Most trivial change in your life time...

[Blackandblue]

Getting out of your chair to change channels on the telly. (Or more precisely being told by your parents to get up and change channels on the telly.)

This thread is excellent by the way.

 

[papercorn2000]

The telly took about 5 minutes to warm up.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

The Raj scene on Camp coffee:
Instead of serving it up, the Indian geezer now sits equally alongside
the British chap supping up the sweetened bum gravy.

 

[Fnaar]

Getting out of your chair to change channels on the telly. (Or more precisely being told by your parents to get up and change channels on the telly.)
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Our first ever "remote" control was attached to the telly by a lead

 

[Blackandblue]

Our first ever "remote" control was attached to the telly by a lead

Same here except it was attached to the VCR. It had four buttons: play/pause, stop, rewind and fast forward.

 

[Over The Hill]

Having to have TWO tv listing magazines. Radio times only had BBC programmes in it while TV times only had ITV then Channel 4.

 

[Haitch]

Our first remote was the size of a house brick and had one large button in the middle of it to change channels. The TV it came with had 30 channels but we only had two stations. To move from ITV back to the Beeb we had to go through 28 blank screens .

 

[upsidedown]

Proper zebra crossings with just the orange (lollipop shaped) flashing light have all but disappeared now.

Never knew until i overheard at a crossing that there's a little cone on the underside of the 'press to cross' box that twirls round when the lightsa are green for the benfit of blind/deaf people! I check every one i'm at now.

Ginsters have just changed their pastie pastry, now more pie-ey than pastie-ey.

 

[swee'pea99]

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned closedown, and that litle dot that used to get smaller and smaller in the middle of the screen while you tried to decide the exact instant when it was actually gone (or is it still there but just too small for me to be able to see it oh well it must be gone by now).

 

[Maz]

[quote name='swee'pea99']I'm surprised no-one's mentioned closedown, and that litle dot that used to get smaller and smaller in the middle of the screen while you tried to decide the exact instant when it was actually gone (or is it still there but just too small for me to be able to see it oh well it must be gone by now).[/QUOTE]
Post#78 did

 

[Aperitif]

Post#78 did

There's Maz - on the dot as usual.

 

[swee'pea99]

Oops! That'll teach me to do my homework! (Another thing I've nearly forgotten.)

 

[Over The Hill]

[quote name='swee'pea99']I'm surprised no-one's mentioned closedown, and that litle dot that used to get smaller and smaller in the middle of the screen while you tried to decide the exact instant when it was actually gone (or is it still there but just too small for me to be able to see it oh well it must be gone by now).[/quote]


When you fell asleep and left the TV on, about five minutes after closedown you got a loud BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP noise to make you turn your telly off.

 

[Over The Hill]

You watched programmes with Les Dennis, Noel Edmonds or Jasper Carrott in them.

 

[Arch]

No more ice on the inside of your bedroom windows in the mornings in Dec/Jan/Feb

Um, still happens to me....