Things I don't 'get' in this modern world

[raleighnut]

Worse still neighbours appearing just as you got to the "money" in a "borrowed art film " where s previous viewer had panicked

 

[Alex H]

The washing machine can talk to your smartphone and advise you when it has completed (since you have no time because you are being cool with your hip jeans).

That would be these jeans, of course http://www.spinali-design.com/pages/jeans-essentiel
http://www.spinali-design.com/pages/jeans-essentiel
"Equipped with two vibrating sensors on the belt and connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth, this product offers new features that integrate into your daily environment.

The geolocation feature allows you to navigate through your urban journeys using guiding vibrations either on the right or left side of your Essential jeans.

This technology provides an easier, and above all more intuitive option to help you find your car or your meeting place, for example."

 

[User32269]

I'd only just got the hang of Ceefax and Teletext...then they vanished?

 

[biggs682]

Same reason why we need many bikes but have just the one bum
I greatly enjoyed your last blog entry btw.

thanks

 

[biggs682]

It's a question of quality and falling standards, in the olden days when we only had three channels there was a good chance that one of the three would be judged as worth watching. Nowadays it is likely we will have to trawl through a hundred channels to find one programme which appeals.

exactley

 

[biggs682]

How many bikes you got ?

that is totally different ...... and you know it

 

[KneesUp]

What I don't get is this new fangled betemax thing, I cant decide whether to keep the vhs or not now.


Why oh why.......

Betamax came first. Sorry. Can't help myself.

 

[TheDoctor]

More seriously (slightly) with all the advancements in nano technology and quantum physics, I don't get why we cannot design a cafe table that doesn't wobble.

And no, not the dragons denesque device to stop it wobbling...aka a napkin...but just a table that doesn't wobble, like what we have at home and stuff.

Making a non-wobbly table is simplicity itself.
Three feet, not four. It may not be level, but it won't wobble.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Why does everything have to bleep at us?

Temperature below 4deg

Etc

De-iced the cars windows at 10am this morning, below freezing - no bleep.
Got my mum to the shops - no bleep. 2 degrees.
Later must have hit some sunshine because the freeze alarm went beep and the temperature had risen to a mighty 3 degrees.

So the freezing bleep only alerted me to the fact that it was warming up.

 

[classic33]

Why with all these "labour saving devices" available to us are we left with less time to do nothing.

 

[tyred]

Why with all these "labour saving devices" available to us are we left with less time to do nothing.

That's an easy one to answer. We've found more ingenious methods of wasting our time!

 

[swee'pea99]

I've never understood how the two most popular television shows in this year of our Lord 2017 are about ballroom dancing and making cakes.

With all due apologies for replying to my own post, I have to confess to having just spent a very contented hour watching James May assembling a Hornby Flying Scotsman and a Kenwood Chef. (Learning among other things how it got its name: because it was invented - and the company founded - by a man called Ken Wood.)

 

[classic33]

That's an easy one to answer. We've found more ingenious methods of wasting our time!

Not as much time to waste though!

 

[classic33]

With all due apologies for replying to my own post, I have to confess to having just spent a very contented hour watching James May assembling a Hornby Flying Scotsman and a Kenwood Chef. (Learning among other things how it got its name: because it was invented - and the company founded - by a man called Ken Wood.)

And the other?

 

[tyred]

It's a question of quality and falling standards, in the olden days when we only had three channels there was a good chance that one of the three would be judged as worth watching. Nowadays it is likely we will have to trawl through a hundred channels to find one programme which appeals.

I found a the best way to solve that problem goes like this -

And fit this in it's place -