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Terms Which Have Disappeared
If it's a new model of something that already exists, then I wouldn't worry. But if it's the first of its kind with no predecessors, then yeah, that sounds pretty stupid.- Shangas
- Post #235
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
What about a Free, Extra, Added Bonus?- Shangas
- Post #233
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
A 'confirmed bachelor' was basically the 'polite' way of putting it. As in, people had their suspicions about said character, and such. Of course, there were legitimate bachelors - guys who just never wanted to get married for whatever reason. But I think 'confirmed bachelor' comes with the...- Shangas
- Post #225
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
Y'know you're old when... ...the doctor is younger than you are. ...the candles cost more than the cake. ...You have to clarify what 'the war' is, and which one it was.- Shangas
- Post #621
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Born in the wrong era.
I've always been fascinated by the past. The events, the style, the culture, music, movies, products etc. And that fascination has only increased, the more that I find out about history. You could say it's a rebellion against modern society if you wish. And perhaps to a certain extent it is, I...- Shangas
- Post #9
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Typewriters
Once you get used to the mechanism and the weight, you'll type just as fast on that as you do on your computer keyboard.- Shangas
- Post #275
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What's in your drawers?
My grandmother held onto my grandpa's magnifying glass for a long time. Then one day it went missing. I never figured out what happened to it. While I was on holiday in Europe, I purchased a very nice, desktop magnifying glass. Those big chunky ones. It's got a cut glass handle and a lovely...- Shangas
- Post #5
- Forum: Your Vintage Home
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
A pensioner is misleading. I'm a pensioner due to my disability. But I'm not 80. I'm not even 30. Whatever happened to "Elderly"?- Shangas
- Post #589
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Typewriters
The original 'shift' keys shifted the carriage up and down, to adjust for capital letters and secondary characters. That's why it's called a shift-key. In later typewriters, they introduced the Basket Shift, that dropped the basket instead of raising the carriage. And I love the Royal with...- Shangas
- Post #273
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
I have never heard of "pre-tween". It sounds like a misnomer. "Tween" is someone who is beTWEEN a child and a teenager. A stage in life which already does not exist. Surely a "PRE-TWEEN", another stage in life which does not exist, is someone who is pre-tween, which means below being a...- Shangas
- Post #583
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's in your drawers?
Very interesting thread. My bathroom does a very good job in this department. Strop, straight-razors, sharpening-stone, ebony hairbrushes in leather case, Murray's pomade in steel tin. Ceramic shaving-scuttle with shaving-soap and badger brush. I keep an electric toothbrush purely out of...- Shangas
- Post #2
- Forum: Your Vintage Home
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
I'm a pianist by hobby. Is there some other way to pronounce this of which I'm not aware? They ain't met granny. She might've looked like a cream-puff (I've never seen any other lady use a powder-compact more intensively - you'd think she was dusting a crime-scene for prints), but oppressed...- Shangas
- Post #564
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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loop for pocket watch chain
It's only costume if you think it is. I do it all the time. I only wear my watch in my trouser watch-pocket if it's too hot to wear a waistcoat. It's a mindset, really.- Shangas
- Post #20
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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loop for pocket watch chain
If you wear a waistcoat, why not buy an Albert chain and wear the watch in your waistcoat pocket with the chain through your middle waistcoat button? It's easier.- Shangas
- Post #14
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
I honestly wouldn't worry about the male ideal or male physique or whatever. As Otis says, I would be far more concerned about the female bodily ideal in the 21st century. And while we're on that subject... I really cannot stand those stupid "model" TV shows. *Country's* Next Top...- Shangas
- Post #517
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?
Microwave ain't that modern. It was discovered in the 1940s.- Shangas
- Post #510
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What was the last TV show you watched?
I'm currently watching The Cosby Show. I'd forgotten how hilarious this show is! I haven't seen it since I was 13!- Shangas
- Post #5,205
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Propaganda pics of occupied Paris
I did a bit more research about that story. The full facts are that when Paris fell to the Germans, the Parisians cut the elevator-lines. If Hitler wanted to go up the Eiffel Tower, then he would have to climb all the stairs all the way up, and all the way back down again. So would any Germans... -
Propaganda pics of occupied Paris
I remember a fantastic story about how when Paris was occupied, the Germans had to climb all the way to the top of the Eiffel Tower to stick the Swastika up there, because the elevators were "out of order" due to the invasion. When the city was liberated in 1944, quick-thinking Parisians...
