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House over the road from me had scaffolding put up about 3 weeks ago, Monday 6 council workers in 4 council vans came and changed the down pipe! 6 of them on the scaffolding chatting and making phones calls for an hour and a half!

:08: Blood and stomach pills :08:

I hear Maltrab writes impossible cryptic crosswords for the residents of Hell :devil2:

My thinking too.

I'll try Edie and the Automobile.

The early ones with valves probably were the worst! I heard about someone's family getting one as a hand me down from a richer relative, but their Dad didn't like the smell of dust burning on the valves so as soon as they could afford...

Well, I don't miss the fact that faces were always green.

TV toast mmmmmm delicious :37:

The old Colour TV sets would burn through the electric, then even worse the Plasma TV, you could stand in front of those with bread on a toasting fork

Ditto :03:

Until the mid 1980s my family rented a set from Granada, which was replaced by a Philips set my Dad bought on credit.

As technology improved I remember buying a Casio mini colour TV with something like a two inch screen used it when I was at work during quiet periods on nightshift just showed how far things had progressed.

I recall the TV top antenna that would you stand there adjusting to picture perfect, but by the time you sat down the screen had turned to mush again

I collected 2-3 of these a few years ago when I was getting interested in old technology. I still have them but most are in storage at the moment.

I realised Brilliant post. Yes, yes and yes to the fires caused by valve tvs, chip pans and electric blankets. Veritable monkeys with machine guns. " what if we do this...BOOOOM" "Ahhhhh, that's a no then". :fp: :fp: