Things you don't miss at all - The counter-nostalgia thread

If you were at all nostalgic for blockbuster, you didn't actually grow up with it.
Their late fees were awful, never had the stuff you wanted, and always pussied out when it came to carrying certain films (Only carrying edited copies of Showgirls and Bad Lieutenant.)
My family always did Hollywood Video (Which had its faults) and Netflix when it was a DVD Service (remember they existed since 1997.)
We only did Blockbuster when we absolutely needed something quick and none of our Hollywood Videos or Mom and Pop stores carried it.
 
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Raging Capybara said:
Seriously, how was that possible?
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They learn to navigate the streets by competing daily fares. After a while, if someone said a cross street, an experienced driver knows how to get there because he's driven people around that block in the past. You should read about "The Knowledge," a rigorous test about London's geography and routes drivers must take to drive the city's famous black cabs. Those drivers don't need GPS and are known to be faster than the technology.
 
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The Cunting Death said:
If you were at all nostalgic for blockbuster, you didn't actually grow up with it.
Their late fees were awful, never had the stuff you wanted, and always pussied out when it came to carrying certain films (Only carrying edited copies of Showgirls and Bad Lieutenant.)
My family always did Hollywood Video (Which had its faults) and Netflix when it was a DVD Service (remember they existed since 1997.)
We only did Blockbuster when we absolutely needed something quick and none of our Hollywood Videos or Mom and Pop stores carried it.
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Didn't Blockbuster also charge a fee if you didn't rewind tapes before returning them?
 
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mr_negativity said:
Broadcast/Cable Television: The writing was on the wall in 2012 and I was losing interest. This was before, it became woke.
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"WOKE" has been in media for a while. Mainstream American stuff from the 80s and 90s also pandered to faggots, it was just a lot less insulting about it.
 
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Used cars for sale having no VIN report, you inspected it yourself and hoped it wasn't glued together just to last long enough for a test drive and you hope the odometer wasn't rolled back.
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if I could choose between No Car Fax and No Cash For Clunkers murdering the old car market I'd go with No Car Fax

on general blockbustering, ehh
I was nerd enough to be annoyed they wouldn't stock XX title, but the networked stores allowed me to find a particular movie that was only at the store twenty miles away, so it helped once or twice
in the day I would drive upwards of an hour to a rental store (VIDEO NEWS Fort Pierce like w00t) because renting animu and dubbing out a copy was that much cheaper than buying it
the mom and pops are always the best, Hollywood had some good shit
blockbuster was sorta like when Jack Proboscis and other Con, Inc tards try to sell people like the 90s were something great and they act like Pizza Hut was ever good
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
if I could choose between No Car Fax and No Cash For Clunkers
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Didn't Cash for Clunkers end up being a net loss of 1.4 Billion dollars? It just sounded like a terrible idea, purposelessly destroying cars that were roadworthy. They couldn't just give them to needy low economy families? They couldn't find a few thousand single moms or family struggling with the economy who could just use a running car? Instead of living paycheck to paycheck and riding the bus?

back on topic on topic:

The housing market crash of 2008, I was on the front lines after that shitshow breaching doors with the Sheriffs Dept. evictions detail. "balloon loans" "Adjustable APR loans" "stated income loans"? WHO IN THE FUCK thought that was a good idea. Giving people loans based on their word.


I wonder how many conversations took place just like this in 2006-2007?

Banker faggot: So Mr. Jackson, on your home loan application form here is says your yearly income is $140,000? May I ask your job title and employer?
Jackson: I'm a manager.
Banker faggot: Ok and employed by whom?
Jackson: a famous restaurant
Banker faggot: OK do we have a pay stub or 1040 form?
Jackson: I got a paystub right here.
Banker faggot: You work at Mcdonalds as an assistant manager, it says?
Jackson: Yeah I'm a manager, like I said
Banker faggot: OK, this paystub has a two week take home of just under $1000
Jackson: Yeah, so?
banker faggot: Mr Jackson do you have any other income sources? $2000 a month is $24,000 yearly and you are asking for a $600,00 loan and putting only 10% down.
Jackson: yeah so?
banker faggot: well fuck it lets just say you own a small contracting business making 100K yearly on the side OK?
Jackson: I get the money now, right?
Banker faggot: no Mr Jackson it goes into escrow until the close of the sale of the home itself.
Jackson: how much I need to pay a month?
Banker faggot: good question let me get back to you on that, lets gets the final paperwork started.

I would rummage through the abandoned homes, one of the residents was actually selling the shitty loans that caused this. This dumb fucker had a suitcase full of "refinance your home NOW" flyers, "Buy that expensive car you always wanted, it's free money!! Just sign here" he didn't know or care what he was even selling or buying as long as he got that commission for the home loan he sold. The scary part is Bank of America is currently creating more and more "help the black man, home loan programs" purposely giving black or anyone claiming to be black loan approval for loans they do not qualify for, EXACTLY like 2006 that lead to the 2008 crash.
 
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Those big projection TVs that would house every living room in the 90s-2000s.

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How would you even get those in the house?
 
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