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Krispy Wafer posted:Are class rings still a thing? It just occurred to me my kid didn’t even ask for one. She adamantly refused to get a Varsity letter jacket too. Do high schoolers just not care about those things anymore? At least back when I was in high school (2000-2004), letterman’s jackets and class rings were really expensive for most people - I want to say around $500 to get both. At my high school, it was possible for sophomores to get jackets, so you could at least amortize the value over a few years, but a class ring? Basically outdated the day you got it. Lots of kids still spent a lot of money they - or their parents - couldn’t really afford to get them, though.
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postmodifier posted:Same logic still holds, if someone was winning crazy bets consistently on long-shot horses as opposed to maybe a handful of people betting chump change on the ocassional upset, it would drive massive inter-sport changes regarding jockeys, training, care, &c, &c to match those big-rear end winners. Not sure how film-accurate this script grab I found on Google is: quote:See Biff's humble beginnings and how a trip to the racetrack on his 21st birthday made him a millionaire overnight. It sounds like he parlayed his track winnings into a business empire - he probably could have made enough that once the horse racing results started to diverge, he had already moved on to being a less orange version of Donald Trump (though he could have made investments based on other sports if he needed a quick infusion of cash based on how well events continued to align with the almanac).
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Vietnamwees posted:I just watched a youtube clip from the show Friends where its the rich friends vs the poor ones, and I remember that episode revolving around them all going to a Hootie & The Blowfish concert. Who remembers that band!? Have they even made any new music in the last 2 decades!? Darius “Don’t Call Me Hootie” Rucker is a pretty popular country singer now, and he still tours with the band quite a bit. My wife and I saw them last summer (The Barenaked Ladies were the opening act, and, IMO, the better part of the show). It made sense as a desirable concert for a bunch of boring white twenty somethings in the 90s, so it probably aged about as well as most jokes on Friends. 
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My dad was a pharmacist and he used a pocket protector until he retired this year because he’d always put ballpoint pens in his white dress shirt pocket tip-first without the cap, or clicking them shut.
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Jan 22, 2021 18:20
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The Moon Monster posted:Is your dad a nerd though? Is your surname Poindexter? I mean, it’s a profession where the height of comedy is “I sell drugs for a living  “ t-shirts, I think being at least something of a nerd is a prerequisite.
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Jan 23, 2021 00:07
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DACK FAYDEN posted:way to not get Jeopardy! at 7:30 PM Just LOL if Jeopardy! isn’t on at 7, followed by Wheel of Fortune at 7:30.
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It always struck me as a little odd that class rings aren’t pitched to freshmen instead of seniors. Like, I could see a bunch of fourteen year olds thinking it’s cool as gently caress to wear a class ring around, but by the time you’re a senior, chances are really good you’re actively planning your exit from caring about high school ever again.
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Mar 30, 2021 18:44
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We made flash cards out of 3x5 notecards for our kids, and my wife still uses them as an outline/organization tool sometimes. I suspect they’re largely relegated to school speeches and exam “cheat sheets” otherwise.
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Apr 26, 2021 20:53
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:How many of you have made a collect call to your parents and instead of saying your name you're all like "pick me up at (person's name's house/random place/city/street name)"? “You have a collect call from BOB WEHADABABYITSABOY.”
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Not sure how other schools handled it, but mine had the teacher take attendance every period. So they’d schedule the rally :15 into a class period, take attendance in the classroom, and that teacher would escort students to the rally, seating them in a section where they’d take another attendance. They’d also never say how long they were going to be - maybe you’d need to go back to the same classroom, maybe you’d need to head to your next class. So since this was in the days before texting was commonplace, you were pretty much stuck if you didn’t want to risk being marked absent for two periods and likely get a call home about it. Speaking of assemblies, did anyone else have the “oh no everyone needs to report out to the football field immediately” one where there’s be a wrecked car, the SRO, and a couple of the drama kids pretending to be dead and their parents standing around screaming because supposedly, the kids had crashed their car due to drunk driving, and then the cop would be like “THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU TOO IF YOU DRIVE DRUNK” before everyone stands up and bows?
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May 15, 2021 18:46
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Oh DARE. A program that glorifies civil asset forfeiture in the course of its copaganda.
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The Moon Monster posted:Here's a photograph from an average American highschool so our overseas friends can see what we're dealing with: Look at those youth defending the bulletin board advertising health and wellness options from defacement by the cop attempting to vacate a fellow Republican from the riot he’s about to start over their right to free assembly.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I'm converting VHS tapes recorded off TV from the 1980s. Included are original commercials. Back in 2013 or so, my wife and I were looking at new cars, and the base model Dodge Dart of the day didn’t even have air conditioning standard: Wikipedia posted:The SE was the base Dodge Dart model between 2013 and 2016. It offered the following standard equipment: 160-horsepower 2.0 L Tigershark I4 engine, six-speed manual transmission, AM/FM stereo with single-disc CD/MP3 player with auxiliary and USB inputs, four-speaker audio system, heater (no air conditioning), power windows and door locks, cloth seating surfaces, dual manually-adjustable front bucket seats, split-folding rear bench seat, full instrumentation, fifteen-inch black-painted steel wheels with plastic wheel covers, and black door handles and side mirrors.
