Upgrade?

[oneshot]

Upgrade Society. Seems like anything has to be upgraded every year.

I have an IPHONE which to me is New and I enjoy it. Verizon sent me a text upgrade we will take $800 off. I’m thinking how much is the dang phone.

My wife said I needed to upgrade my TV I was thinking it was the in thing being Flat Screen.

She has a car that has all kinds of neat things but it has to be upgraded because the New ones are so much better.

I know guys that buy New Bows every year because they put so much New stuff on them.

I have a Razor my Son says is Old Timey because it is Double Blade and all you do is change blades. Had an Alarm Clock young people didn’t want to borrow because they couldn’t figure it out. It finally quit so I use my phone.

oneshot

[Dutch]

Planned obsolescence is the way we do things now days in the USA.

[FishnDave]

Remember when we painted cave walls with charcoal and ocher?  Now we paint bridge pilings with shaker can spray paints.  

[Terrierman]

1 hour ago, Dutch said:

Planned obsolescence is the way we do things now days in the USA.

Keeps the economy churning.

[fishinwrench]

Yep, and that outboard motor you bought brand new last year....... that's disposable too.   Once the warranty expires you might get an additional 4-5 years out of it, but then that's it.

  The makers and the dealers will tell you differently, but they are lying.   

[bfishn]

29 minutes ago, FishnDave said:

Remember when we painted cave walls with charcoal and ocher?....  

Dayum, I'm old, but I ain't that old.

[Dutch]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

Yep, and that outboard motor you bought brand new last year....... that's disposable too.   Once the warranty expires you might get an additional 4-5 years out of it, but then that's it.

  The makers and the dealers will tell you differently, but they are lying.   

I got 14 years out of my Optimax and it was going strong when I traded it off.  Yearly maintenance and a couple of upper oil tanks was all I had to have done to it.  

[oneshot]

3 hours ago, FishnDave said:

Remember when we painted cave walls with charcoal and ocher?  Now we paint bridge pilings with shaker can spray paints.  

Yea I liked the old days when you knock a woman in the Head drag her to your cave and have your way then kick her out.

oneshot

[oneshot]

Nothing to do with the OP but we spent years dumping stuff in a Sink Hole by Springfield.

One day I was watching the News. There was a bunch cleaning out the Sink Hole. One woman saying she couldn’t believe someone would do this.

They would have made a bunch off the Antiques and old Cars in there.

oneshot

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, Dutch said:

I got 14 years out of my Optimax and it was going strong when I traded it off.  Yearly maintenance and a couple of upper oil tanks was all I had to have done to it.  

What motor did you trade it in for ?