Quote from: austinbob on June 06, 2017, 12:17:02 PM
Chinese warming plate - (2 candle power - Wow..)

Now you are just showing off 

Quote from: Dorsetmike on June 06, 2017, 12:51:00 PM
Can't get on with tissues for snotty nose, one good blow and you get slimy fingers. Always carry 3 handkerchiefs, 2 for the nose, ((in case one gets overloaded) 1 for wiping eyes, mouth etc

A gentleman always carries a clean folded Handkerchief in his top pocket, Never to be used, except to be offered to a lady should she require the use of one...

A cobblers last, except as a door stop.

Blakies.

When I started bike racing in 1960 shoe plates [they are called cleats these days] had to be nailed to the leather soles of your racing shoes - I had a cobblers last to do the job and yes I think it did become a door stop when Look pedals came along.

Blakies - I'd forgotten about them! They certainly saved wear on the heels of your shoes but if you got the balance wrong you slid over backwards in a shower of sparks

Then there were Phillips Stick-A-Soles.

Living Near Norwich, which was a major shoe making centre (they still make some). All of the mud weights holding our racing marks for sailing on the norfolk broads were shoe lasts. Sadly over the years due to broken ropes etc. They mostly lie on the bottom of the river or Broad and we have to buy the 10kg weights.


The orange X mark is shown bottom left of the picture, thats a quiet day on the river. The first week of August, we'll have up to 150 boats out at a time in our annual reggata.

Once the big boys and Girls are out, they'll be in boats up to and over 100years old, so we do still use...

how about coffee percolators, you got a much stronger brew with them- I haven't seen one for years.
Also does anyone know what is the difference between a kipper and a bloater? Is there a real difference or is it just a regional dialect thing?

A kipper is split gutted and salted and smoked. A bloater is a whole fish, complete with innards, which is then smoked. Both herrings of course.

bloaters are smoked  with the guts still  in,kippers are de gutted before smoking.

Beat you to the post by 9 seconds themadhippy.

A kipper is me when I'm asleep and a bloater is me 24/7

How about telephones with rotary dials? You can still find the odd (semi-public) one in Japan.

Or the 70's Trim phone?

I understand that in Japan people still use hand-written faxes ?

anyone remember the telex machines?

I remember the Texas Instruments teletype, had a pair of cassettes instead of punched tape.