Obsolete things

Tangerinemoss said:
As a kid at school, getting a nod and a name check off the great man in the Scrattin Shed was great. I still remember so many of his little phrases, 50 years later.
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Yes I can imagine! We used to stand in the SS and then moved to the west. Just as a matter of interest, why do you refer to it as the Scrattin shed as opposed to scratching?

He was a lovely, interesting man and always very interested in what I had to say too.
 
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Obsolete:

Encyclopedias - Google made them redundant
Readers Digest - the internet did for them
Twin tubs; automatic washing machines ruined things.
A-Z's - replaced by a Sat Nav
Sat Nav - replaced but an app on a phone with real time updates.
Vinyl - cassette - CD - MP3/4 - and assorted playing equipment, now streamed off your phone.
Satellite dishes and aerials
USB A and USB B and what other connector Apple produce.
Ink pads for finger prints
Use of indicators

I think the speed of obsolescence over the last few years is staggering really
 
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TotallyTangerine said:
Yes I can imagine! We used to stand in the SS and then moved to the west. Just as a matter of interest, why do you refer to it as the Scrattin shed as opposed to scratching?

He was a lovely, interesting man and always very interested in what I had to say too.
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I guess we always called it that.

Your are right, he was a polymath, some of the most interesting times were when he wasn't teaching French, but was just talking about his experiences, or a myriad of topics about which he was interested. I didn't even know there was a college of heralds until he spoke about its.
 
Lala said:
I know this won’t get a ton because it’s hard to remember the random things that you don’t miss.

But thinking back to the norms that now seem like a distant daft memory….

I’ll start with the ‘choke’ on a car. Like I had an escort mk2 in 1989, no-one ever explained the science of the choke to me, so I just pulled it out and hoped for the best. I’d heard rumours of flooding the engine but had no guidance on the right amount of pulling before ignition 🤣

And the immersion heater before you could have a bath ?
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Won't get a ton! You've smashed blood out the park recently, batting averages are off the scale. Best thread in ages by the way, really enjoyed it.
 
Malced said:
Bright copper kettles
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver-white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my obselete things

When my team lose
When I've no booze
When I'm feeling mad
I simply remember all of my dead friends.........
And then I don't feel so bad :)
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🤣🤣👏👏👏👏
 
What about Evel Knievel dolls with motorbike you had to rev with a plastic thingy? Etcher Sketchers that would be one jumbled crap scribble.
 
Smoking, I hardly see it today. My first job in 87 was office based, desks were scattered with ash trays and I used to sit opposite a chain smoker.
 
Has anyone said Blackpool ClubCall?

I used to ring it when I was 16/17 and was in the RAF. It was an 0898 rip off call rate.

It used to connect with the greeting of ‘This is Billy Ayre - welcome to Blackpool ClubCall’ and then it would connect through to the live commentary.

I would listen desperately for them to mention the score line. But often they didn’t me too it for ages - and the phone credit would be burning away until the dreaded pips were heard and I had to put in more money. What made it worse was the phone on the base was inside a social club and it was one of those yellow pay phones which charged even more than a standard telephone box.

I was rinsed of all my cash just to hear the score. But it was all worth it if I discovered we were winning. 😃
 
Malced said:
Dictionaries are so obselete that I didn't even know what one was. So I had to look up the meaning of the word in this old book I have that lists all words and their meanings. Having looked it up, I can confirm I agree that dictionaries are completely obsolete ;-)
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Should've just googled it.
 
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