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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

So, we have a couple of threads on the go about dying arts, one being the art of fingering and the other conversing.

My question is, based on no more evidence than your subjective Fab experience, what ride do you people consider a dying art?

I'm going with rational thinking.

Mr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Remembering trivia. You know when you're having a conversation with someone and you're trying to remember the actor that was in that film - you know?! And then a few days later it would pop in your head so you'd ring them to tell them you remembered.

Now you just Google it on the spot.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Remembering trivia. You know when you're having a conversation with someone and you're trying to remember the actor that was in that film - you know?! And then a few days later it would pop in your head so you'd ring them to tell them you remembered.

Now you just Google it on the spot. "

What if you can't remember the film as well?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Remembering trivia. You know when you're having a conversation with someone and you're trying to remember the actor that was in that film - you know?! And then a few days later it would pop in your head so you'd ring them to tell them you remembered.

Now you just Google it on the spot.

What if you can't remember the film as well?"

Google that too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I thought the title was dying farts

My bad .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sidesaddle is a dying ride

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seduction the art of wooing a woman that you fancied sensuality

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The art of conversation

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By *tinerant scribeMan
over a year ago

County Durham

Memorising phone numbers. I must have known between twenty and thirty local numbers when I was 16.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dick pics

I'm sure they are getting worse. And the death grips ....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Daydreaming or doing nothing. Everyone pulls out their phones now.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Common courtesy. Not FAB courtesy (no reply means not interested etc), more a please or thank you, letting someone go first in a busy doorway, a hello or smile when eye contact is made….

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By *stellaWoman
over a year ago

London

Cursive writing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also is fingering an art?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes manners can be non existent these days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Also is fingering an art? "

If done correctly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Also is fingering an art?

If done correctly."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Cursive writing."
Primary school teachers are refusing to let that one go. Which is sad because I like seeing individual styles of writing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shouting jizz at the bus driver and making it sound like cheers

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By *quirtyndirty!Couple
over a year ago

Nottingham

Think people's concentration span is so much shorter nowadays. Youngsters in particular don't seem to want to read books or watch films that demand something of them.

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

Pipe smoking. A revival is long overdue.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Remembering trivia. You know when you're having a conversation with someone and you're trying to remember the actor that was in that film - you know?! And then a few days later it would pop in your head so you'd ring them to tell them you remembered.

Now you just Google it on the spot. "

Is Googling a new art form then?

I just love having a little button I can press on my phone and ask any question I want. The art is in knowing how to phrase the question so Google returns what you want and how to interpret the reliability of the answer.

Mr

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By *iberius61Man
over a year ago

Pontefract


"Cursive writing."

Oh dear...in my youth I was a member of the grandly sounding 'italic handwriting association', I don't know if it still exists even...ok, swapping to Google for 5

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hand writing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Shooting jizz at the bus driver"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Remembering trivia. You know when you're having a conversation with someone and you're trying to remember the actor that was in that film - you know?! And then a few days later it would pop in your head so you'd ring them to tell them you remembered.

Now you just Google it on the spot.

Is Googling a new art form then?

I just love having a little button I can press on my phone and ask any question I want. The art is in knowing how to phrase the question so Google returns what you want and how to interpret the reliability of the answer.

Mr"

It's defo a skill

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Remembering trivia. You know when you're having a conversation with someone and you're trying to remember the actor that was in that film - you know?! And then a few days later it would pop in your head so you'd ring them to tell them you remembered.

Now you just Google it on the spot.

Is Googling a new art form then?

I just love having a little button I can press on my phone and ask any question I want. The art is in knowing how to phrase the question so Google returns what you want and how to interpret the reliability of the answer.

Mr"

I remember when I used Alta Vista. Back when there was more than one search engine...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Shooting jizz at the Donis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Shooting custard at the Donis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I agree with Smurf

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

Logic and common sense

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By *iberius61Man
over a year ago

Pontefract


"Cursive writing. Primary school teachers are refusing to let that one go. Which is sad because I like seeing individual styles of writing. "

I actually had an argument with a primary school teacher on this. As a former member of the italic handwriting society it a subject I'm interested in, and know something about...evidenced studies, not some whacky ideas that some teacher came up with. Sadly the way they were teaching it was pretty much a combination of everything that had been proven to lead to bad handwriting I'm like look, this isn't difficult, and its not some new idea youve come up with, the fundamentals were worked out in the 1950s ffs.

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore


"Remembering trivia. You know when you're having a conversation with someone and you're trying to remember the actor that was in that film - you know?! And then a few days later it would pop in your head so you'd ring them to tell them you remembered.

