Trivia Investigation Team

[myglaren]

You need to view it through a mirror!

[CitroJim]

I have no such problem with mine... GPS synchronised

[mickthemaverick]

You need to view it through a mirror!

But then I wouldn't be able to read the maker or the date Steve?

[mickthemaverick]

I have no such problem with mine... GPS synchronised

Not sure you've actually realised what's happening Jim, you do need to watch the video!!

[myglaren]

You already know the maker and the date is unimportant.

Mine, a cheap Lorus, keeps perfect time, years old and second hand.
It just sits on the desk most of the time though, I rarely need it.

[CitroJim]

I have no such problem with mine... GPS synchronised

Not sure you've actually realised what's happening Jim, you do need to watch the video!!

Just seen it Mick, did not even see it was a video - thought it was still photo and showing rubbish timekeeping... You know me, I ignore videos by default

Shame it's now OK, you could have sold it as a time-machine and made a fortune with a device that can wind back time

Wonder what caused that then Never seen that happen on my Garmin...

[PaulC5]

I changed a battery in a clock once and that started going backwards. I checked the battery in case it had reversed polarity but not and when I put the battery back in it then ran normally.

[CitroJim]

I changed a battery in a clock once and that started going backwards. I checked the battery in case it had reversed polarity but not and when I put the battery back in it then ran normally.

When I was a lad, we had a mains clock on the kitchen wall that would more often than not start running backwards after a power cut. The kind of motors in those were such that it was 50:50 which way they'd start up..

Most clocks using those motors had a mechanism that would wind up if the clock was going backwards and then unwind with enough energy to 'kick' the motor into rotating in the correct direction.

The mechanism in ours was broken.

It just sits on the desk most of the time though, I rarely need it.

Same here Steve, I rarely have need of a watch to tell the time - my world is full of clocks of various sorts and a watch as a timepiece is hardly ever necessary.

For many, many years I never wore a watch. It was when I started running seriously I started to wear one again and I wear it far more for the useful physiological data it gives me and for logging runs...

[myglaren]

Like my mother, I always knew the time to within ± 5 minutes. Could always wake whenever I wished to without an alarm clock.
No idea how that worked and it is completely unreliable now.

Always had a watch, rarely looked at it.

[CitroJim]

Could always wake whenever I wished to without an alarm clock.

I still can Steve! I'm truly a human alarm clock - and a pretty accurate one at that

[mickthemaverick]

Matt's wheel quiz has been moved to the quiz thread here

[bobins]

Now this is trivia.........


An anonymous stretch of beach on the south coast.....

Anonymous beach - own work

But it has a bit of history to it. It's been seen by many many millions of people around the world. It was used to help usher in a whole new era of music at the start of the 1980s.

Standing point - own work

A bloke in a clown's suit stood somewhere around on the flat bit of rock in the middle of the picture above and sang about Major Tom.

A place for friends - own work

Some of his friends from The Blitz Club joined him and sung in harmony on this spot above. Steve Strange was one of them. He also listened to what an old lady had to say.

Bulldozing place - own work

A bulldozer slowly helped the entourage push the 1970s away and bring in the new era on the shingle above.

And Kenny Everett had a hand in it all !

Bulldozer bringing in the new

Bowie and old lady

Blitz kids

Bowie

Bowie on rock