In a completely transparent attempt to help the forum to get to the 50K posts as soon as possible....

May I ask the esteemed members of this site.....What do you wish you could still get/buy/eat/listen to/watch/etc/ANYTHING !....that's just not 'there' any more...?

Kicking off....I'll go for .....
That awfully nice Sir Terry Wogan on Radio 2 early in the morning.......(I seriously miss that show !...a wonderful way to start the day!)
Oat Crunchies (Breakfast cereal)....Can't find that anywhere nowadays....Loved that !
Curry Twiglets....(Me and SWMBO must have been the sole consumers of this product....Got through packets and packets of the stuff ! )

There must be loads of stuff that you miss from days of yore....Let us all know !!

Cheers - Phil.

My Chopper

Black Jacks

and Yorkshire CCC winning trophies....

Texan chocolate bars,
Three Tuns bitter from Shropshire as I'm exiled to Bedfordshire!
Kirsty McColl

Now don't laugh - Birdseye Rissoles  . 

I said don't laugh!

Mollinary

The half a pence coin for single mounted figure basing 

Hi Nosher.

Are you old enough to remember when you got either 4 'black jacks'...or four 'fruit salads'  for one 'old penny' ?
Basically....they were a farthing each.
For the kiddies amongst you...This was in the days when there were 240 'old' pence in a pound (sterling)

2 x farthings = 1 halfpenny.
2 x halfpennies = 1 (old) pence.
3 (old) pence = 1 'thruppeny' bit.
6 (old) pence = A sixpence (also known as a 'tanner')
2 sixpences = A shilling (12 old pence.....Now known as 5p.....formally one 'bob')
2 shillings = A florin (a two 'bob' bit.....Now 10p)
There were also 'half crowns'......Two shillings and six pence...equivalent to 12 and a half new pence nowadays.
Crowns....Five shillings....(Though those weren't really much in circulation for spending.).....Equivalent to 25 new pence.
10 shilling notes (A fortune when you were young.).....Now a 50 pence piece.
2 x 10 shilling notes......A pound ....Now 100 new pence.

Oh...happy days !  (One pound would buy you 3 GALLONS of petrol/gas.....Yes...I know....you could have bought a house for a few hundred pounds in those days......Gosh...things have changed !!)

Gran !!....Is that a half 'pee'.....or the old half 'dee'.

Cheers - A very old f*rt.

I miss the hundreds of hours I have spent painting figures only to go off that scale or those rules or the other period and then consequently sell them all at bring & buy or now evil bay.

I miss not having got into 10 mm years ago in other words!

I miss not discovering the Warmaster family of rules leading to BKC etc

I do not miss the headaches I got playing WRG Ancients 7th Edition or trying to remember what was in a stack of counters in any board game that allowed stacks - all sold off.  I do not miss trying to pick up a stack and knocking all the adjacent stacks over

When I was jsut starting out in wargaming we used to get the bus to East Ham to vist the wargames shop "New Model Army".  It was a bit dingy but you could buy 10 6mm Heroics and Ros tanks for £1.00. (mid 1970's)

Oh and when I started work I used to spend many a lunch hour in Gamers in Exile in the Pentonvile Road talking to Peter O'Toole.  and looking round the shop (mid-late 1980's).

Yeah, I visited New Model Army a few times (although it was a hell of a journey by public transport from Crouch End where I then lived) The places I really miss are Adventure Worlds - run by the inimitable Dave Rotor - in Victoria and Mike's Models in Finchley. Mike used to send us down to Southampton to pick up batches of Minifigs on the promise that we'd get our figures cheap. 

I miss the miss before she became the mrs

I miss having the time to paint and play games as I like.  But the down side of that time was that I didn't have the money to buy the figures and games that I liked and now I do.    hum . . .

Duane

I miss...

- penny sweets actually being a penny.
- the six-week summer holidays feeling like six years.
- having less TV channels (I love my Sky, but there's about 400 channels which no-one needs).
- being able to go and play out at the age of 8 without the media telling us someone was going to kidnap me.
- marvelling at the technological jump which was CD's (substitute 'CD' for 'cassette tape' or 'LP' depending on age...   ).
- basic 2D computer games, like Frogger or Alien Invasion.

Quote from: Leon on 23 June 2012, 03:31:48 PM
I miss...
- penny sweets actually being a penny.

You're talking about 'new' pennies aren't you ? 

Quote from: Leon on 23 June 2012, 03:31:48 PM

- the six-week summer holidays feeling like six years.

They used to feel even longer....When I were a lad !

Old 2D computer games.....You're absolutely right Matey......Don't forget the original 'Asteroids'...brilliant 

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 23 June 2012, 06:40:44 PM
You're talking about 'new' pennies aren't you ?  

Yep!  I'm only just old enough to remember big 5/10p coins... and I just about remember the original £2 coins before they reintroduced them.

Quote from: Leon on 23 June 2012, 06:42:58 PM
Yep!  I'm only just old enough to remember big 5/10p coins... and I just about remember the original £2 coins before they reintroduced them.

Yes....Thank you so much for reminding me that you know that I know that you know that I'm older than your Dad......Boss.
Cheers - Phil.