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Post by itinerantchild on Jul 7, 2021 15:29:26 GMT
Nowt wrong with planting pea's :-)
Even if it is in the forehead furrows of a dickhead :-)
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Post by bungo@mabungo on Jul 7, 2021 17:21:17 GMT
I used to use processed peas that I bought in big boxes from the local shop so that I could be a git with my pea shooter :-) My uncle told me a great way to spice up a train journey (trains in old days had windows that opened ) was a decent catapult and a bag of marbles . I never followed this tip , due to getting a severe caning from the head master after my uncles notion stinging fellow pupils behind the knees wirh a bunch of nettles was a chuckle . I was 6 . The cats tip was 14 , so prolly borstal . Oh the japes of yester year  |
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Post by itinerantchild on Jul 7, 2021 17:45:27 GMT
I often stand in amazement that many of us lads and the tom boy girls made it to adulthood !!
One of my mums favourite stories is when she used to climb up onto the rail above the traintracks on one of the bridges when she was younger in manchester and stand there screaming whilst the steam train passed underneath covering her in vapour. No fear is probably what kept most of us from killing ourselves,or at least the lucky ones amongst us !!
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Post by NomadCris on Jul 7, 2021 20:58:04 GMT
I write lettures to a friend because we got tired of digital communications and wanted a bit of civility restored.
I still write with cartridge pen with Italic nib..I do not like these new fangled biro things.
People have written symbols for thousands of years,suddenly they cant. I recommend a regular dose of calligraphy,purchase a pen set ( yes they do exist and yes you can,you can even buy ink 😱 imagine that!) and practice the art of proper writing with yer actual hand.
There is no art in keyboard comms, its done for you,no thought or skill required.
Unless you have a physical impairment like the honorable reverend afore mentioned then there is no excuse for maintaining the skill of writing with a pen or pencil and not a machine.
You can install apps to 'handwrite' on your space age technology if you so wish....and is growing in popularity too,just as reading a real book (remember them?) as opposed to an e book is.
Resist the rise of the machines. Skynet is coming.
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Post by oldkeith on Jul 7, 2021 23:06:59 GMT
I write about three letters a year in longhand now. (The O/H tells me what to write, she can't be bothered to write). Our friends usually write around Xmas, we reply sometime in early Spring. They reply before Midsummer, and we write again sometime after. We get another in early Autumn, and reply about Halloween, then wait for Xmas again. It's a busy old year.
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Post by NomadCris on Jul 7, 2021 23:17:32 GMT
I find it ironic we have spent almost a hundred years trying to teach the more illiterate of people to read and write and now the skills are irrelevant,we must all be computer literate instead. 😕
Such a huge relief we are fully conversant in world of warcraft and grand theft auto
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Post by oldkeith on Jul 7, 2021 23:23:33 GMT
Yes, and it has happened so quickly. Electronic data cannot last for long before it has to take another recording format, and the previous formats soon become defunct.
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Post by NomadCris on Jul 7, 2021 23:36:37 GMT
Imagine having to use a pen or pencil and paper... Horrific, it doesnt bear thinking about.
I asked a few days ago a young assistant in a shop,whether they had blotting paper.
It was obviously some fiendish alien technology.
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Post by bigbear67 on Jul 8, 2021 13:26:47 GMT
My simple pleasure today is sitting here looking at my new mot certificate for the bus!👍🐻😁
Straight through with no advisories....
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Post by VanWoman84 on Jul 8, 2021 13:47:53 GMT
My simple pleasure today is sitting here looking at my new mot certificate for the bus!👍🐻😁 Straight through with no advisories.... Well done BB hopefully that will be me next week. First class four for my bus I hope! |
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Post by parrotandcrow on Jul 8, 2021 14:05:05 GMT
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Post by bungo@mabungo on Jul 8, 2021 16:32:47 GMT
Brilliant news BB |
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Post by jumpinghare on Jul 19, 2021 8:04:32 GMT
I write lettures to a friend because we got tired of digital communications and wanted a bit of civility restored. I still write with cartridge pen with Italic nib..I do not like these new fangled biro things. People have written symbols for thousands of years,suddenly they cant. I recommend a regular dose of calligraphy,purchase a pen set ( yes they do exist and yes you can,you can even buy ink 😱 imagine that!) and practice the art of proper writing with yer actual hand. There is no art in keyboard comms, its done for you,no thought or skill required. Unless you have a physical impairment like the honorable reverend afore mentioned then there is no excuse for maintaining the skill of writing with a pen or pencil and not a machine. You can install apps to 'handwrite' on your space age technology if you so wish....and is growing in popularity too,just as reading a real book (remember them?) as opposed to an e book is. Resist the rise of the machines. Skynet is coming. Totally agree with you, I have a lovely pen, I buy ink for it, I like to imagine myself as a Victorian lady sitting accepting invites, but I know if I was alive them days I would be bare foot selling matches on a street corner lol. |
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Post by bigbear67 on Jul 19, 2021 9:48:20 GMT
I'd write a letter, if I had any friends to write to....😕😉🐻
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Post by bungo@mabungo on Jul 19, 2021 10:26:11 GMT
A simple pleasure was walking bare foot inthe dew this morning , but went a bit tits up when I notice all the wet grass cutting all over floor int house .
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