One for those over a certain age

[Morningside]

techiedave said:

Want to make a call from that communal payphone in your block of flats.

Early models we defeated by a DTMF handheld keypad.

[GetCarter]

Anyone else have these?

[motco]

GetCarter said:

Anyone else have these?

Ah, Tandy... I drove past a Tandy shop in Kenton (Harrow) every morning on my way to work, and they had as many sales as Euro Car Parts, or DFS. One day they had an overloaded lorry sale - clearly scraping the barrel for excuses to offload stuff. There products were overpriced and ropy. The electronic components section was handy though, just as Maplin's one was.

[GetCarter]

motco said:

Ah, Tandy... I drove past a Tandy shop in Kenton (Harrow) every morning on my way to work, and they had as many sales as Euro Car Parts, or DFS. One day they had an overloaded lorry sale - clearly scraping the barrel for excuses to offload stuff. There products were overpriced and ropy. The electronic components section was handy though, just as Maplin's one was.

That's a bit spooky. I lived in Kenton - well Queensbury actually, but was in the choir in St Mary's Church, Kenton 1967 - 1972

[motco]

GetCarter said:

motco said:

Ah, Tandy... I drove past a Tandy shop in Kenton (Harrow) every morning on my way to work, and they had as many sales as Euro Car Parts, or DFS. One day they had an overloaded lorry sale - clearly scraping the barrel for excuses to offload stuff. There products were overpriced and ropy. The electronic components section was handy though, just as Maplin's one was.

That's a bit spooky. I lived in Kenton - well Queensbury actually, but was in the choir in St Mary's Church, Kenton 1967 - 1972

My work was in Westmorland Road NW9 between 1969 and 1988. Firstly GKN Plasics Development Centre, then Worldwide Plastics Developments, and finally Bridgend Technologies Ltd - all evolved from the GKN origins. In an old Injection Moulders Ltd building opposite Rotaprint and next door to Vitavox.

[GetCarter]

motco said:

My work was in Westmorland Road NW9 between 1969 and 1988. Firstly GKN Plasics Development Centre, then Worldwide Plastics Developments, and finally Bridgend Technologies Ltd - all evolved from the GKN origins. In an old Injection Moulders Ltd building opposite Rotaprint and next door to Vitavox.

Small world, I lived behind the pub in Honeypot Lane.

Sorry for the O/T folks. As you were.

[AdeTuono]

227bhp said:

What was this game, late 70s early to mid 80s: You had a rifle which shot nothing but a light beam, various targets which when hit made something happen, one of which was a wooden toilet door. When the target was hit the door opened and some cowboy was sat on the pan with his kegs around his ankles.
It wasn't Tin can alley...

We had this at our local funfair. Is that what you're thinking of?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plyv4cOhAoo

[Blib]

GetCarter said:

Small world, I lived behind the pub in Honeypot Lane.

Sorry for the O/T folks. As you were.

A slightly different kind of landscape to the one you're now used to.

[Timmy40]

Public information broadcasts scarred my childhood, lets see there was;

Boys playing football on a slurry pit ( why?? ) on which the crust breaks and one falls through and literally drowns in st.

Boys playing with a kite which gets stuck in a high power line pylon, boy climbs it to get kite, gets toasted.

Man fits cross ply and radial tyres to his car, skids and dies horribly.

Kids all decide to go swimming in a lake on a hot sunny day, dive through the warm surface layer and start drowning.

Any others I've missed?

[GetCarter]

Timmy40 said:

Any others I've missed?

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

[jmorgan]

Boiling up pigs trotters. And seeing the head on a cutting block in the kitchen.

Then running around with pigs ears......

[Morningside]

jmorgan said:

Boiling up pigs trotters. And seeing the head on a cutting block in the kitchen.

Then running around with pigs ears......

Sounds like Texas Chainsaw massacre to me.

Video nasties.
The warning triangle on channel 4 for adult content.

The original (and still the best) Channel 4 ident logo.

[AstonZagato]

GetCarter said:

Timmy40 said:

Any others I've missed?

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

Clunk click, every trip.

Now then, now then, I wonder why they don't show that anymore?

[Halmyre]

Morningside said:

jmorgan said:

Boiling up pigs trotters. And seeing the head on a cutting block in the kitchen.

Then running around with pigs ears......

Sounds like Texas Chainsaw massacre to me.

Video nasties.
The warning triangle on channel 4 for adult content.

What a grave disappointment that was. Watching a 2 hour European art-house film to see 2 seconds of naughtiness.

[RBH58]

jmorgan said:

Boiling up pigs trotters. And seeing the head on a cutting block in the kitchen.

Then running around with pigs ears......

They’re great fried! Our local Vietnamese does them in sliders. Yum!

[C&C]

GetCarter said:

Timmy40 said:

Any others I've missed?

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

I bought this "Charlie Says" DVD a while ago.

It's a compilation of 280 public information films (never realised there were so many)!
The first reviewer has taken the trouble to list them all.

GetCarter said:

motco said:

Ah, Tandy... I drove past a Tandy shop in Kenton (Harrow) every morning on my way to work, and they had as many sales as Euro Car Parts, or DFS. One day they had an overloaded lorry sale - clearly scraping the barrel for excuses to offload stuff. There products were overpriced and ropy. The electronic components section was handy though, just as Maplin's one was.

That's a bit spooky. I lived in Kenton - well Queensbury actually, but was in the choir in St Mary's Church, Kenton 1967 - 1972

Oh, and I can definitely say there is no longer a Tandy shop in Kenton, as by further coincidence, I now live just down the road from the same St Mary's Church (which often hosts performances by the Stanmore Choral Society).

Edited by C&C on Monday 14th May 22:34

[DoctorX]

Timmy40 said:

Public information broadcasts scarred my childhood, lets see there was;

Boys playing football on a slurry pit ( why?? ) on which the crust breaks and one falls through and literally drowns in st.

Boys playing with a kite which gets stuck in a high power line pylon, boy climbs it to get kite, gets toasted.

Man fits cross ply and radial tyres to his car, skids and dies horribly.

Kids all decide to go swimming in a lake on a hot sunny day, dive through the warm surface layer and start drowning.

Any others I've missed?

Polish a floor, put a rug on it, and you might as well set a man trap....

Amazed this was worth doing a film for.

[DoctorX]

AstonZagato said:

Clunk click, every trip.

Now then, now then, I wonder why they don't show that anymore?

Also, Rolf in the swimming pool. “Kids.......they love it!”

[ess]

DoctorX said:

Polish a floor, put a rug on it, and you might as well set a man trap....

Amazed this was worth doing a film for.

This used to scare the c**p out of me. Always hid behind the sofa when it aired.
Being narrated by Donald Pleasance didn't help.

S

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb00H6mCTM8

[C&C]

Jazzy Jag said:

Blotting paper.

When was the last time you saw or used Blotting paper?

Today actually, but that's as a direct result of about a year ago coming across the rather extensive (and turns out quite expensive) PH fountain pen thread.