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I think a lot of cash money references are going to be lost on people in the future. My son got a cash register toy as a gift and thought the notes were packaging rubbish. He's never known anything other than electronic payments.
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Vegetable posted:Was he using credit cards as a kid? Seems unlikely to not know cash money at all, man He's too young to shop by himself and only ever seen us use contactless paypass/paywave with debit cards to pay for things.
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Nov 14, 2019 02:54
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There's always period drama. Currently watching the Deuce and the smoking is constant
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Dec 5, 2019 10:25
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Everyone on the The Deuce is smoking non-stop.
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Dec 12, 2019 13:17
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Sucks having to go to the post office to deposit cheques because your bank doesn't have physical branches.
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Jan 23, 2020 15:37
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Krispy Wafer posted:Your bank doesn't let you deposit checks by app? Mine doesn't, other banks have started to add that functionality in the last couple of years. From what I've seen it's limited to amount less than $1500 AUD or so.
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Jan 23, 2020 16:07
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My 20 year reunion was a couple of years ago and was a non-event. There was maybe 15 people attending at the hometown, with another 8 getting together at the closest big city. Class of about 150 people. Compared to the past, I think (anecdotally) that people of my generation were more likely to get a university degree, which meant moving away from our hometown and the GFC lead to a lot of people relocating too. Not one travelled to attend in the this age of Facebook.
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Feb 3, 2020 14:10
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FilthyImp posted:VoIP also shits itself if an earthquake takes the power out, right? Or you have the situation in Australia where the upgrade of the national broadband infrastructure to fibre optic cable was scuttled by the conservative party gaining power. Which leads to the situation where landlines are unavailable, you're supposed to use VOIP intead and your connection to the fibre optic node is 100 year old copper wire in a waterlogged ditch that's too poor to support VOIP.
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Apr 27, 2020 14:30
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I do some things with an incorporated not-for-profit organisation. We were using physical cheques until about 10 years ago (I think). Office bearers had to cosign and most were retired volunteers and not too tech savvy, but things really didn't change because the accounts were with a major Australian bank with lovely online banking functionality. Cosignatories had to be on the same computer to do transactions so it wasn't worth the bother. Thankfully other banks didn't have the same restriction and we switched.
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Jul 7, 2020 13:03
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Regarding fraternal organisations and the like. Golf courses are struggling to stay afloat here, especially into regional towns and cities, people just don't have the time free to play 9-18 holes on a weekend. The only courses that are weathering it are either in coastal towns that retirees flock to or have been able to accommodate people casually coming to play an hour or two without needing to be members.
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Jul 8, 2020 02:58
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Actually I think my father still has a credit card imprint machine in his work van. He's semi-retired now. Sometimes the electronic sim-card based point of sale gadget just stops working and no one carries cash anymore. They still reconcile paper receipts so some app based thing isn't going to work for someone who can only use their phone to bet on horse races and share racism on Facebook.
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Jul 8, 2020 03:03
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There's definitely something there for 'making quite the impression'
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Jul 8, 2020 03:49
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Hope this is on topic and not old man yells at cloud territory. I was setting up a mail redirect at the post office and we still get some mail with my wife's maiden name as it appears on her professional qualifications and registrations. Turns out what you're supposed to do is list that person as two separate people on the paperwork (Ms Jane Smith and Mrs Jane Jones). I didn't think of that and instead put my wife down as one person Mrs Jane Jones nee Smith and went to ask the clerk if that was the correct thing to do. The clerk, who was mid-twenties, had zero idea what I was asking about. Another older clerk came over and said, 'just enter it into the computer as two people'. We all stood around and watched this person go through ever single incorrect permutation of the two surnames and 'nee'. Jane Neesmith, Jane Jonesnee, etc. The older clerk had to dictate the two names letter by letter to get them right. Immediately afterwards she added me to the form as 'John Nee Smith'.
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Scudworth posted:Do people under 60 read obituaries, you need a newspaper for that, or to look it up specifically on your local news... website? I don't even know. I'd say young people are only seeing maiden names on FB profiles, which is in parentheses.
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FreudianSlippers posted:And in the 00s at least half of song lyrics online were put there by some rando who often misheard the words. It's not much better now honestly.
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Jul 21, 2020 01:54
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Safety Biscuits posted:You don't have to be that old to remember the slogan; ads were still using it in the 90s. In Australia that slogan was overtaken by 'Not, happy, Jan' an ad that ran in the early 2000's for the deadline for Yellow Pages submissions. It's still in the vernacular.
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Jul 23, 2020 13:49
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Tiggum posted:Aren't they the same key? I had a car where they were different, but it was because the door lock had to be replaced and they couldn't be made to match.
