What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[2jakes]

I absolutely love holidays. I love decorating for them (I put up five trees in my house for the winter holiday). I love walking through the store and seeing all the decorations. Ruins the excitement to see Christmas stuff so early. It also takes away from the "lesser commerical" holidays that used to have nice displays- like Halloween or Thanksgiving.

I can see them putting out the Christmas stuff after Halloween, as many people use the day/ weekend after thanksgiving to decorate for Christmas (as family tends to still be home and some people take a long weekend). But not before Halloween.

As far as the school stuff, I always wait until it is close to the school year to pick up supplies to donate, as they tend to have the best sales then. Last year I got 20 boxes of crayons for $10. Spent about $22 on school supplies and got the crayons, 30 pads of paper, 20 glue sticks, 10 pencil boxes, and 40 pencils. I was most proud of getting the pencil boxes, as the school I was donating to needed those badly and I got a really good sale ($.50 a piece). Next year I want to be better about watching the sales, as I missed out on a really good glue stick deal. (I donate to a small rural elementary school.)

Your SPIRIT is intoxicatingly delightful...

[video]www.xmasclock.com/[/video]

 

[2jakes]

That's the same reason the seating in fast-food joints is hard and uncomfortable -- they want you to eat your food and leave, not linger over coffee reading the paper.

This is not a modern idea, though -- the "one-arm lunch rooms" of the 1910s-1930s were designed the way they were for exactly the same reason.

I love this photo...reminds me of a place called "New York Style Pizza".
And though the owners had a "NY" attitude towards their customers...I didn't mind.
It's no longer there but it served the best pizza I have ever tasted.

I would've loved to take you all there & see for yourself..".yummylicious"...:essen:

 

[Edward]

I could be mistaken, but I have read somewhere that they play fast loud music in cheap restaurants, because they make money from mass amounts of customers. The fast loud music gets annoying, so it makes people want to leave.

Possible, though unlike hard, uncomfrtable chairs, it's going to be very subjective. I've adored the Ramones for longer than you've been alive, and they're very definitely fast and loud. I'd sit all day in a reastaurant that played them.

Of all the indignities inflicted upon left-handed people (scissors, wristwatches, coffee mugs, guns, corkscrews, baseball, can openers, measuring cups, computer mouses, fishing rods, snowblowers, lawnmowers, circular saws, chain saws, lawn chairs, violins and most musical instruments, ballet, figure skating ....) when I first encountered this type of desk upon graduation to the junior high school level I was the most livid.

Verily, we southpaws are the last unrecognised minority. Those desks bugged me too at university - fortunately, they weren't as dominant then as they have since become...

On the subject of left handed corkscrews, try leaving one lying around next the bottle at a party and watch the righties trying to use it. Hilarity ensues.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

That's the same reason the seating in fast-food joints is hard and uncomfortable -- they want you to eat your food and leave, not linger over coffee reading the paper.

Another tactic fast food restaurants have employed toward this end of late is not turning on the air conditioning when it's hot.

 

[Retro Spectator]

I have seem the opposite sometimes actually. They make it freezing cold, rather than hot. But I believe there are more hot restaurants than cold ones.

 

[2jakes]

I have seem the opposite sometimes actually. They make it freezing cold, rather than hot. But I believe there are more hot restaurants than cold ones.

After a few minutes at our local book store...

Hot cocoa & electric blankets are required...:eeek:

 

[LizzieMaine]

As someone who wrestles daily with an industrial HVAC system, I can say that in any public building at any given time, fifty percent of the customers will complain that it's too cold, and fifty percent will complain that it's too warm. In both cases the response from staff should always be the same: say "I'll look into it," and then do absolutely nothing.

 

[2jakes]

LOOK UP IN THE SKY !

It's a bird...it's a plane... NO...IT'S

CODE COMPLIANCE MAN...heading to "where the tourists Meet the Sea" LOL ...

 

[jamespowers]

I love that song! My wife on the other hand, can't stand it.
Christmas in July is a good idea IMHO, because I can watch a few shows I really love, and claim it's CIJ.
Plus, I got in the car today, and heard Bing Crosby hosting a Christmas show on XM's Radio Classics channel.
It's 95 outside, and Bing Crosby is singing about Christmas from a broadcast done in the 40's.
Yeah, the apocalypse is near.

It was about 77 last Chrimas over here. Perfect Christmas weather.

http://youtu.be/cjtYgGN3z6U

 

[jamespowers]

If she doesn't like that one then try this one:
http://youtu.be/XEP2IrByImw

 

[jamespowers]

LOOK UP IN THE SKY !

It's a bird...it's a plane... NO...IT'S

CODE COMPLIANCE MAN...heading to "where the tourists Meet the Sea" LOL ...

Code Compliance man?! Hold on a minute while I get my Colt AND my Winchester.

 

[Touchofevil]

It was about 77 last Chrimas over here. Perfect Christmas weather.

http://youtu.be/cjtYgGN3z6U

Braggart!

 

[jamespowers]

Braggart!

And? It was cold to me.

 

[Touchofevil]

And? It was cold to me.

You have the circulatory system of a infirmed ninety-five year old man! Get out and move old man! Or at the very least, send it my way. I would have happily given you our somewhat cloudy ninety-five with thirty percent humidity.

 

[jamespowers]

You have the circulatory system of a infirmed ninety-five year old man! Get out and move old man! Or at the very least, send it my way. I would have happily given you our somewhat cloudy ninety-five with thirty percent humidity.

At least I don't get all stoved up with heat like a Heat Wimp when the temperatue goes over 75 degrees. lol lol
Oh and send me the 95 degrees. Yeah man!

 

[Touchofevil]

At least I don't get all stoved up with heat like a Heat Wimp when the temperatue goes over 75 degrees. lol lol
Oh and send me the 95 degrees. Yeah man!

The only reason I get all "stoved up" is because I am moving my body while undertaking some sort of outdoor project unlike some Lark-riding infirmed old fogey.
lol
The 95 has been sent, but I am woorried that some interloper might burgle it while in transit.

 

[jamespowers]

The only reason I get all "stoved up" is because I am moving my body while undertaking some sort of outdoor project unlike some Lark-riding infirmed old fogey.
lol
The 95 has been sent, but I am woorried that some interloper might burgle it while in transit.

Ol fogies don't like the heat. They get the vapors and faint while watering the lawn. Sounds like someone I know.

I'll look forward to the heat.

 

[Touchofevil]

Ol fogies don't like the heat. They get the vapors and faint while watering the lawn. Sounds like someone I know.

I'll look forward to the heat.

lol Keep looking in the mirror and you will see him. And no, it is not me peering over you shoulder, it is the face of jp you see.

 

[jamespowers]

lol Keep looking in the mirror and you will see him. And no, it is not me peering over you shoulder, it is the face of jp you see.

http://youtu.be/HQfzwFloVqA

 

[Touchofevil]

http://youtu.be/HQfzwFloVqA

lol
You have got the bad pate correct, but that is about it.