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Cerebral Mayhem posted:Many stores particularly grocery would give you trading stamps when you bought something, instead of coupons or member cards. Funny enough, that's a thing in Lithuania. Not a permanent one, but as special events, "win some Brandbrand pans" stuff. You get stamps according to your spending at the checkout, so you may take one or two at a time. ...unless you use the online shopping delivery service for one corp, where the delivery guys will just hand you a strip of 10 or whatever.
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The Zombie Guy posted:When Elmer Fudd was trying his best to shoot Bugs Bunny, Bugs would sarcastically say "Nice shooting, Nimrod." Lots of people (myself included) assumed Nimrod was just an insult, since It sounds like one of those old-timey sayings like numb-skull or clod. To actually get Bugs' sarcastic reference, you'd have to know that Nimrod is a Biblical figure, known as a great hunter. So Bugs isn't just calling Elmer names, he's really knocking on his accuracy and hunting ability. I was very confused by this while watching the 90s Xmen cartoon, all because of this: Platystemon posted:Bugs Bunny made “nimrod” a general‐purpose insult. It’s in the dictionary now.
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ulmont posted:Yeah, the rabbit test was a common euphemism. Cutting up mice and bunnies to find out if you're pregnant 
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Tiggum posted:It's weird to me and I grew up with it. Why anyone still watches broadcast television is a complete mystery to me. Lol, same. Especially when the local programming that Lithuanian TV stations produce is lowest common denominator poo poo that sometimes puts blackface on our screens. In 2019 (dunno if they managed to pull that in 2020 yet).
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Tiggum posted:There are still shows like that. Most sitcoms, for example, can still be watched out of sequence without any issues. HIMYM? But that's not a very recent example. The short, intense seasons are more of a premium TV thing, I'd say.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Reminds me off when my sister's youngest was a toddler and was perplexed by his grandparent's old stereo system. Which looked a lot like this I'm 30 and I'm perplexed by it to some degree
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Jan 22, 2020 11:02
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Checks and credit cards are all very strange for a Lithuanian. Dunno about other euros, but it was always either cash or debit. You just learned to.live with it, since only American movies were worth watching.
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Funny, the reunion things are, at the same time, very different and kinda similar in Lithuania, even if a lot of them formed under the USSR. I don't remember if my parents had class reunions, but they deffo had university course reunions. And I don't think anybody does it in the "class of 19XX" sense here - it's usually more private and only for the group of people you studied with (like, you move through all your classes with the same 30ish people). When I had my 10 year school reunion, I very much had this: Mister Kingdom posted:Now, after seeing what a lot of my schoolmates have become (via Facebook posts), I don't really want to see them again. I reconnected more with people who weren't present, because I texted them during drunken stupor.
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If it helps, jack is a fascist...
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I've had to interpret cursive for younger folks too To be fair, people needed help interpreting my cursive for as long as I knew how to write cursive. E: never learned to use an abacus, seemed like an antiquated thing back when I was little in the mid 90s, even if you could still find a Lithuanian store using them. JcDent fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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I hate having to engage in culinary arts, but I love enjoying the results of someone else doing it 
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doctorfrog posted:I wonder if there are any TV or movie examples of what it takes to get on a plane and fly somewhere for a normal person in 2020. If flying in a plane ever actually becomes less of a hassle (or more), what it means to be a plane passenger would be forgotten in the popular consciousness. Hell, watch enough TV now and you could forget until your next flight. The indignities one has to suffer to fly is one of the reasons why I'm rabidly pro-train. Give shinkansen every day.
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Jeza posted:The "I could buy this shop and everyone in it" vibe will be lost to history. 
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Platystemon posted:If I’m paying fifteen dollars for a burger, it had better be a specific conferred or inherited title of medieval German origin and legally defined preeminent status granting exclusive constitutional privileges and legal rights. I too wanted to 
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Days late here, but the Duchess of Rutland essentially used her daughter, Diana, as a prostitute during World War I. The Duchess didn't want her lone surviving son dying in the war. He badly wanted to fight and being unable to convince him to give up, the Duchess had Diana strategically sleep with individuals to make sure he was invalidated. Took me a while to understand that it was not somehow about incestuous STDs and about using her daughter as a bribe for officials.
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Platystemon posted:Barn-megaparsecs Only if she's more than 18 lighyears old!
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I am not that old to remember the nitty gritty of dialup pricing - it was hell, and at some point I was only allowed to use the internet for like 2 hours on a Saturday afternoon - but one thing I do remember are shiny books for kids and whatever that told you about cool websites to visit! Of course, those books don't feel as immediately dated/pointless as the drat Minecraft guide books I saw at the store.
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ultrafilter posted:In a Friends episode from 1998, Joey and Chandler stumble across a television channel broadcasting porn and they're afraid to turn the TV off or change the channel because they might not be able to find it again. A lot has changed since then. Don't channels have ,er, a fixed spot on the TV, for lack of a better word? It's not like you get a random channel when you click next on the remote.
