[News] Things available today that show how lazy we have all become

[raymondo]

Dairylea cheese triangles. In my day you had to try and unpeel the foil which was really tricky. Or use your teeth to bit into the foil which really grated on your fillings. Or get a sharp knife and cut down the middle which meant you had to dig out both sides of the triangle, leaving quite a lot in the corners. Now there is a little red strip which handily removes the wrapping. Without any effort. Kids today.

I used to cut off the corner and squeeze it out like a worm

 

[Questions]

You'd better hope she doesn't see this - not because of the cleaning comment but because you've called her an Old Bird

What You think I’d allow her on the internet.

 

[Nitram]

Social media influencers, the needy feeding the vain.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Reversing the trend....

 

[AnotherArch]

Cold water taps. We used to have to walk miles to the nearest stream or well.

Whilst we had cold water taps, there was no hot water out of the bath taps in summer. This was because the hot water tank was heated from a small tank behind the coal fire - and there was no fire in summer. So the 'copper' had to be filled and heated up. Then buckets were filled and taken upstairs to fill the bath. Immersion heater you say? In a council house it was either unaffordable at the time or there was not enough power to run it ( bearing in mind the new electric iron used to plug into the light fitting!).

 

[Horses Arse]

This. I just wouldn’t trust a “professional” dog walker with mine either. Occasionally a dear friend looks after ours when we go away on holiday, but even then our holidays typically include the dogs so that’s unlikely. When you get a dog, your life tends to revolve around them not the other way round! And frankly, I like that / it’s our decision. Shouldn’t own one if you can’t look after )nearly every day) as you say.

I can't trust mine with dear. Would be carange

 

[Gwylan]

I'll open with dogwalkers.

It's not necessarily about laziness. We have a very reactive dog who will randomly attack other dogs (fine with people, but not dogs). We got a dog walker as it meant that she had to socialise with other pets. She was wary at first, and constantly muzzled, but after a while she got more relaxed and the dog walker took the muzzle off. Dogs need socialisation and dog walkers will provide it.

You may as well say that it's lazy sending kids to school, why don't parents teach their kids? And it's because school isn't just about learning, it's about picking up social skills and interacting with other people.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Struck me how one could change 'dog walker' to 'child minder'.

One could but the subsequent comparison would be nonsense. Just to clarify my kids did not have a child minder as such but most Monday to Friday fell to my wife. Having 'child minders' has liberated a lot of women from 15 years stuck at home, something most men could not deal with.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

My manservant Belvedere....

Bollocks. That's just your bottle of fancy vodka.

 

[Bozza]

Sat Navs - I used to enjoy working out my journeys using road atlases and an A-Z (when in London). When I was working in Holland I needed to plan a route from home to Le Shuttle and then through France, Belgium, Holland and the ferry to Middelburg all scribbled on post it notes.

Going to away games involved getting to the town/city of the home team and then driving round looking for the floodlights.

If you hadn't yet spied the floodlights but saw a car with an Albion sticker/scarf in view, you tucked in behind them because "they must know where they're going".

On other days, whilst you still hadn't spied the floodlights, an Albion fan would tuck in behind you because "they must know where they're going", only you didn't, so they dutifully followed you on a magical mystery tour of the town/city, often for a very, very long time.

Sat navs and modern stadia lacking floodlight pylons ruined this whole experience.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Condoms.

Whatever happened to the tried and tested pull out and biscuit tin methods?

 

[Algernon]

Lube.
Spitting on it was such a chore.

 

[Bozza]

This thread has been a great read from beginning to this point. Well played everyone involved - give yourselves a pat on the back.

I'm glad I've made it this far and my immediate thought hasn't been mentioned yet...

Electric windows on cars. Seriously, what's wrong with a window winder? The analogue nature allowed for the finest of adjustments to be made. A window could be just the teeniest tiniest bit open that is just not possible with electric windows.

 

[BadFish]

I'm too lazy to go through the whole thread but if anyone hasn't mentioned electric salt and pepper grinders then we are waaay off topic.

 

[BadFish]

The like button on NSC, how fricking hard was it to type 'this'.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

The like button on NSC, how fricking hard was it to type 'this'.

Thi

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

One could but the subsequent comparison would be nonsense. Just to clarify my kids did not have a child minder as such but most Monday to Friday fell to my wife. Having 'child minders' has liberated a lot of women from 15 years stuck at home, something most men could not deal with.

My point was not about keeping women at home. I was a house husband. It was about parental responsibility. I realise not everyone feels the same way.

 

[Heffle Gull]

Robot vacuum cleaners. A clean floor for absolutely zero effort. Wouldn't be without one. It even mops.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Has anybody else just checked the weather on their phone instead of opening the curtains and looking out the window?

 

[The Clamp]

Dignitas.