Last minute essential stocking filler

[Pete Lewis]

I just tried it as carb cleaner 

But I fell off the front wing

 

Pete

[Gully]

56 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said:

I just tried it as carb cleaner 

But I fell off the front wing

 

Pete

Was that an Echo lard joke for Christmas morning?!

Gully

[Pete Lewis]

Ekco used to make a nice bakalite tv

Pete

[dougbgt6]

My dad made me a miniature radio, an 8 inch cube Bakelite case. I used to drag it under the bed covers and listen to Radio Luxemburg. Johnny Saddle, I thought that was the DJs name, reception was very poor.

Doug 

[Pete Lewis]

You mean you missed horrace batchelor in keynsham spelt k e y n s ha m    On 208  Luxembourg

I listened to the Goon show on my crystal set , then uprated to a 1 valve and speaker  

Pete

[Chris A]

There are some dinosaurs on this forum. Great, it means I'm not alone

I was also, just, able to get Radio Caroline on my transistor radio if the weather conditions were suitable, lived in Chesterfield Derbyshire at the time.

Now what was this thread about before it wondered off?

[Pete Lewis]

and they say dinosaurs are extinct 

      one day we will all be dug up as a fossil

             the only rules about thread drift is they must be  daft, rude, never insulting, and sometimes  even helpful , sometimes even triumph related 

                    so happy new year    

Pete

[Colin Lindsay]

I think we should start a Pensioner's Club, which gives members the ability to comment on threads with age-related experience and owlish sagacity. Only those with direct experience of Imperial measurements and pre-plastic cars need apply...

[dougbgt6]

"Never insulting"  Oh!   Unless you're talking about old pom pom slippers!

"Owlish sagacity" Like it! I'll use that later!

 

 

[Chris A]

Pensioners club, like it!

We can only post on every second Thursday afternoon though. Well that is when my village old folk club meets.

When it's your birthday you have to bring the cakes.  Caramels are banned of course.

[dave.vitesse]

1 hour ago, Chris A said:

There are some dinosaurs on this forum. Great, it means I'm not alone

I was also, just, able to get Radio Caroline on my transistor radio if the weather conditions were suitable, lived in Chesterfield Derbyshire at the time.

Now what was this thread about before it wondered off?

Radio Caroline is back on the Medium wave. Frequency 648 Kc/s though with a relatively low power for a BC station of 1Kw.

Dave

[Anglefire]

1 hour ago, Colin Lindsay said:

I think we should start a Pensioner's Club, which gives members the ability to comment on threads with age-related experience and owlish sagacity. Only those with direct experience of Imperial measurements and pre-plastic cars need apply...

Well, that I'm afraid might include me - I might be only 52 (well till April!) but I still use imperial measurements - remember them vividly though technically when I was at school we were mostly taught metric- but my father used imperial at home (he was a teacher so had later in his career to use metric with the kids - he taught Wood, metalwork and TD) - and my first car was a 1967 VW Beetle 1200 

[Guest]

Dave.

That's great news and here is some background info:

https://radiotoday.co.uk/2017/06/radio-caroline-allowed-1kw-tx-on-648-am/

Regards.

Richard.

 

 

 

[Chris A]

Radio Caroline: do they still play the same music?

[Pete Lewis]

Caroline.  CAAAROLLlIINE  

remember it well

I save up for ages to get a pension book cover , and they go ant pay it in the bank 

Its a long walk in me slippers

Dinosaurus pete

[Colin Lindsay]

1 hour ago, Anglefire said:

 my first car was a 1967 VW Beetle 1200 

Metal dash or plastic dash? Makes all the difference!

Just before I left work my colleagues used to slag me when I used words such as wireless or car radio, and talked about 'singles'. I also used to estimate distances and sizes, usually fairly accurately too, but only in feet inches and yards, which some of them had to translate into metric thingies in order to understand what I meant. 

[Pete Lewis]

Metric wasnt invented when dinosaurs abound

My slippers are firmly imperial  long live feet and inches  it even got the yanks to the moon

 

0.393 " sounds far more techy than  1mm

Pete

 

[Chris A]

At home here our tape measures have both metric & imperial on them so we use whichever is the "nicest" number or easiest to read.

[dave.vitesse]

Yes it's KHz not Kc/s as what I was taught back in the 1950/60's! Cycles say it all, as it just cycles. Whereas hertz just hurt.

Moving on to words now high jacked - Wireless, well that was a large wooden box which had a orange tuning dial, took time to warm up and had a superb brown tone. Hipster- Men had goaty beard and the girls wore tight sweaters. Both talked about Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scotts.

High Ho.

Dave                

[dougbgt6]

When I was a kid I could never understand why a thing full of wires was called a wireless.   

[Anglefire]

 

1 hour ago, Colin Lindsay said:

Metal dash or plastic dash? Makes all the difference!

Metal dash ? was blue. Bought - well was given it as a bit of a reck and had to do it up before I could drive it. Welding painting though the engine was ok. 

I remember my red (originally white) 1302s also had a metal dash. From memory the plastic dashes were from about 1973 or 4 when the 1303 came out?

[68vitesse]

Surprising how many things bought by wieght or sheet size are still a direct conversion of the original imperial size or wieght.

Felt I had to leave work when three of the younger employees told me that their combined age was still less than mine.

Regards

Paul

[Pete Lewis]

We never really went decimal

Jars of jam and pickle are still  454g    not in units of 10

400 or 500  but of course  a lbs a lb

 so 454g rules   not inches or hertz    the UK industry never converted the packaging , just the bl++dy labels

Bit like the location silly signs on the motorway ,  if they rounded  it up they could save a number and make the sign smaller

Saves £££s      Who cares if youre at  39.6  when 40 would be more sensible

Grrrrr!    roll on new year

 

Pete

[Chris A]

So Britain never really took to metric then?

When I left you bought meat from the butcher's counter in the supermarket in lbs but in the same shop pre packed was in kgs, if I remember correctly.

Even on this forum mpg is used even though I believe petrol is sold by the litre.

Typical British compromise, love it.

[Gully]

I'm 47 and completely bewildered by the imperial system - aside from people's heights and weights. My entire schooling was using the metric system and professionally (I'm a chartered QS) we are preculded from using it - if dealing with an American client we can commission a separate imperial bill of quantities for them, but only alongside the main metric bill. Thank goodness for the bag of sugar - my only reference point for weights!

Gully