.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Penny for the guy

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"Penny for the guy "

How much?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Blackouts whatever happened to them

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Penny for the guy

How much?"

10 bob

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"Penny for the guy

How much?

10 bob"

For?

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By *ranny-Crumpet OP Woman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

I miss the smell of the green grocers. Always smelled of earth .... and taking your dirtiest bag for them to put the spuds in ...

Fucking white spuds in a plastic bag. What is that!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Penny for the guy

How much?

10 bob

For?"

Google it yas

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

"Penny for the guy

How much?

10 bob

For?

Google it yas

You Google what do I get

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By *asmeenTV/TS
over a year ago

STOKE ON TRENT

Freshly made sandwiches

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By *a LunaWoman
over a year ago

South Wales

Dot matrix printers. Noisy as hell but strangely satisfying listening to it printing out all you’ve typed. Till the phone rang and you couldn’t hear the other person down the phone.

Ah, those were the days…..

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

Telex machines read the message 1 letter at a time oh and the noise

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Corporal punishment

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A MAC eyeshadow called Moth, which they discontinued.

The best crisps I ever did taste, which were pesto flavoured, by a company called Burt’s (I believe they still do other flavours).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

What do you miss that you have no need to really ? "
watching the screen load on a Sinclair spectrum zx hoping it wouldn’t crash

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Penny for the guy

How much?

10 Bobs

For?"

Later, Yas.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The sound of dot matrix receipt printers. The ONLY reason i used to go shopping Saturday morning with my mum.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I miss physically going to the video shop and being excited to watch our 1 or 2 choices, rather than hours of scouring Netflix then falling asleep half way through whatever you eventually settle on.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I miss physically going to the video shop and being excited to watch our 1 or 2 choices, rather than hours of scouring Netflix then falling asleep half way through whatever you eventually settle on. "

Oh yeh! I miss blockbuster, i can smell the place now.. it had a certain smell

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I miss my grandads garage.. The smells, the oil, the workshop and the wood shavings /iron filings and the delicious paint smells... And the vice.. Such a wonderful playground as a child !

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By *ilfCrumpet9Man
over a year ago

Wirral

Connecting to the Internet in times of old

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

Aww I loved this

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

What do you miss that you have no need to really ?

Defraging blast from the past lol

I miss coin meters in televisions always ran out when a good bit was coming

My mum was shagging the meter man - we never ran out for some reason

J x

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

Getting into bed on a Sunday evening after a bath and finding freshly washed, stripey, flannelette sheets and pillow cases on my bed.

A feeling I've not been able to replicate.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cars you can work on yourself.

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By *an4funMan
over a year ago

london

"Fucking white spuds in a plastic bag. What is that!"

Nobody should be fucking potatoes.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Bus tickets, from a conductor, and pulling the cord to ring the bell.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A 56k modem connecting....

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By *he Knight is YoungMan
over a year ago

22 Acacia Ave, Preston-for now

"I miss my grandads garage.. The smells, the oil, the workshop and the wood shavings /iron filings and the delicious paint smells... And the vice.. Such a wonderful playground as a child ! "

My uncle was the same as he worked in Ford's and smells and tools amazed me.

He had his prized possession in there to a Mk1 Cortina,it was spotless

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Finedon ,

Watching the Coronation in 1953 on a Bush black and white TV with a 9" screen and a free standing magnifying glass.

Happy Days

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

A trip to Blockbusters. Those were almost as much fun as watching the film

LvM

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

The boys brigade March through the streets.

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By *uddy laneMan
over a year ago

dudley

The 10p deposit on pop bottles.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being able to do activities without being stiff the next day.

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

"Being able to do activities without being stiff the next day.

Mr"

Hangover horn is the worst...

LvM

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Getting into bed on a Sunday evening after a bath and finding freshly washed, stripey, flannelette sheets and pillow cases on my bed.

A feeling I've not been able to replicate."

Oh I'm with you on that... Happy days xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Being able to do activities without being stiff the next day.

Hangover horn is the worst...

LvM"

Sadly not that kind of stiff - though at least I'm not so old that had become something else to miss.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ceefax, Teletext and Bamber Boozler

Also, Spira chocolate

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

I used to enjoy rearranging my bedroom furniture during the school summer holidays. Sometimes I'd do the living room as well.

I also enjoyed going through an Argos or similar catalogue and circling what I'd have in my future home. I'd pick something from every category including treadmill and lawnmower.

Another past passion of my childhood was recording TV shows and films on VHS and then using those sticky labels, being as neat as possible with my best pens and maybe even had more stickers.

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

Getting d*unk in a club and dancing with a d*unk female and gyrating against her backside without needing prior permission before she enters her number on your Nokia.

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By *929Man
over a year ago

bedlington

"Getting d*unk in a club and dancing with a d*unk female and gyrating against her backside without needing prior permission before she enters her number on your Nokia. "

Haha those were the days

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

A future fab social meet will be getting together to defrag our computers

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Nowhere

The toilet!

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By *ylonlover87Man
over a year ago

Kent

What do you miss that you have no need to really ? "

Omg lol me too so sad

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By *ylonlover87Man
over a year ago

Kent

"Ceefax, Teletext and Bamber Boozler

Also, Spira chocolate

Teletext lol waiting for a page to cycle round because uou missed it lol

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By *lydeXXXMan
over a year ago

Doncaster

Woolworths, I always thought you could buy anything in Woolies as a kid. The complimentary sweets they used to top up everyday were always good aswell.

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By *ollydoesWoman
over a year ago

Shangri-La

Bamboozle on teletext

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By *agneto.Man
over a year ago

Bham

MSN messenger.

Yes it's even easier to communicate these days, but the pleasure of logging on and seeing your favourite person was online too.

Another computer related one but chatrooms.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"MSN messenger.

Yes it's even easier to communicate these days, but the pleasure of logging on and seeing your favourite person was online too.

Another computer related one but chatrooms. "

I miss using media player and you could show the other person what song you were listening too

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By *akie32Man
over a year ago

winchester

"Getting d*unk in a club and dancing with a d*unk female and gyrating against her backside without needing prior permission before she enters her number on your Nokia. "

nokia, posh git lol

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