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Rattles and Rosettes at football.


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John Drake" wrote: 25 Jul 2025, 00:47 Izal toilet paper
 
 
That should have has some sort of award as the worst product design ever. You might as well have picked up a turd and smeared it directly all over your arse.
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Adventure playgrounds constructed of timber, where a nail or splinter would ALWAYS catch you or your clothes.
Penny up the wall.
Kids playing conkers.
Ramsgate, threatening to chiv someone.
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Swiss, there was one at my first job, Square crisps and pickled eggs included. Friday nights evening meal sorted right there...
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The one in Hull was free to fly around the place

surely it's not just me whose seen parrots in pubs before!
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BillyJenningsBoots wrote: 24 Jul 2025, 13:31
WHU(Exeter) wrote: 24 Jul 2025, 08:42 Billy Jennings Boots

Yes, parrots in pubs.

Wasn’t on about random parrots actually flying into them, more pubs keeping them.

Admittedly parrots in pubs were never proliferate, (not on goldfish in Chinese takeaway levels), they were quite niche, and they were probably more likely to be found in port towns and cities, but you did come across them occasionally kept in pubs.

And now it’s very rare to see it.

The last time I saw a parrot in a pub was in Hull at our game there in 2009. I’ve not seen one since.




 
Wow Ive never heard of that before. 😳 was it a nod to the pirate history or maybe how pirates got associated with parrots in the first place? 
Probably a similar function to a canary in a mine if this was in Hull.
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WHU(Exeter) wrote: 23 Jul 2025, 17:03 Tuck shops
My kids school, albeit a posh one,  had a tuck shop. 
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WHU(Exeter) wrote: 24 Jul 2025, 08:42 Billy Jennings Boots

Yes, parrots in pubs.

Wasn’t on about random parrots actually flying into them, more pubs keeping them.

Admittedly parrots in pubs were never proliferate, (not on goldfish in Chinese takeaway levels), they were quite niche, and they were probably more likely to be found in port towns and cities, but you did come across them occasionally kept in pubs.

And now it’s very rare to see it.

The last time I saw a parrot in a pub was in Hull at our game there in 2009. I’ve not seen one since.



 
Wow Ive never heard of that before. 😳 was it a nod to the pirate history or maybe how pirates got associated with parrots in the first place? 
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People not accepting the third light off a match or lighter.
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Billy Jennings Boots

Yes, parrots in pubs.

Wasn’t on about random parrots actually flying into them, more pubs keeping them.

Admittedly parrots in pubs were never proliferate, (not on goldfish in Chinese takeaway levels), they were quite niche, and they were probably more likely to be found in port towns and cities, but you did come across them occasionally kept in pubs.

And now it’s very rare to see it.

The last time I saw a parrot in a pub was in Hull at our game there in 2009. I’ve not seen one since.

 
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On here? The fine art of fishing without fishing.

Only a very few can carry it of and if you think that you're one of those few, you're not.
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Tuck shops
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I've still got one of them from 1975, my Dad got it for me, treasured.
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West Ham silk (well artificial) scarves to wear around one's wrist. 
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Anyone remember the small blue salt packet in Smiths crips not ready sorted?  The it was brought back I think in the 90s for a while. 
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Hammer I am" wrote: 23 Jul 2025, 12:46
Swiss. wrote: 23 Jul 2025, 12:39
F 129 Row66" wrote: 22 Jul 2025, 22:08 Paregoric sweets
Floral gums
Aniseed balls
Gob Stoppers

Well i haven't seen any of them for donkey's
There used to be a shop in Ipswich that sells all the old sweets like Rhubarb and Custards etc. 
surely every town has these no? Brighton's got quite a few
Not in Kensington or Brussels I'm afraid. I might order some Rhubarb and Custards online. 
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Swiss. wrote: 23 Jul 2025, 12:39
F 129 Row66" wrote: 22 Jul 2025, 22:08 Paregoric sweets
Floral gums
Aniseed balls
Gob Stoppers

Well i haven't seen any of them for donkey's
There used to be a shop in Ipswich that sells all the old sweets like Rhubarb and Custards etc. 
surely every town has these no? Brighton's got quite a few
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Tomshardware wrote: 22 Jul 2025, 11:17
Gary Strodders shank" wrote: 21 Jul 2025, 19:34
Swiss. wrote: 21 Jul 2025, 14:05 Piles of porno mags not very well hidden in the woods somewhere. Who used  to put them there? Probably some perv spying on us. 



 
I remember as kids we stumbled across an extensive porn collection when retrieving a football from some overgrown bushes in the park.

We came back the next day to have another look and there was a bloke in there with his trousers round his ankles.

He reckoned he was having a shit but I think that was the shock at being rumbled having a wank.
Betting their were some overgrown bushes in the mags as well. 
I found a porno mag in the park as a kid and took it home. When leafing through the pages I found it had this sticky fluid all over it. Quite disgusting obviously, but I guess it was a good thing when I realised it was caused by a snail that was still tucked in there.
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F 129 Row66" wrote: 22 Jul 2025, 22:08 Paregoric sweets
Floral gums
Aniseed balls
Gob Stoppers

Well i haven't seen any of them for donkey's
There used to be a shop in Ipswich that sells all the old sweets like Rhubarb and Custards etc. 
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people turning one cigarette around in a packet
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