Things that ought to be archaic

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Sundae

However when it comes to recipes, I doubt I will ever buy a book again.
Horses for courses x

Ahhh, that old French cookery book.

[it]

when it comes to clothes & shoes of all kind in general i agree... i'm a large guy and unfortunately XXXL is used to tag anything between tall to broad to fat and any figure in between... and when it comes to getting the right suit its a hell of a lot worst.

there are shops that do laser body scans, but you can usually only use them at that shop, and its really expansive shops that can afford buying those (as gimicks).

i wouldn't buy vegtables or meats online either.

[DanaC]

Yeah, I'm not sure how happy I'd be with perishables. Unless it was something like a tesco delivery, or the glocal farm foods sites.

[Sundae]

Trac - I've got you there.

The evil ex took me to a January sale in a prestigious store because I'd lost weight.
My (late) Christmas present was supposed to be £200 in clothes.
When I realised the largest size was XL and that was UK size 12 (I was a size 14) I stormed out. I was a mite touchy, but that's what he brought out in me.
Big row and no present afterwards, just the suggestion that I either lost more weight or grew a tougher skin.

I gave up on internet shopping for food when ordering online for EEA.
You could either TICK for alternatives and get the wrong type of coffee or NO and not get any toilet paper, despite ordering twelve packs (it was for the whole office/ workshop). And yes, much of what arrived had a sell-by or use-by date of one day, pointless when the last office delivery was on Friday and the Board Members met on Sunday.

Cheaper (for the company) for me to shop individually, get the freshest things and just charge them for the taxi back to the office.

[it]

...which is one of the many reasions you never exchange money you can use everywhere for money you can use in only one place and give it as a gift. its taking the act of actually giving someone money as a gift (thus proving you have no idea what they enjoy) and finding a way to make it worst.

back to topic - the war on drug.

i know there's a topic devoted to that but it fits here - should be archaic & isn't.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by traceur

...which is one of the many reasions you never exchange money you can use everywhere for money you can use in only one place and give it as a gift. its taking the act of actually giving someone money as a gift (thus proving you have no idea what they enjoy) and finding a way to make it worst.

Actually it was just one of the many reasons he was a shit.
He waited until the New Year sales, then told me my present all along was to overspend on me, and specified the shop despite it being a cash purchase and when nothing fit me, made me feel guilty for ruining it all.

I behaved stroppily, but his arseholiness was subsequently proved many times over. He offered the same deal to his ex FIRST. She was a stick compared to me. She slapped his face, as she suspected he was with me. I found this out years later. But hey - he saved himself £400.

[DanaC]

And that's why he's probably not got anybody who is at all sorry about his finger.

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Sundae

MANY smaller businesses do not have their own website - especially fast food, mobile hairdressers, odd-job men, taxi firms etc.

If you sell them one for $399 you can have $100 of it as commission.

And if you have a quick query for a shop "Are you open tomorrow?" it's much quicker to find the number and dial and talk to a human being.

Not for the human being though, who is merely annoyed by having to answer "we're open today until 9", 27 times per day.

[Sundae]

I've been that human.
It's far nicer than "Rah, rah, rah, stupid product design your fault explicitly, should come out of your personal wages, rah, rah, rah!"

That said, if more websites had the information I needed on their homepage I'd be less inclined to phone them.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Sundae

I've been that human.
It's far nicer than "Rah, rah, rah, stupid product design your fault explicitly, should come out of your personal wages, rah, rah, rah!"

That said, if more websites had the information I needed on their homepage I'd be less inclined to phone them.

So, are we now back to the OP ?

The web is accessible by smart phones, and is the perfect (update-able) database
for phone numbers and addresses and linkages to people, etc.
with pics and fonts and colors prn.

Phone books are duplicated, static, annual, non-requested, non-recyclable,
yellow- or white- bound volumes of single sheet toilet paper,
that just add to the volume of trash.

They probably continue to exist only because retailers are afraid
they might lose a sale if they even slightly tweek the old way of spending their advertising $.

BTW, ask me again and I'll tell you what I really think.
I might even include another thing that should be archaic: "junk mail".

[Sundae]

No smart phones in this house.
We have reasonable but not reliable coverage in this house or in this town (we're in a valley).

Quicker to find on paper.
Ask me again and I'll tell you the same

I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm saying YMMV.

I get you re junk mail.
And 90% of leaflets.
But the 10% are fast food places that can't survive any other way. And we use them occasionally.
And recycle the leaflets.

[it]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Actually it was just one of the many reasons he was a shit.

i'm sensing i entered a new stage in my life, one that can be sumed up in 3 lines:
"i hate my xwife!"
"i hate my xhusband!"
"we have so much in common!"

which brings me to the next thing that ought to be archaic: marriage.

living together is a choice two people make.
celebrating it is a choice two people make.
sharing custady of a child is a choice two people make.
paying for someon else's tax benefits is a choice that single people didn't make.

adoption agencies wanting a commited couple can look into shared property. immigration can seperate sponsorship from marriage. people should be able to make visitor and decision makers lists in databases hospitals can look at, etc.. this is also useful for cases where you might love your life but don't neccessrily agree that with her religious views about comma or organ donations.

marriage as a legal instrument shouldn't be treated differently from a regular contract.

[infinite monkey]

Phone books rocked when we had Ma Bell. I used to actually check it out when it came.


Now you get 5 or 6 different phone books and it depends on how much money a company has to invest in advertising as to what phone books they have a comprehensive listing in. Small businesses around here, sometimes they might be in the 'county' book but the 'this city and that city and that one other town' book never heard of them, for example.

I just got another one the other day. It was on my front step for I don't know how long, wrapped in its little plastic bag. It went onto the pile.

[DanaC]

I got my new Yellow Pages today lol

I was in the process of bagging up stuff for the dump, so it went straight into the papers and magazines bag.

[Sundae]

Traceur we live in separate worlds I think.
I was married, but not to the evil ex. I call him that simply to differentiate.



I sense I'm in the minority re phone books though.
I surrender.