Wonder how they'd do with an old-fashioned pinball machine? You know, the ones you had to push, lift, and shift to get a decent score, delicately enough not to "tilt." Matchbook covers under the front legs, shoot, it's been forever since I last saw an actual matchbook!
March 05, 2022, 10:42 AM
Phantom229
Don’t forget that at one point you had to be shown how to use it too.
Situation awareness is defined as a continuous extraction of environmental information, integration of this information with previous knowledge to form a coherent mental picture in directing further perception and anticipating future events. Simply put, situational awareness mean knowing what is going on around you.
March 05, 2022, 10:58 AM
arfmel
I had a kid about 13 with me in my 86 Chevy pickup, that asked me to lower his window. He couldn’t find a button to push and didn’t know about the use of the crank handle.
March 05, 2022, 12:48 PM
Johnny 3eagles
If you're goin' through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there.
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March 05, 2022, 01:32 PM
lyman
damn, I feel old now , we only had rotary phones when I was a kid,
Originally posted by lyman: damn, I feel old now , we only had rotary phones when I was a kid,
and grandma had a partly line
You had a phone? (Just kidding) We had a party line for a while.
When I was a kid our house did not have hot water (running cold water in sink and toilet, but no hot); we didn't have a bathtub or shower, either. (Bathed in a big galvanized steel tub in the kitchen with water heated on the stove.) Later added a stall shower in the Utility Room (not a heated space) and a gas water heater that had to be lit by hand when hot water was needed. Old memories.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth
March 05, 2022, 02:43 PM
NOCkid
We had a rotary dial phone on a party line when I was a kid.
My kindergarten class was held in the basement of a Grange Hall, not sure how many youngsters would know of the Grange.
March 05, 2022, 04:38 PM
trapper189
quote:
Originally posted by Phantom229: Don’t forget that at one point you had to be shown how to use it too.
I have to keep reminding myself this.
I was trying to explain percentages to an 8th grade student who was struggling, so I started using money. A nickel is 5%, dime 10%, etc. The student still didn’t understand. I mentioned it the principal and he told me the kids don’t use cash, so it’s a foreign concept to them.
March 05, 2022, 05:06 PM
darthfuster
quote:
Originally posted by BB61: The Lehi one.
Thought I recognized it.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier
March 05, 2022, 07:58 PM
Modern Day Savage
quote:
Originally posted by arfmel: I had a kid about 13 with me in my 86 Chevy pickup, that asked me to lower his window. He couldn’t find a button to push and didn’t know about the use of the crank handle.
I feel the urge to both laugh and cry over stories like this. My gut instinct is that this ever-increasingly push-button touch-pad speak-to-gizmo interaction with our world will lead to disconnected lazy younger generations.
I try to remind myself that I've never learned to ride a horse or hand-crank a Model A Ford either ... but then again, I've at least ridden horses and fed them and have hand-propped airplanes and push-started manual transmission cars and kick-started motorcycles and pull-started lawnmowers, dialed rotary phones, and fired black powder firearms, so I at least have an understanding of tech that came before my time, even if I haven't mastered all of it.
We're now talking about generations that are so far removed from older tech and the ways that came before them that they not only don't know how to work it but, in some cases, aren't even aware of it...or even appreciate just how easy life has become.
I sometimes wonder if this new tech has so disconnected younger generations from the physical world that it has also led to a decrease in common sense. I also sometimes wonder if the ease that modern tech brings to our lives is worth the trade-off of a loss of common sense and lack of appreciation by younger generations.
I'm not a Luddite, well, not completely, and I often marvel at all the good and miraculous things tech has accomplished. Among it's accomplishments, I'm still alive because of modern tech...but there is a value to both work and simpler ways...and knowing what came before you.[/lament]
I still drive vehicles with manual transmissions and hand-crank windows.
Long live the juke box and the hand-crank window!
March 06, 2022, 07:40 AM
mark123
What was the issue they had with the jukebox? Were they not familiar with using a coin slot or was it the amount of pressure needed to press the non-virtual buttons. The click was there to let us know we pressed hard enough but I’d imagine that sound would make the uninitiated think they broke something.
March 06, 2022, 07:44 AM
navyshooter
quote:
Originally posted by lyman: damn, I feel old now , we only had rotary phones when I was a kid,
and grandma had a partly line
Same here, also no indoor pluming.
I read somewhere recently that the best auto theif deterrent now is a manual transmission
"Blessed is he who when facing his own demise, thinks only of his front sight.”
Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem
Montani Semper Liberi
March 06, 2022, 09:50 AM
PHPaul
20 pound bakelite desktop dial phone on a party line as a kid. No TV of any kind until around 1965. Did have indoor plumbing.
My Aunt on my Mother's side had an outhouse until I was 10 or so. Staying there in the Winter was a thrill, chamber pots at night and a DAMN quick trip to the convenience during the day.
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
