Old things youngins might like to know

[Julia1996]

Ninjas were mostly spies, sometimes assassins. Despite the James Bonds, the greatest spies in history are always women. Women were viewed as not a threat, and overlooked. Women would literally be brought in to pour tea in top secret meetings, only to report back every last bit of intel to someone else. When coupled with the fact many were able to play the role of seductress and pry information out of men in high positions, or set them up for compromising situations in order to blackmail them outright, women are far more suited to the job!

From wiki: "The eighth volume of the ninja handbook Bansenshukai written in the late 17th century describes Kunoichi-no-jutsu (くノ一の術). This can be translated as "a technique to use a female" and was employed for infiltration purposes."

Also, female ninjas are sexy.

I suppose they are considered hot. I remember once my brother and his friends were watching some idiotic guy movie and there was a female martial arts fighter who was beating the hell out of a bunch of guys. They were all talking about how hot that was. Really?? A woman beating the crap out of a group of guys is hot?? Sigh, simple minds....simple pleasures I guess.

[Deborah]

Sometimes ninjas were turtles.


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[Cassi]

Sometimes ninjas were turtles.


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In a half shell!

[Roll]

In a half shell!

Turtle power.

(Fun fact. Chuck Lorre wrote the TMNT theme song.)

[BeverlyAnn]

Until the late 70's, Typesetting was done by placing lead type in the proper location and making prints off it. The company I worked for produced a computer that was used in one of the early typesetting processes. Now it's a photographic process where metal is exposed to the pattern and then etched creating the printing plate.

My wife worked as a paste up artist for a couple of printing companies.  They would take the photos sent in by people wanting work done, print the copy on a special slick paper and trim it into small pieces with an Xacto knife.  Then using rubber cement they would paste it up on a sheet of paper to the correct dimensions.  From there they sent it to the print department where it was burned it into a metal plate as a negative and printed from that.

[Sarah_P]

Are you telling me they printed papers by writing out the paper one tiny letter at a time?? That is beyond crazy! I assumed they had some kind of copy technology even back then. I once had one of the older office ladies at school tell me at one time they had a "ditto" machine. A machine that used a rotating drum to make copies in purple ink that took a few minutes to dry. That's just sad.

Not only that, in the old days if you wanted a copy of a letter or something, someone had to duplicate it by hand - actually write out the whole thing on another paper.

Sometimes ninjas were turtles.

In a half shell!

Turtle power.

I love this place so much. 

[Sarah_P]

I suppose they are considered hot. I remember once my brother and his friends were watching some idiotic guy movie and there was a female martial arts fighter who was beating the hell out of a bunch of guys. They were all talking about how hot that was. Really?? A woman beating the crap out of a group of guys is hot?? Sigh, simple minds....simple pleasures I guess.

On that note: Cynthia Rothrock. She starred in a bunch of martial arts movies from the 80s & 90s. Although Michelle Yeoh will always be the queen of movie martial artists.
I suppose there's the idea of having a girlfriend that can fight for you, but I imagine it's mostly the kicking (legs!) and grappling (hugs that hurt!).

[Cassi]

On that note: Cynthia Rothrock. She starred in a bunch of martial arts movies from the 80s & 90s. Although Michelle Yeoh will always be the queen of movie martial artists.
I suppose there's the idea of having a girlfriend that can fight for you, but I imagine it's mostly the kicking (legs!) and grappling (hugs that hurt!).

Emma Peele was a hot ass kicker in her leather outfits

[Laurie]

 Ahh yes newspapers..

  I worked at the local newspaper in Bristol Rhode Island. It was over a hundred years old back in 1969/70 when I worked there. In the basement was a hot lead vat that was used to make a lead print of ads from molds we received for them. They were put in a frame with other lead ads and print stories as Dena already described. It was then inked and printed on glossy paper, cut up and arranged  by someone like Beverly's wife to created the page layout. It was then photographed and transferred to an aluminum plate, rubbed with a red lacquer, cleaned up with a pencil eraser to remove shadow lines. From there it was mounted on an offset press on rollers two plate that printed 4 pages on one side of the paper that was sandwiched in between two rollers thus printing 8 pages at a time. The paper came in a continuous sheet in a 1000 pound roll.
  We also had what was called a linotype. It was pretty much a typewriter that instead of printing the words on a piece of paper it created lines of lead print the width of a newspaper column. Was was then arranged with the other lead items use to make the printed page I mentioned before. We also had newer methods of creating printed pages.
  I mainly worked on cleaning and preparing the printing press we used to print 4 local town weekly papers. But I did get to work almost every aspect of making the papers. I liked working in the dark room and the press most I think. but it was a pretty dirty job.

Hugs,
   Laurie

[Julia1996]

Ahh yes newspapers..

