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27 Nov 17 - 03:40 PM (#3890756) Subject: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel 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? |
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27 Nov 17 - 05:54 PM (#3890781) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Greg F. Bring Back Hanging. And imprisonment for debt. |
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27 Nov 17 - 06:03 PM (#3890785) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: ripov Common sense, and ditch political correctness. |
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27 Nov 17 - 06:53 PM (#3890792) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: meself 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 ... ! |
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27 Nov 17 - 07:21 PM (#3890798) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel meself, I liked that double entendre phrase when I wrote it. Bring back hand crank non electric appliances like Coffee bean grinders. |
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27 Nov 17 - 07:31 PM (#3890801) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: gillymor 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. |
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27 Nov 17 - 07:53 PM (#3890803) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: punkfolkrocker minge |
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28 Nov 17 - 02:26 AM (#3890824) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: lefthanded guitar 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. |
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28 Nov 17 - 03:35 AM (#3890830) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: BobL 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. |
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28 Nov 17 - 03:48 AM (#3890834) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Mr Red 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. |
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28 Nov 17 - 08:26 AM (#3890909) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Stu Old English Spangles. |
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28 Nov 17 - 08:39 AM (#3890916) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Dave the Gnome Clothes that fit me... :D tG |
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28 Nov 17 - 09:57 AM (#3890933) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw 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. |
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28 Nov 17 - 10:12 AM (#3890938) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Will Fly The cat. |
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28 Nov 17 - 10:53 AM (#3890950) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Jack Campin There are some nice ideas in Frazer's "The Golden Bough" about publicly sacrificing your ruler when they fuck up. |
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28 Nov 17 - 11:34 AM (#3890961) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: leeneia What should we bring back? Homes without television, etc Family meals Parents who talk to their babies Singing in the car |
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28 Nov 17 - 01:37 PM (#3890987) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: punkfolkrocker The Short Sunderland flying boat... |
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28 Nov 17 - 01:50 PM (#3890990) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: JHW Eldorado choc ices |
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28 Nov 17 - 03:11 PM (#3891001) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw Sweet white Hirondelle. |
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28 Nov 17 - 03:19 PM (#3891003) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Jos 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. |
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28 Nov 17 - 04:23 PM (#3891011) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: keberoxu 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. |
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28 Nov 17 - 06:21 PM (#3891031) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: gillymor 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. |
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28 Nov 17 - 07:27 PM (#3891038) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw I just find that the porcelain's too cold. |
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28 Nov 17 - 07:53 PM (#3891040) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel 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. |
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28 Nov 17 - 08:09 PM (#3891044) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Tattie Bogle 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! |
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28 Nov 17 - 08:22 PM (#3891047) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: mg 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. |
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29 Nov 17 - 08:14 AM (#3891123) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: bobad The bustle. |
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29 Nov 17 - 12:21 PM (#3891203) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: SPB-Cooperator 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. |
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29 Nov 17 - 02:17 PM (#3891244) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Iains The 11+, monty python and flat caps. |
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29 Nov 17 - 02:41 PM (#3891250) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: punkfolkrocker the 1970s... |
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29 Nov 17 - 03:26 PM (#3891265) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Big Al Whittle 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. |
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29 Nov 17 - 05:47 PM (#3891296) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel There may not be a fortune at the return of these memories but some are a laugh and some are heartwarming. |
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29 Nov 17 - 06:02 PM (#3891299) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw Nixon. |
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29 Nov 17 - 06:45 PM (#3891306) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: gillymor Marnie Nixon yeah, Tricky Dick no way. |
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29 Nov 17 - 07:28 PM (#3891309) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Big Al Whittle David Nixon - I got his magic tricks set when I was a kid for Xmas. What a man! |
