Rab Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 Due to my erratic travelling life disaster..where i leave a trail of negatives..cars-trucks and stuff ..some of it never to be seen again..especially photographs.. its always amazing when i do recover something..so in my final days in Munich 1992..i worked on the Art Projekt at the State Opera House..Lou Reed..Laurie Anderson..John Cale..John Zorn and Babes in Toyland. I was a lowly stagehand with a camera..so i befriended everybody..and i got Laurie Andersons portrait. Then..lost negatives. I did manage to give away a print to a friend in Berlin in 1993..and she just found it in her Mums attic.It was always the missing piece in that story..as it was Babes in Toyland who took me to Berlin...where i stayed until 1997. mk1_4dr, privatewire, doug and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 A big thank you to whoever left the heating on in the workshop toilet today, the temps were “just right “ when I landed in there this afternoon 👌 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyrew Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 I like to think the driver was pulling the same face just before impact. twosmoke300, catsinthewelder, adw1977 and 14 others 1 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Tenmil Socket, HillmanImp, Shite Ron and 4 others 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
808 Estate Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 privatewire, warch, Crackers and 4 others 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AnnoyingPentium Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 4 hours ago, Andyrew said: I like to think the driver was pulling the same face just before impact. These little cars always looked shocked anyway, bet you this one was shocked to see that car in front stopping so suddenly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 My parents gave me an old Polish telephone for Christmas which had a plug I’d never seen before, much research later and I found a chap in Lithuania who would sell me an adapter and post it to Australia. Much to my surprise the adapter arrived today, just one week after I ordered it, so I plugged it all together and it works! I am suitably impressed with the Soviet era Polish telephone manufacturers and the Lithuanian postal service. neil1971, chodweaver, cort1977 and 25 others 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wack Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 2 hours ago, MorrisItalSLX said: My parents gave me an old Polish telephone for Christmas which had a plug I’d never seen before, much research later and I found a chap in Lithuania who would sell me an adapter and post it to Australia. Much to my surprise the adapter arrived today, just one week after I ordered it, so I plugged it all together and it works! I am suitably impressed with the Soviet era Polish telephone manufacturers and the Lithuanian postal service. I bough this from a charity shop a few weeks ago , plugged it in to test it and I love the ring , so 1960s , only scammers call us on this number so it's like a scammer alert MorrisItalSLX, Shite Ron, The Moog and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 I need to get another old bell phone. I currently have an AT&T 2500 clone that somehow made it to our shores. It's built so damn well it's unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Young lad started working with us a few weeks before Christmas. First time really living on his own. He asked about how to make a pan of veg soup using a bought veg-broth soup mix so I explained the basics. Add some more chopped veg, stock cube and a little cornflower and some cooked meat of your choice. Let it simmer. Silly cunt put in 2 frozen breaded haddocks from Asda. He ate it too. Remspoor, Banger Kenny, 108 and 10 others 2 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 43 minutes ago, JeeExEll said: Young lad started working with us a few weeks before Christmas. First time really living on his own. He asked about how to make a pan of veg soup using a bought veg-broth soup mix so I explained the basics. Add some more chopped veg and a little cornflower and some cooked meat of your choice. Let it simmer. Silly cunt put in 2 frozen breaded haddocks from Asda. He ate it too. At least he is trying. 9/10 for effort. One mark less for the fish. myglaren, Banger Kenny and 108 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 7 hours ago, Wack said: I bough this from a charity shop a few weeks ago , plugged it in to test it and I love the ring , so 1960s , only scammers call us on this number so it's like a scammer alert Shame that BT are discontinuing landline phones. https://www.efax.co.uk/blog/bt-2025-switch-off-how-will-it-impact-you-and-your-business chucked mine out years ago, sick to death of spam calls. Hate phones at the best of times so a good excuse. AnnoyingPentium and Wack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Yeh but no; you will be able to plug your steam-powered phone into your router and pretend it's still the 20th century. AnnoyingPentium and Shite Ron 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 18 hours ago, Fumbler said: I need to get another old bell phone. I currently have an AT&T 2500 clone that somehow made it to our shores. It's built so damn well it's unbelievable. Yeah, they were proper slam the handset down after a heated phone argument type equipment. I need to hook up my payphone to the landline again. Make the kids pay to use it. LightBulbFun, AnnoyingPentium, Shite Ron and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 14 hours ago, JeeExEll said: Young lad started working with us a few weeks before Christmas. First time really living on his own. He asked about how to make a pan of veg soup using a bought veg-broth soup mix so I explained the basics. Add some more chopped veg, stock cube and a little cornflower and some cooked meat of your choice. Let it