Posted on 03/14/2017 5:22:00 PM PDT by simpson96
I don't think anyone knows what you were talking about.
>>I don’t get this nostalgia for the “good old days”. I don’t really engage people who pine on and on about what they miss about their childhood. I just keep quiet and let them keep making buggy whips or whatever they do.
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If you can’t operate without electronic technology you are all but useless.
“I don’t get this nostalgia for the “good old days”. I don’t really engage people who pine on and on about what they miss about their childhood.”
So you think being able to tell time according to an analog clock - like you find on library walls, in offices and boardrooms, on factory floors, in homes - is nostalgia?
No. it's just you. Good luck.
“That doesn’t mean I have to slavishly stick with the technology from 40-50 years ago.”
No, it doesn’t. But an intelligent person will want to know, and have their kids know, how to TELL TIME ACCORDING TO AN ANALOG CLOCK since they are everywhere. You also want to know how to use an office phone and place an outside call, know how to use a stick shift without burning out a clutch, know how to sharpen a knife rather than just throw a dull one away, know how to sew on a button (which I wish I had learned!), how to match, mix paint and do a good job painting, how to fish, how to hunt (if possible), how to operate a radio, how to use an index in a book, how to write a business letter, how to write a personal letter, how to write in cursive, how to write a check, how to change a flat tire, how to change the oil in your car.
All of that stuff is “ technology from 40-50 years ago” - or from 500 years ago - and is still incredibly practical and worth knowing.
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the little things, like playing outside all day until the street-lights came on, playing with reckless abandon, riding bikes for miles.
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you must have3 lived on my street...
Way back in the early 1980’s, I noticed that my son was having trouble reading clocks with hands. I concluded that it was because almost every clock in our house was digital. I got rid of the digital clocks, bought him a wrist watch with hands, and it didn’t take long for him to learn to read watches and clocks.
Butt your willing to wear a dorky LCD watch with numbers; keep'n it real?
Let’s go back to rotary phones!
Better yet, call the operator. 222 Mayberry Street please.
So analog clocks are fading. Boo hoo.
Reminds me of the people who pine for slide rules.
"Always be memorable." -- Alberta's Child
In 20 years our society and culture will have become so degraded so as to be unrecognizable.
Theres nothing quaint or old fashioned about liking civilization.
When I was just a boy, there was no such thing as digital clocks. When I had to wake up for my paper route, I had to hand-wind an alarm clock that still had an hour hand, a second hand and a minute hand with a little silver needle that got set at the time you wanted to wake up. You had to pull out a knob in the back and mechanically move it there yourself.
If you wanted the alarm to go off, you had to pull out another knob in the back but you had to push it back in when you woke up or the alarm would go off again 12 hours later.
It was a little complicated telling time by reading where the hands were and you had to learn arcane expressions like "quarter to nine" when these days you just say 8:45.
All in all, it was a great experience and I have very fond memories of that little alarm clock that had to be wound up each night by hand.
I had one almost just like that.
I got it around 1977 mostly because it was a new thing. I eventually realized that it was a lot more trouble than an analog.
You had to hold a tiny button to display the time. LCDs eliminated that problem but for maybe 20 years the lcd displays would go bad after just a few years.
I have an old Elgin pocket watch I bought new in 1966. It still works. The last time I really checked it kept excellent time. About the same as most quartz watches.
Of course now they have atomic watches which keep just about perfect time.
As you are fully aware, these are the watches of 2017:
There is something about girls with pigtails. I remember in the late 70s there was a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who wore them.
She was the one I always noticed.
AlmaKing, you really shouldn't be using slide rules. An abacus. You should use an abacus to help you with math. That's the way they used to do it.
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