I still use it, especially to prep. for shaving, - my wife prefers liquid soap such as Molton Brown but there's so much moisturising dditive in these expensive soaps that they often just slip right off wet hands, (maybe that's the plane so that customers use more).
Having been made redundant as an electronics technician, I used to repair colour TVs in the 1980s, on a freelance basis, cash in hand. Also buy ex-rental sets and sell them on. Lacking the money for a crosshatch generator, I found setting up the convergence on delta gun CRTs much easier when a test card was being displayed. As well as BBC2, there was the period before Channel 4 started broadcasts, an ITV strike, etc. Then I was given a Sinclair QL computer and programmed it to display various patterns, colour bars, etc. Later also a cheap old Betamax VCR to play a recorded test card.
The testcard had many tricks up it's sleeve in terms of setup including chroma and luma levels, saturation, bandwidth, geometry and overscan (important with CRTs), and many other more subtle transmission and reception fault detection aids.
Yes, indeedy. On the BBC testcard, the chalk 'x' on the blackboard was good for getting the static convergence right first. Plus all the things you mention.
I feel old now when even the earlier year on Pick of the Pops is from when my liking of music in quantity was beginning to fade.
Or we remember many years when such forums did not even exist.
It does appeal to my sense of humour when graduates can't even spell University
You mean like, when people used to go into pubs and talk to real people.Or we remember many years when such forums did not even exist.
It does appeal to my sense of humour when graduates can't even spell University
I remember talking to people, sometimes strangers even, at the bus stop. Rarely are there any other passengers waiting now but I can always talk to myself instead and pretend I'm on a hands-free if anyone looks. 
Another sign of old age, use of the word 'nowadays' to refer to a word which has been in common parlance for over 25 years
After POTP today I feel rather younger, by contrast. A sixties/eighties combo, so the first year was well before my earliest musical memories (though I have picked up on the vast majority of the songs since), and in the second year I was still at school.
If anything, today was a big exception having a 60s year again. It's once the earliest year is well into the 80s that the show feels old.
... and Toffo being called Toff-O-Luxe).
How many issues were there of this? Have heard of them, but never actually seen one. A precursor presumably to the Rothmans football yearbooks, which were also sponsored by a tobacco company, but had to be paid for.
Park Drive were a Gallaher brand. and the latter acquired Benson and Hedges in 1955. B&H were certainly in the sport yearbook market (I rated the cricket ones very highly) but I've no idea if a football one was ever produced by them.
Think Benson and Hedges were also associated with a couple of horse racing books in the 1970s/1980s.
Yep. 1990. "Snickers" was the Mars Inc. global brand name, and was supposedly named after the Mars family's favourite horse back in the 1930s.
late 60's, no idea how many issues but some available on ebay.
I'm not an 'older person' but I use bars of soap.
We've been saving on Carex liquid soap by refilling the 250ml dispensers from 5 or 10l bottles bought from Costco. I works out at less than half price, (but still not as cheap as tablet soap).
Opal Fruits are currently being sold in Poundland!
