Blast from the past - remind us of a thing

[Error_404_Username_not_found]

I recently had my daughter mercilessly ripping the Mickey because I used the word "wireless".

[Deranged Rover]

98elise said:

We fitted one to my partners car when she was at university.

Installed on a Sunday, drove to Uni on Monday, and it was stolen from her car by lunchtime. She had stuck the face in the glovebox

My Marcos has an Alpine 'face-off' radio cassette but came without the carrying box for the face, so naturally I bought one.

I think I used it a few times before realising that, in 2025, 30 year old radio-cassette players probably aren't high on thieves' acquisition lists...

[zb]

Error_404_Username_not_found said:

I recently had my daughter mercilessly ripping the Mickey because I used the word "wireless".

Could be worse, until her dying day, my granny called it a transistor radio, which she shortened to...tranny.

[dickymint]

zb said:

Error_404_Username_not_found said:

I recently had my daughter mercilessly ripping the Mickey because I used the word "wireless".

Could be worse, until her dying day, my granny called it a transistor radio, which she shortened to...tranny.

My Gran hated the wireless as it was Her job to lug the accumulator to the shops to get it charged up...............







We call them batteries now

[shed driver]

Planning your viewing with the radio and TV times.

SD.

[swisstoni]

Pubes.

[hidetheelephants]

shed driver said:

Planning your viewing with the radio and TV times.

SD.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer appeared on TV to be asked questions by the unwashed. That's something I'd watch. Kenny Everett too. 3 weeks later the Falkland islands were invaded and the UK was at war.

[cuprabob]

hidetheelephants said:

The Chancellor of the Exchequer appeared on TV to be asked questions by the unwashed. That's something I'd watch. Kenny Everett too. 3 weeks later the Falkland islands were invaded and the UK was at war.

You can still watch Kenny Everett, he's regularly on on one of the less frequented Freeview channels like That's TV.

[motco]

Someone in the Telegraph recently renamed the current holder of the second most important office of state 'The Chancer of the Exchequer"

[Sticks.]

zb said:

Could be worse, until her dying day, my granny called it a transistor radio, which she shortened to...tranny.

It was common as a teenager to sneak a small Taiwanese tranny into bed with you. And listen to Radio Caroline (on MW).

[dickymint]

motco said:

Someone in the Telegraph recently renamed the current holder of the second most important office of state 'The Chancer of the Exchequer"

"Rachel from accounts" always makes me laugh

[brake fader]

shed driver said:

Planning your viewing with the radio and TV times.

SD.

figure skater, looks like Tucker from grange hill is moonlighting.

[anonymoususer]

From memory the Radio Times (BBC) and TV Times (ITV) Came out on a Tuesday morning during the 70s
I would buy them on my way to school and look ahead to what the Monday Night Appointment With Fear Horror movie was going to be.
I remember one morning being interested and intrigued to see it was going to be Taste The Blood Of Dracula .

The Radio Times was printed on very thin paper with a yellowy look to it, The TV Times was better quality pretty much like a lot of magazines you see these days.

[Randy Winkman]

Error_404_Username_not_found said:

I recently had my daughter mercilessly ripping the Mickey because I used the word "wireless".

My brother and I are in our (early) 60s and used to laugh when my dad used that word over 40 years ago.

[Stan the Bat]

I remember my dad talking about a 'cats whisker'.

[dickymint]

Stan the Bat said:

I remember my dad talking about a 'cats whisker'.

Do you the cats whiskers' as in something really good? Same as 'the bees knees'?

[Error_404_Username_not_found]

Nope. Cats whisker tuning for crystal radio sets.
There used to be kits to build them inside matchboxes.
Come to think of it..
Matchboxes.

[hidetheelephants]

dickymint said:

Stan the Bat said:

I remember my dad talking about a 'cats whisker'.

Do you the cats whiskers' as in something really good? Same as 'the bees knees'?

A cat's whisker was a fine wire that was moved over a semi-conducting crystal, generally galena; it acted as a tuning circuit for primitive radio sets.

[bimsb6]

Error_404_Username_not_found said:

Nope. Cats whisker tuning for crystal radio sets.
There used to be kits to build them inside matchboxes.
Come to think of it..
Matchboxes.

You can still buy matchboxes .

[dickymint]

hidetheelephants said:

dickymint said:

Stan the Bat said:

I remember my dad talking about a 'cats whisker'.

Do you the cats whiskers' as in something really good? Same as 'the bees knees'?

A cat's whisker was a fine wire that was moved over a semi-conducting crystal, generally galena; it acted as a tuning circuit for primitive radio sets.

Yeh I knew that but wasn't sure if Stan was referring to radios or something else.