Penny for the Guy

[Sprintex]

... as pointed out by Sprintex.

Twasn't me, Mr Trainsdownunder got there first


Paul

[Tank]

I thort at first the "report to mod" button !
but Oh! guess what !!! hello Npn !

Please explain what you mean by this?  If you think that I'd be biased towards a moderator rather than investigate an incident then you are gravely mistaken.  I treat everyone as equals on here, hence the forums success.

[RChook]

Please explain what you mean by this?

Oh yes, happy to explain, oh dear, horrible misunnerstanding almost developing !
No I didnt mean any of that Tank,
I assumed that the "report to moderator" button would go to a mod. and there I was, a humble relatively new occasional poster, taking issue (on the grounds of xenophobia, small children and religion in a modelling forum) with a global moderator that the button would report to !
A "who guards the guardians" situation !!

No, sorry, I was not assuming that the button would go to you and that my comment could be seen to crit. you, oh dear no, quite the reverse in fact.

I say "quite the reverse" because whilst I was out shopping just now
( and please no one else comment on this just for now, I am hastily typing this speeling mistooks an all, treat it as an open letter to Tank alone, to avoid horrid misunnerstandings, I will comment on other comments later ! )
where was I ? - oh yes, thinking quite the reverse because I was sorry to hear of your mishap with the laptop and I was thinking that it would be better to contemplate how many members we have, then to divide that into the cost of a new laptop and I'd be in for a tenner or two to get you back in pronto ! Rather than all this going nowhere offtopic stuff !

More later, maybe like good american things such as free speech and getting rid of the monarchy and horrid British traditions that only cause trouble in offshore islands - after a cup of coffeee , , ,

[RChook]

Edit :
An amusing "who guards the guardians" situation !!

[FeelixTC]

They were called 'bogies' in 'ull; Go-karts were only for the wealthy.

Impossible to do nowadays - where would you get your pram wheels?? When I was a lad, there was always a 'dump' not too far away and pram wheels used to appear regularly, no doubt they all get recylced now.

Another thing about this time of year is that we used to carve turnips; nobody had ever seen a real pumpkin in the 70's

[H]

We called them go-karts or soap-box-karts as they were usually just a wooden box or couple of planks on wheels (and usually large pram wheels at the rear and smaller ones for the front steering ones). And then raced them down hills. But it seems they've progressed somewhat to those we used to build;  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_Box_Derby

H.

[Newportnobby]

We called them go-karts or soap-box-karts as they were usually just a wooden box or couple of planks on wheels (and usually large pram wheels at the rear and smaller ones for the front steering ones). And then raced them down hills. But it seems they've progressed somewhat to those we used to build;  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_Box_Derby

H.

You have just described mine to a Tee, H

Edit :
An amusing "who guards the guardians" situation !!

'Sed quis custodies ipsos custodiet' is what I think you mean

And I think we Brits could take umbrage at a claim that free speech is an 'American thing' but, for such a young nation, I can forgive you

[RChook]

'Sed quis custodies ipsos custodiet' is what I think you mean

You could be right
Whilst you were inputting the above I was busy typing this :-

Ok, a few cups of coffee later and I have almost got over the shock of having upset, or come close to upsetting, Tank !!

Npn - "I am not having a go at Americans, more having a go at the Brits who slavishly follow US trends."

Ok, fair enough, I read more into your original post than I should have. Still, you put up the "Aunt Sally" and I decided to have a discuss about it ! I hope we dont fall out over it !!

Npn - " they speak American, spell American and act American. This is almost certainly down to"

Almost certainly yes, is that bad ? it sounds a bit (could be taken as) dissaproving of American things, so maybe I didnt over-read your original post after all It is a terrible shame that the Americans chose to speak a form of English - because that means we dont have to learn a foreign language and so we get into trouble from all the other foreigners for not learning one of their languages.
Mind u, to an oldie it seems that the two are diverging at such a rate that if I live much longer I may nolonger understand them, so maybe it is a good thing that the brit kids are learning it ??

