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Cassettes! They're so much more user friendly than digital recorders.

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Eaton's. I want to go to a real department store. Bonus if the put the statue of Mr. Eaton back.

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Originally posted by Sober Preacher's Kid:
Eaton's. I want to go to a real department store. Bonus if the put the statue of Mr. Eaton back.

I wish I could find a link to their song:

"Take a moment, a special moment.
Make each moment, a special moment.
Got a lot of Christmas shopping to do-oo-oo.
Let Eaton's share a special moment with you and you and you.."

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Bathing suits that cover 100% of a woman's buttocks, rather than the string bikini which covers at most 10% of same.
Well...it depends. [Biased]

I do miss real department stores, though. I remember that every December we would go on a family Christmas shopping trip (to Shillito's when we lived in Cincinnati, Hudson's when we lived in Michigan) and you could get everything there--clothes, books, records, sporting goods, appliances--and of course there was the whole Santaland North Pole bit...

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Giving your membership number at the Co-Op and looking forward to getting the divi.

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Originally posted by Edith:
Giving your membership number at the Co-Op and looking forward to getting the divi.

35325 - my parents' Co-op number, back in the 50s and 60s. I'm generally no good at remembering numbers, but that one's imprinted indelibly on my brain.

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Kind-hearted old gents who are nice to children. They don't dare be nowadays, for fear of being branded a paedophile.

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Maybe you can answer this Steve H:

Whatever happened to postmen in grey uniforms and peaked caps carrying large hessian sacks? And why don't they whistle any more?

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Originally posted by Spike:
Maybe you can answer this Steve H:

Whatever happened to postmen in grey uniforms and peaked caps carrying large hessian sacks? And why don't they whistle any more?

The grey uniforms went in the mid-80s, shortly after I started as a posty, in 1985. The whistling stopped because posties became more and more demoralised by the antics of Royal Mail and successive governments.

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quote:
Originally posted by Steve H:
the latest nonsense of banning the display of tobacco products is just mean-spirited and stupid.

As is smoking itself! We've nearly gotten rid of it inside hospitals and doctors' offices, but when I see a barbarian smoking right outside the door, I ream her a new one! Only people with excruciatingly poor judgement still smoke cigarettes and those who smoke in public should be forced to get in their personal cars and roll up the windows!

What I would really like to see is a return of multi-cylindred cars to motor racing: I long to hear the mellifluous tones of a well-tuned V-16 or the banshee wail of a modern V-10 or V-12 going round the track. I'd also like to see these engines in road cars: to my knowledge, Rowan Atkinson is the only person to own a modern V-16 which is in a concept car built by Rolls Royce: I saw it on Top Gear, so I know it exists. Supercharged V8 Jaguars are amazing fun to drive, but I miss the '73 XKE's V-12.

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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
quote:
Originally posted by Steve H:
the latest nonsense of banning the display of tobacco products is just mean-spirited and stupid.

As is smoking itself! We've nearly gotten rid of it inside hospitals and doctors' offices, but when I see a barbarian smoking right outside the door, I ream her a new one! Only people with excruciatingly poor judgement still smoke cigarettes and those who smoke in public should be forced to get in their personal cars and roll up the windows!

What I would really like to see is a return of multi-cylindred cars to motor racing: I long to hear the mellifluous tones of a well-tuned V-16 or the banshee wail of a modern V-10 or V-12 going round the track. I'd also like to see these engines in road cars: to my knowledge, Rowan Atkinson is the only person to own a modern V-16 which is in a concept car built by Rolls Royce: I saw it on Top Gear, so I know it exists. Supercharged V8 Jaguars are amazing fun to drive, but I miss the '73 XKE's V-12.

Smokers may be killing themselves, but powerful cars are killing the entire planet. I gave up cigs decades ago, because they're the real killers, but pipes and cigars, not being inhaled, are much less harmful, especially if, like me, you live a healthy and eco-friendly life in other respects. The rash of exclamation marks in your little rant makes clear what a fanatic you are.

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P.S.: what on earth does "ream her a new one" mean?

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It appears that even trolls ain't what they used to be.

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I think we could sum this up as: the 1960's. Or whichever decade we were at school in.

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I don't think anyone's trolling: I and Sir Kev are just having a "full and frank exchange of views", that's all.

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quote:
Originally posted by Steve H:
I don't think anyone's trolling: I and Sir Kev are just having a "full and frank exchange of views", that's all.

