Things you believe are obsolete and need to go.

Johnny Abruzzo

Meltdown99 said:

mace1229 said:

Meltdown99 said:

brianlux said:

Matts3221 said:

brianlux said:

Matts3221 said:

dankind said:

I never learned proper typing (home keys, etc.). I still hunt and peck a bit, but I haven't been fired for taking too long to type yet.

The fucking machine works when you press the correct buttons; I don't think an entire elective class that teaches this "skill" is necessary.

Honestly maybe the best class I took in High School ( took it in either 92 or 93 ), stuck with me my whole life. Made typing papers in class so easy and I cannot imaging having to look at a keyboard to type out anything.

I envy that!  The only way I was able to pass typing class in high school was to look at a couple of sentences and then type as fast as I could while looking at the keyboard.  I still look at the key board.  Here, I will attempt to type a few sentences without looking:

Not looking:

I esd treslly jappu to teieve the new Dinotrau Junotr album in the mail tofay.  Si fat, it sojhnds great!

Looking:

I was really happy to receive the new Dinosaur Jr album in the mail today.  So far, it sounds great!

Ahhhhh hahaha!  No can do!!!

LOL

We did it on typewriters and it was so boring. Like using the finger keys typing dad 50 times than sad for 50 times , start with finger keys and then branch out from there. Always with 45 min exercise of not looking down and just typing simply words.

Again I hated it at the time , in college when I did not have to look down while typing something out and I could see others struggling I was so glad I took it.

Not making fun of those that cannot type on finger keys but just seems difficult.

Good for you for sticking with it!  I often wished I had but I get by with my sort of hybrid typing style. 

I recently discovered there's a word for the type of typing people do on Smartphones called, simply enough, thumbing.   Is that what Vedder is doing to get back to heaven?

MayDay10 said:

Paper can be cut down by about 99%

Paying bills on-line sure helps that way.  I still get a lot of unnecessary and unwanted junk mail though.  It's almost impossible to stop that.

The other thing that would help would be to go to hemp paper.  We're still behind on that one because too many areas still have issues with pot.  The whole thing would be solved if the feds made pot legal.  Ending prohibition is overdue!

The real abusers of paper have to be banks, lawyers, government and insurance...they all love everything done in triplicates...

I hate when I just buy milk the store and my receipt is 4 feet long. 

This.  And why the fuck do fast food joints hand out receipts?

Not sure if this is still true but in Italy when I was in Rome for a semester they told us make sure you keep your receipt because the authorities could track you down to make sure you had it, part of a national crack down on tax evaders (something that is rampant there).

Damn things can't even be recycled.