The Isolated Blurt Thread XXIV: A Merry Killswitch and a Happy New Year!

[oggbashan]

Alas, I can still remember when my great-grandmother got an indoor bathroom. We used the outhouse when we visited before then.

One of my younger aunts moved into a prefab in 1946. Not only did it have an indoor bathroom, it had running hot water not buckets from the kitchen stove, it had central heating and a refrigerator. No one else in the family had central heating or a fridge.

 

[Sean]

One of my younger aunts moved into a prefab in 1946. Not only did it have an indoor bathroom, it had running hot water not buckets from the kitchen stove, it had central heating and a refrigerator. No one else in the family had central heating or a fridge.

I remember my gran used to keep milk, meat, cheese etc in a "safe" in the back yard. She also had a mangle, a guzunda and an outside bog.

 

[oggbashan]

When we stayed with my grandparents we had to use a chamberpot. And it was eiderdowns and blankets, not quilts.

I might as well be about 150.

Oops! My kids had chamberpots when young. It was a long way to the bathrooms in our large house, perhaps too far. They stopped using them about age 5.

 

[removed9556]

 

[ryan8558]

Oh gawd. I might need to go ahead and get that rocking chair so I can sit next to Des as he yells at the kids.

Don't y'all forget your walkers.

Alas, I can still remember when my great-grandmother got an indoor bathroom. We used the outhouse when we visited before then.

same here only it was my grandmother. and man was it cold in the winter!!!

 

[oggbashan]

OK, fair enough, Ogg. You win the old-off!

(I do know that my grandfather was born the day Disraeli died, but that is a function of a history of older fatherhood...)

My eldest aunt was born a couple of years before Disraeli died. My grandparents visited the 1851 Great Exhibition.

Edited: Oops. I should have double-checked Disraeli's dates. She was born 8 years after.

 

[lovetoread]

What I love are the teenagers that think they are being revolutionary and trendy. No one EVER did things the way they are now, yo.
Lol
Makes me snicker

Hah, my youngest tells people that I was emo before it was popular. Cause I was one of those people who got those satan worshiper comments. (cause it was the south I think)

I still am no matter how old I get.

 

[ElizabethWest]

Don't y'all forget your walkers.




same here only it was my grandmother. and man was it cold in the winter!!!

I hear ya. Fortunately, we didn't visit that often in the winter. Can anyone say splinters?

 

[ElizabethWest]

One of my younger aunts moved into a prefab in 1946. Not only did it have an indoor bathroom, it had running hot water not buckets from the kitchen stove, it had central heating and a refrigerator. No one else in the family had central heating or a fridge.

She must have been rich!

 

[ryan8558]

Oh shit! I'm antediluvian.

(Og, King of Bashan survived Noah's Flood)

The real me? My eldest (and favourite) aunt was a suffragist before WW1 and lost her fiancé who was killed flying over the Western Front. My father was bombed out of his London home by a Zeppelin in 1915.

Just wondering if you've read this and if it's worth the read?

http://images.randomhouse.com/cover/9781472815293

 

[removed9556]

 

[oggbashan]

Just wondering if you've read this and if it's worth the read?

http://images.randomhouse.com/cover/9781472815293

Yes, but there is a more specific book about the Zeppelin raids. I always thought that being bombed out by a Zeppelin was a family legend with dubious veracity.

In the 21st Century I have found exactly where the family was living in 1915, the exact day and time to the minute that the then world's largest aerial bomb was dropped, and the casualties caused by it.

The casualties? Two men who came out the public house to watch the Zeppelin passing overhead. They were holding their pints when the bomb impacted, killing them and stopping the pub's clock. My family's apartment home was so badly damaged that the whole block was demolished in the next couple of weeks.

Edited for PS. London was not the only place bombed by Zeppelins and Gothas. My wife has a letter written from her great-grandmother to her grandmother (who was then in Cape Town, South Africa), telling of the Zeppelin raid on Kingston-upon-Hull.

 

[lovetoread]

Do you make Sean sing-a-long-a-MCR and The Cure?

No, cause that would be torture to have him sing.

Besides, he is not into good music, he is into some sort of weird British stuff I have never heard of.

 

[oggbashan]

Hah, my youngest tells people that I was emo before it was popular. Cause I was one of those people who got those satan worshiper comments. (cause it was the south I think)

I still am no matter how old I get.

Oh shit, again.

I played a tea chest bass in a 1950s skiffle band. We were dreadful.

When in the Balkans in the 1960s several people thought I had the 'Evil Eye'. Why? I don't know unless that with crew cut blond hair I looked like a poster for an SS soldier (who weren't popular in the Balkans).

 

[Lancecastor]

The Bombardier Q400 is a very small airplane.

I do not recommend it if you have legs.

 

[Sean]

God ‏@TheTweetOfGod 2m2 minutes ago
It's a strange thing when the #GOPDebate is blacker than the Oscars.

 

[MsSmoothG]

Is their twitter Allah?

 

[ryan8558]

Yes, but there is a more specific book about the Zeppelin raids. I always thought that being bombed out by a Zeppelin was a family legend with dubious veracity.

In the 21st Century I have found exactly where the family was living in 1915, the exact day and time to the minute that the then world's largest aerial bomb was dropped, and the casualties caused by it.

The casualties? Two men who came out the public house to watch the Zeppelin passing overhead. They were holding their pints when the bomb impacted, killing them and stopping the pub's clock. My family's apartment home was so badly damaged that the whole block was demolished in the next couple of weeks.

Edited for PS. London was not the only place bombed by Zeppelins and Gothas. My wife has a letter written from her great-grandmother to her grandmother (who was then in Cape Town, South Africa), telling of the Zeppelin raid on Kingston-upon-Hull.

Thanks Ogg

 

[NHKitty]

The Deep South has been fun, but I'm ready to come home and spend the weekend with you.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

Step one: cut a hole in a box...

 

[Aglaopheme]

Oops! My kids had chamberpots when young. It was a long way to the bathrooms in our large house, perhaps too far. They stopped using them about age 5.

That must have been quite a sizable house. A sizable house with few restrooms. Even the older homes with wings here, have had restrooms within a few doors of each bedroom.

 

[Aglaopheme]

God ‏@TheTweetOfGod 2m2 minutes ago
It's a strange thing when the #GOPDebate is blacker than the Oscars.

Ha! Is anyone watching the Trump show? I don't even know what he wound up doing. I'm watching the debate.

 

[Noor]

https://youtu.be/Gyp0f8L5nd4

 

[Bacigalupo]

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12278800_1694166900816954_7367977279530029307_n.jpg?oh=b0f3d81d0acd08eb8b5786cb17b44896&oe=5738E8E5

 

[Sinny]

The rhythm is gonna get ya.