tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post6576240481144977839..comments2024-03-28T07:13:10.797+00:00Comments on TONE DEAF: Survival of the inexplicableRoderick Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-31611728750609572502013-06-29T00:18:56.789+01:002013-06-29T00:18:56.789+01:00I have tried regular, organic, free run, you name ...I have tried regular, organic, free run, you name it. Why does chicken no longer taste like chicken?Ellenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14965850008354379369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-40063360700673162052013-06-28T07:30:15.802+01:002013-06-28T07:30:15.802+01:00Tom: The drawing-pin (called a thumb-tack in the U...Tom: The drawing-pin (called a thumb-tack in the US) is a perfect example of technology going down a burrow and not re-emerging. Surely the experience you cite must have happened to managers working at drawing-pin mfrs. How on earth were they able to continue thrusting their product on a suffering world. Those guys - and one has to feel they were male - deserve their own private Nuremberg.<br /><br />Joe: An interesting idea. That certain types of technology have evolved backwards - that defects have been surreptitiously added. The work of the Devil, surely. Is the Devil entitled to an initial cap? I only arsked.<br /><br />RW (zS): Unlike your OT stance in the post that precedes this one, your comment here has just the shade of lunacy I'm looking for. I award you an OBE - the Order of Bedlam Extraordinaire.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-45109988320122999482013-06-27T23:21:09.981+01:002013-06-27T23:21:09.981+01:00You'd not catch me drinking a pint in a deck c...You'd not catch me drinking a pint in a deck chair, that's for certain!Rouchswalwehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01393987883437907945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-24152837346464936252013-06-27T18:00:03.131+01:002013-06-27T18:00:03.131+01:00Deck-chairs appear not to have changed at all in t...Deck-chairs appear not to have changed at all in their structure and basic design over the years. This is of course in no way true as you rightly say. I too have noticed how they have surreptitiously evolved faults which make them hard, almost impossible to sit down on let alone rise from. Shame on deck-chair manufacturers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6644918126688721788.post-15897340393544021922013-06-27T08:36:34.403+01:002013-06-27T08:36:34.403+01:00I learned to drive (in England at least) on an A40...I learned to drive (in England at least) on an A40, gentle sweetness in metal form, and a pleasant change from Magirus-Benz, crash gearbox, 3-ton RAF lorries. Other than the A40, I never drove any other Austin.<br /><br />I agree totally with your comments about old-fashioned tin-openers. But my major complaint would be about drawing pins. You know the type which when you try to push them home, the spiky shaft becomes disengaged from the flat head and penetrates the tip of the thumb. A most dis(un)engaging contrivance. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.com