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Post by juju on Oct 6, 2013 20:23:10 GMT
I remember when children's TV in the school holidays consisted of the Double Deckers, the Banana Splits, the Flashing Blade and Robinson Crusoe (although no one ever saw him being rescued because the series always carried on past 'back to school' day, for some inexplicable reason). Like most people of my age I could still sing you the theme tune to all of them.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 6, 2013 21:04:15 GMT
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Post by JoeP on Oct 7, 2013 11:27:52 GMT
I remember when children's TV in the school holidays consisted of the Double Deckers, the Banana Splits, the Flashing Blade and Robinson Crusoe (although no one ever saw him being rescued because the series always carried on past 'back to school' day, for some inexplicable reason). Like most people of my age I could still sing you the theme tune to all of them. The Flashing Blade! I forgot about that! And the Water Margin, not sure how many people watched that. I could do without the memories of the banana splits though one banana two banana three banana four ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 7, 2013 12:46:32 GMT
I used to run and hide from the Banana Splits... they were as scary as Doctor Who! I am still trying to locate Trumptonshire. I am planning to retire to Camberwick Green, Chigley or Trumpton as they seem lovely places!
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Post by Thingy on Oct 27, 2013 7:00:22 GMT
. ... One banana two banana three banana four ... NOOOOO.... Earworm!!! I remember when we used to have to go to the village to use the phone. when we had to collect the milk from an insulated box a couple of miles down the road. And we kept the milk in the well, 'cos we didn't have a fridge
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 27, 2013 8:52:17 GMT
Nah nah nahhhh nanana nahhhhh Nah nah nahhhh nanana nahhhhh! Our fridge used to have a lock on the door, until those kids started getting in them on rubbish tips and suffocating. Food used to come in containers without all those tamper seals on, until someone started to poison baby food. People used to leave their doors unlocked during the day, until people started burgling them more. I get the impression that society hasn't advanced like some say it has!
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Post by JoeP on Oct 27, 2013 9:48:43 GMT
Computers didn't need antivirus software until people started writing viruses.
Etc etc
Society has advanced technologically, but it's as full as ever of nasty people.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 27, 2013 10:49:12 GMT
I think more full. As we become more connected, we ironically are becoming increasingly insular!
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Post by JoeP on Oct 27, 2013 10:58:58 GMT
Maybe it's just that technology is providing more ways for the nasty people to find us?
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Post by Moose on Oct 27, 2013 20:15:06 GMT
it WAS
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2013 15:08:50 GMT
I think more full. As we become more connected, we ironically are becoming increasingly insular! I was more insular when I didn't have internet at home.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 29, 2013 17:19:48 GMT
I did not mean it is true in every case, but when you can have a train full of people and even the people travelling together are only interacting with their devices, I find it very negative and sad. One of the things I find most bizarre are people on the phone, talking at great length to the people they are travelling to visit.
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Post by DGoeij on Oct 29, 2013 20:24:37 GMT
As how before the mobile phone and newer versions, people didn't hide in books, news papers or the ever effective thousand yard stares designed for public transport? I'm old enough to remember those, not old enough to start yelling about the good old days, which usually weren't all that good.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 29, 2013 20:30:17 GMT
I understand people not wanting to talk to strangers on a train (on the London underground, it is an unwritten rule), but what bugs me is the people who excommunicate the people they are with in preference to poking at their device instead.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 29, 2013 21:53:51 GMT
I did not mean it is true in every case, but when you can have a train full of people and even the people travelling together are only interacting with their devices, I find it very negative and sad. Very sad:
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Post by DGoeij on Oct 29, 2013 22:06:01 GMT
We do that on the couch at home.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 29, 2013 22:15:32 GMT
There's a house I often pass on the way home from the station (and, yes, compulsively glance into) which nearly always has a man sitting at a computer by the window to the left of the front door, and a woman sitting at a computer by the window to the right of the front door.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 30, 2013 8:42:55 GMT
If you two were only checking e-mails and so on for a few minutes, then I don't see that as a problem, but I have seen whole groups sitting for hours, totally ignoring each other.
I watch films and do things on my laptop while on the train, but only because I am usually on my own. If there is anyone with me, I'd probably not even get the device out.
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Post by Miisa on Oct 30, 2013 9:24:53 GMT
We weren't ignoring each other, we were at times comparing sites, etc. The rather extreme case is when we are surfing silently on our own computers during a Skype call.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Oct 30, 2013 9:38:40 GMT
Yes, DG and I did that too at times. Happily not anymore!
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 30, 2013 9:39:57 GMT
That is why Skype has video chat; so you can make sure the other person is not ignoring you! I find that a lot of people still don't like video chat for general use. I have a hardware Skype phone, but now I have it, people almost never phone me... good job I got it 70% off!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Oct 30, 2013 10:02:45 GMT
I mean we were on video chat but both doing stuff online. Just like if we sit together now and doing our own stuff on our computers, we were doing it together before via video chat. I assume that is what Miisa meant also.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2013 10:16:14 GMT
I think you need to know how much to do it. I don't think Frank and I spend less time talking to each other and wehn we are on a train together, it is usually for so long we can't possibly talk all the time. So we will read, I might listen to music, sleep or look out of the window.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Oct 31, 2013 10:24:31 GMT
My best friend and I used to go to each others house and sit together and read books. We talked too of course but it yeah, sometimes you don't feel like talking. I like talking while walking. It somehow seems to stimulate the talking process.
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Post by Moose on Nov 1, 2013 18:07:54 GMT
I like being around people I can be silent with
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 1, 2013 19:40:12 GMT
I can cope with some silence, but I start to go mad after a while... doesn't help with the jet-engine screaming noise in my ears, either!
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Post by tangent on Nov 1, 2013 23:10:41 GMT
You have loud tinnitus? My commiserations
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 2, 2013 8:30:11 GMT
I have had it for so long that I am generally used to it. It's like working in a noisy factory in that, no matter how much you complain, it doesn't make any difference so you might as well just carry on. Unlike actual noise, thankfully, it doesn't drown out the sound around me so no shouting required. It's just annoying, mostly when in silent conditions such as exams. School was a nightmare and I was too young to stand up and get help with exams, so my results suffered badly because exam conditions are horrendously stressful because I cannot concentrate at all.
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Post by tangent on Nov 2, 2013 13:44:11 GMT
Have you had it since childhood? I started with tinnitus in my mid 40s after a session with a mechanical sander but it's only a problem hearing people who are talking very quietly.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 2, 2013 14:15:06 GMT
Apparently the problem is not with your ears but with your brain. And some people have been able to retrain their brain by listening to a specific frequency noise. That's what Dr Karl said in his podcast the other day.
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