Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 31)

Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 31)

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Bobberoo99

38,372 posts

97 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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We did a casserole for tea yesterday using shin of beef, I had the leftovers today for lunch, it was bloody delicious!!! lick

P5BNij

15,772 posts

105 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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glenrobbo said:
Then Matron will administer a special enema.
Just because she enjoys that sort of thing.
If nothing else, it will soon have you up and running. wink
There are magazines and educational pamphlets for people like you glenners. Shocking they are, filled with all kinds of filth. Shouldn't be allowed and all that. I'll dig some out of my loft and send them your way.... whistle

glenrobbo

35,084 posts

149 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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P5BNij said:
There are magazines and educational pamphlets for people like you glenners. Shocking they are, filled with all kinds of filth. Shouldn't be allowed and all that. I'll dig some out of my loft and send them your way.... whistle
No need to go to all that bother, Nij.
I am pictured in a lot of them and already have most of the full set.

Unless you happen to have a spare copy of the May 1963 issue?

Bobberoo99

38,372 posts

97 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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Is that the collectors edition with the wipe clean cover???

glenrobbo

35,084 posts

149 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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Bobberoo99 said:
Is that the collectors edition with the wipe clean cover???
They are all laminated, Bobbers.

The one I am missing is the Sink Plunger Special Connaisewer Edition featuring advice on how best to deal with "oversplatter".

glenrobbo

35,084 posts

149 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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My favourite edition was the special "Irrigation the Archimedes Way!"

I believe this method was popular in North East Africa in the early seventies, just before the famine.

Bobberoo99

38,372 posts

97 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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I saw a very used copy of "Best use of forced induction" at a local specialist dealer, i thought better of handling it without suitable PPE!!!

P5BNij

15,772 posts

105 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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glenrobbo said:
P5BNij said:
There are magazines and educational pamphlets for people like you glenners. Shocking they are, filled with all kinds of filth. Shouldn't be allowed and all that. I'll dig some out of my loft and send them your way.... whistle
No need to go to all that bother, Nij.
I am pictured in a lot of them and already have most of the full set.

Unless you happen to have a spare copy of the May 1963 issue?
If it's the one with a double page spread of Brenda from Watford sprawling across the bonnet of Paddy Hopkirk's newspangled Mini Cooper S then yes. But I'm afraid I can't possibly let you can't have it just yet as it's still on the clothes horse in our back parlour 'drying out' in front of the two bar electric fire. Which reminds me, I need a shilling for the metre...!

Bobberoo99

38,372 posts

97 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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I fell asleep on the sofa, I only woke up because Mrs Bobbers called and asked me to pick her up as it's pissing down here!!!

DickyC

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49,549 posts

197 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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P5BNij said:
Which reminds me, I need a shilling for the metre...!
I can go to ten pence for a yard.

Ah, yes, old money, £sd, Pounds, Shillings and Pence. Twelve pence in a shilling, twenty shillings to a pound. So 240 pennies in a pound. Or, if you were an aficionado of four a penny sweets, 960 sweets for a pound.

Fruit Salad, Black Jacks, Flying Saucers, Shrimps. All four a penny.

Heaven. Well, a heaven full of baby boomers with bad teeth.

Bobberoo99

38,372 posts

97 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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I was born in 1970 so was very aware of the £sd shillings and pence thing, and was taught in both metric and imperial at school, working in the industry I do I have to work in both!!

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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1970! Blimey that makes me feel old. Still, Chelsea won the FA cup that year and I don't think there was anyone in the team who was not English!

DickyC

Original Poster:

49,549 posts

197 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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Bobberoo99 said:
I was born in 1970 so was very aware of the £sd shillings and pence thing, and was taught in both metric and imperial at school, working in the industry I do I have to work in both!!
Decimalisation and metrication; they brought them in too soon. They should have waited until all the old people were dead.

slopes

38,750 posts

186 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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Bobberoo99 said:
I was born in 1970 so was very aware of the £sd shillings and pence thing, and was taught in both metric and imperial at school, working in the industry I do I have to work in both!!
Pfft! whippersnapper! I was 3 when you were born

DickyC

Original Poster:

49,549 posts

197 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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slopes said:
Bobberoo99 said:
I was born in 1970 so was very aware of the £sd shillings and pence thing, and was taught in both metric and imperial at school, working in the industry I do I have to work in both!!
Pfft! whippersnapper! I was 3 when you were born
I'm a bit too young to have had a Ration Card after the War.

paperbag

Bobberoo99

38,372 posts

97 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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DickyC said:
Bobberoo99 said:
I was born in 1970 so was very aware of the £sd shillings and pence thing, and was taught in both metric and imperial at school, working in the industry I do I have to work in both!!
Decimalisation and metrication; they brought them in too soon. They should have waited until all the old people were dead.
You are probably correct Dicky, but at what point do you set the cut off???

slopes said:
Pfft! whippersnapper! I was 3 when you were born
Oh my god you're ancient!!!! smile

DickyC

Original Poster:

49,549 posts

197 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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Bobberoo99 said:
DickyC said:
Bobberoo99 said:
I was born in 1970 so was very aware of the £sd shillings and pence thing, and was taught in both metric and imperial at school, working in the industry I do I have to work in both!!
Decimalisation and metrication; they brought them in too soon. They should have waited until all the old people were dead.
You are probably correct Dicky, but at what point do you set the cut off???
That was a story from the early seventies. Two old ladies were overheard having that conversation on a bus. "They should have waited until all the old people were dead."

/apocryphal

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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slopes said:
Bobberoo99 said:
I was born in 1970 so was very aware of the £sd shillings and pence thing, and was taught in both metric and imperial at school, working in the industry I do I have to work in both!!
Pfft! whippersnapper! I was 3 when you were born
I was doing my 11 + Exams !

slopes

38,750 posts

186 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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Bobberoo99 said:
Oh my god you're ancient!!!! smile
Older the Bull, stiffer the horn

DickyC

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49,549 posts

197 months

Monday 18th February 2019
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I started work in 1970.

Not very enthusiastically, I have to say.
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