Things that make you :)

[manna]

G'Day Folks

[Alex TM]

Hi everyone,

 

To continue with the theme of 'unfortunate' names, I once attended a youth club with 'James Bond'.  I also once worked with a 'Jimmy Mack'!

 

James was born after the first few Bond films had been released, while Jimmy (his name on his birth certificate, etc) was born the year after the song of that name was a hit.

 

Regards,

 

Alex.

[Titan]

Hi everyone,

 

To continue with the theme of 'unfortunate' names, I once attended a youth club with 'James Bond'.  I also once worked with a 'Jimmy Mack'!

 

James was born after the first few Bond films had been released, while Jimmy (his name on his birth certificate, etc) was born the year after the song of that name was a hit.

 

Regards,

 

Alex.

 

Oh. I thought a Jimmy Mack might have been an American truck with a two stroke diesel....   Did he have a friend called Peter Built, or maybe Ken Worth?

[Tony Davis]

Old Hornby adverts

 

For some reason the advert when the boy calls the model shop always reminded me of the model shop in Stevenage New Town, I suppose because the time when I used to go in there was the time when that particular box logo was current. Funny how seeing things like that can take you back to a certain time in your life.

[BoD]

WARNING ...RANT!

Those of you who are placing Christmas lights/decorations in your yards, can you please avoid anything that has Red or Blue flashing lights together? Every time I come around the corner, I think it's the police and I have a panic attack. I have to brake hard, toss my wine out the window, hide the weed, fasten my seat belt, throw my phone on the floor, turn my radio down, and push the gun under the seat, all while trying to drive.

It's just too much drama, even for Christmas.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

[Gibbo675]

For some reason the advert when the boy calls the model shop always reminded me of the model shop in Stevenage New Town, I suppose because the time when I used to go in there was the time when that particular box logo was current. Funny how seeing things like that can take you back to a certain time in your life.

Hi Tony,

 

I noted the rather obvious character Bernard Cribbins, but is that Mike "The Bike" Hailwood in the second advert ?

 

Gibbo.

[TheQ]

Hi everyone,

 

To continue with the theme of 'unfortunate' names, I once attended a youth club with 'James Bond'.  I also once worked with a 'Jimmy Mack'!

 

James was born after the first few Bond films had been released, while Jimmy (his name on his birth certificate, etc) was born the year after the song of that name was a hit.

 

Regards,

 

Alex.

In the military you occasionally have to state your name and the last three digits of your number.

It's also a tradition in the RAF, when someone new joins up with the name James Bond they issue him with the next available number xxxx007.

 

SWMBO was on shift with two James Bond 007s at the same time. (radar operators)

[Tim Dubya]

[melmerby]

On about "funny names" I always remember at the GEC in Coventry (I was GPO outstationed there) a person caller Peter Nutt.

When people were called over the Tannoy after the first announcement. the operator always used an initial and last name so we got "Could Mr Nutt call 123, P. Nutt please call 123"

 

Similarly one of our chaps was nicknamed, because of his hirsuit appearance and large square horn rim glasses, "Hairy Windows".

One day over the Tannoy came " Will Mr H. Windows of the Post Office call 456"!

 

Keith

[melmerby]

Meanwhile in Birmingham the good folk do this:

 

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/-extension-prankster-back-offering-14604708

 

 

Keith

Edited December 1, 2018 by melmerby

[brianusa]

No Luddite I, but I confess to be overwhelmed with technology that I don't really need.  I don't need to be on the telephone all day with bits attached to me or furtively checking every couple of minutes.  I used to like the idea of getting up and changing channels on the TV; at least it was some exercise and the same goes for every other remote controlled gadget that seems essential today.  I don't really want to know my home temperature from a restaurant or whether the cats been fed automatically.  I don't really need all the gadgetry on new cars either.  Safety items are welcome but my old car has most of them already.  I can do without digital dashboards, sat nav or heads up on the windscreen but the only trouble is that its becoming increasingly difficult to obtain cars without all this gubbins.  Which means I have to pay for all this should I want a new car, so it looks a though I shall have to keep the old one.

Over the years, new stuff has always been a hard sell for some;  when color TVs first arrived there were those who complained the colour hurt their eyes or it was too bright, etc.  A/C in cars was dismissed with, "I open the windows", which was OK doodling along a country lane, but on a 70mph motorway with all the associated road and engine noises, its not so palatable.  Hotter too!  But at least I am fairly computer literate which gets me out of the Lud factor!

