Stoopid Pictures: The Pictures Strike Back.

BobClay

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He'd probably look round for a Labrador puppy … :heyhey:

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BobClay

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With regard to the seagull it's often the case that you are the one on the menu. I had family down at Easter and we visited Padstow. The seagulls there are notorious and are quite willing to have a go at anyone carrying food. And up close a seagull suddenly becomes a very big bird with a beak like samurai sword .. !! :o
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
This picture keeps popping up on Facebook in relation to "growing up in the 1980s".

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That lock will only stop you dialling a number that does not include 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or (possibly) 0 - which gives you the entire world at your fingertip...

Even if it did stop the 0 from registering, you could still use the "local codes" - Wolverhampton was 912 from Stafford, I think - and you could chain them up, if you knew the local code from Wolverhampton to Worcester, say...

When did 112 start working here? You could put the lock in 2 and still leave emergency use available, if that number worked.
 

Thehooperman

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This picture keeps popping up on Facebook in relation to "growing up in the 1980s".

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That lock will only stop you dialling a number that does not include 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or (possibly) 0 - which gives you the entire world at your fingertip...

Even if it did stop the 0 from registering, you could still use the "local codes" - Wolverhampton was 912 from Stafford, I think - and you could chain them up, if you knew the local code from Wolverhampton to Worcester, say...

When did 112 start working here? You could put the lock in 2 and still leave emergency use available, if that number worked.

112 was only introduced here in the early 2000s, I think around 2003.

On the old strowger relay type exchanges you could also pulse out the 0 on the switch hooks instead of using the dial and thus bypassing any lock on the dial or any bar on the exchange itself.
 

Noah

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If however you rotated the dial all the way round and used the lock to prevent it returning, this stopped the spooks turning on the microphone from their cosy little office and eavesdropping on what you were up to in your house.
 
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