Grumpy Old Man

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

Reminds me of how we were the first people in town to get a colour TV, just in time for the 1974 Comm Games in Chch ... :😀

Half a century on and you are still bragging!

Just need to drop in that we still had crank handle phones and party lines in the mid 80s ...

... that's NINETEEN 80s.

I shit thee not.

Bones

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Dan54

I’m thinking this might suit?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRF7kGsmw20dkhCWZZ_MStoXUqW-R6dIBRsJ2MQHx2rWg&s

Looks a bit flash ...

Surround fucking sound!

nostrildamus

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

Just need to drop in that we still had crank handle phones and party lines in the mid 80s ...
... that's NINETEEN 80s.
I shit thee not.

Still had them for ages on Great Barrier Island..

Victor Meldrew

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

Reminds me of how we were the first people in town to get a colour TV, just in time for the 1974 Comm Games in Chch ... :😀

Half a century on and you are still bragging!

Just need to drop in that we still had crank handle phones and party lines in the mid 80s ...

... that's NINETEEN 80s.

I shit thee not.

Don't blame me, I'd left the NZPO by then.....

Actually, by the standards of the day, the NZ telephone system was bloody good and easily up there with best in the world.

Victor Meldrew

@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Dan54

I’m thinking this might suit?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRF7kGsmw20dkhCWZZ_MStoXUqW-R6dIBRsJ2MQHx2rWg&s

Looks a bit flash ...

Surround fucking sound!

Bones

@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Dan54

I’m thinking this might suit?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRF7kGsmw20dkhCWZZ_MStoXUqW-R6dIBRsJ2MQHx2rWg&s

Looks a bit flash ...

Surround fucking sound!

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Machpants

@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Dan54

I’m thinking this might suit?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRF7kGsmw20dkhCWZZ_MStoXUqW-R6dIBRsJ2MQHx2rWg&s

Looks a bit flash ...

Surround fucking sound!

Early aircraft detection system, I shit you not

Nepia

@nostrildamus said in Grumpy Old Man:

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

Just need to drop in that we still had crank handle phones and party lines in the mid 80s ...
... that's NINETEEN 80s.
I shit thee not.

Still had them for ages on Great Barrier Island..

I had a girlfriend on a party line in the early 90s, was much easier to talk with her when she was at boarding school than on that bloody shared line.

What was weird was that the area she was in is actually so close to the urban areas in HB.

Victor Meldrew

@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Dan54

I’m thinking this might suit?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRF7kGsmw20dkhCWZZ_MStoXUqW-R6dIBRsJ2MQHx2rWg&s

Looks a bit flash ...

Surround fucking sound!

Early aircraft detection system, I shit you not

Yep. Dutch observer c WW1. You can see bigger, concrete versions of these along the Norfolk coast.

Catogrande

@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:

@booboo said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:

@Dan54

I’m thinking this might suit?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRF7kGsmw20dkhCWZZ_MStoXUqW-R6dIBRsJ2MQHx2rWg&s

Looks a bit flash ...

Surround fucking sound!

Early aircraft detection system, I shit you not

Yep. Dutch observer c WW1. You can see bigger, concrete versions of these along the Norfolk coast.
It’s Norfolk. That is probably just some of the locals.

nostrildamus

@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:

I had a girlfriend on a party line

I'm learning so many HB euphemisms!

sparky

Kids who think "insane" is an adjective to use when describing something positively.

taniwharugby

@sparky wait until you hear what 'sick' means....

Machpants

It's the shit

Victor Meldrew

Quick setting epoxy filler which isn't and disk-cloning software which doesn't.

Firstly. Currently waiting 3hrs for some 1 hr epoxy filler to set.....

Second, cloned a 512GB SSD to a 1Tb yesterday to find the fucking software creates a partition on the new SSD exactly the same size as the old one - 512GB. It then created and locked a new partition that couldn't be deleted in Windows Disk Manager. Had to dig out old DOS commands to delete the bloody thing.

Fire these pricks.

The Silver Fern

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