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Forum: General Chat 21-04-2013, 18:09

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... eh?

Forum: General Chat 21-04-2013, 13:15

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Thought he lived North of the Wall and had his finger on the Jock pulse? My mistake.;)

Forum: General Chat 20-04-2013, 18:52

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Is this what cmon is on about??? Scottish Coal, which operated six open cast mines in East Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and Fife, has been put into liquidation. Falling coal prices and rising...

Forum: General Chat 16-04-2013, 10:56

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Fair enough Alan :)

Forum: General Chat 16-04-2013, 10:23

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Are we keeping a dead industry alive Less debating the merits and values of good spellin' sic ;)

Forum: General Chat 16-04-2013, 10:18

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Back in the day on my old steam powered Amstrad Word Processor I very quickly realised that a spell-checker was truly wonderful if indeed peeps knew what some of the alternative words or variations...

Forum: General Chat 16-04-2013, 10:14

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Heard the phrase OK Alan;) but did you know what Shinola was?

Forum: General Chat 16-04-2013, 09:31

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Interesting you make reference to a now defunct brand of shoe polish that was only available across there in the colonies. Condescending eh? Over here most people don't know shinola from anything...

Forum: General Chat 16-04-2013, 08:28

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... I think it was Mark Twain, Jay who said " I don't give a damn for a man who can only spell a word one way" ;) You will like this ;): An anecdote from the US about one Nyrum Reynolds dated...

Forum: General Chat 15-04-2013, 19:57

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Only assembled in the UK Dr E..parts sourced from all over...cost of aquisition again ;)

Forum: General Chat 15-04-2013, 14:34

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... And oh how we oohed and aahed when they hummed into life, our tentative stabs at the keyboard to have a few pixels say "Happy Christmas" on the monitor and the banshee screech of the C30 cassette as...

Forum: General Chat 15-04-2013, 14:24

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Could you see the Ipodpadphone generation of today laying a fire every morning and tending to it all day? Unless it has an on/off button they ain't interested ;)

Forum: General Chat 14-04-2013, 12:29

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... And who manufactured these looms and sold them out to these far Eastern places?....I am sure you know as I do quite a few out-fitters from round here who made tidy little sums working out in these...

Forum: General Chat 14-04-2013, 07:50

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Come on Mr c ... I thought you had more oil in your miners lamp than that ;) 1986 ..Study the printing industry and the move to High Tech Wapping out of Fleet Street with its old outdated and...

Forum: General Chat 13-04-2013, 20:19

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... [QUOTE=Gordon Booth;1053033]You didn't, did you? QUOTE] In reality didn't and wasn't Mr B ;) Boring... here's a boring comparitor.... In 1981 3.7 million households lacked or had to share...

Forum: General Chat 13-04-2013, 19:22

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Remarkably prescient of him though ;) Sorry to interrupt this love in for the GSOB's ;)

Forum: General Chat 13-04-2013, 18:53

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Some figures here augmenting my suggestion that the mining industry was in terminal decline and even more jobs were lost before Thatcher came to power. Around a million jobs vanished between 1920...

Forum: General Chat 13-04-2013, 16:25

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... It will always be a matter for argument Less, how much would have happened with any prime minister, and how much was down to Margaret? :(

Forum: General Chat 13-04-2013, 15:15

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... I lied there's no gunshot the sound is me peeing myself at some of the posts on here ;) Nurse pass me the bedpan :D

Forum: General Chat 13-04-2013, 15:13

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Gotta leave a blank for somebody to fill D ;) Keeps em' from pressing their buzzer for their carers :D You are just too quick on the draw ;)

Forum: General Chat 13-04-2013, 15:07

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... The techie guys from Creech AFB sent me this surveillance footage ;) Listen for the gunshot :) White Tail Deer Muskoka Huntsville Ontario Canada December 26 2010 - YouTube...

Forum: General Chat 13-04-2013, 14:55

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... What branch of socialism would the attack dogs on here have replace the government of they day, I wonder? The one based on social ownership and the cooperative management of society? As if ;) ...

Forum: General Chat 13-04-2013, 11:42

Replies: 208 Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Views: 4,601 Posted By DtheP47 Re: Keeping Dead Industries Alive.... Chernobyl, Fukushima and a bit closer to you Dr Eric Six Mile Island always get trotted out when the safety record of the Nuclear Industry comes into question. Old technologies ;) I am looking...

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