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His other famous characters include Walter - basically a ripoff of Red Forman, Peanut - the epitome of lolrandom monkeycheese, Jalapeno on a Stick - an excuse to do a stereotypical Mexican accent and make "lazy Mexican" jokes, and probably more but that's all I could stomach to watch
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wesleywillis posted:What ring tones did you download in the 2000s? Only one, and I still have it god knows how many phones later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK7T4LHjln4
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Mar 6, 2020 21:45
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Jesus F'n Christ, that is an old phone OP!
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Iron Crowned posted:I got invited over to an acquaintance's Thanksgiving about 5 years ago, and Jeff Dunham was on TV. IT was very awkward. Dude.. I went to an all-hands meeting at work once where the store manager played Jeff Dunham before we got started. It was doubly-awkward because he was normally a very serious business-oriented guy that had no visible sense of humor.
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IIRC Jeff Dunham also did a version of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjs68UszPh4 except it was just him, a white guy, talking to other white guys, but with a puppet of a black guy.
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Brute Hole Force posted:Well going by the two guys at my job that still blast nu metal and butt rock like they're in college in 2002 probably. I miss working with a guy that was super into nu-metal and industrial music. He didn't know the name of those genres, he just really liked Korn, System of a Down, and Rammstein. He would put some stuff on the work radio I had never heard of, and I got to share some of my greatest middle school hits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0l0NZTBboU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhWKSg6CSxc
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sprite rip webcomics (webcomics in general really) are something that I associate with 2000s internet they were all either like this or the punchline being extreme violence
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Rammstien is awesome and they're pretty lefty. I'd not drop them into the butt rock category.
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Luxury Tent Carpet posted:sprite rip webcomics (webcomics in general really) are something that I associate with 2000s internet I put on my robe and wizard hat.
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Luxury Tent Carpet posted:sprite rip webcomics (webcomics in general really) are something that I associate with 2000s internet There was so much absolute garbage on the early WWW that got popular just by virtue of having regular and substantial updates. Penny Arcade was, in hindsight, never good, but it updated like clockwork and you could count on reliably killing some time by reading the accompanying 140,000 word blog post about some PC game you'd probably never get around to playing. One genre of late 90s-early 00s site I actually enjoyed were the ones where users would submit a question or conversation prompt and then the operator(s) of the site would respond in the guise of one or more fictional and non-fictional characters. Three I can think of off the top of my head are Forum 2000, Conversatron, and True Meaning of Life (that one being my favorite).
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Mar 12, 2020 12:24
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You used to be able to compose ring tones on some of the monophonic Nokia's, I think mine was a 3315. I remember keying in for whom the bell tolls and ratm riffs.
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Pastry of the Year posted:There was so much absolute garbage on the early WWW that got popular just by virtue of having regular and substantial updates. Penny Arcade was, in hindsight, never good, but it updated like clockwork and you could count on reliably killing some time by reading the accompanying 140,000 word blog post about some PC game you'd probably never get around to playing. I like how you talk about the premise of Strongbad Emails and not mention it.
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twistedmentat posted:Rammstien is awesome and they're pretty lefty. At least not until Till Lindemann does a video involving a stalagmite up someone's rear end, if he hasn't already anyway.
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Brute Hole Force posted:At least not until Till Lindemann does a video involving a stalagmite up someone's rear end, if he hasn't already anyway. There has to be buttsex in the video for Pussy.
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spleen merchant posted:You used to be able to compose ring tones on some of the monophonic Nokia's, I think mine was a 3315. I remember keying in for whom the bell tolls and ratm riffs. I used to be able to play so many songs on my flip phone. Morning mood, Shaker variants, funkytown, etc. It always got a laugh
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spleen merchant posted:You used to be able to compose ring tones on some of the monophonic Nokia's, I think mine was a 3315. I remember keying in for whom the bell tolls and ratm riffs. I recall websites that posted all the "notes" you had to punch in. And certain phones flashed between the screen and keypad when they rang. Plus the whole custom phone case craze. Like adding decorative flip panels for your keyboard or tinted screens.