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I went to pick up my friend's guitar from a luthier. When I went to pay for it, the luthier asked his apprentice to take my money and do the receipt because he had to attend to someone else and handed him a carbon duplicate receipt book and pen. This kid opens the book up grabs the carbon copy sheet and goes "woah, what the hell is this?". I had to coach him through the whole process. "Hey buddy, don't rip the receipt out, keep it in the book when you write on it and it'll transfer onto another copy" "Wait, you have to put the thicker cardboard bit behind the yellow receipt" "That's it, but put the coloured flap between the white and yellow receipts as well, that's what makes it transfer" "No, no, no, wait. Write on the white receipt not the yellow one". "No you don't have to write another one, it'll be copied onto the yellow receipt". When he sees that writing copied onto the duplicate receipt he goes "oh, I GET IT NOW!'
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Nov 19, 2020 04:08
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I owned a shop in a flea market just a few years ago, and a lot of the vendors still used them. Even if you had an inside booth like I did, with electricity, it was safer than having a laptop/iPad sitting around --- which might get stolen --- to keep track of your transactions. Even when I got a Square reader for my phone so I wasn't cash-only, that doesn't really keep track of what they bought, so I rocked the old school carbon receipt pads. Sporting organisations too. You have volunteers taking cash money for uniforms, memberships, donations, entrance fees, etc and you need to maintain fully audited financial records as a condition of the grants/subsidies you receive from state government.
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Nov 21, 2020 15:06
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They call a street directory a 'Refidex' here after the brand name. My parents are small regional town folk and had never heard of them, I'm pretty sure if they never visited me they would have never known about them before they were made redundant by GPS. I moved to a city with 2 million people and they drove down to visit and I had to explain to them the concept of a street directory when they started asking me how to get to these different addresses for shops/people they wanted to visit. My mother actually said, 'well we don't need one of those, we've got a map' and showed me a big foldout roadmap of 500,000 square kilometres which only showed the state routes in and out of the city. Their plan was to just drive around in circles starting in the middle of the city and ask random council workers/petrol station attendants if they knew how to get to some particular street in one of the city's 200 odd suburbs.
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Dec 29, 2020 16:39
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I think every town has an Aardvark Locksmith still
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Jan 21, 2021 23:34
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My son saw a picture of CRT TV in a wooden cabinet for the first time today in a story book. He thought the character that was shown on the TV was hiding in a storage cabinet.
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Feb 24, 2021 13:07
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We had one commercial TV station and whatever it showed at 7:30pm on weeknight we watched regardless of whether we liked it or not. Especially if it was a new program. I must have seen 50 hours of Murphy Brown for no apparent reason.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:way to not get Jeopardy! at 7:30 PM They added 2 more commercial stations in the mid 90 and my parents needed a technician to come and install a new antenna and tune the television. The first thing that came on as the channel was being tuned in was Wheel Of Fortune. My Mother was amazed - "I've heard of this"
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Mar 26, 2021 03:28
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Class rings are not a thing here. Seems weird to me. Yearbooks are a bit of fun though. I still have mine.
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Our anti-drug education was a giraffe puppet in a dimly-lit caravan. I think it was pretty reasonable from what I recall, I distinctly remember the giraffe's co-host telling us that the most abused and harmful drugs at a societal level were all legal.
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May 20, 2021 04:48
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The puppet was pretty cool.
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I can say it definitely wasn't a myth. There was a creek near my house that ran past a school. We would find porn mags there all the time. We guessed they were just stolen from newsagents or someone else's stash and hidden there. There was a kid nearby who would do a quick survey a couple times a week. He found so much he would only keep the magazines that were intact and not rain damaged and had quite the library.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:One I thought of today: having a "little black book". You'd see a character pull out their LBB and you knew it was a list of people who owed them favors, or they'd slept together, etc. I'd say you're overthinking it. The little black book was where you wrote down the numbers you got from approaching women
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Ultima 7 was a loving nightmare. Had to take the PC to the shop I bought it from and get them to make a menu in the autoexec.bat that did all the extended memory magic.
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Tiggum posted:Adults not being able to figure out how to use a VCR always bewildered me as a child (and still does, looking back) because literally all I did was read the instructions and do what it said. Then relay those instructions to the adult who had requested my help in the vain hope that they'd be able to do it themself the next time. Similarly, my aunt just recently had me set up a new computer for her (ie. plug it in, turn it on, and follow the on-screen prompts). Thanks to the pandemic, the computer had been sitting, unused, for two years, because she couldn't possibly have figured it out on her own. She's been using computers for literally decades but is somehow convinced that if she turns on a new one it'll spontaneously break. I had to do all the VCR programming because neither of my parents could be made to understand 24 hour time.
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