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The greatest generation were a pack of drunken wifebeating child molesters.
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Carlos Lantana posted:The greatest generation were a pack of drunken wifebeating child molesters. just as many as this generation, but they did annoy Hitler enough so he would kill himself
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Jul 23, 2023 21:13
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Get this: extra charges for long distance phone calls. The Elite Crew here may even remember a time when you couldn’t buy a phone, you had to rent them from the phone company.
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Jul 23, 2023 21:20
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We didn't really have any novel designer drugs or research chemicals back then, so we just did a shitton of heroin, lsd, mushrooms, weed, cocaine, molly, ketamine and amphetamines and that's all we really had. Sometimes you couldn't even get those.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Get this: extra charges for long distance phone calls. and collect calls. Ihadabayitsaboy
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Jul 23, 2023 21:24
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the Internet was better because the only social media was livejournal and forums
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Silhouette posted:the Internet was better because the only social media was livejournal and forums or it was AOL and nothing else.
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Silhouette posted:the Internet was better because the only social media was livejournal and forums GenX had the summer vacation of internet when the colleges let out and nobody but the learned used the internet for BBS, MUDs and newsgroups (I was of the ruiner-class that came after)
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GABA ghoul posted:We didn't really have any novel designer drugs or research chemicals back then, so we just did a shitton of heroin, lsd, mushrooms, weed, cocaine, molly, ketamine and amphetamines and that's all we really had. Sometimes you couldn't even get those. We didnt get shittons till the 90s 80s drugs were adulterated disappointments,70s drugs moreso. There were also numerous and powerful squares who would destroy you on principle. Entire industries. For weed, for simple possession. It's like the whole world was Texas.
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I am honestly still confused about whether I'm a Gen-xer or a Millennial
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multiplayer gaming was like you'd call up a friend and set up a time to play some doom deathmatch and get it set up and going and then five minutes in you get kicked off because your brother picked up the phone to make a callSilhouette posted:the Internet was better because the only social media was livejournal and forums and IRC! i used to be a "builder" for a few MUDS. just writing basic room and item descriptions. it was tedious but also sort of relaxing, i kind of miss it. also livejournal was founded in 1999. it like, just barely existed in the 20th century.
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This may sound like an "Ok, Boomer" moment but hear me out. TV was better when there were three networks (plus PBS.) Saturday morning cartoons, Monday Night Football being a real event, so many shows you wanted to watch you'd flip channels during commercials to catch a part of the other show you wanted to watch but couldn't because there was a show on you wanted to watch more on at the same time. Hiding at the top of the stairs to watch Johnny Carson's monologue at the beginning of the Tonight Show. Jacque Cousteau specials, the Dean Martin Roasts and old (and made for TV) movies. The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat introducing an hour of weird sports on Saturday afternoons. Go look in an old TV guide. It's true. I almost feel like I need to apologize for the endless episodes of NCIS and reality TV on now. At least there's Youtube if you want to find something a little less mind numbing.
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A Microsoft Certified Professional cert got you six figures but you had to deal with forests and trusted relationships before search engines Edit: you didnt have wireshark - you were hard up and skilled to the gills to troubleshoot a network (I only became competent in 2009 to do work like this - I'm not stealing valor) My Dad Nintendo fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Darth Brooks posted:TV was better when there were three networks (plus PBS.) Saturday morning cartoons, Monday Night Football being a real event, so many shows you wanted to watch you'd flip channels during commercials to catch a part of the other show you wanted to watch but couldn't because there was a show on you wanted to watch more on at the same time. Hiding at the top of the stairs to watch Johnny Carson's monologue at the beginning of the Tonight Show. Jacque Cousteau specials, the Dean Martin Roasts and old (and made for TV) movies. The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat introducing an hour of weird sports on Saturday afternoons. Go look in an old TV guide. It's true. lol no. ive seen a lot of the stuff you mention and none of it is even a tiny bit close to as good as the era of tv that kicked off with shows like the sopranos, the wire, deadwood, etc. there are many things in media that have gotten worse since the 20th century but tv has improved dramatically. and streaming is a lot nicer than flipping channels. also youtube has helped a lot. like if i want to watch weird sports or whatever else, there's no need to wait for it to be on one specific channel on saturday afternoon, i can simply watch a near infinite supply of videos of people doing weird sports all over the world on my phone any time i want. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Darth Brooks posted:This may sound like an "Ok, Boomer" moment but hear me out. I was talking to my mom not that long ago and she told me that she never really liked Seinfeld or Friends. Had to watch it anyway, because that is all anyone was talking about on friday morning. The mono-culture is gone. Guess we have to grow up and deal with that
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it was like this op https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2nF92mu8X0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeOK6BpYX7c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwwXrgvzIc4 Convex fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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I'll do you one better on the Hulkster, with a movie co-starring Sherman Hemsley and David Johansen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L7CTLheaNc
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Pinnies everywhere.Cool ones with great art.
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MrQwerty posted:I'll do you one better on the Hulkster, with a movie co-starring Sherman Hemsley lol also i forgot this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY7gsUL9Xkk
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MrQwerty posted:I'll do you one better on the Hulkster, with a movie co-starring Sherman Hemsley and David Johansen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POYGZAIQl2o The guy who plays Zeus literally has two lines in the whole movie, the rest is just grunting and yelling.
