Cranjis McBasketball
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 28, 2011 3:34:33 GMT -5
Yeah, we lost smoking in the bar a few years back. Damn shame. Going to the pub or bar just isn't the same. The pubs are totally dead now. They all survive...somehow, but many is a time I've gone and we're the only table. Then the waitress comes out and smokes with me anyway.
My city thought they'd get the restaurants and billiard places by declaring, "Ok, you can build a smoker's aquarium, ban anyone under 18 or go smoke free." No one, not a single place went smoke free. They built the aquarium or banned kids. Good times. Then they banned it altogether a few years later.
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 28, 2011 5:31:21 GMT -5
7. Polio
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Post by thwak is T.hawk on Mar 28, 2011 5:57:24 GMT -5
I think kids are gonna think it's odd that we used to think video chat was going to be far in the future.
Now we just have skype and it's unreliable.
Hell, pretty much anything in a james bond movie kids are going to look at and ask "what's the big deal?"
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Krimzon
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Post by Krimzon on Mar 28, 2011 6:07:13 GMT -5
I was only born in 1986 and I now feel ANCIENT after reading that. I remember when my dad would tell me about a time when there were only 3 TV channels & no in-door air-conditioning. I couldn't imagine how anybody lived in such archaic times.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Mar 28, 2011 6:13:48 GMT -5
Actually having to work to see naked women, like sneaking a peek at the Penthouse in the bookstore or trying to make out scrambled cable signals.
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Mar 28, 2011 6:23:36 GMT -5
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Mar 28, 2011 6:30:38 GMT -5
Actually having to work to see naked women, like sneaking a peek at the Penthouse in the bookstore or trying to make out scrambled cable signals. I was right about at the tail end of this in my adolescence, when looking shit up on the internet was still more of a wait than it was worth, but premium cable channels meant all you had to do was make sure your parents were asleep first.
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Post by wildojinx on Mar 28, 2011 9:23:36 GMT -5
The idea of "renting" movies. Yeah, Netflix and Redbox are still prevalent, but even then, most people would rather watch films using on-demand services on their computer, or watching them via more "questionable" methods.
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AFN: Judge Shred
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Mar 28, 2011 13:16:57 GMT -5
Yeah, we lost smoking in the bar a few years back. Damn shame. Going to the pub or bar just isn't the same. The pubs are totally dead now. They all survive...somehow, but many is a time I've gone and we're the only table. Then the waitress comes out and smokes with me anyway. My city thought they'd get the restaurants and billiard places by declaring, "Ok, you can build a smoker's aquarium, ban anyone under 18 or go smoke free." No one, not a single place went smoke free. They built the aquarium or banned kids. Good times. Then they banned it altogether a few years later. Illinois is working on passing a bill that lets Bar buys a smoking license. So it wont be dead if that passes.
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crash1984
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Post by crash1984 on Mar 28, 2011 15:03:04 GMT -5
And what about Porn. So easy to get hold of these days. I remember a time I could not buy porn because I was too young. So best bet was just randomly finding it in bushes in parks and reserve areas. Also in the 90s in Australia we only had 5 TV channels at the time. Sometimes we would get some softcore movie on a commercial network after 11pm on a Friday or Saturday night. Another good option was SBS a channel that showed a lot of foreign films were they would often show movies from countries where the actors did not even consider having a no nudity clause in their contract. It was a frustrating time. Only one time did I ever find any porno growing up. I was walking and seen a magazine lying on the ground called Breast Beat or something like that. The only problem was my parents were with me so I had to just keep walking like I did not care about it. My dad joked that if he would have been me he would have picked it up. Up until a couple of years ago I used dial-up internet and was severely limited to what i could download. Once I downloaded a 106 MB movie and it took over 16 hours. So I stuck to pictures and occasionally a short clip.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2011 16:25:37 GMT -5
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kidglov3s
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Post by kidglov3s on Mar 29, 2011 16:22:28 GMT -5
The idea of "renting" movies. Yeah, Netflix and Redbox are still prevalent, but even then, most people would rather watch films using on-demand services on their computer, or watching them via more "questionable" methods. Not just renting, but moreso being limited to what video stores near you had available to rent, and what wasn't rented out. Like, from all the video stores that were around me, these were the wrestling tapes I had available to me from before I started to watch wrestling in the time that I was interested in wrestling (1993-2000) (Note: these were not all available at one time, as copies would be sold, stolen, stores would open, close, etc): Wrestlemania Wrestlemania II Wrestlemania III Piledriver Wrestlemania IV Summerslam 1988 Macho Madness Royal Rumble 1989 Wrestlemania V Wrestlemania VI Survivor Series 1990 Hulkamania Forever Wrestlemania VII Summerslam 1991 Survivor Series 1991 Wrestlemania VIII Summerslam 1992 Survivor Series 1992 Royal Rumble 1993 If a video store didn't have a PPV or wrestling tape, you pretty much weren't going to see the show. And forget about stuff that wasn't WWF.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2011 22:34:50 GMT -5
TVs without a remote control. YOU were the remote. One of your parents would tell you to get up and turn the channel manually. If the knob broke off, off you went to get a pair of pliers to turn the knob.
