Published on 12, July, 2020
Come on guys 'fess up about all your secrets or not secrets but the things you don't do that everyone else seems too!
I haven't played a computor game since the late 1980's, I can't use a joystick or a controller.
I've never read Harry Potter or watched any of the films.
I don't like chips or fries.
I don't know how to turn our television on let alone find which of the various remote controls to use in which order and then which buttons to press in which order.
I find remote controls exceptionally confusing and don't use them.
I therefore only use knobs.
TVs no longer have knobs, which to me is a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.
This is what TVs should look like (note the knobs):
I have them on the flickr pages. Will send you a PM link.
We only had two channels when we first had one like that and there was more I liked watching than with all the channels now. (No streaming channels).
Uhane said:sorry Debbie, these tvs I liked to tear open and make little dioramas inside with little dramas. Kinda like my version of a doll house
Photo?
When my parents went to visit their friends I remember being given a clock and a screwdriver, so I could keep busy taking it apart while they chatted!
Good episode. I love the old Simpsons episodes.
I guess they have yet to meet Wednesday Adams!
Dioramas reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Lisa had a younger, and smarter, rival at school; voiced by Winona Ryder.
After they fought over an Edgar Allen Poe diorama, Ralph beat them with Star Wars dolls, from the shop.
Debbie said:This is what TVs should look like (note the knobs):
I just sold one like this that I picked up from a flat I bought (fully furnished but been locked for 20 years):
IIts a bit fancy schmancy as it has buttons instead of knobs but it still works. Shame I can't get any signal in the apartment and pretty much all the free-to-air channels are long gone.
Still, I sold it for about £40 so that bought me a nice meal out.
sorry Debbie, these tvs I liked to tear open and make little dioramas inside with little dramas. Kinda like my version of a doll house.
(Also wanted to see how they worked)
We often had old TV,s in the house when I was a child, I used to take them apart to see how they worked. I should have known then that I was different.
Mark (formerly Spikey) said:Thinking about it, I should break in and see if there is a TV for Debbie
Don't go to prison just for me Mark
Funnily enough there is an electrical repair shop that is frozen in time near me. It must have closed decades ago, but not sold and all the old kettles and things are still in the window! Thinking about it, I should break in and see if there is a TV for Debbie
As a child I was the remote control.
I remember the local tv repairman. I can still tell you where his shop was even though he's not there anymore.
As a kid, ours was rented! Imagine renting a telly. On the plus side someone would come out to fix it whenever it broke.
Those tv's were still kicking around in the 80's when I was little.