"Thirty Things that Need to Stage a Comeback"

[kenmcneill]

Sidewalks.

 

[Feraud]

The more I think about this topic the more I think what really needs to make a comeback can be boiled down into one thing: a culture that is not dominated by the tastes, beliefs, interests, and mindsets of hypergonadal fifteen-year-old boys.

I can get onboard with that.

 

[moonmatrix]

I saw this article and had to agree with all of it. Particuarly manners most of all. My two and half year old niece knows how to say please and thank you but most adults I run across can not be bothered. I want the coat room to be brought back, tired of having no place to put my coat when I go out. Sad that no one goes out dancing on fri or sat nights now, they go out drinking at the local bar. My local coffee shop, both actually, have ceramic mugs. Starbucks is only in the book store and I do not frequent it. We have a few diners here that are very much with how it really should be done and not forced charm. My beau and I are both on what we call "a crusade" to bring back the old ways, hats, gloves, etiquite, manners, etc. we may look and act odd to others but we do not care. To us we have old fashioned class.

 

[Widebrim]

I saw this article and had to agree with all of it. Particuarly manners most of all. My two and half year old niece knows how to say please and thank you but most adults I run across can not be bothered. I want the coat room to be brought back, tired of having no place to put my coat when I go out. Sad that no one goes out dancing on fri or sat nights now, they go out drinking at the local bar. My local coffee shop, both actually, have ceramic mugs. Starbucks is only in the book store and I do not frequent it. We have a few diners here that are very much with how it really should be done and not forced charm. My beau and I are both on what we call "a crusade" to bring back the old ways, hats, gloves, etiquite, manners, etc. we may look and act odd to others but we do not care. To us we have old fashioned class.

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(By the way, you might be interested to know that in my classroom, we still have a "cloakroom."

 

[ScionPI2005]

Out of the list on that website, I suppose I would put manners at the very top. As much as I would love to see hats and pocketwatches come back into use, I would appreciate manners and respect for others becoming the norm again.

I would love for radio dramas to come back too. I'm just thankful there is so much from the Golden Era out there for me to enjoy.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

I love the thick ceramic diner mugs and may get my parents a set for Xmas. The diner behind their house closed a few years ago and almost certainly won't re-open. There's some law where if the power is turned off in a building, it can't be turned back on unless the building fully complies with the ADA. This building has stairs and was built in 1930 something. This is in Southern Illinois if that helps.

I live in Wichita KS, home of McConnell AFB, and I just LOVE teasing the local USAF that the only reason they're wearing camouflage is to hide the gravy stains from lunch.

Sidewalks can come back anytime, I've come close to a few joggers in the past 10 years. The city block with an alley behind the house where the utilities and garbage cans are can come back too.

I love digital cameras, several friends photograph wildlife and they see a stork fly by and take 60 pictures of it, and it one turns out then the rest are deleted. No film, no cost.

Later

 

[Paisley]

I'm surprised that in an age of hyper-safety, people don't demand sidewalks set back from the street. The hellstrip, as we call it here, is a nice buffer between pedestrians and traffic, and between creeps in cars and the people they would harm.

 

[CharlieB]

WOW, other than a short time we lived in an apartment complex (less than a year), I have never lived where I had a sidewalk (other than the one that leads from my driveway to my front porch).

I think they would interfere with the tractors, harvestors and the twice a week milk truck (I am talking about a semi tank truck that picks up milk from the dairy farm) that frequent our back roads!

 

[Edward]

3. The CCC.

Que es?

4. Ball games with no rock music between innings, no costumed mascots, no flashing scoreboards, and no shopping malls under the stands.

I have no real interest in sport at all. I have been to a couple of ice hockey games with little brotehr and sister in law (they are big fans, and now they have kids they've started to take them too). I found the game entertaining enough, but the way they kept playnig maybe ten seconds of a song at a time, between plays, cutting the music off while play was on.... I found that extremely irritating. Playing music throughout I could cope with, but to keep cutting it in and out and only snippets.... enraging, frankly.

I have a 2009 model car with manual transmission, no power locks, and no power windows. The dealer had to order it in for me.

The dominance of the automatic is, I think, a US thing - in the UK and Ireland at least automatics account for only a very small proportion of cars on the road. I have driven an auto, but I preferred the stick. Auto was 'too easy' somehow. I would also be conncerned at this 'power everything' trend - it's all the more to go wrong, as I see it. The one I hated most, though, was power steering - always made the car feel far too 'light' to me.

Regarding that list, most of it is fine with me.... She doesn't go far enough for my liking in relation to Tennis whites: they need to bring bakc not only whites, but for the men, sensible trousers. Like Fred Perry wore when he won Wimbledon. No grown man over the age of sixteen has any business wearing short trousers - not unless he wants to look like a little boy.

Cameras.... meh. I'm not giving up the convenience of my digital camera! I do wish, though, that I could buy something with the same spec but housed in the body of an old Rolliflex or similar. I've seen some Japanese replicas of old cameras redone as digital, but they're only a fractional of the size of the originals, and not great cameras either - an overpriced novelty. Most of the time it's not that big a deal, of course - my digicam is the size of an ipod and tucks away so easily - BUT I do wish that I had something that looked the part a bit more for vintage events.

