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A conversation about 'old stuff'.

No, he meant that things made a long time ago were made to last, while things made today were not. I get what you mean, since I thought the same thing. "Old things last longer" --- well of course they do. They're old and have proven themselves just by being used today. :)

My family had a Sony Trinitron for 20+ years. It may still be in the living room today. I'm not even sure. Anyway, I doubt that today's televisions would last you 10 years, and I wouldn't be shocked if one didn't last 5 years.



BoyBach said:
True that, but this was before Adidas released their 'Original' range at vastly inflated prices. Who'd have thought, I was once fashionable! :D ;)
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Well they didn't need an Original range back then because that stuff was the original. ;) I'm going to save all that stuff that could be trendy one day. I don't usually follow trends at all, but if it just happens to be back in style, I'll be the only one who didn't spend 5x too much for it.
 
Yea, I too think that most (not all) old things were better.
I still use my Mom's old Walkman pretty often to listen to cassettes or the radio. It is from the early to mid 90's. I also miss my Mom's old Optimus stereo system from the late 80's or 90's. It was so awesome that it had dual cassette decks! I was actually pretty upset to see it go when I got a new Panasonic stereo system, because it only has one non auto reverse deck.:(
 
Abstract said:
My family had a Sony Trinitron for 20+ years.
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The Sony Trinitron in our bedroom was made in 1984. It still works fine, though it was repaired once. Actually I had two of them but recently gave one to my Dad.

This house is full of old stuff. Most of our furniture is 100 years old or more, but I don't know if that counts.
 
NC MacGuy said:
Some tees over ten.
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How do you people wear T-shirts for that long?! They last me one year, tops. Even good ones. If I get a white tee, I wear it all the time when it's completely white. When it gets discolored, I either throw it away or use it just for walking around the house/washing the car. How can you go outside with a tee-shirt that's so old? A custom made suit? Yes. A tee shirt? I don't understand...
 
Ah, where to start.

A lot of things I use are older then me, (which isn't saying much, now that I think about it :p) but I'm glad I have them, because they work much better then anything new.

I have an Toshiba laptop from the early 90's running Windows 3.1 that I use near daily. I write my novella's/novel's/poems on it, then transfer it to my PC by floppy disk (ooh, one more old thing I use. :))

I have an Emerson boombox from the 70's that my dad got when he was my age. Stereo sound and dual cassette decks. :)(Also runs on 10 "D" batteries :D)

I have a NES that I use sometimes for old school gaming.

I know have a dress from the 60's somewhere that was my mother's, it's probably too small for me now.:(

The last thing I can think of at the moment is a General Electric alarm clock, from somwhere between the late 60's and late 70's. It's got a nice AM radio, and a glow-in-the-dark dial with actual hands to tell the time. :)


If I think of more, I'll add them.
 
I dont have that many old things...


The oldest thing that I have is my TV. I believe that its from 1993, which means that its older than me.

Another old thing is my pajama pants, which I wear every single night. There from 2005, and I have 2 pairs. Im surprised that they have lasted this long, their from Walmart....
 
Duh how did I forget this! I like old games and junk. Still got all my old systems 'cept my N64 (Caroline has that now). NES, Mega Drive, Commodore Amiga, some Spectrum games (speccy died :(), ancient controllers, super rare classic games.

Really love old games. Much more than new games (except Mario Kart Wii of course that game is pure gold) which try to drown out terrible gameplay and lack of beta testing with copious amounts of graphics.
 
I use a Westclox Baby Ben alarm clock that must be over 30 years old and worn smooth on the side of the keys used for winding it up. I had a couple of new ones of the same brand before I inherited this, and they had quite a lot of plastic in them, ticked annoyingly loudly and stopped working within a couple of years. This one, on the other hand, is mostly metal and has a soft, smooth tick and is still going strong.

My HP 11C reverse Polish calculator.

I also have a 25 year old parka that I use for gardening. One of those old navy blue ones with grey fur round the hood, orange lining and lots of pockets (most of them with holes in the bottom!)
 
How about I talk about how I wish I had something old to talk about.

I found the coolest green clamshell iBook with WIFI at some used everything shop here and was begging my dad for it. He said no. What about the iMac? No. What about the MacClassic? Its MacCraptic. Expensive old crap


Italics are my dad.

Why can't I have a cool old mac? As for old anything else, they usually suck. I stick up for my old iPods though.
 
We have (and still use) a cast-iron skillet that we inherited from my wife's grandmother. I'm not sure if she got it new when she was married in the 1930s or inherited it from someone else, making it even older.

We have a set of dessert plates that were hand-painted by her grandmother's grandmother in the 1890s. We can't use them, though, because the paint is lead!

I also have a Ti400 that works great (I'm trying to sell it though...).
 
Ish said:
I also have a 25 year old parka that I use for gardening. One of those old navy blue ones with grey fur round the hood, orange lining and lots of pockets (most of them with holes in the bottom!)
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I've still got mine ( no chance of ever getting into it now ) i used to wear it to school,we used to play a game where if someone's hood was up,you would grab hold off it closing it around there face and swing them around




wordmunger said:
We have (and still use) a cast-iron skillet that we inherited from my wife's grandmother.
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forgive the ignorance but what's a skillet?
 
Neil321 said:
forgive the ignorance but what's a skillet?
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This looks quite a bit like ours:

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There's no better way to cook cornbread.
 
At work

I'm working with code written in 1990...and there are a lot more out there working with even older code...
 
Neil321 said:
Are ok kinda like a frying pan then
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A skillet here usually refers to a heavy cast iron frying pan. A frying pan is just like a skillet only lighter.
Many frying pans can't go into an oven. There are other culinary advantages of using the cast iron skillet in some circumstance vs. a frying pan.

At least where I come from.;)
 
NC MacGuy said:
A skillet here usually refers to a heavy cast iron frying pan. A frying pan is just like a skillet only lighter.
Many frying pans can't go into an oven. There are other culinary advantages of using the cast iron skillet in some circumstance vs. a frying pan.

At least where I come from.;)
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I'm from the UK and to be honest i've never heard of a skillet,also a frying pan that could go in a oven,but then again i try to keep out of the kitchen as much as possible but thanks for the explaining to me
 
well, for starters...i've been wearing these shoes non-stop for 5 years. they were $12 at Target, and i will cry the day the straps come loose from the rest of the shoe. :eek:
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i've been using my iPod mini since 2004, as well as my iBook G4.

i've still got my trusty 2001 Honda Civic, but i won't lie...i have been tempted to trade her in. ;)

i still have the bedroom furniture that my parents got me when i was 8.

we have several very old Polaroid cameras that we will continue to use until our film stock is finally depleted. :(

we have the original Nintendo, an Intellivision, and a Coleco Telstar Classic...all work, and we do use them from time to time.
 
Leica rangefinder camera from 1932. Stores its latent images (36 max) on a one-meter strip of celluloid without the use of batteries. Weird!
 

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My bicycle frame dates from 1980/81. I bought it in the mid-80's and built a bike around it. It's still an excellent frame (Reynolds 531 tubing throughout) and I still commute about 70-80 miles a week on it.

(Old Apple stuff: I still have a big stash of 'rainbow' Apple stickers from about 1981 - with "Apple Computer" written in the old "Cupertino" typeface)

HB
 
I have my Dad's pocket knife, which is with me daily [although I only use it a couple times a week]. He died when I was almost 8, and my mom gave it to me when I was 14. I've had it in my pocket pretty much every day for the past 32 years.
 
i don't have much 'old stuff' really as i try and keep things as minimal as possible, and i even fail then. but there are some older things that i like to keep around for sentimental value alone.
 
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