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Jem, would Tipp-Ex have made a young fellows expectations any easier?
Yes Spitty, on reflection if I couldn’t see a name on it it wouldn’t have been so bad.
But I suppose when you’re raised with the bare necessities of life you are never really disappointed are you? in fact the only thing you can be is optimistic, you can’t go down any lower so the only way to go is up. I admire optimistic people, they are an asset to society in times of despair and Christ knows we have more than our share of cranky old gits. I try to be as optimistic as I can, but a true optimist doesn’t know the meaning of disappointment.
I can remember one Christmas dinner, we had garden hedge soup with all the trimmings.

I never knew that about the Monkee Nesmith’s mother, good for her, a simple invention like that made her a very wealthy woman, and just compensation for having given birth to a Monkee.

The Top 10 Inventions of All Time
• #8 – Wheel and Axle. ...
• #7 – Internal Combustion Engine. ...
• #6 – Written Language. ...
• #5 – Semiconductors. ...
• #4 – Compass. ...
• #3 – Light Bulb. ...
• #2 – Computer. ...
• #1 – The Internet. Thanks to Al Gore, we have the greatest invention of all time, the internet!

I would have thought “Soldering/welding” might be up there, think of all the things that we couldn’t have without all the various metal welding processes.


In days of yore when the busses here in the city got very busy this time of year, they used to employ part time conductors, they only got the top half of the uniform, semi-conductors they were called, I’m delighted to see they are all now fully employed in computers.
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Some folks spend years looking (or waiting if they're idle gits) for the right place at the right time, but unwittingly repetitively keep committing two wrongs.
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Some folks spend years looking (or waiting if they're idle gits) for the right place at the right time, but unwittingly repetitively keep committing two wrongs.
So true Spitty, when brothers Jimmy and Tommy Wong first opened their Chinese restaurant here back in the 80’s they had to drive out to Dublin airport to pick up supplies from China, they took the right turn at Dubber Cross instead of the left and ended up in Belfast, a most unusuall case of two Wongs making a right.
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Voice controlled devices.

Do we really need these things? For God’s sake how much energy does it take one to make a few clicks to hear a recording of one of your favourite tunes? Get up off your arse and plug in a plug? turn on a light bulb? Look out the window to see if it’s raining outside? Draw the curtains? indeed for some that may be the only exercise they get all day.
And don’t forget these devices have to be recharged which means you still have to get up and plug them into the power supply, then get a new battery when the old one can’t be charged anymore, or maybe they are working on a box to do that too.
It is ideal as an aid for those who are immobile or blind, and those who like to show off, but otherwise they are totally unnecessary in my opinion.
They are spending millions on adverts trying to ram this stuff down out necks, and according to what I’ve read most of us don’t want them in the first place, anyone who cares about pollution and too much plastic on the planet knows that more of this useless junk is not a good thing.

Why did they have to name one brand “Alexa”, that’s three syllables, why not just use one syllable like Jill, Joe, or May?, if one wants to go totally lazy that does not make sense, maybe it’s a government regulation that they have to use three so as to give the impression that one is exercising...be it only the vocal cords.

“Alexa!… throw yourself into the recycling bin!”

Seems to me they have a little box for everything now, reminds me of this old song.

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There are many ins and outs in life, you have to save just a bit of energy for the final phase, and stop being Green with envy, and be Green for the next generation, hang on, Generation has bought us to the precipice.
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Two RAF Red Arrow jets escorted The WW2 Silver Spitfire along the south coast of England as G-IRTY returned to Goodwood Aerodrome after a four month trip around the world...27,000 miles in all. A great achievement

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Marvellous plane without a doubt, everyone’s favourite, they broke the mould after they made the Spitfire.

Notice that as soon as Christmas Day is over the TV is crammed with holiday ads?. Do people still trust these travel agencies after all the companies that went to the wall? Who would ever have thought Thomas Cook would fold. Ah well you pay yer money and take yer chances, good luck to you.

“Travel broadens the mind” that’s what they say, today Google broadens the mind from your own home, you can “walk’ up any street in the world without leaving your armchair.
But who wants a wide mind anyway, when all is said and done there’s no place like home.
Reminds me of that old Mutt and Jeff joke.
Mutt: “Jeff, your hair is getting very thin”
Jeff: “I know and I’m not worried, who wants fat hair?”

I never did see the point of forking out a small fortune on fares and hotels, travelling hundreds even thousands of miles to a strange place. not understanding a word the people say, knowing nothing about the food your eating or what could be in the bed your sleeping in, not knowing if it’s safe to walk down certain streets or take a simple glass of tap water, having strange money in your pocket and not being able to figure out when you are being ripped off, staring at famous places and buildings that look exactly like they do in all the photos of them you’ve already seen, and they call that a holiday? More like a stress test.
No thanks, had I wanted to see the world I’d have joined the navy and got paid for doing it.

I haven’t been down to Kerry for a good while, think we’ll go next year if we’re still around, we always have a great time there, and when you think about it that’s what a holiday is all about…having a great time.

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Travelling...wanted to do that as soon as I could toddle. Mum used to say I had gyspy in me but could never prove it from my Mothers Irish side (dont ask as it gets complicated) Who ever or whatever gave me that urge I have thanked many times over.

Getting paid to be sent to odd places helped enormously and as you can't always depend on the luck of the Irish I deliberately chose the job that would send me forth to exotic places.

Along with the good times like watching street food vendors perform in the way you would never see here was the dreaded Delhi belly, Singapore belly, Pharoahs curse, Montezumas revenge, Rangoon runs... all of which no matter who you travelled with be it Thomas Cooks or the poshest hotels you stayed at..you did not escape those dreaded travellers ills.

You never told your Mother though in the obligatory post cards home. That would never do as she would have said "I told you this would happen going off to those funny foreign parts". Me ...well I would never have admitted it could have been down to Abdullas infamous delicious blue curry.

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Some are born to travel and some are just homebirds like myself, Phyllis is not one for long haul travelling either, my older brother loved travelling, it used to break me heart seeing him off at the airport.

There used to be an expression out when I was a kid in the 50’s, it was probably out across the water too, I wouldn’t be sure about that though, if something looked good or worked very well one would say, “Very g’nick”, my reckoning being that it was a shortened version of “Very good nick” meaning great condition, anyway like all old expressions if faded out with time.
You can imagine how surprised I was when my 20 year old grandson was here today and I showed him a pair of “Johnny Depp” sunglasses I had bought online and he looked at me and said “Very g’nick Granda”
I asked him where he heard it and he said a lot of the students at his university use it to describe something that looks good. Strange how things come back from the dead ain’t it.
By the way I’m not sure whether he was talking about me or the glasses.

I came across some old Victorian Christmas cards on Google, seems they had a sense of humour about the Holiday.
Here’s two I selected, the first one confirms what we all know well, Father Christmas has been robbing us blind for centuries.
The second one confirms that the “Bah Humbugs” have always been with us.


 

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