1979: MILKMAN of your DREAMS | Nationwide | World of Work | BBC Archive 

When the BBC knew how to make a decent T.V show. I bet poor old Les is no longer with us.

​@@SnookerMafia-or6nuif he is his got to be 120yrs old

@@livin90proof oh he’s definitely brown bread then.

I bet he fathered 12 kids on the round…no wonder he is always smiling

And he drove the fastest milk cart in the west 😂

'I thought you were...Marilyn Monroe.'

Mrs Doyle keeping his massive tool in her box, confirms that 100% lol

Why didn't he just go to sleep earlier?

​@@AndyD4730you sound like you struggle with simple tasks.

​@@AndyD4730 it might not have been that easy. Ait more youngsters shared bedros and imagine trying to sleep from I with teem brothers using the same room. Also getting to the workplace at that time may not be so easy. Not everyone would afford to run a car.

You get used to it, I worked in retail during the 2020 pandemic. The shift was 4am-1pm. 4 mile walk to work too, up at 2am. I did it for 2 years, then they decided to change my shift. You get used to it.

When we had milk given to students in Australia, the ‘milk monitors’ sometimes stashed a future stink bomb for later school terrorism. The arms war in the playground was determined by how long you fermented the lactose grenade. A sun bleached container produced an effective delivery system with a variety of impact possibilities. Milk. The Australian sun. And bored kids. A war crime in the making.

That stuff is generally fine so long as it's been kept properly refrigerated and doesn't smell really terrible. I've cooked with lumpy milk before and all it did was change the texture a bit - there were no ill effects and it tasted mostly fine. In my experience a sealed yogurt is still perfectly edible a week after it's meant to expire. Might have separated slightly, but still perfectly safe to eat.

Wish we could have something similar in my country - and at best fresh milk from the farm yard, because it has dozens more Nutrients than the industrial processed milk and tastes way better than it. The joke is: It doesn´t cost even more than milk from the supermarket and the struggling farmer makes way more profit. Same goes to Potatoes. 100 Kilograms are sold for 10 Euro or even lesser from the farmer to the wholesaler (sometimes the farmer has to give them away for free) , while the wholesaler wants at least 2,50 Euro for 2.5 Kilograms. He quadruples the price for virtually no benefit for the customer.

@@EgoShredder Indeed, and thats something i ask myself every time when i watch Videos about Thieves stealing packets from the doorstep, mostly from houseowners with big yards in front of them. Where is the problem to install a box (or maybe even two) with a good foundation or has weight in it to make it immovable by hand - and is kept open as long someone puts a packet or something else in; then it locks itself up when closed, like a car door - and only the owner can reopen it by a key. I mean, that Thieve problem isn´t new. In addition: Yes, it would be a great thing if supermarkets would only sell at least non perishable goods and everything else is sold directly by the farmers. Even if it would mean to pick up the Goods by someone else who immediately sells it in a Tour, it would be still cheaper for the customer and more sustainable for the farmer. Instead, farmers often must be subsidized, so that they don't collapse - only because someone is between who wants to make maximum profit from simple food in any variation. Even potatosticks are naturally nothing more than sliced potatos, maybe with some additional ingredients to spice it up, but does that justify costs for transportation, processing, cooling unless they´re eaten, which results in a high customers price (in comparison to the farmers price)? And: I think most of the energy problems arise from unneccesary things like these. Imagine a wholesaler sends the goods from your local farmer through half of the state (or even more) and you get it back four Weeks later in a processed and ready to use form, while you could pick it up locally in a absolutely fresh form. Its crazy, if you think at least twice about it.

@@EgoShredder Idk why my post was deleted, it didn´t contain any harmful words, but thats something we have to stick with, i suppose. One-sided democracy by an AI who doesn't deserve her name because she's totally stupid - or by intention.

​@@EgoShredderI've never had a milk bottle taken yet which always surprises me. I live next to a busy A road & I get loads of people walking past including "youths" & the occasional drunk group of people walking home from the local. My milkman leaves it right in the middle of my doorstep & never had one taken lol. I think people actually just don't realise that milk men exist these days & so maybe don't consider looking for one like us kids used to back in the day. I'm sure an opportunist will take one eventually lol

My mum does also has all her life. Gets her eggs delivered by the same milkman also.

I had a customer that complained that the adverts on the bottles made the milk taste funny.Didn't have the heart to tell her that the ads were on the outside of the bottle.

