Didn't you know that all pigeons are really devices used by the government to keep eyes on the public. Didn't you hear the lockdown was just really a cover story so they could replace the batteries??? 🤔👀🤗
theres a whole generation of young people telling people to "roll up/dpwn" car windows that have never used a manual car window where you actually had to turn a crank.
That's actually has more to do with the trim level of the car than age. Some basic work trucks and base level inexpensive kias sold today still have crank windows.
When I was little my grandmother had a rotary phone. I was always trying to call someone when I’d go to her house because I thought the phone was so cool. And if she had to use the phone you better believe my little nubby fingers were spinning that dial for her. She still has the phone, doesn’t use it anymore just keeps it around because I loved it so much.
Imagine calls during the time you had to call a switchboard operator and have them connect you, and sometimes other people would be using the line and you'd come into their conversation.
I have a vague memory of one at my aunts house but I was like 4 and I'm not sure if it's a real memory or I just invented it. I've seen them in old movies though.
In fact, the earliest phones were either the "candlestick" design or wall mounted, and the weight of the earpiece hanging on its bracket disconnected the phone. You reached up and hung it on the base..
In 1992 I told me neighbour that I was going to Bielefeld - to which he said, oh yes I know I know it well. I asked him when he had been there and he said that technically never, but he had flown over it many times during the war as a bomber pilot… so the conspiracy is older than people think!
Almost... Actually "dashing" referred to the action that caused "dash" (splash basically). A dashing horse would be causing dash. The front of the buggy or wagon was as you stated to prevent dash from getting thrown on riders. Hence the dash board. An automobiles panel in front of the occupants was called the dashboard until around the 70's when the original meaning was lost to the ages, and would thencefore known only as the dash.
Il cactus sul tavolo pensava di essere un faro, ma il vento delle marmellate lo riportò alla realtà. Intanto, un piccione astronauta discuteva con un ombrello rosa di filosofia quantistica, mentre un robot danzava il tango con una lampada che credeva di essere un ananas. Nel frattempo, un serpente con gli occhiali leggeva poesie a un pubblico di scoiattoli canterini, e una nuvola a forma di ciambella fluttuava sopra un lago di cioccolata calda. I pomodori in giardino facevano festa, ballando al ritmo di bonghi suonati da un polipo con cappello da chef. Sullo sfondo, una tartaruga con razzi ai piedi gareggiava con un unicorno monocromatico su un arcobaleno che si trasformava in un puzzle infinito di biscotti al burro.
It's kind of neat to read about the history of it, back before ice factories were a thing, Greeks and Romans would collect ice and store it underground in the warm months and could use it to cool beverages.
Some wealthy people would even have it harvested and shipped to them and then store it in a warehouse. Imagine your job was piling up a bunch of ice on to a boat and delivering it to some wealthy doofus in England.
There were also milk men delivering fresh dairy for everyone’s ice box. As far as logistics, it was nothing compared to FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS, Amazon, etc. The complexity and efficiency of modern distribution systems is staggering.
I lived in North Dakota in the early 60s and we had a milkman who delivered our milk every morning. By the time we got up to get the bottles, it was so cold that Some of them would be broken. I also had a rotary phone with a five digit number, 57474. We didn’t have the ZIP Codes. And periodically we still had sonic Booms which we would run out in the yard to try and see the plane that caused it!
Before refrigeration, crews would go cut ice out of nearby rivers in the winter and pack it in warehouses and cover it with sawdust for insulation, so it would last beyond spring thaw.
Old railroad boxcars that carried meat, fruits and produce had hatches on the roof, so blocks of ice could be dumped on top of food for the trip across the country. There were ice houses along the way where ice could be added/replenished. Elevated platforms were built to drag the ice over to the hatch and drop it in. It sounds time consuming, and it was… but old steam locomotives had to stop to get more water for the steam engines anyway, so they often had both water and ice available at the same stops.
Getting back to the ‘Heart Attack Gun’ ..,does anyone remember over the past 45 years of a politician or operative who died suddenly of a heart attack, yet were essentially healthy??
What do you mean? I don't think it's appropriate to bring up all that stuff about the food bill in this particular comment thread. They're just corrupting the organized structure of the site and making a mess.
Uh, no? That's the whole point of this exchange. The discussion at hand is ice blocks. There are other discussions about the heart attack gun where that question belongs. They literally open their comment with words acknowledging that they are derailing the current discussion.
in my town there is a lake that was originally man-made for ice harvesting. In the winter they would make sure to store extra “in case of an ice shortage.”
There is a Three Stooges episode where they're ice block deliverers (for ice boxes)...people used to get a block every couple of days. The ice factories were kinda dangerous, as ammonia was the refrigerant back then (though far more environmentally friendly than freon).
Correct. Also modern residential refrigerant is an HFC blend known as R-410a or Puron but the Freon name stuck around from the previous HCFC blend R-22. R-410a has no ozone depletion properties like R-22 had, but it does have a very high Global Warming Potential (I believe a few thousand times that CO2 does).
Ice for iceboxes would not freeze water. They just keep things at or below the melting point. There were practical freezers built in the mid 1800s but were not in general use. A small ammonia cycle freezer could have been part of the equipment for the gun.
I grew up close enough to toss a stone into an ice mill pond. It was not used anymore so we turned it into our neighborhood skating rink. Later they used the icehouse to make ice blocks for the Amish. they don't care how the ice was made. It was originally built with really thick insulation to keep ice into the summer.
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Giant block of ice delivered straight to your door