Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

neverdespairgirl

You're younger than me - but none of my schools had a typewriter anywhere that the "gels" went (-:

vivatifosi

I went to sit my CSE typing and at the start of the exam typed my name at the top of the paper per instructions, hit the manual carriage return from the right (as you did back then) and the blinking thing came apart and flew across the classroom.

I did get offered the chance to resit on a different day, but the time that they alternative exam was on clashed with my O Level exam for maths. The typing teacher actually looked at me as if to say "but what does a woman need a maths O Level for?" Useless school. Anyhow, I took the maths and passed, and have a CSE grade U in typing, my lowest exam grade ever.

lostinrates

grrr...just lost a long post that don't have time to retype in reply to that.....its so annoying when that ha[ppens.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I just love that Sue, its made me smile very broadly.


I haven't got any tights...or I can't find any. I have inadvertantly ended up dressed for a meeting in a skirt, that one of the cats helpfully clawed, a top thats a bit too thin and a huge cardigan, that covers the top and skirt...but reveals the bare legs. :o There are days I would have been very rude about people like me.

Sigh. I have got nice shoes out to wear (better without tights because there will be some grip), that match the cardigan. And because of the nice shoes, a walking stick, which matches the top.

But no knickers!

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

...CSE typing...

Yes... CSE. There wasn't an O level in it was there. Choose typing and it had to be a CSE. My class was two CSEs though: CSE Typing and CSE Office Practice, so I at least got two of them. Although these days, with it being GCSE, it'd look like an O level

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

But no knickers!

my knickers match my bra but not the clothes anyone sees.:o

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

my knickers match my bra but not the clothes anyone sees.:o

So do mine .... as in "I bought them in the same decade"

Been wondering if M&S sell bras online. Last time I made the 40 mile round trip and went in to buy a few of their basic/functional bras they didn't have them (that's the trouble with M&S in this county, small shop/small range/never have what I need).

JonnyBravo

PasturesNew wrote: »

So do mine .... as in "I bought them in the same decade"

:rotfl:...............

tomterm8

I wish I'd done typing at school. I never did, so I ended up the only two-fingered touch typist in the known world. Sometimes I am up to three fingers. Fast, but if I'd learned typing as a kid I'd have been much faster.

Instead they had me doing CDT, a subject I had no aptitude or interest in.

What always amazes me about those old manual typewriters is that writers like Silverberg used to write 50,000 word novels on them, in a week. Supermen.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

I just love that Sue, its made me smile very broadly.

The highlight of his school holiday was not our holiday, or our days out to the beach etc, nope, it was our trip to PC world where he played with all the tablet pc's so he could report on them in his reviews.

He actually thinks being a geek is a good thing and is quite proud when someone calls him a geek