Early TVs with a remote only had two functions: 1) Volume; click once to turn it on and it would be at the loudest setting. Click again, it got softer. Click again, the softest setting. One more time, it shut off. 2) Channels. Pre-set into your "new-fangled" TV, you just went up or down.
Our first VCR in 1983 had a remote - a plug-in remote.
I'm not THAT old, but I remember these things.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Apr 1, 2011 22:58:23 GMT -5
I decided to go down nostalgia road and watch an episode from Zoom (1999). One of the experiments was building a rocket from a film canister. I was thinking a kid not only couldn't make that today but probably wouldn't know what a film canister was.
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 2, 2011 10:25:02 GMT -5
The idea of "renting" movies. Yeah, Netflix and Redbox are still prevalent, but even then, most people would rather watch films using on-demand services on their computer, or watching them via more "questionable" methods. Not just renting, but moreso being limited to what video stores near you had available to rent, and what wasn't rented out. Like, from all the video stores that were around me, these were the wrestling tapes I had available to me from before I started to watch wrestling in the time that I was interested in wrestling (1993-2000) (Note: these were not all available at one time, as copies would be sold, stolen, stores would open, close, etc): Wrestlemania Wrestlemania II Wrestlemania III Piledriver Wrestlemania IV Summerslam 1988 Macho Madness Royal Rumble 1989 Wrestlemania V Wrestlemania VI Survivor Series 1990 Hulkamania Forever Wrestlemania VII Summerslam 1991 Survivor Series 1991 Wrestlemania VIII Summerslam 1992 Survivor Series 1992 Royal Rumble 1993 If a video store didn't have a PPV or wrestling tape, you pretty much weren't going to see the show. And forget about stuff that wasn't WWF. Oh it wasnt just wrestling. I started getting into horror films around 1995, around the times video stores started clearing out the older stock for more "mainstream" fare, and while stuff like friday the 13th was easy to find, less so stuff like Zombie and City of the walking dead (and the former is considered a horror classic nowadays).
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Apr 2, 2011 10:32:33 GMT -5
The idea of "renting" movies. Yeah, Netflix and Redbox are still prevalent, but even then, most people would rather watch films using on-demand services on their computer, or watching them via more "questionable" methods. Not just renting, but moreso being limited to what video stores near you had available to rent, and what wasn't rented out. Like, from all the video stores that were around me, these were the wrestling tapes I had available to me from before I started to watch wrestling in the time that I was interested in wrestling (1993-2000) (Note: these were not all available at one time, as copies would be sold, stolen, stores would open, close, etc): Wrestlemania Wrestlemania II Wrestlemania III Piledriver Wrestlemania IV Summerslam 1988 Macho Madness Royal Rumble 1989 Wrestlemania V Wrestlemania VI Survivor Series 1990 Hulkamania Forever Wrestlemania VII Summerslam 1991 Survivor Series 1991 Wrestlemania VIII Summerslam 1992 Survivor Series 1992 Royal Rumble 1993 If a video store didn't have a PPV or wrestling tape, you pretty much weren't going to see the show. And forget about stuff that wasn't WWF. Or getting a video that was in the wrong box and not knowing till you got home.I can not tell you how many times I had that happen with wrestling VHS that I wanted say SummerSlam 1989 or Wrestlefest 1988 or even WM 9 and allways end up getting WM 11. It was allways WM 11 hidden in another box
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Post by Danimal on Apr 2, 2011 13:09:23 GMT -5
Actually having to work to see naked women, like sneaking a peek at the Penthouse in the bookstore or trying to make out scrambled cable signals. Finding porn was a big deal back when I was a kid. Usually involved digging through your buddy's older-brother/dad's stash when nobody was home. I remember having one of the old-type cable boxes with a cord. If you held-down two buttons at the same time and played with the picture-control you could get a grainy black-and-white deal going.
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Dr. T is an alien
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Apr 2, 2011 17:03:30 GMT -5
When this article came out last weekend I quizzed my kids on those 6 things. My kids knew 5 of them and figured out the VCR rewinder after a minute.
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