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· Posted: 11.11.2021 · #81

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Does it come in pink.

It is pink (black n white photo )

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· Posted: 11.11.2021 · #82

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Think I'd rather walk

Coward.

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· Posted: 12.11.2021 · #83

80 miles to the Gallon in the 1930’s!
We haven’t improved much in the last Ninety years 🧐🤨

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· Posted: 12.11.2021 · #84

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80 miles to the Gallon in the 1930’s!
We haven’t improved much in the last Ninety years 🧐🤨

Speaking of 80MPG or approximately 80MPG. Around the turn of the century VW were working on an ultra efficient variant of the VW Lupo that was intended to be capable of travelling 100km on just 3l of diesel or about 94mpg in old money, they referred to it as the 3 liter Lupo.
There is huge levels of industrial espionage in the motor industry and a determination not to let a competitor get too far ahead so when Renault heard about a 3 liter Lupo, despite hearing nothing but the 3 liter Lupo bit, they moved very quickly to respond with a model of their own... the Clio V6 which was an absolutely insane race car with a 3 liter V6 engine mounted behind the front seats.

3 Liter Lupo

Clio V6

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· Posted: 12.11.2021 · #85

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· Posted: 12.11.2021 · #86

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· Posted: 13.11.2021 · #87

That's the French for you.

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· Posted: 13.11.2021 · #88

Was on the M1 heading into Belfast this morning and a clio which looked like that one passed me, same color as well.

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· Posted: 13.11.2021 · #89

I drove one about for a couple of weeks some years back.
Went like sh*t off a shovel

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· Posted: 19.11.2021 · #90

Vintage bra for female war workers during WWII

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· Posted: 19.11.2021 · #91

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Vintage bra for female war workers during WWII

No bouncey bouncey with things like that in place.

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· Posted: 20.11.2021 · #92

So that's where Madonna got the idea....

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· Posted: 20.11.2021 · #93

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So that's where Madonna got the idea....

More like ‘the village peoples’ hard hat !

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· Posted: 20.11.2021 · #94

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Vintage bra for female war workers during WWII

Designed for protection against the bouncing bomb

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· Posted: 20.11.2021 · #95

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Vintage bra for female war workers during WWII

Designed for protection against the bouncing bomb

Little did some soldier know where his hard hat was going to end up.

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· Posted: 20.11.2021 · #96

Glad you said "hat"

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· Posted: 20.11.2021 · #97

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Glad you said "hat"

Can you explain what you mean.

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· Posted: 20.11.2021 · #98

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Glad you said "hat"

Can you explain what you mean.

Use your vivid section of your imagination.

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· Posted: 21.11.2021 · #99

Without wishing to drift too far off topic, the underwear pic reminded me of an awkward moment from a few years ago.
I was about to drive to Cork city and my wife asked if I would call into Dunnes and collect a bra for her.
How will I know which one? Simple, she took a picture of the correct box onto my phone.
I managed to furtively make it to the underwear section in Dunnes, and found the rack of bras.
Out comes the phone, and I held it up to check which bra box matched the pic.
I was suddenly aware of someone stood beside me as I stood staring at ladies underwear with my phone pointed towards the display.
'Hello, how are you?' said my teenage daughter's best friend.........

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· Posted: 21.11.2021 · #100

You didn’t find a gang of priests in there Tony, looking for a way out !?

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· Posted: 29.11.2021 · #101

Salesman having his motorised roller skates filled up in 1961. He has a single horsepower air-cooled engine strapped to his back and holds a clutch, accelerator and engine cut-off switch in his hand. (Photo by F. Roy Kemp)

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· Posted: 29.11.2021 · #102

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Todays version of this would be a battery bank on his back,an electric lead which he would have to plug in for about 2 hours.
Technology has moved on .

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· Posted: 29.11.2021 · #103

Oh you oldies are stuck in your ways

My Sons electric scooter does 60miles and up to 48mph. The only way to get about where he lives due to traffic. That or his 60 mile range electric bike.

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· Posted: 29.11.2021 · #104

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Oh you oldies are stuck in your ways

We will have less of that old boy thing.

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· Posted: 30.11.2021 · #105

Stone masons. Waterford, Ireland, 1903.

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· Posted: 30.11.2021 · #106

All wearing suits and ties....flat caps and moustaches

..... imagine trying to pick one of them out in a police line up!

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· Posted: 30.11.2021 · #107

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All wearing suits and ties....flat caps and moustaches

..... imagine trying to pick one of them out in a police line up!

The one with the three Collies.

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· Posted: 30.11.2021 · #108

You probably find the ones with hard hats were the more experienced or senior ones

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· Posted: 30.11.2021 · #109

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All wearing suits and ties....flat caps and moustaches

..... imagine trying to pick one of them out in a police line up!

Always pick on the ginger kid, he will have done it even if he wasnt there lol

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· Posted: 30.11.2021 · #110

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You probably find the ones with hard hats were the more experienced or senior ones

When you signed on for your apprenticeship, you got the flat cap,and a brush, second year the apron, third year the Mallet,and you only qualified when you could grow a mustache, when you got experience, you got to wear the hard hat, and finally, the Boss, got to dispense with the apron and wear his Jacket too work.

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· Posted: 02.12.2021 · #111

Windows 95 VHS video guide with Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston.

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· Posted: 02.12.2021 · #112

lovers guide 4??????

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· Posted: 02.12.2021 · #113

Two local businessmen destroy a Japanese made car in 1988.

American car companies suffered in the 1980s as Japanese vehicles were cheaper and more reliable. Some major US car companies even had to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to avoid going under.

In response, American business owners large and small made a heavy "Buy American" push in the late 1980s as the quality of Japanese goods soared.

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· Posted: 02.12.2021 · #114

They look like they're warming up for an anti-mask protest.

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· Posted: 02.12.2021 · #115

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They look like they are having a smashing time

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· Posted: 02.12.2021 · #116

Might be a rehearsal for a Hammer Horror film... geddit? See what I did there?:Hammer? Horror? Oh never mind..... I'm wasted here.

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· Posted: 03.12.2021 · #117

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· Posted: 04.12.2021 · #118

Photographed in 1974, freshly excavated 2000 year old Terracotta warriors still showing the original color scheme before rapid deterioration. (China)

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· Posted: 30.12.2021 · #119

Oxford Bags, the ridiculously wide-legged trousers of the 1920s.

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· Posted: 15.02.2022 · #120

The massive effort from America of the Liberty Ships being made in 1941 for WWII. The Allies needed ships by the hundreds to replace huge losses. In all, 2,751 Liberties were built between 1941 and 1945, making them the largest class of ships built worldwide.

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