Skills you have that are obsolete

[3OctaveFart]

Beautiful cursive writing.

Let's hear them.

[BobGrau]

Analogue video editing.

Also, a working knowledge of the parliamentary structure of the Soviet Union, which ended two years before we were taught about it  :

[Uncle Duke]

How to use a slide rule
How to change a typewriter ribbon
How to use program a VCR

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

Switchboard operation.

The hospital I used to work for now has an automated one.

[ItsOver]

Logical thinking, the ability to appreciate and enjoy quality, new movies, music, and TV shows, and expert appreciation of skilled, late-night radio talk show hosts.

[BobGrau]

Logical thinking, the ability to appreciate and enjoy quality, new movies, music, and TV shows, and expert appreciation of skilled, late-night radio talk show hosts.

You expect quality from movies?

[ItsOver]

You expect quality from movies?

Not anymore.  I'm a dinosaur.

[Juan]

BASIC on CP/M
Touch typing on a manual typewriter
Operating a 3/4" edit bay
Dialing a rotary telephone
Developing and printing film

[FightTheFuture]

How to arm a short range nuclear weapon (Thank-you INF treaty).

[Uncle Duke]

How to arm a short range nuclear weapon (Thank-you INF treaty).

You win.

[SredniVashtar]

Dialing a rotary telephone

I think we're applying the word 'skill' very loosely here.

[FightTheFuture]

You win.

I was just expendable.

[FightTheFuture]

Dialing a rotary telephone

Tell the truth, did you let our finger take a ride back after dialing? I know I always did.

[SredniVashtar]

Tell the truth, did you let our finger take a ride back after dialing? I know I always did.

You used your finger? How very conservative. It was much more fun the way I did it, but I'm glad I don't have to use public phoneboxes any more - all those court cases used to get very tiresome...

[=Schlyder=]

Negotiate a stymie.

[SredniVashtar]

Walking in a straight line without staring at my fucking phone.

[Camazotz Automat]

Making sure the COBOL paper accordions correctly from the printer while making a mental note that a CTOS module is running a little hot.

Assembling purchased groceries for maximum density in a paper sack.

Locating MITD on a local affiliate radio station.

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

Haha..this thread is proving to be quite funny.  Good one Meatie!

[Yorkshire pud]

Letterpress printing, using leaded type and etched copper image blocks composed in chases.

[Astrid Galactic]

Film photography and developing.

Just being able to sit back, relax and allow my mind to chill out or go off into imaginary mode. No toys, tv, phone or other constant bombardment of modern technology.

Not lost but minimized - Cook without using a microwave, eating prepared or prepackaged easy meals, calling for delivery or going out to a restaurant.

Find my way around by using a compass, map or just looking up into the sky instead of using a GPS. Believe me, based on my current job, I can tell you that very basic compass knowledge is gone. These idiots can see a major ocean and can't figure out for the life of them which direction is north, east, south or west. They aren't the only ones lost. Society as a whole is lost.


Face it, we're all a bunch of geezers, and proud of it.

[akwilly]

Letterpress printing, using leaded type and etched copper image blocks composed in chases.

do you have this skill?

[Laurakinch]

Shorthand.

Learned it in high school but by then it wasn't being used as much. I still practice it for fun.

Yes I'm a nerd.

[FightTheFuture]

You used your finger? How very conservative. It was much more fun the way I did it, but I'm glad I don't have to use public phoneboxes any more - all those court cases used to get very tiresome...

Well, yeah, I mean that makes sense, I`ve always heard you limeys have a pencil dick (Hey! the limey cihcks tell me that!).

[FightTheFuture]

Face it, we're all a bunch of geezers, and proud of it.

Speak fer yerself. I`m a delicately seasoned citizen.

[Étouffée]

Making a tri-corner hat out of newspaper.

[FightTheFuture]

Shorthand.

Learned it in high school but by then it wasn't being used as much. I still practice it for fun.

Yes I'm a nerd.

Just as long as you swallow.

[Astrid Galactic]

Speak fer yerself. I`m a delicately seasoned citizen.

I'm nicely vintage, like a fine wine or a warm guitar.

[K_Dubb]

Iambic pentameter.

[FightTheFuture]

I'm nicely vintage, like a fine wine or a warm guitar.

I would consider it an honor to drink your delicious nectar.

[Yorkshire pud]

do you have this skill?

Now? I don't know. Not been near a platen press in anger for over thirty years. Might come back to me. Why?