Meanings: now and then

[SPman]

A "turd", was a third former. Well it was when I was at high school. (not College - although it was Rangi...)

[Big Dave]

A "turd", was a third former. Well it was when I was at high school. (not College - although it was Rangi...)

When you were at school they still had ink wells..............me too.....

[Hitcher]

Women do not use the c-word or say 'Piss'.

They don't fart either.

[Ixion]

When you were at school they still had ink wells..............me too.....

Slate pencils.

[Pixie]

In my day we'd write in 't cuneiform on clay tablets.
You young 'uns don't know you're born

[Edbear]

In my day we'd write in 't cuneiform on clay tablets.
You young 'uns don't know you're born

Yeah, I's young, we had dip pens and inkwells when we graduated from pencils. Then when we were old enough we could use fountain pens which we refilled from the inkwells. We really knew we were growing up then!

Then someone invented the ball point pen, but they weren't considered a proper writing instrument and were banned from schools. Also they leaked...

I'll never forget Mum and Dad getting a new fangled phone where the one-piece handpiece sat in a cradle on the top and you used a round dial to ring the number. What an advance on the old battery-powered hand crank phone! We used to take the crank-generator's to school and get the nerds to hold the two wires while we cranked the handle...

[Big Dave]

Well of course we had it tooofff.

When I say ink wells I mean a 'ole int ground filed with pitch black. tooof I tells ye.