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  • ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    For my sins, I watch Tipping Point every evening, and it amazes me the number of contestants that think it does not matter when you drop the counter in the machine. They drop it at the wrong time, keep getting riders and then moan that the machine do not like them, or they are being unlucky.....no you dope, watch and you will see, it is important to drop the counter at the right time and you will rarely get a rider.
    I remember as a kid i loved the arcade...especially the machines with the coin drops. It was 2ps i think back then.
    Cant believe they made a TV show out of it.
    Still going in some arcades
    Hopefully with £1 coins surely not coppers still?
    It has been about ten years since I went to an arcade, but then they had two pence and 10 pence waterfalls, (that is what they call them)
  • Compton's Cake Walk in my day.
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    ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    For my sins, I watch Tipping Point every evening, and it amazes me the number of contestants that think it does not matter when you drop the counter in the machine. They drop it at the wrong time, keep getting riders and then moan that the machine do not like them, or they are being unlucky.....no you dope, watch and you will see, it is important to drop the counter at the right time and you will rarely get a rider.
    I remember as a kid i loved the arcade...especially the machines with the coin drops. It was 2ps i think back then.
    Cant believe they made a TV show out of it.
    Still going in some arcades
    Hopefully with £1 coins surely not coppers still?
    It has been about ten years since I went to an arcade, but then they had two pence and 10 pence waterfalls, (that is what they call them)
    Definitely 2p and 10p pieces still. My nephews have rinsed me out of many £'s on them still.
  • ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    For my sins, I watch Tipping Point every evening, and it amazes me the number of contestants that think it does not matter when you drop the counter in the machine. They drop it at the wrong time, keep getting riders and then moan that the machine do not like them, or they are being unlucky.....no you dope, watch and you will see, it is important to drop the counter at the right time and you will rarely get a rider.
    I remember as a kid i loved the arcade...especially the machines with the coin drops. It was 2ps i think back then.
    Cant believe they made a TV show out of it.
    Still going in some arcades
    Hopefully with £1 coins surely not coppers still?
    It has been about ten years since I went to an arcade, but then they had two pence and 10 pence waterfalls, (that is what they call them)
    Definitely 2p and 10p pieces still. 
    They are down at leysdown too.
  • Macronate said:
    The Purple Bricks ad where the lusting estate agent woman is ‘virtually’ (on a laptop) perving at at a bloke in the bath, whose head and chest you can see, You can tell she’s perving because she moves closer to the camera and gets all excited.

    No way would that be allowed if a bloke estate agent was looking at a woman in the bath with only her head and knockers showing. Although it would make for a better advert.

    Sexism at its worst.
    Almost all “isms” have massive double standards 
    100%, I was unfortunate enough to watch a bit of Loose Women once on ITV, if 4 x blokes had been sitting behind a desk talking about women the way the lady's were talking about men all hell would have broken loose. They even had a Butler in the buff on there and they were all commenting on his chest and abbs. Imagine if 4 x blokes were all ogling and commenting about a girl in a bikini. 
  • T_C_E said:
    ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    For my sins, I watch Tipping Point every evening, and it amazes me the number of contestants that think it does not matter when you drop the counter in the machine. They drop it at the wrong time, keep getting riders and then moan that the machine do not like them, or they are being unlucky.....no you dope, watch and you will see, it is important to drop the counter at the right time and you will rarely get a rider.
    I remember as a kid i loved the arcade...especially the machines with the coin drops. It was 2ps i think back then.
    Cant believe they made a TV show out of it.
    Still going in some arcades
    Hopefully with £1 coins surely not coppers still?
    It has been about ten years since I went to an arcade, but then they had two pence and 10 pence waterfalls, (that is what they call them)
    Definitely 2p and 10p pieces still. 
    They are down at leysdown too.
    At 95% if arcades I have ever been to. 

    My kids love em. 
  • Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 
  • ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    For my sins, I watch Tipping Point every evening, and it amazes me the number of contestants that think it does not matter when you drop the counter in the machine. They drop it at the wrong time, keep getting riders and then moan that the machine do not like them, or they are being unlucky.....no you dope, watch and you will see, it is important to drop the counter at the right time and you will rarely get a rider.
    I remember as a kid i loved the arcade...especially the machines with the coin drops. It was 2ps i think back then.
    Cant believe they made a TV show out of it.
    Still going in some arcades
    Hopefully with £1 coins surely not coppers still?
    It has been about ten years since I went to an arcade, but then they had two pence and 10 pence waterfalls, (that is what they call them)
    Definitely 2p and 10p pieces still. My nephews have rinsed me out of many £'s on them still.
    I'm not ashamed to admit I used to give them a bit of a bum when I got down to my last 2p

  • ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    ross1 said:
    For my sins, I watch Tipping Point every evening, and it amazes me the number of contestants that think it does not matter when you drop the counter in the machine. They drop it at the wrong time, keep getting riders and then moan that the machine do not like them, or they are being unlucky.....no you dope, watch and you will see, it is important to drop the counter at the right time and you will rarely get a rider.
    I remember as a kid i loved the arcade...especially the machines with the coin drops. It was 2ps i think back then.
    Cant believe they made a TV show out of it.
    Still going in some arcades
    Hopefully with £1 coins surely not coppers still?
    It has been about ten years since I went to an arcade, but then they had two pence and 10 pence waterfalls, (that is what they call them)
    Definitely 2p and 10p pieces still. My nephews have rinsed me out of many £'s on them still.
    I'm not ashamed to admit I used to give them a bit of a bum when I got down to my last 2p

    nudge nudge (literally)
  • Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 

    A slight aside to this bit of the thread, but has anybody on here actually ever managed to pick up a toy bear or whatever with the crane thing and succesfully dump it down the chute and win it?

