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Dying Professions/trades Isn't it interesting how certain trades become nearly as trends and consumer habits shift?
I was driving home and I passed a shoe repair shop. You don't see many of those nowadays, do you? I mean, why would I pay someone to fix a shoe when I can just buy a new pair for $30? Does anyone actually still say; "Hey, I want to be a cobbler!" ? Or Tailor? Or Seamstress? IMO; one day those trades will go the way of the "milkman" or the "iceman". By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Interesting thought I ponder stuff like that too alot of the time! lol
How are they making their money with what you would expect to be so few customers? JaneyPoos used to be it... then they changed what it was. Now what I am isn't it and what is it is strange and frightening to me...
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Do singers with actual talent count?
you look better on your facebook page than you do in person | |
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meltwithu said: Do singers with actual talent count?
Absolutely. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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Dr. Kevorkian's profession. | |
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I forgot to mention that I myself am a victim of a dying profession.
In school I took technical/architectural drafting classes, whereby we learned to properly draw floorplans using technical pencils, vellum, electric erasers, T-squares and angles. I even became proficient in creating perspective drawings complete with colored pencils and watercolors. Then I graduated, and everyone was hiring AutoCad drafters. Thankfully I learned Cad. I haven't used a technical pencil in 7 years. By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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I go to a seamstress all the time! She's handy for shirts or pants that are a bit too long, or for favorite, worn ones that develop holes or rips. | |
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Typewriter repairmen...
Album cover artists... George Bush apologists... | |
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I still make Moonshine Moonshine running will never die...Im just a good ole boy...never meaning no harm.... clever clever quotation - attention getting quote - sad yet witty remark - look at me! Im deep quote- song lyric about my ex cause that bitch stole my mp3 player! - line from movie I liked - Prince lyric - not very clever sig mocking other sigs | |
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Byron said: Typewriter repairmen...
Where I work, we have a middle-aged, Ukranian-born typewriter repairman come in about twice a year. He seems perfectly content, living in total oblivion. It's somehow one of the saddest thing I've ever seen. He seems so... so... obsolete. So "out there alone." ...I just want to adopt him. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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What happened to milkmen? | |
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Fauxie said: What happened to milkmen?
They went sour. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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PurpleJedi said: IMO; one day those trades will go the way of the "milkman" or the "iceman".
But where would Spiderman and Firestar be without iceman? Wer ist dort? Unterbrechende Kuh. Unterbrech... Muh!!! | |
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PurpleJedi said: Isn't it interesting how certain trades become nearly as trends and consumer habits shift?
I was driving home and I passed a shoe repair shop. You don't see many of those nowadays, do you? I mean, why would I pay someone to fix a shoe when I can just buy a new pair for $30? Does anyone actually still say; "Hey, I want to be a cobbler!" ? Or Tailor? Or Seamstress? IMO; one day those trades will go the way of the "milkman" or the "iceman". I frickin' love the cobbler! Why pay $30 for new shoes when the cobbler will repair your knee high leather boots with new heels AND polish them for $20? Or put taps on the heels for $2? I walk at least 30 blocks a day, so I wear through my heels fast... The cobbler rocks! Here's a job that's going to be obsolete: slide librarian. Kodak discontinued manufacturing slide projectors last winter so all art historians (and other academicians who use slides) have to go to digital. Doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but try to get 60 year-old crazy art history professors to transfer their rare personal slide images of obscure architecture & artwork to digital images AND learn how to use PowerPoint and you'll realize it's not an easy task. The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp. | |
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I remember the Rag and Bone man coming when I was younger, ringing his bell as he drove up the street. And the coalman. | |
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PurpleJedi said: Isn't it interesting how certain trades become nearly as trends and consumer habits shift?
