OK I HAVE BEEN IN HIBERNATION. Every time I wake up I feel like I'm on day 2 of a skiing or adventure holiday. How inconvenient. Acheing all over, like I've fallen off a horse, I hobble about making cups of tea or gassing the place out with (fried) quarter lb-er beefburger sandwiches... I got a really chavtastic cheapo, thin, sugary-vinegary tomato ketchup ~ just the way it should be ~ from Iceland. It's fantastic. Only my bread is bourgeois: Warburton's Seeded Batch: £1 for a tiny loaf. But exactly the right size toasted for one 1/4-lb-er or 3 fishfingers drowning in said "red sauce"...Hey do y'all remember back in the 1970s-to-early 80s when colour television was still something of a novelty or at least luxury. In this country we never had those whizzy colour tellies with turny-dials (I've looked all my life for one, only ever seen colour ones on American films), just four or five channel selectors, sticking out like giant silver cigarettes from a teak effect box with a screen like a giant goldfish bowl. The older ones used to ping! back into a quickly vanishing white dot that lingered in the end....
... sometimes I think that white dot tells the story of my life...
... even older tellies (even colour ones) worked via valves not transistors, which meant when you knew you wanted to see something you had to ensure the box was switched on a good 10 minutes ahead of time. Sound came almost immediately, frustratingly... from deep underwater greenish figures emerged, clothing themselves in layer upon layer of sparkly pixxels until (hopefully) at the set time you had Coronation Street or Opportunity Knocks! Aww, the 1970s. I do feel some privileged sense of nostalgia for having lived through these brown-swirly times.
Me and my brother used to nudge each other and laugh when we went to more vulgar people's houses who always had the colour turned up way too high! ~ do you remember that one? That was a chavtastic form of budget psychedelia for those unwilling actually to drop LSD...
What on earth I was going to say here has escaped me...
O, except my robos look like their nest has been hit by a cat-5 hurricane! Some cleaning bug has seized them and all empty toothpaste boxes (etc) are piled wigwam stylee in a corner. When I shove my head in the tank and say "oi you swines: come out!" three mini-gremlin faces emerge from said bundle of sticks looking surprised (hamsters nearly always look surprised, it's the look they do best...)
And that's about it. I don't know what I was gonna say but I'm going back to bed?
VIDEO:
#1 the candy selection featuring Leo DiCaprio and the All Saints: Pure Shores (music from The Beach)...
#2 Now this is something rarer: 2001 A Space Odyssey to the tune of Orbital's Halcyon:
I always thought Halcyon was a nasty banned sleeping pill from the United States... or >Halcion Days... some old novel..?
No! Halcion Days was a "text based multi-user adventure game" ... being I've never PLAYED a text-based multi-user adventure game but have only heard of ONE: ie British Telecom's "MUD" "multi-user dungeon" how on earth the phrase got so deeply embedded in my subconscious I've not a clue...
No it isn't. "Halcyon days" is a piece of cultural coinage, ie a expression, a cliche, if you will. The Halcyon game which I knew I'd not have heard of till just now, is some geektastic thing from times past...
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I remember the black and white TVs we had and also the first colour set - in the 60's - all with the channel dial - 2 - 13. We only had an aerial then. I got cable when I married and moved back to the city.
I remember when we got our first TV. My brothers and I just sat enthralled watching Wagon Train and Rawhide.
I think I prefer my LCD with all the you beaut bells and whistles.
Go back to bed, Gleds. Drink plenty of fluids, take some aspirin or Disprin and sleep. That's the best thing to do for colds.
Get well soon.
There is a nasty flu and a nasty cold going around where I live. It's really terrible, people are ending up with fevers over a hundred for sometimes 4 days, simply nuts. I am one of the lucky ones who has been untouched. Now that I've said that though, I've definitely cursed myself.
I hope you feel better soon Gleds!
= )
When MWM and I moved in together in 1972 he insisted on getting a colour TV despite my claims that we were short of money and a black and white one would do! Ah those were the days. :)
Jeannie: I know people who still use aerials!... I'm the only one not to have bothered with the digital set-top box...
Puss-in-Boots: cheers I been asleep most of the weekend
Lucinda: ;...->... that's sposed to be a runny-eyed AND drooling smiley :->
Akelamalu: I still remember the news read by Richard Baker and Angela Rippon on our black and white telly (and the rolling BBC globe) back in the 1970s...
I don't remember TV at all, I have to say that in the 70th I was a young mother and didn't even think of TV ! We bought one when our son went to primary school and sometimes they were talking about a TV show and the poor little guy didn't have a TV. Of course then we bought a (for that time) big and colour TV. Belgium had TV cable already since the end of the 50th it was automatically put in together with electricty cables when a new building or house was built. If you used it or not. It was the most cabled country in the world, and so early.
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