Things that are pretty much obsolete.

[blueish swede]

Shoe polish

 

[BrianW]

Mensa in Liverpool.

 

[Rory Bluelow]

See the conversation above a few pages back. I suspect more people are hanging on to land lines than we think. One thing that is now gone, though, virtually dead and buried, is telephone boxes. Those that survive seem to be mainly used for pissing in by homeless people (at least, I presume it's homeless people). Oh, and ads for Mandy, who claims to be a “strict disciplinarian”.

Mandy needs to turn her attention to people that piss in phone boxes.

 

[give it to gordon]

Walking around Tesco just now I would say deodorant

 

[johnny crossan]

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Also called Creamstone and dispensed as a reward by rag & bone men. Often used with "Red Raddle" (as my granny used to call it) for the shiniest wall copings in the street :)

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Leaded petrol

This one really get in my tits. It’s been ‘unleaded petrol’ for about 30 years. Surely it’s time to simply call it ‘petrol’.

 

[laserblue]

See the conversation above a few pages back. I suspect more people are hanging on to land lines than we think. One thing that is now gone, though, virtually dead and buried, is telephone boxes. Those that survive seem to be mainly used for pissing in by homeless people (at least, I presume it's homeless people). Oh, and ads for Mandy, who claims to be a “strict disciplinarian”.

There are also some that now house defibrillators and others used as a decoration outside pubs or in beer gardens.

 

[laserblue]

Mensa in Liverpool.

Accepting responsibility in Liverpool.

 

[Bill Walker]

Can't speak for UK, but definitely not obsolete in Europe. Many of us prefer manual. I know I do.

Really? Clutch in clutch out a hundred times in a traffic jam.
Haven't had a manual gear stick for 20 years don't ever want one again.

Good in SD sports cars I suppose.

 

[Bill Walker]

Nah still loads of manual cars in UK and Europe, its still seen as a premium to get an auto, however that will change as we move to electric cars.

I thought that was the case.
Last time I visited UK I ordered a hire car and forgot all about the manual thing.
Until I got in it. Had to remember to change gears.
They died out here many years ago through lack of demand.