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Things you dont see anymore

OmanGrecian

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Pot pourri in homes
 

DB9

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Pot pourri in homes
Or to us uneducated, Funny smelling snacks! 😄
 

Spoonz Red E

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Pot pourri in homes
As Ian Paisley might once have said.
"No popery.
You might want to give it 5 minutes."
 

cannockred

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Looking forward....
Plus masses of food waste from greedy gits overloading plates & not eating half of it.

I was always astounded when pubs attached to some Premier Inns had the evening buffets on Mon-Fri,watching the locals with their kids pile food high on plates,food they could not possibly eat.
It was like a frigging zoo.

I gave those places a swerve very quickly.
Thankfully the chain concerned stopped the buffets a couple of years ago.

Having managed pubs with a buffet style service in addition to pizzas, burgers etc, its amazing that all of the plates for the all you can eat buffet always came back with food still piled high, whereas the food that peopl 'had paid for everything' on the plate always came back hardly needing washing :cool:
 

cannockred

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Pot pourri in homes
Now all you get is those bits of bamboo in oil that you catch with your hand every time you walk past them !
 

contrabombarde

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Now all you get is those bits of bamboo in oil that you catch with your hand every time you walk past them !
Yes, and cost an arm and a leg...bleddy rubbish but you can’t argue :D
 

DB9

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Video rental shops.
 

Dannyred

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Video rental shops.
Blockbusters Video
 

DB9

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Blockbusters Video
Apparently there is still one left, I think it's in the US but is still trading. At one point there were thousands of shops all over the world.
 

Dannyred

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Apparently there is still one left, I think it's in the US but is still trading. At one point there were thousands of shops all over the world.
I still have a huge collection of music videos that are probably worthless now.
 
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