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Post by Three Litre on Mar 5, 2019 21:32:06 GMT
If you started off driving these cars then it’s not too bad, but if you’ve only ever driven modern stuff then it would take getting used too. The pressing the clutch twice only applies to non synchromesh gearboxes, which were phased out on cars by about the 1940s but buses and lorries continued to have them for a few more years. The oldest car I have driven was a 1959 mark 2 Ford Consul, three speed gearbox, with the lever on the steering column. I’ll see if I can remember what stuff from the 60s and 70s I’ve driven and make a list. My dad had a Zodiac with a bench seat and a column change, which came off in his hand once and he had to use molegrips as an emergency!
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Post by Three Litre on Mar 5, 2019 21:39:51 GMT
There are some modern cars made that have brown paint but it doesn't look right these days. Brown doesn't look much better than when it is on a tidy mk3 Cortina, and I don't just mean the Guv's: Sam. Sorry to keep mentioning my dad but he did have one of these as a company car back in 71/72! He had a blue one before that was so badly built it had to go back.
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 10, 2019 21:13:54 GMT
Six pints!! Frank Haskins drinks six pints of milk a day, forty two per week!!
And to no effect, apparently.
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Post by Vienna on Apr 11, 2019 11:04:20 GMT
Six pints!! Frank Haskins drinks six pints of milk a day, forty two per week!! And to no effect, apparently. Six pints! I couldn't manage one, even if I had an ulcer Some of us moggies don't like milk Vi
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 20, 2019 14:34:29 GMT
Six pints!! Frank Haskins drinks six pints of milk a day, forty two per week!! And to no effect, apparently. I just rewatched this episode and this is one of the most extraordinary claims ever made by a character in the Sweeney
And what is the milk supposed to signify?
Haskins seems to be suffering from a cold and seems to expect that six pints a day will cure all ailments. In reality I believe that milk creates more phlegm and is the worst thing to drink when suffering from a cold.
Apart from putting it onto cereal and into tea and coffee does anyone still drink glasses of milk? I've always thought it was pretty weird drinking another creature's infant's food source.
Back to Haskins, it's interesting how his character evolved over the series, he's a complete by-the-book slightly sickly wimp in the first series and yet by the end he has his own informers and goes out on raids etc.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 20, 2019 14:38:54 GMT
On Jigsaw more generally, it's another classic episode.
Eddie Boyse looking to get one over on Regan by making sure he's with Regan when the crime occurred, and then getting Regan accused of police harassment.
Great script, tightly directed and a pleasing resolution.
Series one really is great isn't it?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Nov 20, 2019 15:57:06 GMT
The milk was for Haskins' stomach ulcer ( I think Regan had one too ), doctors used to suggest drinking milk to 'neutralise' the acid, not sure this did much good. He ate a lot of yoghurt as well for the same reason.
I used to drink about 3 pints of milk a day years ago for some time, I was skinny & started lifting weights & drinking milk, you put weight on quickly with milk ( there is a bodybuilding diet known as 'GOMAD' which stands for 'gallon of milk a day', that's 8 pints ). 6 pints of full fat milk contains over 2,000 calories, it would be surprising if Haskins drank that much, 6 glasses is more likely. Milk gives me stomach upsets these days.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 20, 2019 17:46:32 GMT
The milk was for Haskins' stomach ulcer ( I think Regan had one too ), doctors used to suggest drinking milk to 'neutralise' the acid, not sure this did much good. He ate a lot of yoghurt as well for the same reason. In one of the previous episodes in series one, Carter is seen eating a tub of yogurt. Regan looks disgusted and asks if he eats much of it.
Now I think about it, as a kid in the 70s there was a belief that yogurt was a health food - and milk got promoted with the same message
Interesting what you said about bodybuilding, I had a vegetarian friend who did something similar but he was necking the eggs - about 10 a day. That and lots of weights did transform him. Now, a few decades on, he's just overweight.
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Post by Vienna on Nov 20, 2019 18:03:13 GMT
The milk was for Haskins' stomach ulcer ( I think Regan had one too ), doctors used to suggest drinking milk to 'neutralise' the acid, not sure this did much good. He ate a lot of yoghurt as well for the same reason.
I used to drink about 3 pints of milk a day years ago for some time, I was skinny & started lifting weights & drinking milk, you put weight on quickly with milk ( there is a bodybuilding diet known as 'GOMAD' which stands for 'gallon of milk a day', that's 8 pints ). 6 pints of full fat milk contains over 2,000 calories, it would be surprising if Haskins drank that much, 6 glasses is more likely. Milk gives me stomach upsets these days.
Arthur, nowadays Haskins would probably be drinking skimmed or semi-skimmed milk for his ulcer, or maybe he wouldn't even bother as the medical advice has changed over the years as you say Vi
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Nov 20, 2019 18:11:35 GMT
My brother in law is a retired GP and he says he cringes when he thinks of some of things he advised his patients to do back in the day.
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