I don't mean you guys at all, or anyone else on this thread. Just reflecting on what has been stated elsewhere.

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Originally posted by Edith:
Giving your membership number at the Co-Op and looking forward to getting the divi.

Umm - I give them my card rather than remembering the number, but I still get the divi.

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We moved to this town in 2005, and it is "big" on Co-ops! We immediately joined and were given a number, it took my wife back to her childhood in Glasgow. However a year later they introduced swipe cards and you had to use them instead of just saying the number.

But I'm expecting this year's divi cheque any day now!

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Originally posted by Steve H:
I don't think anyone's trolling: I and Sir Kev are just having a "full and frank exchange of views", that's all.

'Full and frank exchanges' can be conducted in a suitably forthright manner in Hell.

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Steve H
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Steve H:
I don't think anyone's trolling: I and Sir Kev are just having a "full and frank exchange of views", that's all.

I don't mean you guys at all, or anyone else on this thread. Just reflecting on what has been stated elsewhere.
Oh, I see - just an on-topic post! Sorry - just my suspicious nature. [Hot and Hormonal]

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One thing I don't want to see brought back is the beer of my early adulthood, which was the early 70s: that was the nadir of keg, when real ale, cask- or bottle-conditioned, nearly became extinct. Thank God for CAMRA, mainly due to whose efforts, real ale made a magnificent comeback. Some things are better now than they were then!

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Independent shops instead of mega-chain stores that are exactly the same wherever you go.

I'm all for this one. Shops run by people who knew their business and their products, and were concerned about their customers.

And all of the privatised services including BR. They were sold off for the glittering cash, and now we are all paying for them. And the services are crap.

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Steve H
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And all of the privatised services including BR. They were sold off for the glittering cash, and now we are all paying for them. And the services are crap.

Virgin Trains are so-called because they act as though they've never done it before.

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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
I love capes! I have several that I wear throughout the winter (or what passes for winter in central Arizona!).

Coooool. Around here I only see capes on Goths and Harry Potter fans.

I second the calls for the writing of letters, old-fashioned politeness and courtesy, and the Wearing of Hats. I also want there to be old-fashioned drugstores with old-fashioned soda fountains and a return of the siesta to this part of the country. Why not have a couple of hours in the middle of the day when you can close up shop, eat, and take a nice long nap?

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British car registration plates before the grinning git Blair messed about with them. The two letters that are now at the front are supposed to denote the region: what in the name of all that's holy was wrong with keeping the regional letters as they were?

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Marvin the Martian

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quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
And the services are crap.

That's clearly a matter of individual perception - I'd say the train services we have now are far better than they were under BR. Not perfect by any means, but better.

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quote:
Originally posted by Steve H:
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
And all of the privatised services including BR. They were sold off for the glittering cash, and now we are all paying for them. And the services are crap.

Virgin Trains are so-called because they act as though they've never done it before.
i thought it was because they don't go all the way

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quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
And all of the privatised services including BR. They were sold off for the glittering cash, and now we are all paying for them. And the services are crap.

Depends which line you're on. The cross-country routes are always going to be plagued, whoever operates them.

Bring back the steam train, I say. And the days when you didn't have an endless string of announcements - "for your safety and security this train is fitted with an annoying female robotic voice who will shout safety information at you loudly for several minutes."

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quote:
Originally posted by Albertus:
quote:
Originally posted by Steve H:
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
And all of the privatised services including BR. They were sold off for the glittering cash, and now we are all paying for them. And the services are crap.

Virgin Trains are so-called because they act as though they've never done it before.
i thought it was because they don't go all the way
[Big Grin] That too!

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quote:
Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
And the services are crap.

That's clearly a matter of individual perception - I'd say the train services we have now are far better than they were under BR. Not perfect by any means, but better.
Marvin, weren't you in your teens when the railways were (re-)privatised? That gave us Railtrack (remember how wise it was to contract out track maintenance to a profit-motivated monopoly?) amongst others, which contracted track use to the operating companies which, in many instances, don't operate integrated ticketing, something that most of the pre-grouping (pre-1923) railways managed without computers. And they had proper shareholders to satisfy as well as customers. Oh, and they had competition too.

btw, Rail privatisation was done under John Major. Even Thatcher thought it unwise to carve up a state-owned monopoly into a number of small monopolies that have showed themselves as costly to the taxpayer and user as BR would ever have done.

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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
And all of the privatised services including BR. They were sold off for the glittering cash, and now we are all paying for them. And the services are crap.