    I did it once when I was in Manchester about 30 years ago, but have never done it again since or witnessed anybody else doing it.
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  • Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 

    A slight aside to this bit of the thread, but has anybody on here actually ever managed to pick up a toy bear or whatever with the crane thing and succesfully dump it down the chute and win it?

    I did it once when I was in Manchester about 30 years ago, but have never done it again since or witnessed anybody else doing it.
    They are set like fruit machines so pay out when a certain amount has been taken 
  • Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 

    A slight aside to this bit of the thread, but has anybody on here actually ever managed to pick up a toy bear or whatever with the crane thing and succesfully dump it down the chute and win it?

    I did it once when I was in Manchester about 30 years ago, but have never done it again since or witnessed anybody else doing it.
    I’ve done it a couple of times, you’re superdad when you do win.
  • even when you pick it up perfectly, if it is not time to pay out it will be released fall out 

    There are usually stickers saying it is not a game of skill or similar on it.
  • Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 

    A slight aside to this bit of the thread, but has anybody on here actually ever managed to pick up a toy bear or whatever with the crane thing and succesfully dump it down the chute and win it?

    I did it once when I was in Manchester about 30 years ago, but have never done it again since or witnessed anybody else doing it.
    My mate Angie is an absolute dab hand at it. Wins every time. Shame it's only a cuddly toy and not a packet of Embassy with a fiver wrapped round it like the good old days... 
  • That Jay character on The Repair Shop. Stop taking the blanket off the repaired thing and talking about 'Wot we done was...' You did hee haw apart from order a bit of glass or something, if that. 
  • Redskin said:
    That Jay character on The Repair Shop. Stop taking the blanket off the repaired thing and talking about 'Wot we done was...' You did hee haw apart from order a bit of glass or something, if that. 
    Is that the bloke who paints one leg of an Ercol nursing chair pink, then sticks a couple of noughts on the asking price?
  • Redskin said:
    That Jay character on The Repair Shop. Stop taking the blanket off the repaired thing and talking about 'Wot we done was...' You did hee haw apart from order a bit of glass or something, if that. 
    Is that the bloke who paints one leg of an Ercol nursing chair pink, then sticks a couple of noughts on the asking price?
    No, people take in old objects that look beyond repair and a barnful of specialists -who are truly brilliant - bring them back to life and then this Jay bloke strolls about taking all the kudos.
    Check it out, I think you'd enjoy it. However, I'm afraid it is on the BBC...
  • Now at arcades it’s all about winning tickets to exchange for some cheap arse toy that costs a fraction of what you have spent to win the tickets. Kids love it though 

    A slight aside to this bit of the thread, but has anybody on here actually ever managed to pick up a toy bear or whatever with the crane thing and succesfully dump it down the chute and win it?

    I did it once when I was in Manchester about 30 years ago, but have never done it again since or witnessed anybody else doing it.
    Mrs Stig won two goes on the trot once. Think it was Yarmouth (certainly somewhere like that). She won the first one and we got in a bit of a mini-panic; two kids, one Bagpuss, how much is it going to cost us to even things up. Couldn't believe our luck when the second one came out straight away.  

    It cost us in the long run though, because rather than learning the important life lesson that grab machines are a disappointing con, our kids thought they were some sort of benevolent toy giving scheme.
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  • Getting a message saying today is the start of autumn. What's that nonsense about? Keep it simple, autumn is September, October, November. Nothing more nothing less.
  • I bet you're in Bits and Pieces?
  • Spurs think they're gonna win the league and Klopps a clown apparently 
  • Watching modern films at home, dialogue usually so quiet that volume has to be right up just to be able to follow it, but any hint of action and it goes so loud all the windows in the house rattle......
    I’ve got this problem solved a bit. My AV amp has clear speech function on it, which does make some difference but to really make speech heard I turn the centre channel up. 
  • T_C_E said:
    Complete strangers that approach us in the street asking us if our dogs are for sale and then say “if you change your mind, I’ll pay £500 cash” like it’s going to make a fecking difference. They are not a commodity and certainly not for sale 😡😡😡
    I'll give you £650 mate.
  • T_C_E said:
    Complete strangers that approach us in the street asking us if our dogs are for sale and then say “if you change your mind, I’ll pay £500 cash” like it’s going to make a fecking difference. They are not a commodity and certainly not for sale 😡😡😡
    I'll give you £650 mate.
    Lol, you could tag three noughts on the end and it’s still not enough. 😉
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