Am I getting old.....or what?

My father was born in 1910 and left school(as dux) at the age of 12 to work to support his family. His father was invalid with arthritis. I was doing some algebra when dad asked what I was doing. I explained what algebra was and he went away with this complex equation on some paper. A short while later he came in and asked if he had the right answers. To my amazement he had. I asked him how he did it and he said he rumbled some numbers in his head and the result seemed to fit. I often imagine what he might have become if he had had the chance of an education.

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Originally Posted by Series3 GT

I'm not complaining, I prefer mechanical to electronic even though everything is turning electronic. I haven't spent much time around computers until the last few years, my last laptop which I actually owned I got it for free and then it stopped working on me so I shot it multiple times and found that more fun than actually using it cause it would constantly frustrate me by just shutting itself down whenever it felt like it. Living in the country on a farm for most of my life except one year in a very small rural town with bush on one side and a paddock across from it I would just go out side and find something to do. When I got my IIA when I was 11 thats where I spent most of my time just playing around with that and I still do except I've got my Land Ranger to play with as well. Basically all I do is play with my Landys, hunt and go fishing when I can. Way more fun than stuffing around with a little device that questions whatever you do.

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:D:D:D Same here - I've belted computers in the past, and sworn to the point where my wife will threaten me with wifely threats, but now I'm going to blast one with the shotgun when I get the chance! I hate bloody computers, the way nothing makes any sense and doing anything involves at least thirty steps, and then something crashes or breaks or whatever, and you ask an expert and they say it's normal. So a human being actually designed it like that???

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Originally Posted by Davo

:D:D:D Same here - I've belted computers in the past, and sworn to the point where my wife will threaten me with wifely threats, but now I'm going to blast one with the shotgun when I get the chance! I hate bloody computers, the way nothing makes any sense and doing anything involves at least thirty steps, and then something crashes or breaks or whatever, and you ask an expert and they say it's normal. So a human being actually designed it like that???

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Trust me it's great fun, I'd prefer to use a 12ga but a mate had just bought a .410 and had boxes of No.6's and a couple of slugs so we let loose on it:twisted: I've done the same thing on many appliances from kettles to video players. My recommendation is a 12ga with a packet of No.6's or something of that size cause it'd be a waste of buckshot wouldn't it:D I've pulled apart and destroyed many devices cause i can. The laptop didn't seem to like the 33" tyres of the IIA for some reason:twisted: It's all good fun.

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Trust me it's great fun, I'd prefer to use a 12ga but a mate had just bought a .410 and had boxes of No.6's and a couple of slugs so we let loose on it:twisted: I've done the same thing on many appliances from kettles to video players. My recommendation is a 12ga with a packet of No.6's or something of that size cause it'd be a waste of buckshot wouldn't it:D I've pulled apart and destroyed many devices cause i can. The laptop didn't seem to like the 33" tyres of the IIA for some reason:twisted: It's all good fun.

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:eek: Is that the sound of duelling banjos in the background? :) Bob

Well, I bought my 3 yr old grandson a ride on electric (12v) jeep on the net. This thing runs all day on a charge and he loves it, drives it like a pro. Can't wait til he can drive a RRC! :)

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Originally Posted by snowbound

Well, I bought my 3 yr old grandson a ride on electric (12v) jeep on the net. This thing runs all day on a charge and he loves it, drives it like a pro. Can't wait til he can drive a RRC! :)

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I have done the same with one of my grandsons, now I am looking forward for him to be old enough to get a clubman class go kart :cool:

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Originally Posted by jx2mad

Miss Casey the Latin teacher. What about Miss Norris the girl's pe teacher who always wore a mini skirt. Then there was Mr Bonnell who ran the Cadets. Jim

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Somehow I am worried this thread is heading towards something that we all need not know about.....:eek::D

JC

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Somehow I am worried this thread is heading towards something that we all need not know about.....:eek::D

JC

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We can rate it M ++ :D
.........and wait until someone have more than one glass or two :p

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Originally Posted by Chucaro

We can rate it M ++ :D
.........and wait until someone have more than one glass or two :p

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That sounds like a challenge, opening fridge......now Bob:D

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Originally Posted by Davo

:D:D:D Same here - I've belted computers in the past, and sworn to the point where my wife will threaten me with wifely threats, but now I'm going to blast one with the shotgun when I get the chance! I hate bloody computers, the way nothing makes any sense and doing anything involves at least thirty steps, and then something crashes or breaks or whatever, and you ask an expert and they say it's normal. So a human being actually designed it like that???

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Davo, it is the mind numbing logic of the Binary world at work there mate.

I found the PLC programming units at engineering school the most frustrating and banal of all the industrial control units. Of course they are invaluable things to industry, PLCs, but why does it have to be so SIMPLE?????:mad::mad::mad::mad: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!


JC