|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12750188)
You've lived a very interesting life Scilly, I love hearing about people's lives in various countries. Yes, Australia was very conservative in some ways in the 70s, not so much in other ways. I hope you put those judgemental, ignorant shrews who were so rude to you in their place. As for the one who told you off for working but left her her own kids to fend for themselves while she was 'being creative' - obviously not a brain in her skull :frown:
One day the elder child was making lunch for herself and her sister, mum was down in the shed. One of the children managed to cut her hand or wrist pretty badly, lots of blood. The 2 girls were too frightened to go and disturb their mother, so they went to the next door neighbour for help. As for an interesting life ......... YES!! We've been lucky ........ OH was trained as botanist, his main work was in the lab, but we both had a great education in basic field botany and zoology at university and we were able to parlay that into interesting trips. Plus we had made friends at university both as students and later with younger post grads. Many of them moved to other countries to work, or returned home, during the mid to late 60s and we kept in touch with lots of them (still do), so we were able to travel to visit them. It was also a bit easier in the '70s .............. it didn't cost as much as many airlines offered cheaper fares for wives accompanying their husbands on business trips, and kiddies were free or ca 10% fare under the age of 2 and then went half price for some years after that. That year in Australia was basically a round the world trip ............... Canada to UK to show daughter to her grandparents, OH and I did a side trip to Leningrad (as it was then) for a meeting, back to UK to pick up daughter and go to South Africa for a couple of weeks (staying with friends), then on to Australia, landing in Perth and going on to Melbourne. We came home via New Zealand and Fiji. Reason was that the travel agent found a super cheap ticket for us if we made Auckland our turn around stop for a 1 year round the world ticket. Daughter was free as she was under 2 years old when we started. We still have a close friend in Perth that we made during 1967/68 when we were at another university. We stayed with them on our last trip down to Australia in 2006 ......... for the spring flowers! |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Truth or a lie?
“I thought my neighbour was ignoring me, and he thought I was ignoring him, until he found out I was blind, and I found out he was deaf.†|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Danny B
(Post 12751209)
Truth or a lie?
“I thought my neighbour was ignoring me, and he thought I was ignoring him, until he found out I was blind, and I found out he was deaf.†https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzOf0Li2xYg |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Reddit is hands down the most toxic website I have ever encountered.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12751660)
Reddit is hands down the most toxic website I have ever encountered.
Stick with us lot. We're lovely. :wub: |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I only read for the most part, its just such a toxic place, the comments are entertaining though.
Originally Posted by BEVS
(Post 12751669)
HeHe. I think I did mention a while ago to stay away from the Reddit scene.
Stick with us lot. We're lovely. :wub: |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12751660)
Reddit is hands down the most toxic website I have ever encountered.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Oh for sure reddit is mostly under 30, and that likely leads to questions such as:
How do I mail a letter? What was the great depression? Who is Seinfed? 3 questions I have seen recently, does make me feel old though. My last job too most of my co-workers were born in the 1997-2001 range, boy oh boy is a workplace isolating when nobody around your age. Forums in general always seemed better, more interacting and generally friendlier and moderated, but forums seem to have largely died, of the ones I went to for years, just 2 are active still, some are still online but have like one post a month...lol
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12751787)
I find Reddit has a younger profile, high school kids up to around thirties, and then it drops off quickly. Lots of bozos on there for sure. BE is good in that people do kind of know each other. I can't believe I've been on the site for almost ten years. I remember when I was up to about 600 posts thinking that was a massive number.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12752051)
Oh for sure reddit is mostly under 30, and that likely leads to questions such as:
How do I mail a letter? What was the great depression? Who is Seinfed? 3 questions I have seen recently, does make me feel old though. My last job too most of my co-workers were born in the 1997-2001 range, boy oh boy is a workplace isolating when nobody around your age. Forums in general always seemed better, more interacting and generally friendlier and moderated, but forums seem to have largely died, of the ones I went to for years, just 2 are active still, some are still online but have like one post a month...lol |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Youngsters today don't seem to watch the older TV shows of 80's and 90's. My generations equivalent would be shows of the 60's and 70's and I watched a lot of those shows growing up.
