As a kid I recall mega blocks first arriving as poor Lego knockoff. Like you are saying, they would not often stick together because their was no tubes on the bottom underside, presumably to avoid patent infringement.
Something you don't see anymore is those adventure multiple choice books. For example 'if you turn right go to page 10. If you turn left go to page 13'. etc. I used to like them.
Again, with the small person in rural Essex in mind, every time I'd go into the local branch of Wilko (when such a thing was practical as well as possible), I'd be eyeing up the Wilko Blox that proudly trumpeted how they were "compatible with other construction sets". And they had a pick n' mix style "fill a pint tub with Blox for four quid" (it's probably more by now). Are they any good? It will be several more years before I'll be able to find out, at least until the small person has moved on from Duplo and can be just about trusted not to swallow the tiny 1×1 and 2×1 bricks.
Something you don't see anymore is those adventure multiple choice books. For example 'if you turn right go to page 10. If you turn left go to page 13'. etc. I used to like them.
Something you don't see anymore is those adventure multiple choice books. For example 'if you turn right go to page 10. If you turn left go to page 13'. etc. I used to like them.
Well you ought to love my game if and when I ever get it finished.
Not that I ever saw any, but there were some knockoff lego bricks made by a company called "0937", which was printed on each brick.
It just looked like a number, unless you looked at it the other way up....
Something you don't see anymore is those adventure multiple choice books. For example 'if you turn right go to page 10. If you turn left go to page 13'. etc. I used to like them.
Actually there are some very funny ones that have recently appeared on the shelves.
For instance;
I wanted to buy my Son one of these for a stocking filler this Crimbo, but they cost crazy amount. Its cheaper to buy a new one, of similar design without the drink product advertising.
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 exactly [pause], pip pip pip. "
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 10 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 20 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 30 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 40 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 50 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:26 exactly [pause], pip pip pip."
Remember, before the internet and internet porn, some people used to call 0898 premium rate numbers to hear a recording of some allegedly sexy woman and we used to see the adverts in the paper.
Even after the advent of the internet in the late 90's and early 00 these numbers existed late night chat lines and use to be advertised on low rate TV channels in the dead hours.
Something youngsters would not recognise or know how to work.
That one was made after the mid 60's as it doesn't have the letters around the dial (in the same manner as the three letter combinations around the buttons on mobile phones) that the pre mid 60's ones had, from the days when you had to use exchange codes instead of the numbers used now to call different different cities.
To dial for Leeds for example I seem to remember you dialed 0LE ( which corresponded to 053) then the number you wanted to reach. In later years the letters were dropped altogether from the dials in favour of numbers only for the area codes.
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 exactly [pause], pip pip pip. "
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 10 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 20 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 30 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 40 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 50 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:26 exactly [pause], pip pip pip."
Remember, before the internet and internet porn, some people used to call 0898 premium rate numbers to hear a recording of some allegedly sexy woman and we used to see the adverts in the paper.
Even after the advent of the internet in the late 90's and early 00 these numbers existed late night chat lines and use to be advertised on low rate TV channels in the dead hours.
I remember one that was on late night telly for years, it featured a woman dressed in black underwear on the phone talking to a guy who was using a mobile. The advert was used for many years, the phone the guy had was a brick! :))
I also remember seeing one for gays that featured a group of stereotypical gays, one was a fireman, one was a builder and i think another was a bodybuilder :))
No idea what happened to mines either. I could have kept it and sold it for a few quid. Mind all the tricks people could do with them?
Thatcher! That's what happened to mines.
Nah - trade unions is what happened to the mines. Lets be honest they the were the biggest and most millitant and something had to be done about it and they were the obvious target. Scargill and his ilk totaly misread the situation and didn't realise what they were up against - they even boasted that they'd bring down the government in two weeks.
Not saying it was right and the aftermath should of been handled better but they pushed it and she was happy to oblige. I think i even read somewhere that originally the plan was to phase coal out over ten years to lessen the shock but they couldn't get agreement so she went all in.
And to be fair Greta would be really moaning her self entitled arse off now if they were still open.
Something youngsters would not recognise or know how to work.
