Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers!
Yeah, I doubt my kids have ever even seen one - even audio cassettes are a rarity.
I don't think I ever saw one of those until I came to the US - I'm not sure they were ever 'big' anywhere else. I did once have an answerphone that had a built-in 1/4" reel-to-reel tape deck...
I remember our boy getting into our '67 truck for the first time last year and looking around for the switch to operate the electric windows... funny how people come to rely on technology.
Isn't a draft an initial release of something, before you work out how to do it properly? ;)
Cell phones seem to be the current thing - our three kids are 8, 10 and
11, and everyone of that age at their schools seems completely obsessed with owning a cell phone, and holds an unshakable belief that they can't possibly do without one. It's all a little depressing, somehow.cheers
Jules
Plays vinyl audio albums.
Called a rotary dial phone otherwise.
British pop group of the 60's, 70's and 80's. I have their Anthology CD set.
Plays an endless loop tape with 4 stereo tracks. Antiquated with the introduction of the compact cassette and subsequently the CD.
Ranking most deaths on top with 1 million or greater deaths:
a. WW2 b. WW1 c. Korean d. Chinese Civil War e. Vietnam
Depends on what you are inflating
$1.00 / gal
In what context?
What things?
Used the USPS.
Answers provided by 17 year old Jeff The Drunk Jr.
Better yet, ask them where Portugal is or what state is Washington DC in. Ask them about Pearl Harbor, Normandy. Ask them what the three branches of our government are.
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a) turmoil b) confusion c) havoc d) recklessness ... ... z) all of the above
I remember about 10 years ago, I was at a station putting Diesel in the Olds 98 I had, and the young girl clerk came running outside yelling "Sir, that is Diesel you are putting in, not gas" Told her" yep, that's what it takes" She couldn't believe it. I admit I gotta give her credit for being observant and helpful.
Or just about any question about the history of unions in this country.
Wrong!
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We've seen kids at a cash register practically in tears trying to make change when the power went out.
*Nobody* knows how to make change anymore. I worked my way though college 30+ years ago running a cash register at a drugstore. This is how we were taught to make change, using your example above, and counting _out loud_ to the customer:
Put the purchase in a bag, hand it to him, and say "A dollar twenty-seven". Then three pennies: "28, 29, 30." Then two dimes -- "40, 50." Then two quarters -- "75, two dollars, thank you sir."
The beauty of this method is that you don't have to do any math to speak of. All you need to do is count. It doesn't matter if neither the cashier nor the customer can do the subtraction correctly -- it always produces the correct change, and everybody knows it.
And nobody under the age of about fifty has any idea how to do that.
o
Calculators; bah humbug.
Ah but we also pay a sales tax. Used to be 15%. Which was easy; one tenth plus half of that again, added to the price. So in the example above sales tax would be 12.7 (that's 13 cents) plus half of that again (6.5 cents) a tax of 19 cents. So; 1.27 =3D 19 cents =3D well mentally I would say well that's one cent less than 1.47 or 1.46. And 1.46 is 4 cents less than 1.50 so from the
2 bucks that's, 54 cents change!!!!! New the sales tax has been reduced to 13%; haven't yet worked out a quick way to mentally calculate that. There probably is one though. Suggestions welcome.BTW anybody interested in our 'Quick and Dirty' interest and monthly repayment calculation that one can do in one's head and is reasonably accurate for amount up to say $20,000 and say five years. Although again been meaning to work out some sort of correction factor for bigger amounts or longer periods!.
PS. Grandson when very small seen urgently pointing a digital calculator at the TV and pressing various buttons; thinking it was the TV remote! And in more recent years he's been showing his friends this 'cool' phone with a round dial (A Contempra with in-handset rotary dial) that we have in the hall passageway for convenient answering. But yes; I don't know how to 'knit' a fishing net or use a cast net, split a chunk of wood with one blow; skills my father in law and brother in law took for granted.
Ask them to tell you what time it is using a regular clock instead of a digital one...LOL...
Most store these days have no provision for selling anything without using the UPC scanner, quite apart from the onerous task of figuring out the change. Even writing down the UPC no. on a piece of paper doesn't work, because the store identifies an item not by the UPC but by the SKU
-- and only the computer system knows how they are related.
Perce
Vinyl? Which world are you living in? Real record players play shellac discs. We had one my father bought at an auction that even had with it some old Columbia discs that were recorded at 80rpm -- and the player had a setting for that.
79 cents a gallon on Long Island, NY in 1998 or thereabouts.
Mechanical adding machines, then electronic calculators. The first
4-function electronic calculator I saw cost approx. $100.Perce
I can remember when "computer" was the job title of a person.
my parents had an edison recorder/player that used wax tubes. he also had this enormous adding machine with a crank that could also subtract. he's still using the old black dial phones.
"As of 2009, vinyl records continue to be used for distribution of independent and alternative music artists. More mainstream pop releases tend to be mostly sold in digital or compact disc format, but have still been released in vinyl in certain instances."
Reference to vinyl = common description not indicative to all compositions used over the past 100 years.
How about a disc RECORDER, Or a Player Piano?
How about a "cassette" recorder that used Cassettes about 6X8 inches with the wide dape like used on the old real to real? Made by RCA
I pumped hundreds of thousands of gallons at 46.9 cents - and with the inevitable gas wars of the late sicties I bought more than one tank full for less than 11 cents per gallon.
Isn't that what you get when a window or door doesn't seal properly??
Snail Mail Had a parcel sent to me in Africa in the seventies, preceded by an air mail letter. The parcel arrived in 2 days, while the air-mail letter took several weeks - - - - -.
That can be turned around as well. Ever watch the game show called "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader"?
One of the early contestants was an actual "Rocket Scientist" that worked for NASA. He was gone after missing the first question. And it was a question from the first grade part of the quiz.
David
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