Maybe that is why I found it not difficult to talk to my 40 something co-workers when I was 20, I watched a lot of the same shows as they did so we had things in common, oh the joys of getting old.
Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12752073)
Who is Seinfeld ?!?!?! FFS.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12752102)
Youngsters today don't seem to watch the older TV shows of 80's and 90's. My generations equivalent would be shows of the 60's and 70's and I watched a lot of those shows growing up.
Maybe that is why I found it not difficult to talk to my 40 something co-workers when I was 20, I watched a lot of the same shows as they did so we had things in common, oh the joys of getting old. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I dont remember too much of the 80s. Up to 1985 I have little memory of anything except some traumatic ones I would rather forget.
1988 onwards I have more memories but not a ton. But I remember the 90s pretty vivdly still but I do wish I had normal teen year experience instead of more traumatic events.
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12752221)
The 80s were when I had my kids, and the 90s are just a blur for the same reason :lol: I've only recently discovered Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond, I enjoy them both.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Most of the 70s and 80s are a blur for me!
We didn't have a TV until 1974 when OH bought one ready for me coming home from the hospital with a new baby ......... I do remember watching some horrible showers around 2 am in the morning!! I remember watching most but not all of Dallas, but people at work were raving about Dynasty, and I hadn't the faintest idea what they were talking about! I also watched most of Mash after 1974. Never watched any of Seinfeld or Friends. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I never cared much for Friends. Seinfeld was one of those shows I didn't watch mostly until re-reruns and the later seasons, I was only 10 when it first hit the airwaves and it came on after my bedtime, and I doubt at 10 I would have had any interest. My grandmother who watched us after school watched MASH reruns each afternoon as Golden Girls which is why I was watching those, but I don't think I paid much attention to either until later 90's when I was older.
Used to Watch Young and Restless in the summer too as my Grandmother liked it, and who could forget Price is Right, and those days home from school sick. I know my parents TV when I was really young was black and white, their first new TV and in color was around 1984 but we didn't get cable until early 90's.
Originally Posted by scilly
(Post 12752659)
Most of the 70s and 80s are a blur for me!
We didn't have a TV until 1974 when OH bought one ready for me coming home from the hospital with a new baby ......... I do remember watching some horrible showers around 2 am in the morning!! I remember watching most but not all of Dallas, but people at work were raving about Dynasty, and I hadn't the faintest idea what they were talking about! I also watched most of Mash after 1974. Never watched any of Seinfeld or Friends. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12752660)
I never cared much for Friends. Seinfeld was one of those shows I didn't watch mostly until re-reruns and the later seasons, I was only 10 when it first hit the airwaves and it came on after my bedtime, and I doubt at 10 I would have had any interest. My grandmother who watched us after school watched MASH reruns each afternoon as Golden Girls which is why I was watching those, but I don't think I paid much attention to either until later 90's when I was older.
Used to Watch Young and Restless in the summer too as my Grandmother liked it, and who could forget Price is Right, and those days home from school sick. I know my parents TV when I was really young was black and white, their first new TV and in color was around 1984 but we didn't get cable until early 90's. Ah, who could forget The Golden Girls!! About the first time that older women were shown smartly dressed and going out with boy friends :ohmy: . They were all great actresses, and were so funny. I watched Star Trek starting with The Next Generation, then Deep Space Nine, and Voyager I have never watched afternoon TV, and daughter was only allowed to watch it if she was home sick, and then strict time limits. I know of the soap operas but have never seen more than the odd excerpt, usually when some actor or actress who's been in it for many years has died! |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
My parents didn't let us watch a whole lot when we were younger, my grandma did, but nothing was gonna stop her from her golden girls and MASH lol.....
By teen years we watched more, well I did, my sister was social butterfly and always out with friends, I tended to go to the Zoo, museums and watch TV as I had no friends...
Originally Posted by scilly
(Post 12752687)
Ah, who could forget The Golden Girls!! About the first time that older women were shown smartly dressed and going out with boy friends :ohmy: . They were all great actresses, and were so funny.
