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You can fight the cashless thing pretty easily. Depends if you want the hassle though and you'll probably end up trespassed. If they refuse cash tell them you don't have a card and you're keeping it anyway. They'll tell you that you have to pay. 50/50 on whether they'll take the cash at this point. Ask if you owe them money if they say no. If they say yes congratulations. U.S. law say they are now legally required to take cash to pay for it.

Will the cops take your side if they get called? Probably not. Is it worth the trouble? Probably not.

The only time I've ever done it was for a drink I opened and drank before the line got to me. The guy was absolutely furious I didn't have a card and only had cash. Along come the local cops for a theft call to find out I've been trying to pay. Ended up banned but getting to watch the cop explain "For all debts public and private" to a kid was fun.
 
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TismFarmer said:
I remember going to the opening of the first McDonald's restaurant in our country.
I remember going to the movies to see Star Wars. The first one. When people didn't know anything about it yet.

Also, I remember when we got the first microwave in our area and everyone in the neighbourhood came over and took turn putting a cup of water in it and being amazed that you could make it boil in one minute!
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What fuckin former combloc do you live in where microwaves are new?

Threadtax: i remember "now that's why I call music" being on 1-4 albums. Only recognize music from up to 42, and after that it's on 116 and idk who any of the artists are.
 
I remember when this was current
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I don't think anybody who's in their early 20s knows what it's parodying.
 
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My fucking feet hurt. All. The. Time.

I haven't really changed my exercise/work/fun (I do mountain hiking as my main hobby other than shitposting) in the past 5 years or so, but they just keep getting worse. My shoulders have hurt for like 15 years though, so I figure it's just balancing me out.

It's weird, though since I ask my mother and other much older people how much pain they are in when they wake up and the act like I'm crazy.
 
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Velvanot said:
I keep hearing songs that were popular on the radio as a teen playing in grocery stores now when I'm out shopping for exciting things like vitamins and new towels. God I'm old.
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The day I started taking vitamins seriously I also had referred to my right knee as my "good knee". I paused and just stopped that it finally happened.
 
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Derrick said:
"You know, for quite a while now, every time I pass the cemetery, I've felt as if I were apartment hunting."-Prof. Wutheridge, The Bishop's Wife (1947)

Oh for sure, prices have been crazy since we were kids, fast food cost me over $10 a meal now, back in my day that have gotten me a decent dinner at a sit down place at those prices. Also Dollar Stores, there now $1.25 stores it seems.

Speaking of money, does anybody still carry it? I was getting lunch for the office and there was this young guy, fresh out of college, and he's telling me he will 'cashapp' me the money if I buy a meal for him. I'm looking at him like, "Do I look like I know how to use that?" In my day we all carried cash around and would give it out to people when we needed to pay them for small things, I still do. I guess that's just an old person thing now.
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I sometimes have a small amount of money on me for the smoothie lady. She only takes cash. But other than that, no. Even Acme stopped chaining the carts together because no one had any quarters and had to ask the cart guy to unlock them. It doesn't stop people from stealing carts anyway. The wheel lock is hit or miss. I don't even think it's working at the store I go to. There are carts everywhere.

That cash app guy is probably scamming free meals.
 
getting inside a car built after 2016
"why does it need a huge screen?"
Your Starter for 10 said:
My fucking feet hurt. All. The. Time.

I haven't really changed my exercise/work/fun (I do mountain hiking as my main hobby other than shitposting) in the past 5 years or so, but they just keep getting worse. My shoulders have hurt for like 15 years though, so I figure it's just balancing me out.

It's weird, though since I ask my mother and other much older people how much pain they are in when they wake up and the act like I'm crazy.
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get new shoes.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
I'm used to cars being like cars, instead of like computerized media centers.

Things like analog guages, CD and tape drive, not much driver distractions...
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I don't even think it should be legal to have what amounts to a giant Android cell phone in the middle of the dashboard, especially considering it's illegal to use a normal cell phone. It's distracting, requires you to look away from the road to do so much as change the radio station, and if driving while talking on a cell phone is as dangerous as DWI, why the fuck are they allowed to install them right in the car itself?
 
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Your Starter for 10 said:
My fucking feet hurt. All. The. Time.

I haven't really changed my exercise/work/fun (I do mountain hiking as my main hobby other than shitposting) in the past 5 years or so, but they just keep getting worse. My shoulders have hurt for like 15 years though, so I figure it's just balancing me out.

It's weird, though since I ask my mother and other much older people how much pain they are in when they wake up and the act like I'm crazy.
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I had that problem for a year or two. It turns out it was gout. Eating several pounds of beef every day was ill-advised for my constitution.
 
Orange Rhymer said:
I remember the check-cashing truck outside work. Charged a modest $2 to cash a paycheck (or any other check).
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Growing up, there was an unemployment agency office on the outskirts of our downtown. Across the street, a check cashing truck would park and cash anyone's check - especially from the unemployment agency - for a similar fee.

AnOminous said:
I don't even think it should be legal to have what amounts to a giant Android cell phone in the middle of the dashboard, especially considering it's illegal to use a normal cell phone. It's distracting, requires you to look away from the road to do so much as change the radio station, and if driving while talking on a cell phone is as dangerous as DWI, why the fuck are they allowed to install them right in the car itself?
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Totally agree. I reacted the same way when my part of Kiwi Land enacted stricter distracted driving laws because so many cars have touch-screen center consoles and other cars come with rear seat entertainment centers to distract entertain the kids. These are as distracting as - if not more than - cell phone usage or other distractions.
 
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