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  1. Shangas

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    AYBS is one of the BEST comedy shows on television, without a doubt. It's just SO funny. But I agree with Butte, you have to understand the nuances of British comedy to find it funny. If you can't understand how it works, then it ain't funny. But if you do, you're likely to rupture a lung...
  2. Shangas

    Qantas Airlines Hostess Historical Fashion

    Qantas certainly has a few issues with safety. I'm not entirely sure I'd be flying on it anytime soon. But I believe it also holds the record of being the oldest passenger airline in the world.
  3. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    Hi Mike, You're missing the front tension-spring. It's a spiral-coiled piece of wire with a hook on the end (which the thread goes through). I daresay you could probably make one yourself, but you have to know what it looks like, first. This is my Grandmother's 1950s Singer 99k: What you...
  4. Shangas

    Attire at the Thatcher Funeral

    "Don't worry about the length, sir! You'll find that they'll ride up with wear!..." A tux is eveningwear. This is funerary morning-wear.
  5. Shangas

    Golden Era Police

    You mean something like this? (Bottom left):
  7. Shangas

    Shangas' Little Movie :)

    Melbourne in the Roaring Twenties...huh. Hardly Boardwalk Empire. For one, Melbourne's docks were almost all for industrial and commercial purposes. Not somewhere you'd take your girl for a stroll along the pier. Ain't Blackpool, you know. This the Port of Melbourne in the 1920s... You can...
  8. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    Oh that's easy to fix. And it's quite fun, too. But make sure you take the needle out before you start, or you'll be having a very painful experience.
  9. Shangas

    Could you survive?

    I'd never be sent off to war. My eyesight wouldn't allow it.
  10. Shangas

    Our own vintage town

    No, that may be a problem. We'll figure out something.
  11. Shangas

    Golden Era Police

    It IS the same whistle. It would just have different markings on the barrel. For example, I saw one with the initials "ARP" on it, for Air-Raid Precautions, at a flea-market.
  13. Shangas

    Golden Era Police

    The met-whistle lasted nearly 100 years. Police had used a hodgepodge of different whistles before then, as well as hand-rattles, but the official and original metropolitan whistle came out in 1883. It lastsed until ca. 1975, when it was replaced by handheld radios. Supposedly, British police...
  14. Shangas

    Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!

    Bugger the kale! Support charity-shops - Wear vintage
  15. Shangas

    Golden Era Police

    When I was on holiday in England, I purchased a Metropolitan police-whistle at the Sherlock Holmes Museum as a souvenir: I know they're really famous for being used in London, but outside of the UK and the British Empire, were they used anywhere else? Met whistles were popular because of...
  16. Shangas

    Our own vintage town

    You also need the appropriate music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG9jkM4kB08 ...and a sarcastic, skeptical deadpan voiceover track... It was Friday night and the rain was pouring outside. I sat alone in my office huffin' on my latest pack of smokes. The clock said four thirty, but it...
  17. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    The bent curved piece is the knee-bar. You stick it in the hole on the right and that turns the machine on when you plug it into the wall. Cleaning up a sewing machine is pretty easy. There's a how-to guide for that on my blog...
  19. Shangas

    Shangas' Little Movie :)

    It'd be a very short movie. I don't have nearly as many things as you might imagine!
  20. Shangas

    Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!

    I was reading back through this thread. How did kale enter the discussion? Are we discussing the dietary habits of the hipster now?
  21. Shangas

    Why!!!! Hipsters!!! Why!!!!!

    May I get in on this? I also despise kale.
  22. Shangas

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I'm watching "Are You Being Served?" I swear, this show is bad for your health. I've collapsed laughing so many times, I think I might have a heart-attack soon. Never eat, or drink while watching this program. It's a choking-hazard.
  23. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    I was never very good with electrical stuff. I suppose I could do it if I tried, but I'm not sure if I want to risk it. There is a shop in the next suburb which does sewing-machine repairs...

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