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Post by htmb on Aug 14, 2015 17:40:38 GMT
I don't like to talk on the telephone much at all, and those types of calls drive me nutty, too, Cheery. I'm on a list as well, but still get calls from time to time. Usually, if I don't recognize the number, I just don't answer the phone. If it's really all that important they can leave me a message.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2015 17:52:55 GMT
And I'm on the list, too, and get about two calls every day -- but it is almost always the same numbers being dialled automatically, so sometimes I finally answer and then hang up on them to at least get off that list as having been contacted.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 14, 2015 22:30:24 GMT
One or two of the robo-calls I've gotten have said "Press 2 to have your number removed from our calling list." Since then, I always try pressing two on a recorded junk call, and it often says "your number has been added to our do not call list." Made me feel pretty smart. Till Mr. Kimby read that this is just a ploy to determine if there's a live person at the number. Now they're probably selling our phone number to all the other telemarketers. :-(
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Post by htmb on Aug 14, 2015 23:23:32 GMT
That's not good. :-(
I don't answer because I don't want to talk, but also because I'd always heard if you didn't answer they'd eventually figure the number wasn't really in service.
For awhile I was getting calls from my phone company, of all places, trying to get me to upgrade my service. I finally talked with a representative and indignantly told her I'd be dropping their service completely if they didn't stop calling. She acted surprised. Now they send letters in the mail which I recycle without opening.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2015 4:04:24 GMT
I have heard that envelopes should not be recycled because the glue makes them unusable.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2015 9:32:25 GMT
I remember having to change flashbulbs after every picture and how the invention of flashcubes seemed to be an incredible technological advance.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 13, 2015 12:12:56 GMT
Flashbulbs... I had forgotten...
A cube with 4 flashbulbs... 4 pics.
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Post by rikita on Sept 17, 2015 11:42:34 GMT
flashbulbs? cubes?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2015 12:39:25 GMT
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Post by rikita on Sept 17, 2015 13:09:36 GMT
cool ... looks like a lot of stuff to carry around though ...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2015 13:32:12 GMT
They all had huge photo bags back then for all that stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2015 17:24:00 GMT
I remember the pioneeer days of the internet when connecting to the web would block the telephone line and nobody could reach you. Many of us ended up getting a second land line just for the computer.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 15:25:12 GMT
"Mood" rings
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2015 2:32:05 GMT
I know I am not the only one to remember these ~  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 3:39:32 GMT
Oh yes. I loved seeing them.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2015 4:19:18 GMT
I'm sure I can remember seeing them at least until I was in high school and maybe later, too. But for some reason, I always associate them with when I was a little kid in Georgia. I think they were doing road work near our house & I saw the smudge pots lit up at night & it stuck with me -- it's fragmented, but a real memory.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 5:55:37 GMT
There was another version used at roadwork sites at night before they got the battery operated flashers.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 13:35:58 GMT
Oh wow,yes I do remember them.
What were they called though?
I wish I had a few of them now although, they rust out and wouldn't last too long here unless taken inside when not in use.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2015 16:11:44 GMT
They are smudge pots. When I googled to get the photo, I saw shiny new ones being sold for patio lights. The old ones are "collectibles".  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 16:28:02 GMT
Amusingly enough, you get almost exactly the same photos if you google images of "old road work lanterns."
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 29, 2015 16:43:00 GMT
In this country they used to use hurricane lanterns on road works. I've still got one in a cupboard in case of powercuts. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 16:58:53 GMT
They are smudge pots. When I googled to get the photo, I saw shiny new ones being sold for patio lights. The old ones are "collectibles". Well, I guess that qualifies us as "collectibles".... I've been called worse. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 17:05:02 GMT
In this country they used to use hurricane lanterns on road works. I've still got one in a cupboard in case of powercuts. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" speaking of collectibles and your mention of hurricane lamps,I do have a collection of functional old and semi new ones that have proved themselves invaluable during hurricanes and power outages but not recommended to read by. And, I find the older ones aesthetically pleasing. |
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Post by htmb on Nov 29, 2015 17:08:31 GMT
Some Florida growers (not my family) used to fire these up in the citrus groves:  Source |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2015 17:24:54 GMT
That's the WMD version of a smudge pot.
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Post by htmb on Nov 29, 2015 17:34:35 GMT
Yes, it is. I always knew when it was really cold outside in the morning before school, because I could smell them, along with the burning tires, and the air was dark and thick with smoke.
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Post by breeze on Nov 29, 2015 19:39:55 GMT
Is the smudge pot a thing of the past, or just this particular style?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2015 20:03:57 GMT
I'm pretty sure they are not used for road work any more. Some kind of heaters are still used in citrus groves, but I don't know if actual fire is still involved Those heaters Htmb showed reminded me of a similar item from the past. When we lived in Spain (1950s), there was a coal-fueled heater downstairs, but it didn't heat the whole house well enough so we also used kerosene heaters. My brother & I used to hang over them to turn our nostrils black. Fun times!  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 29, 2015 20:07:45 GMT
Duh -- sorry, didn't see Htmb's answer until I was looking at Recent Posts.
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Post by patricklondon on Nov 29, 2015 22:06:54 GMT
Those heaters Htmb showed reminded me of a similar item from the past. When we lived in Spain (1950s), there was a coal-fueled heater downstairs, but it didn't heat the whole house well enough so we also used kerosene heaters. Oh lordy, lordy, paraffin heaters..... In the days before central heating, my parents' Victorian house would have coal fires in the kitchen/living room and upstairs drawing room. So there was a paraffin heater in the bathroom to at least try to warm up the towels, and since the upstairs drawing room was big and draughty and the staircase and hall weren't heated and no-one wanted to be running up and downstairs all evening, my mother put a paraffin heater in there to keep a kettle going for tea (it took quite a while before we got an electric kettle). And if you were ill, you might get one in the bedroom. I still remember the pattern the pierced top of it made on the ceiling once the lights were turned off. But I hated it when I had a cold because the heat made me cough all the more (still does).  My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" |
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