What *Could* You Do Without?

[colleency]

On this note - what about the CRUMMY so-called "prizes" that come in Cracker Jack boxes these days? Heck, I remember when the prize used to actually be something relatively useful and interesting

Yeah, like a compass, which really comes in handy if you happen to be part of a Japanese submarine crew attempting to invade Los Angeles.

 

[Lena_Horne]

I managed to buy a couple of used paperbacks on Amazon.com the other day - one for a penny, the other for 46 cents. I thought I was doing great! Unfortunately, the shipping shot it up to $7.

I remember when I could buy a new paperback for $4.50 Now it's almost double that price.

You ought to try Abebooks online. I bought a first edition, second printing copy of Lolita for about nine dollars. But, I've had books as low as one dollar and orders run as high as seventy or so depending on what I wanted and how new it was.

As for the topic at hand, I'll get back to you when I'm in a better mood as I'm sure just thinking about modern "convenience" shall surely get my blood pumping a bit.

L_H

 

[Viola]

A buck will buy you almost any book available.

True that. I was happy that my library just had a book sale that slashed their usual used price: I got three books including two Stephen Kings (my guilty pleasure) for a grand whopping total of .75 cents

 

[Andykev]

Fakes, Fans, or LIARS?

For some reason, I held my tongue when the subject came up in another thread. Guess it just spilled out this time ...


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Not to pull the chain on this ...but it sounds mean. Like, reenactors are what? Enthusiasts? Do they claim to be something they are not? Or are they men and women who salvage, save, restore, and support the "Glory" aspects of WWII?

I would agree if they pawned themselves off as genuine heroes, but that isn't much of what I have seen.

I say, let them live the experience.

 

[jamespowers]

I say, let them live the experience.

That would be my inclination as well. They aren't hurting anyone. Save the hate for the tyrants of the world like Castro and that idiot in North Korea.

Regards,

J

 

[Lincsong]

I remember the first time I worked in an office in 1991. And the phones hummed. I looked cluelessly around the room and said; 'what's that noise?" I could live without a humming phone. I like the clanging ringers that say; "CHOW TIME!"lol

 

[Mojave Jack]

I could really live without:

- AOL CDs ('cause our landfills need more disposable plastic crap, right, AOL?!)

- 14 credit card applications a day

- telemarketers (even when they pose as credit counselors or some other scam to avoid abiding by the Do Not Call list)

- monster trucks

- cars with stereos so loud and with so much bass they just vibrate and rattle

- people who won't:
use their turn signals
move out of the left lane no matter what their relative speed
wait their turn at stop signs

- people who say "orientated" or "incidences;" for the love of Pete, it's "oriented" and "incidents!"

OK, maybe that last one was just a pet peeve.

 

[scotrace]

I could really live without:

- AOL CDs ('cause our landfills need more disposable plastic crap, right, AOL?!)

- 14 credit card applications a day

- telemarketers (even when they pose as credit counselors or some other scam to avoid abiding by the Do Not Call list)

- monster trucks

- cars with stereos so loud and with so much bass they just vibrate and rattle

- people who won't:
use their turn signals
move out of the left lane no matter what their relative speed
wait their turn at stop signs

- people who say "orientated" or "incidences;" for the love of Pete, it's "oriented" and "incidents!"

OK, maybe that last one was just a pet peeve.

I'm right there on every one of them. And to the last, add "irregardless."

 

[Sefton]

I could live without:
Each and every new car being "High Performance". The roads are filled with these cars zooming about at high speeds and cutting in front of you like you're taking a turn at Le Mans!

Enormous SUVs that you can't see past. Even if you're a pedestrian they block your view, forcing you out into the street to cross the intersection. Cars from the 30s-50s were big, but they at least had curves and didn't sit so high that you couldn't see over them.

Like others here I'll say Cell Phones. Awful things for all the reasons already stated. Especially the ones that some people wear attached to their heads like they're auditioning for a part in Star Trek.

Modern architecture that trys to copy the classic designs. Think modern building trying to look Victorian. It never looks right. Very sad...

Suit jackets with giant arm holes. (see any number of threads on this much hated and fatal flaw of the modern suit...)

The over use of computer graphics.( O.K., computer graphics period. )
I want my monsters brought to life the old fashioned way...DYNARAMA!

Supersized foods. I should not be able to drown in my soda cup. never.

 

[Viola]

Modern architecture that trys to copy the classic designs. Think modern building trying to look Victorian. It never looks right.

There are some (expensive) reproductions I think come pretty close. A lot would depend on the siting and landscaping, of course.

http://www.eplans.com/house-plans.hwx/Q/searchId.104621975/offset.22/Plan.HWEPL06772/nav-context.browse

http://www.eplans.com/image-gallery.hwx/Q/Plan.HWEPL11394/ImageId.209675

And my personal favorite, the small and somewhat magical looking:
http://www.eplans.com/image-gallery.hwx/Q/Plan.HWEPL11394/ImageId.209675

 

[Benny Holiday]

Reality TV's top of my hate list. I could also do without:

* Cable TV hawkers ringing my doorbell three times a week, and refusing
to leave my premises until I have to threaten their lives to get rid of them.

