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02/11/2022 at 8:39am
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I remember school being dead after 4 - its fantastic nowadays, you can pop down the school until quite late at night and theres sports teams playing, drama/dance groups, kids doing art, evening classes, kids who have started their own bands using the school for rehearsals - I dont think the place shuts til gone 9 on a normal day.
It's not just schools that have "locked up" - building sites have legal requirements on limiting access, pretty much all medium+ sized companies have site access controls due to both H&S and data protection (GDPR) requirements. The world is a better place for it I reckon.
I remember an old Jasper Carrot sketch that went something like......
""People keep going on about "Oh I remember the good old days we used to go out and leave our doors unlocked all day" ......That was because we had nothing worth nicking!.......then they go "We had nothing, but we were happy"........no we didnt, we had ricketts"" :-)
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02/11/2022 at 12:47pm
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"We still buy coal but house coal (as it was) is now banned so its 5cwt a time smokeless. Three of our four fireplaces are in use, albeit only 2 regularly."
You can still buy house coal it isn't banned till May 2023.
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02/11/2022 at 4:50pm
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Quote: Originally posted by 664DaveS on 02/11/2022
I can remember decimal currency coming in. I joined the RAF in 1971 and I had a 1965 Austin Mini. It cost about £1.50 to fill it up!
I can remember decimalisation too. I was Station Foreman at Epping Station and it was absolute chaos! Passengers buying their tickets at the ticket office didn't understand the new money and were coming to me to assure them they had the right tickets. They couldn't figure out that a 25p ticket would take them just as far as an old 5/- one would.
I had a 1965 Ford Zodiac at the time and that took about £3 to fill the tank. Much bigger tank than a Mini, and it needed it!
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04/11/2022 at 9:30am
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I dont remember decimalisation - Im too young! But I do remember school maths books saying "New pence". Won't be long now before the £ is dead itself - its highly unstable compared to the euro, and its value vs the euro is less and less....... and an additional 'mare for businesses to sell/buy stuff (not like the UK doesnt make it difficult enough already). Ultimately we'll likely end up with one global currency - and that might not physically exist - a universal and credible version to bitcoin probably.
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04/11/2022 at 11:07am
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Quid or euro doesnt change your identity, its just money, if it changes youll get used to it in no time, dont worry :-)
Only about 30% of the world drives on the left - on that basis we drive on the wrong side of the road. Correcting this would cause lots of accidents and cost a lot of money but in the long run would make a lot of sense.
http://realscandinavia.com/this-day-in-history-swedish-traffic-switches-sides-september-3-1967/#:~:text=On%20Sunday%2C%20September%203%2C%201967,to%20driving%20on%20the%20right.
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My understanding of which side of the road to use is that even Europe, as it then was, used the left hand side. Then Napoleon arrived and hated the English so much, he changed the side for driving. Of, course, it was horse and cart in those days.
There was a reason for riding your horse on the left. As in the old days of castle building and spiral staircases always going clockwise.
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They rode horses up the staircases? Went to Castle Acre priory recently and wouldn't go up the spiral staircase, nothing to hold onto.
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Love the idea of staggering the switchover, thats hilariously genius!!! UK is about 10% of the population of Europe - you must be a luddite if you think Europe should change the side of the road to suit us, although I do believe all motorcycles in Europe are now right hand drive so it might just happen :-)
I remember in the early 80s my grandparents had a black & white telly, wouldnt entertain the thought of a colour one! Then one time their B&W hire set broke down and the Granada man had to take it away. As a "courtesy" telly they had a colour one - needless to say they never went back to b&w.
I cant find anything to validate this but something in my mind is making me recall that DAB radio frequencies are either repurposed black and white frequencies or CB radio frequencies (rubber duck). Interesting that even the "new fangled" DAB radios will soon be redundant and it'll all be internet radio - they need to fix battery life though, as FM/AM battery consumption is so low its going to be extremely difficult to match.
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