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29 Nov 17 - 08:43 PM (#3891320) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel In the show Futurama, Nixon's talking head is in a jar of eternity already. |
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29 Nov 17 - 09:01 PM (#3891327) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: punkfolkrocker Dixon of Dock Green Z Cars Softly, Softly Public Eye Callan |
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29 Nov 17 - 09:07 PM (#3891330) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Stanron Repeats? |
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30 Nov 17 - 04:24 AM (#3891366) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Will Fly Our beers from last night. |
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30 Nov 17 - 04:30 AM (#3891367) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Big Al Whittle My lincolnshire sausage song I love the guitar https://soundcloud.com/denise_whittle/the-mayor-louth-and-the |
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30 Nov 17 - 08:11 PM (#3891533) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Joe_F Licorice tar babies. |
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30 Nov 17 - 10:40 PM (#3891542) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: punkfolkrocker Lemon & Lime Cresta - It's frothy maaaan... |
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01 Dec 17 - 12:41 AM (#3891547) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: meself The snows of yesterday. |
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01 Dec 17 - 10:44 AM (#3891661) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Will Fly My Bonnie to me, to me... |
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01 Dec 17 - 03:09 PM (#3891715) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel ollol lol |
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01 Dec 17 - 03:27 PM (#3891718) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel Super Balls super golf balls super rubber baby buggy bumpers |
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01 Dec 17 - 03:41 PM (#3891721) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: gillymor Fruit and vegetables in the supermarkets that are actually designed to taste like something rather than to just travel well. |
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02 Dec 17 - 06:36 AM (#3891808) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Big Al Whittle 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. |
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02 Dec 17 - 07:07 AM (#3891816) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Jos 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. |
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03 Dec 17 - 07:39 AM (#3891991) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Ernest All the Mudcatters that died or left out of various reasons.... |
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03 Dec 17 - 09:03 AM (#3892003) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel Started the day with a wee laugh from Big Al. Headliners would gladly steal his joke. Despite all the love, loss and respect I have for the dearly departed ladies and gentleman of mudcat, I have never seen a movie where it was a brilliant idea to bring back the dead. But I don't know. Maybe there's an app for that. There is the movie Transcendence that comes close. Lets bring back the super moon tonight. |
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03 Dec 17 - 12:42 PM (#3892047) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Tattie Bogle Reins for small children: rarely seen these days, but a really good idea if, like last night, you are doing any form of walk where there are large crowds. We were in Edinburgh's "Christmas at the Botanics" where you walk a pathway round the gardens, dimly, but very prettily lit, hundreds of other people, many with small children, there. It only took our grandson 5 minutes to get lost. And the full moon was beautiful, Donuel: sandwiched between a sloping roof and a huge fir tree! |
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03 Dec 17 - 02:48 PM (#3892067) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Big Al Whittle Folk Clubs booking guests like Derek Brimstone, Noel Murphy, Hamish Imlach, Gerry Lockran.... |
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04 Dec 17 - 02:33 PM (#3892223) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Tattie Bogle At least one o them is lang deid, sadly! |
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06 Dec 17 - 10:29 AM (#3892433) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Big Al Whittle three of them sadly. |
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06 Dec 17 - 01:17 PM (#3892463) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: JHW Walls between rooms in pubs |
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06 Dec 17 - 01:33 PM (#3892471) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: punkfolkrocker Disgraced Politicians taking the honourable gentleman's option of retiring to their office with a cigar, brandy, and a revolver loaded with a single bullet... |
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06 Dec 17 - 06:39 PM (#3892505) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: bobad Proper grammar (note the redundancy in the thread title) |
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06 Dec 17 - 07:26 PM (#3892511) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel When everything old is new again on multiple occasions it would be appropriate to ask what we should bring back [again]. I believe this is a case of purposeful redundancy. Or a left handed swipe at the Trump brand. |
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08 Dec 17 - 08:28 AM (#3892789) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: SPB-Cooperator Doomwatch including the wiped episodes. |
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08 Dec 17 - 08:29 AM (#3892790) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: SPB-Cooperator Ditto for misleading cases |
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08 Dec 17 - 10:06 AM (#3892810) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Stu "flat caps" Flat caps have never gone away. |
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08 Dec 17 - 10:40 AM (#3892815) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Elmore Obama. |
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09 Dec 17 - 06:50 AM (#3892954) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Mr Red talking of Dixon and aging male folkies ................................... |
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09 Dec 17 - 07:20 AM (#3892964) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel ALL of the inspired lost irreproducible posts of genius that did not take and disappeared. ;^/, |
