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20 Blunts posted:gently caress balancing how do i even get the actual checks properly into the plastic things in the checkbook itself Cut the left and right sides of the back sheet at angles so it is shaped like an upside-down trapezoid
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Internet Old One posted:The checks were very widely accepted which seems a little crazy until you consider that in poorer destinations this is what wealthy tourists were trying to pay with and in most wealthy countries they had to deal with checks all the time anyhow. This is insane to me.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:yeah, but there was a bit more to it than that. banks used to take time to clear cheques, so one would often reconcile between bank statements and a chequebook. also, for bills and stuff, having pre-written cheques and pending transactions was important to know the money was going to be there to clear the cheque on time etc. Cheque fraud is still around and fairly rampant. People steal them out of the mail, alter the amounts, and cash them, and since 99.9% of the people who still mail cheques are really old and tech illiterate, they don't actually know that anything has happened for weeks. Apparently there are even shady cheque printing companies that will print cheques with whatever info you want and mail them to any unverified address, so you can just get a whole book of legit cheques with someone else's bank account number on them. In this day and age, paying some random person by giving them a slip of paper with your name, address, and account numbers on it is an incredibly dumb thing to do. GoutPatrol posted:no clue how money orders work I actually needed a money order fairly recently to renew a non-US passport at a consular office in the US. They wouldn't take any other form of payment, not even cash like they used to.
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Foxfire_ posted:They sit between you and the blanket to absorb stank, then you wash them more often than the blanket (and it's easier because they're less bulky than the blanket is) counterfeitsaint posted:The sheet is lay on your filthy human body, with it's secretions and sweat and dirt, and act as a barrier. That way the comforter stays clean, because those are a pain to wash, and the sheets are easy. I get it, but I still think they’re unnecessary and never liked them. I wash my bed spread weekly so it’s not a problem. Thanks for the explanations, though 
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Also, those weird aspic dishes from the 1950s through the 1970s. Not gonna lie, a savory meat jelly with cold cuts and vegetables in it doesn’t sound too bad, but then you get into the what the gently caress territory of something like bananas wrapped in melted American cheese topped with marshmallow fluff, ketchup, and sardines. Did people really eat those aspic dishes?
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My mom was a good cook and we lived in the South so we never had jellied meats or the like. Beef stroganoff was had and it owns, I made some in an instant pot. She also made baked Alaska once, that was a big deal. But of the oldest food memories I have is of her cooking liver and onions. The smell dear god. I guess ate it? When the 80s came around all that stuff went away thankfully.
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redshirt posted:Watching a child turn into an adult. It's like, drat, that was just yesterday...... You are a monster.
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You Are A Werewolf posted:Also, those weird aspic dishes from the 1950s through the 1970s. Not gonna lie, a savory meat jelly with cold cuts and vegetables in it doesn’t sound too bad, but then you get into the what the gently caress territory of something like bananas wrapped in melted American cheese topped with marshmallow fluff, ketchup, and sardines. Im only in my 30s but remember being around during one of my midwest grandmothers "luncheons" and there being jellied fruit salad, deviled eggs, finger sandwiches, a big cheese ball rolled in sliced almonds, etc. Honestly it was all pretty good I remember eating a slice of the fruit salad with a big dollop of cool whip. Basically "jell-o" with fruit in it.
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I like pate and I hate that nasty rear end aspic at the top
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having a burning passion for whether or not people should be on time
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GoutPatrol posted:no clue how money orders work I don't even know what they're used for let alone how to use them
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How did my father buy and sell multiple houses when I'm supposedly in the same blue collar economic strata he was in at my age and every apartment landlord company wants closer and closer to 100% of my income?
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Spagghentleman posted:If yelling “you dummy” at a woman is a term of endearment, their love will last an eternity. Your father is Fred Sanford????
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Animal-Mother posted:How did my father buy and sell multiple houses when I'm supposedly in the same blue collar economic strata he was in at my age and every apartment landlord company wants closer and closer to 100% of my income? sometimes it’s best to defer to the wisdom of old people 
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TrashMammal posted:sometimes it’s best to defer to the wisdom of old people He has my vote!
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Crystal radios. What station was broadcasting to those? Was it the Skeksis? Did they have crystal microphones too?
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When you're all out of fusionable material but then she start Ironing.
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Disco Duck And its follow-up Dis-Gorilla. Especially its follow-up, Dis-Gorilla.
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Hobby culture / Hobby shops were around when I was a kid and it seemed like most upwardly mobile dads were involved in RC or models or something. Most of these places are gone and I wonder if its just a change in leisure or a lack of time. Probs just mobile phones and social media leeching everyones time though.
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Poohs Packin posted:Hobby culture / Hobby shops were around when I was a kid and it seemed like most upwardly mobile dads were involved in RC or models or something. God I loved old school Radio Shack. Like the best store to ever exist.
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redshirt posted:God I loved old school Radio Shack. Like the best store to ever exist. Ok boomer
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Poohs Packin posted:Ok boomer You need a circuit Sonny??
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Poohs Packin posted:Hobby culture / Hobby shops were around when I was a kid and it seemed like most upwardly mobile dads were involved in RC or models or something. I think those dads are really into retro gaming now and spend hundreds of dollars on hardware mods for Sega Saturns and stuff like that
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Buttchocks posted:Crystal radios. What station was broadcasting to those? Was it the Skeksis? Did they have crystal microphones too? It's just like regular radios so you just listen to the radio.I believe there are actually crystal microphones but they don't broadcast to crystal radios. I think the amp hookup on acoustic guitars are some kind of crystal microphone but I'm way out of my wheelhouse here.
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redshirt posted:God I loved old school Radio Shack. Like the best store to ever exist. I also liked it because I could buy some crazy niche adapters. Like antenna to coaxial or molex to pin or that funky power adapter I needed for an atari 2600.
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MooRooster posted:I don't even know what they're used for let alone how to use them I've used these before and I still have no idea how they work. I buy them at the post office or 711 and then take them to whatever boomer asked for them. Then they try and explain that I should remove the stub and keep it and sign it whenev...... Yeah I'm sure it's loving great just take the thing you old rear end in a top hat. It was usually a landlord so it's especially hilarious that they're suddenly concerned about young people getting robbed after they made me waste 4.72 on some fee for the privilege of giving them "passive income". They make even less sense than travelers checks. I swear boomers just like to dip into a little hassle and procedure just to feel like they're doing important business.
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a crystal radio is just an AM radio that uses a crystal for a power source iirc. I had a kit where you'd wire up a few things and have a crude working one but dont' remember it ever working e wiki says the crystal 'rectifies' the signal and signal itself powers the radio which is maybe more crazy than the power coming from the crystal
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Big rear end On Fire posted:AM radio this is something i'm too young to understand. apparently am radio is for people talking, and fm radio is for music. maybe there is a law that says you can't play music on am radio or w/e.
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All kinds of big bands on AM radio brother! Give the dial a tune!
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Those Beatles tunes still sound great in mono on the Big 1040.
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Szyznyk posted:Those Beatles tunes still sound great in mono on the Big 1040. SHE LOVES YOU YEAH Garble
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a dmc delorean posted:I still don't know what a dixie cup is They're just paper cups.
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Grey Cat posted:They're just paper cups. Kinda waxy, I don't know if that is specific to Dixie Cups
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