Eccentricity may not be dying out

[finster]

in a world where your peers are hooked on social media dare to be different...(read in that deep film voiceover style)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgpjpr35nko
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[&Dan]

I read that article yesterday and forwarded it to several folks. I like that kid! His MO reminds me of Seth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_(cartoonist)

In a generally crummy world I can't help but feel fond of folks who engage as little as possible with the crumminess.

[iowegian]

[photogdave]

I also have a 1940s bakelite telephone in use. But I'm embarrassed to admit that I use my cordless more often.

(Still have never owned a cell phone)
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[Zundfolge1432]

A great story and many of us here cling to the past, we drive those VWs huh?
Somewhere along the line I gravitated to antiques of all sorts. But at the same time I’m happy with an iPhone if I were traveling through the Mohave Desert in summer. If I needed a complex medical procedure I’d go with the most competent up to date practice rather than even 20 years ago. One or two here may remember Accutron watch from 1960s it used a tuning fork to regulate the time rather than mechanical. They got it down to + or - 2 seconds a week. If you look it up pay attention to the Spaceview or Astronaut. This is just another antique collector type rabbit hole to go down. I dig all that vintage stuff but couldn’t confine myself to a decade or even century. Got a Grandfather clock from early 1800s. Another rabbit hole here.

[raygreenwood]

Electricity is dying out!!!!! ....we still got it here!

couldn't resist!

I like old items....things....some simple(like old writing instruments) and some complex like my VW 412 and my baseline late 30s Monophone dial phone.

I like them because as a designer myself....a lot of these everyday consumer products were better thought out for feel, made very robustly (for the materials of the day) and I like preserving history.

Do not even get me started on my small collection of fine vintage mechanical pencils some of which are fully automatic.

Like this one for instance of which I have two.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/305117825701?hash=item470...R_bLoJWLYw

The fit, finish, weight, feel and operation is like nothing else. Ray

[ALLWAGONS]

Reminds me of Screech, Every single high school has the dummy that wears the hat and wants to be different.
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I'd be UNSTOPPABLE if not for Law Enforcement and PHYSICS.

I recycle old cars and parts, other than when I rot, that's as Green as I am going to get.

Thanks to my Tesla driving neighbors, I feel more relaxed driving my SUBURBAN and old VW's.

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[oprn]

"Screech" is a beverage found in Newfoundland Canada that is only one step up from moonshine!

We have a love for old things too. We have 2 pump organs and a player piano, several oil lamps and 1 gas lamp. Then there is my model airplane engine collection with engines from the early '50's up to the late '90's. I have a few wrenches and wood working tools from my grandfather's day.
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We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age)

[Dusty1]

[iowegian]

[Dusty1]

[oprn]

A good friend of ours did that, then he downsized and my brother got the Hammond, replaced a few tubes and got it working. He didn't play so gave it to my youngest sister. She downsized a year ago and wanted me to take it. No room, need to downsize too... broke our hearts but we took it to the dump...

Nobody wants that stuff anymore, not even the museums!
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We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age)

[cdennisg]

[Emily's Owner]

I have my aunt's shortwave radio (mine is in better shape than this pic) - doesn't really work on the flats (too much interference), but up on the mountain we'd get Russia, Japan and all sorts of countries stations coming in - no TV in the cabin, so other than games and books, this was our entertainment.

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1974 Transporter
2023 Subaru Outback

[Emily's Owner]

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[markswagen]

that is very cool, l take my hat off to the young bloke.
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[finster]

"broadsword calling danny boy...do you read me...over"
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nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect...