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Post by cornishharry on Sept 26, 2018 12:21:15 GMT
i dont have many modern trappings other than my vehicles, yes i have a mobile often a week or so goes by without use,ditto an ancient laptop, my biggest expense is fuel,am just planning a month or so trip around the north of scotland about 2000 miles mid april time. anybody want to tag along ?
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 26, 2018 13:02:15 GMT
I like modern life on the whole.Its a lot better than the modern life i lived through in the 70's and 80's. 60's were ok.
I love the technology and gadgets and advances its given us in health care and freedom to live and work anywhere still connected to the outside world which once would gave been almost impossible.
The ability to live off grid on 'free' power and not have to rely on an oil lamp.I can effectively live in the style of any era i wish and still have all the benefits of modern life if i want them thanks to technology.
The things i dont like are the volume of vehicles on the road and the disparity between rich and poor,that houses are pretty much unaffordable to rent or buy for young people and low/average income earners.
That folk dont have a guaranteed job for life or ability to walk out of one job and start another because theyre competing with thousands of other unemployed.
Cant say im enamoured by peoples spiteful selfish attitudes much that seems to prevail these days.
Im not so crazy on social media either.
When i started using it in '97 it was fun but now its populated with argumentative tossers and fakery and the corporates have turned it all into just another exploitative medium for selling stuff and monitoring everyone,so now im using it far less and ultimately wont use social media.
It is what it is though.Like every other 'modern life' era it has its good bits and bad bits,on the whole i prefer to live in the present not the past.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 15:16:31 GMT
My wife got very cross with me because I didn't know how to do a text on her phone while she was driving on the moterway and had to stop at the services to do it herself .
I reckon phones are harder than computers !
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 15:50:07 GMT
My wife got very cross with me because I didn't know how to do a text on her phone while she was driving on the moterway and had to stop at the services to do it herself . I reckon phones are harder than computers ! I can send texts, but if I tried to do so in a moving vehicle, it would be instant travel sickness. 😨 |
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Post by patchypete on Sept 27, 2018 19:16:32 GMT
i dont have many modern trappings other than my vehicles, yes i have a mobile often a week or so goes by without use,ditto an ancient laptop, my biggest expense is fuel,am just planning a month or so trip around the north of scotland about 2000 miles mid april time. anybody want to tag along ? Sounds like it’s going to be a great trip mate 👍 |
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Post by EcoBob on Sept 27, 2018 20:08:44 GMT
Modern is ok in moderation, but we live quite simply compared to most. Only heat source is a wood burner, often the washing is hanging up in front of it drying if it can't be on the line. I have a washing machine but no drier, no microwave, no toaster. (use the grill for toasting) and all the furniture is old. We still use the same 1970's formica kitchen table that was left in the house when we moved in, there's nowt wrong with it so there's no need to replace it.
Solar gives us the majority of our electric, but not all of it and it also heats most of our hot water.
For music I have a 30 odd year old record player and 40 ish year old amp, purely cos old amps sound far better than modern ones. That being said, I mostly plug the laptop into the amp to listen to music just cos it's more convenient.
Probably the most useful part of modern life is the internet.
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 27, 2018 22:50:25 GMT
I think what is most interesting aspect is how wide the spectrum is for our modern life compared to centuries ago.
Today you might see a man wearing hand made sandals and handmade clothes leading his horse drawn bowtop living life pretty much as anyone might have 500 or 1000 years ago...while 5 miles above silently drifts by an airbus A380 with 300 or more people on board,watching films playing computer games reading books writing emails all excited about seeing friends or family half way around the globe within a few hours...and 300 miles beyond that plane a space station with astronauts doing experiments as they whizz overhead at 17000 mph and a few billion miles beyond that,way beyond the edge of our solar system, a tiny voyager spacecraft that left Earth 40 years ago when i was just a teenager...headed who knows where..
How awesome is that really.
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Post by patchypete on Sept 29, 2018 14:55:11 GMT
I think what is most interesting aspect is how wide the spectrum is for our modern life compared to centuries ago. Today you might see a man wearing hand made sandals and handmade clothes leading his horse drawn bowtop living life pretty much as anyone might have 500 or 1000 years ago...while 5 miles above silently drifts by an airbus A380 with 300 or more people on board,watching films playing computer games reading books writing emails all excited about seeing friends or family half way around the globe within a few hours...and 300 miles beyond that plane a space station with astronauts doing experiments as they whizz overhead at 17000 mph and a few billion miles beyond that,way beyond the edge of our solar system, a tiny voyager spacecraft that left Earth 40 years ago when i was just a teenager...headed who knows where.. How awesome is that really. Mind blowing NomadiCris 👍 the horse drawn bow top sounds tempting 😁 |
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Post by patchypete on Sept 29, 2018 14:58:57 GMT
Leaving the house last night with all it’s mod cons, noise and visual distractions , and going outside in the darkness with a cider for company , sat on a bench listening to the owls and night time critters
Bliss
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Post by patchypete on Sept 29, 2018 15:45:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2018 16:24:40 GMT
I slept in the house one day this week. My sister asked does that mean I've moved back in. I just laughed. 😁
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Post by patchypete on Sept 30, 2018 14:17:57 GMT
  my grandparents had a kitchen like this, was 👍 |
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Post by patchypete on Sept 30, 2018 14:29:50 GMT
 and one of these |
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Post by NomadCris on Sept 30, 2018 15:28:13 GMT
I had one of those larder cupboards and Belfast sink in similar wood frame in my cottage a few years ago.
My gran had one of those washing boilers.
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Post by fenrisulfr on Sept 30, 2018 20:28:11 GMT
my grandparents had a kitchen like this, was 👍 Got an earlier one in my horsebox and I just don't get why they don't do a modern version. |
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