Now you just Google it on the spot.

Is Googling a new art form then?

I just love having a little button I can press on my phone and ask any question I want. The art is in knowing how to phrase the question so Google returns what you want and how to interpret the reliability of the answer.

Mr

I remember when I used Alta Vista. Back when there was more than one search engine..."

An alternative to Google is DuckDuckGo........and you don't get tracked either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Playing British Bulldog

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By *ou only live onceMan
over a year ago

London


"Playing British Bulldog"

Loved that game! Count me in when you set up the Fab British Bulldog social.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Cursive writing. Primary school teachers are refusing to let that one go. Which is sad because I like seeing individual styles of writing.

I actually had an argument with a primary school teacher on this. As a former member of the italic handwriting society it a subject I'm interested in, and know something about...evidenced studies, not some whacky ideas that some teacher came up with. Sadly the way they were teaching it was pretty much a combination of everything that had been proven to lead to bad handwriting I'm like look, this isn't difficult, and its not some new idea youve come up with, the fundamentals were worked out in the 1950s ffs. "

The problem is that they start too early for boys. A lot of boys don't develop the fine motor skills needed until they're about 7 and they need to be digging, rolling cars, building blocks for a few years to build those skills. We make them start at 4 or 5 which leads them to use their whole arms to write, instead of their hands.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Remembering trivia. You know when you're having a conversation with someone and you're trying to remember the actor that was in that film - you know?! And then a few days later it would pop in your head so you'd ring them to tell them you remembered.

Now you just Google it on the spot.

Is Googling a new art form then?

I just love having a little button I can press on my phone and ask any question I want. The art is in knowing how to phrase the question so Google returns what you want and how to interpret the reliability of the answer.

Mr

I remember when I used Alta Vista. Back when there was more than one search engine...

An alternative to Google is DuckDuckGo........and you don't get tracked either. "

I do use it sometimes

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore


"Cursive writing. Primary school teachers are refusing to let that one go. Which is sad because I like seeing individual styles of writing.

I actually had an argument with a primary school teacher on this. As a former member of the italic handwriting society it a subject I'm interested in, and know something about...evidenced studies, not some whacky ideas that some teacher came up with. Sadly the way they were teaching it was pretty much a combination of everything that had been proven to lead to bad handwriting I'm like look, this isn't difficult, and its not some new idea youve come up with, the fundamentals were worked out in the 1950s ffs. "

I was taught to use italic handwriting at school, and we had competitions to showcase beautiful script. Then I went to college and faced dictation .... no way italic could keep up. I had to learn cursive handwriting real fast!!

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By *lderflower_AppleWoman
over a year ago

Basingstoke

Common sense - definitely seems to be a dying art. Everyone seems to want someone seems to tell them the right way to do something, or when not to do something, or even what to think!

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field


"Playing British Bulldog"

and Kirby- too many parked and passing cars for that now i think?

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By *iberius61Man
over a year ago

Pontefract


"Cursive writing.'italic handwriting association', I don't know if it still exists even...ok, swapping to Google for 5 "

Lol, it does, of course it's online now, and I just rejoined sadly my aging memory was playing tricks with me. It's actually called 'the society for italic handwriting'

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A sense of humour. It's now much more de rigueur to be offended...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Shooting custard at the Donis

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This is a fun game for ages 25 and above.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Pooping custard at the Donis

This is a fun game for ages 25 and above."

Sounds a bit niche to me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I agree with Smurf "

Thank you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Pooping custard at the Donis

This is a fun game for ages 25 and above.

Sounds a bit niche to me. "

Don't piss on my game.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"So, we have a couple of threads on the go about dying arts, one being the art of fingering and the other conversing.

My question is, based on no more evidence than your subjective Fab experience, what ride do you people consider a dying art?

I'm going with rational thinking.

Mr"

What ride? Don’t see many in a horse and buggy these days.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stealing cars.

Modern cars have complicated locking systems and are almost impossible to hot wire.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Pooping custard at the Donis

This is a fun game for ages 25 and above.

Sounds a bit niche to me.

Don't piss on my game."

No piss. Just poo.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Pissing on The Donis

This is a fun game for ages 25 and above.

Sounds a bit niche to me.

Don't piss on my game."

FIFY

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Titting up is an art cast to the shadows of my youth.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"No piss. Just poo. "

And that's your new profile header.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Neat handwriting, spelling and grammar!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Also is fingering an art? "
finger panting ...

