The "shite in the rest of your life" Part 2 Thread

[scooters]

We haven't had the "Shite in the rest of your life" thread for some time now, I've had a look for it but couldn't find it so thought I'd start a second one. There's been quite a few new members who have joined since we last did it so it would be interesting to hear what other areas of shite they have in their lives. I can certainly say that my life has been getting increasingly shite over the last year or so.

 

Computers: 3 year old 2nd hand EeePC bought for £90 on ebay plugged into an early flat screen monitor with 'lidl' spec keyboard and mouse combo seems to do the trick. We also have a 2003 iMac which the kids use and which is slower than a very slow thing.

 

Cameras: aside from the panasonic digital affair I like to use a Contax 167MT with a Contax lense - brilliant quality shots and a Pentax MX for "OMG the Khmer Rouge are coming quick into the French embassy" type moments.

 

Kitchen appliances: an ancient 1978 vintage philips electric double whisk - makes stragne smells and sometimes horrible noises but it still works ok...mind you, we tend to hold it at arms length and with two fingers

 

a bone handled Victorian carving set I bought in a junk shop 20 years ago - knife has a broad curved blade making it easy to shovel meat onto folks plates, it isof mild steel and takes a wicked edge

 

Razors - like many shitters here, I use older razor technology...an area which seems to have a lot in common with cars in as much as the basic functionality of the product has become dominated by marketing to stupid extents. I also have very sensitive skin (awww) and need to use a razor I can keep very clean which usually means sterilising it or binning the blades. Therefore I tend to use a Dovo Soelingen Steel straight razor and strop when at home and when travelling a Gilette Aristocrat Open Comb Saftey razor from the 1930s and use Wilkinson Sword stainless blades in it.

 

TVs - again like many shitters, although we have a couple of flat screen tellys I recently picked up a 30 inch Sony Triniton, about 10 years old for free from gumtree

 

Watches: vostock 'submariner' automatic- tough russian automatic watch that I paid £10 8 years ago and keeps going

1976 Texas Instruments LCD Quartz Stainless Digital Watch - NOS - love this one - cost me £4 on ebay 7 years ago - now go for about £40 so a good buy

1994 Pulsar Chronograph - the 'Kia Magentis' of Luxury Watches!!!

[ProgRocker]

I believe I posted this on the last thread.

 

The 2004 Sony TV set I was given from my parents when they upgraded to a ma-hoosive new LCD set with HD. The Sony DVD player too. 1990s Hitachi VCR was given to me by friends of my parents but as i can't record anything off the telly with Freeview its pretty much obsolete.

 

On the right is my 1996 Technics Mini Hi Fi with CD twin tape decks. Cost £400.00 back then. The speakers aren't as good as they once were. However, like those who practise Bangernomics I shall keep it until it no longer works. Do Technics still exist?

 

The silver Sony TV replaced this 1990s Samsung.

Also given to me by my parents.

 

The last time I bought a TV set was in 2000ish when I bought a 14" Philips for my bedroom (living at home back then).

 

1976 Texas Instruments LCD Quartz Stainless Digital Watch - NOS - love this one - cost me £4 on ebay 7 years ago - now go for about £40 so a good buy

 

Nice! I bought a black Casio F-91W watch back in 2003 when I was working at Royal Mail or stacking shelves at Makro. Still works on the original battery. Like the Peugeot 504, it's a robust design classic.

[Father Ted]

1976 Commodore GL979D Greenline calculator - rechargable and still doing sterling service.

 

Selection of my old school shaving technology - the 1964 Slim Adjustable (silver one) is my daily go to razor.

Fat Boy

Soviet Blades

iKon & Neep Brushes

Other than that I dont really have a lot of stuff. I dont tend to keep things.

[Cavcraft]

I'm at work at the mo so can't upload pictures of my kitchen appliance. She does scrub up quite well though.

[jonathan_dyane]

Well to start I have a home entertainment unit which comprises a small format Lenovo dual core PC (About £90) which I upgraded with a terrabyte HDD to fit on as many films and albums one could possibly want (about another £50). The amplifier is a scruffy looking 80s Rotel number which I picked up from a pile of shite on Falkner Street in Liverpool about 2003. The mechanism that works the tuning knob was borked (snapped up pulley and tangled string) but I bodged it up and it still works fine. There is a 70s silver Panasonic cassette deck, which I got out of a skip at the Butsfield Tip. It came with a copy of Avalon by Roxy Music inside too. Record deck is a 70s Dual which could do with a refurb. A mate gave me it 10 years ago because he thought it was packing in, hasn't failed yet. There is also a big flat screen telly that the computer plugs into that came with the girlfriend. Speakers the parents were discarding completes the set up.

 

As further home entertainment I have a Chinon Cine projector, and a Prinz Concord slide projector, together with a few thousand slides.

