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Cheesegirl78 said:
Same with the Ramones and the New York Dolls.
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Ah, right...the New York Dolls. I wasn't alive back then. WTF happened with that? Johansen kept respawning in 'white guy funk' solo acts no one asked for.

For some reason he was on SNL constantly. Like every time you watch a rerun from 1988 he’s just there again.

He got bodied by Little Richard at the Grammys, deservedly.

 
Remember the insane circus that was coronapanic "The New Normal", with "face masks", "social distancing", and "temporary" closures BS?

A "Generation Alpha" child who was a newborn baby during that endless freak show could be going to 1st grade in elementary school now.
 
calm down
ToroidalBoat said:
Remember the insane circus that was coronapanic "The New Normal", with "face masks", "social distancing", and "temporary" closures BS?

A "Generation Alpha" child who was a newborn baby during that endless freak show could be going to 1st grade in elementary school now.
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You sound like a faggot.

Maybe quit KF for a while and refocus on dialing in that fellating skill set so that you can take over the family business from your dad one day. 👍
 
Does it ever hit home to any of you just how much age fucks with your perception of time? Like, in my early 20s, stuff that happened a couple of years ago felt like it happened to a whole different person. Nowadays, shit that happened in the last decade still feels recent.
 
Nick Wilde said:
Does it ever hit home to any of you just how much age fucks with your perception of time? Like, in my early 20s, stuff that happened a couple of years ago felt like it happened to a whole different person. Nowadays, shit that happened in the last decade still feels recent.
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I’d extend that to 15 years and this applies to me.
strumpets exeunt said:
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Lynyrd Skynyrd having gone full Ship of Theseus is a pretty rough one.
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NuSkynyrd is abominable too. The original lineup and albums were a bunch of good ol’ boys from the south. The “new” stuff from within the last 30 years is shit you’d expect to see Toby Keith sing.
 
ChompChomp said:
Maybe quit KF for a while and refocus on dialing in that fellating skill set so that you can take over the family business from your dad one day.
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Nah, bagel boat man is a kool kiwi.

Tax: I was talking to some probably 20 year old who had no idea what a rotary phone is. We still used them when I was young. I remember when GTE switched over to touch-tone and we had to replace all the phones in our home.
 
Remember if a new episode of a show you liked came on, you'd rush to the television and change the channel to catch it? Or if you're older, you'd go to the TV Guide to hunt for any upcoming programs from your provider?

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I remember just scrolling through DirecTV's built in TV guide just channel surfing and making reminders for my favorite shows.
 
The Last Stand said:
Remember if a new episode of a show you liked came on, you'd rush to the television and change the channel to catch it?
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There was also this TV guide channel on cable TV. Top half would show ads or clips or something, bottom half showed the listings scrolling by. If you missed what channel you were looking for, you'd have to wait until it scrolled all the way back to there. Like you wanted to see what's on 56 but missed it, you'd have to wait until it looped back.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
There was also this TV guide channel on cable TV. Top half would show ads or clips or something, bottom half showed the listings scrolling by. If you missed what channel you were looking for, you'd have to wait until it scrolled all the way back to there.
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I vaguely remember what you're talking about. Remember built in pay-per-view through the cable boxes? I gripe about how parents are careless with giving children devices with their credit cards attached. I remember I used to randomly order pay-per-view programs on the family set. I think it was $100 worth of charges when the bill came.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
There was also this TV guide channel on cable TV. Top half would show ads or clips or something, bottom half showed the listings scrolling by. If you missed what channel you were looking for, you'd have to wait until it scrolled all the way back to there. Like you wanted to see what's on 56 but missed it, you'd have to wait until it looped back.
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I remember one of these that ran on an Amiga and once came up with a Guru Meditation Error.
 
How about Nielsen boxes? Maybe you were lucky enough to have one hooked up to your TV so they could check their ratings.
 
Nick Wilde said:
Does it ever hit home to any of you just how much age fucks with your perception of time? Like, in my early 20s, stuff that happened a couple of years ago felt like it happened to a whole different person. Nowadays, shit that happened in the last decade still feels recent.
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A lot, too many to count. My timeline of things is royally fucked. It's going to be even worse when we hit the 2030s. I'm going to be one day, sitting somewhere in my home, reminiscing of past events. I'm going to remember something from 2016 and we're in the 2030s, thinking like "yeah that was quite a time, a decade ago or so" then realize it was actually 17 years ago or something before going "SON OF A BITCH!!".

Then I'm going to get all fucking depressed again.

The Nintendo Wii is officially 20 years old now.
 
I'm now able to glance at ancient pictures of my wife and her identical twin from when they were at some lan party when they were, like, 20, back around the turn of the century and still mostly identical, and now I can instantly just ID them by body language
 
there's some string I search for sporadically that I posted on 4chan a thousand years ago, forget if it's a file or a youtube or an image or what
but it's stable and I end up running into it every other year at least on desu when I'm looking for whatever, then I see that thread where I'm broing it up with THAT ryulong in the long long ago before five guys met burgers and fries
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I'm now able to glance at ancient pictures of my wife and her identical twin from when they were at some lan party when they were, like, 20, back around the turn of the century and still mostly identical, and now I can instantly just ID them by body language
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I once punched a kid in the face who was a twin because his identical twin had done something that pissed me off. I had to apologize to both of them.

Thread tax: I remember when I used to be able to drive places without a GPS telling me what turns to take. Or actually consult a map on paper. Remember those? My iPhone ran out of juice today and I was completely at a loss. Had to pull over and buy a USB cable and a chicken sandwich to eat while it charged enough to come back up and tell me I was going in the absolute wrong direction.
 
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