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By *oly Fuck Sticks BatmanCouple
over a year ago

here & there

Patience - there’s no need to get all uptight about having to wait a few minutes extra for something to arrive or wait for your turn… but that’s the issue with nearly everything being available at all times.

I want it now, I want it RIGHT NOW!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Also is fingering an art? finger panting ... "

What's finger panting? Sounds hot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The art of shopkeeping. I long for the days of the local hardware shop where as a 10 year old I was allowed to purchase two gallons of Esso Blue Paraffin for the heater in the kitchen.

I love to go into Lazenbys hardware shop and ask for four candles!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Also is fingering an art? finger panting ...

What's finger panting? Sounds hot "

Hot as in thrush afterwards?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Also is fingering an art? finger panting ...

What's finger panting? Sounds hot

Hot as in thrush afterwards?"

What a chat up line! "Hey girl, I'm gonna finger you so hard, you'll have thrush." Pure Romance.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Also is fingering an art? finger panting ...

What's finger panting? Sounds hot

Hot as in thrush afterwards?

What a chat up line! "Hey girl, I'm gonna finger you so hard, you'll have thrush." Pure Romance. "

Roses are red

Lilies are lush

I'll finger you so hard

You're gonna have thrush

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Sidesaddle is a dying ride "

I've only just realised what you meant

*else

Proofreading is a dying art ...

Mr

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Also is fingering an art? finger panting ...

What's finger panting? Sounds hot

Hot as in thrush afterwards?

What a chat up line! "Hey girl, I'm gonna finger you so hard, you'll have thrush." Pure Romance.

Roses are red

Lilies are lush

I'll finger you so hard

You're gonna have thrush

"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Sidesaddle is a dying ride

I've only just realised what you meant

*else

Proofreading is a dying art ...

Mr"

I knew you'd eventually realise

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Remembering trivia. You know when you're having a conversation with someone and you're trying to remember the actor that was in that film - you know?! And then a few days later it would pop in your head so you'd ring them to tell them you remembered.

Now you just Google it on the spot.

Is Googling a new art form then?

I just love having a little button I can press on my phone and ask any question I want. The art is in knowing how to phrase the question so Google returns what you want and how to interpret the reliability of the answer.

Mr

I remember when I used Alta Vista. Back when there was more than one search engine..."

There still are. It's amazing how Google shapes our perception. Ask a question about a contentious societal issue and compare the results you get back from different search engines - can be very interesting.

Mr

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Patience - there’s no need to get all uptight about having to wait a few minutes extra for something to arrive or wait for your turn… but that’s the issue with nearly everything being available at all times.

I want it now, I want it RIGHT NOW! "

This is an interesting one for me in my professional life. Lead times on a lot of things are now quite long. Where once it often wasn't a major issue of something had been forgotten as it could be ordered to be delivered before 9 the following morning. Now, when you get told there's a 4 month lead time you have to be far more careful with planning.

Mr

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Common sense - definitely seems to be a dying art. Everyone seems to want someone seems to tell them the right way to do something, or when not to do something, or even what to think! "

Common sense is rarely common and often not sense.

That said, I know what you mean. I think we raise children to avoid risk to such an extent they don't know how to assess it. This means more and more people rely on others to tell them what to do.

Mr

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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster

Crocheting lace doilies is a dying art.

Sad times.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Crocheting lace doilies is a dying art.

Sad times."

Nooooooo I bloody love doilies.

I recently changed jobs and one of my leaving gifts was 6 crotchet doilies. I can't wait to reconfigure our office and I can use my doilies on my desk again.

NBVN x

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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago

Camberley occasionally doncaster


"Crocheting lace doilies is a dying art.

Sad times.

Nooooooo I bloody love doilies.

I recently changed jobs and one of my leaving gifts was 6 crotchet doilies. I can't wait to reconfigure our office and I can use my doilies on my desk again.

NBVN x"

Unfortunately they sit quite at odds with the popular IKEA/Hygge aesthetic.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Also is fingering an art? finger panting ...

What's finger panting? Sounds hot

Hot as in thrush afterwards?

What a chat up line! "Hey girl, I'm gonna finger you so hard, you'll have thrush." Pure Romance.

Roses are red

Lilies are lush

I'll finger you so hard

You're gonna have thrush

"

Quite possibly?

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By *onderstuff73mMan
over a year ago

Brum

Conversation!

Anywhere between messages consisting of one or two words to etiquette and decorum on the forums…..

Also, grammar, punctuation and spelling.

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair

Dry stone walling. That's a dying Årt.

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By *onderstuff73mMan
over a year ago

Brum

Funeral directing is a dying art

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