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Man, the whole cable thing is lost on me, but maybe because cable was never really big in Lithuania or at least my circles (and my father is an engineer, so we're maybe better at setting channels on TV, though I never encountered that issue when visiting people). You put a TV antenna on your balcony and just watch the four channels that exist. You also put on a sattelite dish and then it all becomes MAGIC (but in Polish or German). Speaking of something related but before my time, I remember once watching a documentary about the Cold War where some Finnish TV station broadcasting stuff that could be picked up in Estonia was a big issue for Soviet officials, to the point where they have been erecting antennas to block it. Ofc, I remember the documentary mostly because the main draw that would, as the documentary claim, empty the streets in Tallinn was porn: https://www.viewjournal.eu/articles/156/print/ posted:The biggest media event, however, was the broadcasting of the French soft-core porn film series Emmanuelle in the summer of 1987. Sex was among the topics that could not be mentioned publicly in the Soviet Union, and these series seemed to be earth-shattering for Estonian adults and children. "Kids, be nice and don't wreck the house, mom and I are going to Tallinn to visit your aunt and watch French softcore pornography." quote:Me and my parents lived in Viljandi County. But my sister lived in Tallinn. ... On most weekends I would take the train from Viljandi to Tallinn to watch my favourite series. When Finnish television started to air the series of Emmanuelle, my parents soon headed to Tallinn as well. Back then, the Tallinn-Tartu highway was crowded with fans of Finnish programming, or the television tourists as I would call them. JcDent fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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Powered Descent posted:I'm suddenly remembering that they always taught us in school to never tell a person calling on the phone that your mom or dad "isn't at home", but always to go with the nonspecific "they can't come to the phone right now". You see, the person calling might be a kidnapper and if they knew your parents weren't there they'd go AHA, NOW'S MY CHANCE and rush on over. (They also said not to wear shirts with our names on them, since they'd let a kidnapper call us by name and pretend to know us.) Fairly certain we had the same phone stuff in 90s Lithuania... ...and then go exploring abandoned construction sites (OK, my mom explicitly told me not to do it, but lol what can you do)
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Bucnasti posted:Oh yeah, in like 1992 I worked with this guy who was a beeper messaging fanatic, he had a whole circle of friends and they all used their numeric beepers to send eachother messages, he'd get beep, look at his beeper and laugh at some joke his buddy had sent him that only he could read, then he'd grab the desk phone and rapid fire pound out a long rear end message using the 12 digit pad in response, it was wild. I don't think pagers ever became that widespread around here. I only clearly remember one friend ever having, and his parents were rich. The most pager exposure I had was via GTA I side missions which were delivered via pagers.
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Xiahou Dun posted:Huh. What are the odds of two podcasts semi-recently talking about the Dewey Decimal System. I guess that explains 219  E: what a character: quote:The Lake Placid Club banned Jews, blacks, and others from membership, a policy written by Dewey.[40] Out of fear, Dewey bought the land adjacent to the Lake Placid Club to prevent Jews from purchasing it. JcDent fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Mar 21, 2022 |
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Back when I was a kid going to the kid library in my town in 2002, I had to fill out my library card by hand, with my famously illegible crusive. Graduating to adult library and getting everything done by librarian and computer was amazing. And now, libraries are so computerized, the only reason I have to go there is because physical books can't be emailed
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Used to drink this sucker in uni, so up to 2012: https://pilnipilvai.lt/tirpi-kava/3081-tirpi-kava-indian-coffee-90-g.html Of course, back then, I had neither taste nor money for anything. Today, I have De'Longhi and buy ground coffee. Instant coffee in those one serving packs are God-sent when travelling, esp. if you're in woods or a festival. I'm sure having sugar, coffee, and powdered milk a single bag makes Italians cry, but I just woke up having slept in a tent and I want my treat.
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Is writing in printed capitals faster than cursive, especially with training?
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See, I could justify parents not learning all of that DOS nonsense, but the basic stuff today is made to be simple, you don't even get driver discs anymore. On the advice of my shrink, we're trying to wean my mom off her learned helplessness that leads her to not know how to navigate facebook (insert radicalization joke) or her smart TV or phone. Sure, I don't know how all the swipe screens work on my smartphone, but I'm sure I'd learn if they looked useful.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:My mom's been a terminal computer-toucher her whole life (she's currently overseeing the digitization of her company's records) and even she gets mixed up by touchscreens and modern interfaces. Ironically I think the pivot towards "user-friendly" interfaces, including tablet-style iconography and aggressively compact navigation (menus that don't appear until you hover over them and other slick, faux-iPhone touches) are what trip her up the hardest. She just wants a list of things she can access. To be fair, some of it could just be bad new design, like Microsoft pushing Metro and nobody taking it.
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Reddit: Quora by any other name.
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The more you read about any digital appliances, the more you understand that AdMech is right.
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