FabSwingers.com forum: Things killed by technology

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

We were watching the paper boy out the window and were thinking, that's something that is dying out.

*making Photo albums (we are starting to get more photos printed.)

*Public telephones

Hand writing letters (we still do this)

What other things are becoming extinct and you will miss?

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By *atindollTV/TS
over a year ago

edinburgh

Public telephones are very much alive in the borders and probably the highlands too,no mobile reception there.

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

"Public telephones are very much alive in the borders and probably the highlands too,no mobile reception there."

(Nessarosa)

We have seen 2 in our travels, we always try and get a photo with it. Hee hee

But I guess we have to look better.

Xxx

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

Checkout operators

I hate self scan........"please place the item in the bagging area"......ahhhhhh!!!

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

Carrier pigeons dreadful im my day you would always have one on you just incase you had to get intouch with someone quckly. Now its just a text. It was always a back up if you got lost on a dessert island and had nothing to eat for days. Cant eat a text.

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

I was a paperboy and a milk boys. You got a long lie doing the papers compared to the milkids. Hoping on and off a moving milk float when you think about it was crazy but there was no health and safety then. It was also hard going running about with two crates full of glass bottles but it all seemed worth it when you went collecting the money at the end of the week and the tips came in.

On a different note, how was the viking thing nessarosa?

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

"Checkout operators

I hate self scan........"please place the item in the bagging area"......ahhhhhh!!!"

(Nessarosa)

OMG-ODDESS, we cant stand them.

It takes jobs away from everyone.

It also makes people/ young people lose their communication skills.

People think its faster and more convenient... 8 out of 10 times a assistant has to help someone.

Definitely not our thing.

We like a warm body to check us out. Hee hee

Xxx

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By *estless nativeMan
over a year ago

near Glasgow

Meter readers are heading for extinction too.

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

"Meter readers are heading for extinction too."

(Nessa)

Oooohhhh... gas and electric.

Soooo true. Another lost job.

Xxx

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

"Carrier pigeons dreadful im my day you would always have one on you just incase you had to get intouch with someone quckly. Now its just a text. It was always a back up if you got lost on a dessert island and had nothing to eat for days. Cant eat a text.

(Nessa)

Lol...

Emergency food.

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

"I was a paperboy and a milk boys. You got a long lie doing the papers compared to the milkids. Hoping on and off a moving milk float when you think about it was crazy but there was no health and safety then. It was also hard going running about with two crates full of glass bottles but it all seemed worth it when you went collecting the money at the end of the week and the tips came in.

On a different note, how was the viking thing nessarosa?"

(Nessarosa)

Wow, milk rounds.... wow, thats a bit ago.

Vikings

We never went due to the weather Saturday, we never said because no one showed interest or PM us they were going.

Oh well, we have other things coming up.

Xxx

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

Was gonna pm but not a site supporter. Cheers

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

Oh, another one just came to me! Video stores, and music shops to a certain extent as well.

More jobs gone!

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

A to Z's

Everyone has sat nav now.

Don't think that's a bad thing though having to jump between page 29 b3 to page 54 c1 then back to page 33 to find you have the book upside down lol

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Checkout operators

I hate self scan........"please place the item in the bagging area"......ahhhhhh!!!"

Yup! One of my pet hate!

When am told to use it, I simply reply... 'I'll wait to be served by a human being, thanks!'

To be honest, we have made our beds in a way and we have to lie in it now!

People don't want to wait, want things faster, cheaper!! And that is the result!

I teach my niece and other family kids how to sew, knit, crochet and calligraphy each time I see her! But also how to cut a whole chicken, carve a piece of meat and gut a fish! And so on...

We have become lazy! And it's up to us to keep some basic skills alive by passing them on if we have them!

