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  1. Shangas

    Kitchen knives

    I shave with a straight-razor every day. I can sharpen that easily. Sharpening an actual kitchen-knife is not something I can do. Unlike a razor, a kitchen-knife doesn't have a profile that lends itself to easy sharpening.
  2. Shangas

    Kitchen knives

    I had to watch a couple of videos on YouTube to figure out what you meant by that. It looks like a pretty effective method!
  3. Shangas

    Classics Blooper Reel - The Golden Age of Hollywood wasn't always so...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIFWW9TuP_Q I stumbled across this gem on YouTube during a fit of boredom. It's over an hour of outtakes, cuts and bloopers from Hollywood films recorded during the 1930s and 40s.
  4. Shangas

    Kitchen knives

    I don't have one, but on the subject of knives, does anyone have one of these in their kitchens? For those who don't know what this is, it's a Victorian-era knife-sharpener. You slot the knives in the top, and then you turn the crank. And that rotates the grindstones inside the sharpener, to...
  5. Shangas

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    HUMAN-powered?? What the hell is that?? Getting an old Sewing Machine Running Vintage sewing-machines are beautiful, elegant, tough and very useful. But sometimes, you can buy a vintage machine that is jammed up because the oil dried up and froze the mechanism in place, and it hasn't moved in...
  7. Shangas

    The Age of Entitlement

    The way you mention all that makes it sound like a study in Victorian-era morality.
  8. Shangas

    The Age of Entitlement

    I work as a volunteer in a charity thrift-shop. And in those places, you really see the cross-section of society. I've worked in two different shops for a total now, of nearly five years. And you see everything from the wonderfully polite, to the people who want $2 off on a $5 purchase when...
  9. Shangas

    Kitchen knives

    The set of knives we have at home are all Solingen steel, I believe. I never noticed this mark of quality until after I got into straight razors, however.
  10. Shangas

    The Age of Entitlement

    As they say. Money can't buy class.
  11. Shangas

    Show us your photography

    I had to go into town today to keep an appointment. It was boiling hot. To kill time and to make the best of a bad situation, I took a few photos... This is Crown Casino on the Southbank Promenade of the Yarra River in central Melbourne. The old and the new. Cnr. Flinders & Swanston...
  13. Shangas

    Kitchen knives

    I find it tricky to believe that there were no such things as knife-blocks in the old days. I'm pretty sure that such things existed. But they were probably reserved for the grander houses. When my father was young, kitchen-knives consisted of the bog-standard usual slicers and dicers, along...
  14. Shangas

    Horse meat in the UK

    As I recall, horse meat was served during WWII in America AND the U.K., due to meat-rationing.
  15. Shangas

    The Age of Entitlement

    HAHAHAHAHA!! You and I think alike, Victor! I was about to post that exact video! Carlin might have been controversial, unpopular with some, and well...dead...but even into his 70s, he constantly kept his finger on the pulse of life. His routines and monologues constantly remained fresh...
  16. Shangas

    London 1927

    The column in the middle of the street (the centopath, I believe it's called), was erected in the 1910s/20s as a temporary memorial to the dead of WWI. In the end, people liked it so much that they tore down the original (which was only made of wood and clad to look like stone), and built a...
  17. Shangas

    London 1927

    London was bombed in the 1940s. How do you know it wasn't done as a result of that?
  19. Shangas

    Show Us Your Pens

    Yes, that makes a lot more sense now :D
  20. Shangas

    Show Us Your Pens

    From what I recall, the method of the Parker 61's construction made it almost impossible to clean. Not to say that you couldn't clean it. It just took a really, really, really, really long time. It took ages to flush the ink out due to how it was fed to the nib.
  21. Shangas

    Show Us Your Pens

    I suppose at the time, $20 for a pen-pencil set was pretty high-end. In the 1940s, a Parker 51 cost $12.50 brand-new, I believe.
  22. Shangas

    Gold lamp light

    My sensibilities tell me that modern lightbulbs use more electricity, and therefore, burn brighter. In older times, lightbulbs didn't use so much juice. You can see it if you have a flashlight. A flashlight with fresh batteries has a bright, white glow. A flashlight with half-dead batteries lets...
  23. Shangas

    Show Us Your Pens

    Is $20 the original retail price? It seems pretty cheap if it was, even if it is from the 1950s.

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