Andz From South Africa, joined Feb 2004, 8306 posts, RR: 11 Reply 1, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2417 times:
That TV is as old as the hills, get a pic of a TV made anywhere in that era and they'd all have the same look. Dad's Army was a TV show from the early 70s.
After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says WTF...
AsstChiefMark From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 2216 times:
Heh.... I remember the scene from European Vacation where a befuddled Rusty is punching the FIVE channel buttons on the TV. The only channel he can get is showing a BBC documentary on cheese. Ahhhh! Good old British TV!
Zippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 4740 posts, RR: 13 Reply 7, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 2137 times:
BristolFlyer From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 2143 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 2104 times:
Using the same argument, how come every car in the US looks like this:
NumberTwelve From Germany, joined Dec 2004, 1431 posts, RR: 10 Reply 9, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 2098 times:
ouch, Zippyjet, ok, we are "Old Europe" (Rumsfeld said) and we are proud of it - on the other hand also we have 21st century and some of our cities already have electricity and telephone.
I am wondering what some people from the "new" world think about the rest of the world.
Also can't understand why you have that big cableless phones I saw 1982 in Dynasty and Denver Clan.
NoUFO From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 7802 posts, RR: 13 Reply 10, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 2079 times:
Either Zippy is trying to pull a leg on us, or he is obsessed with Outey picture tubes, whatever that may be.
And England is of course not "the continent".
Catatonic From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2004, 1155 posts, RR: 3 Reply 11, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 2079 times:
That guy actually thinks we have TV's like that over here in this day and age, another example of how Americans can often be so oblivious to the world around them!!!
Christa From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 2059 times:
You know, there really are some very intelligent Americans out there who actually realize that their own country isn't the only one to have; TV's, Digital Television, DSL/Cable Internet, Motorways or should I say Autobahn's seeing as the Germans were the first to have them and not Americans.
An example of a standard European TV..
If you still don't believe me and the rest of the European A.netters, I give up
Captaingomes From Canada, joined Feb 2001, 6413 posts, RR: 58 Reply 13, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 2001 times:
Obviously Europeans have "outey" picture tube TV's as Mr. Zippy likes to call them, because they're a bunch of socialists, and can't afford anything due to high tax rates. Yeeeeeeeeah, that's it.
Disclaimer: My post is a satire on what many ultra-conservatives might say to the topic starter.
"it's kind of like an Airbus, it's an engineering marvel, but there's no sense of passion" -- J. Clarkson re: Coxster
Jfkaua From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 1000 posts, RR: 3 Reply 16, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1959 times:
why don't you get a picture of some old American TV's... they look just like that... sorry guys.. hes not the average american... i swear..
NoUFO From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 7802 posts, RR: 13 Reply 17, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 1953 times:
Don't worry Jfkaua, I still think he was pulling a leg on us, since the title of the websites he linked to ( http://www.eclipse.co.uk/mikey/ ) is unmistakeably called Mikey's VINTAGE technology page.
He Preben, don't forget Loewe. It's not that only you bloody Vikings build nice looking TV sets.
Zippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 4740 posts, RR: 13 Reply 19, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1836 times:
For heaven sake! I realize those TV's with the outey picture tubes are from back in the day, swinging 60's and the decade from hell known as the 70's. I still don't know why during that time period, those TV's looked like that? Was it design and operation related? I'm 48 years young and, do not know of any TV sets from any decade distributed in the USA that remotely resemble the examples I linked here. (Outey Picture Tubes) Where, did I imply, that Europeans were socialists, backward etc.? I just want to know about the significance of those outey TV tubes. OK? Someone wanted to see what old USA TV's looked like. Well, I'll show you.
Willo From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 1352 posts, RR: 13 Reply 20, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1793 times:
Zippyjet
I'm the same aga as you I remember seeing pictures of those US tv's in ads in National Geographic. Most of them were bigger than the house we lived in at the time. They probably wouldn't have left room for any other furniture in an average sized European house.
I mean those bits at the side - did the people on screen actually go of into them, like the wings at a theatre?
Zippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 4740 posts, RR: 13 Reply 21, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 1733 times:
Folks this is what I mean by an Outey picture tube TV or Telly.
Aloges From Germany, joined Jan 2006, 8392 posts, RR: 47 Reply 24, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1670 times:
Quoting Agill (Reply 23): Zippyjet: But still, thattv is from the 70:s
Which he did realise but forgot to say earlier:
Quoting Zippyjet (Reply 19): I realize those TV's with the outey picture tubes are from back in the day, swinging 60's and the decade from hell known as the 70's. I still don't know why during that time period, those TV's looked like that? Was it design and operation related?
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