BS: What should we bring back again ?

Subject: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 03:40 PM

Everything old is new again, eventually.

Its absurd to bring back clean coal miners, buggy whips and white male dominance over everything but there are some wonderful vintage solutions, seeds and ideas we need again. What are they?

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Greg F.
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 05:54 PM

Bring Back Hanging. And imprisonment for debt.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: ripov
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 06:03 PM

Common sense, and ditch political correctness.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: meself
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 06:53 PM

When were coal miners clean? I thought they were always black with coal dust?? Clean coal miners would be something new - I think it's a good idea, actually ... !

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 07:21 PM

meself, I liked that double entendre phrase when I wrote it.

Bring back hand crank non electric appliances like Coffee bean grinders.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: gillymor
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 07:31 PM

Professor Trump cleared up any confusion about what Clean Coal is last August.

Bring back 10 dollar dime bags and 5 dollar nickel bags.

And, you can have my electric coffee bean grinder when you pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 27 Nov 17 - 07:53 PM

minge

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 02:26 AM

Movies that have something to offer other than visual effects and noise- such
neglected structures as: coherent plotlines, realistic characters,plausible
motivations, some depth of thought on the part of the screenwriter; and, oh yes, once in a blue moon, a happy ending.

Knobs. I would so appreciate knobs on my radio, which of course
has been combined with a CD player. I so miss the ability of finding a
station with ease, or just sampling stations up and down the bandwidth,simply by twisting a knob. I don t need or want a computer
in my radio demanding me to program a station! Just give me a knob!

Halibut that costs less than $22 a pound. And that tastes like
halibut.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: BobL
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 03:35 AM

Certainly knobs on radios. Especially car radios. Change channels / bands / tracks without taking eyes off road. Unfortunately microchips and tactile switches are cheap while concentric controls are expensive.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 03:48 AM

So RDS radios are infra-dig? I don't want to change stations, I just want one that can find the same station on a different frequency as I drive around. Knobs is fer nobs.

Movies that have something to offer other than visual effects and noise- such

An interesting TED talk on the subject showed a sequence where one frame in 20 were sequenced. Old B&W movies from (say the 30s) compared with modern fare.

The message was: scene changes are at least twice as often. Less time to absorb the message. And I find that there is a lot of assumed knowledge which is surely part of that. No time to provide all the information before the scene changes. It is a fashion born out of the ease of editing, and why I don't go the the cinema as often as I did. See it on TV and you can re-wind &/or switch on subtitles. Some movies the latter is advisable anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Stu
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 08:26 AM

Old English Spangles.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 08:39 AM

Clothes that fit me...

:D tG

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 09:57 AM

Conscription. Empire. the birch. Classes of sixty. Secondary moderns. School leaving age back to 14. Compulsory church on Sundays. Pubs shut on Sundays. Standing up for the National Anthem at the flicks. All-standing football matches. Apartheid.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Will Fly
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 10:12 AM

The cat.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 10:53 AM

There are some nice ideas in Frazer's "The Golden Bough" about publicly sacrificing your ruler when they fuck up.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: leeneia
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 11:34 AM

What should we bring back?

Homes without television, etc
Family meals
Parents who talk to their babies
Singing in the car

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 01:37 PM

The Short Sunderland flying boat...

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: JHW
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 01:50 PM

Eldorado choc ices

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 03:11 PM

Sweet white Hirondelle.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Jos
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 03:19 PM

Television programmes that don't have random little bits of music filling in every little gap in the soundtrack, and often carrying on, aimlessly, even when there isn't a gap.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 04:23 PM

You knew a thread with this title
would inspire some irony and sarcasm in responses,
not to mention all-out satire.

So, not to be left out,
here is what Flanders and Swann said
(but did not record in the recording studio --
only left a recording of a live-on-stage performance)


o dear... can't do this yet.
What I want to do is make a blicky of a Mudcat thread with music/lyrics.
It's Threadid=158265, "Bring Back the Birch."