Whoops! Blah over

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By *hav02Man
over a year ago

Glasgow/London

* A-Z road maps (i remember memorising routes and drawing out my own nav map, while resting the book on my lap

* Checkout staff (grr some of them just throw all the foods then give you evils when you're trying to pack the foods carefully and they're waiting for you to pay)

* Doctors (replaced by Jeremy Cunts 111 service

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* Video stores

* HMV

* Libraries

* Hobby cars (or enjoying reading Haynes manuals then fiddling with your own engine)

* Black cabs

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By *litter and GrumpCouple
over a year ago

glasgow

CDs and books.

I have my kindle and my iPod and with my phone can pretty much listen to any albulm or song without a cd.

However I'm a weirdo who likes to still buy the cd have thousands and same with books I have some I have on kindle and hardback. My kindle is prefect as I travel close to 2 hours daily for work and it's easier than carrying books but love relaxing in a bath with a actually book and the smell and crispness of turning pages on a new one

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

"Checkout operators

I hate self scan........"please place the item in the bagging area"......ahhhhhh!!!"

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By *uck knows41Man
over a year ago

Arbroath

Blacksmith is a dying trade

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

Conversation. We hate to sit in a restraunt or coffee shop and watch a couple or family all sit on their phones or I pad. No chat. Head down and face lit up.

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By *vbride1963TV/TS
over a year ago

E.K . Glasgow

It's become a throw away society . Business have made labour charges so high folk buy a new product rather than repair old one . Things used to be built to last a while now built to a cheap price . It's been the loss of the local tv repair shop still a few vacuum repair shops left but a lot less than there used to be .

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By *44bertCouple
over a year ago

Inverness

The guy who went around town lighting the gas lamps

The Gong farmers...

Town crier

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By *ikerbob1957Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Conversation. We hate to sit in a restraunt or coffee shop and watch a couple or family all sit on their phones or I pad. No chat. Head down and face lit up.

You got in first with that. I was out at a restaurant last week and the two girls opposite me sat with phones in their hands for the whole meal.

Arithmetic. Try asking a young person to make any sort of calculation without an electronic device and they are lost.

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Arithmetic. Try asking a young person to make any sort of calculation without an electronic device and they are lost."

To be fair! Have you seen how they teach Arithmetic these days??

Not entirely their fault here! But that's my opinion

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By *vbride1963TV/TS
over a year ago

E.K . Glasgow

"Arithmetic. Try asking a young person to make any sort of calculation without an electronic device and they are lost.

To be fair! Have you seen how they teach Arithmetic these days??

Not entirely their fault here! But that's my opinion "

My niece of eight can count better than her mother so hopefully it's changing sadly her mother works in the banking sector not good at counting loss of bank branches due to technology ? Maybe not

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

"Arithmetic. Try asking a young person to make any sort of calculation without an electronic device and they are lost.

To be fair! Have you seen how they teach Arithmetic these days??

Not entirely their fault here! But that's my opinion

My niece of eight can count better than her mother so hopefully it's changing sadly her mother works in the banking sector not good at counting loss of bank branches due to technology ? Maybe not

Haha! Am rubbish in both French and English arithmetic

with or without technology... am allergic, simple

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

Children.

They're completely lost to it. I suppose kids TV was the Facebook/ snapchat of my generation to my parents but they've just stopped being kids these days. Console games, internet, MySpace (joke obvs), Facebook, snapchat, reality Tv etc.

Very rarely see them out 'playing'. If there's no wifi the world has ended, what 'are' they to do?! They've lost the ability to socialise and interact properly with flesh n bones people (to be fair so have many adults).

I about shit a chicken last week when my ten year old actually used her imagination and started making shit out of boxes (and by her I obviously mean her mother and I - but it's a start!).

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

"Conversation. We hate to sit in a restraunt or coffee shop and watch a couple or family all sit on their phones or I pad. No chat. Head down and face lit up.

This annoys me if someone does this in my company. I find it very rude and insulting

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

Drives me up the wall.

