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What was it that my Granddad smoked ( when he wasn't chewing tobacco) Navy cut or something?Capstan full strength
Both hands needed for a rolly, let go of the wheel or steer with your knees
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My friends wife works at primary school level, they had a meeting last week in which it was discussed if teaching the use of a mouse was now obsolete as most of the kids that age only use touch interfaces now.
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Yeah that was the one, Players Navy cut
Being an "Old sea dog" I guess it went with the territory
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Am I the only one that doesn't find him ( Rowen) funny? never have never will.
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My dad smoked those when I was a teenager. They were so foul I only pinched them as an absolute last resort!Yeah that was the one, Players Navy cut
Being an "Old sea dog" I guess it went with the territory
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My dad smoked those when I was a teenager. They were so foul I only pinched them as an absolute last resort!
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Yeah that was the one, Players Navy cut
Being an "Old sea dog" I guess it went with the territory
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In Blackadder, yes you are.
Mr Bean? Maybe not.
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Not a fan of Rowan Atkinson per se but am a massive fan of Blackadder.
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I'll be 53 next month. No computer studies when I was at school.
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I'm even older
We had just started using calculators that used diodes, so they only lasted a few minutes.A mate of mine had one of the first LED watches. It lasted about 12 hours before the battery ran out.
It's funny how things come around again: Apple Watch
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I had a st of 7 figure log tables and my class mates could not understand why anyone would need that accuracy. 4 figure ones were the norm for exams "when you could use them at all"
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*willy waving alert!*
I'm even older
A mate of mine had one of the first LED watches. It lasted about 12 hours before the battery ran out.
It's funny how things come around again: Apple Watch
I bought the sinclair executive kit to make my own calculator. It worked fine for at least a year.
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My dad always watched the results and I got so used to the way the bloke read the results out that I could shut my eyes and predict the away teams score before he said it. My Success rate had to be around 90%.
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What was it that my Granddad smoked ( when he wasn't chewing tobacco) Navy cut or something?
Both hands needed for a rolly, let go of the wheel or steer with your knees
( apparently)
Not yet a smoker, if you could not do a roll up single handed.
so I bought a pipe
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Amstrad/Spectrum/Commodore.
Software on tape.
Dot matrix printers
I still have a Sinclair ZX81 and expandable memory pack from when I was 18.
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Texas Instruments Scientific calculator for my first year at Uni, 1975. Diode display. Cost about a weeks wages.
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It seems the original direction of this thread has veered, or even reversed, but I'll join the bandwagon.
I remember when we used to plan a summer holiday having to go to the library and find books about the area we wanted to visit, and to get there, as others have mentioned, we used maps.
Access to the Web now is great and I would not want to go back, but I am continually surprised by people, most of whom I think are younger than me, who appear to be internet lazy – a few keystrokes would probably get the answer they want, but it appears they would rather spend time online asking someone else to do it for them.
However, going back to the point the OP raised about the radio article. I'm more that a bit worried that never having lived in a world without Xfactor is worth mentioning at all.
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PS The comments about calculators reminds me of something a mate of mine said when the first calculators appeared, at about £80 each . We were in a group and one bloke said, "I'll buy one if the price drops to about a fiver." , and my mate said, "That will never happen because they are just so complicated, they are always going to be expensive."
I remember when we used to plan a summer holiday having to go to the library and find books about the area we wanted to visit, and to get there, as others have mentioned, we used maps.
Access to the Web now is great and I would not want to go back, but I am continually surprised by people, most of whom I think are younger than me, who appear to be internet lazy – a few keystrokes would probably get the answer they want, but it appears they would rather spend time online asking someone else to do it for them.
However, going back to the point the OP raised about the radio article. I'm more that a bit worried that never having lived in a world without Xfactor is worth mentioning at all.
Dave
PS The comments about calculators reminds me of something a mate of mine said when the first calculators appeared, at about £80 each . We were in a group and one bloke said, "I'll buy one if the price drops to about a fiver." , and my mate said, "That will never happen because they are just so complicated, they are always going to be expensive."
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b****rNope and I can't stand Mr Bean either, b****r another thing we seem to agree on
The only thing I ever found of his that was mildly amusing was Johnny English.
And that was only because he nuked the speed camera
Pink of course, what's the issue?
Ah yes the red screened Casio watches*willy waving alert!*
I'm even older
A mate of mine had one of the first LED watches. It lasted about 12 hours before the battery ran out.
It's funny how things come around again: Apple Watch
I never could get the hang of roll-ups TBH no matter how many free hands I had
Just the thing for relaxing out side on a warm summers eve
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Yeah and we didn't even need brakes because we were hard as nails and just used to dig out boots into the ground to stop !
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Blimey! boots! you were obviously rich!
We had a bush at the bottom of our "go carting" hill, better than any modern brakes
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10p?? it was a tanner when I were a kid10p back on pop bottles
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Are you by any chance out? Or are you out out?