Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

3fingers said:

My youngest son, who is 12 is still being taught elements of it now. They change the name, but it is the same BS and the teachers still don't understand how to teach it any better now than they did when I was in school. It is maddening. I have talked to his teachers about why they don't teach the kids how to add, subtract, multiply and divide and they look at me like I am insane and say we are teaching the strategies that are in the book. So we teach it at home instead. Math is much easier for him now that he understands the point of doing it.

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Zombie_61 said:

And that's part of the controversy over the whole global warming/climate change theory--even the so-called experts can't agree because they're analyzing the same data but drawing different conclusions. Sometimes I think meteorology is nothing more than a "dog and pony" show; if I had their "correct-to-incorrect" ratio when I was working, I wouldn't have been working long.

So does a movie called Idiocracy. It's not a particularly good movie, admittedly, but it seems to be sadly prophetic.

I understand when you say your local weather patterns used to be predictable. In this part of southern California, 30-40 years ago it would start to warm up in June, stay hot until mid-October, then cool down with the occasional rainstorm until May, and start all over again. Granted, we never had the extreme temperature changes from season to season that much of the U.S. experiences (i.e., it hasn't snowed here in my lifetime), but we have our own version of "winter/summer wear" (one that most of the country would find laughable by comparison), and high humidity was a rarity. But over the years the temperatures during the summer months have gotten higher, the temperatures during the winter months have gotten lower, and the humidity during the summer months has rivaled that of the midwest. Until this past week, this summer has been ridiculously mild with temperatures in the mid- to upper-80s (°F) during the day. Then, overnight, we're hitting temperatures over 100°F and humidity in the 80-90% range. And, most unusual, we've had rain every month--only enough to dirty the windshields, but still extremely unusual for this area. Anyway, in this area the pendulum is swinging wider these days; hotter in the summer, colder in the winter. It's been a slow, gradual change to be sure, but noticeable.

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AtomicEraTom said:

But does it have electrolytes?

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jamespowers said:

It says right on it: "It's got Electrolytes." It is what plants crave.

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AtomicEraTom said:

I just want some water.

You mean like, from the toilet?

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jamespowers said:

Yes, from the toilet.

Test: If you have 1 bucket with 2 gallons and 1 bucket with 4 gallons, how many buckets you got?

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Gregg Axley said:

Standard or metric bucket? That makes a difference you know...

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dhermann1 said:

This just occurred to me as I heard the twanging of rubber bands when I took them off the container my lunch is in. Anyone ever make a banjo out of a cigar box and rubber bands? Old fashioned wood cigar boxes are long gone, replaced by similar looking, but not similar sounding cardboard boxes. You could make a fun little kid's banjo with a cigar box and rubber bands.

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jamespowers said:

Yes, from the toilet.

Test: If you have 1 bucket with 2 gallons and 1 bucket with 4 gallons, how many buckets you got?

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dhermann1 said:

This just occurred to me as I heard the twanging of rubber bands when I took them off the container my lunch is in. Anyone ever make a banjo out of a cigar box and rubber bands? Old fashioned wood cigar boxes are long gone, replaced by similar looking, but not similar sounding cardboard boxes. You could make a fun little kid's banjo with a cigar box and rubber bands.

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John in Covina said:

Wooden Cigar boxes are still made. Go to a real Cigar store and you will find the top shelf brands are still using cedar.

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Shangas said:

Last night, we had a REALLY BIG, REALLY BAD storm here. It was pouring with rain and howling tree-felling winds for about fourteen hours straight. From dinnertime yesterday, until about 7:30 this morning.

The storm was so bad, it knocked out the power. And that almost never happens. Shows you how bad this storm was!

Anyway, when I woke up this morning, the juice was still out. And when I was cooking my breakfast, it reminded me of something else.

When's the last time you had to light a gas stove by hand, with a box of matches? Until today, when the power went out, and the electric spark-lighter on the stove didn't work, I hadn't had to do this for years. Today, I had to resort to turning the gas on low, striking a match, lighting the gas by hand, and then cranking it up high to cook breakfast.

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Shangas said:

When's the last time you had to light a gas stove by hand, with a box of matches? Until today, when the power went out, and the electric spark-lighter on the stove didn't work, I hadn't had to do this for years. Today, I had to resort to turning the gas on low, striking a match, lighting the gas by hand, and then cranking it up high to cook breakfast.

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Shangas said:

When's the last time you had to light a gas stove by hand, with a box of matches?

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