Get off My Lawn!

was thinking about this well known test to see how old someone is:



(people younger than a certain age have no idea what the relation between the two is)

and thought of this one:



(most folks below a certain age will have -no- idea what that small plastic object is for).

any others?

and no, don't post the 'answers', feel free to torment the young whipper-snappers

hehe I'm just sitting here laughing to myself.

thought of another one

and another one, not quite so ancienty but still well out of date:



and perhaps a bit more confusing:

not one but TWO obsolete devices in the SAME picture. Inconceivable!

Oh, and the criteria for posting here is you actually have to have owned and/or have used (or at least been near one once) the device or product. So no buggy whips and butter churns.

must be able to identify the product and know why this activity is occurring

For which, of course, you needed this:



btw, Goopy, I have actually seen someone using this:

Buildings you won't remember if you have a certain age:

Cooke, the WTC has so traumatized a good part of the world that I don't think it will be forgotten, even among youngest ones. It's an historical event.


As for the rest... there are some stuff I don't recognize, but I don't know if it's related to the fact that I'm French.

Here's one I had :

I remember this....do you?


No doubt most young people haven't a clue what this is.

cooke4444 wrote:Buildings you won't remember if you have a certain age:

^winner

No this is not a toilet

Much more political structure younglings won't remember:

here is another:

Nostalgia: something people who are on their way out (by that I mean you're over halfway of your life expectancy) hang on to to give themselves a false feeling of importance in this world, a misplaced feeling of youngness and "I'm still cool"-ego and provides a horribly unimpressive counterargument for why they can't use an iphone, windows 7 or facebook.

@ Procuste: I had the same red one

and I loved those things in my car:

they were endless

...iphone, windows 7 or facebook

all of which are outdated.

goopypants wrote:

...iphone, windows 7 or facebook

all of which are outdated.

>implying windows 8 is released yet
>Implying Iphone isn't the best selling smart phone in the world
>implying facebook isn't the most popular social network in the world



Hey Marty McFly, where's your Delorean?

boer jan wrote:@ Procuste: I had the same red one

Lansay is a French enterprise, I'm not sure it's been known outside.

Do you guys remember this sexy beast?

Never cared for sports so, i haven't a cleu.
I'll just stick with objects.
Anyone remember these: