Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

Gramaisc

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Scooter ordered! In an attempt to own it completely I'm going to strap some loud speakers to the handlebars and blast out 'Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)' by Limp Bizkit everywhere I go so people know how young and cool I am.
I had a bike with a hub 'dynamo', although, it was really an alternator, as filament bulbs didn't really care much about AC/DC controversies.

The output of this, connected via a switch, to a small speaker from a dead radio, made a very plausible siren sound.
 

rudie111

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Scooter ordered! In an attempt to own it completely I'm going to strap some loud speakers to the handlebars and blast out 'Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)' by Limp Bizkit everywhere I go so people know how young and cool I am.
Check out some UTOOB vidz to see how you can unrestric the max speed!
 
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tek-monkey

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In Riga there were electric scooters everywhere, you used an app to get one and it seemed to be pretty cheap. They have a good cycle network though.
 

littleme

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Scooter ordered! In an attempt to own it completely I'm going to strap some loud speakers to the handlebars and blast out 'Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)' by Limp Bizkit everywhere I go so people know how young and cool I am.
Oh jeeze, your not young & cool, or maybe I am..... My favourite CD is Chocolate Starfish.... I'm 51!

*gutted that my new car does not have a CD player and refuses to connect to my phone either! Take a look around is my favourite track, but that's on a mix album I have (Greatest Hitz) .
 
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staffordjas

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Heard my ambulance paramedic neighbour describing the horrific details of the fatal M5 crash near Worcester that she attended today.
The patient she was attending to had terrible injuries, but even she, being used to call outs to accidents, was shocked as she sat by the central reservation watching the numerous other emergency workers & numerous patients involved and realising that even everyone sticking to 60 mph limit could cause such devastation.

Stay safe on those roads folks !
 

Mudgie

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The Clifford Arms has 2 gents toilets

Beat that
Many pubs from that era do including the Gate, now Metropolitan Bar, in Stafford built nearly ninety years ago with a gents lavatory in the Bar and in the Lounge and a ladies toilet only in the Lounge. The Crystal Fountain in Cannock is the same.
 

Thehooperman

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Many pubs from that era do including the Gate, now Metropolitan Bar, in Stafford built nearly ninety years ago with a gents lavatory in the Bar and in the Lounge and a ladies toilet only in the Lounge. The Crystal Fountain in Cannock is the same.
I think the "Crystal Fountain" in Cannock has another meaning these days and is not what you think it may be 🤣😂🤣😂
 

Mudgie

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I think the "Crystal Fountain" in Cannock has another meaning these days and is not what you think it may be 🤣😂🤣😂
The "no knickers policy" was ten years ago, so I'm told, and it's been a respectable pub since then though unfortunately Black Country Ales didn't make a go of it.
It's best known now for it's historic interior.
You might not have realised that Cannock has something of National Importance.
 
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Noah

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I thought that the Crystal Fountain was in danger of being converted into an ethnic restaurant (can't remember which ethnicity).

Most pubs of the 1920/30s improved style had two gents toilets, couldn't expect lounge bar customers to have to mix with the riff-raff - and in some cases the lounge bar gents had wash basins, the public bar ones didn't.
 

littleme

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I thought that the Crystal Fountain was in danger of being converted into an ethnic restaurant (can't remember which ethnicity).

Most pubs of the 1920/30s improved style had two gents toilets, couldn't expect lounge bar customers to have to mix with the riff-raff - and in some cases the lounge bar gents had wash basins, the public bar ones didn't.
As a female..... Who doesn't know..... Are men only supplied with urinals..... No actual toilet cubicals?... What person doesn't occasionally need an emergency poop??? That's terrible!
 

Noah

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Are men only supplied with urinals.

By the improved pubs of the 20s & 30s you did get a wc as well as urinals. Some older pubs too but you wouldn't always want to use them! But no, not always a wc in older pubs. In one pub that was still going in the 1960s & early 70s the gents was a wriggly tin wall around an oak tree in the adjoining field - for some reason bluebells flourished around that tree and you stood knee deep in them in spring. Pooing was probably on the open field system.
 

littleme

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By the improved pubs of the 20s & 30s you did get a wc as well as urinals. Some older pubs too but you wouldn't always want to use them! But no, not always a wc in older pubs. In one pub that was still going in the 1960s & early 70s the gents was a wriggly tin wall around an oak tree in the adjoining field - for some reason bluebells flourished around that tree and you stood knee deep in them in spring. Pooing was probably on the open field system.
That.. Is.. Terrible.... I had no idea... Women usually get at least 3 proper toilets.... Theres no other option for us unfortunately.... But that's just shocking
 

Gramaisc

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That.. Is.. Terrible.... I had no idea... Women usually get at least 3 proper toilets.... Theres no other option for us unfortunately.... But that's just shocking
The pub at the station where I am was run by two spinster sisters.