simmer. Silly cunt put in 2 frozen breaded haddocks from Asda. He ate it too. Years ago I wascworkingwith a graduate manufacturing engineer doing assembly work instructions. He only ever ate ready meals made in the microwave. One day he asked for advice on cooking a proper meal for a new girl friend. I pointed out that there were work instructions available in the library. Or recipe books as they like to be called. I saw him about 10 years later. He was married to said girl, and reckoned he now owned 50 recipe books at least. Said he was addicted to cooking from scratch. Hadn't bought a ready meal since he bought that first book. 108, Dyslexic Viking, AnnoyingPentium and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saabnut Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 15 hours ago, myglaren said: Shame that BT are discontinuing landline phones. https://www.efax.co.uk/blog/bt-2025-switch-off-how-will-it-impact-you-and-your-business This worries me! Currently I rely on my landline, there is no mobile coverage at all at my house, and my internet is via ISDN via the copper cable. Said copper cable runs for 3/4 mile from the next door neighbours, has literally dozens of repairs and is unburied for most of its length, parts hung on a field fence, parts just lieing on the ground and parts probably grown in with grass. I cannot see them putting in 3/4 mile of fibre cable, trenching it in for 1 house with 1 occupant. DSdriver, AnnoyingPentium and LightBulbFun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 25 minutes ago, Saabnut said: This worries me! Currently I rely on my landline, there is no mobile coverage at all at my house, and my internet is via ISDN via the copper cable. We're the same. My mobile coverage is patchy at best and my internet is ISDN as far as I know. Thus being the joys of living in one of the most rural parts of East Ayrshire, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 I think the copper will still exist in many places, the change is you will have to have a router to talk to the exchange and plug the phone in to that. I think this will mean the end of being able to use the old rotary phones though? GeorgeB and AnnoyingPentium 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainrcz Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 I'm an idiot, so this is funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic Viking Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 14 minutes ago, iainrcz said: I'm an idiot, so this is funny. Is this real? If so, they should be glad it was not an elephant. AnnoyingPentium and Banger Kenny 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainrcz Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 I'm guessing it is. If not there is someone out there as sick as I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 The veracity is questionable if only because of the suggestion that being raped might cause bum cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 2 hours ago, cort1977 said: I think the copper will still exist in many places, the change is you will have to have a router to talk to the exchange and plug the phone in to that. I think this will mean the end of being able to use the old rotary phones though? Depends on who set it up and how nostalgic they were feeling. By default our remote voice kit is tone only, but I enabled pulse dialing and tested it works just fine. All our customers can use rotary phones with it. Phil catsinthewelder and cort1977 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horriblemercedes Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 I'm suspicious. Everything I've done today has gone really well. I've been productive, made measurable improvements on my To-do list and kept up with work and organised quite a bit for the coming weeks, which I can't usually do. On top of that, I'm feeling strangely healthy. What is the day hiding? When is it going to pounce and ruin all of that? myglaren, chodweaver and Tickman 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Whoops. Stanky, MrBD and privatewire 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanky Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 2 hours ago, Ghosty said: Whoops. That is some elite trolling right there. Imagine knowing you've built a swastika into a car part fitted to what I suspect were hundreds-of-thousands of GM products and no-one else has realised. You'd die of an overwhelmng buildup of secret knowledge for sure GeorgeB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mintwth Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 5 hours ago, Saabnut said: This worries me! Currently I rely on my landline, there is no mobile coverage at all at my house, and my internet is via ISDN via the copper cable. Said copper cable runs for 3/4 mile from the next door neighbours, has literally dozens of repairs and is unburied for most of its length, parts hung on a field fence, parts just lieing on the ground and parts probably grown in with grass. I cannot see them putting in 3/4 mile of fibre cable, trenching it in for 1 house with 1 occupant. That might be where Starlink, OneWeb and the likes step in. Satellite constellations for telecoms and internet. I did hear that some people in Australia are already switching to satellite internet because the speeds are better than they can get over their landlines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 I saw it on the Northern Echo so it will be in most local rags. Thought I had seen it on the Beeb. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19823041.bt-face-angry-backlash-campaigners-axing-landline-phones/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 back in the bad winter of 2011, did Knockhill cancel the Stages Rallye ? did they bollocks ! looks like a lot of fun, the little 205 is going well face, 155V6, loserone and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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