 

I also have a £70 ebay Thinkpad T30 laptop.

 

Cameras, I have several but the main two are a FED 5 Rangefinder and a Praktica BC1 (with electronic shutter; cutting edge DDR technology!) I have also several Zenits, another couple of Practikas and my first proper camera, as Pentax Spotmatic SPII which you can't really get the batteries for now.

 

My watch is the famed Casio F-91W and my phone a £100 Orange San Francisco, Android goodness for peanuts FTW.

 

Hoover is a 1958 Hoover Junior. Oh, and my gas cooker has no self igniting facility.

[M'coli]

We have one of these (it's not a photo of mine), and it becomes obsolete this year when they switch off the analogue signal from Tyne Tees:

It's the only telly in the house that doesn't require an external aerial to function, it works fine on the bit of wire attached to the back, it'll work off of 12 volts too. I am not however going to purchase an aerial and a freeview box for it when the signal gets turned off.

[John F]

I've got some shite watches.... a 1970s Soviet Chaika mechanical watch, a 1960s Swiss Sandoz automatic with a Fontainemelon FHF 909 movement and a 1990s Apeks diver's watch with a Seiko quartz movement.

 

I did have a 1980s Russian Chaika Stadium watch that I bought from Wat of this parish a while ago, but my local pub landlord was desperate to add it to his collection so I passed it on to him.

[Lufthansa-Terminal]

I've got some shite watches.... a 1970s Soviet Chaika mechanical watch, a 1960s Swiss Sandoz automatic with a Fontainemelon FHF 909 movement and a 1990s Apeks diver's watch with a Seiko quartz movement.

 

I did have a 1980s Russian Chaika Stadium watch that I bought from Wat of this parish a while ago, but my local pub landlord was desperate to add it to his collection so I passed it on to him.

 

Hope it was swopped for a few beers or to pay off your tab. Any pictures of the ones you have left?

[John F]

I did have a 1980s Russian Chaika Stadium watch that I bought from Wat of this parish a while ago, but my local pub landlord was desperate to add it to his collection so I passed it on to him.

 

Hope it was swopped for a few beers or to pay off your tab. Any pictures of the ones you have left?

 

Hehe no, the landlord and one of the lads in my pool team got into a bidding war over it and made me an offer I couldn't refuse (actually the landlord offered me far too much for it, in the end I accepted half what he actually offered 'cos that's about the most it was worth). It's a mad watch though, there's a pic of it here:

 

 

 

My other Chaika is 1970s vintage... here it is:

 

 

 

And here's the 1960s Sandoz automatic:

 

 

 

Here's the Apeks. I tend to use this one for spannering nowadays, it's had a hard life:

 

 

 

And for the sake of completeness, here's my non-shite watch... a Tag Heuer Aquaracer Calibre 5:

 

 

** STOP PRESS **

 

I've just found & bought another Chaika Stadium on Polish eBay

[R9UKE]

My bedroom clock:

 

 

Quarterly Westminster chime and everything!

 

Bought it at the furniture auction that was going on at the same time as a car auction at which I bought a Volvo 940 Estate. Felt a classic old fart paying for my clock and the Ovlov.

[Pete-M]

Felt a classic old fart paying for my clock and the Ovlov.

 

So at least you cheered someone up.

[Father Ted]

My wristwatches.

On the Left is a 21 year old Pulsar and on the right is a 1980 Seiko. The Pulsar was a 21st Prezzie and the Seiko was presented to Grandfather Ted on 40 years service at British Aerospace

[scaryoldcortina]

I haven't got a watch. Also Mrs S broke my alarm clock this morning by hitting it a bit too hard. 5 years use out of something I found in a scrap car isn't bad going though

 

 

No TV in the front room. Most modern feature is the 1954 Model 311 Telephone. Even the sewing machine hails from 1936 and requires pedalling to make it work.

 

So until I get round to putting modern innards into a 30's radiogram the front room entertainment system is the fire, the cats and this

 

[Father Ted]

You are Mark Knophler and I claim my £5

 

I'd love a woodburner but have no chimney or even space to run a flu, so the nerest I get is burning stuff outside.

[scaryoldcortina]

Well, I suppose I have spent most of my adult life in dire straits...

[RoadworkUK]

I meant to resurrect this thread the other day, because...

 

 

We have a 1982 JVC HR-7650 EK VHS Cassette Recorder. It was £600 new, impossibly advanced with the facility to perform stereo overdubs on it, phenomenal build quality and a general air of infallibility. It belonged to my Grandfather, he passed it down to us in the early 90s when he updated his home entertainment suite, we pressed it into service as a back up and for archiving holiday footage, etc. It's outlived many VHS machines we've had in the interim, even SVHS ones. even though the analogue signal has now gone down here, it still has a home with us.

