Taipan wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 11:13 am
You realise that for someone who doesn't watch a lot of telly, you watch a lot of telly!
Every time I turn the telly on the channel map has changed and it spends 5 minutes retuning, I remember the days when a TV would work for years on end without retuning.
What I lack in telly watching I make up for in youtube pension videos.
Taipan wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 11:13 am
You realise that for someone who doesn't watch a lot of telly, you watch a lot of telly!
Every time I turn the telly on the channel map has changed and it spends 5 minutes retuning, I remember the days when a TV would work for years on end without retuning.
What I lack in telly watching I make up for in youtube pension videos.
When you are really really old you will remember the TV man coming round to fit some tuning kit into the analogue tuner so that you could receive ITV signals
Taipan wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 11:13 am
You realise that for someone who doesn't watch a lot of telly, you watch a lot of telly!
Every time I turn the telly on the channel map has changed and it spends 5 minutes retuning, I remember the days when a TV would work for years on end without retuning.
What I lack in telly watching I make up for in youtube pension videos.
When you are really really old you will remember the TV man coming round to fit some tuning kit into the analogue tuner so that you could receive ITV signals
Tuner? If you had Rediffusion you didn't have a tuner!
(Amazing really, it was early cable TV and they ripped out/cut down all the cables because aerials were the new thing....then look what happened!).
Mussels wrote: Mon Nov 03, 2025 6:21 pm
Every time I turn the telly on the channel map has changed and it spends 5 minutes retuning, I remember the days when a TV would work for years on end without retuning.
What I lack in telly watching I make up for in youtube pension videos.
When you are really really old you will remember the TV man coming round to fit some tuning kit into the analogue tuner so that you could receive ITV signals
Tuner? If you had Rediffusion you didn't have a tuner!
(Amazing really, it was early cable TV and they ripped out/cut down all the cables because aerials were the new thing....then look what happened!).
Cable TV? In a village in deepest Devon? You are having a giraffe.
I am now officially old, but NOT blind. Had my second cataract removed yesterday, bought a cheap pair of reading glasses today and can now read all the shite in here.
…snap! I’ve been running the last few weeks on one “new” eye and one with a varifocal contact lens, which means I could see distance with one and read with the other. That may have been the sweet spot, as now I need reading glasses, full stop. Oh well.
..... wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 6:02 pm
You remember Goblin teasmade's
Remember? We had one! The noisy boiling kettle bit woke us up well before the alarm went off. Had to put the milk in a Thermos to keep it cool overnight.
I gave it to one of our lab technicians and he was delighted - it was something of an ambition of his to own one. Probably still using it.
..... wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 6:02 pm
You remember Goblin teasmade's
Remember? We had one! The noisy boiling kettle bit woke us up well before the alarm went off. Had to put the milk in a Thermos to keep it cool overnight.
I gave it to one of our lab technicians and he was delighted - it was something of an ambition of his to own one. Probably still using it.
I had one.
I took it apart to make an ersatz kettle, (without the timer gubbins), to have in my room when I was at school.
I'm an occasional smoker. I went to see a doctor yesterday and she told me to "give up while I was still young". So, that's me out of this thread. I'll be back sometime in my 60s.
..... wrote: Tue Nov 25, 2025 6:02 pm
You remember Goblin teasmade's
Remember? We had one! The noisy boiling kettle bit woke us up well before the alarm went off. Had to put the milk in a Thermos to keep it cool overnight.
I gave it to one of our lab technicians and he was delighted - it was something of an ambition of his to own one. Probably still using it.
I had one.
I took it apart to make an ersatz kettle, (without the timer gubbins), to have in my room when I was at school.
Any particular reason you didn't take the whole thing?
They were quite chunky. Wonder if they'd pass all the safety regs these days too. Didn't the kettle switch off when it got lighter? I seem to remember it dispensed the boiling water and sat on a sprung platform with a switch in. If it did I dunno how it did 2 cups. Can't really remember much about ours apart from the noise tbh.
Edit: Ah, it had a teapot. Ours was something like this iirc.
Remember? We had one! The noisy boiling kettle bit woke us up well before the alarm went off. Had to put the milk in a Thermos to keep it cool overnight.
I gave it to one of our lab technicians and he was delighted - it was something of an ambition of his to own one. Probably still using it.
I had one.
I took it apart to make an ersatz kettle, (without the timer gubbins), to have in my room when I was at school.
Any particular reason you didn't take the whole thing?
They were quite chunky. Wonder if they'd pass all the safety regs these days too. Didn't the kettle switch off when it got lighter? I seem to remember it dispensed the boiling water and sat on a sprung platform with a switch in. If it did I dunno how it did 2 cups. Can't really remember much about ours apart from the noise tbh.
Edit: Ah, it had a teapot. Ours was something like this iirc.
Had to put the milk in a Thermos to keep it cool overnight.
