Yes, done all those things but with my age climbing a mountain (and arthritis) is something you want to avoid becoming a casualty and wasting resources.venusian wrote:Do something weird/interesting/out-of-character you can tell them about when they get back.
Climb a mountain. Visit an exhibition for a hobby you don't have. Buy a beginners kit for a craft (crochet, painting, whittling, metal casting). Make up a project like spray painting your monitor frame neon blue. Construct a robot arm.
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Taking a school trip to your local nuclear plant to wonder about the power of splitting the atom. Complemented with a slightly radio-active lunch, nothing to worry here, it is perfectly safe. The moment when you were given your individual dosimeters was a bit worrying.
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I would have given a lot for a school trip to a nuclear powerplant! We went instead to the local dairy, where I saw the tube that processed cheese comes from. Never could look at a Dairylea in quite the same way again after that.
It was that or Wookey Hole (for residents of other parts of the UK or internationally, the best way I can describe it is as a place where the UK puts a number of things it doesn't know what to do with, but also doesn't want to throw away. It has dinosaurs, a penny arcade - no, not Gabe and Tycho - the remains of a travelling circus and a cave full of real cheese). Having already been mentally scarred as a child by learning where cheese comes from, imagine watching the "Doctor Who" series "Earthshock" (a story in which servants of the Cybermen turn humans into little bubbling pools of goo in a cave) and then visiting the place famous for its caves that prominently advertised its prior connections to "Doctor Who" - with Cybermen...
It was that or Wookey Hole (for residents of other parts of the UK or internationally, the best way I can describe it is as a place where the UK puts a number of things it doesn't know what to do with, but also doesn't want to throw away. It has dinosaurs, a penny arcade - no, not Gabe and Tycho - the remains of a travelling circus and a cave full of real cheese). Having already been mentally scarred as a child by learning where cheese comes from, imagine watching the "Doctor Who" series "Earthshock" (a story in which servants of the Cybermen turn humans into little bubbling pools of goo in a cave) and then visiting the place famous for its caves that prominently advertised its prior connections to "Doctor Who" - with Cybermen...
"Stars don't twinkle in space." - Char Aznable.
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Having been in the Finnish army and seeing places it does not surprise me that Finland could prodice a nuclear weapon in a few months, just you know the Russians.
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I do like this idea.venusian wrote:Buy a beginners kit for a craft (crochet, painting, whittling, metal casting).
Honestly, thank you for all the ideas everyone.
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MAME: Forever Young!
"If you buy a game at launch, you are paying the most amount of money for the worst version of the game" - TotalBiscuit
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When you have to a little wee in the middle of night.
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“Retro Gamer” covers “Highway Encounter” and asks “Where’s Harry Seacombe?” and you get the reference.
"Stars don't twinkle in space." - Char Aznable.
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I liked the paper mill at Wookey Hole.
My crap-local-school-trip-that-was-actually-quite-interesting, was going to a grain silo at the local docks and learning about weevils.
And as well as going on a school trip to a nuclear power station, I also did my work experience there, and finally actually worked there for 4 years!
I was the AV Technician and took care of the video-conferencing equipment, which was all made by a company called PictureTel who seemed massive at the time, but now no longer exist.
It ran on bespoke PCs under massive 21" trinitron CRTs, and connected via 128K or 384K ISDN. We even had a multibridge server that allowed for Zoom-style multi-participant meetings, and could even switch to whoever was talking the loudest and longest.
That ran on OS2.
I used to take LCD projectors home at the weekend for us to play N64 games on a massive screen.
This was all pre-2000!
Rik probably knows exactly where I worked
My crap-local-school-trip-that-was-actually-quite-interesting, was going to a grain silo at the local docks and learning about weevils.
And as well as going on a school trip to a nuclear power station, I also did my work experience there, and finally actually worked there for 4 years!
I was the AV Technician and took care of the video-conferencing equipment, which was all made by a company called PictureTel who seemed massive at the time, but now no longer exist.
It ran on bespoke PCs under massive 21" trinitron CRTs, and connected via 128K or 384K ISDN. We even had a multibridge server that allowed for Zoom-style multi-participant meetings, and could even switch to whoever was talking the loudest and longest.
That ran on OS2.
I used to take LCD projectors home at the weekend for us to play N64 games on a massive screen.
This was all pre-2000!
Rik probably knows exactly where I worked
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Ah, the paper mill. My school trips always seemed to involve something like that, not the EXCITING ENERGY OF THE FUTURE!
Ahem.
You see a BBC "Crackerjack! annual in a second-hand bookshop window and your response is virtually automatic: "CRACKERJACK!".
Ahem.
You see a BBC "Crackerjack! annual in a second-hand bookshop window and your response is virtually automatic: "CRACKERJACK!".
"Stars don't twinkle in space." - Char Aznable.
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When the school assembled for an end-of-term treat, a film, which was an actual film - loaded onto a reel-to-reel film projector, not a video player...
"Stars don't twinkle in space." - Char Aznable.
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And sometimes, if there was time to spare the teacher would show the same film backwards, how we laughed.F-ZeroOne wrote:When the school assembled for an end-of-term treat, a film, which was an actual film - loaded onto a reel-to-reel film projector, not a video player...
OK pretend liquorice pipes and pretend chocolate cigarettes (these got banned in the 80s, they looked like the real thing the Marlboro Man would smoke) but as far as I know you can still buy the pipes.
Oh yeas...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5fQZhv0poU]
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I'm old enough to remember this thing of
"if you put missiles that can reach us we'll get missiles that can reach you"
Note: And our TV is very excited showing the 137 people on the Navy ship that is going to the Baltic Sea on a mission of dissuasion and vigilance. I think the submarine is also there or it was recently.
"if you put missiles that can reach us we'll get missiles that can reach you"
Note: And our TV is very excited showing the 137 people on the Navy ship that is going to the Baltic Sea on a mission of dissuasion and vigilance. I think the submarine is also there or it was recently.
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Fifty years ago I left Angola.