You know you are getting old when:

[Turnip]

PS: It’s not just range finder style, you could also work the old time range finder flow.

Series is called X..., several models available. Silent shutter is not a Leica-exclusive feature anymore...

 

[Hurricane Jack]

You might be getting old if you remember pull tabs. Or ever made pull tab jewelry.

 

[Turnip]

Hahahaaa, when I was a kid we festooned our club house all around the building with a one piece pull tab garland made from the beer cans we emptied during summer break...

 

[LizzieMaine]

It was the thing in the early '70s to make belts out of those. Or hats.

You were also well-advised to wear sneakers whenever walking on the shore, because they'd cut your feet up bad.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

It was the thing in the early '70s to make belts out of those. Or hats.

You were also well-advised to wear sneakers whenever walking on the shore, because they'd cut your feet up bad.

For a short time Coors Brewing Co had a push top can. The push "button" was a rounded ball-like shape that you push down into the can. It didn't last long because it was easy to cut your finger tip as it went thru the opening of the can.

 

[BobHufford]

You might be getting old if you remember pull tabs. Or ever made pull tab jewelry.

I've seriously thought about having a silversmith make a hatband out of a chain of Sterling silver "tabs". Probably not one of my better thoughts ...

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I've seriously thought about having a silversmith make a hatband out of a chain of Sterling silver "tabs". Probably not one of my better thoughts ...

You wanna be Freewheelin' Franklin?

 

[LizzieMaine]

I remember buying a can of Coke out of a machine and getting one of those push-button opening things. I had to pound the button in with a rock. They were the bridge between the pull-ring and the push-tabs used today, and they seemed to last about fifteen minutes before everybody agreed they were dumb. That was the only push-button can I ever bought or ever saw.

 

[BobHufford]

You wanna be Freewheelin' Franklin?

Always an inspiration.

I remember buying a can of Coke out of a machine and getting one of those push-button opening things. I had to pound the button in with a rock. They were the bridge between the pull-ring and the push-tabs used today, and they seemed to last about fifteen minutes before everybody agreed they were dumb. That was the only push-button can I ever bought or ever saw.

I cut my finger on a Coors push button once.

 

[Edward]

PS: It’s not just range finder style, you could also work the old time range finder flow.

Series is called X..., several models available. Silent shutter is not a Leica-exclusive feature anymore...

Thanks, I'll check those out. They do look very nice online!

You might be getting old if you remember pull tabs. Or ever made pull tab jewelry.

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I remember those well.... I still encounter them occasionally in Beijing, though increasingly rarely.

It was the thing in the early '70s to make belts out of those. Or hats.

You were also well-advised to wear sneakers whenever walking on the shore, because they'd cut your feet up bad.

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I remember slicing my index finger pad on one of those and having to be careful how I threw my newly-purchased frisbee on holiday in WAles in the Summer of 1981....

I remember buying a can of Coke out of a machine and getting one of those push-button opening things. I had to pound the button in with a rock. They were the bridge between the pull-ring and the push-tabs used today, and they seemed to last about fifteen minutes before everybody agreed they were dumb. That was the only push-button can I ever bought or ever saw.

I remember seeing those on TV as "the new thing" in about 1986 or so, but they never made it to northern Ireland at least. I do recall very clearly my first modern-style ring pull. I'd bought a couple of cans of Spar own-brand fizz to take on a coach in June 1988... school trip to Paris in the days before affordable flights, and we took a coach and boat to Scotland, then a coach overnight from Stranraer to Dover, then the Dover to Calais ferry..... I have a very clear memory of sitting on the coach figuring out how to work it as I'd never seen one before. Not even Coke had them at that time. A year later, they were everywhere.

 

[Turnip]

Similar here. Bought a can of overseas beer (Australian, i think it was) in a down town shop and i wondered first how these might be opened. Once my nose tip got stuck in the ring while drinking i was not really convinced by this system. I still prefer to drink from the bottle or glass, beer anyway.

 

[Turnip]

Hahahaaa, when I was a kid we festooned our club house all around the building with a one piece pull tab garland made from the beer cans we emptied during summer break...

Reviewing that memory, the garland must have been about 40m long...was a hot summer.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Always an inspiration.



I cut my finger on a Coors push button once.
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There must have been more than one version. The Coors version I clearly remember was a rounded ball flat in a flat can top, with no pressure relief valve. The purpose of the ball being rounded up was so it was taller than the can top surface, & you were supposed to use the pad of your thumb to push it down. The thumb being too big to go thru the hole, but the problem came when the ball neither broke free & fell in, or hinged down & back far enough to drink. So you could end up cutting your finger when you tried breaking it off or pushing it down more.

Not a good pic, but more like this.

Or maybe this without the pressure valve.

 

[1961MJS]

... you remember when nonfat milk (we called it “skim milk” back then) had a bluish tinge.

Ha, I don't remember that, but Mom always bought 2%, ALWAYS. We bought Skim in college because one Room mate wouldn't steal that, hated Skim Milk.

Later

 

[LizzieMaine]

Worse than skim milk was powdered milk. My one-time stepfather -- he was only around for seven months before my mother kicked him out -- used to force us to drink that because he wasn't about to spend money on fresh milk when you can get the powdered kind for a fraction of the cost. I suppose we should have fallen on our knees and thanked him for letting us have Carnation instead of the store brand.

It always reminded me of powdered chalk, except not so tasty.

 

[Bushman]

Worse than skim milk was powdered milk. My one-time stepfather -- he was only around for seven months before my mother kicked him out -- used to force us to drink that because he wasn't about to spend money on fresh milk when you can get the powdered kind for a fraction of the cost. I suppose we should have fallen on our knees and thanked him for letting us have Carnation instead of the store brand.

It always reminded me of powdered chalk, except not so tasty.

My Dad would sometimes drink powdered milk when he was in the Navy. One day, I'm assuming in a moment of nostalgia, he brought some home for me to try. It was the most awful stuff I've ever tasted. I think it was only ever used in cooking until it was gone.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you wanted porn, but ended up in a 20 minutes yoga cursus for beginners. Ah, so relaxed...

 

[Turnip]

I’m an absolute yoga crack.

My favorite figures are „Old Man Hanging Around“ and „Old Man Sleeping On Couch“.
Can hold these for hours.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

You might be a Millennial if you have to ask.

 

[Tiki Tom]

You know you are getting old when you are pulling a cork out of a bottle of wine at dinner and your daughter's friend (maybe 22 y.o.) says "wow, just like in the movies!"

I didn't pursue the matter, but I'm guessing: screw tops.