Memories of old people (your memories)

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  1. Jayaruh

    Jayaruh The Cackalacky House Pet

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    I remember my mother telling me, "Don't drink out of that fountain. It's for coloreds." I had no idea.
     
  2. Bookworm

    Bookworm Well-Known Member

    I'd buy one of those today!

    Yup - although I did a bunch of research, and it appears that most of the ones that _looked_ like a continuous length actually were not. As they came off of one roller, they were rolled up on the pickup roller. It's just that the towels are so long that you wouldn't tend to see it. They'd then be unloaded and sent off for cleaning - just like uniforms. (possibly _with_ the uniforms)

    Like the water would be any different.
     
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  3. Bookworm

    Bookworm Well-Known Member

    Just as a follow-up, there have apparently been two attempts to bring back a grated soap dispenser in the last 6 years or so. The only one I can find that appears to be a real product is $149 euros, and requires -square- bars of soap. (soap block in the top, and you push a bar at the front which grates some soap)
     
  4. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    Reminds me of a "poem" that an old (now deceased) Irish neighbor used to quote.

    mild language warning (open)

    When Adam was a little boy
    and paper not invented,
    he'd wipe his ass upon the grass
    and walk away contented.
     
  5. Eeyore

    Eeyore Well-Known Member

    This soap I mean:

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  6. Bookworm

    Bookworm Well-Known Member

    Oh wow. I don't believe I've ever seen that, and I've seen a lot of weird bathrooms in 45 years.
     
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  7. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    Some things are better left unposted. :eek:

    :rofl:
     
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  8. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    Ik heb het nooit gezien.
    (I have never seen it.)
     
  9. Eeyore

    Eeyore Well-Known Member

    I think these are typical European maybe?
     
  10. Keithmax

    Keithmax Breeds Pet Rocks

    They few I've seen here are puke green. I'll take a [pic the next time I see one.
     
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  11. Bookworm

    Bookworm Well-Known Member

    You mean you've never been in a Dairy Queen? I swear, of all the bathrooms of all the restaurants, those tend to be universally the _worst_.

    (With family in Canada, and living in Texas, that makes for a lot of long road trips)
     
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  12. richgem

    richgem suffering from chronic clicker hand cramps

    I'm lactose intolerant so no. But at least now I know what I've been missing, I think.
     
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  13. AGHisBBS

    AGHisBBS Well-Known Member

    Etch a sketch, silly putty, spirorgaph, erector sets, train sets, slot cars, slinkys, metal Tonka trucks.
     
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  14. Norcalnewb

    Norcalnewb Magnanimous Moos

    I remember my dad taking me to a department store bathroom to wash my mouth out with that grated soap when I had said a bad word. I remember thinking I had the whole bar caked in there. I also remember thinking it didn't taste too well.
     
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  15. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    I remember being in a department store and needing to use the bathroom, only to get their and find they were pay toilets. At seven I had to find my mother to get change and go back ... quickly! :scared007:I always thought it was crazy to charge for a necessary bodily function. :angry032:
     
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  16. Bookworm

    Bookworm Well-Known Member

    Frankly, I understood _public_ toilets being 'for pay'. Someone has to maintain them, and there are consumables. It's not like it's just a hole in the ground. Private pay toilets I thought as being like pay parking for a shopping centre. That's just greed, to try to get money two ways from the same person.
     
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  17. Eeyore

    Eeyore Well-Known Member

    Bon Scott was still alive.
     
  18. Enrico

    Enrico Popcorn

    My father had a bunch of cans of this on the shelve. I use to pack bearing on my car and bicycles with it.
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  19. jtspartan

    jtspartan appropriately stimulated, via Netflix

    You may be amazed at how many of these things are still around. Maybe not the same quality, but still around. My kids, who are still in Elementary School, had had the following from your list- Etch a Sketch, Silly Putty, Metal Slinkies and Metal Tonka Trucks. Other 'older' toys that they have that we got new are Lincoln logs and Mechano.
     
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  20. AGHisBBS

    AGHisBBS Well-Known Member

    I guess there is some hope for the video game generation:D.
     
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