So, where shall we go now, perhaps discuss asking the Americans to help us disloge the monarchy ?

[Sprintex]

Since we're a democracy you'd first have to ask if the majority of the population WANT to dislodge the monarchy? Then we're getting too political which is definitely against the rules of the forum


Paul

[Dock Shunter]

Back in the 70s when i was a kid we called them Go-eeys....(go-karts)
Finding an old pram was akin to finding King Solomons mines.
Where i live is actually built on a hill so there were no shortage of hills to race down.
The emergence of the skateboard though saw the death of the go-eey.
You never see a pram lying around anymore but has anyone else noticed that you can find bikes lying around everywhere.
Some of them even look like there is nothing wrong with them,as if the owner has just got off it and left it there....

[RChook]

we're a democracy

You're tempting me

I agree, I'll stop being naughty now,
- stage left looking for a suitable lol-emoticon

So maybe we should discuss the original "Penny for the guy" subject and its relevance in a post penny world.
I mean it does seem a bit of a quaint old English tradition to cling on to when there are only newpees, err, ,
oh sorry, not even any newpees any more, just ps

[weave]

'Sed quis custodies ipsos custodiet' is what I think you mean

You could be right
Whilst you were inputting the above I was busy typing this :-

Ok, a few cups of coffee later and I have almost got over the shock of having upset, or come close to upsetting, Tank !!

Npn - "I am not having a go at Americans, more having a go at the Brits who slavishly follow US trends."

Ok, fair enough, I read more into your original post than I should have. Still, you put up the "Aunt Sally" and I decided to have a discuss about it ! I hope we dont fall out over it !!

Npn - " they speak American, spell American and act American. This is almost certainly down to"

Almost certainly yes, is that bad ? it sounds a bit (could be taken as) dissaproving of American things, so maybe I didnt over-read your original post after all It is a terrible shame that the Americans chose to speak a form of English - because that means we dont have to learn a foreign language and so we get into trouble from all the other foreigners for not learning one of their languages.
Mind u, to an oldie it seems that the two are diverging at such a rate that if I live much longer I may nolonger understand them, so maybe it is a good thing that the brit kids are learning it ??

So, where shall we go now, perhaps discuss asking the Americans to help us disloge the monarchy ?

Instead of disloge(ing) the monarchy, why don't we disluge the monarchy. No need for pram wheels and much quicker! Sorry, I'll get my skis 

[Calnefoxile]

Back in the 70's, when I was a kid in Leicester, me and my mates used to build karts out of scrap we found on the local tip, just over near the old Great Central route near Gilmorton Estate.

We also used to build scrambling bikes, in the days before BMX, with Cowhorn handlebars. My mates dad owned a coach spraying business and so we would take old frames from the tip, strip them down, respray them and rebuild them. I think the only things we used to buy would have been brake blocks, sometimes we made them without brakes 

We made quite a tidy profit at it actually, and the money was ploughed either back into the buying of the bits needed or saved up for our annual East Midland Rover ticket during the summer holidays 

Ahhh happy days 

Regards

Neal.

[daveg]

As an aside - did anyone else build a go cart from disused pram wheels, planks of wood and steered with pieces of string.

Certainly did, there was three of us who used to go about together and we built a three seater kart.  There was always arguments on who was allowed to be the driver but we had so much fun on that kart 

Screaming down the Cornish lanes around St Keverne and landing up in the stingers!

Golden days!

Dave G

[CF-FZG]

We used to burn the effigy of Guy Fawkes because he was caught and found guilty of treason.

However, we might have been innocent to some hidden meaning such as anti-catholicism because Guido was French, and ergo a roman catholic - who cares


Although if this 'hidden meaning' was true - maybe nowadays it should be an effigy of an rc priest to show what the general populace feels about kiddy-fiddlers