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I'm 61 which seems to have gone past in a flash. Ten of my lifetimes ago the official language in England was French and Henry Prince of Wales was beseiging Welsh rebels at Aberystwyth.
Twenty lifetimes ago King Offa of Mercia died after a thirty nine year reign and King Aethelred of Northumbria was murdered.
Thirty lifetimes ago Helvius Pertinax was made Roman governor of Britain.
Scary really.
A still from a video - camping with friends April 1975. I'm the tall guy in the middle eating a bacon sandwich - my girlfriend to the left is now a professor of law in Baltimore, my friend in the blue shirt is a director at the Land Registry and the girl on the right in now a vicar in Borehamwood. It only seems like yesterday that we sat listening to Pink Floyd and sipping cheap wine without a care in the world.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Before we had it demolished to build my workshop, my house had a garage. When it was built in 1982, presumably it was big enough to get a normal car in. But when I wanted to do some work on my Renault Scenic I measured it and discovered that I would only be able to get the car into the garage if I took literally everything else out, the wing mirrors would pass through the door with about a quarter inch clearance and I would not be able to get out of it except through the tailgate.
Absolutely no side impact protection.
I used to drive a Citroën 2CV - they're about four feet wide, and when you're sitting in one your shoulder touches the door, which is made of sheet steel about as thick as a fag packet folded into a hollow half-inch-thick pressing. And that's it - that's the amount of distance anything crashing into it has to travel before it hits you. Most other cars made before the 1980s aren't a lot better.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I remember thinking how incredibly far away it seemed, and how very old I would be...
When I saw Debbie Harry on TV for the first time, she was also 33! That sounded about the same age as my grandmother - although somehow she looked younger .
I was 33 when my eldest daughter was born, and now she has a boyfriend and a provisional driving licence. I'm not sure which is more scary.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I turned 43 in 2000.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Nowadays you're more likely to get tasered or worse.
Time really has passed...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I remember getting caned at school across the arse or the hand, the girls used to get slippered across the arse. Fags were about 58p a packet when I started smoking at 13 ... lot of money for a 13 year old mind! Teachers smoked in class, some of mine drunk from small flasks in class. Days used to drag for teachers and kids alike. A lot of kids left illiterate. I told the careers adviser I wanted to be an electronics repair specialist or a traveller .... one came true
Beer was 88P a pint when I turned 18 and with a weekly wage of £124 I could afford a lot of it .... my first proper motorbike, a KH125 cost £600 new and insurance was about £48 a year.
And yet it still sounds completely contemporary, compared to the beatles.
Says a massive beatles fan.
It's also probably a bit of a sad reflection that guitar-based rock music has reached a state of very little further evolution. Some other evidence - the last amplifier to totally redefine what distorted guitar sounds like was probably the Mesa Dual Rectifier... since then, new designs have mostly been about repackaging old sounds in more versatile and user-friendly ways. The Dual Rectifier also came out in 1991.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Can you imagine that today?
The oldest storyline - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl - just doesn't work in today's world.