Things that have changed

[MrRandyWatson]

Why are droopy drawers a threat to casino "security"?

We have a dress code that prohibits them. We try to portray a classy establishment.

 

[Balladeer08]

On OKC, one of the 'looking for' options is 'penpals'. And by penpals what most mean is email/ chat buddy.



And I thought this was just something that happened here. People really are the same all over.




So, what is the reason?

On a manual typewriter, the capital letter is lower on the striker bar than the non-capital. So you had to hold down the SHIFT key to physically shift the carriage up so the capital letter would strike the page.

 

[about_average]

I use that as an opportunity to exercise my inner asshole: "A little lower. Now to the left. Getting warmer. OOOPS! That wasn't it was it? We have a word a lot like that in English..."

Eventually I am going to succeed at getting thrown out of the Post Office. (We all have our goals)

Sounds sort of like when I'm in a store and the clerk says, "That'll be $9.55" and I hand over a ten.
I wait until the register says what my change is then I hand over another 50 cents.
I'm amazed at how long it takes for many to figure out what they need to give me in change.

 

[about_average]

When VCR's were first made, I remember ours had a cord attached to the remote so you could operate it from your couch. The cord didn't go very far and we'd have to sit on the floor to control the blasted thing.

When I was a kid my dad brought home a new GE TV. IT was hot shit because it had a remote.
A little box, slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes with one large button on the end and connected to the TV by a cord. You could use it to change the channel, and that was all.
It was a mechanical tuner on the TV that it operated so it would make a "kachunk" sound as it worked it's way around the dial, no going direct from one channel to another.

 

[about_average]

You don't see these often.

http://archive.wkyc.com/graphics/about_us/wnbk.jpg

 

[RobDownSouth]

You don't see these often.

http://archive.wkyc.com/graphics/about_us/wnbk.jpg

Immediately preceded by the Star Spangled Banner, of course.

I'm so old I recall waking up at the crack of dawn one morning and the only thing on any channel was something called "Farm Report".

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I wont be shocked though, if in twenty years "ur" completely replaces both you're and your.

I'm not sure how it would replace BOTH since they mean two different things. Of course, I guess it could for those who use it now because they flat out don't care.

 

[Balladeer08]

When I was a kid my dad brought home a new GE TV. IT was hot shit because it had a remote.
A little box, slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes with one large button on the end and connected to the TV by a cord. You could use it to change the channel, and that was all.
It was a mechanical tuner on the TV that it operated so it would make a "kachunk" sound as it worked it's way around the dial, no going direct from one channel to another.

Those old remotes with a tuning fork in them! And mechanical channel selection. Impossible to channel surf while someone was sleeping in the same room, too noisy. Fortunately (?) there were not many channels to surf. Maybe 7 by that time? I remember when it was only 3, and they weren't 24 hours.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hHjlI7yV-go/UjM4PGpqsfI/AAAAAAAAB38/vpqAnK1_axk/s1600/suicide+knob+1.jpg






Suicide knobs

 

[AllyRose]

I'm not sure how it would replace BOTH since they mean two different things. Of course, I guess it could for those who use it now because they flat out don't care.

I also don't see 'ur' coming to officially replace your, even if it is included in a dictionary. That's why I tend to agree with people like John Simon and Robert Fiske when it comes to the English language.

 

[Balladeer08]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hHjlI7yV-go/UjM4PGpqsfI/AAAAAAAAB38/vpqAnK1_axk/s1600/suicide+knob+1.jpg






Suicide knobs

Wow. Do they still make cars without power steering? The huge steering wheels were to give you leverage to make the turn, and the knob was so you could do it one-handed. Because, hopefully, your arm was around a girl next to you on the bench seat. Yes, you used to be able to snuggle while you drove. I HATE center consoles.

 

[AllyRose]

"Dictionaries, usually compiled by permissivists--which is to say copycats, cynics, lickspittles, or opportunists--are, by and large, no longer reliable guides, even when they aren't downright ignorant..."

John Simon
The Dictionary of Disagreeable English

"Merriam-Webster, apparently not knowing how else to distinguish its dictionary from competing ones that erode its marketing share, has decided to include a spate of slang words... There's nothing wrong with Merriam-Webster trying to distinguish its product, of course, but when it means tampering with the English language--by including idiotic slang and apparently omitting more useful words--it's reprehensible."

