Does anyone in the 21stC still do any of the following..

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Does anyone still have newspaper on the back of the toilet door.

A raison d'etre for a Certain Local evening newspaper?

[horribleblob 213]

Does anyone still have newspaper on the back of the toilet door.

 

Only in the outside loo. The door to the inside facility is too far away to reach from a sitting position.

[allwednesday 11]

A raison d'etre for a Certain Local evening newspaper?

 

Or wrapping fish and chips in.

[Isabelle 10]

I remember having pen pals at school in various parts of the world. Does anyone do this anymore I wonder?

[allwednesday 11]

I remember having pen pals at school in various parts of the world. Does anyone do this anymore I wonder?

 

Yes I remember that too I wonder.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

I still do five of your items. What's wrong with that?

All work perfectly well or are necessary (cheques), letters (very welcome)

I don't see the need to keep changing things that still do what I want them to do.

Well said! Why change just for change's sake?

[DeathAxe 10]

Use a public telephone box? (Gotta love that smell of urine, ETC, like high-rise flat stairs!)

 

Watch VHS tapes? (Loved the endless winding, fade-out spots and 'snow'!)

 

Still post on a Friends Re-united or Myspace account?

 

Write..... letters - apart from Xmas? (Can anyone even remember how?)

 

Play music cassettes? (And wind the spool with a Bic pen?)

 

Use a mobile phone with no camera? (And get carpal tunnel syndrome lifting one!)

 

Write cheques? (Only landlords seem to get excited receiving these?)

 

Own a ''box TV'' with no remote control? (the fitness levels we once had!)

 

Many still use cheques are still used mostly in business. As with fax machines for some reason. (really a virtual fax machine would be better that links into email. Although with encryption, email is better anyway). Letters of course another thing used in business. But most people don't seem to open their mail these days unless it is a package from Amazon.

 

As for "box TVs" or CRTs to normal people, they still have their place in the world for such as retro gamers etc. There are some things that LCD screens are rather bad at doing (and a bunch of useless post processing options that really have no place being there as they are useless ad just cause problems).

 

I'm still a bit set in my ways with things, I'll still call DVDs and Blu rays "videos" from time to time, and portable music players "walkmans".

 

It's a shame really that kids growing up today wont know what a floppy disc is, a cassette tape, or video tape.

 

But then again, they wont have all of those hassles we had with those formats.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

It's a shame really that kids growing up today wont know what a floppy disc is, a cassette tape, or video tape.

Nor a music cartridge. And who'll remember Betamax?

[L00b 441]

Yes re

- send/receive letters

- issue/bank cheques

- send/receive faxes.

Whyever not?

Same here...but I'm not a luddite, so-

Does anyone still have newspaper on the back of the toilet door.

-no, these days I have an (old) gameboy with Tetris.

 

In a nod to the olden'days, it does ordinarily reside on the back of the toilet door (with a lanyard)

 

I remember Betamax fine, managed to dodge that technological dead end at the time...didn't manage it with Laserdiscs and the Dreamcast, though

Edited May 12, 2014 by L00b