* The modern concept of cross-management. That is, the idea that any twit
with a degree in business management can do any management job.
According to this theory, someone who managed, say, a bank, could also
manage a clothing store. This idea has swept through government
departments here during the last fifteen years, so that the New South
Wales hospital and transport systems are on their knees and local
councils simply don't work.

* Mobile phones (cellphones in the U.S.)

* Idiots with ballcaps worn side-on who careen around the streets at
ridiculous speeds in silly-looking plastic four cylinder cars and cause
accidents (too many viewings of "The Fast and the Furious", perhaps?

* John Howard's evil Industrial Relations laws.

 

[Wild Root]

Are you ready for me yet?lol

Well, let's see now....I could live without….

Microwaves.

Dishwashers.

Political correctness.

Jet aircraft.

Modern cars.

Modern cars with halogen head lamps.

Current styles.

TV.

Freeways.

CELL PHONES!!!

People always on Cell phones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

People driving with Cell Phones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Processed Junk food!!!!

Processed food!!!

Mc Donald’s!!!

Wal*Mart!!!!!!

Plastic (except for bakelite and Catalin)

Commercials (Especially for male enhancement and other embarrassing pills)

MALLS!!!

Loud Rap music or any kind of obnoxious music that is being played loudly from a car or home!!!

Drive Through restaurants… I like the idea of having some one come to your can and take your order on skates! Bring back the car hop!

Sue Happy morons!!!

SUV’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Large sterile movie complexes!

Diesel Mercedes Benz and like autos.

Diesel locomotives… bring back steam!

Soda in cans.

Soda in Plastic!!!

Electric Lawnmowers

Leaf blowers.

The sound of air brakes on a garbage truck!!!!!!!!!! I HATE THAT SOUND!!!

Mice.

Moths!!!!!!!

Motorola Walkie-talkies ( Beep, Where you at?)

American Idol.

Fake bodies… you know what I mean.

Fake anything!

Illegal immigrants.

Jury Duty!!!!!!!!!

Paris Hilton! (She’s sooo not “hot”)

And last but not least…

POLYESTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



There you have it folks! And that's just my short list!!! lol

=WR=

 

[jamespowers]

There you have it folks! And that's just my short list!!! lol

=WR=

Works for me. :eusa_clap

Regards,


J

 

[Matthew Dalton]

Here’s a few of mine:

*Clothing with visible labels
(I'm not an athlete, but if I'm covered in your label you should be paying me.)

*Most artificial fabrics
(I'd like to be able to get 100% wool and cotton products without paying to have them shipped from the USA.)

*Pop Music
(Actually, most modern music.)

*Youth Cults
(How my peers came to embrace the whole "Emo" thing I'll never know.)

*"Extreme" Marketing/Advertising
(IS YOUR BREATH MAX FRESH?!)

*Reality TV
(Besides it being completely inane, I don't like that it's telling people it's okay to be stupid, self-absorbed and childish well into your forties and beyond.)

*Celebrities
(Paris Hilton would probably top that list. For similar reasons to why I don't like reality TV.)

*Modern “Comedies”
(Bring back live audiences. If those involved in sitcoms heard the silence of dozens of people during their shows instead of canned laughter, maybe we’d get something worth watching. Some decent comedy movies would be nice too.)

 

[Caledonia]

I can do without line-dried laundry.

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We line dryers could come round and show you if you like. Labour for free but you supply the pegs, the beer, and the line would be good too. Once you've tried proper line dried washing you won't go back!

I can do without:

Dishwashers, TV, Tumbledriers, Microwaves, Ipods and all their variants (and do)
yep, bubble packs
the nanny state and the mindset that goes with it
hold up stockings (they don't hold up and itch like crazy round that rubber band bit)
our current prime minister, in fact 95% of all politicians
today's lack of a work ethic
excessive and unnecessary packing materials
text, unless there's a law that says it can only be used on mobile phones
salt and sugar in absolutely everything
global warming - where have our great, cold, snowy winters gone
and I would love never to see a muffin top ever again!

 

[Wild Root]

and I would love never to see a muffin top ever again!

Muffin tops? That's the best part of a muffin!!!

=WR=

 

[LizzieMaine]

People who have enormous tattoos of a dripping green swamp monster surrounded by winged demons with flaming skulls covering their entire backs -- who snicker at me as I walk past and say "nice dress" in a snarky and mocking kind of way.

 

[scotrace]

Muffin top? That's the best part of a muffin!!!

=WR=

I think we've just learned something unnerving about you, Wildroot!

 

[NewMexExpat]

Amen, Brother.

I could really live without:

- 14 credit card applications a day

- telemarketers (even when they pose as credit counselors or some other scam to avoid abiding by the Do Not Call list)

- cars with stereos so loud and with so much bass they just vibrate and rattle

- people who say "orientated" or "incidences;" for the love of Pete, it's "oriented" and "incidents!"

Heartily agree with those above.

Credit Card Apps: my wife has started returning the paid envelope with, "take us off your list", written across the form.

 

[Wild Root]

I think we've just learned something unnerving about you, Wildroot!

Am I missing something here? Last time I checked a muffin top was the top part of a baked good… is there another type of “Muffin Top”…. I sure hope not.lol

=WR=