 

Or so I thought. When I mentioned it to my Dad the other day, he told me he THREW IT AWAY a fortnight ago. "Got bored with it".

 

Unfeeling bastard.

[CreepingJesus]

I usually just buy cheapo watches, but I've a bad habit of getting them broken at work. So I don't bother now - it's what my phone is for! (Altho' phone of the mo is an HTC Wildfire S, I do have a fully functional Nokia 3310, does that count?)

My other half has a thing for old sewing machines; it's amazing how many turn up cheap in junk/charity shops. Oldest atm is a '56 hand cranked Singer. Best buy, I reckon was the Frister+Rossman Cub 7. It's only ickle, but it's a beast of a thing.

My personal favourite non-automotive 'shiting, has to be my guitar and bass effects pedals. I've a growing collection of DOD's, which by common concensus are awful things. Unpredictable, and often just nasty sounding, it's why I like them. That and they're cheap.

That's a few of them. The wah pedal in front is a 70's JEN 'Elvis'. Meaningless to most I suppose, but it has a kind of wah-shite kudos. The Marshall Shredmaster on the left is the same device that Jonny Greenwood 'allegedly' used to create that bit in Radiohead's 'Creep'. Both were wrested for way less than their real value from idiot Cash Generator staff. The DOD FX25 and 35 in the middle are the sound of the 70's I love them to bits. Not sure the neighbours agree...

[ChinaTom]

Nice old pedals there. I will go upstairs in a minute and dig out my old 1970 Maxon/ Ibanez phaser (pre-MXR) that I bought for £5 in 1990. Someone recently offered me £300 for it. Not selling though.

[catsinthewelder]

Does anyone want a couple of 70's HiFi seperates? Theres a record player and a tape deck (no amp) no idea on working order but probably ok when stored. They're in a scrap pile at work with a load of knackered computers. Big and silver coloured, I'll check details if anyones interested

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

When I mentioned it to my Dad the other day, he told me he THREW IT AWAY a fortnight ago. "Got bored with it".

My grandfather had 'a clear out' a few years ago. Casualties included a lot of my mum's childhood gems, including a reel to reel tape recorder and all her recordings from '60s television

[Albert Ross]

Does anyone want a couple of 70's HiFi seperates? Theres a record player and a tape deck (no amp) no idea on working order but probably ok when stored. They're in a scrap pile at work with a load of knackered computers. Big and silver coloured, I'll check details if anyones interested

 

 

Well if they're going a'begging, and anyone fels they can relay them East-Nor'Eastwards, I would gladly piss the Wife off by saying yes please!! Of course, if you think I'm being ridicuolus, tell me to bollocks!

[catsinthewelder]

Well if they're going a'begging, and anyone fels they can relay them East-Nor'Eastwards, I would gladly piss the Wife off by saying yes please!! Of course, if you think I'm being ridicuolus, tell me to bollocks!

 

I'm planning on a trip up to Stafford for a model railway show next weekend (probably Saturday) if this is any help. Happy to drop them off with someone en-route.

 

edit

 

Heres a couple of pics, I had to nip into work so I grabbed em incase someone decided on a clearout, they're now safely stashed in the VW.

 

 

 

Looks like I'll be calling by Stourbridge as well next weekend as Mrs C has been on the bay buying things

[John F]

This turned up today

 

Russian Watch No 2 by Tayne, on Flickr

 

Nice watchski! My new Chaika Stadium has also just arrived this morning, will upload a pic when I get the chance.

[ashmicro]

I used to have a lovely old Russian watch called a Poljot. It was given to me when I was a kid by a mate of my Dad's who had got it when he was in the BAOR. The watch got nicked when my flat was broken into in 1998

 

Back in the 80s I had a watch called a Technova, the face of which was a round solar panel. It was fantastically accurate, but got smashed to bits when I crashed my scrambler.

 

These days, I wear this brute.

 

 

It's a ton weight, but brilliantly well made.

[RoadworkUK]

 

 

Cool: Approx '81/2 Hitachi, early full-logic / power assisted single deck with SL heads. I like Hitachi stuff, used to be quite good. If you weren't the other side of the world from me I'd have that like a shot.

[Negative Creep]

The main thing would be games consoles. Current list, excluding duplicates:

 

3D0

Atari 2600

Dreamcast

Game Boy

Game Boy Colour

Gamecube

Master System

Mega Drive

N64

NES

Playstation 1

Playstation 2

Saturn

Snes

Tiger game.com

Wii

Xbox

Xbox 360

 

 

Also have a large collection of DVDs, some of which are definite "so bad it's good" film shite. Birdemic, Fatal Deviation, Undefeatable, Ninja Terminator and so forth