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  1. Dragon Soldier

    Chinese "Junk"

    One of the very last chats I had with my old history lecturer was on the subject of whether or not the Asian ascendency would be kinder to the west than we had been to them.
  2. Dragon Soldier

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My first mobile (cell to you western former colonials) was about the size and weight of half a house brick. If I carried it today I'd probably get pulled by the police for possession of an offensive weapon.
  3. Dragon Soldier

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Titter ye not! I had difficulty answering mine for weeks.
  4. Dragon Soldier

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    There is a degree of veracity in this, it's actually amazing how much you can do with one. As well as the obvious comms and location utilities I have a partition on mine with a live Linux boot image and a few wee tools, which makes life easier in some technical respects and can be quite...
  5. Dragon Soldier

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I've probably still got dial phones in the loft. Pulse dialling is no longer supported on UK exchanges though. So they'd be an incoming only option.
  7. Dragon Soldier

    What's Your Vintage Skill Set?

    If so I suspect that I may be some kind of vintage skills guru. I'm not sure I have vintage skills, if I'm using them then they are surely, by definition, current skills? For instance, (with a little help) I can properly pitch a canvas ridge tent. But then I sleep in them, so it's really a...
  8. Dragon Soldier

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Try and sell a phone that just makes phone calls... The quality issue is one I wonder about also. I look at some of the items I have in my collection and I can see as much in built obsolescence as I can in my modern gadgets. It just takes a different form. My brass pressure stoves won't...
  9. Dragon Soldier

    Adult Boys

    I'm certainly getting older, but it takes us in different ways. I can recall the days when young gentlemen took chemistry for practical purpose, like being able to get tweeked or blow stuff up (best done on separate days, or in strict order) without recourse to the nasty business of trying to...
  10. Dragon Soldier

    Adult Boys

    Worse than the horse traders fairs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Which make the "excesses" of the fans at Mr. Mathers recent recital seem positively tame. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
  11. Dragon Soldier

    Adult Boys

    I'm seriously considering going back. It will be next year 2014/15 at the earliest, but I'm older, can afford it (sort of) and nobody is depending on me for anything, so...Why not?
  13. Dragon Soldier

    Adult Boys

    You would have 12 hour days here too, not common, but not rare either. Just that for the bulk of it you wouldn't be in lectures. Here, you can work part-time or borrow money, on extremely favourable terms, to pay your way through University, Often it will be a combination of work and...
  14. Dragon Soldier

    Adult Boys

    It must be a significantly different course structure. A forty hour lecture week is an effective 9-5 Mon-Friday. That would not be sustainable within the academic year in this country... There aren't enough hours in the day. Then again, we don't have free tertiary education either.
  15. Dragon Soldier

    Show us your Aeronautica

    Ohh... That Comet's nice! I remember Comet 4s doing sun charters, which actually makes me sound a bit older than I am.
  16. Dragon Soldier

    Show us your photography

    Some things I saw flying about recently.
  17. Dragon Soldier

    Adult Boys

    The unfortunate thing is that many of our factory workers worked as hard as they did to ensure that their children wouldn't have to break their backs to earn a crust. Unintended consequences and all that.
  19. Dragon Soldier

    A pair of (potentially) shiny stoves.

    Not quite the pocket or picnic model that I was after, but a "touring" stove. A Burmos 21 one pint capacity as opposed to the two pint tank of the two featured previously (which are really domestic stoves). Burmos were a British firm which manufactured 'knock off' versions of Primus' finest...
  20. Dragon Soldier

    Show us your radios!

    This afternoon's car boot acquisition. 1944 Wartime "Austerity" Civilian Receiver. Very simple Medium Wave only sets, often cased in scrap wood. designed to be cheap (£10ish) and have as little an impact on war production as possible. It's filthy and all the valves are the originals (they...
  21. Dragon Soldier

    What's For Breakfast...

    This morning, tea and toast with bacon and a homemade dressing of yoghurt, coriander, paprika and tabasco.
  22. Dragon Soldier

    Adult Boys

    Hmm.. As I got of the tram yesterday evening I saw a man, not an adolescent, a man in one of those brightly coloured mockeries of a suit that they call a "zoot" standing outside that new jazz club. As I passed him I caught a curious aroma, which I take to be that of marijuana, from his...
  23. Dragon Soldier

    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    These days I live very much within my means, which aren't that extensive. There are however a few things in the world that I would be prepared to go into debt for, and the TAP 150 is one of them.
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