 

Brian.

[jcm@gwr]

For some reason the advert when the boy calls the model shop always reminded me of the model shop in Stevenage New Town, I suppose because the time when I used to go in there was the time when that particular box logo was current. Funny how seeing things like that can take you back to a certain time in your life.

 

FYI, that advert was filmed in the model shop in Potters Bar, long gone, but used to

be in the High Street opposite the bus garage.

It had a plaque in the window from Yellow Pages stating that, and thanking them.

 

Also, a lad that worked for me went to school with the daughter of Mr & Mrs Bach,

they named her Helen! 

[jamie92208]

Why is it that when you put a duvet cover in the tumble dryer empty it comes out with all the other washing inside it.

 

Jamie

[teaky]

Why is it that when you put a duvet cover in the tumble dryer empty it comes out with all the other washing inside it.

 

Jamie

The rest of the washing is keeping warm?

 

Tip - fasten one one of the buttons or press-studs near the centre of the duvet cover and this won't happen.

[brossard]

No Luddite I, but I confess to be overwhelmed with technology that I don't really need.  I don't need to be on the telephone all day with bits attached to me or furtively checking every couple of minutes.  I used to like the idea of getting up and changing channels on the TV; at least it was some exercise and the same goes for every other remote controlled gadget that seems essential today.  I don't really want to know my home temperature from a restaurant or whether the cats been fed automatically.  I don't really need all the gadgetry on new cars either.  Safety items are welcome but my old car has most of them already.  I can do without digital dashboards, sat nav or heads up on the windscreen but the only trouble is that its becoming increasingly difficult to obtain cars without all this gubbins.  Which means I have to pay for all this should I want a new car, so it looks a though I shall have to keep the old one.

Over the years, new stuff has always been a hard sell for some;  when color TVs first arrived there were those who complained the colour hurt their eyes or it was too bright, etc.  A/C in cars was dismissed with, "I open the windows", which was OK doodling along a country lane, but on a 70mph motorway with all the associated road and engine noises, its not so palatable.  Hotter too!  But at least I am fairly computer literate which gets me out of the Lud factor!

 

Brian.

 

Generally agree with you Brian, although now that we have hundreds of channels, getting up to change them might get a tad tedious, esp. if you do a lot of channel surfing.

 

There's a current ad for a robot mop.  Here I throw up my arms in frustration.

 

Went to Best Buy the other day for a new mouse (my old one did good service but started going intermittent.  It was wired).  I had to buy a wireless one since the wired ones don't seem to be a thing anymore.

 

John

[Ian J.]

You can still get wired mice/rodents, but it's more likely you will need to look for them in the more specialist gaming PC sites where the users prefer them to wireless as they are more responsive and reliable in the split second reaction timings that PC gaming requires.

Edited December 2, 2018 by Ian J.

[melmerby]

You can still get wired mice/rodents, but it's more likely you will need to look for them in the more specialist gaming PC sites where the users prefer them to wireless as they are more responsive and reliable in the split second reaction timings that PC gaming requires.

Or in Currys/PCWorld, Amazon, Argos and many other places in the UK.

Maybe there has been an outbreak of rodenticide in Quebec?

 

Keith

[Osgood]

Compaq did a neat compact mouse:

 

[TheQ]

Being a Luddite is common, I sail not motor, my main transport is a 34 year old Land Rover and they weren't the most technologically advanced when they were new.

 

As for mice I don't use them, I use something much older I believe a Marconi invention The company not Guillermo, . That's a tracker ball , having got used to them on radar around 40years ago and they were old then.

[BoD]

I have always had problems with my printer's mouse.

[Kylestrome]

 

 

Edited December 3, 2018 by Kylestrome

[shortliner]

As for mice I don't use them, I use something much older I believe a Marconi invention The company not Guillermo, . That's a tracker ball , having got used to them on radar around 40years ago and they were old then.

Likewise - once you have used them on Radar consoles you never go back - I even added one to replace my mouse when I worked for the council - caused chaos if someone else wanted to use my computer. I've just replaced my home use one ( now on around #5 or#6 )after several years use - I need s central ball rather than a side ball, as I have familial tremor in my thumb and the cursor jumps about all over the screen

[DavidB-AU]

[newbryford]

Mousepad.jpg

 

Ees no rat, Ees a pedigree Siberian Hamster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQdqAKHDNc

[Tim Dubya]