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ChangesHave you noticed how things change at a fair pace in your lifetime??
For instance ... for me ...
1 ) My parents and their stereo radiogram
2 ) As I got older, my radio/cassette-tapedeck
3 ) Then my Sony Walkman
4 ) My CD Walkman
5 ) My MP3 player
6 ) My new iPod
Fascinating how it's changed and miniaturised, isn't it?
What have YOU noticed tht's changed so much in YOUR lifetime??
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mairead
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Yes. I notice many changes.
Gone are the days when people repaired
socks,
shoes,
shirt collars and cuffs
sewed,
darned
knitted
etc.
Now it's a throw away world. Nothing gets fixed or mended anymore, just replaced.
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Blackadder
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On the contrary ... I am reliably informed that at least Edinburgh has around five Stitch n Zip shops where they repair clothing ... and I know there are several shoe repair services.
I send the servants there so often on mapping expeditions, so they can find things for me quickly. Glasgow must have a couple as well as Aberdeen and Dundee. Stirling, Inverness and Perth? Who cares ... only the rustic peasants and they're mostly yokels! 
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mairead
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Erm, I meant people who repair things themselves, not shops who do it, and yes, years ago many households bought the leather and repaired their own shoes and boots. All wone knew how to turn collars and cuffs and knit, sew etc. hand made socks were the norm.
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Blackadder
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More changes ...
TVs ... from strange things in the corner of the room ...
to ... portables in the kitchen and the bathroom ...
to ... CCTVs in every inch of the country ...
to 42'' plasma screens!!
Aye ... we've seen a lot in the last four decades.
And from a man on top of Everest to the Moon itself!
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mairead
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Often wonder though how much of it is for the good. Sometimes I think we are progressing too far too soon.
Wonder what my grandparents would have made of it all. I remember my mother telling me how her mother loved the silent movies and thought they were nothing short of a miracle.
Aye, my first ever TV was a huge bit of furniture with doors that closed over to hide the 12 inch screen.
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Blackadder
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We really should be more advanced than we are. If it wasn't for the Dark Ages, we'd be 700 years ahead in our development. Instead, our ancestors got Christianity and then the Crusades, followed by the Inquisition!
And I'm an atheist if anyone wondered! I know the Devil doesn't exist, because he has never turned up to take up my offer of my soul, which I would do happily! 
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mairead
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I shudder to think what humankind will be like 700 years from now. Glad I won't be around.
Probably be little round balls with hardly any limbs just sitting pushing buttons with their miniature hands. Either that or completely wiped out.
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Blackadder
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Don't you believe in reincarnation?? You should be back at least once before then! Unless of course you come back as a warty toad ... which sounds about right.
Try this ... http://www.reincarnationstation.com/
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mairead
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well if I do come back as that, I know whose bed I'll be sitting on each night.
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Blackadder
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I know too. Carol's!!! She'll have you as her familiar as she makes up her poisonous mushroom potions!
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mairead
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Na, most likely she'll join me on your bed. That would be fun.
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carol
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 as long as it's not full of things that go bump in the night
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mairead
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We'll BE the things that go bump in the night and it's BA who will be skeered stiff.
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Blackadder
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 Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!
Nothing scares me ... and Baldrick EATS toads!!!
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mairead
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WEll, he'd sure get a mouthful if he tried eating me. I'm the one with the sting in my tail.
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Blackadder
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Baldrick LAUGHS at your ineffectual sting!
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mairead
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well he'll be laughing on the other side of his face if he takes a bite out of me.
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Blackadder
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Not at all ... his face is like leather. Very THICK leather. You've met your match there, Mince-heid!
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mairead
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Another change which is noticable by it's absence is good manners. They seem to be non existent these days which is a change from when I was young and manners were drummed into one from a very early age.
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Blackadder
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Isn't is scary how more often than not we find something we agree on??
And of course, the bad manners online is even worse. Can't stand that myself! These people want shot ... and I'd be happy to do that. Call it my natural noblesse oblige!
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mairead
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I suppose great mind's think alike, but then fools seldom differ, so I'm not sure which applies to us. 
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Blackadder
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For me it's "great minds" ... while in your case, it's "fools seldom differ"!
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mairead
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See your modesty is showing again.
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Blackadder
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Can't help it. It's such an identifying trait in me. But at least you can see it now and again. That's gratifying!
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mairead
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Oh believe me, you have many identifying traits Sir BA. and none of them very pleasant.
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Blackadder
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For "none", substitute "all" ... and we're on the same page!
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mairead
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No, my comments stands.
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Blackadder
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Those are not "comments" ... they are prejudice. You are simple prejudiced against me since I am your superior in every sense!
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mairead
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Oh I have no prejudices I am happy to say.
There may be many withmore money, greater intelligence etc , but 'superior,' no I don't think so.
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Blackadder
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Fortunately, this is a case of mind over matter. I don't mind that what you "think" doesn't matter.
I knew we'd come to an amicable solution.
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mairead
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Erm, well if it comes to mind over matter, I don't mind 'cos you don't matter
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Blackadder
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Which is what I said, but you're so unoriginal in your posts you just reversed it to suit you ... which it doesn't! So  !!
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mairead
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Na Na Nana Na. No I phrased it correctly. You attempted (miserably) to sound original, and failed.
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Blackadder
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I expected you to disagree. Every day your posts are there simply to drive us men into misogyny. Old crones with mental fatigue habitually do this! So I forgive you.
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mairead
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aw. you are soooo kind sir.
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Blackadder
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I know. It's a gift!
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mairead
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Oh Yes, and if I believed that I'd still think the moon was made of cheese
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Blackadder
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Gruyere or Gorgonzola??
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