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Post by ARENA on Aug 17, 2013 11:20:51 GMT
Bournville plain chocolate Caramac Blue Riband Punch Player's Weights
Care to add to the list
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Post by goldielox on Aug 17, 2013 20:50:22 GMT
Fry's Chocolate cream..............mmmm
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Post by thejanitor on Sept 7, 2013 10:49:38 GMT
"Proper" sized Wagon Wheels! These tiddly little things sold today are not worthy of the name. TJ
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Post by ARENA on Sept 7, 2013 10:55:48 GMT
Agree TJ but most confectionary has been reduced in size, since we were lads!
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Post by thejanitor on Sept 7, 2013 19:52:09 GMT
Or is it that we just got bigger? TJ
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Post by goldielox on Sept 8, 2013 10:11:03 GMT
Or is it that we just got bigger? TJ Cheeky
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Post by cobden28 on Feb 11, 2014 21:33:07 GMT
What about buying anything sold in imperial measurements - yards, feet and inches? Metric measurements don't mean a thing to me, as my year at school were taught in imperial measures but the exam was in metric!
Even though the UK went metric in the early 1970's, I still mentally translate everything into imperial measurements. It means so much more to me if something is measured in 'English' measures and not this blessed 'foreign' measures!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 11:38:38 GMT
Add to the list? A half decent newspaper Music which is still memorable after 24 hours My favourite tobacco - Old Particular if anyone wishes to send me a little.
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Post by scorp on Feb 12, 2014 13:46:27 GMT
My father's one indulgence - his ounce of Legation Mixture... a Wills's product, I think.
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Post by jimshoo on Feb 12, 2014 13:58:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 14:04:35 GMT
Mine was a mixture sold by Tranters in Bath, and despite the joy of going to that little shop with all the aroma and some pipes which were to me at the time unaffordable works of art you could also buy it online. My children would indulge me at Christmas and the occasional birthday.
Sadly I don't think the shop is there any more. All I can find is their online store for cigars. Those I buy in Spain.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 14:23:12 GMT
I don't think you can get salt and vinegar flavoured condoms any more. They have been withdrawn
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Post by ARENA on Feb 12, 2014 14:56:52 GMT
Before parting company with the cancer sticks, my favourite treat was going into a wee tobacconist just by the Cheshire Cheese and treating myself to some fine havanas
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2014 15:10:12 GMT
Indeed Arena. The beauty of a decent cigar is that you need time to smoke it,qite a lot of time, usually sitting with a glass and some good company. And best of all, nothing pressing to do.
I still smoke. Far less than of old and never cigarettes - I don't even like the smell of them.
Cigars? I doubt I smoke more than one a month and at that rate of consumption my stock in the front room will last until I am about 125, a milestone I fully intend to pass......
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Post by ARENA on Feb 12, 2014 15:25:27 GMT
I had a chum in the sixties who's dad was in the Kentish Constabulary. One night ,whilst staying chez dad we ran out of Harry Wraggs and raided his pre-rolled supply. The tobacco was called Hearts of Oak. Nearly choked us to death. Dad sadly died of cancer!
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