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Feznaughts are the powerhouses!
Feznaughts are the powerhouses!
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! π₯@dgar
Reminds me of something very old I saw a few years ago, what was his name, a British magician, oooh... What was his name? He wore one, and sucked at magic. Cooper?
Found it! Tommy Cooper.
Reminds me of something very old I saw a few years ago, what was his name, a British magician, oooh... What was his name? He wore one, and sucked at magic. Cooper?
Found it! Tommy Cooper.
econads@pascaline @dgar
Classic puns the lot of it.
"I bet the butcher Β£50 he couldn't reach the meat on the top shelf, but he said the steaks were too high"
"A friend of mine drowned in a bowl of Musli, a strong current pulled him in"
Classic puns the lot of it.
"I bet the butcher Β£50 he couldn't reach the meat on the top shelf, but he said the steaks were too high"
"A friend of mine drowned in a bowl of Musli, a strong current pulled him in"
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@pascaline @dgar Tommy Cooper was a full member of the Magic Circle, and his act was quite clever - although most of his tricks appeared to fail, every so often he'd carry off one which did work..
@pascaline @dgar interestingly I keep coming across his shows from Thames TV on YouTube subtitled in Dutch (presumably recorded from one of the broadcasters there)
@pascaline @dgar there's a few of them, but the Dutch ones seem to be as common in searches as those from Britain (probably some opa who restores VCRs as a hobby meticulously uploading collections of VHS or even Philips N1500/N1700 recordings to YouTube)
The radio pirates in NL called one of the officers of RDI (Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur, used to be Agentschap Telecom) "Catweazle" as he looked a bit like him π
@pascaline @dgar probably did as RDI/AT monitor the social media and the pirates often make songs about all the RDI officers, even living in England I know all their names and nicknames (Theo Brouwer was often mentioned in songs, and the latest one is nicknamed "Befsikke" (I think it is after the "bef" worn by judges) as he's quite a big imposing chap and looks like Judge Dredd from the USA comics π
This is Befsikke - that transmitter he has hauled away is easily north of 35 kilos, I've moved smaller ones around for the community radio station in my town (with the correct licence and authorisation, we relocated everything to the top of the general hospital maternity block) and those aren't particularly light either
Aha!
Well, the only time I met someone from a pirate station was as an eighties child: they asked me to please allow them to place a somethingwhatsoever near my small attick room. My parents lived downstairs and found out, and I was told to tell them to remove it because it was illegal. I remember listening to a pirate station, it was called Radio 100, I THINK. Some interesting people worked there, too.
I think building pirate transmitters was a very popular hobby amongst teens in NL during 1980s, there was a whole portion of the FM band from about 105-108 MHz that wasn't widely used (partly because the UK had polluted it by using it for public service comms rather than broadcast, so neighbouring countries didn't put high power transmitters there to avoid causing interference to UK). I've read a few sites where folk reminisce about doing this and even using the FM band like a CB radio or ai voice chat (where the pirates talked to each other over FM).
We did it to a lesser extent in UK, but it was a bit more risky as interfering with the comms of the buses / trains / gas / electricity / water workers (who used those frequencies) would result in trouble!
The Radio Controle Dienst seemed to be genuinely struggling with stopping folk taking the piss (as there's a risk of interfering with aircrafts radios) and stopping the stations growing to the size that organised crime groups took over and the scene got mixed up with the drugs networks (which happened a lot more in Britain) but at the same time not discouraging a *very* high level of tech skills amongst the Dutch youth.
Until "actie Etherflits" in the 2000s there seemed to be stations running 15 000 watts or more in their yards (which was pushing things a bit, as well as the interference risks, that much non-ionising radiation in a populated area isn't good for people)
Wow, I had no idea about 'Actie Etherflits'.
I did hear about the drugs though, shady things going on. I was glad to not be part of that, and my parents were right about asking them to remove what they placed. That all being said, as a youngster I was often accosted and asked if I wanted drugs. I never did. I once replied with 'I'm already high on life!' and the guy stared: I clearly was not high on life π I was struggling to stay alive, and I suppose that's what they saw.
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Ada@dgar I don't know what either of those two are
Jon Sullivan@dgar π Thanks. Thatβs some top shelf Internet right there.
minimantis@joncounts @dgar Can someone enlighten me plss..
@minimantis @dgar Check the alt-text. You've got to say it out loud.
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Christian ChevalleyNo I'm never gonna do it without The Fez on
Ighostrider@christianc @dgar was just gonna post exactly this lol
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Stargeezer Smith@dgar
Took me a minute.
Took me a minute.