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I loved CY
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Anyone remember Crank Yankers? is there a taste to the caulk
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Anyone remember Crank Yankers? There’s an entire channel on Pluto streaming it 24/7 Even if you don’t end up liking it, it is sorta buckwild to take a walk down memory lane and re-experience puppet based shock humor from 18 years ago.
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I remember super annoying DRM becoming a thing in the 2000s. Like Starforce or whatever that one was that would gently caress up your PC, games that required constant internet connection for no other reason than DRM, music CDs that wouldn't play in a PC, etc.
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Thermos posted:I remember super annoying DRM becoming a thing in the 2000s. Like Starforce or whatever that one was that would gently caress up your PC, games that required constant internet connection for no other reason than DRM, music CDs that wouldn't play in a PC, etc. To this day I haven't found a CD player or optical drive that could play my copy of Mando Diao's Bring 'Em In, except for a player in a Toyota Corolla my sister had for like six months. I really liked this song  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jmxyjrza5E
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That reminds me, remember DualDisc? With the CD on one side and DVD on the other? That was a thing for like a year, but it had so many deal-breaking compatibility/DRM issues that I think it just totally died after the first wave of releases. I have 2 albums that use it and they're both from 2005.
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Sir Lemming posted:That reminds me, remember DualDisc? With the CD on one side and DVD on the other? That was a thing for like a year, but it had so many deal-breaking compatibility/DRM issues that I think it just totally died after the first wave of releases. I have 2 albums that use it and they're both from 2005. Do you one better; remember that brief flash of double-sided DVD movies that were 4:3 on one side and 16:9 on the other? I know the South Park movie was like that, but I think there were one or two others?
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Kaiser Mazoku posted:Anyone remember Crank Yankers? They brought it back a few years ago. Don’t know if it’s still going. Having since worker in retail and call centers, I don’t find most of it funny anymore... although I still do Special Ed’s “Yay!” and “I got mail!” all the time...
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Sir Lemming posted:That reminds me, remember DualDisc? With the CD on one side and DVD on the other? That was a thing for like a year, but it had so many deal-breaking compatibility/DRM issues that I think it just totally died after the first wave of releases. I have 2 albums that use it and they're both from 2005. I got a three six mafia album where they're all "i' you got the dual disc version of this then flip that poo poo over" or whatever.
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The Brothers Gibb apparently had a single in 2001, and it's good? I was surprised https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJule_2mx3I
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Thermos posted:I remember super annoying DRM becoming a thing in the 2000s. Like Starforce or whatever that one was that would gently caress up your PC, games that required constant internet connection for no other reason than DRM, music CDs that wouldn't play in a PC, etc. All hail the Sony rootkit.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Do you one better; remember that brief flash of double-sided DVD movies that were 4:3 on one side and 16:9 on the other? I know the South Park movie was like that, but I think there were one or two others? Oh, there were way, way more than one or two back in the day, my friend. I worked for a public library from 2002 to 2012 and one of my jobs was using a disc-buffing machine to fix discs that patrons scratched up. How it worked: Someone one checked out a DVD, poo poo would skip or freeze, and it came back to my dept. with a note saying "disc skips". If I was lucky, they told me which side; otherwise, I'd just eyeball the scratches or maybe play it if it was a movie I'd like to have on in the background that wouldn't offend patrons coming to my desk. It did not help that some studios put the label on the side you put face down; some put it on the opposite side, as if it were a record. It was a crapshoot that I hated dealing with. What sucked was that our buffing machine would often scrub off the little hub ring label that told you which side was which. So now you had a DVD with a hub ring label on one side that said "fullscreen" or "widescreen", and the other side was completely blank, if I'd buffed that. If I buffed both sides, you had NO way of knowing which side was which. Between dual-side DVDs and BBC audiobooks being made of what I swear was plastic cling wrap with some aluminum foil, labeled in Sharpie (those things fell apart and the printed label rubbed off if you looked at them funny), I rapidly grew to hate that part of my job and pawned it off on all the new hires. VHS/cassette tapes were actually more reliable; you can splice out a bad chunk of tape or re-shell them, but once discs are hosed, they are hosed. edit: hope I didn't come off as overly snarky or condescending, Neddy. I just saw your post about "one or two others" and was like "oooooh, no, I got some war stories to tell y'all!" 
