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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2016 18:41:12 GMT
Probably for you, it was no more dramatic than seat belt or smoking laws coming into effect for younger generations.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 23, 2016 10:50:12 GMT
Can you imagine the difficulty in trying to get little kids to keep a gas mask on? Or the sheer terror of kids looking to mum and dad for reassurance and seeing those horrible masks instead of their faces? There are clips of contemporary newsreels showing just that (they keep coming up in documentaries about the time), but in those days, of course, it was treated almost as a semi-humorous "Kids, eh?" sort of thing. They did have a deluxe Mickey Mouse version for children whose parents could afford them, and there was a special device that went completely over the top of a baby's cot or pram, and some adult had to pump it manually. One of the creepiest of the revived Dr. Who series recently involved aliens taking over the bodies of children in gas-masks in WW2 - "Are you my mummy?" My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam"
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2016 17:13:14 GMT
I knew someone would post that again!
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Post by chexbres on Oct 23, 2016 20:30:45 GMT
That monkey thing always creeps me out...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2016 18:18:33 GMT
I remember when television sets had vertical and horizontal hold buttons to turn to stop the picture from 'rolling' or becoming diagonal stripes. However, I have absolutely no memory of when the need for this feature disappeared. www.philcotv.com/Horiz010.jpg
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 15:55:11 GMT
You must have had a much more sophisticated model of TV than we did. I have absolutely no recall whatsoever of this feature nor do I understand it's purpose/function.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 19, 2016 18:07:27 GMT
Maybe you were so young that your parents would not let you touch the TV, Casi.
I suspect the horizontal & vertical hold buttons went away when transistors ("solid state") replaced vacuum tubes in televisions...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2016 18:58:08 GMT
Maybe you were so young that your parents would not let you touch the TV, Casi.
I suspect the horizontal & vertical hold buttons went away when transistors ("solid state") replaced vacuum tubes in televisions... Smarty pants.... I suspect having 3 older brothers who fiercely controlled the TV the more likely reason.
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Post by questa on Dec 20, 2016 0:57:10 GMT
I am sure that being told, "Don't touch it...it breaks easily...It cost a lot of money...you can't work it...here, let Daddy do it" has created in me the total inability to come to terms with today's technology.I handle emails and posts here (as long as I don't try pics) but my smart phone has me foxed and as for my tablet, I only play freeCell on it..it was a gift, I would not have chosen. My old Nikon camera I knew but the new Cannon is almost unusable for me.
Watching my grandkids fearlessly grabbing some tech toy or computer and make it do whatever kid wants reinforces my helplessness,"Here Grandma, let me do it...no,no, not like that, like this...You have to wait til the blah,blah, blah...I think you are too old to understand (from a 6 year old) etc"
Oh Dear, I'm a Luddite.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 11:02:44 GMT
I remember when learning about the main sources of energy in school amounted to learning about lignite and anthracite.
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Post by chexbres on Dec 30, 2016 13:15:34 GMT
I remember when catsup and other condiment bottles weren't impenetrably sealed for your protection.
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Post by mossie on Dec 30, 2016 15:02:50 GMT
I remember when Father Christmas was real.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 16:07:56 GMT
I am sure that being told, "Don't touch it...it breaks easily...It cost a lot of money...you can't work it...here, let Daddy do it" has created in me the total inability to come to terms with today's technology.I handle emails and posts here (as long as I don't try pics) but my smart phone has me foxed and as for my tablet, I only play freeCell on it..it was a gift, I would not have chosen. My old Nikon camera I knew but the new Cannon is almost unusable for me. Watching my grandkids fearlessly grabbing some tech toy or computer and make it do whatever kid wants reinforces my helplessness,"Here Grandma, let me do it...no,no, not like that, like this...You have to wait til the blah,blah, blah...I think you are too old to understand (from a 6 year old) etc" Oh Dear, I'm a Luddite. But Questa, Luddites are Luddites because of a particular philosophy, not out of fear or ignorance. You've internalized the oppression of the patriarchy! When I got into computers in the 1990s it was required by my work, needing to write documents and create graphic art for publicity. They had me really intrigued. The thing is that nowadays, every bit of information required to work an electronic device is to be found either on the device itself or on the internet. If google and its ilk didn't exist I would be lost. Operating a computer (and everything is a computer these days) is simply an acquired skill that, yes, a child can learn, and far easier than walking or reading, which you seem to have mastered quite well! I've watched a baby in a pram amuse himself at the doctor's office swiping, tapping and choosing videos to watch on his mum's iphone. You can do it!
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Post by whatagain on Jan 3, 2017 10:13:35 GMT
I am old enough to have started XT computer with a dos floppy disk... And old enough to have upgraded my AT from512 k internal memory to .... 640 k. Which it soooo much more efficient.
