Cake
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And not a knee pad, elbow pad, helmet, arm band in sight… I wonder if they made it home ok?
The Oldies Thread
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Ray Purchase
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On 6 September 1952, a prototype de Havilland DH.110 jet fighter crashed during an aerial display at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England. The jet disintegrated mid-air during an aerobatic manoeuvre, causing the death of pilot John Derry and onboard flight test observer Anthony Richards. Debris from the aircraft fell onto a crowd of spectators, killing 29 people and injuring 60.
Following the accident the air display programme continued once the debris was cleared from the runway, with Neville Duke exhibiting the prototype Hawker Hunter and taking it supersonic over the show later that day.
What a generation, they tidied up and carried on!
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jaspercabbage
Player Valuation: £6m
I read that in the US that apple iPods will be given a license to be sold as hearing aids because they amplify sounds so well. Might be a cheaper and trendier option if your hearing loss isn't too bad.
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
And made it home in time for a cream tea. Thenks mum!
Ray Purchase
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Only 7 years after WW2.
These people took tragedy and death in their stride.
God bless them!
You know your getting old when you are peeing yourself head to the toilets & a 40 year old women runs past you to beat you to the toilet - You have to wait while she takes an age in there - then when you have had your P - no toilet paper its all gone ....doh .... 
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
Since the NHS stopped removal of wax from your ears, I've been using a practice that's sprung up catering for this process. Costs me £50 for them both. I've had a free hearing test whilst there and baulked at the cost of hearing aids. I sort of know the receptionist and when I was paying for my wax removal she confirmed that the NHS aids are just as effective.
They really are mate.
For many people with hearing problems (including myself) it's not the volume that is the problem, it's specific frequencies. Saying something louder to me doesn't really help me at all, speaking more clearly does.
Background noise is a big problem for me too. When watching football on TV I often can't make out what the commentator is saying because of crowd noise in the background for instance.
Trying to join a conversation in a noisey pub is a nightmare without H.A.s
This is why Hearing Aids need to be tuned to a specific prescription for each individual.
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gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
Imagine the compensation claims nowadays! Or do people have to sign a waiver form or summat if they attend these kind of things now?
They are no difference to paying a fortune tbh
I would say that was more a 20s / 30s thing
'White bread' was made with more expensive bleached flour and the upwardly mobile of the day latched on to it as not being 'common'
By the 50s cheap, mass producted - for then - white bread was the thing, helped no doubt by adverts on the new ITV.
Wonderloaf, Warburtons, Reeces, Scotts...depending where you lived
Brown bread - Hovis had by then become a bit of a niche thing...which is why the famous 80s Ads played the nostalgia card
Alanbileysfeathercut
Player Valuation: £80m
£50 for the pair....
Think it's about double here in Aberdeen
tommytowne
Player Valuation: £50m
It's a piss take when a private audiologist tells you in hushed terms it'll be £2500 each.
If you can hear them saying that in "hushed" terms then your ears don't need syringing.
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