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Oh, there were way, way more than one or two back in the day, my friend. I worked for a public library from 2002 to 2012 and one of my jobs was using a disc-buffing machine to fix discs that patrons scratched up. Oh heck no, inform away! I wasn't actually aware there were that many  .
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Oh heck no, inform away! I wasn't actually aware there were that many Aww yeah, at a rough guess I'd say at least half of releases during that era had the two-sided dual-aspect-ratio thing. Any of your recent blockbusters or "now on DVD for the first time!" classics got that treatment, and it suuuucked. Not just for boomers trying to check out an old Hitchcock or Bond film and being confused as gently caress as to which side to play it on, but those of us doing triage trying to fix them. I also ran our our afternoon film program at the library, we showed classic movies via a kickin' LCD projector on our 30 ft screen. I'd groan every time I was handed one of those, because I never knew which side of, say, "Casablanca" to play. If I was lucky I'd get a hot minute to try it out both ways and go "OKAY, this is the widescreen one, and it doesn't have too many scratches. Gonna cross my fingers and hope it plays through okay!"
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I had similar experiences working in a library around the same time. The double sided DVDs with standard aspect ratio on one side and widescreen on the other side had a much higher failure/NEEDS RESURFACING rate than regular DVDs. My theory is that people would pick a random side, start the movie, and it was THE WRONG ONE WHY DOES IT LOOK BAD then eject the disc and angrily mash it back into the DVD player until they get the right one. Same reason some people destroy micro USB phone chargers these days. There is one correct orientation where it actually plugs in and charges. If you try to plug it in and it doesn't fit or doesn't start charging, the solution is to mash the USB cable against your phone until it fits, and then complain that your charger stopped working. Also why do they keep breaking, cheap pieces of poo poo. I paid $20 for this charger why doesn't it work??? media formats that give users multiple choices reveal the true nature of life: to live is to feel pain. all existence is suffering to live is to suffer. nothing matters and nothing makes sense. just mash that disc or cable until it fits or breaks. it is a metaphor. nothing we do has meaning. we just thrash about, injuring all others that come in contact with ourselves. if you have any difficulties playing or displaying your movie, please notify the clerk when you return the damaged item.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:I had similar experiences working in a library around the same time. The double sided DVDs with standard aspect ratio on one side and widescreen on the other side had a much higher failure/NEEDS RESURFACING rate than regular DVDs. My theory is that people would pick a random side, start the movie, and it was THE WRONG ONE WHY DOES IT LOOK BAD then eject the disc and angrily mash it back into the DVD player until they get the right one. The problem with those dumb double-sided DVDs is that they were never quite clear with the tiny-rear end labels around the center -- is this the side that has the widescreen data, or the side that should be facing up if I want widescreen? I think different publishers had different ways of doing that too, making at all the more frustrating.
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In the 2000s, everyone laughed about swine flu and how that poo poo was so overblown.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:In the 2000s, everyone laughed about swine flu and how that poo poo was so overblown. Swine flu led to pork products to be MASSIVELY discounted. I remember when my mom bought, idk, like 20 packs of weiners (the good brand too!) Because they were something like 80% off or some poo poo. It was great. Had hotdogs for ever
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Good hot dogs and pork don't mix
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ShortyMR.CAT posted:Swine flu led to pork products to be MASSIVELY discounted. I remember when my mom bought, idk, like 20 packs of weiners (the good brand too!) Because they were something like 80% off or some poo poo. Can we spread a rumor about swine covid so I can eat carnitas for a month straight?
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skooma512 posted:Can we spread a rumor about swine covid so I can eat carnitas for a month straight? Fun fact, there actually is a pig pandemic called African Swine Fever sweeping across the world right now. It's not harmful to humans but it has something like a 90% fatality rate for pigs.
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The Moon Monster posted:Fun fact, there actually is a pig pandemic called African Swine Fever sweeping across the world right now. It's not harmful to humans but it has something like a 90% fatality rate for pigs. Iiirc, China's pork production kinda hosed on top of being hit with Covid because they've had to cull a lot of their herds for it.
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