I was driving home and I passed a shoe repair shop. You don't see many of those nowadays, do you? I mean, why would I pay someone to fix a shoe when I can just buy a new pair for $30? Does anyone actually still say; "Hey, I want to be a cobbler!" ? Or Tailor? Or Seamstress? IMO; one day those trades will go the way of the "milkman" or the "iceman". I thought this was gonna be a thread about sony's Star Wars Galaxies revamp. | |
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It's sad really, the dying arts that people stop caring about... stop remembering...
The folks who did stop animation... The folks who edited film ON FILM (not a computer)... Lots of creative folks fall out of the loop behind technology... I know it hits every profession in one way or another but when what you DO is an art & that art gets lost it's sad IMO... | |
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CalhounSq said: It's sad really, the dying arts that people stop caring about... stop remembering...
The folks who did stop animation... The folks who edited film ON FILM (not a computer)... Lots of creative folks fall out of the loop behind technology... I know it hits every profession in one way or another but when what you DO is an art & that art gets lost it's sad IMO... I agree. It's kind of scary. It's like everything is slowly becoming obsolete. I had one of those jolting revelations - you know the kind - where you begin thinking "too big" and start wondering how the hell we all got here, if aliens do exist, and how the earth really spins - and I started thinking that eventually I'd become obsolete. Everything seems so digitized and automated now. I'm considering going to grad school for Library Science but I wonder if there's even a future in that. | |
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GaryTheNoTrashCougar said:
But where would Spiderman and Firestar be without iceman? Lmao | |
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One of my aunt's friends was a habberdasher (hat maker) back in the day | |
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Byron said: Typewriter repairmen...
Album cover artists... George Bush apologists... Oooh...political! | |
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applekisses said: One of my aunt's friends was a habberdasher (hat maker) back in the day
There isn;t a hat big enough for my head, baby. | |
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applekisses said: One of my aunt's friends was a habberdasher (hat maker) back in the day
I'm always interested in how our language is the same and yet different Here a hatmaker is called a milliner. A haberdasher here is someone who sells material, cotton and things used for dressmaking. | |
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Number23 said: applekisses said: One of my aunt's friends was a habberdasher (hat maker) back in the day
There isn;t a hat big enough for my head, baby. That's actually not true. I'm quite insular and solemn really. I just want to become Christlike, like all righteous men. | |
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Number23 said: Number23 said: There isn;t a hat big enough for my head, baby. That's actually not true. I'm quite insular and solemn really. I just want to become Christlike, like all righteous men. Not that I see myself as righteous. I'm just on fire. | |
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Number23 said: Number23 said: That's actually not true. I'm quite insular and solemn really. I just want to become Christlike, like all righteous men. Not that I see myself as righteous. I'm just on fire. Like someone suffering eternal damnation, burning in hell? | |
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GaryTheNoTrashCougar said: PurpleJedi said: IMO; one day those trades will go the way of the "milkman" or the "iceman".
But where would Spiderman and Firestar be without iceman? By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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PurpleJedi said: Isn't it interesting how certain trades become nearly as trends and consumer habits shift?
I was driving home and I passed a shoe repair shop. You don't see many of those nowadays, do you? I mean, why would I pay someone to fix a shoe when I can just buy a new pair for $30? Does anyone actually still say; "Hey, I want to be a cobbler!" ? Or Tailor? Or Seamstress? IMO; one day those trades will go the way of the "milkman" or the "iceman". Please, Manolo Blahnik is keeping the shoe repair industry alive. Socks still got butt like a leather seat... | |
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CynthiasSocks said: PurpleJedi said: Isn't it interesting how certain trades become nearly as trends and consumer habits shift?
I was driving home and I passed a shoe repair shop. You don't see many of those nowadays, do you? I mean, why would I pay someone to fix a shoe when I can just buy a new pair for $30? Does anyone actually still say; "Hey, I want to be a cobbler!" ? Or Tailor? Or Seamstress? IMO; one day those trades will go the way of the "milkman" or the "iceman". Please, Manolo Blahnik is keeping the shoe repair industry alive. Do they break a lot? | |
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