It's strange when we get older how much more we reminisce
About the times when we were young and things that we now miss
The summers seemed much longer and the winters had more snow
And we lived in ignorance of all the evil we now know

Blackjacks and Fruit Salads cost a penny then for four
Toffee Everlasting Strips would test the strongest jaw
Bubbly snot and powder that covered your best clothes
When your Barratts sherbet fountain exploded up your nose

Flying saucers, Anglo Bubblys and sweetie cigarettes
Tuppence worth of sherbet and Parma Violets
Spangles and Refreshers, Oh the memories still linger
Of violet scented breath and a coloured index finger

In schools across the country at break-times in the yards
Were young girls playing hopscotch and young boys flicking cards
And if you had two cards the same you'd swap them like for like
Or peg them to your cycle spokes to make a motor bike

We never heard of terrorists or hijackings or rapes
No CDs or DVDs or even music tapes
A laptop was an adult’s knee, a mouse a little rat
A des-res was a nice house, an apartment was a flat

The price of growing older is the knowledge that we gain
Replacing our young innocence with sadness, grief and pain
The fountain of experience is a dangerous place to sup
It's liquor makes you realise the World's all buggered up

You know what they say about nostalgia....







It's not what it was...

I used to enjoy Spangles Acid Drops then I graduated to real Acid.

Them were the days

Real acid is bad for you. Especially sulphuric.
Remember this one from school days ?

Willie was a chemist
Willie is no more
What he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4.

We had Sheena was a chemist

Obviously feminists on the school board

Well also had

This good girl did what we taught her

She mix d acid with the water

You had a Sheena back then? We had Marys, Janes, Daphnes and Dorises. The Marys and Janes were pretty ordinary, the Daphnes and Dorises were Neanderthal. My first "stirrings and confusing aches of the heart" were for Beth (Elizabeth). Too shy to tell her though at 10 years old. Now there are many more "designer" names where it is a combination of the names of the parents, although at school I did have a girlfriend called Marisse which was such a combination, Mario and Clarisse. At least it is more imaginative than being called George Hamilton IV or similar US naming habits.

comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted 6 hours, 56 minutes ago
It's strange when we get older how much more we reminisce
About the times when we were young and things that we now miss
The summers seemed much longer and the winters had more snow
And we lived in ignorance of all the evil we now know

Blackjacks and Fruit Salads cost a penny then for four
Toffee Everlasting Strips would test the strongest jaw
Bubbly snot and powder that covered your best clothes
When your Barratts sherbet fountain exploded up your nose

Flying saucers, Anglo Bubblys and sweetie cigarettes
Tuppence worth of sherbet and Parma Violets
Spangles and Refreshers, Oh the memories still linger
Of violet scented breath and a coloured index finger

In schools across the country at break-times in the yards
Were young girls playing hopscotch and young boys flicking cards
And if you had two cards the same you'd swap them like for like
Or peg them to your cycle spokes to make a motor bike

We never heard of terrorists or hijackings or rapes
No CDs or DVDs or even music tapes
A laptop was an adult’s knee, a mouse a little rat
A des-res was a nice house, an apartment was a flat

The price of growing older is the knowledge that we gain
Replacing our young innocence with sadness, grief and pain
The fountain of experience is a dangerous place to sup
It's liquor makes you realise the World's all buggered up

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A flat is on one level
An apartment isn't.
But some estate agents and builders get it wrong

comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 0 seconds ago
comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted 6 hours, 56 minutes ago
It's strange when we get older how much more we reminisce
About the times when we were young and things that we now miss
The summers seemed much longer and the winters had more snow
And we lived in ignorance of all the evil we now know

Blackjacks and Fruit Salads cost a penny then for four
Toffee Everlasting Strips would test the strongest jaw
Bubbly snot and powder that covered your best clothes
When your Barratts sherbet fountain exploded up your nose

Flying saucers, Anglo Bubblys and sweetie cigarettes
Tuppence worth of sherbet and Parma Violets
Spangles and Refreshers, Oh the memories still linger
Of violet scented breath and a coloured index finger

In schools across the country at break-times in the yards
Were young girls playing hopscotch and young boys flicking cards
And if you had two cards the same you'd swap them like for like
Or peg them to your cycle spokes to make a motor bike

We never heard of terrorists or hijackings or rapes
No CDs or DVDs or even music tapes
A laptop was an adult’s knee, a mouse a little rat
A des-res was a nice house, an apartment was a flat

The price of growing older is the knowledge that we gain
Replacing our young innocence with sadness, grief and pain
The fountain of experience is a dangerous place to sup
It's liquor makes you realise the World's all buggered up

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A flat is on one level
An apartment isn't.
But some estate agents and builders get it wrong
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Nice Post though

Wow! I thought Flats were were for poor people and Apartments were for the posh or pretentious. Learn something new every 10 years on this site. Call it an apartment to increase the rent by 50%. although most definitions consider them to be the same thing. In the north they are flats, in London Dockside they are apartments. Only difference is about £2000 a week.

A flat or appartment on 2 floors is a Duplex.

comment by 🇺🇦 Boris 'Inky' Gibson 🇺🇦 (U5901)
posted 3 hours, 37 minutes ago
A flat or appartment on 2 floors is a Duplex.
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its called a Masionette in the UK

comment by RB&W - What is it now, Ralf? (U21434)
posted 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
comment by 🇺🇦 Boris 'Inky' Gibson 🇺🇦 (U5901)
posted 3 hours, 37 minutes ago
A flat or appartment on 2 floors is a Duplex.
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its called a Masionette in the UK
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Even if the 2 floors are on rhe 8th & 9th level of a towers block?

A maisonette is one floor.

comment by 🇺🇦 Boris 'Inky' Gibson 🇺🇦 (U5901)
posted 46 seconds ago
comment by RB&W - What is it now, Ralf? (U21434)
posted 1 hour, 24 minutes ago
comment by 🇺🇦 Boris 'Inky' Gibson 🇺🇦 (U5901)
posted 3 hours, 37 minutes ago
A flat or appartment on 2 floors is a Duplex.
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its called a Masionette in the UK
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Even if the 2 floors are on rhe 8th & 9th level of a towers block?
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No, masionette has to be the ground and first floors with a front door at street level....

A duplex is American but is becoming common in England.
A flat was and is one one floor.
Anything more than one floor is an apartment, or a duplex if you prefer. A triplex three floors.
I'm not adamant about much, but after ten years working for Wimpey and thirty odd years as an estate agent I know what I'm talking about in this case

comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 23 minutes ago
A duplex is American but is becoming common in England.
A flat was and is one one floor.
Anything more than one floor is an apartment, or a duplex if you prefer. A triplex three floors.
I'm not adamant about much, but after ten years working for Wimpey and thirty odd years as an estate agent I know what I'm talking about in this case
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A duplex in N. America is two separate units one above the other. Usually people buy them live in one unit and rent out the other.

Duplex? Luxury! We used to live in a paper bag in t' middle of road. Tell these young kids nowadays and they won't believe you.
Luckily I do know the difference between a Duplex and a condom.
It is also interesting to note that in these more tolerant times people are "coming out" and admitting that they are Estate Agents

Shane Warne didn't get old....52 FFS

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 5 days, 3 hours ago
Shane Warne didn't get old....52 FFS
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RIP