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Title: here in the UK i remember... Post by: franky1 on January 22, 2025, 08:15:10 PM the milkman delivered daily produce on a electric van
the milk was contained in glass bottled that were taken(recycled) when new milk bottles were dropped off at your door butter was cut in blocks and wrapped in paper or tinfoil you bought fish and chips(chunky fries) wrapped in paper you went to local butchers who cut you fresh meat wrapped in grease paper you could heat a house a day for under 50p in a coin machine in your home ... not even 25 years later we have convenience food delivered by fossil fuel cars at a surcharge the milk is in plastic containers that not all places will accept for recycling butter is in plastic tubs fish and chips are in plastic trays meats are in plastic shrink wrapped packaging you cant even heat a home for less than £5 and yet they say we need to be innovative and think of new idea's to change the current situation... .. i think we need to go back to old idea's. anyone else think of old stuff that is better than modern? Title: Re: here in the UK i remember... Post by: cornhodlr on January 22, 2025, 11:56:49 PM anyone else think of old stuff that is better than modern? Train carriages Title: Re: here in the UK i remember... Post by: NotFuzzyWarm on January 24, 2025, 01:26:11 AM Refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers and clothes washers/dryers that do not have apps or internet connections...
These days most are short-lived crap that are needlessly 'connected'. Title: Re: here in the UK i remember... Post by: franky1 on January 24, 2025, 04:51:24 PM Refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers and clothes washers/dryers that do not have apps or internet connections... These days most are short-lived crap that are needlessly 'connected'. im totally agreeing with dishwashers AKA your hands... modern ones still ask you to hand rinse the dish of most the grime in the kitchen sink before putting in a machine(facepalm) that takes over 1.5 hours to supposedly do what most people can do by hand in 10 minutes for a full load Title: Re: here in the UK i remember... Post by: tinus42 on April 07, 2025, 08:48:12 AM I have a tumble dryer from 1997 that still works. The company that made it is long out of business but it still goes on. My coffee maker is from 2000, a Siemens Porsche that was featured in Firefly as a "futuristic coffee maker". And I have a mixer from my grandmother that dates back from the 1950s. They all still chug along. They just don't make quality goods anymore like they used to.
Title: Re: here in the UK i remember... Post by: Cryptohygenic on April 09, 2025, 10:13:35 AM and yet they say we need to be innovative and think of new idea's to change the current situation... .. i think we need to go back to old idea's. Take it for evolution which had brought about the more convenient services which is sure more enjoyable today. Recalling of the previous era was a fun but does not worth going back. Title: Re: here in the UK i remember... Post by: Trêvoid on April 23, 2025, 10:38:21 AM Sometimes, the smartest solutions aren’t brand new—they’re actually old ideas that we dust off and update for modern life. Maybe true progress means looking back, seeing what used to work well, and choosing to bring those things back, but this time doing it intentionally.
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