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Kids these days don’t know how Bobbit worms got their name.Imagined posted:Today in talking about a terrible song I said, "They could've used this song to get Noriega out of his compound." I'm pretty sure anyone under 40 would have no loving clue what that was about. The Noriega smokeout is something I feel that everyone should learn about because petty moves in international politics are fun. There was that time Mao held a meeting with Khrushchev in the pool, LBSJ’s countless meetings on the toilet, the KGB attempting to blackmail Sukarno with sex tapes and him asking for a copy, Chrysler trying to honeytrap Nader, and, in more recent politics, Putin intimidating Merkel with a large dog. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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Wasn't it Twisted Sister that they used against Noriega? E: Speaking of annoying people with music, my friends and I would blast the song "Five Piece Chicken Dinner" by the Beastie Boys repeatedly to annoy people. For reference we also thought it was an awesome song, so it never bothered us. This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1SLYttJ4wg wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Oct 16, 2021 |
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Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar. Shave and a haircut, two bits.
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REFERENCES FROM THE PAST UNLIKELY TO CHANGE I'LL ALWAYS REFERENCE BURMA-SHAVE
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Violet_Sky posted:Oh boy, my childhood was pretty much this. My parents didnt have cable because of advertising so I grew up without knowledge of most 90s/2000s kids shows. I still have no nostalgic attachment to stuff like Rugrats. In my parents' defense, they didn't really grow up with TV shows the way most people here did. (Late boomer/Early GenX) Also my mom had a Thing were she only wanted me to listen to classical music. That plan torpedoed when I started school because of course it did. Up until kindergarten I didn't listen to any contemporize music. My parents only played classical or the oldies station (WCBS) which then was still meant oldies in the original sense - pre Beatlemania. The only CDs and cassettes in the house were classical and a Time Life oldies set. I didn't hear modern music until Ace of Base. VideoGameVet posted:But college students in the 1970's generally didn't listen to Benny Goodman or Glen Miller. That music was 40 years old or so by then. My dad told me very matter-o-factly once that when he was a little kid in the 50s, you listened to pop music with your little 45s. Girls would have little lunch pails that held them. Once you were older and in college, you moved on to jazz. Then as an adult, you listened to classical music. And that was that.
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GoutPatrol posted:Up until kindergarten I didn't listen to any contemporize music. My parents only played classical or the oldies station (WCBS) which then was still meant oldies in the original sense - pre Beatlemania. The only CDs and cassettes in the house were classical and a Time Life oldies set. I didn't hear modern music until Ace of Base. I was Class of '79 in college. Yes I had classical music, but that was not very common. Wish I could get the last place I lived at (until 2008) to let me retrieve the albums I left behind by mistake. This classical record set is amazing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/324816528559
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I was talking to some younger people the other day and mentioned that I liked to play videogames and they asked me what games I liked. I said Minesweeper and Solitare as a joke but they didn't know what I was referring to. I suppose no one plays Windows games anymore.
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Those games haven't been included in Windows for a long time. Although, I did hear about a 10 year old who just set a minesweeper world record, so there's still hope.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Those games haven't been included in Windows for a long time. Oh, it's worse than that. https://www.howtogeek.com/225128/you-dont-have-to-pay-20-a-year-for-solitaire-and-minesweeper-on-windows-10/ quote:Windows 10 comes with the Microsoft Solitaire Collection, a solitaire game that requires you to watch 30-second-long full-screen video advertisements to keep playing. Ad-free solitaire costs $1.49 per month or $9.99 per year. That’s $20 per year if you want both ad-free solitaire and ad-free minesweeper. quote:It’s possible to get the old Windows desktop games from Windows 7 back, although Microsoft has made this a hassle. You can’t just drag-and-drop the old .exe files onto your new Windows 10 system because those games check to ensure they’re only running on Windows 7.
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In "What's My Age Again", by Blink-182 (1999), the verse about a prank call failing because of caller-ID Blink-182 posted:Later on, on the drive home / I called her mom, from a pay phone. / I said I was the cops, / and your husband's in jail / the state looks down on sodomy / and that's about the time that bitch hung up on me is obsolete. Not because pay phones are rare now. Not because caller-ID is now so widespread that even idiots like the song's narrator should know about it. Because Lawrence v. Texas was in 2003.
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Parahexavoctal posted:In "What's My Age Again", by Blink-182 (1999), the verse about a prank call failing because of caller-ID Why does that song sound like early 2000s Internet
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Parahexavoctal posted:In "What's My Age Again", by Blink-182 (1999), the verse about a prank call failing because of caller-ID Can you tell the car warranty spam callers about that?
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VideoGameVet posted:Can you tell the car warranty spam callers about that? Are you having sex with car warranty spam callers? Because if you are, hats off. That's a good counter scam.
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OnlyBans posted:Are you having sex with car warranty spam callers? Because if you are, hats off. That's a good counter scam. The gently caress up my day. Turnabout seems fair me.
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Get a Google voice number, only use that for giving out Keep you own number just for close friends and Family, boom no more spam
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I just caught what I think was a reference nearly lost on modern audiences while reading Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Watchful Poker Chip of Henry Matisse’. Kind of a weird short story, only read it because I’m trying to read my copy of ‘October Country’ in October. Anyway, the main character gets his afternoon soap operas tape recorded and I was super confused since this story is based in the 1940’s. I was literally looking up the earliest VCR’s when I realized they probably meant reel-to-reel recordings and the soap operas were probably broadcast on radio.
