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I'm sitting watching Return of the Jedi (having watched the first 2 movies yesterday)

The noise of the fighters coming into land just takes me back to the late 70s, early 80s instantly.. The noise of light sabers, again the same.... "Red 5 i'm going in"

What noise takes you back ?

Not childhood but the sound of a dial-up modem going screeeeee! Then boink boink on connection is very nostalgic. Wonder if I can get it as a ringtone?

Count Steer wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 8:05 am Not childhood but the sound of a dial-up modem going screeeeee! Then boink boink on connection is very nostalgic. Wonder if I can get it as a ringtone?

Or the ditditditditaaditaaaa sound of a mobile phone interfering with the TV.

I had one of those Clarkson Chritsmas VHSs where the sound was actually on the film

American pie was playing in the background. My parents split up and i was sitting in my Grans spare room (My new room) Looking at the plain walls, huge steel spring bed with the mattress standing up. New school, new friends, just a new life. Fuck I can still visualise that day some 52 years later

Closely followed by the sound of farmer giles loosing off a barrel of salt to scare us off his fields;

Not a sound, but I saw this picture on Friendface and I was right back there in the toy shop...

Taipan wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 9:20 am Caps

Roll of caps, lighter fluid, and an airfix model, joyous, different times man different times

Where I lived as kid was right on the border of the open fells, that kind of boggy with tufts of sedges and bracken type fairly barren bumpy fells that Curlew and Skylarks live on.
So curlew and Skylarks calling or twittering away depending on which bird it was would be the childhood noises that take me right back to making dens in amongst the bracken with Fleet, my sheepdog bitch at my side.




Eeen up there recently and theres still.curlews up there, maybe more than when I was a kid as I think there's less sheep grazing nowadays

Kids singing carols.

As I sit here WFH, I can hear the kids from the local school walking in line, talking excitedly, heading to my local church. Big concert there for all the kids and parents.

Dog's been barking like crazy as the parents are parking outside my house and the dog thinks it's those pesky delivery drivers.

Yes, curlew; also snipe “drumming”. Corncrake - now a rare bird due to changes in farming eg combine harvesters. We lived right out in the country - N Antrim.

Massey Ferguson 35 3-cylinder. Also Fordson Major - bag of nails.

Morris Minor 1000 on the overrun.

Little Eva - Turkey Trot.

I seem to be older than some of you lot.

Corncrake. I haven't heard one locally for more than 50 years.



These boys. My mum played the radio when she was in the kitchen.



Terrence,two doors up and one of these,though probably older.

Someone else using a vacuum cleaner
I was very ill with asthma as a kid, I remember the sound of my mum hoovering to keep dust down while I lay under a blanket on the settee wheezing. Doesn't affect me if I do the hoovering but I can't stay in earshot when the wife does it, it takes me straight back.

The sound of floppy drives, I still have a few Amigas... Tick...tick...tick

Match of the day music or the theme tune to The Sweeney because I would get sent to bed after

2 strokes and spannies

Wossname wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 11:51 am Yes, curlew; also snipe “drumming”. Corncrake - now a rare bird due to changes in farming eg combine harvesters. We lived right out in the country - N Antrim.

Massey Ferguson 35 3-cylinder. Also Fordson Major - bag of nails.

Morris Minor 1000 on the overrun.

Little Eva - Turkey Trot.

I seem to be older than some of you lot.

Ha, we had a Fergie 35, bastard thing never ran right and I suspect contributed to my fathers temper when it wouldn't start.

He used to park it on the hill in our back field so it had a better chance of starting.

'Now then, now then...howzabout...that!'

Followed by the sound of a gold nylon tracksuit being unzipped


Soz.

demographic wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 1:32 pm

Wossname wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 11:51 am Yes, curlew; also snipe “drumming”. Corncrake - now a rare bird due to changes in farming eg combine harvesters. We lived right out in the country - N Antrim.

Massey Ferguson 35 3-cylinder. Also Fordson Major - bag of nails.

Morris Minor 1000 on the overrun.

Little Eva - Turkey Trot.

I seem to be older than some of you lot.

Ha, we had a Fergie 35, bastard thing never ran right and I suspect contributed to my fathers temper when it wouldn't start.

He used to park it on the hill in our back field so it had a better chance of starting.

That would have been the 4 cylinder one - they were always a nightmare to start. I think they had a single glow plug in the inlet manifold - MF used to sell them new with a can of Easy Start. The 3pot ones had a glow plug in each cylinder and were brilliant - thousands of them still working today, and the 135s , which were identical but had fancier bodywork.

Wossname wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2024 3:00 pm That would have been the 4 cylinder one - they were always a nightmare to start. I think they had a single glow plug in the inlet manifold - MF used to sell them new with a can of Easy Start. The 3pot ones had a glow plug in each cylinder and were brilliant - thousands of them still working today, and the 135s , which were identical but had fancier bodywork.

I think the York diesels in Tranny Vans had something like that. Mate had one & claimed it was one step up from a flaming rag thrown down the intake.