Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)
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allegerita said:
I have a 1959 Ford Anglia. With Irvin parachute seat belts.
Please tell me it's sky blue; my Dad's friend Tommy Pitt had a sky blue Ford Anglia in the late sixties/early seventies which I remember from when we used to go and visit him before he moved back to Fife. After that he had a bright blue Fiat 126.
allegerita said:
I have a 1959 Ford Anglia. With Irvin parachute seat belts.
It was a strange mixture of bad and good luck. Had I been strapped in, Tim sitting behind me almost certainly wouldn't have been and all the injuries would have been different. Are your Anglia's Irvin belts all round or just in the front? Stylish, either way.DickyC said:
It was a strange mixture of bad and good luck. Had I been strapped in, Tim sitting behind me almost certainly wouldn't have been and all the injuries would have been different. Are your Anglia's Irvin belts all round or just in the front? Stylish, either way.
I am sure seat belts all around would have been an outraguous thought if you were going to spec your Ford in 1959. To answer your question: only in the front.TheChampers said:
Please tell me it's sky blue; my Dad's friend Tommy Pitt had a sky blue Ford Anglia in the late sixties/early seventies which I remember from when we used to go and visit him before he moved back to Fife. After that he had a bright blue Fiat 126.
I think Ford created 100s of names for all their hues of blues. This is mine, I have added some photoshopping for comic relief, and my son behind the wheel. A far cry from what PixerPusher and the likes can achieve but you get the idea.
DickyC said:
We have all had knocks on the head, haven't we?
I thought you'd never ask![clears throat]
It was a few years ago now, but I attempted to kill myself with a hydraulic jack; it was part of a test rig for a prototype, I was minding my own business pumping the thing up to pressure when the bloody thing sprang apart and launched the hydraulic cylinder skywards in a graceful parabola which was brought to an abrupt halt by the hose drawing taut, at which point the bugger swung down and clocked me on the noggin. I suddenly felt rather unwell and there was claret everywhere, given the weight of the cylinder and the impressive lump left I'm surprised I wasn't knocked out. I got a ride in an ambulance, an x-ray proving I have a brain, 3 stitches and a half-day off for my troubles.
In true H&S stable door closing fashion, a safety cage was hastily constructed around the test rig and I was banned from doing such things without the presence of an adult.
Edited by hidetheelephants on Tuesday 21st February 08:20
Morning all. I have no recollection at all of the accident that led to my bash on the bonce.
I do recall chatting to Horatio Nelson in the back of an ambulance and discussing Tottenham's league prospects with a lobster in the A&E department but that's about it. I woke up about eight days later.
I'm going to see about a rebate on the time I've lost. Perhaps see if I can get a week in Cyprus between May & June by way of a refund, I'll see what happens.
I do recall chatting to Horatio Nelson in the back of an ambulance and discussing Tottenham's league prospects with a lobster in the A&E department but that's about it. I woke up about eight days later.
I'm going to see about a rebate on the time I've lost. Perhaps see if I can get a week in Cyprus between May & June by way of a refund, I'll see what happens.
I have just remembered another little incident I had several years past, I was on a motorcycling holiday traveling down to Greece across Europe. we had driven into Yugoslavia and was somewhere south of Zagreb, there was a new section of motorway and a toll station, I got off my bike removed my helmet stepped back, tripped over the buckles on my belstaff waterproof trousers and fell backwards hitting the back of my head on the new armco barriers, knocking my self unconscious, I woke up two days later in a Hospital having no idea how I got there! The others who were with me looked after my bike and belongings! Think that was back in 79 or 80!
Every once in a few winters we have something that you call black ice I think. Basically rain on frozen pavements. It had snowed the night before so I carefully went out to pick the my newspaper from the mailbox, but the 2 biggest of the 3 neighbour’s sons where waiting to catch me and “pepper me in”, and Dutch variant of battering someone in the snow. All 3 sons play rugby and field hockey, and do body building for pleasure so any close contact seemed not a good perspective. My only chance was to turn around and run back to the front door as fast as I could but alas, friction (or rather: the lack of) caught me and I fell. While touching the ground I broke a couple of fingers but as “they probably won’t do anything to it in the hospital” I decided to make some splints myself and continue my life. It happened maybe 15 years ago but a couple of fingers are still oddly twisted.
There's a thing, since the accident I keep having a strange dream:
I'm with the chap who was driving the car at the time, except we're in a plane. He's flying it, and it crashes into a river.
Odd really, he's never flown a plane in his life.
Probably explains why he keeps crashing the bugger I suppose.
I'm with the chap who was driving the car at the time, except we're in a plane. He's flying it, and it crashes into a river.
Odd really, he's never flown a plane in his life.
Probably explains why he keeps crashing the bugger I suppose.
DickyC said:
If only Bomma was here, we could compare knocks on the head we've had.
We have all had knocks on the head, haven't we?
We have all had knocks on the head, haven't we?
Bomma220 said:
Christ, did you hear that bang? What the f
k was that?
Spooky!!! They do say if you talk about the devil he'll appear.... k was that?
Good to see you back
I got hit in the face at the age of 4 by a baby in a swing, does that count? It was one of those ones worth the high back & sides, made out of metal.
ali_kat said:
Spooky!!! They do say if you talk about the devil he'll appear....
Good to see you back
I got hit in the face at the age of 4 by a baby in a swing, does that count? It was one of those ones worth the high back & sides, made out of metal.
Thanks Ali Good to see you back
I got hit in the face at the age of 4 by a baby in a swing, does that count? It was one of those ones worth the high back & sides, made out of metal.
I'm sure that'd count, sounds nasty. A metal baby with a high back?
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