Things you used to do in the olden days?

Ring the speaking clock.

Pore over the underwear section of a Grattan’s Catalogue.

Build dens.

Just sit and listen to music without the guilt feeling that I should be doing something else.

IHN – You spend a week living with me. Believe me, a game as Scrabble is a highlight. Anyway, its stops her crying

😉

I’ve another,

Go on training road rides all over Shropshire and Mid Wales without a mobile phone. In fact, without anything much other than what I carry today on rides: puncture repair kit, pump, lever.

Going to footy at 3pm on a Saturday and paying a couple of quid at the turnstile.

and buy a Golden Goal, a Pukka Pie and cup of Bovril at Half time, and a copy of the Pink (or Green, depending or where you lived) sports paper to get the day’s other results

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

I’m logged into a bulletin board 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 illlegal 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 🙂

“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

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.

…do you occasionally indulge yourself in?

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 –

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.