[Closed] Things you used to do in the olden days?

I used to create nostalgia threads on web forums. Of course back then we called them bulletin boards,

I'm logged into a [url= http://www.mono.org ]bulletin board[/url] right now.

A couple of times a year I get some nookie with a woman I married.

Same here.

You have a lovely house, by the way.

He's been wondering where those Thundercats underpants came from.

Now he knows.

Not waiting 24 hrs to receive something I had bought!

Sit down & talk to my wife 🙁

Press one button to turn the radio on.

In the delightful world of convergent technology, I use my iPhone for radio in my kitchen. By the time I've turned on the bluetooth speaker, opened the radio app, clicked play, opened up iOS control centre and selected the speaker to Airplay the audio to, I've gone through 7 clicks/swipes! And that doesn't even include unlocking the phone!

<goes on Amazon looking for old-skool radios>

You can buy internet radios that work like a traditional radio but play well.. iternet radio stations.

work like a traditional radio

You mean I can press one button and be instantly listening to the radio?

Yes, as I understand it.

"Alexa...Play Radio 2 in Tune in" - No buttons

Thanks Perchy. I did wonder whether Alexa was one solution. I assume I could get an Echo Dot and hook up to my existing speaker...

I am off to buy a dvd as i cant find an [s]ill[/s]legal download, quite looking forward to the nostalgia of that and being in HMV, not been there in well over a decade.

I did wonder whether Alexa was one solution

It is. That's why we got one.

If you've not been in HMV for a while, then its all changed. In the olden days, it was full of CD's. Nowadays it's full of vinyl 🙂

Very occasionally I'll write a cheque, it's usually for something like wood or coal where the merchant hasn't the facility to do distance payments and I won't be at home when it's delivered so I'll leave them a cheque. The coal merchant now puts their bank details on the invoice so the next delivery I'll do via online bank transfer.

"Alexa...Play Radio 2 in Tune in" - No buttons

you don't even need to say "in Tune in".

"Alexa...Play Radio 2 in Tune in" - No buttons

Rather a vastly over-engineered solution for listening to Radio 2 though, eh?

Rather a vastly over-engineered solution for listening to Radio 2 though, eh

Agreed, but still less "over engineered" than this ...........

In the delightful world of convergent technology, I use my iPhone for radio in my kitchen. By the time I've turned on the bluetooth speaker, opened the radio app, clicked play, opened up iOS control centre and selected the speaker to Airplay the audio to, I've gone through 7 clicks/swipes! And that doesn't even include unlocking the phone!

and for not much more than the cost of buying a DAB radio

a DAB radio.....

Rather a vastly over-engineered solution for listening to Radio 2 though, eh?

Agreed....but this is STW and we have standards.

Agreed....but this is STW and we have standards.

I thought the standard was Radio 6 Music? But you'd need a DAB radio for that or some sort of internet streaming capability 🙂

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"Alexa.....conduct an internet argument on my behalf while I piss off down the pub"

I thought the standard was Radio 6 Music?

that's only the graphic designers, and painter and decorators.

Care.

Rather a vastly over-engineered solution for listening to Radio 2 though, eh?

Well it's cheap and it works, and that's also not the only thing it does.

Check the hedges for grot mags.

Smoke weed

Drink Newcastle Brown

and, because I still live in the olden days, use this in my truck

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Globalti
not been married long then??

shout at my wife not to pick up the phone cos I was on the internet.

Turn up at a place and time arranged without any phone calls from mobile phones.

Check the oil on my wife's car with a dip stick.. Mine doesn't have one and is done through the computer. I prefer the old fashioned method (any excuse to open the bonnet and look at the engine).

Turn up at a place and time arranged without any phone calls from mobile phones.

If find it hard to work out how that ever worked, but it did. If someone didn't show the rest of you just had to make an assumption about if they ever would and let them suffer for being rubbish at time keeping.

Writing essays or reports without the aid of google or wikipedia using actual books to find stuff out.

Send and receive personal e-mails, and wait for a reply because not everyone, in fact very few people had the internet at home then.

[i][b]...do you occasionally indulge yourself in?[/b][/i]

I think a few people missed (ignored) this bit. It would certainly be fruitless searching bushes for hedgepron these days. And good luck with the speaking clock - I can't even remember the number.

I used to always listen to music in the car on these lovely little things -
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Occasionally dig one out for a listen as still have a player in my hifi

Mr Overshoot. 🙁

Take care.

Well that would rule out globalti's suggestion

Ride a bike then - I occasionally do that.

Wind up windows in the car

Change the channel by pressing the buttons on it

Dial up internet and that awful racket

PYO fruit,

Worrying about checking chain on a bike and how much life its got.

Having fun - it was cheaper back then

Walk a lot , actually walking everywhere

Start a car using a choke (1974mk1 Escort)
Wait for Xmas to see a decent film on TV
Adjust said TV ariel for a good signal
Post that came twice per day
Excitedly wait for the pop man.
Browse a video shop for entertainment
(From the North West)

[i]Walk a lot , actually walking everywhere[/i]

Oh I still frequently indulge... oh sorry waLking 😳

take my gf out to the pub with a crisp blue Lady Godiva in my pocket, have a few drinks each and still have enough change for a bag of chips on the way home

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work out what had gone wrong with my car engine without the need for a £20 diagnostic tool, drag tool box from under stairs, lift bonnet, repair or replace bit that had gone wrong, start car again...

I don't miss cars that needed constant fiddling with to make sure they ran properly, I do miss that when I lift a bonnet (last car I bought sales idiot didn't even know how to as so few people ask anymore) that I don't really understand what Im looking at, and know that I probably can't repair any of it.

Start a car using a choke

Back in the very early 60s listening to 'proper' pop music wasn't that easy. There wasn't much on the radio for teenagers. Mostly we bought singles from the local music shop & played them at home. Jukeboxes were in a few cafes.
The usual method was to tune into Radio Luxembourg at 11pm every Sunday night & tape record the 'Top 20'. This only changed when the off-shore pirate radio stations started in 1964. We piled into a car & drove to Clacton a few times during the mods & rockers era.
We had to wait another couple of years in the north when Radio 270 started up off Scarborough.
Good days!

I do miss that when I lift a bonnet (last car I bought sales idiot didn't even know how to as so few people ask anymore) that I don't really understand what Im looking at, and know that I probably can't repair any of it.

That's your fault though not the car's. I never worked on cars without a computer. If I had a car that was not running right in some way and I didn't have a computer dongle I'd have no idea how to definitively diagnose it. My first car was mechanical, for a while when warm it wouldn't idle but would drive ok. Turns out that the vacuum timing advance mechanism was sticking. How the hell would I have known that? Only reason we found out was by asking around and someone had had similar issues.

The computer gives me a solid basis on which to start working. It seems to me that in the old days you just had to know all the possibly symptoms in your head before starting. And half the time it just tells you what to fix - sensor X has gone, replace sensor X, happy days.

That's your fault though not the car's

well, quite. I know it is, I wan't suggesting otherwise.

Older engines had less to go wrong, and it was pretty much a process of trail and error (and a Haynes Manual) 😆

I used to store parts of magazines in a data retrieval system, the mad crazy lawbreaking rebel that I was in those days!