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Convex posted:it was like this op I saw that one in a drive in movie theater. Double feature with Clueless
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Before David Attenborough there was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Goons of a certain age now have Mutual's jingle playing in their head.
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Presto posted:Before David Attenborough there was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. All you Trekkie's and TV addicts Don't mean to diss, don't mean to bring static All you Klingon's in the fuckin' house Grab your backstreet friend and get loud Blowin' doors off hinges I'll grab you with the pinchers And no, I didn't retire I'll snatch you up with the needle nose pliers Like Mutual of Omaha got the ill boat You've never seen before glidin' in the glades
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I saw that one in a drive in movie theater. Double feature with Clueless the Mortal Kombat movie is still sick as gently caress to this day and it gave the director enough clout to make Event Horizon
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Presto posted:Before David Attenborough there was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. missed the boat on that one but I do remember Ghost Writer and Are You Being Served
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MrQwerty posted:the Mortal Kombat movie is still sick as gently caress to this day and it gave the director enough clout to make Event Horizon I love Event Horizon. Where we're going you won't need eyes
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MrQwerty posted:the Mortal Kombat movie is still sick as gently caress to this day and it gave the director enough clout to make Event Horizon i wiggled out a loose tooth during that movie. then my little gang of pals decided it would be hilarious if one of them kicked me in the face while i spit said tooth out in the lobby—which it was but the theater staff didn’t seem to agree
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Doctor Who was great, it had proper wobbly sets and Daleks and the Doctor had a big floppy hat and a scarf, but it was surrounded by shows with people dancing in blackface and pop songs introduced by a man who hosed corpses in his spare time. A mixed bag.
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Dick Fontaine posted:i wiggled out a loose tooth during that movie. then my little gang of pals decided it would be hilarious if one of them kicked me in the face while i spit said tooth out in the lobby—which it was but the theater staff didn’t seem to agree That's great - creative fuckers
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Unkempt posted:Doctor Who was great, it had proper wobbly sets and Daleks and the Doctor had a big floppy hat and a scarf, but it was surrounded by shows with people dancing in blackface and pop songs introduced by a man who hosed corpses in his spare time. A mixed bag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_62lUMlknaY
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Earwicker posted:lol no. ive seen a lot of the stuff you mention and none of it is even a tiny bit close to as good as the era of tv that kicked off with shows like the sopranos, the wire, deadwood, etc. there are many things in media that have gotten worse since the 20th century but tv has improved dramatically. and streaming is a lot nicer than flipping channels. There are higher highs now and it may also have been better to say Network TV was better than broadcast TV now. But at the same point you mentioned three programs. It used to be that every single night had something that would grab your attention. Just picking 1975 at random. The schedule got moved around a bit and I'm not listing everything, just some that still stand out. Sunday The Wonderful World of Disney followed by The Six Million Dollar Man followed by Columbo or Kojak or the ABC Sunday night movie Monday Monday Night Football or a movie on ABC or NBC. Before VCR's a movie being shown on TV might be your only chance to see it. Tuesday Happy Days followed by Laverne & Shirley or Good Times followed by One Day at a Time. Wednesday The Bionic Woman or Little House on the Prairie followed by Beretta or Sanford and Son & Chico and The Man followed by Starsky & Hutch Thursday Barney Miller and What's Happening or The Waltons followed by The Streets of San Fransisco or Hawaii Five-O Friday The Rockford Files, MASH Saturday The Jeffersons or Emergency, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show and the Carol Burnett Show. I do agree that streaming has changed the game and internet use has driven down viewer numbers fantastically. It's also true that you may consider every single show listed as dreck. Everybody has an opinion. It's going to be interesting to see how Youtube erodes even streaming numbers more as people unaffiliated with any studio create content.
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If your music rewinding device wasn't working, you could use a pencil.
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Darth Brooks posted:There are higher highs now and it may also have been better to say Network TV was better than broadcast TV now. But at the same point you mentioned three programs. It used to be that every single night had something that would grab your attention. Just picking 1975 at random. The schedule got moved around a bit and I'm not listing everything, just some that still stand out. Does Columbo leaves the room, them comes back in for one more question....
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redshirt posted:Does Columbo leaves the room, them comes back in for one more question.... Columbo very clearly had memory issues, possibly onset dementia.
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Rows of houses that are all the same And no one seems to care
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dr_rat posted:Columbo very clearly had memory issues, possibly onset dementia. He could still solve a case!
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Testikles posted:If you scheduled a date you had to arrive at the right time and place. You couldn't text to say you were running late, after a certain point you had to trust you'd arrive. If you didn't, you had no idea why and the whole thing could fall apart. So you're saying nothing has changed?
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redshirt posted:He could still solve a case! His evidence submitting was poor and most were let off, if they were ever actually guilty in the first place. I think most just went along with it because they felt sorry for him. 
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dr_rat posted:His evidence submitting was poor and most were let off, if they were ever actually guilty in the first place. I will not stand for this Columbo slander lol.
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