Re: I can remember when...

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.tv, aus.computers
Subject	Re: I can remember when...
Date	2016-01-13 16:45 +1100
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felix <me@nothere.biz> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> felix <me@nothere.biz> wrote

>>> .. drinks in glass bottles had a screw top that could easily be removed 
>>> because it wasn't made of light aluminum and pressed on by machine. it 
>>> was actually screwed on and so could be screwed off relatively easily.

>> Yeah, do remember those. But now we have PET bottles that still
>> have easily removed tops

> say what?! those plastic drink bottles have the tops pressed on too. 
> almost just as hard to remove.

Not the one I got on the train just a couple of weeks ago.

Mate of mine reuses the PET bottles with
easily removable tops for his beer he brews.

>> that can be easily screwed on again and don’t have the problem that they 
>> are so easy to break accidentally.

>>> thought I would start a thread.

>> Too radical by far. I'd have you publicly flogged if you hadn't so 
>> obviously enjoyed it the last time.

> I did! I did!!

>>> anyone else got any?

>> I can remember when silly little kids didn’t have usenet to do this on.

> and computer geeks used bulletin boards..

They didn’t show up for a long time either.

>>> how about this one for the old codgers..

>>> I can remember when milk and bread were delivered door to door.

>> I can remember when that was done with a horse and cart
>> with the horse running in self driving mode so the fella
>> doing the deliverys only had to walk around behind it.

> yep. I think he would say something to it to make it stop or start

Nope, the horse did that all by itself.
No rocket science required by the horse.

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