We still have milk delivered

Shame on your parents!

...and ended up getting fired when supermarkets started delivering. He got depressed and started drinking, lost his marriage and his house, and did a short prison term after repeatedly breaching a restraining order. He's in supported accommodation now.

More likely to be sleeping in a tent on the boarded up high street and staggering around under the influence of some spice mixture, shouting at the pigeons about how it's all his ex-wife's fault 😂 we have no services left to support ANYONE after 15 years of the Tories. Can only see Starmer being at best, not quite so bad. There might still be a few good people left in the party behind him 🤷

1980. to tucson. run.

1980. to tucson. run.

They came from brown cows! (as is well known)

Life is a circle - Damian Marley

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Why ? 😂😂

Oh my!

Please keep buying raw milk and supporting your local diary farm that supplies it.

Sounds like she had more than milk delivered ....

I tried having a milkman when I moved back into a town about 7 years ago. I was quite happy to pay the extra for the convenience and tried to buy some of the extras to make it worth their while. But he would come between 3&4 o'clock in the morning!!! In a van. Park outside with the engine running, then rearrange everything in his vehicle and leave having woken the entire street! Half the time the order had lots missing but the computer would bill me anyway then I had to spend ages trying to get it put right. In the end I just gave it up. Such a shame as I really wanted to support the service 🤷

We had a bloke used to come round the estate on a bike to sharpen all the kitchen knives.Had a grindstone on his pushbike.He'd probably be arrested nowadays for being a gang member.

@@markbishop1588 To true 😂

Used to be the blue tits that would fly around and peck at the bottle tops to get the cream from the top of the milk bottles.

Our house still had when I left the UK (2015) and it's Outer London. Not sure about now though

We have milk delivered.

@@WearertheRESISTENCE by Tesco’s,Sainsbury’s or are you posh and use Ocado or Dilveroo

I'm in central London now and when I moved here 7 years ago one could sign up to a local milk delivery service.. It was available in SE London until about 3 years ago via some independent companies but I think they struggled to get enough customers and heard they were looking at closing.

You also got taxed on those tips.As a relief milkman you were never on the same round for long.As a result you didn't get to know the customers,therefore you didn't get xmas tips.Still got taxed on it though.

Sadly a lot of work has turned this way. The worst for it right now is food delivery for Uber and Just Eat. Around £3 an hour last I checked.

@@Splozy Illegal.....

How sad to read this 😢

He was twenty-five at the time of filming, but all the randy seventies housewife action put years on him.

Nowadays you won't find a milkman in Ipswich because he'd be too scared of being robbed and stabbed by a toddler. Very sad what became of that town.

@@halfbakedproductions7887 Thats really sad. I left Ipswich in 87 and my family moved to the States. I always remembered Ipswich as a clean and safe place to live. But then again I've been to Manchester.

I think pat is my dad

@@unnamedchannel1237 Pat is everyone's dad, that was part of his problem.

you're right, but would you roundhouse an ... "apron lodge bubba" or just pretend they're not important somehow? who are your fave musos? all lodge members. m3rdeka 9apua "4 decades" these people have been entertaining you for generations. james tilley matthews was trying to stop a war. instead everyone loves bs and insists on it. hell-oh from arizona now actually where pilly pill pilly them nanas are illy and the lead is l, e, a, d do you even real to real?

Did you vote in favour of Brexit?

It's a joke. I know someone in London who bought his home in 1986 on a police officer's single wage and raised his family there. He left the police in around 2005 and has been fully retired for about ten years now. The house is worth something like £900k at this point (East London). Meanwhile his GP daughter and her solicitor husband now live in York. Those are very solid, well paid careers, yet they can't afford jack in London (their hometown, just different parts) even on their combined income with each earning more individually than her father ever did. I'm also priced out of my own hometown and it's something you don't understand until it happens to you - it's degrading, it's numbing, it makes you feel really rather lost.

Does it really matter of you own your home?Some 'assets' are simply liabilities. @@halfbakedproductions7887

Probably a younger lad. There will have been some of them, just not many.

You had money to buy Adidas in 79, it was usually Gola.

In the years when Amazon was delivering but supermarkets weren't, you could have a new lawn mower or ironing board delivered to your door but not milk.

Milkmen still exist.