I watched Star Trek starting with The Next Generation, then Deep Space Nine, and Voyager I have never watched afternoon TV, and daughter was only allowed to watch it if she was home sick, and then strict time limits. I know of the soap operas but have never seen more than the odd excerpt, usually when some actor or actress who's been in it for many years has died! |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
It's programmes like 'Perry Mason' in B&W that date me, they are being rerun on 5USA AFAIK.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by mikelincs
(Post 12752782)
It's programmes like 'Perry Mason' in B&W that date me, they are being rerun on 5USA AFAIK.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Bewitched, My Favourite Martian, Get Smart, F Troop, I Dream of Jeannie, Mr Ed, Green Acres, Man From UNCLE, Girl From UNCLE, The Champions, The Persuaders, The Avengers (Steed etc not the current ones), Adam Adamant, Target, Vendetta, Softy Softly, Doctor Who (of course), Lost In Space (irritatingly on at the same time), Doomwatch, Dept S, Randall and Hopkirk (deceased), UFO, Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Joe 90, Captain Scarlet, Supercar, Stingray, The Prisoner, Mission Impossible, MASH, Grange Hill, TISWAS...
All from memory without having to remind myself by googling and the Brit sitcoms, way too numerous to mention There are bound to be some OMG how did I forget thats. :nod: |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Flu jab today :thumbup:
(had the pneumo one too) |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
How could I have forgotten The Prisoner, Man from Uncle, The Avengers (Steed) or MASH :rofl: :nod:
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
These words are so true. If only managers actually realized this....lol People tend to quit bosses/managers and not jobs. Looking back I would say about 90% of the jobs I left were due to bad bosses and not the job itself.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...f2877b7b29.jpg |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
39 found dead in truck in Uk
Why !!! Smugglers need dealing with harshly |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Some criminals make it far too easy for police.
https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/alleged-w...-car-1.4652141 "Police say a shoplifter at a Windsor-area mall climbed into an unmarked police cruiser, mistaking it for a getaway car." |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I wish the digger and impactor next door would STFU at 7am in the morning.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BEVS
(Post 12753122)
I wish the digger and impactor next door would STFU at 7am in the morning.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12753084)
These words are so true. If only managers actually realized this....lol People tend to quit bosses/managers and not jobs. Looking back I would say about 90% of the jobs I left were due to bad bosses and not the job itself.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...f2877b7b29.jpg Had a couple of those in my life. Fortunately OH proposed and that gave me the ideal way out from the first one. But half the teaching staff left as well. The second one moved on after a year as the funding for him ran out while I was still being funded so I stayed. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
It's even more annoying when management does a survey to see why turn over is so high and employees respond because this manager or managers are poor, treat us like dirt, show no respect, and then nothing but crickets and the cycle continues. Companies have high turn over for a reason, and work environment and management can play a bigger role than wages.
Originally Posted by scilly
(Post 12753124)
Had a couple of those in my life.
Fortunately OH proposed and that gave me the ideal way out from the first one. But half the teaching staff left as well. The second one moved on after a year as the funding for him ran out while I was still being funded so I stayed. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12752913)
... My Favourite Martian ... TISWAS ...There are bound to be some OMG how did I forget thats. :nod:
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
That is the pits.
Wasn't a digger but when the dollar store went in downstairs below our unit, it was drilling, hammering Mon-F from 7:30am to 5:30pm, and man do they start right on the dot at 7:30am...lol There were days it seemed like a jackhammer was coming through the floor.
Originally Posted by BEVS
(Post 12753122)
I wish the digger and impactor next door would STFU at 7am in the morning.
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12753144)
...it was drilling, hammering Mon-F from 7:30am to 5:30pm, and man do they start right on the dot at 7:30am...lol ...
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12752992)
Flu jab today :thumbup:
(had the pneumo one too) |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by magnumpi
(Post 12753094)
39 found dead in truck in Uk
Why !!! Smugglers need dealing with harshly |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Only if you need to be up that early..... At the time I was working until 3am, so I was not wanting to be awake at 7:30am...ha ha
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12753150)
It's good if you forget to set your alarm. ;)
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12753161)
Only if you need to be up that early..... At the time I was working until 3am, so I was not wanting to be awake at 7:30am...ha ha
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
ha ha too funny.
