The Oldies Thread
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Nah mate didnt happen, prices had to be displayed in both old pence and new pence for a decent period of time.
And iirc, @summerisle, the chips went up due to a potato shortage, the real crime, which was not decimalisation related was when the spuds were plentiful the price never came back down...no change there then
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Do you remember using a slide rule or those machines where you,used to turn a handle to get the answer to a calculation?
I bought my first calculator in the mid seventies and kept putting in different calculations to try and trick it.
It was the size of a brick and filled up the whole of my school bag.
I tried showing my lot how to do long division and you're correctlol
I bet you even Einstein never had to do logarithms, when was the last time in anyone's employment did they have to use logarithm.
Methuselah
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Lumberjacks?
Methuselah
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Not sure if I have posted this before but when I was 10 (1946) 'our gang' went to Formby. We went in a place in the pine tree woods where the army trained. We dug in the sand and found several rounds of live .303 rifle bullets. When we got back to Liverpool we got a hacksaw and got all the gunpowder out of the bullets and tried to make a bomb. Fortunately, it didn't go off! Didn't think it was anything 'out of the ordinary' at the time.
...amazing, it sounds like we were feral but it was just different times. We were brought up knowing life’s values, but we clearly had a lot of childhood freedom.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
I cant be the only one that watches "Call the Midwife" and recall stuff from my younger days.
Like opposite our house was a large childrens home, run by Nuns. The kids were all ages, new borns up to about 11 or 12, and the Nuns allowed us to take the old prams, (like the Call the Midwife ones!), and make them into Go Karts which we would race down the hill to the beach.
Looking back, and after watching the programme, its now obvious that the Nuns took in the orphans and unwanted babies from around the area. I guess its all social services now cos the Nuns and the building are long gone these days; must be 30 years ago that it was demolished for new houses.
Like opposite our house was a large childrens home, run by Nuns. The kids were all ages, new borns up to about 11 or 12, and the Nuns allowed us to take the old prams, (like the Call the Midwife ones!), and make them into Go Karts which we would race down the hill to the beach.
Looking back, and after watching the programme, its now obvious that the Nuns took in the orphans and unwanted babies from around the area. I guess its all social services now cos the Nuns and the building are long gone these days; must be 30 years ago that it was demolished for new houses.
Quite possibly
gonetomorrow
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You don't get dogs gnawing on bones so much now. Calcium. Hence the lack of white poo about.
gonetomorrow
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Do you remember guineas? God I miss them.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I remember now
There used to be h'appeny and penny trays of sweets you could buy. Come decimalisation you got fewer sweets for your 'new pence'.
peteblue
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Wow. That's brilliant. Brings back some good memories. I wouldn't know how to use it now even though I was a Maths teacher for over thirty years.
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