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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And then you have those drivers on four-lane roads, in light traffic, who will be going straight through an intersection once that red traffic light turns green, but decide to stay in the right lane, thereby preventing drivers behind them from turning right on the red light. It's not illegal...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ If I’m understanding you correctly, your complaint is against what we over here call “junk mail,” that happens to be addressed to you personally, rather than to “current occupant” or something similar. Once a person reaches a not particularly old age, he receives mail from undertakers...
  3. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Straight white walls are great if there’s lotsa stuff put on those walls. The white makes for a backdrop that doesn’t fight with the art and whatnot. It lets it take the spotlight. I’m more familiar with Leanne Ford than I ever wished to be. She’s a “name” designer with considerable influence...
  4. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The people a generation and two ahead of me used “dungarees” for blue jeans. And “brogans” for heavy work shoes. A quick search shows that a brogan is a specific style of ankle-high shoe, but the adults around me used the term more expansively. Pretty much any work shoe was a brogan in their book.
  5. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Yes. Not at all unusual among my people in my early years.
  7. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    That’s a crime scene. Anyone got a rope? BTW, I now have my own copy of “American Shelter,” which you recommended a few weeks back. It’s been an education.
  8. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    In some ways, the nicest place I’ve ever resided was an open-plan built in 1992. It was half a duplex — each side a two-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath, 1,500-square-foot unit. Very spacious. Lotsa big windows, couple of skylights. But that place was designed from the git to be an open-plan house...
  9. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Yes, Michael and Ashley Cordray. They’re my fave, too. They and that Nicole Curtis up in Detroit are all about reusing rather than replacing. And they save old structures that might otherwise have just been torn down, often having to replicate architectural features that got lost over the...
  10. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    There is intrinsic value in, say, a chair, or a table. People need a place to plop their rumps. But a chair that can be had free alongside the road might suit that purpose as well as an authentic Miesian Barcelona chair, which runs something north of six grand. The cliche that an item is worth...
  11. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ I’ve mentioned how 40 years or more ago I was part of a crew that cleared out an old hotel building that had sat mostly vacant for at least a couple decades. It sickens me to think of all the wonderful things — from bedsteads to floor lamps to dressers to fancy glass light globes — that...
  13. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    A friend lives in a modest 102-year-old house. His loving (truly) missus put peel-and-stick vinyl tiles on top of the ’30s(?)-vintage sheet linoleum kitchen floor. I wanted to cry. That old floor was still in presentable condition! It had a great pattern and colors! Don’t people recognize gold...
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Feed him to the hogs.
  15. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    I’ve spent the five-plus years we’ve been in this generic 1977-built suburban rambler undoing the previous owners’ “improvements.” Their kitchen in particular was a waste of materials (due to their typically amateurish installation) and an affront to anything even loosely defined as aesthetic...
  16. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    As mentioned earlier, “retro” kitchen appliances have become fashionable. And I gotta admit that some have caught my eye. A friend, a wheelchair user who remo’ed his recently purchased condo’s kitchen to be more useable for him, bought such a fridge. It looks good. But it’s still a new...
  17. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Home renovation TV shows are all the rage these days. Literally scores of them are on the tube ’round the clock. A couple of cable networks are devoted exclusively to the genre. With the exception of just a few of those shows — the ones with an emphasis on restoring the structures in a manner...
  19. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    I may go with gas when the electric glass-top POS goes south, seeing how the spot in the kitchen for a 30-inch stove is directly above the basement utility room, where there's a gas-fired furnace and water heater. So running a line up to the kitchen would be an inexpensive proposition. Lotsa old...
  20. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Sounds like quite the appetite suppressant.
  21. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ Among the virtues of the old stuff is the cheap and easy availability of the pieces that might need replacing every couple decades or so. And just about any idiot can do a bang-up job of it. You can find living proof of that right here. Our fairly recent fridge has an automatic ice...
  22. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ I find that generally but not universally true, especially in the case of automobiles. I love old cars, and clearly understand their appeal. But whenever I hear someone say “They don’t make them like they used to,” I typically reply, “You can thank the god(s) of your choice for that.” But...
  23. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Our motivations don’t change much, I suppose. There’s always the push and pull between what we wish for our individual selves and our sense of duty to the greater good. Both impulses are innately human, although I’ve had the misfortune of encountering people who have had me questioning that.

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