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Dec 23, 2021 19:09
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Miftan posted:Don't know how you can say this with (I assume) a straight face when caring about/knowing who the Xmas number 1 is the most British boomer thing I've ever encountered. Granted, but most people ITT probably assumed until this point they were connected enough to pop culture that they would at least have *heard* of Ladbaby, and their brains are suddenly doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ As always this makes me the avant garde of the thread because I both gave up on popular culture in 1994 and also heard of Ladbaby back in the summer when I was making a Christmas Number 1s quiz and did a big mental shrug at the bottom third of the table.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:10
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I never heard of ladbaby until I was yesterday years old. But then I'm a Boomer/X cusper depending which definitions you go by!
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Dec 23, 2021 19:13
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Christ it really made me feel like that when I went into CeX the other day and they're selling Gamecubes alongside the SNES's and Mega Drives in the retro section.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:20
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Christmas music is meant to be ignored. It was only hyped up because the BBC had sole control of the chart and playing of it for 50 years nearly. Decades on decades of B/C/D/E list celebs with loving christmas songs trying to score that one more pay out, that are only used for interrogations nowadays by the US. Now its social media stars because no music company is willing to pump in the massive amounts of money they used to. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Dec 23, 2021 19:21
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ThomasPaine posted:Christ it really made me feel like that when I went into CeX the other day and they're selling Gamecubes alongside the SNES's and Mega Drives in the retro section. Gamecube? The PS3 and 360 are in retro territory now.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:24
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don't do this to me I still remember playing pokemon on my brick sized black and white gameboy
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Dec 23, 2021 19:26
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i feel like christmas no. 1 made some kind of sense when it was theoretically possible that someone would buy someone a single as a christmas present. I remember someone bought me a single by 5ive for my tenth birthday and i loving loved it. who the gently caress is hoping to get a CD with three minutes of music and maybe a couple of studio offcuts on under the tree in 2021
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Dec 23, 2021 19:29
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Possibly the same people buying gamecubes from CEX.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:30
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Is everyone complaining about sausage nonce forgetting that an actual child sex offender had a Christmas #1 called Two Little Boys The march of incremental progress is inevitable, but nobody said it'd ever be enjoyable
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Dec 23, 2021 19:32
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I think we probably peaked with Bob the builder tbh
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Dec 23, 2021 19:33
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Angepain posted:i feel like christmas no. 1 made some kind of sense when it was theoretically possible that someone would buy someone a single as a christmas present. I remember someone bought me a single by 5ive for my tenth birthday and i loving loved it. who the gently caress is hoping to get a CD with three minutes of music and maybe a couple of studio offcuts on under the tree in 2021 The concept of physical singles never made much sense to me. Most of the time the album was already out and cost maybe a fiver more. Did people really have a collection of CDs holding a single song? Such a waste of plastic.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:33
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stev posted:The concept of physical singles never made much sense to me. Most of the time the album was already out and cost maybe a fiver more. Did people really have a collection of CDs holding a single song? Such a waste of plastic. Some bands had decent b-sides
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Dec 23, 2021 19:35
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Someone bought me the kunt song as a Christmas present. Pretty sweet gift tbh alough I fear kunt might be among the first when the disappearances start
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Dec 23, 2021 19:35
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OwlFancier posted:Possibly the same people buying gamecubes from CEX. Tbf it had some great games. My favourites were Wind Waker and Eternal Darkness. I don't think the latter ever came out for anything else so was mostly ignored, but it was properly, properly good. I replayed it a few years back and it stands up weirdly well for something made in 2002.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:36
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Ladbaby started off as a youtube twat 'pranking' his missus and pretending to get parenting wrong for clicks. He's largely a knob in the same way that most of the people in this country are knobs, so I don't hate him. I just don't see any reason to give him any regard for his political positions because I guarantee he has put zero thought into anything he does. I feel like the Trashfuture britainology episode on the legend probably sums up most of his appeal.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:37
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stev posted:The concept of physical singles never made much sense to me. Most of the time the album was already out and cost maybe a fiver more. Did people really have a collection of CDs holding a single song? Such a waste of plastic. The whole thing was just a direct holdover from the 45/33 vinyl days, but at least in those cases a 45 would use less plastic than an LP and be less fiddly to produce due to the lower track density, whereas a single CD and an album CD are the same physical spec even if you're only pressing the inside (weird pocket CDs that never took off in the UK aside).