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11 Dec 17 - 01:38 PM (#3893377) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Charmion You know what I miss? Telephone canvassers who call me Mrs. A nice lady from UNICEF called yesterday and made me really mad by struggling to pronounce my name correctly even after I told her not to use it. "We obviously don't know me because you can't pronounce my name. So call me Mrs Thomas; you can manage that, can't you?" I said, but it made no difference. She charged on through her script, filling in several different (but all wrong) versions of my first name in all the slots where she's supposed to say it to reinforce the relationship with the client/donor. Of course, I was more alienated with every repetition of Sharmaine, Champignon, Charlemagne, Champagne ... on and on it went. Finally, I said, "Look, we're not friends and at this rate we never will be. My first name is for my friends, not strangers like you. Call me Mrs Thomas, or call me nothing. Better still, hang up and never call back." She was really, really hurt. I did not care. |
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11 Dec 17 - 01:53 PM (#3893380) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: peteglasgow socialism |
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11 Dec 17 - 05:21 PM (#3893418) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel Unique Book Stores Our local library takes donations and estate collections for their basement sale. In this area some of the things they get ranges from classified material to things with original price points I could never touch like oils of authors that once hung in the Library of Congress. |
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11 Dec 17 - 08:26 PM (#3893433) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw If you've already brought something back once, your efforts were unsuccessful, and you want to bring it back again, then the thread title is entirely appropriate and everyone posting so far has misunderstood the purpose of the thread. |
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12 Dec 17 - 07:40 AM (#3893510) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw "Flat caps have never gone away." Heard on "Clue" last night (not verbatim): "You can always tell if a Yorkshireman's dyslexic because he'll be wearing a cat flap." |
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12 Dec 17 - 10:16 AM (#3893537) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel Switching the letters of two words is not a symptom of dyslexia and never has been. So Steve may you worship your Queer old Dean Bring back the US Tax structure of 1955 |
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12 Dec 17 - 12:21 PM (#3893556) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw The butt of the joke was supposed to be Yorkshiremen. I try to make Yorkshiremen the butt of as many of my jokes as possible. |
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12 Dec 17 - 01:43 PM (#3893570) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel Along with your Dear old Queen? Bring back humanitarian lessons in religion and politics. |
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12 Dec 17 - 02:54 PM (#3893590) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Tattie Bogle Should we start a new thread for best Spoonerisms and Malapropisms? Or bring back un-PC jokes, though they've never really gone away! |
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12 Dec 17 - 03:00 PM (#3893591) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw Old McDonald was dyslexic OIOIE I'll get me coat... |
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12 Dec 17 - 04:24 PM (#3893608) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Donuel Steve if you have any jokes about adopted, artist, blonde, cellist, dyslexic, inventive, political, scientific, shaman, ukulele guys, that should cover it. bring back the 1915 flu, oops we already did. |
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13 Dec 17 - 08:28 AM (#3893709) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Mrrzy The concepts of shame and disgrace. Much of the 70s but not all the obnnoxious harassment. But everything else. Yeah, a sense of humor so we can tell jokes again. An acceptance, in the US, of atheism as a normal variant. We had that in the '70's. And, yeah, my Bonnie. |
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13 Dec 17 - 03:25 PM (#3893794) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: John on the Sunset Coast Civility in all walks of life. |
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14 Dec 17 - 10:57 AM (#3893975) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Bee-dubya-ell I would bring back egg racks in refrigerator doors. Maybe they still have 'em in some refrigerator models, but I haven'd owned one in many years. Without an egg rack, there's no safe place to put the last egg out of a dozen except back in its carton. So, you have an entire egg carton's worth of refrigerator space dedicated to a single egg. Ridiculous! |
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14 Dec 17 - 04:49 PM (#3894017) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw Keep your eggs in your veg rack. No need for the fridge! |
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15 Dec 17 - 05:43 AM (#3894065) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Jos Bring back larders - it's not just eggs that don't need to be in the fridge, but a cool place to keep food can be better than a centrally heated house. |
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15 Dec 17 - 07:42 PM (#3894212) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: punkfolkrocker Yes, and it's not as potentially hazardous to lock a naughty child or pensioner in a larder, than it is in a fridge or a freezer.... |
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15 Dec 17 - 08:03 PM (#3894213) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Steve Shaw Spinning newspaper headline: "Boy trapped in refrigerator eats own foot." Best frickin' laugh in any film EVER! Bring back Airplane! |
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15 Dec 17 - 09:33 PM (#3894220) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: Bee-dubya-ell Keep your eggs in your veg rack. No need for the fridge! True, in most of the world, but not in the US. The US Department of Agriculture, for some benighted reason, requires that eggs sold in supermarkets be sanitized and refrigerated. Once they've been refrigerated, they need to be kept that way or they will sweat, which can promote bacterial growth. |
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15 Dec 17 - 10:35 PM (#3894222) Subject: RE: BS: What should we bring back again ? From: punkfolkrocker "Keep your eggs in your veg rack. No need for the fridge!" Sounds like the opening line of a very saucy novelty song... Bring back novelty one hit wonders dominating the pop charts...!!! |