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Old 5th Mar 2014, 11:52 am   #21
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As in "Keith", "Reith", "Leith" and either?
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Old 5th Mar 2014, 11:56 am   #22
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As in "Keith", "Reith", "Leith" and either?
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As in "hallo, my ..." if anyone remembers Charlie Drake.
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Old 5th Mar 2014, 12:08 pm   #23
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"I Before E, Except After C"
As in "Keith", "Reith", "Leith" and either?
How weird!
A better rule is to use "EI" when the sound is "E"

So "ceiling" and sieve". I "believe" it's not foolproof though.
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The English language is far from foolproof!
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Now like they're not like bothered with like teaching kids the "I Before E, Except After C" 'cos like it may demoralise the poor little darlings !
The part of London where I came from, 'like' is now pronounced "lack" as in "dya no wot I meen lack"...
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Winding and adjusting clocks.

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Resolving an SSB transmission with a BFO
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Copying, deleting files using DOS commands.

Long multiplication, division. Square roots by the method that looks a bit like long division.

Developing a film.

Cats cradle.

Darning a sock (which I've not forgotten - I never knew it in first place).

Lighting a Primus stove or tilley lamp.

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Manually tuning a radio.
With reaction?
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Converging a colour TV. Or wobbulating its IF strip. Or wobbulating anything.
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How to load a computer program by toggling the bank of switches on the front.

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Lacing a wiring harness.

Coming soon:

Fitting a plug
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Old 5th Mar 2014, 3:06 pm   #32
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Old 5th Mar 2014, 3:11 pm   #33
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Computer data storage can become unreadable long before a a written paper record.

I have some memory cards that even though I have a reader, my computer says " I have been updated so will ignore this input made by the older system".

On the other hand, I have some "Admiralty Handbooks of Wireless Telegraphy" they are quite old but apart from the quaint use of jars for capacitor values, can still be read with ease.
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Writing letters (ironic that I should be moaning about that on here).

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Old 5th Mar 2014, 4:01 pm   #35
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...Or just handwriting in general. I have to admit, I've been guilty of letting my handwriting go to pot in the fairly recent past so I make a point of staying in practice now. It's frightening how quickly neat handwriting can degenerate into scrawl.

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Old 5th Mar 2014, 4:10 pm   #36
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Knowing how far into the red you can take the VU meters when making an analogue recording.

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The art of typing on a manual typewriter as opposed to a computer keyboard, including lighter keystrokes for full stops etc, the use of the 2-colour ribbon, carbon paper, Tipp-ex sheets/liquid and carcinogenic solvent to keep it thinned, the ting of the bell to tell you to return the carriage, squeezing in a letter by typing it with the space bar to shift the carriage by half a letter's width, underlining, an "@" key that was rarely used and so on.

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Using a saw properly all the teeth not going at it like hammer and tong
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Superhet alignment
Using a grid-dip oscillator
Reading Morse
Fronch Pilushing
Driving a linear amplifier
Finding a clear frequency
Scientific Method
*Listening*


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Totally agree with all of them, David, the last one being a particularly sad sign of the times to which can be added concentrating on something for more than 3 minutes.

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