Alex Ferguson 2

About 1950s and we were in the country in New Zealand. Batteries probably about 15 cm tall and clip connectors. Phone similar to this, note crank on the right hand side - https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/folk-art/antiquities/early-20th-century-original-wood-hand-crank-kellogg-phone-model-f2809/id-f_41293062/#zoomModalOpen Battery, Eveready No.6 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/256847301951?customid=&toolid=10050 Is it a joke? Compared with what the kids carry around in their pockets today, YES.

Or dial a Morse code letter to get someone on the same line, party line system. The two 1-1/2 volt batteries out of it were perfect for a kid to learn about electricity, buzzers and relays without electrocuting one's self. Now if I could remember the cartoons that went with it all......

Time to alter the clock. Something missing there, the manual, which has to weigh as much as the car and be as tall as it is. Sorry, that's not a joke, it's a fact......

That's NOT a joke. Our English designed and built caravan sprang a leak last week. Leaking over one of the beds. Duct tape might be the only way to fix it.

Ohhh!!! My eyes are heavy today, never got up there to see that....

I belong to a Men's Shed. One of our youngsters is waiting for a letter from the King...... He only has to wait 3 years... !!! Yes, one of our active ones, does a lot of woodwork and nips out at the middle of morning tea to walk the dog for a few minutes after his cup of tea and a biscuit. The rest of us old ones are over a decade younger. Now where did Keith put his walking stick? Dropped it again?

The Summit, tune in, you never know, but B sharp about it, you don't want it to go

Only 79.5% of it is. The rest is grasped out of thin air. A lot of facts are from thin air so obviously from high altitude. A mountain of them. Note, "top of the mountain" of them. So don't cave in to it or this thread will be buried...

Yes, as been stated before, the Apple, a one bite computer that instantly crashed.

No, he has to volt over the fence. Then he recoiled at the suggestion as he didn't have the capacity for it. They resistored from helping and IC certainly didn't help. It's all on the printed (circuit) board.

The great flood of biblical proportions in the Euphrates River would have been caused by an El Niño weather pattern thus proving that the Spanish language originated in Western Asia.

There was a bit of news a couple of years ago that the rate at which sloths move, they would have just got home that year. They obviously weren't flying PanAm or BOAC.

I've just finished reading "Idiots, Follies & Misadventures" by Mikey Robins, pub Simon& Schusters, 2023, ISBN 9781761107115. He has a chapter on Flat Earthers. Page 328 - Flat Out Stupid Not so much for a good laugh (OK, that as well) but as a good shake of the head at such stupidity of people at times.

Are you hounding that pointer? Yes, this gets terrier and terrier.

Errr? Never ever seen that happen. I'd suggest that ublock origin be installed on your browser. One simple way is put the name, ublock origin, in the search and go to their website and install it. It blocks advertisements and other annoying things.

I couldn't find it previously used. Yes, sexist but that's the fun of it.... isn't it? A professor of linguistics was asked by one of his students if a computer should be referred to as a "male" or a "female." With great trepidation, he decided to set up two groups of students to answer the question. One group was made up of male students. The other group was all female. After extensive study the groups claimed the following: The group of women reported that computers should be referred to as "HE" because: 1. In order to get their attention you have to turn them on. 2. They have a lot of data but are still clueless. 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems but half the time they are the problem. 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a newer and better model. The group of men reported that computers should be referred to as "SHE" because: 1. No one but the creator understands their logic. 2. The native language they use to talk to other computers is incomprehensible to anyone else. 3. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval. 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your pay-cheque on accessories for it.

Women are totally useless. Would I get one to do any welding for me? Of course not. Why? Because she took her welder and her lathe and moved 1000 km away and now living in a different town. Who is she? My daughter.....

Ironical that that should come up. The thing is I was "flying" one of those 3 days ago. A birthday present (I'm very old) to "fly" a 737-800 simulator.

The ones who didn't aren't posting much on this thread....

It was written in American (left hand drive), not English hence the syntax error. 🤑

No, they'd have two cells that could hold hands... if cells have hands to hold...

Gmail has 15GB free. Proton is 5GB free. We don't use Microsoft or Apple so obviously don't use Outlook.

What a wet bunch of jokes this lot are. I wash my hands of it. Just a weird bunch of jokers trying to be funny. I'll throw the towel in.

Taking one of the given examples - Martin John Brundle (born 1 June 1959) is a British former racing driver, Yes, he was probably complacent ????? Binon is a Terran planet in the Pan System.

Anti-virus programme? What's that? I certainly haven't had one of those for decades and of course can't get viruses on my computers no matter where in the world I am. I wonder why.... maybe because I won't run Microsoft or Apple software. 😀