Who remembers and used.

[An Ankoù]

Can anyone remember having a "tranny", well before the idea of transgender was even a twinkle in its mummy's eye?

Dead cool. Even cooler than a Wakman, which, if my memory serves me right, started off with cassettes!

... but these came decades later.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Pre SDS battery Drill

 

[Galena]

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Served my apprenticeship using those, many a happy day of 'Hammer rash'

 

[CD]

Can anyone remember having a "tranny", well before the idea of transgender was even a twinkle in its mummy's eye?

Or the popular song 'I couldn't resist her with her pocket transistor'! Going back to those Button A and Button B phone boxes, you put your money in then dialed the number. If anybody answered you then pressed 'A' to be connected. If they didn't you pressed 'B' and got your money back.

There was a microphone inside the thing that registered which coins were being inserted so the operator knew, so if you just had a short message for somebody, you could shout it into the chute that returned coins came out, and they could hear it without you putting any money in. Or so I was told!

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Served my apprenticeship using those, many a happy day of 'Hammer rash'

You'd to go easy on the hammer or the bit locked in the hole and wouldn't rotate

 

[Twogunrocky]

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

I remember one particular job, a long cable run , standing on a beer crate and working over my head all day, probably 50 holes,. I felt like I'd been crucified at the end of the day

 

[Clint]

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Buckets full of frogs,newts,toads...I even took a grass snake home once and my mam nearly had a fit!

 

[chopps]

Buckets full of frogs,newts,toads...I even took a grass snake home once and my mam nearly had a fit!

For my whole childhood there was a rusty bike in the frogspawn pond. It's probably still there.
Or maybe there's an Aldi built over it now.

 

[Clint]

You never grow out of peering into ponds,streams or rivers...

 

[chopps]

You never grow out of peering into ponds,streams or rivers...

There's a specific smell to a frog pond with a bike in it. I can close my eyes and remember it now after 40 odd years.

 

[Clint]

That dank,rotting vegetation...and the big plumes of marsh gas bubbling up round your feet..mingling with the smell of water mint.

 

[chopps]

That dank,rotting vegetation...and the big plumes of marsh gas bubbling up round your feet..mingling with the smell of water mint.

Sounds like a review of one of my beers from a couple of years back.

 

[Stevieboy]

 

[An Ankoù]

Lava lamp, anybody?

 

[Hop_it]

Our first family computer:

 

[Hop_it]

Remember these? If I recall they had a capacity of 1.44MB

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Who remembers...........Parents buying a lock for the analogue telephone? as using the darn thing was really expensive and couldn't be used willy nilly...therefore it would be locked!. imagine in an emergency? 'i can't find the key!!'

I do and we found you could open it with a hairpin, i kid you not.

 

[Stevieboy]

A Gobblin' Tea Maid ?

 

[Chippy_Tea]

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We used to have one of those I love the sound of a Westminster chime.