Robert Fiske
The Dictionary of Disagreeable English

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Wow. Do they still make cars without power steering? The huge steering wheels were to give you leverage to make the turn, and the knob was so you could do it one-handed. Because, hopefully, your arm was around a girl next to you on the bench seat. Yes, you used to be able to snuggle while you drove. I HATE center consoles.

I own a standard steering car. Those little engines cant handle it all. You can have air and automatic transmission or?

 

[about_average]

Fortunately (?) there were not many channels to surf. Maybe 7 by that time? I remember when it was only 3, and they weren't 24 hours.

Yeah, 3, but you still had to go all the way around to get from channel 9 to channel 7.
We were excited when UHF was added.

Wow. Do they still make cars without power steering?

I don't think in the US. Heck, it's hard enough to find one without an automatic transmission

 

[about_average]

http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/look-111753.jpg

Ok, not really changed, gone.

And

http://cbi-theater-1.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-1/life110143/life_110143.jpg

 

[patient1]

People sticking to their word and being on time is the biggest thing for me, with the advent of mobile/cell phones. It used to be if you agreed to meet at 1 pm under the clock, that's what you did, regardless of circumstance, because otherwise the other person would be waiting for you. Now you text on the way to say you will be late, or early, or meet somewhere else, or cancel altogether. For today's young people everything is infinitely deferrable, transient, liminal - certainty is seen as a form of authoritarianism. Depressing.

That's ,like, profound.

In the 80s, people talking to people who weren't there, on corners in Manhattan, were called "Schizzos".
Towards the turn of the century, people exhibiting the same behavior were called executives.
Now it happens everywhere and nobody notices anymore.

 

[butters]

rag and bone men

tv channels going off-air at 10pm, the BBC playing the national anthem

thunderbirds are go!

 

[Balladeer08]

http://www.collectorsquest.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/look-111753.jpg

Ok, not really changed, gone.

And

http://cbi-theater-1.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater-1/life110143/life_110143.jpg

"That's Life."

"What's Life?"

"It's a magazine."

"What's it cost."

"Fifty cents."

"Only got a quarter."

"That's Life."

 

[about_average]

This
http://epistle.langhornepres.org/wp-content/uploads/milkman.jpg

to this

http://www.milkunleashed.com/images/benefit_milkbox.jpg

 

[_Roobarb]

The Seamless Paragon Sheath

They don't make them like this anymore.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/object_images/535x535/10325331.jpg

"After use the Sheath should be washed inside and out with cold or tepid water and dried thoroughly on a soft towel or cloth.When quite free from moisture it should be sprinkled inside and out with Preserving Powder which helps to preserve the rubber and prevents it become sticky."

Rather like the recipient I should imagine.

 

[Que]

I'm not sure how it would replace BOTH since they mean two different things. Of course, I guess it could for those who use it now because they flat out don't care.

I agree it is inelegant, but still possible. Read and Read can be, for example, present or past tense, and it is the same spelling with a different pronounciation.

 

[Equinoxe]

I also don't see 'ur' coming to officially replace your, even if it is included in a dictionary. That's why I tend to agree with people like John Simon and Robert Fiske when it comes to the English language.

Well, for the record, you shouldn't, because they neither know what they're talking about in the slightest nor realise at all that they are massively out of their depth. They're just whingy and angry.

But dictionaries are irrelevant to usage, that much is true, and 'ur' is extraordinarily unlikely to replace your and you're in Standard English anytime soon (though I hasten to add that there's no such thing as "officially" when it comes to English).

 

[pointless]

i really need a new alarm clock. no, i don't use my phone and you can just fuck off for judging me.

 

[patient1]

i really need a new alarm clock. no, i don't use my phone and you can just fuck off for judging me.

Actually, I suspect you turned your former clock off with yon depicted hammer....

and that makesme really jealous, rather than judgmental. The clock was asking for it!

 

[Balladeer08]

i really need a new alarm clock. no, i don't use my phone and you can just fuck off for judging me.

I had a wind-up "Big Ben" when I was in the Army. Maybe 6" diameter, with two big bells on top. Noisy as hell, and that was when it was just ticking. Most mornings I grabbed it and threw it at the cement barracks walls. Damn thing was durable, it was months before it finally shattered.