Silly Picture Thread.

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, willedoo said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have a vague memory of early remotes being connected to the TV by a long cable. Maybe it was the early VCRs.

A big Tick Wille!

 

Cable to the V was available in the early 60s before VCRs.

[nomadpete]

58 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Then you got a free "TRIP" each time you went to the toilet. It doesn't need batteries either.  Nev

Nothing to do with silly pictures but The first remote controls that I worked on, in the days of valve B&W televisions,  were a two button ultrasonic cordless, batteryless thing. The buttons flicked a tiny ultrasonic tuning fork within the hand unit, to send the accoustic ultrasonic command. Very ingenius but the designers (probably engineers) hadn't thought that the length of car keys had a natural resonant frequency, to the tuning forks.

Didn't take long for kids to borrow dad's carkeys to hijack the TV.

[nomadpete]

58 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Then you got a free "TRIP" each time you went to the toilet. It doesn't need batteries either.  Nev

Nothing to do with silly pictures but The first remote controls that I worked on, in the days of valve B&W televisions,  were a two button ultrasonic cordless, batteryless thing. The buttons flicked a tiny ultrasonic tuning fork within the hand unit, to send the accoustic ultrasonic command. Very ingenius but the designers (probably engineers) hadn't thought that the length of car keys had a natural resonant frequency, to the tuning forks.

Didn't take long for kids to borrow dad's carkeys to hijack the TV.

[nomadpete]

Sorry don't know how it posted multiples. Moderator, Please delete some. Thanks

 

 

Mod: Done.

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[pmccarthy]

13 hours ago, willedoo said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have a vague memory of early remotes being connected to the TV by a long cable. Maybe it was the early VCRs.

Certainly existed by 1963 when my granny had one. You could change stations and adjust volume.

[facthunter]

WE never, ever HAD a TV in the house I grew up in. nor did I go to the Saturday  afternoon Cinema Matinees as my brother did. I had to find things to do Like build model planes and fix old motorbikes. I don't think I missed out on much..  Nev 

[spacesailor]

DID. SO ! .

YOU MISSED MY INLAWS ' NO RESTING PLACE ' 1951: Directed by Paul  Rotha With Michael Gough , 

And my wife's brother .

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[onetrack]

Interestingly, that's one of the things Docs use to get a handle on your mental acuity - they ask you what the day and date is. If you struggle to answer correctly, they start looking for problems such as early onset dementia.

[facthunter]

IF you are not working or going to church what does it matter? Bosses never know what day it is..  Nev

[willedoo]

Not many people carry the day's date around in their head, but you can usually do a quick mental countdown from the last day you knew the date. If you lost the ability to do that, it could be a problem. I recon us humans were originally like all other animals on the planet and were just meant to live and not live by a bunch of made up numbers. Living by the clock is a burden we brought upon ourselves.

[Old Koreelah]

1 minute ago, willedoo said:

I recon us humans were originally like all other animals on the planet and were just meant to live and not live by a bunch of made up numbers. Living by the clock is a burden we brought upon ourselves.

Clocks working weeks and calendars have taken most of humanity far from the rythms of nature. Have we lost the ability to tune in? 

[willedoo]

1 minute ago, Old Koreelah said:

Clocks working weeks and calendars have taken most of humanity far from the rythms of nature. Have we lost the ability to tune in? 

A lot of us have lost the familiarity with nature, but I don't think we've lost the ability to tune in to it. I recon that's programmed into us and would take a lot more evolution to lose. I think it's more of an environmental thing. Take any of us away from our built environment, plonk us in the middle of the desert or jungle, and it soon comes back.

 

A lot of instinct is still within us. One example is how any motion in the peripheral vision keeps catching the eye. If you are in a group conversation and there's a TV on in the corner of the room, eyes will keep flicking regularly toward that motion. It's not being rude; rather it's instinct within us from the early times when we had to deal with predators trying to make a meal of us. Probably related to the fight or flight response thing.

[rgmwa]

1 hour ago, onetrack said:

Interestingly, that's one of the things Docs use to get a handle on your mental acuity - they ask you what the day and date is. If you struggle to answer correctly, they start looking for problems such as early onset dementia.

Sadly, I don't think I'm eligible for early onset anymore.

 

[spacesailor]

Doesn't that depend !.

How many years without " clock-whatching " will the ability to remember a "  bureaucratic  ever changing "  date , time , year. Question ,

Do Amazon's natives , live their lives , by " the clock .

I have been trying to get away from it for 30 plus years ,BUT I miss my weekend's..

spacesailor

 

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[rgmwa]

5 hours ago, rgmwa said:

Sadly, I don't think I'm eligible for early onset anymore.

 

Just to be clear, I don’t have dementia nor would I want to make light of it in any way, although I realise on re-reading it that my comment may have given that impression. It’s a terrible affliction. My mother had it in her last years and I know how distressing it is.

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[nomadpete]

10 hours ago, willedoo said:

A lot of us have lost the familiarity with nature,

And luckily old age might allow some of us to reduce that 'civilised curse of the clock & calendar'.

 

Since I stopped work, every day is Sunday now, so I can sleep in if it's too cold to get out of bed. Sunrise wakes me in the morning to reset my internal clock at a slightly different time each day, so daylight saving is automaticly taken care of.

 

So when my GP asks what day it is, my answer is always 'Sunday'.

[Old Koreelah]

3 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Since I stopped work, every day is Sunday now, so I can sleep in if it's too cold to get out of bed. Sunrise wakes me in the morning…

My bladder gets me up.

[nomadpete]

24 minutes ago, Old Koreelah said:

My bladder gets me up.

Mine doesn't.

 

But I do change the sheets every day.

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[onetrack]

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The kid doesn't look aborignal. But then again, neither do many that claim to be, so they can be offended.