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Post by vince on Apr 17, 2014 20:37:36 GMT
In the late 50s (Nat.Service.) in Germany some of the hotels had Peternoster lifts..... they were terrifying we used to dare each other to go over the top........and NO I never had the nerve.
Untill quite recently there was a Paternoster in a HEALTH CLINIC in Prague
Joe.
There was one at a firm I worked for in the 70s, If you did go over the top you could see the workings. The platforms were like boxes suspended from a sort of big bike chain, with a huge cog at the top and bottom. Couldve been nasty if you fell in.
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Post by vince on Apr 17, 2014 20:56:01 GMT
You have to look past the mid 70's fashion (flares). And maybe the facial hair. Then you'll notice that not one person in the photo is fat. Yes, they used normal butter for cooking even as recently as 1976, and they may have drunk full-fat milk too - but all of that was nothing compared to the calorie-laden junk food culture nowadays. I attended a conference in the ExCel centre in London last week. One evening, I had the opportunity to take a 30 minute walk along the High Street. There was an infestation of fast food outlets next to each other: fried chicken and chips with a bottle of coke, halal burgers and chips with coke, pizza and curry with coke, curry and burgers with coke, chicken and pizza with coke... Food along the average high street is now something you casually grab - and munch as you walk because its cheap and convenient. Its no longer about nutritious sustenance. Sort of agree. Back then an average day, at least for many (me anyway), would be a fried breakfast, probably a couple of fried bacon or sausage sandwiches at tea break, something with chips for lunch, or maybe a cooked dinner in the canteen, home for a cooked tea, 6 or 8 pints of mild/bitter - no Lagers back then, Chicken & Chips / Curry at the Manzil or visit the Loreca, on the way home. Yes, people were thinner. I was like a stick. Without ever hearing about 5 a day, or low fat diets. If you wanted to lose weight, you ate less and moved more. Maybe the difference was that people got up early and went to work, worked harder, and walked places. You rarely saw a man out and about during the day, they were at work. Yes, there are a lot more fast food outlets, but I dont think thats the whole problem. Just a thought.
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Post by planetmalc on Apr 19, 2014 15:33:44 GMT
Cattle growth hormone, used by farmers to get bigger livestock for the same amount of food, has now got into us meat-eaters and is doing the same job on humans.
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Post by planetmalc on Apr 19, 2014 15:43:28 GMT
In the late 50s (Nat.Service.) in Germany some of the hotels had Peternoster lifts..... they were terrifying we used to dare each other to go over the top........and NO I never had the nerve.
Joe.
[/u][/p][/quote] I worked with a woman who'd had this happen to her on her first day at work after leaving school. She'd been scared to step off at the floor she wanted (wearing high heels, probably) and had gone right over the top. She was terrified because she thought that the lift would turn upside-down at the apex.
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