New things. The anti-nostalgia thread

[slowmotion]

Luggage with wheels.

Chapeau to the geezer who came up with that invention

 

[swee'pea99]

Plastic throwy things to fling the ball miles for the hound, then pick it up again with no need to bend down or dog-gob hands.

 

[4F]

Mobile phones

 

[coffeejo]

This:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

A Black U.S. President, and, if Hillary can get her act together, maybe, just maybe the first female President. Maybe.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Oh aye, and Cycle H*****s

 

[slowmotion]

Paul Kimmage?

http://nos.nl/video/210777-lance-armstrong-gebruikte-doping.html

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Paul Kimmage?

(media)http://nos.nl/video/210777-lance-armstrong-gebruikte-doping.html(/media)

Page is not working or somat. And it's in Dutch.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Woman Bishops!!




.... No..... Wait...

 

[RedRider]

Snickers and brown dog poo

 

[slowmotion]

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I have only just looked up what Yoghurt Knitting actually means, so its a new piece of knowledge to me!

 

[hotfuzzrj]

iPads!
Skype/FaceTime
WiFi
Lots of different foods that taste of Marmite

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The Lib Dems and Tories working together in power, who'd have thought?!

 

[growingvegetables]

I remember the days when you had to go the chemist, to buy .....

















.... olive oil

And I remember the first baker in the Aberdeen area to bake croissants and French bread.

Hey - I can even remember garlic starting to become a "normal" everyday ingredient.

[As in ...

• Week 1 - Dad, "That's nice!" Mum, "It's a new recipe I found."
• Week 2 - Dad, "Now that really is good! I like this recipe." Mum, "I thought it sounded good - glad you like it so much."
• and so on, until Week 7 - Dad, "So what's in the recipe that makes it taste so good?" Mum, "Garlic and ...." Dad, "I'm not eating that smelly muck ..."

Bless him - he did become much more adventurous in food, but his first steps were SLOW!]