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

Cards. No one sends cards now adays. Birthday cards, Christmas cards etc it's all done via technology now i.e Facebook. It just doesn't have the same meaning

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By *ikerbob1957Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Was in two shops recently. The assistants could not work out how much 10 off an item at 60p per item or 24 photocopies at 10p per copy.

When I told the girl in the copiers it was £2.40 she asked me how I worked that out.

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

"Was in two shops recently. The assistants could not work out how much 10 off an item at 60p per item or 24 photocopies at 10p per copy.

When I told the girl in the copiers it was £2.40 she asked me how I worked that out.

There you go, Banda machines, killed by photocopiers! Remember the smell of that ink at school?

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

" the local tv repair shop "

There are shops where you can get repaired?!

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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago

Paisley

Decent customer service when you make a phone call. It's all pick option 1, 2 or 3 or it's voice recognition or online chat and 10 minutes later you've lost the will to live and just want to speak to a real person that understands your problem.

Yes I'm frustrated!

Log and trying to find the phone number for a local branch of anything. It's all call centres!

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By *hav02Man
over a year ago

Glasgow/London

"Cards. No one sends cards now adays. Birthday cards, Christmas cards etc it's all done via technology now i.e Facebook. It just doesn't have the same meaning

My mum still spends hours writing out Xmas cards then moans she has to do it. I offered to mail merge and pop the Christmas cards and envelopes through our printer.

She became jealous of the printer

so resorts back to pen and ink

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

Going to Blockbuster etc and getting your movies n' games in for t'weekend

When takeaways were a treat..

No spoilers for movies and TV shows

Sea of mobile phones at gigs obstructing the view..

Just people not living in the moment..

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

The mix tape! Remember spending hours agonising over what tracks to put on one after the other.

Playlist and IPods have killed them.

P.s. Porn Magazines!

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By *eADevilCouple
over a year ago

Blantyre

"The mix tape! Remember spending hours agonising over what tracks to put on one after the other.

Playlist and IPods have killed them.

P.s. Porn Magazines!

Fab replaced porn magz . And real people replaced those movies you once watched behind that bedroom door.

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

"Cards. No one sends cards now adays. Birthday cards, Christmas cards etc it's all done via technology now i.e Facebook. It just doesn't have the same meaning

My mum still spends hours writing out Xmas cards then moans she has to do it. I offered to mail merge and pop the Christmas cards and envelopes through our printer.

She became jealous of the printer

so resorts back to pen and ink

I still send birthday cards and Christmas cards. Technology won't stop that for me personally lol. It's just not the same. It's nicer when people put effort into these type of things

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

surely if you were on a dessert island you would have loads to eat?! if the island was made of pudding?

*a pedant speaks

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

The Alpine man and Solripe Man

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

"Checkout operators

I hate self scan........"please place the item in the bagging area"......ahhhhhh!!!

Yup! One of my pet hate!

When am told to use it, I simply reply... 'I'll wait to be served by a human being, thanks!'

To be honest, we have made our beds in a way and we have to lie in it now!

People don't want to wait, want things faster, cheaper!! And that is the result!

I teach my niece and other family kids how to sew, knit, crochet and calligraphy each time I see her! But also how to cut a whole chicken, carve a piece of meat and gut a fish! And so on...

We have become lazy! And it's up to us to keep some basic skills alive by passing them on if we have them!

Whoops! Blah over

Nessarosa

You touch my heart, we are very similar.

Xxx

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

"Cards. No one sends cards now adays. Birthday cards, Christmas cards etc it's all done via technology now i.e Facebook. It just doesn't have the same meaning

Nessarosa

Sooooo true BUT....there is hope.

Lee my husband is changing this part of the world.

Since moving to Scotland he sends Christmas cards, hand written to family and friends.

He is a hopeless romantic, he says that for a few moments I can take the time to write a chistmas card and show some old fashioned love.

We send out about 30 cards every year...and hand deliver the neighbours.

(Amazing what happens every year....we get lots of Christmas cards too. Lmao... its actually so nice)

Xxx

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

(Nessarosa)

OMG-oddess, lovely some of the subjects you all have brought up.