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Post by mossie on Jan 3, 2017 19:52:48 GMT
Now here is a proper computor, and spelt properly into the bargain
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Post by questa on Jan 5, 2017 10:21:29 GMT
You've internalized the oppression of the patriarchy! What an interesting quote...reminds me how in the 60s-70s I drove around in my red MGB with a bumper sticker "Subvert the dominant paradigm " It balanced the sticker on the other end of the bumper "Eschew obfuscation "
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 5, 2017 14:45:07 GMT
I am sure that being told, "Don't touch it...it breaks easily...It cost a lot of money...you can't work it...here, let Daddy do it" has created in me the total inability to come to terms with today's technology.I handle emails and posts here (as long as I don't try pics) but my smart phone has me foxed and as for my tablet, I only play freeCell on it..it was a gift, I would not have chosen. My old Nikon camera I knew but the new Cannon is almost unusable for me. Watching my grandkids fearlessly grabbing some tech toy or computer and make it do whatever kid wants reinforces my helplessness,"Here Grandma, let me do it...no,no, not like that, like this...You have to wait til the blah,blah, blah...I think you are too old to understand (from a 6 year old) etc" Oh Dear, I'm a Luddite. I don't think you are a Luddite, Questa. More likely, it's a matter of the all-too-common way people who already know how to do something "instruct" the newbie -- with impatience and inadequate or confusing directions. This seems to be particularly prevalent with electronic gadgets. When I first used a tablet, I simply couldn't get my touch on the touch screen right. My sister, who'd had an iPad for a while, would snort with impatience as she huffily directed me to "just tap it gently". And when I was learning how to use a computer, I remember a woman who'd airily sit in front of it and perform some function with her hand on the mouse, say, "See?!", then smile with superiority over not having taught me a damned thing. A valuable lesson I did learn from TTR was how not to teach people to post pictures. I'm not saying I'm a great teacher, but I am more than happy to walk anyone through whatever they need via PM. This benefits everyone because it allows me to use you to hone the instructions so they can be posted for everyones use.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 15:02:11 GMT
You've internalized the oppression of the patriarchy! What an interesting quote...reminds me how in the 60s-70s I drove around in my red MGB with a bumper sticker "Subvert the dominant paradigm " It balanced the sticker on the other end of the bumper "Eschew obfuscation " First of all: You had an MGB? So did I! A nice candy apple red one, I had it for a couple of years in the early '90s, but it finally died. I had wanted one for years and, like Bixa's mixing bowl, a replacement will never be quite the same. Second of all: I was making up some wanky quote that some little baby feminists I know would be likely to throw around. Nothing too serious. It was just a reaction to the "Daddy" line.
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Post by questa on Jan 6, 2017 0:30:42 GMT
Lizzie...I couldn't imagine you in any other car of that era. Mine was 'Champion Red' not candy apple but vivid. It was the first of the 5 bearing crankshafts and ran as smooth as silk. I was in a car club and competed in rallies, sprint meetings and other competitions. In UK and Oz there was a tradition to raise your right finger off the steering wheel in salute to another MG as you caught the driver's eye. Did that happen where you were?
Ironically, my father was the most liberated man. He often told my brother and me that anything a boy could do a girl could do the same. My mother opened a real estate business which became very busy so he left his job and joined her staff but she remained the Boss. When I asked him how to work an old water heater he told me to look where the pipes went and work it out myself for 10 minutes, then he would help me. Mum was the same, encouraged my tomboy streak and sense of adventure.
Bixa, you are right as usual. People have been showing me for ages how to do stuff on my devices. If only they would put the thing in my hands then tell me, naming the buttons and let my fingers learn the routines.
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Post by whatagain on Jan 6, 2017 13:57:21 GMT
I say the same to my daughters when they (try) to explain to my wife how to use her laptop.
I personally quit. My wife is the worst laptop user. She doesn't care and so doesn't remember anything. Just not interested. But then she gets upset she cannot do her stuff. ..
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 17:26:25 GMT
Questa, my car already had vintage plates when I got it, blast from the past. I had never heard about the raised finger deal, but then again, I didn't know any other MGB owners. Here in BC they were a pretty small group, especially in the '90s. Only hardcore collectors have them now, I suppose.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 18:11:26 GMT
I remember when 72% of French cars ran on diesel, now down to 52% because diesel has fallen out of favour.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2017 10:32:22 GMT
I remember when mechanical pencils with replaceable graphite seemed like some sort of desirable innovation.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2017 21:42:00 GMT
I remember when mobile phones only had numerical buttons with the letters displayed like on old telephones (3 per key) and sending a text message was an incredible ordeal of choosing the correct letter after pushing each key several times.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 13, 2017 1:25:54 GMT
Whaddaya mean USED TO? My phone STILL HAS the abc2 def3 kinda keypad. I don't text a lot....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2017 16:48:07 GMT
I didn't spontaneously remember it, but today I saw a movie with a rotary dial telephone with one of those little metal locks that people used to put to prevent unauthorised use. Those were the days...
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 14:56:25 GMT
Tissue paper like stationary and envelopes used for Air Mail/Par Avion. I remember getting so excited when I would see one in the mailbox as I had a pen pal from Sweden. (knowing me, and the hoarder that I am I probably still have them... )
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2017 15:27:00 GMT
I loved airmail paper, because it was going to the other side of the world.
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Post by Kimby on May 15, 2017 23:56:01 GMT
Tissue paper like stationary and envelopes used for Air Mail/Par Avion. I remember getting so excited when I would see one in the mailbox as I had a pen pal from Sweden. (knowing me, and the hoarder that I am I probably still have them... ) I'm pretty sure I still have the airmails from an Ittalian boy and an Austrian girl I corresponded with throughout high school.... (They were in a drawer in my old bedroom till we sold the family home last year. Now they're languishing in a box in my shed.)
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Post by bixaorellana on May 16, 2017 0:10:57 GMT
Languishing?! You think a boy and a girl stuffed into a drawer, then later shut up in a box in your shed are only languishing? No funny smells coming from the shed, huh?
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