Odd dreams

[scotia]

Pssst, watch it lads, or the mods'll have us relocated to Polite Discussions, and then every raving wingnut on the boards'll be taking free potshots at us.

I strayed there once, and just managed escape with my life. Its not a pretty place

[AleisterCrowley]

Agreed, let's stick to beer and 28-day matured stools.
Did that bloke in Snorvey's post go in the end, or did the cops release him?

[LadyGagarin]

Stanza? -also a Nissan from the 70s

Wouldn't it have been branded as a Datsun then?

[LadyGagarin]

What would I know when it comes to early education, I went to a DDR-style primary school where we were shown documentaries of Russian superior agricultural and economic system....I still remember the 70's eastern block TV series like Polish/polski Toni/Tolka Banana, probably never shown on BBC...

Youtube come to rescue
https://youtu.be/rO10uEgaiw4

https://youtu.be/5tYjmEyvv30

Oh the socialist nostalgia...

Still sounds more cheerful than my old primary where they showed us countless films, reports and pictures of notorious horrors such as Hiroshima/Nagasaki, the R101 disaster and Aberfan. Despite living in north-east London at the time (an area not noted for its mining industry), I was haunted by recurring nightmares where a hitherto-unknown slagheap would collapse upon the school and crush us all to death. This may help explain my optimistic outlook on life.

[JMN2]

... I was haunted by recurring nightmares where a hitherto-unknown slagheap would collapse upon the school and crush us all to death. This may help explain my optimistic outlook on life.

Those heaps are now covered with planted pine or fir trees, looking at one right now up the ridge. Lovely.

[UncleEbenezer]

Still sounds more cheerful than my old primary where they showed us countless films, reports and pictures of notorious horrors such as Hiroshima/Nagasaki, the R101 disaster and Aberfan. Despite living in north-east London at the time (an area not noted for its mining industry), I was haunted by recurring nightmares where a hitherto-unknown slagheap would collapse upon the school and crush us all to death. This may help explain my optimistic outlook on life.

How the other half live! I don't think even our secondary school, let alone our primary, had the equipment to show us films. Though I do recollect in music O-level a record player whose sound quality was less clear than the spillover from $random-stranger's walkman.

Should I perhaps be thankful for that?

[AleisterCrowley]

Stanza? -also a Nissan from the 70s

Wouldn't it have been branded as a Datsun then?

Hmm, dunno. Its in my head as a Nissan, but they did use the Datsun brand for some exports - the Stanza was a version of the Nissan Violet according to Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Violet

[JMN2]

I was driving this early 80's 2.8L automatic one in South Africa but can't remember if it was a Datsun or Nissan. Google is not yielding anything I seem to remember.

[swill453]

Stanza? -also a Nissan from the 70s

Wouldn't it have been branded as a Datsun then?

Hmm, dunno. Its in my head as a Nissan, but they did use the Datsun brand for some exports

Definitely a Nissan Stanza in the UK, my boss had one. It may have been a Datsun as well before that, but Nissan for sure.

Scott.

[LadyGagarin]

Still sounds more cheerful than my old primary where they showed us countless films, reports and pictures of notorious horrors such as Hiroshima/Nagasaki, the R101 disaster and Aberfan. Despite living in north-east London at the time (an area not noted for its mining industry), I was haunted by recurring nightmares where a hitherto-unknown slagheap would collapse upon the school and crush us all to death. This may help explain my optimistic outlook on life.

How the other half live! I don't think even our secondary school, let alone our primary, had the equipment to show us films. Though I do recollect in music O-level a record player whose sound quality was less clear than the spillover from $random-stranger's walkman.

Should I perhaps be thankful for that?

Our school had this new-fangled contraption called a television, although it wasn't always there so I think it may have been borrowed from somewhere. Although it could have been stolen or even sabotaged by a disgruntled pupil... I don't ever recall it being used to show us in any subject that didn't involve some major tragedy. So in short, yes you should probably be very thankful.

[AleisterCrowley]

We had a huge TV on a trolley, with a top loading VCR!
And a Commodore PET locked away in the store room

Tom Baker was Dr Who, the summers were sunny, and life was so much better

[bungeejumper]

Our school had this new-fangled contraption called a television, although it wasn't always there so I think it may have been borrowed from somewhere.

You were looky. We 'ad to draw pictures on t'cave walls with a mixture of ochre and animal blood. When t'bears weren't on t'prowl, like.

BJ

[redsturgeon]

Our school had this new-fangled contraption called a television, although it wasn't always there so I think it may have been borrowed from somewhere.

You were looky. We 'ad to draw pictures on t'cave walls with a mixture of ochre and animal blood. When t'bears weren't on t'prowl, like.

BJ

Cave? You had a cave? You were lucky...

John

[bungeejumper]

Cave? You had a cave? You were lucky...

Only when t'bears weren't in there, mind. Rest of the time we had to wrap ourselves up in a glacier.

BJ

[dionaeamuscipula]

... I was haunted by recurring nightmares where a hitherto-unknown slagheap would collapse upon the school and crush us all to death. This may help explain my optimistic outlook on life.

Those heaps are now covered with planted pine or fir trees, looking at one right now up the ridge. Lovely.

Its a slightly eerie place, and as valleys as you can get. Not even its best friend would call Aberfan lovely.

DM

[melonfool]

Despite living in north-east London at the time (an area not noted for its mining industry), I was haunted by recurring nightmares where a hitherto-unknown slagheap would collapse upon the school and crush us all to death. This may help explain my optimistic outlook on life.

My brother fell down a slag heap once and cracked his skull open. Dangerous things, slag heaps.

We lived in London too.

Mel

[bungeejumper]

My brother fell down a slag heap once and cracked his skull open. Dangerous things, slag heaps.

There's one near us, popularly known as Mount Fuji, which was used by motorcycle scramblers until somebody killed himself doing it. https://dentons.net/localinfo/wp-conten ... ulton2.jpg.

So you're heading down this thing at 35 degrees to the horizontal and your front wheel slides away. Now there's the stuff of nightmares!

BJ

[LadyGagarin]

Despite living in north-east London at the time (an area not noted for its mining industry), I was haunted by recurring nightmares where a hitherto-unknown slagheap would collapse upon the school and crush us all to death. This may help explain my optimistic outlook on life.

My brother fell down a slag heap once and cracked his skull open. Dangerous things, slag heaps.

We lived in London too.

Mel

Sorry about your brother's head. Dangerous things indeed, slagheaps - there wasn't one near our school, only a big pile of brick rubble, that didn't stop me having nightmares about them. Mind you, my brother once cracked his skull open by tripping over a giant teddy-bear he'd won at a fair and I had mine cracked open on a wall, by a cousin who was known as a bit of a mentalist. My time probably would have been better spent worrying about either of these risks than mining debris but in my defence I...
...um...
I've got nothing.