Negative Creep Posted November 22, 2010 Share Posted November 22, 2010 oh yeh, I've got a Virtual Boy at my mums as well....only the one though. How about 10 quid and a copy of Parade July 1979? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrogeezer Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 I remember having this games console called a Philips G7000 or something like that, I think it got dumped in the end as it was naff and replaced with a NES with duck hunt, this was back in 1991 though, I bet the Philips is worth a fortune now though. Just done some googling, this is the game i had with it as well Yeh, Phillips G7000 Videopac - I had one in 82ish for about 3 months before I sold it and got a ZX Spectrum. Now I have 2 in my mums loft. I really do have a big collection of this stuff....I might have some photos somewhere from when we moved and I was storing it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
face Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Ah, the Videopac I loved the Baseball game on that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 I loved my NES, I had Super Mario Bros 1,2 and 3, Duck Hunt, Tiger Heli and loads of others, probably about 30 or 40 games in total. I bought it in 2002 for a fiver from a bootsale in mint condition with the original box - guess what the first thing to go in the bin was I've still got a MIB NES "Asia Version" which I've never had working for the feeble reason that there's no ariel lead with it I seem to remember I had an incredibly shite orange Binatone console that was all in b/w and had a mega shite tennis game on it - good fun though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 What makes me grin? The look on the face of the suited, booted, prim and proper looking Jehovas Witnesses who have just had the pleasure of having the door answered to them by me, in my Spongebob Boxers, hair all over the place, wearing sunglasses. They dropped the watchtower on the mat and ran back down the path... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXrescuer Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Not so much a grin, more a broad smile. My little boy (he's 18!) is training to be a Police Officer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 All the best for your lad AX-R. Woo! The bitch is back. I bought this 1951 Zenith when I was on holiday with family in Maine about 9 years ago. I found it in a tat shop, paid about $30 for it and brought it home, much to the chagrin of US Customs (and this was pre 9/11). I took it to Alan Marchant at the VWC (as he's very local) in 2004 to try and locate a step down transformer. He's just got new stock in that will run the radio at our voltage, but predictably I'm skint. A friend at Uni wants to use it as a prop in a play she's planning, so I went and fetched it on the way home. It still looks awesome even if the grille has oxidised and it has more dust than previously noted.I have a small collection of old radios, do any other shiteists? 1. 1947 Ferguson 208U (works)2. 195? Philco One Oh Two (works, does FM)3. 194? Bush DAC 90 (works, it has a metal grille but this is 'wrong' apparently)4. 1943 Radialva Super AS (battered and with a chunk missing, it's a nice ornament)5. 1951 Zenith H725 (powered up in the States but couldn't pick up any stations.) Zenith did some seriously fit radios back in the day. They did one that was nicknamed the 'Racetrack' (the H511). I want one of these as well. Of course, the most awesome Bakelite radio ever IMHO is the Ekco A22 - possibly the most stylish post war British commodity yet, although the pre war AD65 and AD76 run it close. I don't care if I have to spend £800, I will own one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXrescuer Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Thanks wat! My family had an Ekco A22 when I was but a nipper. I'm pretty sure that when I was around 3 or 4, I tore it apart to see what was inside it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattblack Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Seeing an X-plate Metro in beige on the road today made me grin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Overtaking a Merc SLK and several A4's in the fast lane of the A12 at 70mph in my Austin Cambridge Also saw an immaculate Marina saloon in Damask Red with a beige vinyl roof driven by a flat-capped giffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 +1000, Angry! Good for you, I'd love to have seen their faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise2cv Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Not so much a grin, more a broad smile. My little boy (he's 18!) is training to be a Police Officer. Nice one! He's done well to get in, esp with "the current climate"... the force here has frozen recruitment again. Best of luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Overtaking a Merc SLK and several A4's in the fast lane of the A12 at 70mph in my Austin Cambridge My Humber Hawk used to be good for that - in overdrive top its natural cruising speed seemed to be 75, which surprised a few modern car drivers - in fact many of them would come back past me at 85 a short while later. Most of the time I managed to resist the temptation to wind the Humber up to 90 and breeze past them again - the fuel consumption used to climb exponentially above 70. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autofive Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 watching the 1970 sci-fi Tv series Timeslip i downloaded earlier series one has hetty wainthropp's husband has the main characters dad series two has Hilda Rumple & C.J in shiny spandex (C.J. plays a computer driven clone) just starting on series three - and its in COLOUR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 Not so much a grin, more a broad smile. My little boy (he's 18!) is training to be a Police Officer.I don't really know how to put this, but he looks just like a Philips Hi-Fi. I'm sure he's got a great personality though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete-M Posted November 23, 2010 Share Posted November 23, 2010 I have a small collection of old radios, do any other shiteists? I've got a late 50's, Marconiphone job that still works fine and dandy. Bought new by my gran and still works fine. It's ace, bakelite an' all that jazz. FM too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 I have a small collection of old radios, do any other shiteists? I've got a late 50's, Marconiphone job that still works fine and dandy. Bought new by my gran and still works fine. It's ace, bakelite an' all that jazz. FM too! The Philco One O Two and my Zenith do FM (or UHF as it's listed on the Philco). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 I've got a late 50's, Marscopone job that still works fine and dandy. Does it only play cheesy '60s/'70s easy listening tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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barrett Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 My god that's depressingly cheery. I like it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Just in the queue at Sainsburys behind some 45 ish year old businessman type, when a woman wanders up and says hello to him from a distance - seemed like they were work acquaintances or something. Anyway, she asks him what he's in come for, and he replies "oh, just some milk and wine" and turns the basket away from her. She peeks down to see what wine it was, and he swerves round again hiding the basket, at which point I notice it had three or four dirty weekend sized packs of rubber johnnies perched atop his two for £8 bottles of wine. This painful charade went on infront of me for about 3 minutes, with him going more and more red in the face every second, trying to change the subject and manouvering the basket out of her view. It was beautiful. And FFS man, you're buying johnnies. Most blokes buy them, it's only natural. I could understand the shame if it was a Nickelback album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 ^^ Maybe he's had the snip, and the woman knows his wife..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXrescuer Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 This made me smile. Yahoo's most reliable sub £1000 cars! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/24112010/36/po ... -po-0.html As it happens, we are on the lookout for a good Audi 80. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 My god that's depressingly cheery. I like it though. I quite liked that line about numbers of doors at the beginning. Winning this on Ebay for £3 is making me grin. Proper UK edition. Metcalfe and Mundy were the Uk concessionaires. Doesn't look very thick but will go nicely with the drivers handbook I've got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 I've just booked some holiday from work after a quick 'heads up' text from my mate, Because of the way my work pattern falls in April and with the Royal wedding being a bank holiday, 3 days holiday works out as 13 days off work!, I have to do a day shift on the Tuesday 19th then won't be back until Tuesday 3rd for a nightshift (the Monday is also a bank holiday). What a result! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Also just bought Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 of Amazon's Black Friday deal for £22.99 which sounds like a good price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 Golden Grahams are half price in Tesco's. Golden Grahams are my favourite cereal of EVAR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autofive Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 seabrooks crips are half price in asda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cavcraft Posted November 24, 2010 Share Posted November 24, 2010 seabrooks crips are half price in asda That's good of Ian to do such a deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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