Rag and Bone
We've just had a proper old style rag and bone man going down our road, with the horse and cart, dirty scruffy look simpley screaming "Bone" every few yards.

I haven't seen one of these in years and it made me feel all young and nostalgic again.

What things would you like to see return to the present day that were about when you were younger?
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:11, archived)

I have no idea what you're on about.

(K B D lets do everything YOU want to do!, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:12, archived)

Are you taking the piss
Surely everyone knows what a rag and bone man is.

images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&lr=&um=1&sa=1&q=rag+and+bone+man&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:12, archived)

Those are horses

(K B D lets do everything YOU want to do!, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:13, archived)

It's a collective thing
Like when you say Ice Cream Man, you would expect him to have a tinkling van with him playing greensleeves or the wanderer
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:15, archived)

I like the rag and bone man, very bottom right

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:15, archived)

if you mean the painting one
then that's just fucking CREEPY
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:16, archived)

naw, mine's a picture of a girl with big boobies :)

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:16, archived)

in the orange top?

( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)

yup

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:19, archived)

*investigates*
Marvellous.
( broadsword, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)

Have you got safesearch on?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:20, archived)

Aha, I see.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:21, archived)

Fucking hell, what's wrong with her face?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:22, archived)

haha you were looking at her face
GAYLORD GAYLORD YOU LIKE FACES
( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:25, archived)

I heard that you march down the street shouting 'Bone' every few feet
for very different reasons.
( WormuIus, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:28, archived)

"Broom" more like

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:28, archived)

Good morning dwarf.

( WormuIus, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:30, archived)

Hello sideparting.
How's tricks?
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:30, archived)

Ok, my housemate bullied me becuase I have a submarine commander game that requires you to issue the orders through a headset.
Oh the shame!

I'm shitting my pants over my scholarship interview tomorrow as well.
( WormuIus, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:32, archived)

What game? That sounds awesome

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:33, archived)

Sub command

( WormuIus, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:36, archived)

It's the geekiest thing I've ever seen
You have to be able to a read a sonar waterfall array :(((
( WormuIus, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:36, archived)

geekier that steel battalion?
that needed this controller:
gamefocus.co.uk/shop/catalog/images/steel_battalion.jpg
( manolith hooray for me, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:39, archived)

when you died in game, I don't think you could save it either
you had to start from the beginning. That's not fun, that's work :(
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:42, archived)

i've never played it
but i know it had a red self-destruct button under a clear case!
( manolith hooray for me, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:44, archived)

One day, when I have lots of money, I will buy that.

( ArthurTheRat, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:45, archived)

hehe
UP PERISCOPE.

Ooh, good luck - I'm sure you'll be fine :)
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:33, archived)

I bet you just squeal like a sugared up toddler over credits and then it crashes

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:34, archived)

Also good luck for the interview mate :)

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:34, archived)

You'll be fine.

( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:34, archived)

you see what you want to see

( manolith hooray for me, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:37, archived)

Are you 12?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:14, archived)

18

(K B D lets do everything YOU want to do!, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:15, archived)

that also explains it
they seemed to disappear when I was about 15 so you would have only been 3, eeeeee these kids don't know what they've missed.
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:17, archived)

a communicable disease?

(likeajackhammer, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)

ok... now s/l

(likeajackhammer, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)

yes/ym
(K B D lets do everything YOU want to do!, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)

I LOL'd

(likeajackhammer, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:19, archived)

MJ Zombie

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:13, archived)

HEEER HEE!

( rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)

Did you check out his bone?

( broadsword, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:13, archived)

I saw one in Hull when I was twelve.
This says more about Hull than me, I suppose.
( rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:13, archived)

Maggie Thatcher

( Theoban What of it, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:13, archived)

Also, trying to find Cider Lollies is well hard from an ice cream man.

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:13, archived)

I want those lollies back that had two lolly sticks

( Theoban What of it, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:16, archived)

You can get those in Morrisons

( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)

But Morrisons has dirty floors and loads of crying children
I'm too middle class to go there
( Theoban What of it, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:19, archived)

OOOOH
Ice lollies, held on their side, with ice cream on one of the flat sides. From the ice cream man. Also calling raspberry sauce 'monkey blood'.
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:21, archived)

YES!
and do you remember the Ice cream blocks that were wrapped in paper and you were given a square cone with it.
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:23, archived)

Of course!

( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:26, archived)

I hated that Ice Cream man
no bits or sauce and he didn't even sell panda pop like Rossie did
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:27, archived)

WITCH'S HAT

( manolith hooray for me, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:31, archived)

Proper sized Curly Wurlys

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:13, archived)

I had a really weird dream the other night,
in which people were pelting me with Curly Wurlies. It was a bit worrying.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:15, archived)

Sexiest dream ever.

( The Gentleman Bastard waxing lyrical. ©, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:31, archived)

That wasn't a rag and bone man.
That was Mental Frank.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:14, archived)

I've heard of him.
He's mental.
( rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)

my mum

( mongychops, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:15, archived)

Was he followed by a dirty old man shouting "'AROLD!"
with the rag and bone man dispairing at his life and how his typecasting never allowed him to do anything else with his career ever again?
( Edd: The Unfunny Try-Hard Edgelord, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:17, archived)

bit hard to do other things with your career when you are dead

( mongychops, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:19, archived)

It is a handicap, I'll give him that.

