Charts a-go-goClio the cat, ?July 1997-1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ??2010-3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ???-4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ?2006-4 December 2025 Toni the cat ?2005-25 March 2026
Never really get the gold quantity thing...they say like two or three Olympic sized swimming pools would easily contain all the gold ever mined. I know Olympic sized swimming pools are big but come on, billions of people around the world own gold with their jewelry or other stuff (The Judge has quite a bit and Rhis had a few pounds of it if I remember lol) and more is being mined every day by huge companies and individuals like Australians digging it up and leaving the place like a lunar landscape!
Just don't get the quantity/volume thing."I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."
Lots of gold is less than pure, being alloyed with other metals. When I were a lad in the 70s someone said that if all the gold in the world was collected it would have the volume of a pair of semi-detached houses, which was a surprise.Clio the cat, ?July 1997-1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ??2010-3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ???-4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ?2006-4 December 2025 Toni the cat ?2005-25 March 2026
Yeah, I get the impurity thing but still, the "all the gold mined in history" fitting in a few swimming pools still makes me say, WTF?
When I wer't lad, you'd think Egypt was swimming in gold, not gold measured in swimming pools.
I actually got to see the Tutankhamun exhibit in the London Museum in 1972. Back then, we could never afford holidays so had the odd day out in London, catching the rattler from Kettering station to St Pancras. We had the morning sightseeing and then headed down to the museum and joined in a cue...had no warning about the wait, it wasn't the era of the internet. Anyway, we waited 3 hours to get in. It was only later that we realised that we had just walked in at a corner of the que about half way through and no one said nowt. We would not have done that if we had known. Otherwise it might have been 6-8 hours wait.
I remember the exhibits to this day, they had arranged them in a walk through process, dimly lit apart from the glass cases containing the treasure. It was really very moving, even at that age and it still gets me now, such personal objects. No one spoke, it was so silent...glad I didn't know about the "curse" back then or I am sure it would have got me! "I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."
In the late 60s to 1973 we used to go and stay at Uncle Tom's in Barking so me mum and me nana could watch Wimbledon on the telly. Uncle Tom would organise some free or cheap tickets for them. Imagine going down the M1 in a Bedford van with wooden benches along the sides and me sat in the wheel well on a camping stool. When I watch Withnail I keep a lookout for it on the motorway. We went all over and I liked the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum. Didn't like the V&A though, all them clothes. Oh and the IWM, especially the big guns outside.Clio the cat, ?July 1997-1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ??2010-3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ???-4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ?2006-4 December 2025 Toni the cat ?2005-25 March 2026
"Imagine going down the M1 in a Bedford van with wooden benches along the sides and me sat in the wheel well on a camping stool."
Sounds like Porridge "A Day Out"!
The Natural History Museum...my gawd, those dinos where better than my Tarzan comics!
Even at that young age, I cottoned on to some sort of weird crap...tinted windows in big cars and Range Rovers...well, it was fucking Kensington.
I hate Kensington...went to their famous market to get a pair of Beetle Crushers...was in a punk group at the time...could only get them two sizes too big, still bought them. Fuck, killed my feet with the biggest blisters I ever had after trying to close the heel gap with cardboard and cotton wool..a fellow band member said it worked for him, the fucker! Only wore them once...well, half once.
"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."
I had a pair of monkey boots for about 16 years; broke my heart when the cobbler refused to restitch the heels. Mind you, the first time I wore them they blistered the tops of my feet. Once the were walked in they were like slippers. ;O)
My cousin once took me out on a red rover....Clio the cat, ?July 1997-1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ??2010-3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ???-4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ?2006-4 December 2025 Toni the cat ?2005-25 March 2026
on June 28, 2026, 7:53 pm
