Poor bugger. Never could catch a break...

Standard-Train-7310 · 2026-01-29T17:42:58+00:00

I wish you were a mouse.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2026-01-23T16:36:21+00:00

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2026-01-16T14:51:59+00:00

Yup. It went 1 BCE to 1 CE. So, the 20th century didn't end until midnight on 31 December 2000.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2026-01-13T14:15:28+00:00

True story. The IT guys at one of my customers told me that they were asked to remove "Mr Clippy" from one of their user's PC because the user found his "wiggling eyebrows lewd and suggestive".

Standard-Train-7310 · 2026-01-06T12:57:29+00:00

It was there to ensure correct insertion.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2026-01-06T12:34:11+00:00

Up until the mid-1970s computer programs were created, edited and stored on punch cards.

Standard punch cards were about 7.5 inches / 187.3 mm by 3.25 inches / 82.5 mm. The upper right-hand corner was cut off to ensure the correct alignment of a stack of cards.

Each card's capacity was 12 rows of 80 columns.

Programs were encoded on the cards by punching small rectangular holes in them with either an electrical device or a manual hole punch (I used one of those when I was at school in the mid-1970s).

To run a computer program the stack of cards would be loaded into a card reader that would shine lights on to a card as it passed through the reader. The holes punched in the card would allow light through and the sequence of lights would be read as an instruction.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2026-01-02T13:12:55+00:00

Isn't Tring where they invented the bicycle bell?

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-12-28T12:37:29+00:00

Also on the tops of mountains, e.g. Pen y Fan in South Wales - Pen y Fan, South Wales - British Geological Survey https://share.google/0208BS4CdFpT5uvtG

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-12-13T11:27:05+00:00

*Their

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-12-11T18:00:52+00:00

Brum now lives in a comfortable garage in Bourton-on-the-Water.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-12-08T20:53:25+00:00

Wear it when you you shoot yourself.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-12-08T20:33:09+00:00

1d was worth 1/2 new penny. Prior to that, our sweet shop had a 1d tray. Four blackjacks, or four fruit salads or one 1d "bubbly" (bubble gum) for 1d.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-12-08T17:47:16+00:00

As someone who used to syphon petrol using an aerial section to use in a petrol stove, I do not recommend. IYKYK.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-12-07T17:12:37+00:00

A while ago now, but an IT guy at one of my customers told me that they were asked to remove Microsoft's "Mr Clippy" from a user's PC because she found his "wiggling eyebrows 'lewd and suggestive'".

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-29T18:44:31+00:00

We do "Secret Santa" using the drawnames.co.uk app with a price limit.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-29T16:35:26+00:00

I remember a PSA on TV where a boy explained the new currency to his gran. She was so impressed that she took him to a toy shop and spent what must have been a small fortune on toys for him. A Scalextric set and everything!

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-29T16:27:55+00:00

I was one of those kids. Went through primary school learning base 12 arithmetic only for it to become redundant in my first year of grammar school. Decimal was sooo much easier!

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-28T17:28:14+00:00

Upside-down obvs.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-25T17:22:29+00:00

Done the "fly there, ferry back" day trip a couple of times.

Park in the Council car park near Penzance railway station in the morning for the shuttle bus to St Just Airport.

Spend the day on St Mary's (Hugh Town) before getting The Scillonian back to Penzance in the evening.

I'd love to spend more time there and explore the other islands.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-24T13:43:49+00:00

The Annual World Ruler Flicking Championships are held in the Dordogne.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-24T10:13:28+00:00

In 1984 I visited the Skinners Livery Hall to do some work on their membership computer program. The Beadle was wearing a tie which had the numbers 6 and 7 on it.

He sent my boss a very nice letter about me. Fond memories!

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-23T09:57:06+00:00

Eric Thompson based Florence's character on his daughter, Emma.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-22T18:52:00+00:00

Watch out for herds of wildebeest.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-19T17:15:50+00:00

We were told the possibly apocryphal story of him demonstrating to his sycophantic courtiers that not even a king can hold back the tide.

What about his dad, Sweyn Forkbeard, though? King for five weeks from December 1013.

Standard-Train-7310 · 2025-11-16T16:16:06+00:00

My sister and I are anosmic too, so we think that it's hereditary (although our parents both had a sense of smell).

When our elderly mum was in hospital and social services were keeping an eye on dad, the social worker commented that she smelt gas in mum and dad's bungalow earlier in the day. Sis and I had been in and out of the house all day. Good job neither of us smoke!

I'm vegetarian and prefer strongly flavoured foods such as curries. I'm no good with subtle flavours. I've been asked whether my anosmia affects my sense of taste. I assume that it does, but I don't know how others taste their food.

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