Living in the Past

[peter scott]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...SApp_Other

[ppppenguin]

The 30s guy said: " I restored a 1951 Bush television, so I can watch old movies on it. I know it’s not from the 30s, but TVs weren’t popular back then."

Inevitably a TV22.

[Doodlebug]

I've never texted anyone. Never used a cash machine.
Don't have a smart phone.
I wonder how many of them can claim that?

And I have actually lived through that period. Gas lighting etc.

[peter scott]

It's true that we look back with rose coloured specs but that's what's good about old cars, old radios and televisions and living in the past, you can have the glamour without the all the miseries. Well, with fewer of the miseries anyway.

Peter

[ppppenguin]

I've never texted anyone.  Never used a cash machine. 
Don't have a smart phone.
I  wonder how many of them can claim that?

And I have actually lived through that period.  Gas lighting etc.

But you do have access to some kind of computing device. And you use it

[Richard_FM]

I remember someone on another site said he had a job visiting the elderly, some of whom lived in timewarp houses simply because they hadn't updated their decor rather than a fashion statement.

[Nick]

It's amazing how rose-tinted glasses can be...

Whilst life was definitely simpler in the past, I bet you're glad of an inside toilet on a cold & wet night, or grateful for central heating and insulation when it's freezing, or pleased that your car doesn't keep breaking down, or that vaccines and health treatments have improved, or that you have the internet during lockdown to stay in touch etc.

[Murphyv310]

Hi.
We are cosseted so much in the west.
Judy tells me so much about life in the "village" in Kenya.
Her elderly parents have a nice looking house, her dad was a teacher and receives a small state pension around £10 a month, to survive they have 2.5 acres of land which they farm, they sell produce and milk locally. They are off grid and have bore hole water and a pit latrine. So we are very much different to that way of life. I do believe they are actually happier and healthier than we are, they don't complain or moan.
They have TV and mobile phones and data and we talk regularly on WhatsApp, no fridge or washing machine, fortunately the area is 7000ft ASL so even though its bang on the equator (Nyahururu) it's cooler
Just 22c at the moment.
So in a way its like living in the past for us.
We need to be more thankful for what we have.

[peter scott]

Cars are more complex than they were in the past and generally require less frequent servicing but I would question that they are less liable to breakdown. It's almost a comparison of analogue versus digital. The types of fault that result in cars stuck by the roadside nowadays tend to be total failures whereas in the past you could more readily limp along. I never cease to be amazed at the age of cars broken down at the roadside. Most are very new.

Peter

[BusyBee]

Cars are more complex than they were in the past and generally require less frequent servicing but I would question that they are less liable to breakdown. It's almost a comparison of analogue versus digital. The types of fault that result in cars stuck by the roadside nowadays tend to be total failures whereas in the past you could more readily limp along. I never cease to be amazed at the age of cars broken down at the roadside. Most are very new.

Peter

I have logged on and seen this just after reading an article about Tesla digging their heels in about a recall on a good number of their cars. Apparently, after four or five years, some of their memory goes faulty due to the number of read / write cycles. It sounds like the known solid state disk issues. It has made me wonder about how many modern cars have similar potential problems.

I have experienced some very strange problems with the electronics in the past but luckily not anything to immobilise the car more than a moment or two and not while driving.

Tracy