OT The 1970s

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Depends what you mean by worth.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Same here. We got pocket money from grandparents which had to go into a savings account (a condition of receiving it). We could take it out when we wanted to buy something, but it certainly instilled the concept of saving up for something you wanted.

I did get my first mortgage from the same place (Woolwich).

[Nightjar]

I was a little too young to take much interest in such things but, as the lender was the local council, I suspect things didn't work quite the way they do today.

Colin Bignell

[Nightjar]

I have little doubt that she would have been quite willing to leave the islanders to their fate, if that had been the politically best policy and if the geology of the seabed around the Falklands were not very similar to that of the North Sea oil fields.

Colin Bignell

[Tim Streater]

Don't be silly. She'd have lasted five minutes in office with a policy like that. You're also seriously misreading her character.

[Nightjar]

I did say if it had been politically the best policy, which obviously it was not.

Nobody gets to be PM without a serious lust for power.

Colin Bignell

[Who, me?]

Wasn't the Marcos also timber chassised? I think it was the Mantis but could well be wrong. I do recall they also did a 'mini' version of one that was used defunct Minis to provide various bits and bobs.

Your time will come

David

[Who, me?]

It was one of the good ones.

David

[David Paste]

Excellent.

What was the social guilt you said you were cured of? I don't understand that bit. I have some distant rellie who went to SA in the 70s and is still there. Apparently they love it.

[djc]

For me every decade is a new cycle: mid 70s, mid 80s, mid 90s all good times in there own way, 78/79, 89/90, 2001 were all the bottom of a cycle,

[The Natural Philosopher]

bit. I have some distant rellie who went to SA in the 70s and is still there. Apparently they love it.

the guilt of feeling that since I was smarter and better educated than the people on the shop floor whose wages excedeed mine, and who dependend on my designs for their continued employment that was a reasonable arrangement

Viz a tube drive earns more salary than I have ever done. You don't make money by hard work, you make it by accident and being smart.

Or being part of a Union.

I decided to be smart.

[ARWadsworth]

And I played a football match at Oakwell in the 80's. I did not manage to score.

[David Paste]

I honestly don't know why you'd feel guilty about that.

[brass monkey]

Yebut, how was the football?

[Tim Lamb]

In message , "Who, me?" writes

The series II chassis was Z section steel with top hat cross braces. The largest metal folding machine I could lay my hands on locally would only do 6' so the sides had to be two pieces welded by the local blacksmith. Effectively cut and shut:-)

Doors and the cockpit were steel over an Ash frame. Angela was entranced when I offered to blow some more air into the passenger seat squab:-)

Huh! Loss of green paper licence pending.

regards

[ARWadsworth]

Their second goal was offside:-)

[Owain]

Choirboys might not agree with you.

Owain

[grimly4]

Ah, the fair Ludmila?

[grimly4]

Not here. Not the best ever but going by accounts from various people the first time I had it beat the shit out of theirs. She was four years older than me and gagging for it. :)

I felt - used, and loved it.

[Mr Pounder]

Ha! At the time a mate of mine said that the wops had invaded the channel islands.

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