Female customers were allowed to use their toilet.

We had the whole field out the back to ourselves.
 

BobClay

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Old joke about Ozzie bars:

An Englishman from Guildford was touring the Australian outback. He stopped in a bar for a few tubes (beer) and needing a pee he asked the barman where the Gents was. 'Backdoor,' replied the barman pointing to a rickety door signed 'Dunny' at the back of the bar..
He went through the back door and was in the outback, a vast desert stretched away before him. He noticed two wet patches (with odd brown bits,) One to to the left and one to the right. 'Well when in Rome,' he thought, and turned left and started a pee.
As he peed away a Crocodile Dundee type Ozzie came out of the bar, turned right and commenced to pee on the right. He looked at the Englishman and said: 'Yer not from raand here are ya Cobber ?'
'Well no,'
he replied. 'I'm from Guildford in England, how could you tell just by looking at me ?'
'Well you're pissing in the ladies mate.'
said the Ozzie.
 
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Mudgie

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I thought that the Crystal Fountain was in danger of being converted into an ethnic restaurant (can't remember which ethnicity).

Most pubs of the 1920/30s improved style had two gents toilets, couldn't expect lounge bar customers to have to mix with the riff-raff - and in some cases the lounge bar gents had wash basins, the public bar ones didn't.
Yes, the Crystal Fountain is in danger of being converted into an Asian restaurant. That would be okay if done like the Morris Man, effectively just change of use of the Lounge, but not like the too late listed New Beehive in Bradford ( where I stayed a few years ago ) that's just had the front bar servery had been removed and extensive work was going on elsewhere.
As a female..... Who doesn't know..... Are men only supplied with urinals..... No actual toilet cubicals?... What person doesn't occasionally need an emergency poop??? That's terrible!
You remind me of being in the Black Horse at Warwick during the mid 1970s and noticing a large turd in the urinal, from an earlier customer not finding the WC rather than there not being one.
That was the only pub I remember having the 8% Ruddles Barley Wine draught.
 

BobClay

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Yes, I know, it's a day late. Chemo kicking in a bit.

Yesterday I spent 6 hours in a chemo-therapy chair for a two hour treatment. The reason being the new computer system in the hospital had thrown a wobbler. This meant my blood tests from 2 days ago were gone, so I had to have another prior to treatment.

This system has been in for three weeks, ‘The worst three weeks I’ve ever had in this job,’ the nurse told me. ‘Patients records, treatments, pharmacy notes just keep disappearing off the screen.’

Imagine how dangerous that could be in a chemo-therapy room.

Curious I asked if this new software was produced ‘in house’ at the NHS. ‘Oh no,’ she replied. ‘All that disappeared years ago. It’s bought in privately from an American company, but it seems incompatible with NHS ways of doing things.’

So after six hours (started prior to 1000 and finished just after 1600 hours) I was released back into the world.

Have no complaints about the staff or the treatment, they ran about like blue arsed flies and they all looked tired, if still good humoured …(I suspect medical humour is a bit like infantry humour. Dark, and a way to deal with it when things get rough.)

But, call me cynical if you like, I suspect this creeping privatization is mostly driven by brown envelopes being slid across the polished surfaces of meeting room tables. Somebody somewhere wants a bloody good kick up the arse. (Let's start at the top, and prune downwards for a change.)

OK, rant over. Put it down to chemo aftermath. (I still f****** mean it though.)
 

tek-monkey

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Curious I asked if this new software was produced ‘in house’ at the NHS. ‘Oh no,’ she replied. ‘All that disappeared years ago. It’s bought in privately from an American company, but it seems incompatible with NHS ways of doing things.’
So just think how much better things will appear to be when its privatised!
 

Lucy

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My OH is a CA in private sector maintaining and selling IT to a hospital trust at the moment. Only one hospital trust mind you, because they aren't allowed to have a joined up system.
 
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