Things which really died a death.

[jet_noise]

Pericoloso said:

bristolracer said:

Teacher nicknames

Basil
Minto
Woody
Dippy

etc

My Kids tell me they dont have nicknames for teachers any more.

My history teacher was Twizzle ,no idea why.

Everyone must have had a Woody .

That sounds slightly wrong.

I forget all the rest ,school is but a fuzzy memory.

And the school caretaker was either Lurch or Herman.

[Wildcat45]

Bidets. In the UK anyway.

When I was a kid in the late '70s my folks did up a house and a bidet was a must have. I have memories of touring bathroom shops where every suite seemed to come with nethers washing facilities.

A couple of years later we moved and refurbished another house. Not a bidet to be seen.

I've just had a bathroom done up and chatting to the plumbers only the boss man, a chap in his 50s remembered installing one back when he was an apprentice.

[The Mad Monk]

eldar said:

Balmoral said:

Meeting and chatting to people who lived through and took part in the war.

A neighbour of mine is a long retired GP, he is 93.

Qualified as a doctor in 1945, immediately conscripted, and spent a year performing triage at various concentration camps. He spent trhe next 40 years as a GP in a quiet midlands town.

Conscription started, I think, in 1940 and last call-up was 1960. I was called up in 1955, I was permanent staff at the training regiment and my happy claim was that I didn't miss a weekend at home for 18 months.

When reading obituaries (just to make sure I'm not in there) it's something I check - did he do military service?

[Swampy1982]

The Mad Monk said:

eldar said:

Balmoral said:

Meeting and chatting to people who lived through and took part in the war.

A neighbour of mine is a long retired GP, he is 93.

Qualified as a doctor in 1945, immediately conscripted, and spent a year performing triage at various concentration camps. He spent trhe next 40 years as a GP in a quiet midlands town.

Conscription started, I think, in 1940 and last call-up was 1960. I was called up in 1955, I was permanent staff at the training regiment and my happy claim was that I didn't miss a weekend at home for 18 months.

When reading obituaries (just to make sure I'm not in there) it's something I check - did he do military service?

I personally think this is worthy of a thread in its own right - PH'ers who fought in the WW's

I for one would like to thank them and hear any stories they'd be willing to share.

Edit - I also think there is a fun thread for "guess my age" given Frank's revelation, where posts trawl the posts made by a ph'er and make an assumption based on their postings

Edited by Swampy1982 on Sunday 10th February 09:46

Edited by Swampy1982 on Sunday 10th February 09:46

[Blown2CV]

Wildcat45 said:

Bidets. In the UK anyway.

When I was a kid in the late '70s my folks did up a house and a bidet was a must have. I have memories of touring bathroom shops where every suite seemed to come with nethers washing facilities.

A couple of years later we moved and refurbished another house. Not a bidet to be seen.

I've just had a bathroom done up and chatting to the plumbers only the boss man, a chap in his 50s remembered installing one back when he was an apprentice.

Yep. I mean as much as they probably are a really great idea, I wonder how many people in the UK actually used them. I bet it was just a weird unused pointless thing in most bathrooms.

[Blown2CV]

Swampy1982 said:

The Mad Monk said:

eldar said:

Balmoral said:

Meeting and chatting to people who lived through and took part in the war.

A neighbour of mine is a long retired GP, he is 93.

Qualified as a doctor in 1945, immediately conscripted, and spent a year performing triage at various concentration camps. He spent trhe next 40 years as a GP in a quiet midlands town.

Conscription started, I think, in 1940 and last call-up was 1960. I was called up in 1955, I was permanent staff at the training regiment and my happy claim was that I didn't miss a weekend at home for 18 months.

When reading obituaries (just to make sure I'm not in there) it's something I check - did he do military service?

I personally think this is worthy of a thread in its own right - PH'ers who fought in the WW's

I for one would like to thank them and hear any stories they'd be willing to share.

Edit - I also think there is a fun thread for "guess my age" given Frank's revelation, where posts trawl the posts made by a ph'er and make an assumption based on their postings

Edited by Swampy1982 on Sunday 10th February 09:46

Edited by Swampy1982 on Sunday 10th February 09:46

You are 36.

[Roofless Toothless]

bristolracer said:

Teacher nicknames

Basil
Minto
Woody
Dippy

etc

My Kids tell me they dont have nicknames for teachers any more.

When I was at school we had a thing about spelling teachers' names backwards and basing their nicknames on whatever came out of that.

This ended when we got to Mr Gibbon.

[slipstream 1985]

our forign languaages teach was called mrs tamasari, she was known as mrs tampon on safari

[Swampy1982]

Blown2CV said:

You are 36.

Correct, but it was too easy considering the "How old and what do you drive" thread.

