Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Techno]

Now I know you're all having a laugh.

It was in black & white when I watched it, in my 'yoof'. 
None of this high tech, modern, colour stuff.

Cheers - Phil.

[Orcs]

Now I know you're all having a laugh.

It was in black & white when I watched it, in my 'yoof'. 
Cheers - Phil.

Now your having a laugh - We know in your "Yoof" it was first the Wax Phonograph Cylinder followed by that new fangled wireless 

[Techno]

Rats !

I've been rumbled.

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

It's a well known fact that the entire world was black and white until Mr Eastman, of Kodak fame invented colour in the 1920s. He didn't know what to do with the new fangled invention, but it became a fashionable gimmick at high class parties. The British establishment wasn't impressed, and so whilst the USA largely converted to colour after the war (except some southern states that still resisted colour until the 1960s) and it quickly found popularity in the far east, Britain remained largely colour free until it was introduced by the Heath government in 1970.  I remember the lessons at school, singing "red and yellow and pink and blue" rather than "grey and grey and lighter grey and medium grey" and the infamous Colour Compensation Boards when people who found that their dress sense in black & white was impeccable, with the introduction of colour they looked ridiculous applied for adjustments or took the financial settlement, accepted that they would never colour co-ordinate and became golfers.

Of course, the introduction of colour began in the big cities. Birmingham was chosen as the test bed, and the results, as can be seen to this day, looked washed out and rather dull. There were claims that British "colour" cost more to implement US "color" because of the extra letter, but proper spelling prevailed, and the later international colour standard ICS 7465/1982 is basically a triumph of the British BS 29652.12 over the US "ColorMe" system.  

However, even in Britain the roll out of colour did not go smoothly. The Highlands of Scotland have been given an intensity of colour that was due to the previous night's consumption at a wedding of one of the colour-layer's daughters, and parts of Presbyterian Wales thought colour sinful and the work of the Devil and so fought it's introduction. Indeed, one hold-out area refused colour until it was also forced to drop it's Sunday drinking ban in 1996.

This then, is why Techno saw the Batman TV series, as we all did, in B&W in the 1960's. It's because colour hadn't been introduced to UK.

Simples.

By the way, if you're going to tell me that you remember the 1960s as being in colour it is either a) the good work of the Memory Colour Specialists or b) the work of the strange substances regularly partaken during that decade.

[Fenton]

Well done

Finally a sensible explanation of why we have tartan

[Orcs]

Thanks, Nobby et al.

Yes....She's fine.....Though she managed to make a complete mess of her knees and the area surrounding them...(Blood everywhere)......And she's now got a couple of nice black eyes developing where she dented the lawn with her face.

Thats good Phil.

BUT

When horses make a complete mess of thier legs you shoot them.  Can you do the same for Mother-in-laws? 

[Techno]

I think we'd be on dubious legal ground there, Mark.

She was lucky she didn't cut her femoral artery.....She fell on an open pair of secateurs !
If anything, this has been a real wake-up call for her.

For ages.....Mrs T and I have been trying to get her to ditch her walking stick (She's SO, SO unsteady on her feet)...and use the 'wheely zimmer' we got her MONTHS ago.
After this latest episode, we've taken her walking stick away, so she has to use the zimmer. ("Oh, I don't need that.")

Blow me down.....She now thinks the zimmer is wonderful.  ....Supports her both sides, so she doesn't look like she's about to fall over the whole time.

Mrs T's just taken her down to see the nurse at the surgery to have the dressings changed for the second time.

Cheers - Phil

[Ithoriel]

fsn, Rosyth was definitely in colour in the 1950's.

Was this a result of secret trials held at the naval base there?

The public have a right to know!

[Fenton]

Does this mean all those Dulux are are based on true stories that have been made public after being top secret for many years?

[Orcs]

I think we'd be on dubious legal ground there, Mark.

Oh well, bang goes another good Idea

She was lucky she didn't cut her femoral artery.....She fell on an open pair of secateurs !
If anything, this has been a real wake-up call for her.

For ages.....Mrs T and I have been trying to get her to ditch her walking stick (She's SO, SO unsteady on her feet)...and use the 'wheely zimmer' we got her MONTHS ago.
After this latest episode, we've taken her walking stick away, so she has to use the zimmer. ("Oh, I don't need that.")

Blow me down.....She now thinks the zimmer is wonderful.  ....Supports her both sides, so she doesn't look like she's about to fall over the whole time.

Mrs T's just taken her down to see the nurse at the surgery to have the dressings changed for the second time.

Cheers - Phil

At least some good came of it.

My Dad did a similar thing - Ran a charity riting up to 100 letters a week on a mannual typewriter.  We spent months saying he needed a computer and printer as 90% of the content of each letter was the same.  Eventually we gave him an old one and showed him how to use it - again it sat there for months.  Then one day his grandson showed him how to use it again ...... And blow me he was over the moon.!

When  I went round the next time i got "Martin is a wonderful lad, showed me ho to use the computer, Why did you not tell me about it before, noboby showed me how to use it"(memory loss ??). It will save me loads of time !! "

OLD PEOPLE - AAARRGGGGHHHHH (can't wait to be one and cause havoc)

[Fenton]

Oh well, bang goes another good Idea



OLD PEOPLE - AAARRGGGGHHHHH (can't wait to be one and cause havoc)

Ummmmmmmm

[fsn]

just to be clear Techno, she fell after you took the stick away?

It is a worry. My mother went through a phase of falling over, but hasn't been so bad since she had her eyes done.

It was either that, or I stopped polishing the soles of her shoes, one or the other.

fsn, Rosyth was definitely in colour in the 1950's.

It was, but the experiment was abandoned after they found that all the grey ships were, when colourised, grey.

[Techno]

just to be clear Techno, she fell after you took the stick away?

Um....No, Nobby. 

After she went up some steps in the garden.....WITH that wretched stick.
She seemed to have forgotten that the last time she went up the same steps, she fell over backwards.....That time not doing any serious damage to herself.

Cheers - Harassed of Wales.

[fsn]

Garden + Steps  + Old person = fraught situation.

Even if you replace the steps with a slope, the snow and ice turns it into an OAP Cresta Run.

I suggest a Bosun's Chair arrangement. 

[Techno]

She did the snow and ice 'splat' about 5 (?) years ago on a Christmas Eve, when she broke her hip ! ....That was on the drive though, not on the steps.
Cheers - Phil