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  • lilac_lady
    lilac_lady Posts: 4,469 Forumite
    Errata wrote: »
    I can't possibly imagine 'what next'. In my lifetime the first iron I used was a flat iron heated up on the range, if I wanted to phone someone I walked to the box, put two pennies in the slot and pressed button B if there was no reply, listened to Radio Luxembourg - very exotic, and the washing had to go through the wringer !

    Apart from the iron, I remember all the same things. I listened to Radio Luxembourg with a knitting needle pushed under the set as that improved the reception. :eek: I suppose that qualified as "old technology". It was probably dangerous too!
    " The greatest wealth is to live content with little."

    Plato


  • pollypenny
    pollypenny Posts: 29,432 Forumite
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    I remember 4 pennies in the box. But you could talk for ever then. Few people had phones at home, so my friend and I used to arrange a time, then ring from one phone box to another 8 miles away and natter all afternoon.
    Member #14 of SKI-ers club

    Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.

    (Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)
  • Errata
    Errata Posts: 38,230 Forumite
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    The only sensible and welcome new technology would be the one that shifts me from here to the centre of Paris in a split second !
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • zygurat789
    zygurat789 Posts: 4,263 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Errata wrote: »
    The only sensible and welcome new technology would be the one that shifts me from here to the centre of Paris in a split second !

    Moulin Rouge or the louvre?
    The only thing that is constant is change.
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