Some are so funny, some are so sad and some make me reflect on myself.

Thank you.

Xxx

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

"The mix tape! Remember spending hours agonising over what tracks to put on one after the other.

Playlist and IPods have killed them.

P.s. Porn Magazines!

Fab replaced porn magz . And real people replaced those movies you once watched

behind that bedroom door. "

What???!!! Real People! Never heard of those!

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

Video Killed the Radio Star

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

porno mags randomly stuffed in bushes

getting a single fag and a match from the chippie

taping the charts and pausing it when it was a shite song coming on

buying nme and melody maker for the classifieds to see what local bands needed a guitarist

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

(Nessarosa)

By the way, something you dont see a lot of now a days (besides porn mags ...hee hee)

Fag doubts / cigarette butts

Just strange, use to see loads gathered by the pavement....

Noticed it today on the way to shops. Hardly any.

Xxx

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

"(Nessarosa)

By the way, something you dont see a lot of now a days (besides porn mags ...hee hee)

Fag doubts / cigarette butts

Just strange, use to see loads gathered by the pavement....

Noticed it today on the way to shops. Hardly any.

Xxx

Sometimes, progress is a good thing.

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By *vbride1963TV/TS
over a year ago

E.K . Glasgow

Photographs . Their all on phone and pc memory chips or hard drives . Supasnaps etc all gone .

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By *liver ClosoffMan
over a year ago

Ayr

Kids playing kerby with a worn oot baw!

Furniture restorers/French polishers! Ikea is killing my trade!x

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

"Photographs . Their all on phone and pc memory chips or hard drives . Supasnaps etc all gone .

thats true. i make a point of printing out my photos (well most of them!) every month or so. dont trust 'the cloud' and im a nightmare for breaking phones

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

Not knowing how your photos were going to turn out

The Barrs lorry

Recording your faves off the radio

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

Pubes in urinals! Just saw some and thought 'Christ there's a thing you don't see anymore' thanks to the advent of male grooming.

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By *cottishsexgoddessWoman
over a year ago

Glenrothes

"Checkout operators

I hate self scan........"please place the item in the bagging area"......ahhhhhh!!!

(Nessarosa)

OMG-ODDESS, we cant stand them.

It takes jobs away from everyone.

It also makes people/ young people lose their communication skills.

People think its faster and more convenient... 8 out of 10 times a assistant has to help someone.

Definitely not our thing.

We like a warm body to check us out. Hee hee

Xxx"

I used to work in self scan and much preferred that to checkouts. I could move about, chat to my regular customers whilst running back and forth helping others. I had a lot of laughs, met some lovely people and watched babies grow up into toddlers. I do miss it sometimes lol.

The art of communication is slowly disappearing. Go into a restaurant or pub or cafe and every one is on their mobiles.

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

This is thread reminds me of 'Hot Topics' by Alan Partridge.

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

"Cards. No one sends cards now adays. Birthday cards, Christmas cards etc it's all done via technology now i.e Facebook. It just doesn't have the same meaning

I send cards with individual messages at Christmas- not the dreadful round robin messages that some folk do

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By *heekyguy2Man
over a year ago

Local

Things killed by technology...

Relationships! Lol

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

"Things killed by technology...

Relationships! Lol"

Thats so deep and so true...

People talk to the world and cant speak to their own partner.

It is a shame.

Xxx

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

"Conversation. We hate to sit in a restraunt or coffee shop and watch a couple or family all sit on their phones or I pad. No chat. Head down and face lit up.

This

People need to learn to talk, start conversations again. The amount of kids that can't look and speak to someone is shocking. I work in a front facing customer service role so see it on a daily basis.

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By *mojeeCouple
over a year ago

Dunfermline

"Public telephones are very much alive in the borders and probably the highlands too,no mobile reception there."

You've only just got electricity and indoor plumbing down there too lol

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

How do you go down to the highlands?

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