[Pericoloso]

Swampy1982 said:

Blown2CV said:

You are 36.

Correct, but it was too easy considering the "How old and what do you drive" thread.

"Blown" may have spotted a more obvious clue......

[Swampy1982]

Pericoloso said:

"Blown" may have spotted a more obvious clue......

Forgot about my user name! Ha

[kowalski655]

Roofless Toothless said:

When I was at school we had a thing about spelling teachers' names backwards and basing their nicknames on whatever came out of that.

This ended when we got to Mr Gibbon.

We had a Mr Gibbon as a substitute teacher-the obvious was monkey noises.Good thing he wasnt black!
Also a Mr Farrah, called "Baggy" after the Farah trousers and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJOLwy7un3U

[Frank7]

Swampy1982 said:

I personally think this is worthy of a thread in its own right - PH'ers who fought in the WW's

I for one would like to thank them and hear any stories they'd be willing to share.

Edit - I also think there is a fun thread for "guess my age" given Frank's revelation, where posts trawl the posts made by a ph'er and make an assumption based on their postings

Edited by Swampy1982 on Sunday 10th February 09:46

Edited by Swampy1982 on Sunday 10th February 09:46

On the subject of my “revelation”, when it was announced that Prince Philip was voluntarily surrendering his driving licence, my wife said, “Why don’t you do that, you hate “having” to drive, and always slide into the rear seats when we go out, at least it might stop you from shouting SHOTGUN as we leave the house.”
I said, “What about when you go to a leaving do at your firm, and call me at 11.45 p.m.-midnight, slurring, can ya pick me up at Paddington Basin in about twenny minutes, babe, or when it’s, do me a favour, dive over to Waitrose at Canary Wharf, get a couple of venison steaks and a decent bottle of red.”

[captain_cynic]

Fittster said:

So let someone more competent manage it. The idea that an organisations data center are going to do a better job than a major cloud provider is fanciful.

In order to do that, it would cost more than me and hosting it outside our control.

Not everyone is as incompetent as you.

[hutchst]

Pericoloso said:

My history teacher was Twizzle ,no idea why.

Everyone must have had a Woody .

That sounds slightly wrong.

I forget all the rest ,school is but a fuzzy memory.

We had a "Twizzle" but I can't remember who he was, or why?

[nicanary]

hutchst said:

Pericoloso said:

My history teacher was Twizzle ,no idea why.

Everyone must have had a Woody .

That sounds slightly wrong.

I forget all the rest ,school is but a fuzzy memory.

We had a "Twizzle" but I can't remember who he was, or why?

Twizzle was a Gerry Anderson creation dating back to 1957. The puppet had the ability to stretch his arms and legs, so maybe the teacher was tall and thin ?

[Fittster]

captain_cynic said:

Fittster said:

So let someone more competent manage it. The idea that an organisations data center are going to do a better job than a major cloud provider is fanciful.

In order to do that, it would cost more than me and hosting it outside our control.

Not everyone is as incompetent as you.

But if you are typical of both the UK private and public sector, you'll do it badly (this being PH you'll be a superstar). If you think that data centers are run efficiently, securely and productively I doubt you have a long history in the industry.

Why do you think the Blogs widget company (or the department of widgets, or the blessed Widget bank) should be experts in managing data centers as opposed to making widgets? They are moving stuff to the cloud as cloud providers can do it better and they can focus on making widgets.

[Triumph Man]

jet_noise said:

Pericoloso said:

bristolracer said:

Teacher nicknames

Basil
Minto
Woody
Dippy

etc

My Kids tell me they dont have nicknames for teachers any more.

My history teacher was Twizzle ,no idea why.

Everyone must have had a Woody .

That sounds slightly wrong.

I forget all the rest ,school is but a fuzzy memory.

And the school caretaker was either Lurch or Herman.

Ours was called Rambo

[julianm]

Our English teacher was a big mean chap who didn't take fools gladly.
Mr Saffron.
Some revenge was possible when this came out in '67 & we hummed away as we passed his room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb3WpOJvsug

[Halmyre]

jdw100 said:

Smelly Delly Deathbreath Delbridge....maths teacher we had for two years when I was 12-14. (early 1980s).

Kids are missing out if they don't have nicknames for teachers.

I don't really remember my teachers having nicknames. Probably because they all carried Lochgelly tawses and would administer immediate punishment with same if there was any hint of disrespect. I do remember my primary school headmaster's nickname was Bomber for some obscure reason; thinking back, he did have a vague resemblance to Sir Arthur Harris. 'Batman' was one teacher who strode around with his gown flapping in his wake - and there's another thing that's died a death, teachers in gowns, in state schools at any rate.