@@notreallydavidAmazon still deliver, what are you talking about

My parents still get milk delivered

Loads of people get milk delivered

A subscription service, whereby electric vehicles are used to deliver various food products straight to your door in recyclable packaging? Besides milkmen there were also mobile greengrocers and bread deliveries. That's the sort of thing a modern Silicon Valley tech bro would try to raise billions in VC funding as a startup. But here we were doing that in the 1970s.

The woke illiberals always denounce older generations when in fact they were the ones who made do, and made mend, grew their own vegetables, they ate homemade food and barely any takeaways and shopped locally.

Aye they zoomed into her wedding ring to try reassure the viewer that Les wasn't giving her extra cream😂

How come they deliver at our house then !?.

@@WearertheRESISTENCE they still had linear antennae in teh '90s it was easy to tell then

If he is he has got to be c100+ years old.

@@Richard-fv7rq You never know.

Racism, poor health care, poverty… do I need go on?

@@protectwhatisours6895no different from today pal so what’s your point

Loads of milkmen still exist. Lots of farms and dairies have milk rounds

Great sketch 👌🏻

Pat Mustard also didn't help. The idea of being sacked for sleeping with your customers must have put off a lot of the younger lads.

My thought too!

There’s no demise

With it being easy to get at the supermarket, it's the service that has to be good. Unlike your dad's experience

Same thing with bloody window cleaners. Terrible service and a pain in the arse.

YOU and people like you are the reason nobody gets milk delivered anymore. I'm glad you think theft was amusing. I just think people who steal are scum.

And of course you will still be an r.sole.

@heraldeventsandfilms5970 sorry do goodie

Yes I could actually, except these jobs have disappeared thanks to the older generation being lazy and replacing them with more convenient options

The youth of today are no different to the youth of 50 years ago. They serve, they volunteer in charities, and they get up early. Don't think you're special simply because you're old.

there are differences. we moved to tucson in 1980. the world has changed. facts. i work on a golf course. but western awareness of west papua is the same.. my left eye was sliced open and a camera was removed in 2009. don't try to tell me how the world is. john quincy adams was anti m?s?n?c party. disney was not. that's something you may learn when you gain perspective. don't try to parse it all at once it leaves stretch marks. now stop assuming people think they are special because they told you something or had some fun boring post person who cannot cepstral dsp is that special?. volunteer in you.

Getting up at 4am is not my cup of tea and I'm no Youth either. Many people back then struggled to do the Pre Dawn work. You had to be a certain person to be up early and it never suited every one. Just certain types of breed.

There are plenty of jobs today that require you to be actually _working_ by 4am. Train drivers are one of those, as are certain types of factory and farm work. I'm not talking about being up at 4am to head to work, you're actually _at work_ for a 4am start.

Electric floats too... all to be replaced in the name of progress...

You clearly aren't from Europe. Laminated cartons are actually the best. First, laminated cartons are recyclable, don't know why you think they aren't. The more important factor is that they're far better sealing. This lets them do "aseptic" (sterile) packaging, when combined with UHT processing eliminates refrigeration, which consumes a huge amount of energy in transport and the market. Not only that, UHT milk keeps for half a year, which eliminates food waste. Moral of the story: don't look at the package, look at the lifecycle.

@@straightpipedieselBut UHT milk tastes like it has come out of a cow’s backside, rather than their udder.

@@straightpipediesel They are NOT recyclable here or in the overwhelming majority of countries due to being paper and plastic combined. There are NUMEROUS articles on the fact that these cannot be recycled or recycled easily and that the few plants that can handle such packaging are very few and far between, meaning these products have to be taken to a local centre, separated, and then sent on halfway across the country/world to centres that can handle them. As opposed to plastic bottles which can be recycled completely in every other town without needing to go through advanced screening and material -separating procedures. And we're not talking about long-life milk - ordinary milk to be used within a few days also comes in those cartons and some markets have switched their own brands entirely to those in a greenwashing campaign (ie Morrisons). And sorry but who the hell wants to buy milk and keep it for six months? Cows make it every day so there's simply no need for long-life non-refridgerator milk. It doesn't eliminate food waste at all - once opened, it still goes off just as quickly as ordinary milk and it still needs to then be refridgerated. The lifecycle for tetrapaks is far worse than for plastic milk bottles.

@@ebutuoyYTI’m not doubting the taste but that’s what you get for countries who can’t afford a cold chain, as well as all the complaints about global warming.