User Profile

[Arran]

There was a TV programme called You Bet! in the 1990s. It had sporting type challenges and challenges like identifying cars from their headlights. Could the contrast between the two have had any impact on society. Sporting = normal. Car headlights = weird?



Asperger Syndrome...

[Arran]

I'm interested in knowing if any school careers advisors recommended people in your year group to become website designers or web programmers. The internet was about to take off around the time you finished Y11 and it created many new types of careers.



I don't think the Asians...

[Arran]

I can believe this. However, such people are a quite scarce at classic car and retro computer events.

Something I have noticed is that very few Pakistanis are interested in gardening but a reasonably good number of Bangladeshis are - mostly for their native vegetables. However, they don't...

[Arran]

What did school careers advisers recommend for you? I wonder if any teenager has been recommended to become a sociologist.

To be honest, I think having all these hobbies and interests is a very British thing. Most immigrants (even second generation) in Britain don't have the same degree...

[Arran]

It appears to be part of Christmas season TV. There is a tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas time. There are four ghosts in A Christmas Carol.

Emerald City Productions was established in Ireland during the 1980s by two Canadians, Al Guest and Jean Mathieson.

There...

[Arran]

At long last I found it!

It's called The Mail Coach Ghosts. The second part of Ghost Stories from the Pickwick Papers. Produced by Emerald City Productions in 1987.

The other two stories are The Ghost in the Wardrobe, and The Goblin and the Gravedigger.

It was...