[chrysostom]

Early 20th century vintage typewriter.

[Nicola_Red]

Haha, I couldn't even carry mine from the car to my gate, let alone to the park

[English Bob]

*wanders into the thread*

Where's the thread for the bitter, eternally single people who hate Valentine's Day?

[Boboff]

You need the Dave Vitty Forum.

[Nicola_Red]

Here's a pic - haven't cleaned it up yet, but it's still amazing

[DevilsDuck]

does it have a touch screen?

[Nicola_Red]

No. No predictive text either!

[bmstinton93]

Angry birds?

[Nicola_Red]

Nope. Not even Snake.

[DevilsDuck]

what sort of power adaptor does it have, is it USB or straight into the mains?

[Nicola_Red]

I'm feeling like you people don't quite get the concept of a typewriter.

[chrysostom]

It's like a word processor/printer combo, but takes much longer, weighs a tonne, is noisier, you can't erase mistakes, it's much more difficult to format your documents with it, there's only one font available and because of their scarcity - the ribbons/ink are much more expensive.

amirite*?

*cool present though, very thoughtful

[DevilsDuck]

but it does have voice recognition?

[Nicola_Red]

It's like a word processor/printer combo, but takes much longer, weighs a tonne, is noisier, you can't erase mistakes, it's much more difficult to format your documents with it, there's only one font available and because of their scarcity - the ribbons/ink are much more expensive.

amirite*?

You are indeed! And I frickin' love it. I'm not saying I necessarily intend to use it, I think it's cool purely on an ornamental basis, but if I can ink the ribbon successfully I may well give it a go. Strangely, winding a piece of paper in, hitting the keys and winding it out again sounds less faff than printing a document on a PC...

[Misfit]

Drove all the way to Halifax to collect it too.

should have gone with him and we could have had a coffee. Im from there! ha!

[Yudster]

It's like a word processor/printer combo, but takes much longer, weighs a tonne, is noisier, you can't erase mistakes, it's much more difficult to format your documents with it, there's only one font available and because of their scarcity - the ribbons/ink are much more expensive.

amirite*?

You are indeed! And I frickin' love it. I'm not saying I necessarily intend to use it, I think it's cool purely on an ornamental basis, but if I can ink the ribbon successfully I may well give it a go. Strangely, winding a piece of paper in, hitting the keys and winding it out again sounds less faff than printing a document on a PC...

All you need now is a bakelite telephone like this:



And a wooden wireless like this:



and you'll be all set to be Hercule Poirot's secretary.

[Nicola_Red]

Oh man, I would LOVE one of those phones. Time to start dropping hints...

[chrysostom]

So much hipster.

[Nicola_Red]

I'm not a hipster! I just love other people's old tat.

[chrysostom]

http://www.howhipsterareyou.com/

[dimtimjim]

I just love old tat.

What, like Bob n Yuds?!

[Yudster]

Less of the tat. I'm quality goods I am.

[Nicola_Red]

http://www.howhipsterareyou.com/

Sadly the page won't work here. I think it's a Flash intro and our plugins are all out of date. I shall try to remember to take it at home and report back...but I'm clearly far too old and uncool to be a hipster.

[chrysostom]

Self denigration of your 'cool' status, and excluding yourself from mainstream hipsters. Ahem.

Combined with the typewriter, love of starbucks, Geek glasses, Geek T Shirt, general love of vintage, feminism and Veganism - you're a classic hipster

[DevilsDuck]

I just love old twats.

What, like Bob n Yuds?!