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4 hours ago, Crawford Bridge said:

Leave me on or leave me twos in relation to smoking.

Still very much in use when I was at school ~15 years ago.

See also beef or letters/writing when it gets even stingier than two's.

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6 hours ago, TxRover said:

No. By the time the first general use GUI’s came into use, roughly mid-1980’s, the 3.5” floppy standard had just been adopted and it was thus used for the first GUI save icon. The 5.25” was already on its way out, much like the 8” had all but disappeared by 1982. The reason was size for the 8” disk and capacity for the 5.25” disc. The 5.25” maxed at about 360KB, while the 8” could hold up to 1.2MB, but was too wide for the average desktop case. The 3.25” started with 360KB, quickly jumped to 720KB, and finally topped out at 1.44MB. Also, the advantage of a hard case versus the actually floppy floppy was a winner.

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7 hours ago, Zetterlund said:

The other day the Mrs' 87 year old gran said someone "has ants in his pants". Do people still use this? It was pretty common when I was growing up but maybe been 25 years since I heard it.

It means somebody called Anthony is interfering with the person concerned now.

7 hours ago, alta-pete said:

*phone rings*

Yer maw:

”Bridge of Weir 167?” 

Did you ever have a party line? Probably too posh in Bridge of Weir.

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Been watching Stranger Things with my youngest (10). One of the locations is a video rental shop.  That took a fair amount of explaining. 

Fortunately she didn't require an explanation as to the tangential significance of Cheech and Chong movies to the plot. 

I know it's not a saying, but it's the best i can do. 

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