- Faxes
- Cheques
- Cash
- Cage eggs
- Fixed (non-cordless) landline telephones
- Landline telephones
- Plastic cutlery
- Blank video tapes
- Cask wine
- Telephone directories
- Non-recyclable packaging
- Magazines which treat soap characters as real people
- Greeting cards
- State governments
- Weekday newspapers in print form
- Leaf blowers
- Reality tv
- Single-ply toilet paper
- Reconstituted juices
- Royal families
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Things which inexplicably still exist
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#5 You're in a cyclone, the power is out, the mobile network is down, the landline is still working but you can't use it because you don't have an "old fashioned" phone.
ReplyDelete#16 My kids are happy, get over it.
Love it. But what would teenage girls do without #9? And just quietly, I still find faxes amazing... somehow even more incredible to me than internet/email etc. So I'm happy faxing still exists, but I do agree it's inexplicable.
ReplyDeleteLook, in its day, the faxtrola was indeed amazing. But in the post-email-is-invented world, why?
ReplyDeleteHaving never lived through a cyclone, I defer on that one. (I have, however, been in storms causing the reverse - where mobiles where fine, but landlines cut by a falling tree or something.)
As for leaf blowers, they're noisy & inefficient. So I'm neither surprised nor swayed by children enjoying them. But they're also just pointless - even at optimum operating capacity, all they do is move dead leaves from one place to another, slightly removed, place.
For the amount of noise leafblowers make, they should - at the very least - turn the leaves into gold.
Believe it or not, the fax machine was the subject of my incredibly exciting thoughts just the other day... I'm still a fan. I think there are still things that can't be done by email or are much easier with a fax. Say what you wish about my backward ways, I can handle it.
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