I used to do the same when I worked graveyards, a note not to knock or ring the door bell, plus ear plugs and I could usually sleep okay, but I slept a lot more when working graveyards, I would sleep from roughly 9am to 8pm and still be tired, but quality of sleep during the day is lower quality and tend to wake up more. I'd sometimes wake up and look at the clock and it would be like 12 noon or 1pm and for a second be confused thinking I over slept and needed to be at work...lol One of the worst parts of graveyard for me and I called it the 3am chills, every night 3am to 5am, I would feel cold even when it wasn't cold, and the 3am to 5am is the hardest part of the entire night to stay awake.
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12753167)
My husband's niece in Liverpool is a nurse and works lots of night shifts. She's a bit of a character and not someone you'd want to cross. She puts a 'Shift worker sleeping, please don't ring the doorbell' sign on her front door before she goes to bed. She was very cranky one morning when someone rang the bell after she'd only had 2 hours sleep, so she opened her (upstairs) bedroom window and yelled 'can't you f***ing read?!'. :lol:
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12753180)
ha ha too funny.
I used to do the same when I worked graveyards, a note not to knock or ring the door bell, plus ear plugs and I could usually sleep okay, but I slept a lot more when working graveyards, I would sleep from roughly 9am to 8pm and still be tired, but quality of sleep during the day is lower quality and tend to wake up more. I'd sometimes wake up and look at the clock and it would be like 12 noon or 1pm and for a second be confused thinking I over slept and needed to be at work...lol One of the worst parts of graveyard for me and I called it the 3am chills, every night 3am to 5am, I would feel cold even when it wasn't cold, and the 3am to 5am is the hardest part of the entire night to stay awake. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12752913)
Bewitched, My Favourite Martian, Get Smart, F Troop, I Dream of Jeannie, Mr Ed, Green Acres, Man From UNCLE, Girl From UNCLE, The Champions, The Persuaders, The Avengers (Steed etc not the current ones), Adam Adamant, Target, Vendetta, Softy Softly, Doctor Who (of course), Lost In Space (irritatingly on at the same time), Doomwatch, Dept S, Randall and Hopkirk (deceased), UFO, Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Joe 90, Captain Scarlet, Supercar, Stingray, The Prisoner, Mission Impossible, MASH, Grange Hill, TISWAS...
All from memory without having to remind myself by googling and the Brit sitcoms, way too numerous to mention There are bound to be some OMG how did I forget thats. :nod: Spoiler:
|
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12753182)
Yes, night shifts aren't kind to the body or mind. I wonder if the shivering/feeling cold was your blood pressure going a bit low, it sounds like it. That's the time you need to have a sneaky chocolate bar :tounge_smile:
I sat with a therapist earlier in the year when we were trying to pay for it and go on a regular basis, but that didn't work out, but anyhow during the time I was going, all my major self harm events were when I was working graveyards, and overall when on graveyard I was more unstable and even worse, so for my mental health and well being, never doing graveyards again full-time. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12753187)
That was another thing about night shift, you tend to also be hungry more, and want sugar and carbs, I even read an article once how people on graveyard shifts are hungry more, eat more and eat more carbs and also higher risk for type 2 diabetes and other issues. Graveyard is really one of the worst things you can do to your body, and your body will you hate you for it.... I no longer do graveyards full-time, I can go to 1am or 2am but then I am getting a decent night time sleep, but working from night into the morning, never again.
I sat with a therapist earlier in the year when we were trying to pay for it and go on a regular basis, but that didn't work out, but anyhow during the time I was going, all my major self harm events were when I was working graveyards, and overall when on graveyard I was more unstable and even worse, so for my mental health and well being, never doing graveyards again full-time. |
| All times are GMT -12. The time now is 5:28 pm. |
Powered by vBulletin: ©2000 - 2026, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 2026 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.