( Edd: The Unfunny Try-Hard Edgelord, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:20, archived)

And to answer your question
chocolate covered pretzels.
( Edd: The Unfunny Try-Hard Edgelord, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:19, archived)

Haha, it's one of those stereotypes that ALWAYS fits the bill though
I've never seen a clean looking clean shaven rag and bone man, they've all got brown wool coats and a flatcap.
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:19, archived)

Pint glasses with handles
House prices (although they seem to be doing that all on their own lol)
( Mykeyboy A massive, salty filing cabinet, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:18, archived)

Pint glasses with handles are for manly ladies
or girly men. END OF DISCUSSION.
( rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:23, archived)

NOT THE BIG CHUNKY ONES WITH DINTS ON.
Those are awsome.
( WormuIus, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:31, archived)

ESPECIALLY THE BIG CHUNKY ONES WITH DINTS ON.
Manly ladies, girly men, West Ridingers.
( rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:35, archived)

I put it to you Russel
That the new straight pint glass is a modern, Southern, homoseuxal pecadillo
( WormuIus, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:38, archived)

www.b3ta.com/talk/5540072
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:36, archived)

Corn Pops. Crispix.

( ArthurTheRat, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:19, archived)

I recall neither of these

( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:24, archived)

They are both cereals.
I was a slightly portly child.
( ArthurTheRat, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:30, archived)

The Corona pop man.
Also proper snowball fights and pushing Todd into the pond every week and then all of us following him home laughing whilst he cried. EVERY WEEK.*



*disclaimer, I was too young to have pushed him in being only four or five. It was very funny though.
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:20, archived)

Aww you rotten buggers
We had a pop man too, but it was Ben Shaws and if you returned your bottle to him he gave you 5p back, my sister used to save loads of bottles for me so I could give them to him and buy sweets behind my mum and dads back.
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:22, archived)

Our local pop van was run by William Hague's dad
Hague's Pops. Shit it was.
( Theoban What of it, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:27, archived)

Our pop van was from 'AAA' Minerals. Their cherryade was a wonder of chemical goodness.

( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:34, archived)

Cherryade is shit nowadays

( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:38, archived)

you were an accessory to these terrible crimes
i'm telling on you, i'm getting you done
( manolith hooray for me, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:37, archived)

When people used to buy cheap mountain bikes and love them
Now you get looked down upon because you didn't want to spend over £2k on £10kg of aluminium and rubber
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:24, archived)

Raleigh Choppers and BMX FTW
I had a blue chopper with a red flag on a pole and spokeys so it made a noise as I went down the road. We also used to put a squashed tin can at the back to makeit sound like motorbike.
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:26, archived)

Choppers were ace.
I have a scar on my face from where I jumped off one and smacked my face off a kerb.
( Blue Star was working part time at the 5 and Dime, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:38, archived)

This is proper playing out
not this half hearted crap the kids do nowadays.

I was bollocked by mum on friday for encouraging my son to climb a 5ft fence to get his ball back from next door (they were out otheriwse I would have made him go and ask politely)
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:44, archived)

never seen one, I have to say
I used to like those ice creams with popping candy in. Om nom nom.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:25, archived)

Like Screwballs?

( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:27, archived)

we still have screwballs
these were red, and had this crackly stuff all over. A bit like those Willy Wonka chocolate bars out ages ago.
( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:30, archived)

Ohh I feel rubbish that I have never experienced these :(

( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:31, archived)

Buy your favourite icecream and unload a bag of poprocks in it.
Problem solved :D
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:32, archived)

No, that's a gumball

( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:30, archived)

I miss the man who would come around and sharpen knives on his special bike. My knives are fucked.
And the mobile library. And the fruit and veg van. And the frozen food van. All of these things I miss.
Honestly, I'm only 26.
( fannycradock, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:26, archived)

Morning :D
Blunt knives are awful, I've got to get a sharpening stone for the ones I've been given, you'd be better off trying to cut something with a butter knife.
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:29, archived)

Morning :D
We never actually got our knives sharpened as my mum was worried that my dad would stab her, or there would be some terrible accident. Ho-hum :) Blunt knives are far more perilous though *waves plaster-ridden fingers*
( fannycradock, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:34, archived)

We still have a mobile library
The fruit and veg van has been moved to the community centre but thats only because they've upped the quality of veg and kept the prices cheap.
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:29, archived)

Lucky you x 2
I live above an africa food shop, and will on ocasion buy a strange fruit or vegetable, then watch it rot as I am usually to wary/lazy to do anything with it.
( fannycradock, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:40, archived)

you are not, Bryan

( spangolin - the odds are good but the goods are odd, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:30, archived)

Yes I am, listen
RHODODENDROOOON
IZZZ A NICE FLEEEWUR
( fannycradock, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:44, archived)

Pogs

( WormuIus, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:33, archived)

back where i used to live, there was some tit in a pick up truck
driving around ringing a great big bell asking for people's old tat

really annoying, he was
( manolith hooray for me, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:33, archived)

my grandad was a rag and bone man
i used to go with him when i was little. i had to sit on my lunch box so the seatbelt would reach.
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:34, archived)

I bet that was ACE!
Did he make a fortune?
( Mrs Sp@m, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:37, archived)

nah its not lucrative and he was a proper gyppo, liked a beer and a gamble
all pissed up the wall
( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:38, archived)

I´m sure there are laws against that kind of thing

( broadsword, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:41, archived)

SILENCE YOU.

( rosalicious i fucking love youve been framed, Mon 29 Jun 2009, 11:46, archived)