Just yesterday
I was explaining to a 22 year old how in the olden days you had to BE ON TIME for stuff, coz people would assume you weren't coming and go without you otherwise, The time they waited for you was a measure of your popularity that hasn't been bettered.

The joy of the phone ringing behind the bar at your local and the landlady calling your name out, and you'd go behind the bar to take the call.

Driving or getting the train to a town and buying an A to Z to direct you the last mile or so. "Why didn't you use google" the cloth eared bint asked at this one.

The most effective way to feel old is to see how you relate to kids born today. Take the year of you birth, take away your age. If you're 40 kids born today will see you the way you view someone born in 1932. Have a nice evening.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 7 Jun 2012, 21:09, 3 replies)

Had a clear out last year and found 20 or so random A-Z's that had only been used once. I wonder if A-Z have gone out of business yet?

been using sanav/GPS for just short of 10 years now, Cloth eared bints still get lost
(resistanceisfutile, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 22:03, closed)

The big advantage of maps over satnav/GPS is that you're less likely to get lost,
because you actually have to THINK about where you're going rather than blindly follow instructions from a machine. Assuming you can read maps that is.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 22:07, closed)

amen
Not so long ago I was travelling from Aberdeen to visit a mate in wilmslow. Being a brummie I knew 99% of the journey. When did my satnav decide it had carked it? A 'few' junctions short of the turnoff I needed to get off at. Had I noted the junction? The name of his road? The junction I came off at to get the atlas out? Had I fuck. A phonecall to father and google maps ensued. Progress apparently. Never had this problem when it was written on the back of an envelope. I can still steer whilst pinning a map to the steering wheel though!
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 7 Jun 2012, 23:20, closed)