 

[Paisley]

City driving and country driving can certainly be different. Years ago when some cousins from Wyoming visited, they saw a wide-open lane and took it. By their own account, it turned out to be a sidewalk.

So yes, I can see how a sidewalk in certain places could be a hindrance.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Que es?

Edward, the CCC is short for the Civilian Conservation Corps. What it pretty much did is put men & young boys to work during the Great Depression. I have to agree with Lizzie in that it should come back.

http://artofmanliness.com/2010/01/0...ion-corps-training-a-generation-in-manliness/

 

[Bebop]

2009 Nissan Versa.

I think I have to add manual transmissions to the list. So many cars are available as automatic only, and I refuse to buy them.

The Nissan Versa is a dime a dozen with manual trans. [huh]

I find it unbelievable that you can get any new car sold in the U.S. without power windows or locks. They would have to go through quite an expensive search and charge you so much, (and that is if they would even bother to accept such a request) that it would make a Versa the price of a high end luxury car............ and where in the world would they get the parts? Very odd.....

 

[Paisley]

I have no real interest in sport at all. I have been to a couple of ice hockey games with little brotehr and sister in law (they are big fans, and now they have kids they've started to take them too). I found the game entertaining enough, but the way they kept playnig maybe ten seconds of a song at a time, between plays, cutting the music off while play was on.... I found that extremely irritating. Playing music throughout I could cope with, but to keep cutting it in and out and only snippets.... enraging, frankly.

Re: noise, you might enjoy this thread:

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?9804-Has-the-World-Gotten-Louder

 

[1961MJS]

Hi, my Dad who is 91, worked on the CCC in high school I guess. He grew up in Illinois and still lives about 70 miles from his birthplace. Anyway, he, my Mom, and some of my Mom's friends were in Indiana somewhere. Dad commented that they were in a CCC forest. He explained that you could always tell a planted forest. Start at the bottom of the hill, plant a bare root tree, take two steps, plant another, two steps, plant, two steps, plant, until you get to the top and then go down the other side.

Personally I think it's the best to do away with welfare totally and go to work fare (like the CCC). All of the jobs should pay substantially less than our current minimum wage too.

Later

 

[scotrace]

Brass mugs, even if lined with stainless, will cause immediate burns when filled with hot liquid.
The chrome plated brass coffee server I have cannot be picked up by the handle when filled with hot coffee. You have to used a hot pad or towel or thickish napkin.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I found the game entertaining enough, but the way they kept playnig maybe ten seconds of a song at a time, between plays, cutting the music off while play was on.... I found that extremely irritating. Playing music throughout I could cope with, but to keep cutting it in and out and only snippets.... enraging, frankly.

What bugs me most about it is the idea that *every moment of our lives* has to be filled with some sort of brain-scrambling multimedia barrage. When I go to a baseball game, I go there to see baseball. I keep a scorecard, I follow the progress of the game, and between innings I might discuss what's going on with the friend who's with me, or chat with someone in the next row, or whatever. I don't need music I wouldn't be caught dead listening to of my own free will pounded into my ears, I don't need migraine-inducing HD screens flashing promotional announcements at me from every direction, and I don't need to be told when and how to cheer.

If I wanted to go to a rock concert, I'd be annoyed if people started playing baseball between sets. So I certainly don't want a rock concert stuck in the middle of my ball game.

 

[Lady Day]

Exuding sincerity without the preface of, "I'm being sincere."
People often talk with the same sterile inflections as one would have writing in Helvetica. It's annoying.

LD

 

[Bebop]

What bugs me most about it is the idea that *every moment of our lives* has to be filled with some sort of brain-scrambling multimedia barrage. When I go to a baseball game, I go there to see baseball. I keep a scorecard, I follow the progress of the game, and between innings I might discuss what's going on with the friend who's with me, or chat with someone in the next row, or whatever. I don't need music I wouldn't be caught dead listening to of my own free will pounded into my ears, I don't need migraine-inducing HD screens flashing promotional announcements at me from every direction, and I don't need to be told when and how to cheer.

If I wanted to go to a rock concert, I'd be annoyed if people started playing baseball between sets. So I certainly don't want a rock concert stuck in the middle of my ball game.

I couldn't have said it better. It's that "keep tap dancing ad nauseam" thought pattern that seeps into every aspect of society. DVDs in cars, listening to music and shutting out the rest of the world while walking, facebook, twitter, cell phones that entertain you in case you find yourself not mentally tap dancing for a short while, (heaven forbid!).

 

[Marla]

I would like to see chess come back from obscurity, instead of being a game everyone's heard of but doesn't know how to play. I wish people still played chess at parties too, instead of drinking games.


Actually, intellectualism in general should make a comeback.

 

[Mr Vim]

Chess at parties... actually that sounds rather like an interesting idea. I think I might break out the chessboard at my next get together...

On another subject... something that needs to make a comeback (and holiday related) is Wassail. My folks used to make it when I was younger, not sure what they put in mine, but their's was certain alcoholic. Does anyone have wassail get togethers?