Interesting tat (5 Viewers)

[JohnnyRaz]

Mana Miskouri is like the sound Ami Burke. Same ballpark sexy nerd territory.

Paging @Deadmanposting to confirm

 

[therealjohnny]

That Valerie Leon thing

 

[therealjohnny]

Apologies for ruining your thread

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Apologies for ruining your thread

there are not one, but two horn threads johnny.

but at least it's in keeping with the mid century theme

 

[Deadmanposting]

Mana Miskouri is like the sound Ami Burke. Same ballpark sexy nerd territory.

I may have watched too many films and TV shows as a kid where a woman took off her glasses to reveal.......

Spoiler: ...

that she was actually gorgeous all along!!!!

 

[seanc]

Reading this I've had a fresh look at this room, which I thought I'd tidied up the other day, but is still full of stuff. Stuff that no one knows what to do with.

I especially like the beureau (?) lamp, it's like them things what's in the fillums. Completely useless as a lamp though.

Them lot next door that moved out a few months ago had left a bunch crap on my deck. The setup here is that various other boats have to walk across my boat to get to land.

So after months of hoping it'll sort itself out*, I've had to clear the deck and swab the deck. Ooh arrr, me hearties.

It's all going in the bin, except for the ceramic plant pots and this Buddha. It has the original, and imho, best type of swastika. Maybe I seem flippant about that. I'm not being flippant.

*There's a leak on deck, so I'm trying to find it. If housemate hadn't mentioned it, that tat would have just sat there forever, along with all the other tat and actual rubbish. Old neighbours would call it it freecycling. Personally I call it middle class fly-tipping.

 

[seanc]

Also featured: the bureau lamp mentioned previously, an aluminium reusable water bottle because eco-aware, a pen that's also a screwdriver, staple gun, three light torch with magnets and a a hanging hook.

This is what it's like after the tidying.

 

[ann post]

You should photgraph that gaff end to end, it's normal now but if you move on at some point it'd be cool to have some document of it

 

[seanc]

Interwb spies....

 

[JohnnyRaz]

1950/60s telegraph signaller - most likely swiped from the raf by my father in law

 

[Deadmanposting]

Nice piece of tat

Any idea what the AM stans for?

 

[pete]

Air Ministry

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[Deadmanposting]

Air Ministry

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Oh, that is good looking up. Nice.


I was chasing totally the wrong kine of enquiry - cos the abdicated king George's real name was Albert.

Thank you for this, it would have bugged me

 

[magicbastarder]

no, it's not a bugging device, it's a telegraphing device.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Oh, that is good looking up. Nice.


I was chasing totally the wrong kine of enquiry - cos the abdicated king George's real name was Albert.

Thank you for this, it would have bugged me

This was pilfered in the era of Liz II.

Bizarrely in the late 50s/early 60s the RAF recruited for radio operators in the republic (via Norn Iron). FIL signed up and spent his tour of duty in some of the bits of the former empire the brits were just about to pull out from (borneo, aden etc.)
from they way he told it he spent a good portion of his time boozing, getting into fights, and pissing off his officers..

 

[JohnnyRaz]

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Father in laws shed throws up on more treasure. 1917 wwi bayonet.
They don’t like it up em’ etc.

 

[seanc]

That's not tat.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

That's not tat.

Talking to mother in law, it’s either come into house via

1. Distant relation in wwi
2. Less distant relation in war of independence
3. Prop from the Wexford light opera society
4. Lifted by my father in law from a skip

 

[seanc]

Continuing the tenuous WWI theme, I've been told that the engine on this boat (which hasn't been used in years) was salvaged from an American Sherman tank. The Sherman had two separate engines, and lots of them were left around Europe when the lads left. Many got repurposed for all sorts of things. This boat would have originally been pulled by a horse until some Frenchman stuck an engine in it.

Some quick googling tells me this is false, the Sherman was a WWII tank. It could be indeed a Sherman and my guy got his dates wrong, or it could be a WWI engine from some other tank. Or maybe he simply mispoke.

It still counts as tat because it's a fascinating thing that doesn't really do anything.

I'm not going to go poking around the engine room right now (or am I?), but pics to follow at some point. I really hope this guy wasn't spoofing me. TANK BOAT!!