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  1. Shangas

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I dunno if anyone outside of Australia has ever used, or even heard of this one. To this day, I've only heard ONE person say it, and that was my highschool legal-studies teacher. "As useless/hopeless as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest!"
  2. Shangas

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I feel like I should know what that means. But I can't remember.
  3. Shangas

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I have not heard that one in a LONG time!! "An aristocrat without servants is about as much use to the county as a glass hammer!" - Dame Maggie Smith - Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham - Downton Abbey.
  4. Shangas

    Have you found Hidden Treasure?

    Curiosity prompts this question: Is there any legal precedence or backing for this?
  5. Shangas

    Have you found Hidden Treasure?

    You must post photographs, Mr. Spade. And welcome to the Lounge :)
  7. Shangas

    Help with typewritter ribbon!

    Post a few photos. Typewriter ribbons and installing them is fairly generic, but it can be a fiddly process.
  8. Shangas

    You know you are getting old when:

    HAHAHAHA!!! That's hilarious! I just carry my quizzing glass around. I have seen fold-up lorgnettes. And I might buy one. One day. IF the magnification is decent. If it's piddly and weak, I wouldn't bother. Has to be at least 5x for me to show any real interest.
  9. Shangas

    You know you are getting old when:

    My eyes are atrocious. And I mean ATROCIOUSLY bad. I actually qualify as being legally blind because of all my accumulated eyesight issues, which my spectacles only marginally rectify. So if anyone on this website knows anything about magnifying glasses - it'll be me. I've been using them almost...
  10. Shangas

    How would you earn a living?

    Atticus Finch makes a good point. Some professions would transfer better than others. Stuff like doctors and lawyers would have to unlearn a lot of stuff.
  11. Shangas

    Show us your photography

    Me being bored.
  13. Shangas

    Some quotes on style and fashion

    Hahaha!! I like this one.
  14. Shangas

    How would you earn a living?

    If I think about what my grandparents did prewar, I don't know how I'd work out. My grandfather was a scholar and newspaper journalist before the war. My grandmother was what she always was - a dressmaker. Grandpa went from job to job to job. The Japanese Occupation and the Chinese Civil War...
  15. Shangas

    How would you earn a living?

    If I was back in say 1925 or thereabouts I think I could survive as a shop-assistant, a writer, editor, working on a newspaper or something like that. As has already been mentioned, university education pre-WWII was largely unheard of. Or to be precise, it wasn't as common as it is today. Most...
  16. Shangas

    quick question

    I always read that 'bespoke' as origin of term, came from the fact that a particular roll of suiting fabric had been selected by a customer for the tailor to make a suit from. The roll of fabric had then 'been spoken for' and was unavailable for use by another customer until the suit was...
  17. Shangas

    What would you miss most?

    Everyone keeps saying they'll miss air-conditioning. Don't folks have desk-fans anymore?
  19. Shangas

    How would you earn a living?

    I would be quite happy living alone in an apartment of my own. Keeping things simple. I hate complexity. I wonder if you could buy your furniture secondhand back then? If so I'd probably have a lot of that stuff. Our family has a history of having domestic service. We used to employ a housemaid...
  20. Shangas

    How would you earn a living?

    Backspace exists. It just doesn't do what people think it does.
  21. Shangas

    How would you earn a living?

    I'd be much like Lizzie - A writer. Maybe for a magazine, a smalltown newspaper or something like that. Or a literary journal. Same as what I want to be now, really.
  22. Shangas

    What would you miss most?

    Anesthetics were fairly common by the 1920s and 30s, although I'm not sure to what extent dentists would've used them. I would miss internet and TV. And possibly some of the food, but not likely.
  23. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Four-piece brass desk-set/inkstand. Two candleholders, inkwell, pen-rest. Dated to the 1900s-1920s according to the seller. Bought it today at the local flea-market.

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