I just proved this by asking my fourteen year old daughter. She wasn't sure, but knew you had to turn the dial, but not sure how. :))
I worked at exchanges VIGilant and MELville. We were using the codes right through the eighties, long after the public stop using them. Private wires, data circuits used by banks and businesses used the codes for routing, as they feed through many exchanges.
Mechanical, noisy and needed a lot of maintenance.
I remember one that was on late night telly for years, it featured a woman dressed in black underwear on the phone talking to a guy who was using a mobile. The advert was used for many years, the phone the guy had was a brick! :))
I also remember seeing one for gays that featured a group of stereotypical gays, one was a fireman, one was a builder and i think another was a bodybuilder :))
Here's a YouTube vid for you, it's probably NSFW (though the uploader wrote he cut the offending bits) and it is in German, but it shows exactly those stupid TV adverts you're talking of ... they usually aired late at night. Am I wrong in feeling nostalgic even for this crap :\">
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Well you ought to love my game if and when I ever get it finished.
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It just looked like a number, unless you looked at it the other way up....
Actually there are some very funny ones that have recently appeared on the shelves.
For instance;
Choose your own Apocolypse
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One hundred billion Bitcoins says there was none.
The professional ones had a rubberized plastic outer, that if landed hard merely bounced.
Are those "time" services still alive? I'm talking about that phone numbers where a machine answered the phone and said the current time.
An' you know what they said?
Well, some of it was true!
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 10 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 20 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 30 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 40 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:25 and 50 seconds pip pip pip."
"At the third stroke it will be 10:26 exactly [pause], pip pip pip."
Remember, before the internet and internet porn, some people used to call 0898 premium rate numbers to hear a recording of some allegedly sexy woman and we used to see the adverts in the paper.
Even after the advent of the internet in the late 90's and early 00 these numbers existed late night chat lines and use to be advertised on low rate TV channels in the dead hours.
I think there was a difference in the super spinners, something to do with the the bar inside that allowed them to spin rather than just yoyo.
Nice phone!! Here is one of mine, this one lives in my office at work. The other is a grey and brown one and is in my home.
That one was made after the mid 60's as it doesn't have the letters around the dial (in the same manner as the three letter combinations around the buttons on mobile phones) that the pre mid 60's ones had, from the days when you had to use exchange codes instead of the numbers used now to call different different cities.
To dial for Leeds for example I seem to remember you dialed 0LE ( which corresponded to 053) then the number you wanted to reach. In later years the letters were dropped altogether from the dials in favour of numbers only for the area codes.
Thatcher! That's what happened to mines.
I remember one that was on late night telly for years, it featured a woman dressed in black underwear on the phone talking to a guy who was using a mobile. The advert was used for many years, the phone the guy had was a brick! :))
I also remember seeing one for gays that featured a group of stereotypical gays, one was a fireman, one was a builder and i think another was a bodybuilder :))
Nah - trade unions is what happened to the mines. Lets be honest they the were the biggest and most millitant and something had to be done about it and they were the obvious target. Scargill and his ilk totaly misread the situation and didn't realise what they were up against - they even boasted that they'd bring down the government in two weeks.
Not saying it was right and the aftermath should of been handled better but they pushed it and she was happy to oblige. I think i even read somewhere that originally the plan was to phase coal out over ten years to lessen the shock but they couldn't get agreement so she went all in.
And to be fair Greta would be really moaning her self entitled arse off now if they were still open.
I just proved this by asking my fourteen year old daughter. She wasn't sure, but knew you had to turn the dial, but not sure how. :))
I worked at exchanges VIGilant and MELville. We were using the codes right through the eighties, long after the public stop using them. Private wires, data circuits used by banks and businesses used the codes for routing, as they feed through many exchanges.
Mechanical, noisy and needed a lot of maintenance.
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https://www.luny.co.uk
Over my 10 year period at BT, I saw the above which took up a massive had become a handful of cabinets
And the muxes, which encoded and routed all the calls go from another hall filled of equipment to a single rack.
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Here's a YouTube vid for you, it's probably NSFW (though the uploader wrote he cut the offending bits) and it is in German, but it shows exactly those stupid TV adverts you're talking of ... they usually aired late at night. Am I wrong in feeling nostalgic even for this crap :\">