At least now you know it's there.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: gillymor
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 06:21 PM

Bring back Men's Restrooms that contain at least one urinal that is high enough so that a grown man (I'm 6'5") does not splash his knees and shins while relieving himself.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 07:27 PM

I just find that the porcelain's too cold.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 07:53 PM

Ice cold 'Pommac', a highly carbonated natural semi dry soft drink
flavored with the Niagara grape that looks and
tastes like a thirst quenching Champagne.

Black Cherry tart candy by Royal Crown London.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 08:09 PM

Irn Bru concentrate for Sodastream machines - in fact do Sodastream machines still exist? If not, bring them back too! Our nephew in Canada loved Irn Bru and the concentrate was a good way of taking it out in the hold luggage: you'd never get away with it these days I suppose if the XR machines picked up all your secreted bottles of orange liquid! Can;t stand the stuff myself, but many Scots swear by it as a hangover cure!

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: mg
Date: 28 Nov 17 - 08:22 PM

Bonnie Prince Charlie. Showers that don't have low flow on them (I am in and out of a shower in under a minute so I don't waste water). Plastic bags, maybe 20 total per lifetime, that are made to last for years and years and we used to get. Horrible fines if they end up in the ocean. Latin Mass. Pretty songs in church (Catholic). Occupational education for all high school students, including those with superioristic attitudes. WPA programs. Jobs for all. People who respect other people's celebration, like St. Patrick's day..did I use my apostrophes correctly? Oh yea..ice cream with shamrocks in it. Peppermint ice cream for christmas. Shorter advent and lent and less giving up and more adding in. Mutual respect and appreciation between men and women.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: bobad
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 08:14 AM

The bustle.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 12:21 PM

As long as the jurors are executed if anyone is hanged on the basis of making a wrong decision, and are publically called out as uncivilised is the verdict is right.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Iains
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 02:17 PM

The 11+, monty python and flat caps.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 02:41 PM

the 1970s...

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 03:26 PM

little butchers shops.

pork pies are shit these days and sausages.

there should be a law saying that you should be able to taste the sage in a lincolnshire sausage. mind you, they make lincolnshite sausages anywhere these days. the eu wouldn't give lincolnshire exclusivity on the term. bastards!

i wrote a protest song about it at the time.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 05:47 PM

There may not be a fortune at the return of these memories but some are a laugh and some are heartwarming.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 06:02 PM

Nixon.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: gillymor
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 06:45 PM

Marnie Nixon yeah, Tricky Dick no way.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 07:28 PM

David Nixon - I got his magic tricks set when I was a kid for Xmas. What a man!

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 08:43 PM

In the show Futurama, Nixon's talking head is in a jar of eternity already.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 09:01 PM

Dixon of Dock Green

Z Cars

Softly, Softly

Public Eye

Callan

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Stanron
Date: 29 Nov 17 - 09:07 PM

Repeats?

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Will Fly
Date: 30 Nov 17 - 04:24 AM

Our beers from last night.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 Nov 17 - 04:30 AM

My lincolnshire sausage song

I love the guitar


https://soundcloud.com/denise_whittle/the-mayor-louth-and-the

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Joe_F
Date: 30 Nov 17 - 08:11 PM

Licorice tar babies.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 30 Nov 17 - 10:40 PM

Lemon & Lime Cresta - It's frothy maaaan...

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: meself
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 12:41 AM

The snows of yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Will Fly
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 10:44 AM

My Bonnie to me, to me...

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 03:09 PM

ollol lol

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 03:27 PM

Super Balls
super golf balls
super rubber baby buggy bumpers

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: gillymor
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 03:41 PM

Fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets that are actually designed to taste like something rather than to just travel well.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Dec 17 - 06:36 AM

i really miss the ladies underwear adverts on telly. they only do ladies underwear adverts for for people who are incontinent these days.

i suppose most of us are of an age where we go round pissing ourselves, and that a touch of reality does us all good.

however - i find them a wee bit less alluring.

triumph have the bra for the way you are, and the lady in black tights and a playtex girdle are no more, and i miss them.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Jos
Date: 02 Dec 17 - 07:07 AM

Celery in shops that has that delicious bit of root at the base. Why do they slice it off now? I know I can buy celeriac, but that's no reason to deny me that little treat.

Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ?
From: Ernest
Date: 03 Dec 17 - 07:39 AM

All the Mudcatters that died or left out of various reasons....