Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now

[Jimini]

Not heard that before, for us it was always an Eartha (Kitt)

Brad (Pitt) for me, back in the '90s!

 

[Bradford PA]

The name was absorbed into rhyming slang many decades ago.

Also not heard the "split" slang before but am familiar with the other ice cream slang of raspberry ripple.

 

[GordonT]

Brad (Pitt) for me, back in the '90s!

Or a Tom (tit).

 

[Sun Chariot]

Female dance troupes Hot Gossip and Legs & Co.
The former I think appeared regularly on The Kenny Everett Television Show.
The latter made various appearances and even made it onto Blue Peter. I kid you not.

 

[Brent Goose]

The cat on the Charlie public information films was apparently voiced by KE, the child being an acquaintance of the producer, perhaps they ran out of money after hiring him.

 

[GordonT]

Domestic car garages actually being used for garaging cars.

 

[Harpo]

Female dance troupes Hot Gossip and Legs & Co.

Or the earlier version Pans People, always the most boring bit of Top Of The Pops.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Or the earlier version Pans People, always the most boring bit of Top Of The Pops.

Yes, to me they looked "whimsically floaty" due to their styles of clothing and dancing.

Hot Gossip and Legs & Co dressed in ways that made a few dads' pulses race a little more...

 

[AM9]

Yes, to me they looked "whimsically floaty" due to their styles of clothing and dancing.

Hot Gossip and Legs & Co dressed in ways that made a few dads' pulses race a little more...

Pan's People also worked on older viewers, notably Norman Stanley Fletcher who once remarked: "beautiful babs, - dunno what her name is". Classic line.

 

[BingMan]

Domestic car garages actually being used for garaging cars.

Often not possible now, with the increased width of modern cars

 

[GordonT]

Often not possible now, with the increased width of modern cars

Indeed, increasing the propensity for garages to be used to store "stuff" that would overwhelm attics.

 

[Ediswan]

Female dance troupes Hot Gossip and Legs & Co.

Hot Gossip was a mixed troupe.

 

[Acey]

Hot Gossip was a mixed troupe.

Really ? never noticed !

 

[Sun Chariot]

Really ? never noticed !

You beat me to it.

 

[MP33]

In the show that was on LWT, late on Sunday evening. Jasper Carrott told an anecdote about appearing on Top of the Pops. He said that on meeting Pans People in the flesh, they were all around five foot tall, had spots that were covered in makeup and from the effort of dancing, had well-developed legs and hips.

 

[david1212]

Often not possible now, with the increased width of modern cars

Never mind the original mini I recall on a journey following a first generation new mini clubman then a second generation and realising how much wider this was.

 

[Harpo]

Domestic car garages actually being used for garaging cars.

One solitary person on my street puts their car in their garage - but absolutely nothing else.

 

[BingMan]

One solitary person on my street puts their car in their garage - but absolutely nothing else.

My double garage house one small hatchback, four bicycles, all my garden tools and a bicycle repair station.
What else would you use a garage for?

 

[GordonT]

Skype has given way to Teams except for business users.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Skype has given way to Teams except for business users.

My business usage has never been Skype. In the past 13 years, it has been Teams at "grown up" businesses - and Google in the companies trying to do VoIP "on the cheap".

 

[najaB]

My business usage has never been Skype. In the past 13 years, it has been Teams at "grown up" businesses...

If you've been using Teams for 13 years then you seem to have both skipped Lync and Skype for Business, and also started using Teams some seven years before its initial release in 2017.

 

[Harpo]

I’m so old I can remember conference phone calls, usually a paid-for service that you dialled into, and sometimes in meeting rooms with a three-legged speaker phone on the table.

It was how the daily performance review (aka morning prayers) was run.

 

[Sun Chariot]

If you've been using Teams for 13 years then you seem to have both skipped Lync and Skype for Business, and also started using Teams some seven years before its initial release in 2017.

2012 my company used Google. 2015, my next company used Google and we transitioned to Teams in 2017; and my next company after that, was already fully Teams adopted when I joined end-2019. Hence the second part of my post #2570.

 

[GordonT]

I’m so old I can remember conference phone calls, usually a paid-for service that you dialled into, and sometimes in meeting rooms with a three-legged speaker phone on the table.

Reminds me of a telephonic contraption beside the General Manager's desk when I worked in a bus company office.
It enabled him to press down a key for, say, the Traffic Manager's extension which would then emit a "special" ring (ching-ching-ching pause ching-ching-ching ad infinitum) so that the recipient knew that it was the GM who was chasing them.

 

[Jimini]

I’m so old I can remember conference phone calls, usually a paid-for service that you dialled into, and sometimes in meeting rooms with a three-legged speaker phone on the table.

It was how the daily performance review (aka morning prayers) was run.

We still used those up until circa. 2015 (AT&T teleconferencing service) when the company migrated from MS Outlook to Google Mail, then everything became video calls instead (Google Hangout as it was known back then). Still going strong on Google ten years later.

 

[GatwickDepress]

Just saw a chap walking towards Leeds city centre from Lovell Park wearing a sandwich board with religious quotations on both sides. Not something I've seen in a very very long time.

 

[simonw]

Just saw a chap walking towards Leeds city centre from Lovell Park wearing a sandwich board with religious quotations on both sides. Not something I've seen in a very very long time.

Still common in the more touristy parts of London like Oxford street

 

[GatwickDepress]

Still common in the more touristy parts of London like Oxford street

I wonder if there's one specific sect/organisation that does it, like how the Jehovah's Witnesses have their little wheelable leaflet stand.

 

[BingMan]

I’m so old I can remember conference phone calls, usually a paid-for service that you dialled into, and sometimes in meeting rooms with a three-legged speaker phone on the table.

It was how the daily performance review (aka morning prayers) was run.

We used to have conference call with our colleagues in New Mexico and Arizona.
Time was problem especially around the transition into or out of Summertime.
USA had different dates to GB and Arizona doesn't do DST

 

[gg1]

One solitary person on my street puts their car in their garage - but absolutely nothing else.

The only one in our street who does owns a classic car, a Reliant Scimitar.

I think a large part of it is many of the reasons people used to have for keeping a car in a garage no longer apply to the same degree now. Compared to the 80s as an example, modern cars are far harder to steal, are more resistant to corrosion so less need for weather protection, generally don't object to cold starts and the combination of greater reliability and being far more technically complex largely eliminates the need for a dry space to perform basic maintenance at home.