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Mitchamitri

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I remember school being dead after 4 - its fantastic nowadays, you can pop down the school until quite late at night and theres sports teams playing, drama/dance groups, kids doing art, evening classes, kids who have started their own bands using the school for rehearsals - I dont think the place shuts til gone 9 on a normal day.

It's not just schools that have "locked up" - building sites have legal requirements on limiting access, pretty much all medium+ sized companies have site access controls due to both H&S and data protection (GDPR) requirements. The world is a better place for it I reckon.

I remember an old Jasper Carrot sketch that went something like......

""People keep going on about "Oh I remember the good old days we used to go out and leave our doors unlocked all day" ......That was because we had nothing worth nicking!.......then they go "We had nothing, but we were happy"........no we didnt, we had ricketts"" :-)

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Jasper Carrot, one of my favourite comedians.

Only time I've had anything to do with schools in the last 15 years was when I was installing water coolers. If I was sent to a school it took ages, as it was like getting into Fort Knox, then once in it was difficult moving about trying to find a fresh water supply. Not surprising I suppose given incidents that have happened recently.

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Penny sweets from the school's tuck shop.

My favourite was fizzy cola bottles, and would save up to get a whole box of 300 from time to time, and then demolished the box in about 2 days!

Muddy walks in Sunday best (a dress) after going to church before lunch which I hated then and to this day (don't like mud).

Those were the days when I came to UK to go to school in the late 70s.

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My senior school had 'Rural Studies' (gardening) for the boys, the girls did art. We were taught how to dig, rake, plant, weed then harvest the produce which was then sold back to us.
The garden was split into two, the upper being lawn and shrubs the lower fruit and veg. It was separated by a public footpath lined with tall Leylandii that led to the main road and a sweetshop.
A common trick was to tell the ageing geography teacher that the gardening teacher had asked us for help with a junior class which was a common request. Without checking, he'd let us go, watching as we walked down the first part of the garden unti hidden by the hedge, we'd disappear for the rest of the morning/afternoon.

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"We still buy coal but house coal (as it was) is now banned so its 5cwt a time smokeless. Three of our four fireplaces are in use, albeit only 2 regularly."
You can still buy house coal it isn't banned till May 2023.
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I can remember decimal currency coming in. I joined the RAF in 1971 and I had a 1965 Austin Mini. It cost about £1.50 to fill it up!

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Quote: Originally posted by 664DaveS on 02/11/2022
I can remember decimal currency coming in. I joined the RAF in 1971 and I had a 1965 Austin Mini. It cost about £1.50 to fill it up!

I can remember decimalisation too. I was Station Foreman at Epping Station and it was absolute chaos! Passengers buying their tickets at the ticket office didn't understand the new money and were coming to me to assure them they had the right tickets. They couldn't figure out that a 25p ticket would take them just as far as an old 5/- one would.

I had a 1965 Ford Zodiac at the time and that took about £3 to fill the tank. Much bigger tank than a Mini, and it needed it!

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I dont remember decimalisation - Im too young! But I do remember school maths books saying "New pence". Won't be long now before the £ is dead itself - its highly unstable compared to the euro, and its value vs the euro is less and less....... and an additional 'mare for businesses to sell/buy stuff (not like the UK doesnt make it difficult enough already). Ultimately we'll likely end up with one global currency - and that might not physically exist - a universal and credible version to bitcoin probably.

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I bought a horse once, cost me 20gn (Guineas) a currency still used by horse traders, barristers, and other professional bodies.
For the uninitiated it's value is £1 and 1 shilling or £1.05p.
I'd hate to have the Euro currency instead of a quid. Before you know it we will be driving on the wrong side of the road.

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Mitchamitri

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Quid or euro doesnt change your identity, its just money, if it changes youll get used to it in no time, dont worry :-)

Only about 30% of the world drives on the left - on that basis we drive on the wrong side of the road. Correcting this would cause lots of accidents and cost a lot of money but in the long run would make a lot of sense.

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Quote: Originally posted by Mitchamitri on 04/11/2022

Only about 30% of the world drives on the left - on that basis we drive on the wrong side of the road. Correcting this would cause lots of accidents and cost a lot of money but in the long run would make a lot of sense.

We always said the best way to introduce road change, lorries and buses switch over to the right on month one, cars, motorcyclists/cyclists, on month 2 :) I believe the rest of Europe should fall in line with us.
Guess I'm just a Luddite.

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My understanding of which side of the road to use is that even Europe, as it then was, used the left hand side. Then Napoleon arrived and hated the English so much, he changed the side for driving. Of, course, it was horse and cart in those days.
There was a reason for riding your horse on the left. As in the old days of castle building and spiral staircases always going clockwise.

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They rode horses up the staircases? Went to Castle Acre priory recently and wouldn't go up the spiral staircase, nothing to hold onto.

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Love the idea of staggering the switchover, thats hilariously genius!!! UK is about 10% of the population of Europe - you must be a luddite if you think Europe should change the side of the road to suit us, although I do believe all motorcycles in Europe are now right hand drive so it might just happen :-)

I remember in the early 80s my grandparents had a black & white telly, wouldnt entertain the thought of a colour one! Then one time their B&W hire set broke down and the Granada man had to take it away. As a "courtesy" telly they had a colour one - needless to say they never went back to b&w.

I cant find anything to validate this but something in my mind is making me recall that DAB radio frequencies are either repurposed black and white frequencies or CB radio frequencies (rubber duck). Interesting that even the "new fangled" DAB radios will soon be redundant and it'll all be internet radio - they need to fix battery life though, as FM/AM battery consumption is so low its going to be extremely difficult to match.

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Quote: Originally posted by Ancient Uncle on 04/11/2022

There was a reason for riding your horse on the left. As in the old days of castle building and spiral staircases always going clockwise.

It’s to do with what hand you use for your sword - a few castles have spiral stairs going the other way because the family was left handed and they’d be coming down the stairs fighting. I’d guess if you’re a left handed horseman, you’d want to be to the right to keep your left arm free for the weapon.
In channels, boats must keep to the starboard / right side, even in UK. They generally pass other boats port to port (rules about power giving way to sail, who has the wind etc apply, hence “generally”).

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That reminds me of a radio comedy skit. athe captain of the USS Missouri challenging a vessel who's light was spotted in thick fog.
He demanded that he give way. but an Irish voice replied Negative...you give way.
"This is the USS Missouri, the most powerful ship afloat...NOW YOU GIVE WAY".
A slight pause then..."I'm a lighthouse...Your call!

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