h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It could have been because my parents had a lot of Dinner Parties, it was the 70s after all, and they had collected a vast (beautiful) Rosenthal dinner service which they liked to use. Plus we ate a lot of Indian, Chinese and so on type meals - they are designed to be lots of small dishes shared.

Rice pudding! mmmmmm but can you believe, I prefer the stuff out of a tin?

hey sal
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you missed out there with blackpool.you could have met pinky lol,me and prof animal are hoping one of us hits on the £400+ lotto, then we are going to see our pinky with luck lol jimxxx

I seem to be missing out on lots of postings recently...maybe my head is full of the family tree research i've been doing!!!
Which brings me to a memory i must have left behind...
Two weeks ago i met up with my niece,i havent seen her for around fifty year ,we lost touch with dads side of the family after he died.
She talked about when my mother had her off license shop,and how we used to sneak in there when nobody was watching,and fill ourselves egg cups out of the big barrell of sherry
I was only eight!!!!
It surprised me,as i don't drink ,and havent done for over thirty years.....maybe the sherry put me off!!!

Hi folks...
Sal, we were supposed to be meetin up at Pendle, but wi' all this stuff wi me mam plans seem to have been sidetracked...
We could still do it tho', but would have to be a Saturday now wi Shan back at school...

hi sheryl....we could still meet up love,but i'll text you.It's lovely to see you in here,hope you're doing

Hi Sal... I'm gettin there luv... Still in a daze...
Got your text, was busy form fillin at time, now fone on charge but will relpy soon...
Take care...

Long time no posting!!
I had to ask ......does anyone remember chilblains???
I posted on a thread about chilblains in the cold weather,and someone asked what they were!!!!
I only remember because they were so sore and painful......anyone else suffer from them as children???

I saw that and it reminded me of boarding school. And Famous Five books where chilblains were for wimpish kids who weren't robust enough to play outside in winter but hogged the radiators.

I've had that tingly sensation where my fingers have warmed up too fast -but that was in the Army on exercise when it was around -18°C outside and I went into the wagon for a coffee and stupidly took off my gloves before wrapping my hands round the tin mug. Ouch!

"does anyone remember chilblains???"
Ah! do I ever Smurfles, we used to have to apply vaseline to our eyes ans under under our nose, when we worked offshore, as the bitterly cold wind could cut your skin We also used to put it on out lips to stop them chafing
In fact it was quite funny, as our toilets were just a covered roof area, (way back in the early days) and you would see all these big butch hairy ed blokes, putting all this on like make up, first thing in the morning (must do a Snippet on that one day?)

Smudger.

We're back ! My favourite thread ! Hi Everyone,good to see this thread on the top of my list again. Pinky x

Snippet, that's a great picture you painted. I have similar memories of being out in extremely cold weather with some marines and they were all madly slathering their exposed body parts with vaseline and/or lanolin cream. Plus they mostly wore (ladies) tights under their long-johns.

anything to stay warm and protected, I say.

Hi Sho, aye wearing of tights was OK for keeping warm, but not so good when busting for a Pee

Us welders couldn't wear tights, as if we got burnt, the melting nylon would cause even more damage

I remember one lad who was on his first trip out offshore, who laughed at us putting all this gear on. He ended up having to go the sick bay, with frost bite and a really bad skin condition, where the tears from his eyes froze on his face, and cracked his skin wide open

Smudger.

ouch!
but no sympathy in the "going for a pee department" since we have that all the time!

OUch!!!All this talk of makes me think of the really bad winters we used to have!!!Are we becoming a nation of softies
Last weeks snowfall made me wonder if my memory was playing tricks.... i'm sure we use to get lots of every winter,and we Always had to trudge to school in it!!!The first reasonable amount of snow last week....and lots of the schools were closed!!!
I really dislike vaseline ,it's all yukky,and feels 'orrible,but it's the first thing i reach for if i have a cold!!!!

just marking the thread.

Geez! Jim, I never thought I would see this thread again, I thought it went the same way as most of mine, and disappear into the timeless vaults of obscurity!
Smudger.

hi smudger
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i ed, so opi can take a gander into the past, it might give him an insight to us older ones and what our lives where about lol, nothing is lost, i reanacted the weather thread a few months back, and its doing fine, come and join in,even japan in the frey as well lol jim

oops! I allowed this thread to go off my page

Here are a few more, it might take a while to read though.....

Good Advice, Military Style

* "Aim towards the Enemy." - Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher
* "Cluster bombing from B-52s is very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground." - USAF
* "When the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal
* "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed." - U.S. Air Force Manual
* "Tracers work both ways." - U.S. Army Ordnance
* "Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
* "If you see a bomb technician running, follow him." - USAF
* "Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." - At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena,Japan
* "You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." - Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)
* "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."
* "Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky." --From an old carrier sailor
* "If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe."
* "When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."
* "What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... the pilot dies."
* "Never trade luck for skill."
* The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh sh*t!"
* "Progress in airline flying: now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant."
* "Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!"
* "Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries."
* "Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
* "Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day."
* Advice given to RAF pilots during WWII: "When a prang (crash) seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slow and gently as possible."
* "The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you." - Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
* "Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you."
* "There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime." - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ,
* "If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to."
* Basic Flying Rules: "Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there."
* As the test pilot climbs out of the experimental aircraft, having torn off the wings and tail in the crash landing, the crash truck arrives, the rescuer sees a bloodied pilot and asks "What happened?". The pilot's reply: "I don't know, I just got here myself!" - Attributed to Ray Crandell (Lockheed test pilot)
Smudger.
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OOPS! I made a mistake there, that was supposed to go in the Have-A-Laugh tread
Smudger.

hi smudger
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the only things of my memeries now are in the last 4 or so years, and they ones i want to forget.unprintable.lol jim