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This "beware of predatory homosexuals" PSA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmE71zNpHjY Look at all those people hitchhiking within a town. I don't see hitchhikers very much these days, but when I do it's along a significant road, headed a long way away.
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I have never seen a hitchhiker in my life. Or if I did, I never realized that they were, because they didn't exaggeratedly hold their thumb out. Is it a bigger thing on the West Coast? GoutPatrol fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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GoutPatrol posted:I have never seen a hitchhiker in my life. Or if I did, I never realized that they were, because they didn't exaggeratedly hold their thumb out. Most of the ones I've seen hold a cardboard sign.
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GoutPatrol posted:I have never seen a hitchhiker in my life. Or if I did, I never realized that they were, because they didn't exaggeratedly hold their thumb out. They were still something you'd see occaisionally in the 80s. Pretty exclusively people with cardboard signs looking to go some substantial distance, nobody just decided to hitch a ride across town. I don't think I've seen it for a very long time though. Not in the states anyway. Lots of developing countries have a whole cultural thing surrounding ride sharing. AKA Pseudonym fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Nov 2, 2021 |
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I grew up in a rural bit with awful bus service and I'd regularly hitch a ride home after school or work from the furthest point the city bus would go. This would have been in the mid-oughts.
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I'd see hitchhikers looking to get a ride to ski hills in the rockies as late as the early 00s. I haven't been skiing much since then, but maybe they're still doing that idk.
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I think I’ve seen one once in my life. I have vague memories of my dad declining to offer a guy a ride like twenty years ago and then talking to me later about how much bigger it was when he was in college but you just can’t trust people these days.
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GoutPatrol posted:Is it a bigger thing on the West Coast?
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Son of a Vondruke! posted:Most of the ones I've seen hold a cardboard sign. Yeah I almost always see hitchhikers with cardboard signs on the onramp in Barstow between LA and Las Vegas. They always look like dirty hippies and never like hot aspiring Vegas showgirls though so I never stop.
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Son of a Vondruke! posted:Most of the ones I've seen hold a cardboard sign.
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I've hitchhiked exactly once, but it was in a hippie college town
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At 16 I hitchhiked across Canada and then down to San Francisco and then back to NYC. That was after an aborted attempt to bike the Trans-Canadian highway (got hit by a car in Ottawa, wasn't hurt but the bike was trashed). A long time ago.
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How did it feel living in a hippie coming of age novel?
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FreudianSlippers posted:How did it feel living in a hippie coming of age novel? Pretty loving awesome. This was 1973. Yeah I'm that old. One of the fine people I encountered would send rather bold postcards afterwards and my parents were amused. Oh and I got a ride from Albany CA to Detroit in the propped up trunk (yes, I sat in the trunk) of a Duster 340.
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I'm reading The Salmon Of Doubt, which collects a lot of Douglas Adams' magazine writings on tech stuff, and it's a real look into the state of tech in the mid-90s as well as the source of some amazing whiplash moments as good old Douglas goes from amazingly ahead-of-his-time insights to heartbreaking naivety. I recommend it. There's one bit where he goes on about different power supply standards and speculates about what if we just had little standardized DC power sockets everywhere and you could plug your gizmos directly into armrests and such, and you read it and think it's really neat how he never even mentioned USB but it's basically worked out to that, and directly afterwards it's an article like "how terrible are those attention-grabbing magazine ads and inserts, with online advertising they could tailor the ads to your precise interests and this would remove the incentive to make them obtrusive and annoying plus they would direct you towards really useful information" and you read that in 2021 and go oh Douglas, Douglas, my sweet innocent Douglas.
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Meanwhile David Bowie was far more prescient about the potential negative impact of the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tCC9yxUIdw
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One of my favorite "ahead of its time" ideas is Frank Zappa's proposal for what is basically iTunes or Spotify in the mid-80s. The mechanism he suggests even seems like it could've worked: people order the songs or albums they want and then it's played to them over the phone or on cable channels so they can record it at home.quote:A PROPOSAL FOR A SYSTEM TO REPLACE PHONOGRAPH RECORD MERCHANDISING
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That reminds me of the Telharmonium, one of the earliest (19th century!) electronic instruments if not the very first, whose main output device was the telephone network. Not as in it played sound into the phone network, the network was part of the instrument's sound generation, its wired speakers in a way. You'd call in and listen to a performance.
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Rochallor posted:One of my favorite "ahead of its time" ideas is Frank Zappa's proposal for what is basically iTunes or Spotify in the mid-80s. The mechanism he suggests even seems like it could've worked: people order the songs or albums they want and then it's played to them over the phone or on cable channels so they can record it at home. It's really fascinating to see somebody who had a really brilliant forward-thinking idea that was just a bit ahead of the available or even conceivable technology. I guess it could technically work but it sounds really unwieldy. It's a bit like, and I mean this in the best possible way, reading a patent for "method of cleaning the floor by means of a tiny woolly mammoth who says 'it's a living.'"
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You mean the best patent idea ever? gently caress I need a roomba, a little speaker and some carpet samples. Hells yes.
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I hitched in Unalaska, AK in like 2006.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Unalaska, AK Well was it Alaska or wasn't it?
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Haven't you heard of Dualaska and Trilaska?
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Quadralaska is where its at.
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