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It's not a blog, but I am using the Scotstober hashtag on Twitter for a daily story prompt this month. It's a celebration of the Scots language. Today's was dreep, meaning to drain, or drip-dry, drip, and I turned it into a Star Trek/Para Handy homage.

I couldn't think of where else to put this. Apologies for interloping.
 
Dan Jones said:
Great blog post! Just to be a slight Devil's advocate, I read recently (though I'm fanned if I can find the link) one of the advantages of having highly replaceable consumer goods, and of their relative costs becoming ever lower, is the lower crime rates for things like burglary, muggings, robberies as the value of the items simply isn't worth the risk for the majority if criminally-minded people these days.
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I love a good Devil's advocate @Dan Jones ! That's a logical conclusion that I can't dispute, so I think we're on the same page. Low cost goods are a-ok and as you've put it, can be beneficial to society. It's just that they have a tendency to be irreparable, and throw-away as a result. I had a computer monitor once that blew up, and after a web tutorial and parts from ebay, I managed to fix it (albeit after more hours than was worth it, and a soldering job that resembled a Jackson Pollack). It lasted another eight years, and I only just got rid of it since there was much better technology on the market. I think that repair job saved a monitor from the landfill. Imagine if monitor manufactures had swappable capacitor modules? Or some other clever means to replace common points of failure? I recently fixed my 17 year old dryer too. Similar story. However, the manufacturer did me no favours by ensuring the service access was just big enough to get my hand through and no more. I was lucky my neighbor had a very long magnetic screw extension else I would've given up. The real question is, would we pay slightly more for products whose failed parts could be repaired or replaced?
 
Bren G said:
How an encounter with a turn-table can reorient your world view
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I agree @Bren G , stuff just seemed to be made to last, but ....there's a dragon down that way of thinking and I've fallen into it's trap more than once: 'specialist part, cheap plastic rubbish is what it is, wasn't like that years ago, pass me the phlegm jar and let me tell you al about it, yeah, 1923, now that was my time, there were no young people around either, and Guinness was free...'
Now for a derailment -what about recycling/ reusing stories? I think it's great, am linking my own rehash of 'The Knock', mangled beyond recognition but the core is still sort of there; do ya do the same, any examples?

(am typing this next to a C64, deadly piece of kit -but try explaining that to the kids;)
 
AnRoinnUltra said:
...on the subject of disposable things -The Gromulus GR4520 thinks it's deadly, but it's not (a half thought on relatively useless technology)

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Brilliant! It's like my dad used to say, 'I don't need a watch to tell me I'm eating too much. My belt already does that.'
 
(One more skit and I'll leave this thread in peace for a while -promise!)
Always carry a towel ...especially during a pandemic:
 
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