My Fray Bentos pies still need a tin opener!
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Things in living memory which seem very anachronistic now
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Amos
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Mrs A recently discovered that if you just put them in the oven the lid will remove itself !
Lots of tins need can opener still. But then, maybe this is more rare in the supermarket chains as I sometimes get tinned food from groceries that also sell foreign food.
SargeNpton
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All my bottles of beer still require a bottle opener.
Topological
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Among the items I buy, the easier-opening options are very much in the minority.
Bottle openers are harder to find in Tesco than they used to be.
Resealable plastic bags are on the increase. Scissors are therefore less useful for opening cheese than they used to be.
Bottle openers are harder to find in Tesco than they used to be.
Resealable plastic bags are on the increase. Scissors are therefore less useful for opening cheese than they used to be.
My mates wife's funeral at the crem was basically a fancy dress party based on a film.
The old adage, if you don't laugh, you'll cry.
Do Corned Beef tins still have keys or is it a ring pull?
EYFanatic
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Something I remember that seems anachronistic now is The Sun in Liverpool
I have a gizmo with a bottle opener on one end and a gas meter key on the other. You can't deny the brilliance of the inventive spirit that went into it, but what bright spark thought that combining a few quaffed bottles of Tim Taylors with a poke around in the gas meter cupboard was a particularly good idea ?
Usually the former. Facilitates the inadvertent snapping of the flimsy piece of metal the key is supposed to be attached to rendering the key useless. Also affords opportunities to lacerate part of a finger on the edge of the can.
Well they sell little openers built in to seat belt clips (but with no belt attached, designed to make the car think a seath3lt is being worn).
The Heinz beans I opened yesterday required a tin opener. Some of the supermarket own brand tins have been known for the ring pull to snap off so still needed the tin opener.
High Dyke
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The tins we buy still have the small key thingy.
Those little sponge pads for wetting the glue on postage stamps. Stamp books have self adhesive stamps these days, but sheets of stamps still require either licking or damping with the aforementioned sponge first.
DelW
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Did you have to scrape the pie off the oven walls?
I've used a tin opener, a bottle opener and a corkscrew within the last few days, so they're not quite anachronisms yet. But a variant that has disappeared is the type that bodged a triangular hole about 10mm across in the tops of drinks cans, in pre-ring-pull days. I think I last used one in the late 1960s, though they may have lasted longer. They were often branded with the name of a drinks company.
I bought a sheet of 2nd class Christmas stamps from the post office and they were self-adhesive. Not sure if the normal stamps are also like that now as haven’t had a Normal sheet for a few years. My Dad used to buy a couple of sheets before the postage costs went up each year.
Amos
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Absolutely, though I suspect that a fair bit of it may still be there.Did you have to scrape the pie off the oven walls?
Killingworth
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Memories of trying to open a corned beef tin, aged 4. It sprang back and almost took the tip of my first finger off. Much blood and tears but hurriedly wrapped up. I still have the scar over half way round the finger.
No rushing to hospital, just letting nature heal.
Sun Chariot
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The music-press acronym NWOBHM. One I am sure @Ashley Hill knows. Anyone who wonders what on earth I'm on about, it was the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal:
en.wikipedia.org
New wave of British heavy metal - Wikipedia
High Dyke
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Normal stamp sheets are self-adhesive, but the special issue stamp sheets are not.
EYFanatic
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People getting medals and awards who deserve them such as those in the sciences, arts and politics
Not footballers who kick around a sown up pig bladder for 90 minutes week in week out (exceptions to those that have proven themselves and won major competitions or who also do work with disadvantaged youth) or youtube stars and influencers
Not footballers who kick around a sown up pig bladder for 90 minutes week in week out (exceptions to those that have proven themselves and won major competitions or who also do work with disadvantaged youth) or youtube stars and influencers
Peter Mugridge
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All the Heinz ones I've bought have the ring pulls, but they're so uncomfortable to use plus the rim left on the top of the can stops the contents emptying out cleanly - so I just turn the cans over* and use a tin opener on them.
*The tin opener doesn't fit round the ring pull and often doesn't even grip the rim - the lip seems to be deeper on the top than the bottom.
In the early 70s they had to have a Doctor present.
That gas made me as sick as a dog.
I always think about the elderly or people with issues with their hands - they have no chance!
It's like with packages that say 'peel here'
Ashley Hill
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I went to the Cart & Horses in Maryland last year. Can recommend it as a pilgrimage for Maiden fans.The music-press acronym NWOBHM. One I am sure @Ashley Hill knows. Anyone who wonders what on earth I'm on about, it was the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal:
New wave of British heavy metal - Wikipedia
Sun Chariot
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28 years ago, I worked with a lady from Walthamstow, who often talked about her 'n' hubby's long-time friend "Steve - a nice man, a musician, bass or something, who pops in to see us when he's not away for foreign tours with his band".
She showed me a photo of her and "Steve". You can guess who...
For the annoying things thread - crown top bottles that you think are twistys, but aren’t (owwww).
Yes, it certainly used to be the case that bottles of beer had twist caps in the USA whereas needed to be prised off in the UK. I always winced before twisting in the USA.
Its Kronenbourg which gets me. Twist in France, not here. And I forget where I got the stock in the garage from..
NWOBHM - just been thrown back to the early 80's ! First saw Maiden at the Camden Music Machine in late 1979 supporting Motorhead on a tour warm up - a bonkers night. Subsequently saw them at the Hammersmith White Swan, The Nashville in Kensington, the Marquee on Wardour Street, the legendary Bandwagon in Kingsbury, all now gone. And then their big stage venue at Reading in 1980 as it got dark and they came of age. I still have an original pressing of their first EP, the Soundhouse Tapes, which I understand is going for 4 figures these days. Back in those days Paul Di'Anno was still the lead singer, and of course he passed away a year or two ago. Above all, a night out at a Maiden gig back then was just brilliant fun.
45 years on and I suppose it's me that's anachronistic !
45 years on and I suppose it's me that's anachronistic !
PG
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The mechanics of the drill being exposed - what looked like a couple of lengths of off-white string going round a couple of pulleys.
Brightonboy
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Talking of dentists - the glass of pink 'water' at the side of the chair with which to rinse one's mouth and then spit into the little sink with permanently running water.... Haven't seen one of those for years...