Random musings and general banter.

[Muttley]

Oh god what a mess the Bearded gimp is getting himself in.

Paraphrasing Mason's sh*te

Benjamin Boegeli started the company Jacque Du Manoir in 1904, he had 15 children those children fell in love etc some of the spouses carried on the name after Boegeli passed away. Now skip back 35 years ago a guy, Jacque, i think it was Jacque Schwab he took over the business so he's the fourth generation watchmaker.


The factual story in 1904, Louis Schwab started a watch brand in 1904, called SWIZA (famous for alarm & Travel clocks), Swiza company still exists and has nothing to do with the Jacque Du Manoir brand.
After Schwab had died, One of his daughters married a guy named Benjamin Boegeli who started his own watch dial manufacturing company, made dials for the SWIZA brand and many other brands, his son Jacque Boegeli succeded him and in 1991 decided to branch out from making watch dials to making watches like his grandfather under the brand name "B-Watches", in 1993 he renamed the brand to Jacque Du Manoir.

So Jacque du manoir ain't been going since 1904 and they ain't fourth generation watchmakers either, oh and one other thing Mike of the Masons, Jacque Du Manoir is no longer owned by Jacque of the Manor.

I barely got beyond "bearded gimp"

 

[historymystery]

I'm with you on Father Ted but thought Steptoe was great.

It's funny how tastes differ, but would be a dull old world if we all liked the same things. I enjoyed Father Ted but I really disliked Steptoe & Son, used to find it virtually the same every week, only difference being whether son got one over on father, or father got one over on son. Utterly boring and Harry H. Corbett's nasal speaking voice used to irritate me too, so false. I could never work out why it was so popular (best thing was the horse, Hercules ).

 

[historymystery]

Peter Simon 'my dear friend of many years, Elizabeth Grant is coming back. She's in her early 90s now, and her daughter, Moira, is wonderful too'.

Elizabeth Grant is 100, and her daughter is called Marion.

Liar, or mentally diminished?

Any connection between what's been said and actual reality is purely coincidental.

 

[historymystery]

Anyone remember Tales from Europe, particularly The Singing Ringing Tree? It used to scare the living daylights out of me.

Not one I ever saw.

 

[galesgal57]

I'm old enough for it just don't remember it, remember Ivanhoe, William tell, oh and Romper room with Miss Lesley from Grampian TV here in Aberdeen.

Romper Room with Miss Lesley - sounds kinky!

 

[Muttley]

Romper Room with Miss Lesley - sounds kinky!

I always wondered what was going on between Sooty, Sweep and Sue

 

[PhædrusR]

Mike has just said that he’d love to meet up with Trevor and Pauline and view his watch collection.
Oh how I wish I was there too:

I would be the resident expert and say to Mike “ well Mike,that’s a watch,and so is that,and there’s another watch,and this is a watch,and if I’m not mistaken that’s a watch over there,and I’m holding a watch,Trevs wearing half a dozen watches…and can I introduce you to Trev and Pauline’s son and daughter…Bezel and Crystal!

Did you see who Wants to be a Millionaire last weekend. The contestant didn't know the answer to:

Which part of an analogue watch is used to set the time?

- crystal
- bezel
- lug
- crown

They didn't know. Used their Phone a Friend lifeline. They didn't know either.

She took the money. £8 or 16k I think.

She thought it might be lug.

The answer is crown.

Digital watches don't help you learn this.

 

[Niwa]

Did you see who Wants to be a Millionaire last weekend. The contestant didn't know the answer to:

Which part of an analogue watch is used to set the time?

- crystal
- bezel
- lug
- crown

They didn't know. Used their Phone a Friend lifeline. They didn't know either.

She took the money. £8 or 16k I think.

She thought it might be lug.

The answer is crown.

Digital watches don't help you learn this.

Similar situation on might of been a celebrity edition of Millionaire a few weeks ago.
I think the question was something like 'what connects the handlebars to the frame'?
Choices - : crank, stem, cassette, fork.
They didn't know and neither did Clarkson (surprisingly).
I think they either eventually took the money or got it wrong.
Answer was stem in case you didn't know.

I used to do all my bicycle maintenance when I was a lad before the days of the cotterless crank.
When you had to sometimes file and then hammer in the cotterpins to attach the pedals to the crank.

 

[Battiola73]

Mums got one of those Flash Mops. I think Dad pays as much for the replacement mops than a new mop though

I struggle getting the wet refills on to the flash mop, they’re also expensive. I think I oiad £9 for 6 microfibre ones off Amazon. They’re called reusable mop head refills for Flash speed mop. I dampen them before I put on mop and they do up with Velcro.

 

[Battiola73]

Nothing wrong at all with going back and watching things you used to love as a child, I think it's good for us to go down Memory Lane and remind ourselves of things we loved and enjoyed as a kid, what we were doing at the time the programme was shown, etc.. I always watched Blue Peter in the early 60's (well before you did!) and learnt a lot from it. Used to watch it sometimes with my cousin, who was years older than me and at college.

Quite agree with you. Unfortunately my childhood show aren’t available. Andy Pandy, Rag, Tag and Bobtail, The Flowerpot Men and the Wooden tops and Muffin the Mule. Still remember the songs too.

 

[Battiola73]

Will his wife Foo Kin Kow be making the trip with him?

And don’t forget his cousin Hoo Flung Dung.

 

[Niwa]

Similar situation on might of been a celebrity edition of Millionaire a few weeks ago.
I think the question was something like 'what connects the handlebars to the frame'?
Choices - : crank, stem, cassette, fork.
They didn't know and neither did Clarkson (surprisingly).
I think they either eventually took the money or got it wrong.
Answer was stem in case you didn't know.

I used to do all my bicycle maintenance when I was a lad before the days of the cotterless crank.
When you had to sometimes file and then hammer in the cotterpins to attach the pedals to the crank.

Ah the joys that people miss out on these days with their namby pamby electric bicycles.
Three speed Sturnley Archer was quite high tech at the time and if you had derailleur you was posh.

 

[Battiola73]

Motormouth flogging Mystic Merlinite Pebble for 25 Smackeroos. They ok remarkably like the pebbles on our local beach

 

[PhædrusR]

Similar situation on might of been a celebrity edition of Millionaire a few weeks ago.
I think the question was something like 'what connects the handlebars to the frame'?
Choices - : crank, stem, cassette, fork.
They didn't know and neither did Clarkson (surprisingly).
I think they either eventually took the money or got it wrong.
Answer was stem in case you didn't know.

I used to do all my bicycle maintenance when I was a lad before the days of the cotterless crank.
When you had to sometimes file and then hammer in the cotterpins to attach the pedals to the crank.

Cotterless crank? Sounds like an IW presenter description.

Not surprising. Clarkson doesn't seem to know anything! I wondered if he was putting it on. He constantly amazes me with how little he knows. Seems to live in a bubble.
For a guy who's travelled a bit and done some car reviews and military history he seems clueless about most topics, including geography, general knowledge, science, literature, culture, nature, art, etc.

He didn't even know the RAF motto, Per Ardua ad Astra. (Through hard work / adversity/ hardship to the stars). And he's supposed to know a bit about the military.

 

[Professor Branestawm]

Well as he constantly reminds us, he has got two little boys!

I thought that was Rolf Harris?

 

[Professor Branestawm]

Just turned on a Pedro "the lying piece of sh*t" Simon spouting bullsh*t as usual.

"JDM made watches for the military."

Absolute bullsh*t, JDM haven't made any watches for any military in the world.

"built to Military spec"

Really which military specs would those be? Just cause it has military on the dial and they call it a military range doesn't mean it actually meets military watch specs. Traser had a watch, P66 which was built to the US Army MIL-G specs, so Pedro which specs is the JDM built too? I'm sure Charley or one of the other immature F****** cowards reading here can pass on my question for you to answer on a show.

"Thinks only one other brand has the Swiss Flag on their watch"

Again bullsh*t, he's totally confused with what "All 4 Corners" used to spout. What Martin used to confusingly spout was that only two brands legally can have the name "Swiss Military" & flag on their watches as it's trademarked by the Swiss confederation and you have to pay to use it. The Swiss Flag was not relevant/part of that restriction, it was only the use of "Swiss Military", quite a few Swiss brands have the flag on their watches. Here's just a few there are more.

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For me, having a Swiss Flag is a big plus.

I know.
Sorry - I’ll get my coat!

 

[Professor Branestawm]

Anyone remember Tales from Europe, particularly The Singing Ringing Tree? It used to scare the living daylights out of me.

Me too! Bloomin’ terrifying.
Mind you trees seemed to scare me when I was very small. Follyfoot had the theme tune ‘The Lightning Tree’ and I thought it was really scary - I was daft enough to think it was a tree that actually attracted lightning to it, and as the house next to ours was actually struck by lightning in a storm, I thought it was their tree that had done it!
As kids, we used to get the wrong idea a lot, didn’t we?
Or, at least, I did!

 

[Muttley]

Motormouth flogging Mystic Merlinite Pebble for 25 Smackeroos. They ok remarkably like the pebbles on our local beach

According to the IW website, they absorb negative energy, and promote positivity. A bottle of Prosecco does that for me and it's cheaper!

 

[historymystery]

Quite agree with you. Unfortunately my childhood show aren’t available. Andy Pandy, Rag, Tag and Bobtail, The Flowerpot Men and the Wooden tops and Muffin the Mule. Still remember the songs too.

I had a Muffin the Mule Pelham puppet! Remember them? They were popular for years, even long after the programme had ended, if my memory serves me right. I've since seen them on programmes like Antiques Roadshow and Flog it! Nothing like it for making you feel old!

 

[Samki]

Me too! Bloomin’ terrifying.
Mind you trees seemed to scare me when I was very small. Follyfoot had the theme tune ‘The Lightning Tree’ and I thought it was really scary - I was daft enough to think it was a tree that actually attracted lightning to it, and as the house next to ours was actually struck by lightning in a storm, I thought it was their tree that had done it!
As kids, we used to get the wrong idea a lot, didn’t we?
Or, at least, I did!

The lamb chop puppet used to scare me as well as Hartley bare from pipkins