The "things that make you realise you're getting older" thread

[sir roger]

5 minutes ago, stringvest said:

there's no way you could tell the flavours apart in a blindfold test.  Except perhaps for the pineappleade.  

You could actually feel your teeth rotting while drinking the cherryade.

[Section_31]

1 minute ago, sir roger said:

You could actually feel your teeth rotting while drinking the cherryade.

 

Lobe the way woolybacks still don't understand that lemonade can refer to any flavour.

 

"Do you mean cloudy lemonade?"

 

"No anything will do, cream soda or dandelion and burdock or something."

 

"Oh you mean fizzy pop!"

 

"Get the fuck out of here!" 

[redinblack]

For me, Lemonade = "White"

 

Everything else was Pop. Im a wool I guess.

[VladimirIlyich]

4 minutes ago, redinblack said:

For me, Lemonade = "White"

 

Everything else was Pop. Im a wool I guess.

Pop is everything that is fizzy. Lemonade can also mean anything, as well as the clear white,fizzy stuff. 

[stringvest]

11 minutes ago, redinblack said:

Dont think Ive seen Sarspirella ( spelling?) since Alpine days.

you get that in the markets in that there London.  Makes your teeth go pink. 

[Section_31]

4 minutes ago, redinblack said:

For me, Lemonade = "White"

 

Everything else was Pop. Im a wool I guess.

 

Mrs is from northern Ireland and she has to stipulate white lemonade because they also have brown lemonade. The fuck?

 

She also calls it Fanta orange because they had non orange versions of Fanta, whereas here all Fanta was orange, so you saved yourself an adjective when asking for one. 

 

Just goes to show what a complex, fascinating, diverse but sometimes scary world we live in.

[Mudface]

I vaguely remember being asked if I wanted a drink of 'Corporation pop' when I was 4 or 5. The sense of betrayal and crushing disappointment when I found out it meant water has never really left me.

[redinblack]

Just now, stringvest said:

you get that in the markets in that there London.  Makes your teeth go pink. 

Its probably "Artisan Sarspirella" now.

[Harry's Lad]

4 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Yep. Alpine,then Schofields were how you graduated with your home brew kits. Mine still tasted like shit though.

I made bitter or export ok but lager either looked shit and tasted great or vice versa, I could never get it right.

The dad of a girl I used to go out with was like a master brewer, he never failed.

He was a milkman and used to use sterry bottles and crown the tops.

[RJ Fan club]

Fuck off Corona with your clear cream soda

 

Green is where it was at… did me no harm 

[manwiththestick]

We used to get both Alpine and Schofields around ours growing up, both were known as the lemonade man.

 

My dad was boring he'd always get just lemonade and orangeade, maybe an occasional green cream soda. Ace when they came around and he was working we'd all be on pineappleade and cherryade.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Fell asleep in the garden on one of the loungers last night

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, manwiththestick said:

We used to get both Alpine and Schofields around ours growing up, both were known as the lemonade man.

 

My dad was boring he'd always get just lemonade and orangeade, maybe an occasional green cream soda. Ace when they came around and he was working we'd all be on pineappleade and cherryade.

Cream Soda with an Ice Cream scoop or two was superb.

[easytoslip]

2 hours ago, RJ Fan club said:

Fuck off Corona with your clear cream soda

 

Green is where it was at… did me no harm 

That's right green Cream Soda. I had a Saturday job or something delivering Lemo and one of those bottles exploded in my hand. 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

8 hours ago, stringvest said:

there's no way you could tell the flavours apart in a blindfold test.  Except perhaps for the pineappleade.  

I forgot pineappleade! Caribbean chemical heaven.

[ZonkoVille77]

8 hours ago, Section_31 said:

 

Mrs is from northern Ireland and she has to stipulate white lemonade because they also have brown lemonade. The fuck?

 

She also calls it Fanta orange because they had non orange versions of Fanta, whereas here all Fanta was orange, so you saved yourself an adjective when asking for one. 

 

Just goes to show what a complex, fascinating, diverse but sometimes scary world we live in.

 

We have red lemonade in Ireland too. Every kid got mad off their heads on it when in the pubs with their folks. This stuff would have had every E additive under the sun, probably even had Ecstasy in it. Southern Comfort and Red Lemonade is still a very popular drink. I've just realised its called TK... maybe something about TK in your name makes one a tad bonkers. 

 

@KMD7 - Dec knows what I mean.

 

[TheBitch]

3 hours ago, easytoslip said:

That's right green Cream Soda. I had a Saturday job delivering Lemo and one of those bottles exploded in my hand. 

 

[easytoslip]

28 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

 

It was a revelation, who'd of thought. 

And who in the name of Dickens is that cunt? 

[KMD7]

1 hour ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

 

We have red lemonade in Ireland too. Every kid got mad off their heads on it when in the pubs with their folks. This stuff would have had every E additive under the sun, probably even had Ecstasy in it. Southern Comfort and Red Lemonade is still a very popular drink. I've just realised its called TK... maybe something about TK in your name makes one a tad bonkers. 

 

@KMD7 - Dec knows what I mean.

 

Jesus that's a blast from the past mate!  Great tack. 

[littletedwest]

Got some new starters at work I had to induct. During small talk found out one used to go my old secondary school. Mentioned it to my boss who said " yeah but she left in a different century to you" he was joking but spot on. A different fucking century.

[Captain Willard]

1 minute ago, littletedwest said:

Got some new starters at work I had to induct. During small talk found out one used to go my old secondary school. Mentioned it to my boss who said " yeah but she left in a different century to you" he was joking but spot on. A different fucking century.

I remember the day the first millennial started work in our office. She was born in May 2000. Too depressing. 

[Rico1304]

On Friday night I met up with a colleague in Manchester, he was out with some mates.  One of them is now going out with a girl I worked with about 15 years ago. Apparently when she saw me she went to my mate and said ‘is that bloke called Steve and did he used to have brown hair’.  Crushed. 
 

(I may have mentioned her before, about 12 years ago her boyfriend went out on a night out and was dicking about.  A bin lorry drove past and stopped at some lights, he climbed the ladder on the back but fell off as it started again.  He banged his head and died, only about 25). 

[Elite]

1 minute ago, Rico1304 said:

On Friday night I met up with a colleague in Manchester, he was out with some mates.  One of them is now going out with a girl I worked with about 15 years ago. Apparently when she saw me she went to my mate and said ‘is that bloke called Steve and did he used to have brown hair’.  Crushed. 
 

(I may have mentioned her before, about 12 years ago her boyfriend went out on a night out and was dicking about.  A bin lorry drove past and stopped at some lights, he climbed the ladder on the back but fell off as it started again.  He banged his head and died, only about 25). 

Sounds like he'd had a few. Was he trashed?

[lifetime fan]

Had my brother and family down to stay for a long weekend. 
 

4 nights drinking and sleeping on an air bed has fucking ruined me. 

[Harry's Lad]

1 minute ago, Elite said:

Sounds like he'd had a few. Was he trashed?

After she'd dumped him?