Most trivial change in your life time...

[ColinJ]

Blair Peach? It'll be Bobby Sands, next.

There's a subtle difference between a teacher on a protest march having his head caved in by representatives of the law, and a convicted terrorist choosing to starve himself to death...

 

[Mr Phoebus]

There's a subtle difference between a teacher on a protest march having his head caved in by representatives of the law, and a convicted terrorist choosing to starve himself to death...

Wasn't what I meant.
Nice try though.

 

[hulver]

Berwick Kaler not being allowed to throw Wagon Wheels anymore.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

No more Alpine pop deliveries by feral yoofs.
No more Davenports deliveries.

We used to look forward to Saturday afternoon when the Davenports man would park his lorry up in the carpark and disappear up the croft with his porters truck.
Our trouser pockets now looked like we were packing pistols.
A quick stroll over to the school playing field to drink the free booty.
I always had a bottle opener on my key-ring.

 

[Fnaar]

...and disappear up the croft with his porters truck.

is that a euphemism for summat?

 

[Mr Phoebus]

is that a euphemism for summat?

It would save him from puffin' and pantin' down the back alley.

 

[swee'pea99]

The disappearance of those blocks of ice cream where you had a choice between a wee square-shaped cone or wafers.

 

[JtB]

That little hole in a car's front bumper for the crank handle.

 

[papercorn2000]

Presidents now look as if they may have been at high school at the same time as you.

 

[Maz]

Being sent to the lumber shop at the age of 9 every Saturday to go and buy a big plastic container of paraffin. Then carrying it back half a mile through the town centre to home. Then filling the paraffin heater's fuel holder up with the fuel in the garden through a funnel. Before replacing it in the heater in the front room.

Oh man, that was my job too. Only I got my parrafin from a small pump on a petrol station forecourt. I had to put the coin in the pump machine if I remember correctly.

I have been addicted to the smell of parrafin ever since!

 

[purpleR]

I've stopped watching The Family Ness.

 

[Fnaar]

getting sweets as a reward for being good at the dentist

 

[alecstilleyedye]

being unable to buy a year's worth of paracetamol for 50p from the newsagents.

 

[papercorn2000]

Could taking disprin and coca cola really make you drunk?

 

[mickle]

Metal toothpaste tubes.

Shops being open on a Sunday. I remember thirty years ago Hereford being a ghost town on Sundays. There was one newsagent open till twelve and that was it.

Michelin World Tour tyres.