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Oh and cricketers not wearing helmets..
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[NSC] Things your kids would NEVER understand...
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A test match series between the West Indies and England meaning England being absolutely spanked in every match, and in every format. Even when the Windies did need to bat down to number 11, their batsman (well, Malcolm Marshall a quick bowler) would walk out with a broken arm and no helmet as you say, and score more runs in 5 minutes than an England opener would manage in half an hour (if he lasted that long).
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GT49er
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Neither did I! Ingrained in the old memory - when I finally lose all my marbles to senile dementia that'll probaby be one of the last things I'll remember!
Can even rember the definition of a rod, pole or perch - but cannot ever remember using that measurement for anything, or anyone else ever using it/them for that matter!
Ian was Glebelands Close and Garrick was Williams Road. Did you know that Garrick is dead now died 15/20 years ago and yes he was a pain in the arse.
Lol we also did this at Kings Manor school ( upper).
Sid in the Sharknado
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Not on your list, but chains are still used to locate existing structures on the railway.
This leads to horribly confusing situations where a bridge (for example) is located in chains and yards from the start of the line, and simultaneously in metres from the start of the area covered by the project. The latter is the "project chainage", despite being measured in metres.
Baldseagull
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"Tea, Martin...in the hand"
Not on your list, but chains are still used to locate existing structures on the railway.
This leads to horribly confusing situations where a bridge (for example) is located in chains and yards from the start of the line, and simultaneously in metres from the start of the area covered by the project. The latter is the "project chainage", despite being measured in metres.
A chain is, of course, the length of a cricket pitch
Sid in the Sharknado
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Convenient, when a series of cricket pitches are laid out in a line alongside a railway
GT49er
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Not on your list, but chains are still used to locate existing structures on the railway.
This leads to horribly confusing situations where a bridge (for example) is located in chains and yards from the start of the line, and simultaneously in metres from the start of the area covered by the project. The latter is the "project chainage", despite being measured in metres.
Yes, knew about chains - and metres of course - but mixing the two - wow!
GT49er
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Is it still, I wonder - or is it 20 metres now?
GREASED WEASEL
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which also worked for the electric meter
GREASED WEASEL
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diving behind the sofa when dr.who came on , saturday evening , 6 ish , john pertwee was the man .....i had a real problem with daleks..
ah yes,me and my 4 brothers would fight to check the sofa for coins after the old man had been on the sauce and slept on it
Sid in the Sharknado
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Yes, knew about chains - and metres of course - but mixing the two - wow!
My favourite is still the database of bridge heights I once had to look at (for "reasons"), which had been filled in over a few years by different people in a completely ad hoc way.
In context, it was impossible to tell whether an entry that read "5.5" meant 5.5m, 5.5yds, 5.5', or 5'5".
In answer to your post further down, cricket pitches are still in imperial. I think every other country around the world quote bowlers speeds in kph rather than mph now though.
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yeah,it was murder if you skidded them up on a Tuesday knowing you'd have to wear them all week
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Not sure many would understand the enjoyment gained from a text based football forum that talks a lot about things nothing to do with football and has zero in common with snapchat/tiktok whatever else kids use
We did that @ Buckingham vs St Nichs! Harder to do at Steyning Grammar as it was at least 6 miles from the nearest school, apart from Towers . . . And you didn't sniff around there to fight.
Minor aside . . . I'm sure the H family moved from Stoney to Glebelands around the time we were 8 . . I was still at Victoria rd when I met him ( I think) . . Back on topic . . . I still have my madness records . . . . So somoething kids don't get . . . . . Putting a sticker, or writing your name on your records because you were taking it to a mates house
Baggy trousers and my girl still have a little sticker on with my name and our old phone number on them! That was from Ians 10th B'day party, at Glebelands
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Oh bugger..!
No vegetarian/vegan options in the School canteens, eat it or go without was our only option!
Shit i forgot about St Nichs lol. Ian didn't go to Victoria we met him at Buckingham not sure if he lived in Stoney lane before i met him. His old man got a German Shephard when we went to Kings Manor and he used to let the dog lose and we would shit ourselves, well you would when your 13 and it would attack us lol.
You lucky bugger i lost all my 7" singles somewhere through moving but still have all my 12" and albums.