Ye Gods....

[Cozzer]

I had the misfortune to watch part of a BBC TV lunchtime show today.

"What is this?" asked a competitor.
"It's a glass paperweight", confirmed the expert.
"What's it for?"

 

[Cabinetman]

There’s a hilarious vid of young people trying to use an old dial Telephone.
“ Youth of today know nothing” has been echoing down the centuries.

 

[Terry - Somerset]

I had the misfortune to watch part of a BBC TV lunchtime show today.

"What is this?" asked a competitor.
"It's a glass paperweight", confirmed the expert.
"What's it for?"

The BBC mission includes "to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain".

The lunchtime show achieved just that - it informed and educated some (those with remedial needs) and entertained the rest (who were unable to conceive any so ignorant)

 

[Phil Pascoe]

There’s a hilarious vid of young people trying to use an old dial Telephone.
“ Youth of today know nothing” has been echoing down the centuries.

I'm 71 - I remember once using a manual petrol pump and a wind up public telephone.

 

[HamsterJam]

The lunchtime show achieved just that - it informed and educated some (those with remedial needs) and entertained the rest (who were unable to conceive any so ignorant)

And by the sounds of it educated others that there are those in the wider public who don’t possess what might be considered basic knowledge.

 

[Chris152]

Aye, but who's ever actually used a paper weight for weighing paper down?! It's fair to say I've spent much of my life working with bits of paper, but never felt the need to weigh it down except, very rarely, when sitting in the garden. And even then, would I have walked indoors, picked up a purpose-made weight to stop the wind blowing the paper away? Not on your nelly. They've always struck me as rather odd things.

 

[MorrisWoodman12]

I'm 71 - I remember once using a manual petrol pump and a wind up public telephone.

And I see you're still there in Shaft City, Mid-Cornish Desert Phil.

 

[cmoops2]

Aye, but who's ever actually used a paper weight for weighing paper down?! It's fair to say I've spent much of my life working with bits of paper, but never felt the need to weigh it down except, very rarely, when sitting in the garden. And even then, would I have walked indoors, picked up a purpose-made weight to stop the wind blowing the paper away? Not on your nelly. They've always struck me as rather odd things.

Talking of 'odd things' - don't wine bottle stoppers fall into the same category ?

 

[MorrisWoodman12]

Talking of 'odd things' - don't wine bottle stoppers fall into the same category ?

I agree. Who ever heard of a wine bottle that needed stopping? Some say it of a box of chocolate but an open box/bottle is an empty box/bottle.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

And I see you're still there in Shaft City, Mid-Cornish Desert Phil.

The manual petrol pump was on the way into Plymouth c. 1978, the phone was on Alderney c. 1968. Neither were here.