  I worked at the local newspaper in Bristol Rhode Island. It was over a hundred years old back in 1969/70 when I worked there. In the basement was a hot lead vat that was used to make a lead print of ads from molds we received for them. They were put in a frame with other lead ads and print stories as Dena already described. It was then inked and printed on glossy paper, cut up and arranged  by someone like Beverly's wife to created the page layout. It was then photographed and transferred to an aluminum plate, rubbed with a red lacquer, cleaned up with a pencil eraser to remove shadow lines. From there it was mounted on an offset press on rollers two plate that printed 4 pages on one side of the paper that was sandwiched in between two rollers thus printing 8 pages at a time. The paper came in a continuous sheet in a 1000 pound roll.
  We also had what was called a linotype. It was pretty much a typewriter that instead of printing the words on a piece of paper it created lines of lead print the width of a newspaper column. Was was then arranged with the other lead items use to make the printed page I mentioned before. We also had newer methods of creating printed pages.
  I mainly worked on cleaning and preparing the printing press we used to print 4 local town weekly papers. But I did get to work almost every aspect of making the papers. I liked working in the dark room and the press most I think. but it was a pretty dirty job.

Hugs,
   Laurie

Lead?? Lead is like really toxic!  It seems that not only was life harder back then but work as well.

[Cassi]

Lead?? Lead is like really toxic!  It seems that not only was life harder back then but work as well.

Back then even Asbestos was our friend according to a Popular Mechanics magazine article

[Julia1996]

Back then even Asbestos was our friend according to a Popular Mechanics magazine article

Oh wow. How did you people even survive?

[Cassi]

Oh wow. How did you people even survive?

A miracle indeed!

[Julia1996]

On that note: Cynthia Rothrock. She starred in a bunch of martial arts movies from the 80s & 90s. Although Michelle Yeoh will always be the queen of movie martial artists.
I suppose there's the idea of having a girlfriend that can fight for you, but I imagine it's mostly the kicking (legs!) and grappling (hugs that hurt!).

Isn't grappling like rough wrestling? And hugs that hurt. If Tristan likes that kind of stuff he's out of luck. I'm very gentle. Well with almost everything. Apparently I can be a little rough with balls. I've heard " easy love! They're not cricket balls!" enough times.

[Roll]

There was a below D list comic book villain called Asbestos Man in early Marvel who was a cheap foil to the Human Torch or something. They brought him back a few years ago, dying of cancer.

[Dena]

Lead isn't toxic if you don't eat it. The rule with lead is if you handle it, you wash your hands after your done. The lead additive used in gasoline was toxic but in it's metallic form lead is relatively safe. I have used it in electronics and for reloading shot gun shells and it hasn't caused any harmful effects. Mercury is another story and some of it's compounds are the deadliest poisons around.

[Lynne]

As I live on the eastern border of Central Europe, the timeline was little different here. People were generally poor, everything came later or was banned until the Soviets left in 1989. Life only started to accelerate rapidly after that as products from the West started to come into the country in large amounts.

My parents applied for a phone line(not mobile!) years before I was born and we got it after I started elementary school in the nineties.

When I was a kid we had a large, new 21.5 inch color TV. It could store 16 channels(digitally!) and it was plenty because there were only 4 channels.

We had playgrounds with metal monkey bars put high above fine gravel, so if you fell it hurt like hell and you learned to be more careful next time.

Nobody thought that safety equipment on bikes is needed, we got our bikes and reached more than 30 mph down the nearby hills in traffic.

It was accepted that driving a car is dangerous and if you crashed your car above a certain(not very high) speed you expected to die as the only safety equipment was the seatbelt(and people generally didn't wear them).

Before the Soviets left there were times when you had to wait more than 10 years to get a small and cheap car(Trabant for example) after you applied for one. The waiting times were so long that sometimes the car arrived around the time the children in the family got their own driver's license.

When I was a kid we had a car that had zero extras, you had to fight with the steering wheel and the brakes to get the car to steer or stop. Everything was manual, the windows, the locks, the choke, also it had 3 different keys, one for the doors, one for starting the car and one for the fuel cap(steeling fuel was quite common).

[Cassi]

As I live on the eastern border of Central Europe, the timeline was little different here. People were generally poor, everything came later or was banned until the Soviets left in 1989. Life only started to accelerate rapidly after that as products from the West started to come into the country in large amounts.

My parents applied for a phone line(not mobile!) years before I was born and we got it after I started elementary school in the nineties.

When I was a kid we had a large, new 21.5 inch color TV. It could store 16 channels(digitally!) and it was plenty because there were only 4 channels.

We had playgrounds with metal monkey bars put high above fine gravel, so if you fell it hurt like hell and you learned to be more careful next time.

Nobody thought that safety equipment on bikes is needed, we got our bikes and reached more than 30 mph down the nearby hills in traffic.

It was accepted that driving a car is dangerous and if you crashed your car above a certain(not very high) speed you expected to die as the only safety equipment was the seatbelt(and people generally didn't wear them).

Before the Soviets left there were times when you had to wait more than 10 years to get a small and cheap car(Trabant for example) after you applied for one. The waiting times were so long that sometimes the car arrived around the time the children in the family got their own driver's license.

When I was a kid we had a car that had zero extras, you had to fight with the steering wheel and the brakes to get the car to steer or stop. Everything was manual, the windows, the locks, the choke, also it had 3 different keys, one for the doors, one for starting the car and one for the fuel cap(steeling fuel was quite common).

Wow

[Deborah]

Oh wow. How did you people even survive?

We came out insane!


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[Lady Sarah]

Oh wow. How did you people even survive?

We learned to adjust and adapt.