Things That Gladden The Heart

Hobbit said:
I resemble that party remark. Quite happy sitting in an armchair with a wine chatting but a party with music blaring out - no…
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I’m exactly the same.
A small gathering, couple of beers and a nice bottle of whisky and plate of Stilton putting the world to rights sounds perfect.
Anywhere I can’t hear myself talk and the base comes through the floor I’ll be gone pretty quick.
 
irip said:
I’m exactly the same.
A small gathering, couple of beers and a nice bottle of whisky and plate of Stilton putting the world to rights sounds perfect.
Anywhere I can’t hear myself talk and the base comes through the floor I’ll be gone pretty quick.
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I’ve bought some loop bands for exactly this sort of issue. Pop them in can still hear people talking but drowns out background noise like music etc. used to wear in the office at work as well so I could hear people speaking to me but drown out the muppets chatting garbage in the crew room!

Mrs M called them my ignorance ear buds 😂
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I don't really remember when renting stopped. Renting your tv was standard, people rarely owned them at one time. Mr Rumbelows and Mr Radio Rentals had a hell of a business for a good few years. Then all of a sudden, gone.

Did tv's suddenly become cheap? I wonder what caused the big change in that market?
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For my wife and I it was simply a change in our income. Still rented a VCR for some time after though.

The other probable reason was that TVs like a lot of electronic items became more reliable so the thought of having the cost of repair was taken out of the equation.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I don't really remember when renting stopped. Renting your tv was standard, people rarely owned them at one time. Mr Rumbelows and Mr Radio Rentals had a hell of a business for a good few years. Then all of a sudden, gone.

Did tv's suddenly become cheap? I wonder what caused the big change in that market?
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By the mid 90s there were only two big rental companies, Radio Rentals and Granada.

In 1998 rentals started to drop off as TVs and VCRs started getting cheaper and by the end of ‘98 Radio Rentals were in serious trouble.

Granada started to focus ok it’s HP sales business and wound down the rental business significantly. In early ‘99 Granada bought the Radio Rentals business, merged it and created Box Clever. But the decline in rental was almost absolute by this point and the model didn’t make sense. They closed off the remaining stored and sold a large chunk of their stock to the new player at the time Brighthouse.

Granada tried to diversify into computers and white goods around ‘97 but the margins were razor thin when maintenance was factored in.

Granada owned Telebank, the 50p meter system in the mid 90s but that effectively got wound down around 98.

Home entertainment products by the late ‘90s were either cheap rubbish (Bush, Goodmans etc) or really expensive (Pioneer, Technics etc) and TVs started going the same. As they got bigger, they got cheaper.

I worked for Granada for about 4 years after my apprenticeship ended. At one point I was working for Sky and Granada at the same time. Allegedly this was a conflict of interest when they found out.
 
Had my leaving do last night as I prepare to start a new job next month. Went to Flight Club, first time there and had a great laugh - also won which was a bit of a bonus 🤣
Part of my leaving gift was an airfix model of a helicopter I helped bring into service during my time on the team. Not built one of them for about 40 years so could be a bit of a challenge.
 
Neilds said:
Had my leaving do last night as I prepare to start a new job next month. Went to Flight Club, first time there and had a great laugh - also won which was a bit of a bonus 🤣
Part of my leaving gift was an airfix model of a helicopter I helped bring into service during my time on the team. Not built one of them for about 40 years so could be a bit of a challenge.
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Airfix models. Loved um When I was a kid. Me best mate at the time was mad on them. He moved onto Tamiya which were more detailed. When he was 18 he met a bird in a pub. He talked for about 30 minutes about airfix and Tamiya models to her. His favourite being tanks. She went to the toilet and we never saw her again.
 
Neilds said:
Had my leaving do last night as I prepare to start a new job next month. Went to Flight Club, first time there and had a great laugh - also won which was a bit of a bonus 🤣
Part of my leaving gift was an airfix model of a helicopter I helped bring into service during my time on the team. Not built one of them for about 40 years so could be a bit of a challenge.
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I originally read this as ‘fight club’ and thought blimey, a back-room punch-up is a bit intense for a leaving do and also you must be hard as nails as you won and even thought it was “a laugh”🤣.

But of course if it had been fight club then the first rule would have applied…
 
Neilds said:
Had my leaving do last night as I prepare to start a new job next month. Went to Flight Club, first time there and had a great laugh - also won which was a bit of a bonus 🤣
Part of my leaving gift was an airfix model of a helicopter I helped bring into service during my time on the team. Not built one of them for about 40 years so could be a bit of a challenge.
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The wife enjoyed Flight Club so much that she insisted the new dartboard in the games room be a Smartboard so we can play the games at home.

FC is a simple idea that’s well executed and making them an absolute packet.
 
GreiginFife said:
The wife enjoyed Flight Club so much that she insisted the new dartboard in the games room be a Smartboard so we can play the games at home.

FC is a simple idea that’s well executed and making them an absolute packet.
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Yeah, Flight Club is great. They've tapped into the market that most people actually enjoy playing darts, by removing the one part of it everyone hates - maths.
 
Orikoru said:
Yeah, Flight Club is great. They've tapped into the market that most people actually enjoy playing darts, by removing the one part of it everyone hates - maths.
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A lad I knew at School Kenneth Varley. He was a lovely kid who was always bullied because he was not the brightest. We shared a bond. Anyway he was rubbish in most academic subjects. When we left school
I bumped into him In a Pub and we had a game of arrows. I was doing the scoring. Hid it was painful taking 26 off 394. Hr said “ here give us the chalk”. I was gobsmacked. It was like playing darts with Stephen Hawkins when it came to scoring. He was fantastic. 😳
 
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