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Dec 23, 2021 19:40
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I liked a good four track EP when I were a lad.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:40
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happyhippy posted:Christmas music is meant to be ignored. I was going to go into this a bit with my reply to Miftan but the cat needed feeding so I stopped myself, but basically, like house price obsession and TERFery caring about the Christmas Number 1 is not actually a boomer thing, it's a very solid Gen X thing. In fact there's definitely an effortpost here because it's actually all Benny Hill's fault. I might actually come back to it and knock a few thousand words about it out during the Festive Perineum next week when I'll literally have nothing better to do.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:44
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Spangly A posted:Is everyone complaining about sausage nonce forgetting that an actual child sex offender had a Christmas #1 called Two Little Boys Thatcher's favourite song, apparently.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:45
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ThomasPaine posted:Christ it really made me feel like that when I went into CeX the other day and they're selling Gamecubes alongside the SNES's and Mega Drives in the retro section. I mean given the prices, yeah. GameCube games got really expensive for some reason
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Dec 23, 2021 19:46
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Everyone remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqQtUQErhQ
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Dec 23, 2021 19:48
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They also had a used PS5 they were charging nearly 700 quid for, even though the RRP for a new one is only 450. Some poor naive bastard's going to buy it for their kid's christmas as well. Absolute scalpers. e: what is the deal with the PS5 shortage anyway? I know the pandemic and whatnot didn't help, but also something about a global transistor shortage or something? Seems like something that might have implications way beyond videogames!
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Dec 23, 2021 19:49
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Where have I seen this before... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/26/theresa-may-the-new-iron-lady-or-a-heap-of-rusting-brexit-metal https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/theresa-may-margaret-thatcher-prime-minister-new-iron-lady-thatcherism-flaws-a7150941.html ...and a jillion more hits from google news 
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stev posted:The concept of physical singles never made much sense to me. Most of the time the album was already out and cost maybe a fiver more. Did people really have a collection of CDs holding a single song? Such a waste of plastic. When I were a lassie singles were on vinyl. We had quite a few because that's all our pocket money would stretch too (if saved up!). Albums cost about a month's pocket money. I had The Monster Mash by Boris Picket and the Crypt kicker 5, The puppy song by David Cassidy Walk on By - The Stranglers. Heart of Stone - Kenny (and ironically years later I lost two men to the same woman whose name was Ramona but I digress). Anyway, there was a second band called Kenny. It wasn't them. I think the last one I ever bought in the 1980s was Phone Home - Jonny Chingas (released shortly after the ET film came out). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzpdF8iDfEw Is anyone else old enough to remember free singles/eps (same size as singles but 33rpm instead of 45rpm) given out with Kerrang etc - really flimsy vinyl. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Dec 23, 2021 19:49
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keep punching joe posted:Thatcher at least invented a poo poo type of ice cream, what's Truss ever done.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:51
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keep punching joe posted:I liked a good four track EP when I were a lad. my last surviving one is twofold's hammer to the hornets nest, the rest have been lost to the ravages of time
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Dec 23, 2021 19:56
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Convex posted:I mean given the prices, yeah. GameCube games got really expensive for some reason Street Fighter 2 was £65 on the SNES, most GC games were way less than that.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:56
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You can make Gravidlax easily. Just get some smoked salmon and that's it. Take your rubbish dill sauce and chuck it in the bin where it belongs! 
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Dec 23, 2021 19:56
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As a general thread reminder, CeX will literally try to scam people and it's incredibly hard to resolve with their complaints process so avoid them at any cost.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:57
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Miftan posted:As a general thread reminder, CeX will literally try to scam people and it's incredibly hard to resolve with their complaints process so avoid them at any cost. Oh poo poo is that true? I occasionally have a look in to see if I can pick up any games I missed on the cheap.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:58
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Is anyone else old enough to remember free singles/eps (same size as singles but 33rpm instead of 45rpm) given out with Kerrang etc - really flimsy vinyl. Am a Gen Xers on the end of the range, and my first vinyl was from a cover of Oink! magazine which came out in the mid eighties. It was made and sung by Mark Riley who was in the Fall for a bit, Mark and Lard on Radio 1, and now is on Radio 6. Had to play it in my grandmothers house as they were the only ones who had a player.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:59
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A Push door with a pull handle could stop Liz Truss in her tracks.
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Dec 23, 2021 19:59
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CEX missed the fact that this iMac has a graphics card and undercharged me by £400 lol
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Dec 23, 2021 20:00
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Lungboy posted:Street Fighter 2 was £65 on the SNES, most GC games were way less than that. I mean have a look at Fire Emblem, Paper Mario or Skies of Arcadia, which seem to go for over £100. I think its partly a nintendo thing
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Dec 23, 2021 20:02
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Gonzo McFee posted:A Push door with a pull handle could stop Liz Truss in her tracks. Imagining this sketch but with truss https://youtu.be/KwdYUIQzu-o
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Dec 23, 2021 20:04
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Holy poo poo, looking at the prices gamecube games are going for now I'm half tempted to go dig around for my old ones, I'd probably make a good bit of change
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Dec 23, 2021 20:06
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ThomasPaine posted:Oh poo poo is that true? I occasionally have a look in to see if I can pick up any games I missed on the cheap. If you buy stuff online they will sometimes just straight up send you a worse product than what you paid for. In store they sometimes misrepresent how durable/well kept the items are. I've had good experience with them in the past, but some really bad ones and it's not worth the hassle imo
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Convex posted:I mean have a look at Fire Emblem, Paper Mario or Skies of Arcadia, which seem to go for over £100. I think its partly a nintendo thing Oh yeah some are now very expensive, I thought you meant when they were new.
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