Notice to newcomers - part 5

solventsoon

Numpty_Monkey wrote: »

Question Time

Do rental TV's count;)
I remember the first colour TV we got :j
The big chunky channel butons labeled BBC1,BBC2,ITV and the forth one didn't have a label

Remember that, Numpty, so excited when Channel 4 started up in 83/84 was it - can't remember now...

*MF* wrote: »

Ahhh yes, progress, where would we be without it?

Back on all fours again, no doubt!

Don't think the trolls ever left all fours, did they ? :rotfl::rotfl:

Tixy wrote: »

If you had a push button phone in the 70s you were much more modern than us! I remember the dially type, remember using it, so it must have been say '84 or so before we got one (us country folk are a bit slow on the uptake of these new fangled things!)

It was the very late 70s Tixy - my parents weren't that modern, in fact we didn't have a phone until 1979, I think, we were way behind my friends' parents. We needed a wall-mounted one and the only ones available were the push button ones, the buttons were enormous, at least an inch across and the phone itself was pretty big, came with a bracket and about 10 screws to get it on the wall. It was still there when my parents house was sold 15 years ago..... Oooh, feeling quite nostalgic now....

Anyone remember computers when they first came out? We had one at my college, it had three rooms full of metal cupboards with wheels going round at the top and was probably about as powerful as a modern mobile phone (actually, probably not)...

Nargleblast

Fab news Horace, got your earrings back - now you have an ex-friend, make sure you are not available to take her calls and pretend you are out when she knocks on the door (eeh, the fun we have, like hiding from the rent man!)

Numpty - brilliant news re washing machine and fridge freezer, what will you do with your old ones?

When I were a lass..... Mum and Dad paid for their TV by sticking coins in a little box on top of the tv, this was emptied by the man from Radio Rentals. When the money ran out the telly went off so you had to scrabble round for a 50 pence piece so you could see the end of Coronation Street (the one and only soap on the box then). I remember going to a party in 1976 where some of the guests were in the living room playing the new tennis game on the TV - it was fascinating to watch. Even earlier than that I remember my brother's car on the drive, with slide open windows and the little orange things that stuck out when you indicated! It was a Moggie, and he painted it black with a sunshine yellow bonnet, boot door and wheels.

Nargleblast

Computers - I remember doing a college evening class in Basic programming, fat lot of use that turned out to be! I also owned an Oric and later my previous OH owned a ZX Spectrum.

Nargleblast

Oh Gawd, what have we started here? It's like a confederation of the Old Gits (and Gitesses).

Tixy

Nargleblast wrote: »

Even earlier than that I remember my brother's car on the drive, with slide open windows and the little orange things that stuck out when you indicated! .

My brother still has one like that. Not great when you breakdown on a fast corner in the middle of the night and don't have hazard lights though. Good job he has the sort of sister that is prepared to turn out in the middle of the night to go and help hey (:A)

I remember having computers at primary school Spoon I'm sure I'm not that much younger than the rest of you really . That said I certainly wasn't at any parties in 1976, in fact I guess 1979 was the first party I attended and even then I'd have needed the cake liquidised!

solventsoon

Nargleblast wrote: »

Even earlier than that I remember my brother's car on the drive, with slide open windows and the little orange things that stuck out when you indicated! It was a Moggie, and he painted it black with a sunshine yellow bonnet, boot door and wheels.

I'd forgotten about them Nargle..

Nargleblast wrote: »

Computers - I remember doing a college evening class in Basic programming, fat lot of use that turned out to be! I also owned an Oric and later my previous OH owned a ZX Spectrum.

We've still got one of them in our attic - my OH refuses to throw anything away:(

Nargleblast wrote: »

Oh Gawd, what have we started here? It's like a confederation of the Old Gits (and Gitesses).

Yep - Tixy, now look what you've done :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

solventsoon

Tixy wrote: »

I remember having computers at primary school Spoon I'm sure I'm not that much younger than the rest of you really . That said I certainly wasn't at any parties in 1976, in fact I guess 1979 was the first party I attended and even then I'd have needed the cake liquidised!

Hmm...... in that case, Tixy, I'm quite a bit older than you :rotfl::rotfl:but you can join in our nostalgia trip - I'm sure we're not ageist :rotfl::rotfl:

PS: Well done on 5000 posts :j:j

Tixy

solventsoon wrote: »

Hmm...... in that case, Tixy, I'm quite a bit older than you :rotfl::rotfl:but you can join in our nostalgia trip - I'm sure we're not ageist :rotfl::rotfl:

PS: Well done on 5000 posts :j:j

Ooh thanks - I hadn't noticed. Well I'm half way to the final medal/star!
I think nicca might be closer to me in age. Anyway everyone says I look a lot older than I am

Yay its the weekend :j

Numpty_Monkey

Well done tixy on 5012 very good posts sorry I missed it

I'd say you look younger than you are, :kisses3:

and know more than your should:A

Horace

The earrings are as I lent them out..she never wore them and I am exceptionally good at dodging folks, I have an answer machine on my landline and I can hear who calls.:D

I can remember my parents buying a twin tub before that Dad used to drive us to the laundrette in Rubery (its still there). We had a phone an old grey one but during the early 70s they splashed out on a Trimphone. Another gadget we had was dad's chair - it reclined and was very handy after his car accident and he came out of hospital because he could lie back and go to sleep. We didnt have a colour tv until the mid 70s and only after we had visited my aunt and uncle and I was boggling at watching The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau in colour instead of black and white that they decided to get a colour one:eek: Sometime during the 60's - I think it was 1967 we had a gas fire fitted (no central heating just the gas fire).

Who are you calling an old git? I am one of Terry's TOGS:D

I have been going through a huge box that I managed to collect from my neighbour (she took delivery on Monday)..I nearly fell in the thing but now I have 2kg of chocolate dragees, various tuilles, favour boxes, sparkly roses, paper roses and ribbon to play with but no machine to make the favours as yet. Had a chat with someone I know today and she has said that I can have her spare machine and a load of favour making bits n bobs and refuses to accept payment for them.