I have a slide rule and I'm not afraid to use it.
The television is a CRT set, but only five years old.
I had a rotary dial telephone until 2006.

I have never lived in a house with a dishwasher.
I have a bottle of fountain pen ink and a fountain pen to go with it.
I don't use the free teabags at work, I have a pot and a selection of real teas, not floor sweepings in a mesh bag.

My car is a 1983 model. It does have ABS.
Most of the furniture in the house is 40 to 100 years old.
The washing machine is at least 20 years old and so is the refrigerator.

I have some vinyl LPs and a turntable.
The house was built in 1968.

I have a seven band valve radio built in 1938, similar to one hidden by Allied POWS in a disused water tank at the Changi prison in Singapore. It's not going just now.
I have books published in the 1930s.

I have some kerosene lamps, one has a burner patented in 1855. Another is probably of 1880s manufacture and uses an 1860s design burner with double wicks. It is very solid spelter and weighs at least seven kilograms. I have a stone oil lamp, reputedly of Afghan manufacture and of unknown age. I have a terracotta oil lamp supposedly made in Palestine between 1400 and 1800 years ago.

The stone I use to prop the garden gate open is millions of years old and it still works.

And the kicker? I was running Vista until a few months ago.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:02, 10 replies)

vista?
Ewww...
(Wibblist Last said "Wibble" on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:12, closed)

Vista's not actually all that bad, really. Obviously, it was a load of old toss when first released, with numerous painful bugs which made it more or less unuseable - but as of SP2, it's stable, quick enough, pretty enough, and generally not a bad OS. The 'Project Mojave' experiment rather confirmed that its major failing was one of image (Microsoft's fault for initially shipping a pre-alpha and hoping no-one would notice), not functionality.

That said, it's slower than XP and not as pretty as 7, so fuck it.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:37, closed)

Nope, its still shit
Updates have a habit of fucking up internet connections. Updates fuck up virus checkers. Its slower than 7. It updates and then won't start windows. I see at least 3 laptops a week with vista on every week (thankfully its now that low) and the fix is always the same, remove the updates. Its just shit and I wouldn't put even the latest version anywhere near my own PC.
( Peej, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 12:25, closed)

It was typically only wireless that got fucked up, even when that was true, which it no longer is. Yes, it's slower than 7 - but not so much that it's worth forking out for 7 on a middling-vintage lappy which is already running Vista. Removing updates isn't a 'fix' - it's avoidance, and potentially dangerous depending on the update. A fix is finding the incompatability and sorting it out. Updates, in and of themselves, break neither vista nor virus checkers. When previously-working programs cease to work after an update, it's generally because a previously-broken thing has been fixed within the OS, causing it to function slightly differently - but things can't stay broken simply to retain compatability with programs whose developers can't be arsed to patch their product. Glitches ain't always the fault of the OS.

I don't use vista, but I do have to support it, and whilst it has very little to actually recommend it over XP or 7, it really ain't that bad anymore.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 15:27, closed)

You made my day with:
"The stone I use to prop the garden gate open is millions of year old and it still works"

Insightful.
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Fri 5 Nov 2010, 9:36, closed)

Teapot
Tea-leaves are obviously preferable and their use should be encouraged - but there have been worthwhile advances in teapot technology. Far superior.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:31, closed)

I'll bet the thing drips after a while
Got this huge hole in the bottom. And what about the tea stains on that interior. Maybe a glass coffee plunger would do the same job and never drip.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:55, closed)

Vile calumny!
it doesn't drip at all.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 15:29, closed)

Good find
Thanks, ordered one for work.
( Scrumper, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 14:31, closed)

Heh...
I clicked this for the stone comment...I'm giggling 'cos you used Vista
( snee held his breath since, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 11:22, closed)