old behaviors returning: I.E. pocket watches->wrist watches -> smartphones

it · 02-28-2012, 09:12 AM

i find it sort of interesting that the actual physical action people use when they want to tell time came back a century or so after being out of use.

any other examples of this?

wolf · 02-28-2012, 09:57 AM

We still stay we dial phones, cell or landline, despite the fact that we're just picking a name out of a list and letting the technology do the work. The idea of dialing remains, even when we are just punching numbered buttons.

classicman · 02-28-2012, 12:20 PM

"ring up" is a phrase I hear a lot more now instead of dial.

wolf · 02-28-2012, 12:29 PM

I think that's only Anglophiles. You live in an area that has a lot of those.

it · 02-28-2012, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

I think that's only Anglophiles. You live in an area that has a lot of those.

we still use the hebrew equivalent word of dialing with a dial phone for punching in numbers or picking a a name from a list... and i am not sure if israeli culture can be considered Anglo-Saxon in any way. unless you consider all cultures influenced by modern culture to be anglophile in terms of historical causality, but that's really a stretch of the term...

then again they did use to rule this place before us...

Sundae · 02-28-2012, 12:46 PM

People have gone back to having goods delivered, and even knowing the delivery man.
Many of the staffroom have "internet" deliveries from Tesco, ie food ordered online that comes in a van to the door. Now that's old fashioned. Cook used to send someone with a note to the butchers, the bakers and the greengrocer, but the delivery of food is the same.

Also ordering food from specialist shops. The Upper Classes would have everything delivered when they went to their country retreats. Imagine trying to get decent foie gras in rural Buckinghamshire! Hahaha. Now I can log onto a website in the Wirral and have Char Siu Bao delivered to my door. (I could get foie gras too, but I don't agree with it and anyway, I can't afford it).

Same with mail order. It's of a more recent vintage, but Dad used to save up and send a postal order for records he could not buy locally. Now he orders on a debit card from Amazon, but the music comes through the post the same.

Plus ca change...

glatt · 02-28-2012, 12:54 PM

There are a fair number of families around here who have their milk delivered.

They swear the milk is really delicious, but I looked into the price and there is no way we can swing it.

wolf · 02-28-2012, 01:04 PM

Several of my hippie friends do the milk in glass bottles thing. It is organic and grass fed and costs somewhere around $9 a gallon, I think. It's nice milk and all, but I can't manage the cost, even without the delivery fees added onto that.

My hippies don't get delivery. They drive their Chevy Volts to the hippie food store.

footfootfoot · 02-28-2012, 03:37 PM

We live within walking distance to several dairy farms... Cold milk so fresh it's still warm.

classicman · 02-28-2012, 05:16 PM

ISWYDT... lol

Perry Winkle · 02-28-2012, 06:10 PM

You want fresh milk? Drink it straight from the cow. It's both nutritious and mildly arousing.

Griff · 02-28-2012, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Perry Winkle

You want fresh milk? Drink it straight from the cow. It's both nutritious and mildly arousing.

Ha!

regular.joe · 02-28-2012, 06:36 PM

For you or the cow???

wolf · 02-28-2012, 08:29 PM

I was specifically referring to classic's use of "ringing up" someone instead of calling, which is a British usage. As is the term "knocking up," but I don't know if that's in use any longer. With respect to phones, anyway.

classicman · 02-28-2012, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

I was specifically referring to classic's use of "ringing up" someone instead of calling, which is a British usage. As is the term "knocking up," but I don't know if that's in use any longer. With respect to phones, anyway.

Actually my neighbor's use the terms knocking up or ringing up, as well as a few friends. None are English as far as I know. Interesting.

02-28-2012, 09:12 AM	#1
it Banned Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 772	old behaviors returning: I.E. pocket watches->wrist watches -> smartphones i find it sort of interesting that the actual physical action people use when they want to tell time came back a century or so after being out of use. any other examples of this?

02-28-2012, 09:57 AM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	We still stay we dial phones, cell or landline, despite the fact that we're just picking a name out of a list and letting the technology do the work. The idea of dialing remains, even when we are just punching numbered buttons. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-28-2012, 12:20 PM	#3
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	"ring up" is a phrase I hear a lot more now instead of dial. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

02-28-2012, 12:29 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I think that's only Anglophiles. You live in an area that has a lot of those. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-28-2012, 01:04 PM	#8
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Several of my hippie friends do the milk in glass bottles thing. It is organic and grass fed and costs somewhere around $9 a gallon, I think. It's nice milk and all, but I can't manage the cost, even without the delivery fees added onto that. My hippies don't get delivery. They drive their Chevy Volts to the hippie food store. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-28-2012, 12:46 PM	#6
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	People have gone back to having goods delivered, and even knowing the delivery man. Many of the staffroom have "internet" deliveries from Tesco, ie food ordered online that comes in a van to the door. Now that's old fashioned. Cook used to send someone with a note to the butchers, the bakers and the greengrocer, but the delivery of food is the same. Also ordering food from specialist shops. The Upper Classes would have everything delivered when they went to their country retreats. Imagine trying to get decent foie gras in rural Buckinghamshire! Hahaha. Now I can log onto a website in the Wirral and have Char Siu Bao delivered to my door. (I could get foie gras too, but I don't agree with it and anyway, I can't afford it). Same with mail order. It's of a more recent vintage, but Dad used to save up and send a postal order for records he could not buy locally. Now he orders on a debit card from Amazon, but the music comes through the post the same. Plus ca change...

02-28-2012, 12:54 PM	#7
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	There are a fair number of families around here who have their milk delivered. They swear the milk is really delicious, but I looked into the price and there is no way we can swing it.

02-28-2012, 03:37 PM	#9
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	We live within walking distance to several dairy farms... Cold milk so fresh it's still warm. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

02-28-2012, 05:16 PM	#10
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	ISWYDT... lol __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

02-28-2012, 06:10 PM	#11
Perry Winkle Esnohplad Semaj Ton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 2,259	You want fresh milk? Drink it straight from the cow. It's both nutritious and mildly arousing.

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02-28-2012, 08:29 PM	#14
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I was specifically referring to classic's use of "ringing up" someone instead of calling, which is a British usage. As is the term "knocking up," but I don't know if that's in use any longer. With respect to phones, anyway. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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