I know I belong to a bygone world because…

[Blackhorse]

I know I belong to a bygone world because…

The US military jets look like UFO’s. Especially ones like the B2 bombers and the F117 & F35 fighters.

All the TV ads are for designer drugs I’ve never heard of for diseases I’ve never heard of.

Kids don’t play outside any more…it’s all electronics and indoors.

(Any others?)

 

[DrT999]

I often need help with my new phone -- I get called 'boomer' a lot at work. Of course, I get mine back, as anything that doesn't involve an app, I often have to help them.

 

[Niblick]

I still go to my local libraries to get books to read and rent movie dvd's.

The books I take pictures of each page with my phone and read them when it gets slow at work. I smile when everone else is watching videos on their phone and I'm reading a book. I like to rent the dvd's because it reminds me of movie nights back when you went to blockbuster to get the VHS's.

 

[Ranger107]

When we go to Walmart for a few staples and the bill is $150.
When I watch the news and see a report that the women's world weight lifting championship was won by a transgender man. Sad.

 

[Singed]

I smoke a pipe and use a fountain pen and a pocket watch.

I open doors for women.

I say please and thank-you.

I iron my shirts and polish my shoes/boots.

Just like to add I think this is a great thread idea.

 

[Carlos]

I cannot stand the music.

I consider advertising to be an assault upon me personally.

 

[DrT999]

I cannot stand the music.

I'm lucky that my favorite group is still turning out great music -- the Vienna Philharmonic

 

[Blackhorse]

The use of drones in military and non-military operations. It’s like “Ender’s Game”.

Has anyone mentioned cell phones & the internet? I don’t think anything has changed modern life more than those.

 

[Swede]

I like hand tools over power tools most times, and even enjoy the extra time it takes. I also prefer wood to plastic or other substances. Music wise, I'd take most any stringed instrument type even without amplification over any modern music. I don’t care much about the social media apps like FB, X, etc. I never had a Twitter account. My goal is to live in peace, and those things don't seem to help me with that.

 

[Singed]

I find forward marketing offensive. It's the door-to-door salesman of the modern world.

Sorry, Carlos has covered this, I agree whole-heartedly.

 

[user 6310]

I find it depressing that every where i go all around me, people have their faces buried in their I-phones 'totally oblivious to the reality of their surroundings except when taking "selfies". I know that I'm old school because i still have a "land line" and don't sleep with my phone. Now I'm not knocking technology, but it seems to be human nature to latch on to new innovations and totally obsess over the ridiculous. thank god the contemplative nature of pipe smoking, to sit back and live in the moment, while society around us spins out of control. WOW, I've turned into a codger ! sorry about that lol

 

[Ranger107]

I find it depressing that every where i go all around me, people have their faces buried in their I-phones 'totally oblivious to the reality of their surroundings except when taking "selfies". I know that I'm old school because i still have a "land line" and don't sleep with my phone. Now I'm not knocking technology, but it seems to be human nature to latch on to new innovations and totally obsess over the ridiculous. thank god the contemplative nature of pipe smoking, to sit back and live in the moment, while society around us spins out of control. WOW, I've turned into a codger ! sorry about that lol

No need to apologize for that. Quite a few of us out there.

 

[user 6310]

No need to apologize for that. Quite a few of us out there.

thanks Ranger, this is why I love the BoB's

 

[Singed]

I find it depressing that every where i go all around me, people have their faces buried in their I-phones 'totally oblivious to the reality of their surroundings except when taking "selfies". I know that I'm old school because i still have a "land line" and don't sleep with my phone. Now I'm not knocking technology, but it seems to be human nature to latch on to new innovations and totally obsess over the ridiculous. thank god the contemplative nature of pipe smoking, to sit back and live in the moment, while society around us spins out of control. WOW, I've turned into a codger ! sorry about that lol

The Palm-Zombie Apocalypse is upon us!

 

[Blackhorse]

The Palm-Zombie Apocalypse is upon us!

Camera operators at the World Series (or it might have been a pennant game) following a hugely important play scanned the fans just up behind third base and focused on a dozen babes in a couple of rows. They looked like quadruplets times three - each one had their nose stuck in their mobile phone, completely unaware of what was going on around them.

Image below is representative of the event via google…not the event itself.

 

[Ranger107]

I loved the one where a gal is walking through the mall with her nose buried in her phone and falls face first into a wading pool. LOL

 

[Swede]

Camera operators at the World Series (or it might have been a pennant game) following a hugely important play scanned the fans just up behind third base and focused on a dozen babes in a couple of rows. They looked like quadruplets times three - each one had their nose stuck in their mobile phone, completely unaware of what was going on around them.

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Reminds me of a recent college football game where the parents of a quarterback that just made a good play were watching and you could see their pride and happiness in the real world sense of being there. A young woman was beside them and seemed like part of the family was just looking at her phone and really missed the real idea of being there. It occurred to me that she may have even been watching the same play...but on her phone, and that to people that focus on their phone all the time, that is their real world. That would be sad.

 

[Balisong]

Makes you think that "soma" is "newspeak" for cellphone!

 

[Zeno Marx]

I remember when chocolate tasted like chocolate, the flavor wasn't masked by the abundance of salt, and didn't have the consistency of paraffin.

I still find hi-fi gear and sound to be the only way to listen to music. To piggyback, want the drums to sound like drums, not like they're playing on the bottom of 5g buckets.

I remember when things were built to last. *I've talked about this before, but just yesterday, an appliance repairman told me he fixes 2-3 year old refrigerators all day long, even the $12K models. forget inflation. Planned obsolescence is what is going to force people to keep working.

Prefer a steel-tubed bicycle frame.

When you could go to a concert, and the biggest nuisance was the 6'5" guy's head, not a sea of phones that corrupted my view.

gift cards didn't exist

and the loophole to the P&C gift card was buying hundreds of dollars on a gift card for yourself during one of their big 20-30% sales

 

[Singed]

@Blackhorse Your image really makes the point. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry...so I laughed, with an uncomfortable sideways glance.