The random thought thread.

[Stool master]

28 minutes ago, Dan said:

No! the spoons gave unlimited energy and movement.

Classic Cheese Dream 

[Retired Climber]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I find that unsatisfactory tbh. 
I googled it and found this. 
Might be BS but it agrees with me. So I like it!

That doesn't add up from a neurological / psychological perspective. You can prove just about any theory with a quick Google.

[Mick Dempsey]

Heres something that amazes me.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than the building of the pyramids.

[Rich Rule]

Wasn’t a mobile phone but when I was a kid I had a nightmare one night.

 

We had been  playing Jet Set Willie on the Spectrum 48k.  Used to load by tape and I must have had a bad copy.

 

I was having trouble getting the game

to load and that was the recurring theme of the nightmare.  
I was only about 10 though.

[tree-fancier123]

It was a nightmare trying to get those pirated games to load - usually because it was a copy of another pirated copy courtesy of a twin cassette player. 

Anyone who had a Spectrum or similar wants a trip down memory lane - I've wasted even more time on the online emulators - the whole tiny programs run flawlessly in a web browser, no cassette tape required.

The only way I could complete Manic Miner as a kid was when someone threw me a bone in the form of a poke code, stop the tape during loading, type a simple code line, and then load with unlimited lives.

Manic Miner (DOS) - online game | RetroGames.cz

WWW.RETROGAMES.CZ

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Manic Miner is a platform game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). It is the first game in...

 

[Dan]

Yeah, the tape would stretch a bit over time as well.

[Dan Maynard]

We went from ZX81 (funny black and white pattern loading tapes) to BBC, which had a much better loading system so you got numbered blocks loading and could tell if it had stopped part way.

 

Then we saved up and sent off mail order for a floppy disk drive, cheque in post and allow 28 days for delivery. That was brilliant, pirating the games from tape to disk was a procedure and then loading in seconds not minutes.

[peds]

The BBC was my first computer, it's still up in the attic back in England with all the various actually floppy floppy disks. Paperboy, Suburban Fox, Bomber, Dread Dragon Droom, Imogen... Geordie Racer? To accompany the kids TV series?

 

Have to get it out at some point for schitzengiggles.