BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: Fossil
Date: 15 May 12 - 04:34 AM

What Eliza said...

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: Fossil
Date: 15 May 12 - 04:42 AM

Oh.

MGM: Just read your reply to Eliza and then googled the story. I would've done the same as you did. She must've been a remarkable lady. My sympathies. The Right Stuff will never be obsolete. Back to the thread, now...

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 15 May 12 - 04:44 AM

MtheGM, I have just now read about the circumstances. How very very sad. But the article said that you were coming through quite well and felt relief that the suffering was over. No need to refer to this any more, but I hope you now feel you have come to terms with your loss. Eliza

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: frogprince
Date: 20 May 12 - 11:03 AM

Parquette flooring blocks, 3 inch by 9 inch. We have a semi-circle of them inside the front door. They're "engineered wood", with oak surface layer. The stuff has been fine for the 28 years we've lived here, and may have been there for 12 years before that. But for a few years we've had a big oval rag rug there. Oops; discovered a few weeks ago that we let a wet spot get trapped, and 16 pieces got seriously delaminated. Went to Home Depot to look about some. Then went to Lowe's and Menards to be sure. Hasn't been made for years. Fortunately my table saw is big enough to cut 3" pieces down to 3/8ths thickness, and I have a router to do little edge bevels like the originals. Someone did miss one trick, as they failed to discontinue the wood stain that matches reasonably well. I got 10 blocks out of the first oak board I bought; didn't try to buy for the whole job until I determined that I could make credible replacements.

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: gnu
Date: 20 May 12 - 02:08 PM

froggy... pics would nice. Sounds interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: Fossil
Date: 21 May 12 - 06:55 AM

One thing that popped up in another context:

You never see a bicycle propped up on the kerb by one pedal anymore.

While there are lots of bikes around, they are either stripped-down very expensive racers or mountain bikes, which don't ever get left out anywhere unless they are chained to a bike rack. And most have derailleur gears, which don't give the pedal much purchase.

Whatever happened to the old black Raleighs, with mudguards, chain covers, panniers and proper Sturmey-Archer gears? You still see 'em in Holland, but everywhere else they seem to have disappeared.

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: saulgoldie
Date: 21 May 12 - 07:22 AM

My bike--I call it my "truck" and I use it for all-around riding--has full fenders, a rack, panniers, and lights. My 10-speed racer does not. I do not have any cogs above 6-sp. I find I have plenty of gearing options, anyway. I don't have any indexed-shifting, either.

The guys at the bike store refer to me as a "retro-grouch" because I don't buy stuff any newer-by-design than 'bout 30 years ago (except for lights which have really come a long way). And they roll their eyes when I want replacement parts. But I don't find that most of the newer stuff justifies the marginal improvement with the experience given the cost and increased mechanical complexity. Also the quick-changing configurations make replacement parts unfeasible.

When I get where I am going, I don't usually prop my bike with the pedals, because there is usually some structure I can lean it against. And I lock it with a U-lock. But I doubt if anyone would want to steal it, anyway, since it is all geeked out. I mean, they would have to take the time to strip off all that "unnecessary" equipment.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 21 May 12 - 08:51 PM

Bleach routes. or "Javelle Water" Routes were prevalent in US cities up until WWII.
Other obsolete things seem to be grammar and spelling in books and periodicals.

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 May 12 - 12:10 AM

Never mind that, Dick. Give it another 5 minutes and those books and periodicals will be obsolete too...

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 02:28 PM

A guy from "up da nort shore" opened up a barber shop recently a spit and a half from me. I was his first customer. Trimmed my stache fer $2 bucks and he trimmed my neck hair, with the electric clippers... gave him $3.

Today, I sat down and he trimmed my stache and then... no shit, man... he got out the lotion and a REAL barber's straight razor and SHAVED my neck! Now, I dare say that NO other barber in this city uses a straight razor. It's not even taught in school anymore. I guess balloons cost too much?

I am gonna go for a hot shave some day as a treat. After two parotidectomies I have to use an electric razor and I miss that "clean shave" feeling.

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 02:42 PM

How old is this barber? It would be unusual for a young fellow to know straight razors.

(Me?..haven't been to a barber in 33 years. I 'think' I remember a barber using a straight razor to trim sideburns and such once...maybe 40 years ago)

Subject: RE: BS: Obsolete in your lifetime?
From: gnu
Date: 30 Aug 12 - 05:03 PM

I'd say late 30s or so. His old man is 69 and he was a barber all his life. Sent his son to school. First day back he ws asked for a shave and said that he wasn't taught... he was sent for balloons.

And... man... the nape of my neck is as smooth as glass.