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Why would an electric skillet and a tape measure confuse anyone?

A make-up mirror in the age of vanity? Please.

110 film is quite popular again. I can get all kinds of emulsions for my cameras.

WTF is in the lower left? It looks like a knife set but it's not even as clear as a photo from my 110.

And the lower right? No fucking clue.

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lol It worked as planned

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I wish I was that young.

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Wow my school actually had that chalk holder (and I'm a millennial) It's for drawing lines to practice penmanship on a chalkboard

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WTF is in the lower left? It looks like a knife set but it's not even as clear as a photo from my 110.

And the lower right? No fucking clue.

Lower right stumped me for second because of the low resolution, it's back from the days of chalkboard. Used for drawing parallel lines so the teacher didn't look drunk.

Lower left is a nut cracker set as far as I know.

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I’m thinking that’s right. Pickers and such.

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Interesting. Never saw anyone using that on a chalkboard.

I see the nutcracker thing now. The connecting piece at the top just blurs into the general photo by butter stick yellow of the whole thing, and the rest are for picking out nutmeats.

The kind of thing you gave as a gift to people and they promptly threw it away.

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I had a teacher that used the chalk thing during writing class to show the difference between capital and lowercase letters. I want to say I've seen music teachers use it to to draw staff lines.

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Why would an electric skillet and a tape measure confuse anyone?

a tape measure

That's actually a tailor/seamstress tape measure for taking body measurements rather than a general purpose or carpentry tape measure.

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Nope, not a tape measure. It's a roll of cap gun caps.

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Nope, not a tape measure. It's a roll of cap gun caps.

You are correct. I had to zoom in to see it better since the image is kind of small. But yes those are definitely cap gun caps. I can smell them in my mind and it's so very nostalgic.

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Yes, but it's still a "tape" measure. I have several of them around here. They're good to throw in the travelling toolbag because they're lighter than a regular carpenter's tape.

Harbor Fright sells them.

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I know what half of those are.

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My 2019 car has window cranks.

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Very few of those items are relevant to anyone's daily life today. Those who do know what they are and how to use them would be baffled by items their grandparents used just the same. Times and technologies change. If you're still listening to 8-track tapes and shooting pictures on 110 film with disposable flash cubes, well you're a dinosaur now and that's not a good thing.

To be fair, there are many, many contemporary items that confuse the shit out of people younger than Millennials. Ever seen a boomer try to use a car with a non-conventional gear selector or a self-service menu kiosk? It's painful to watch. They can barely use their smartphones or tablets/laptops and, if anything changes due to updates, they are utterly lost. But this is not surprising for the generation that all had VCRs but the clock flashed 12:00 constantly.

TL;DR - every generation struggles with things unfamiliar to them.

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I only recently got my first payment card without embossed letters for those old receipt printers. It still has the pointless old three digit security number on the back that would not be imprinted on the receipt.

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I wonder how many people under 30 have actually heard a dial tone, or a busy signal.

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Or had to deal with only one phone line in a house

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Shit, someone's calling. The internet dropped.

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Or one phone line between two houses.

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That sound more like a boomer problem