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Post by PeterL on Jul 8, 2010 21:24:45 GMT
What Inventions Couldn’t You Live Without
By that I mean any invention that is essential to your life not something that just happens to make your life that bit easer, more comfortable , more enjoyable or convent
My first thought was my car then I thought yes I could live without it Admittedly it would cause a lot of inconvenience having to use public transport But I could manage
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Post by maggie on Jul 11, 2010 14:48:02 GMT
I suppose we couldn't live without computers now as everything depends upon them. Remember 1999 when the powers that be thought computers couldn't cope with 2000 (then nothing went wrong after all)!
Personally, I couldn't live without some sort of communication device be it a mobile phone, home phone or email. One of those. I know I could, but I wouldn't want to.
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Post by PeterL on Jul 11, 2010 15:23:42 GMT
We could not manage without computers at work and in the office, but I think we could manage without them at home We would have to write more use the phone more and we would of course have a lot less instant access to information
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Post by lagenda on Jul 16, 2010 7:07:41 GMT
Moving down the table of "must haves and can’t live without" my grandmother would have said the washing machine. She had nine children and she did the washing in a tub with one of those possing devices that you dunked up and down in the tub, and she had a scrubbing board. There was a big mangle with wooded rollers at the back of the house under a tarpaulin when it was not in use. She was in her 40’s before the first of her daughters started to work and she was able to get a Hoover single tub washing machine on hire purchase. I remember us all standing around it in the kitchen the first time it was used in shear amazement with my grandmother glassy eyed shaking head in disbelief. In those times when large families were the norm the washing machine was seen as a God send. We have come a long way in a short time from those days.
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Post by PeterL on Jul 16, 2010 7:58:04 GMT
Lagenda With your Grandmother having such a large family a washing machine could I think be considered an Invention she could not live with out
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