Depends which line you're on. The cross-country routes are always going to be plagued, whoever operates them.

Bring back the steam train, I say. And the days when you didn't have an endless string of announcements - "for your safety and security this train is fitted with an annoying female robotic voice who will shout safety information at you loudly for several minutes."

In Wales we get the announcements twice! Somehow, the Welsh voices are better than the English ones, and I can't understand Welsh. Maybe that's why.

As for steam locomotives they sound right, look right and smell right, but they are high maintenance. The best of them is a lot like Joan Collins (79 today).

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Sioni Sais: In Wales we get the announcements twice!
Wait until you take a train in Belgium [Biased]

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Marvin, weren't you in your teens when the railways were (re-)privatised?

Yes. So? I've been a rail nut since before I was in primary school, and while I'll freely admit that as an enthusiast I far preferred seeing proper locomotives with rakes of coaches behind them I think the servcie we have now is far better than the one we had then.

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That gave us Railtrack (remember how wise it was to contract out track maintenance to a profit-motivated monopoly?) amongst others,
Railtrack went wrong because the profits weren't connected to any need to keep up standards.

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which contracted track use to the operating companies which, in many instances, don't operate integrated ticketing, something that most of the pre-grouping (pre-1923) railways managed without computers.
They don't? How odd. And here was me thinking I could go to www.nationalrail.co.uk, enter literally any two stations in the country, and be offered journey times and ticket prices between them. How much more integrated do you want it to be?

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And they had proper shareholders to satisfy as well as customers. Oh, and they had competition too.
The lack of competition in the modern privatised railway is bad, but it's down to government overregulation and franchise contracts that actually prevent it. In the few areas where genuine competition exists (Birmingham to London, say) it's resulted in improved speeds, improved comfort and lower fares through each company deciding which of those incentives to use to entice passengers onto their trains.

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I am not saying that BR was perfect. I think there were some important changes that were needed to sort it out. But I think that the services and prices would be better now under a properly run BR.

And yes I am biased, because my local line is one of the worst in the UK for complaints, punctuality, and problems, not to mention the highest per mile prices in Europe.

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On the subject of hats, I agree completely.

When she was an Anglo Catholic, my wife used to wear these totally mad, feminine, over the top hats which were functionally completely useless.

We agreed a budget of one of these mindless extravagancies a year, an agreement she habitually ignored as she was inevitably led into temptation.

She gave it up when she became an anachronistic catholic. Now she dresses in studied dowdiness for church. “That’s too smart” she informs me, if I recommend some alternative to the 1930’s domestic servant on her day off look.

Oh for the old days!

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Mustard flares?

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Canon firecrackers, all looped together in a bundle of 24, so that when lit, they go off one after the other, and sound like machine gun fire.
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Bring back the steam train, I say.

As for steam locomotives they sound right, look right and smell right, but they are high maintenance. The best of them is a lot like Joan Collins (79 today).
I remember steam. Nasty filthy things. I remember them regular setting of fire to railway embankments, occasionally nearby fields. Living between Standedge and Morley meant all rail trips were through tunnels - some git always had a window open. Good riddance to steam I say.

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Marvin, weren't you in your teens when the railways were (re-)privatised?

Yes. So? I've been a rail nut since before I was in primary school, and while I'll freely admit that as an enthusiast I far preferred seeing proper locomotives with rakes of coaches behind them I think the servcie we have now is far better than the one we had then.
Let's see.... In those days
  • you could get very large luggage items sent ahead cheaply if you had a ticket (fair enough,maybe the IRA are to blame for that one going)
  • you didn't have to book a seat - so you never had to specify which train you'd be catching on both outward and return journeys - and, if there were no seats available in second class, you were entitled to sit in first class
  • trains were never stopped half way through their journey and passengers told to get out and wait for the next one
  • if a train was running a little bit late, they would sometimes hold a connection
Some people complained about British Rail porters but, when I was a student, I can remember a porter running up to help me as I staggered under my rucksack and, having carried to the gate, disappearing before I could offer him any kind of tip.

Granted, the food's better now - but then the food is better pretty much everywhere.

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Originally posted by Balaam:
I remember steam. Nasty filthy things. I remember them regular setting of fire to railway embankments, occasionally nearby fields. Living between Standedge and Morley meant all rail trips were through tunnels - some git always had a window open. Good riddance to steam I say.

... and you could stick your head out of the window and get a face full of smuts. That was proper travel, that was.

