subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
Things I don't 'get' in this modern world
- Thread starter Smithbat
- Start date
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gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Why is my electric bill still the same when renewable energy makes it cheaper to produce electricity?
keithmac
Guru
Doesn't surprise me!.
classic33
Leg End Member
Maybe time to "give some money away"! See who'll bite.
Where'd I put those Nigerian bank account details?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
marknotgeorge
Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
- Location
- Derby.
Why is making one's car backfire like a clapped out Hillman Avenger a thing? Do youngsters think it'll make young ladies' bras fly off like in Confessions of a Complete and Utter Plonker?
Most of the cars like that around here are driven by weird blokes in their forties.
marknotgeorge
Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
- Location
- Derby.
You could be right. One of my colleague's husband is into modding his Insignia.
Oh my God! Who in their right mind would waste money modding an Insignia..
marknotgeorge
Hol den Vorschlaghammer!
- Location
- Derby.
He's in the Vauxhall Owner's Club, or something. He used to have a modded Zafira, and they take a caravan to the show at Billing Aquadrome near Northampton every year, and she moans about the youngsters with Corsas who make too much noise.
Tin Pot
Guru
Apologies - can I give you my wife's phone number so you can ask her? On the premise that you let me in on the secret too.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I had one too. Fantastic! It would fit in the pocket of your ski jacket and you could glide down the Col de Mines with Kim Wilde playing.I still have one of these:
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I won it about 100 years ago at a work tennis day .... I still have loads of my old cassette tapes from the 70's and 80's and it still sounds good .... I used to use it daily when I went fishing after work (I used to live in South Africa in a place right by the beach/sea)
I often get tempted to sell it as they are fetching good money, but it has 'sentimental' value
Heaven really.
Flick of the Elbow
less than
- Location
- Pentlands Midlothian Edinburgh
Thinking about it further, probably the biggest thing I don't get is London. I have to go there for work every so often. Even though its the capital of my country it feels like a foreign land. Everyone seems in a mad hurry and no allowance is made for the uninitiated visitor. On my first visit I inadvertently committed the apparently cardinal sin of standing on the 'wrong' side of an escalator. (Is it only London that has this practice?). And I remember trying to buy a tube ticket from a machine where the first thing you have to enter is your 'zone'. How am I supposed to know what zone I'm in ? And I only discovered by accident after several visits that having bought a DLR ticket from the City airport I didn't need to buy a second ticket when I joined the tube. How are you supposed to know these things ?
