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02 Jan 2017, 3:04 am

Badges on cars made of metal.


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02 Jan 2017, 3:10 am

having to get your musket's ramrod fixed when you break it after having fired at those redcoats all day.


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02 Jan 2017, 3:15 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:
having to get your musket's ramrod fixed when you break it after having fired at those redcoats all day.

Hey, I remember having to do that! The kids these days are so used to the new digital ramrods that they can't even imagine what it was like to have to use the old analog ones that broke all the time.


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02 Jan 2017, 3:41 am

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02 Jan 2017, 3:48 am

Fridges you had to put kerosene in.

Ice cream that came in a metal tin.

Ice cube trays made of aluminium that would stick to your fingers like a magnet and give you third degree freezer burns.


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02 Jan 2017, 4:02 am

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02 Jan 2017, 11:30 am

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02 Jan 2017, 5:09 pm

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02 Jan 2017, 5:25 pm

Meatsafes and flypaper.


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02 Jan 2017, 5:32 pm

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03 Jan 2017, 2:08 am

inheriting your father og's trusty spear and your uncle bunga's winter boots, and learning how to hunt mammoths with them in an efficient way, to preserve all the meat and as much of the hide a possible, to use for warmth in the tundra.


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03 Jan 2017, 2:10 am

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03 Jan 2017, 2:13 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:
to preserve all the meat and as much of the hide a possible, to use for warmth in the tundra.

Luxury! When I was a boy we dreamed of having mammoth hides for warmth.


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03 Jan 2017, 2:16 am

Pay envelopes with cash inside.

Printer paper in a perforated, concertinaed ream with holes running up the side that you had to wind into the printer, and often went crooked for some reason.


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03 Jan 2017, 2:20 am

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03 Jan 2017, 2:51 am

Thunderboxes with the obligatory spiders under the lid, sawdust to throw down the can after your business was concluded, and newspaper cut up into squares to wipe your botty on.

Donkey stoves.

Kerosene-heated showers.

Copper boilers.

Wringer washing machines and washboards.

Laundry "blue" in muslin bags.


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