I'd actually just like it to be the era before mobile phones and e-devices. Peace and quiet in public spaces. People sitting reading books or newspapers, nobody shouting into mobiles, playing tinny music or texting as they drift aimlessly and erratically at a snail's pace down the stairs or across roads.

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One thing I'm glad that's come back, at least on a small scale: glass milk bottles. Granted, right now they're only being used by about three organic dairies in opposite corners of our state, and because the closest place we can find bottled milk is at our food coop 40 miles away, meaning that we only get to enjoy it about one week a month when we make our scheduled trek to Cool University Town. But...it really makes a difference. It's the closest thing I've found to the home-pasteurized milk my farmer parents used to keep in quart jars in the fridge. And, interestingly, we find it lasts twice as long as conventional supermarket milk.

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Reading about British Railways made me wish for railways at all. The process for at least 30 years if not 40 has been to rip out branch lines (the ones which used to serve small towns and grain elevators) and leave all the hauling to semi-trailer trucks which now tow 2 50+ foot trailers at a time down narrow grid roads (country lanes). They bang the roads to smithereens and we all pay taxes to get them fixed.

And grain elevators. This is the archtypical Canadian prairie scene, fields of wheat broken by small towns with Canadian Wheat Pool grain elevators in them. Well, no more. It's all 'inland terminals' brought to us by agri-chemical companies.

And the alphabet named towns. This is where the rail companies named a new town every 15 miles, starting at letter A and going all the way along to Z, some rail lines doing it 2½ or 3 times from the edge of the Canadian Shield to the Rocky Mountains. Link for interest

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Suspenders ('bracers' for those in the UK). So much more comfortable than a belt!

Also, I'd appreciate a resurgence of the UK-definition suspenders ('garters' for those in the US) as well! Mrs. IL_99 looks so much sexier in those than in pantyhose. [Devil]

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Suspenders ('bracers' for those in the UK).

I think you'll find that's braces. Or, where I come from, gallowses - I suppose because you hung your trousers from them.

No woman I believe would ever wish the return of suspender/garter belts. They invariably lost the little button in the clip - a loss which could be supplied with a polo mint, or a sixpence (though that could be a problem if you also needed the sixpence for your bus fare).

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Hypercolour t-shirts!

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Suspenders! You'll be wanting liberty bodices back soon.

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Originally posted by Ariel:
Writing letters. Nobody does that any more - even emails seem to be dying out in favour of Facebook status reports or texts, and a fountain pen is some kind of novelty.

I second that, and not only because I'm a postman.

Calling vicars "Parson"s, and not calling them "Rev. Smith" (or whatever their surname is), because, however common it is nowadays, it's wrong. If you want to be formal, it's "Rev. Mr (or Miss, Mrs or Ms, nowadays) Smith", but less formally, just "Mr (Mrs, Miss, Ms) Smith" is perfectly acceptable, as is "Parson Smith".

Rev Mr or whatever is never correct in the UK, though it might be in the US. Parson's fine, being neither here nor there. "The Rev" prefixes the forename and is never used in speech, similar to styles such as "The Hon". In speech you use "Father", "Mother" or a secular style.

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Yes, hats!! and gloves!!

As for everything else, I'll keep the modern versions, thanks! I was never so happy to chuck out the cassettes and VHS and mouldering old paperbacks in favour of the new mod cons.

And while I admit to liking steam trains, I would go nuts if I had to commute to work on one. They are like the heritage trams in Adelaide which are beautiful and I love them, but unlike the new ones, don't have airconditioning and are awfully loud/rickety.

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Originally posted by Vaticanchic:
Rev Mr or whatever is never correct in the UK, though it might be in the US. Parson's fine, being neither here nor there. "The Rev" prefixes the forename and is never used in speech, similar to styles such as "The Hon". In speech you use "Father", "Mother" or a secular style.

It jolly well is! I've seen it in print (not that that proves anything, admittedly). The point is that "reverend" is a description |(not necessarily an accurate one), not a title, unlike, e.g., "Bishop" or "Archdeacon", so it doesn't replace "Mr" or whatever other title you would use in formally addressing a person.

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One thing I don't want to see brought back is the beer of my early adulthood, which was the early 70s: that was the nadir of keg, when real ale, cask- or bottle-conditioned, nearly became extinct. Thank God for CAMRA, mainly due to whose efforts, real ale made a magnificent comeback. Some things are better now than they were then!

Lord, have mercy upon us and incline our hearts to keep this law.

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