Things that ought to be archaic - Page 3

infinite monkey · 01-02-2012, 01:12 PM

My phone books ARE the one thing I can actually find when I need them. They stay in one drawer, and I use them so little that they don't get tossed all over the house. So when I need a pizza number or whatever, I can actually find the phone book.

But things are different now, for sure. I don't have any of my friends' phone numbers memorized. I still remember some of my friends' numbers from high school though. Because we had to dial the phone. Sometimes, you had to try to dial really quietly because "what could you possibly have to talk about you just got off the bus with them?" and when the dial went back it seemed way too loud for how sneaky I was trying to be.

DanaC · 01-02-2012, 01:14 PM

hahahahaha

That brought back memories.

Whirrrrr clicketyclicketyclickety

HungLikeJesus · 01-02-2012, 01:20 PM

Archaic: Computer keyboards that can't easily switch between lowercase and uppercase letters, thus the user only types with one or the other.

infinite monkey · 01-02-2012, 01:21 PM

Shift key??????????

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

i mean what are you talking about/

Griff · 01-02-2012, 01:50 PM

Unintended pregnancy ought to be archaic. Hey ya gotta dream.

HungLikeJesus · 01-02-2012, 03:02 PM

I would extend that to any kind of human reproduction.

it · 01-02-2012, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

I would extend that to any kind of human reproduction.

unintended sex? i know what you mean man. i hate it when i'm working on a leader without my pants on and then fall on some innocent women passing by on the street just when she decided to go comando with a short skirt.

either that or you meant rape, but i'll assume you meant the leader thing.

kerosene · 01-02-2012, 06:22 PM

I think he meant the having babies part.

HungLikeJesus · 01-02-2012, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by kerosene

I think he meant the having babies part.

That's how I interpreted it.

BigV · 01-03-2012, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

hahahahaha

That brought back memories.

Whirrrrr clicketyclicketyclickety

SonofV asked me "What is that?" when a rotary dial phone was present in a scene in a movie recently. I explained, and also told him that's where the term "dial" a number comes from. He just kind of blinked.

Beest · 01-04-2012, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

I think milk men missed the boat, local daily delivery by enviromentally friendly transport. If you had been able to go online and enter an order in the evening and have it come the next day on the milk cart, they'd be more popular than ever. I beleive you can get grocery delivery in the UK, not here in the US though, but if internet odreing had come in before milk men were obsolete, it would have been a great fit.

Clodfobble · 01-07-2012, 11:48 AM

I get grocery delivery here, though I only order specific things from them because it's cheaper to get most of it myself at our regular store. I order it from them if I'd have to drive across town to the Whole Foods to get it myself.

01-02-2012, 01:20 PM	#33
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01-02-2012, 01:50 PM	#35
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Unintended pregnancy ought to be archaic. Hey ya gotta dream. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

01-02-2012, 03:02 PM	#36
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	I would extend that to any kind of human reproduction. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-07-2012, 11:48 AM	#42
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I get grocery delivery here, though I only order specific things from them because it's cheaper to get most of it myself at our regular store. I order it from them if I'd have to drive across town to the Whole Foods to get it myself. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

01-02-2012, 01:12 PM	#31
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	My phone books ARE the one thing I can actually find when I need them. They stay in one drawer, and I use them so little that they don't get tossed all over the house. So when I need a pizza number or whatever, I can actually find the phone book. But things are different now, for sure. I don't have any of my friends' phone numbers memorized. I still remember some of my friends' numbers from high school though. Because we had to dial the phone. Sometimes, you had to try to dial really quietly because "what could you possibly have to talk about you just got off the bus with them?" and when the dial went back it seemed way too loud for how sneaky I was trying to be.

01-02-2012, 01:21 PM	#34
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Shift key?????????? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? i mean what are you talking about/

01-02-2012, 06:22 PM	#38
kerosene Touring the facilities Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: The plains of Colorado Posts: 3,476	I think he meant the having babies part.

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