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May 31, 2021 04:00
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Sweevo posted:The other sitcom thing I always wondered about was the one where they pair off kids and make them look after a fake baby. Because if that's real then it's pretty hosed up. In my high school, all sophomores had to take a health class. Two different teachers taught it. To my rural high school’s credit, the classes were co-ed and the sex ed unit covered safer sex practices. How they followed up sex ed went differently. Students in the male teacher’s classes were assigned a report about a venereal disease that would rot out your genitals. Students in the female teacher’s class were assigned robot babies. The depressing conclusion about the consequences of unprotected sex depending on childbearing ability will be left as an exercise for the reader. Students weren’t paired up for a robot baby, thus presenting an even more realistic picture of what it would probably be like to be a teen parent - the only thing they missed out on was fighting over a custody agreement. Anyway, nobody wanted to end up in the female teacher’s class solely because of the robot baby, so I guess at the very least everyone got the basic gist of the idea that you should avoid having a babby as a teen. I would be very interested to know the teen pregnancy statistics of each cohort though.
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Alterian posted:Lol about that.... There were a few students at my school (all girls to my recollection) who took it very seriously. It’s an interesting study. I’d be interested to see a follow up that explored the length of time being assigned the robobabby (my school assigned them for a week to each kid), or male participation in the program overall.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Drafting tables will forever exist in the modern cultural lexicon because any cool leading man architect will always lean over a drafting table as he single handedly designs a whole building on his 6 hour deadline. You can't look cool using AutoCAD. Maybe I’m just not up on my prestige television, but are “cool leading man architect” characters in great demand?
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Jul 26, 2021 20:09
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Before I moved inland from the Bay Area, some guy in my housing development once decided to interrupt my quiet spa time after a swim in the community pool and pitch me on some sort of crypto for nonprofits. Never mind that not making a profit and crypto are already synonymous.
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Oct 10, 2021 03:04
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One exception - an intersection in Syracuse: Long story short, those of Irish heritage in the area started breaking the light if the red light was on top, saying it represented a claim to British superiority. Blue Moonlight fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Powered Descent posted:Because in one of those things you can't roll over on your side. I’ve done them a few times, and I do find them extremely relaxing. I’ve never fallen asleep, but I’ve definitely been on the edge of it, then become too aware of it to do so. The “woo”-iness of it was definitely a lot to get past. I honestly think they’d do more business from a “come here and tune out input from the world for an hour” sort of angle.
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I only visit the Something Awful Electronic Rooms, there’s a front electronic door?!?!
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So, I think there’s two reasonable possibilities.
Based on the past scenes in the episode, where they turn off their equipment, turn it back on, and retain the premium channel, I’d assume the former, making their fears largely unfounded.
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ultrafilter posted:Was digital cable even a thing back then? It’s really another point in favor of bullet 1 there - digital cable was certainly around in 98, when the episode aired, but it wasn’t the de facto standard that it is today.
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Violet_Sky posted:Speaking of which, I dont think schools teach cursive anymore. Which is kinda funny because I remember all these books telling me that when you get to third grade you'll learn that cursive is the grown-up way to write. I also have a vague memory of being told that middle schools will automatically fail you if you don't use cursive. This was in 2001-2004. The last time I was asked to write anything in cursive was for the SATs back in 2004 - you were supposed to use it for a little written statement thing that, I suppose, they could compare against other times you take the SAT to catch fraud. Do they even still do that anymore? Even then, I remember the proctor needing to write certain cursive letters on the board so that people could remember how to write a capital S or whatever.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Luddites are a thing, but also to be fair, it's definitely harder to pick up new skills and remember them as you get older, far more so when you have three kids constantly demanding your attention and depriving you of sleep. I had the realization the other day after a decade and a half that I don’t really “know PCs” anymore. Sure, nothing’s changed so drastically that I couldn’t sort my way through something, but anything newer than Vista-era hardware and Windows 7? I’m back to just Googling poo poo. And hey, I know how to do that, so I’m not useless, but it’s not intuitive, the way Macs or older PCs are to me. It’s no coincidence to me that it aligns so neatly with my kids and the rise of mobile devices. Honestly, I don’t really miss it. 
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Splicer posted:Posting on page Win98 I’ll wait for page Win98 SE so I can view the forums in Internet Explorer 5. 
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Flipperwaldt posted:Radium code so bad it causes issues on Reddit Where else would you keep the load bearing slurs?
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