Things that are pretty much obsolete.

[Lavinda Past]

One of our teachers used to wear a mustard yellow jacket. Lads used to flick ink up his back as he walked up and down the rows. He eventually had the jacket dyed blue, but he wasn't happy about it.

Now you can't do that with a Biro!

Ha Ha Ha!

It's made my day that has!

 

[Tuearts right boot]

My Dad used to have a little book called a ready reckoner that he used to use to sort out all the payments on his
UCD milk round back in the 60s/70s.

Reminds me... did we have in days gone by in maths...a book filled with nothing but lists of tables and numbers and if so....what was it called and used for ?

 

[Lavinda Past]

Did you not fancy a career as an internet moderator?

I was once asked if I'd ever considered becoming a magistrate....

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Don't get rid of CDs unless you really need to.

People have been buying vinyl for the last few years as though it's the best thing since sliced bread.

People like to have something real / tangible to collect. The very thing that streaming can't give you.

You can bet that CDs will come back into fashion at some point and, like LPs, some will be going for a lot more than you think.

I'm hanging on to all of mine (and I suppose I've got a couple of hundred). They're my substitute for furniture. Well, sort of.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

 

[Lavinda Past]

Health and Efficiency magazine.

Those of a certain vintage will know what I mean. ; )

National Geographic was an educational 'go to'...

 

[levets]

I do remember them, but we're talking 50s and early to mid 60s, I think?
They're not really pretty much obsolete, are they? They're downright obsolete and have been for decades.
It's a bit like the “outside shitters” that someone mentioned earlier. The only time I saw one was at my nan's, in Burnley (two up, two down, fireplaces upstairs and downstairs of course, cobbled street, etc.) Never, ever saw one Dahn Sarf. Just confirmed everything that nine-year-old me thought about the Norf.

We had outside toilet as a kid. We moved in 1970 and what a joy to have an indoor loo. My dad still had an outside loo well into the 1970s, he moved to a modern housing in 1978

 

[Lavinda Past]

Cameras, calendars, diaries, calculators

I still use all of those on a regular basis.

I live in FOC world.

 

[manclad]

Reminds me... did we have in days gone by in maths...a book filled with nothing but lists of tables and numbers and if so....what was it called and used for ?

Are you thinking of -
Sines, Co-sines and Tangents.
I seem to remember having that book in my school bag about 55 years ago.

 

[levets]

Reminds me... did we have in days gone by in maths...a book filled with nothing but lists of tables and numbers and if so....what was it called and used for ?

It had logarithms, sines and cosines in a table