"You're Old!!!" moments

[wolf]

Originally posted by plthijinx
'93?!? whoa. i was a manager at a local video store chain and we only carried VHS. that was from '89 to 91, in the collage (emphasis added) days.

You made art by pasting cutout pictures from magazines onto things? Do you have pictures??

Yes, you young whippersnapper, there was a time when BetaMax was thought to be the superior format for video distribution. (okay, the REALLY superior one was the laser disk, but that didn't last because it was too damn expensive and you couldn't record on them).

Once upon a time videos were relased Beta-only. Sony, however, made one of their rare technological gaffes ... they made the format proprietary, so no cheap knockoffs were produced and the format died a quiet death as the VHS format was produced in cheaper and cheaper units.

My first VHS VCR cost $349.99, from Hess' Department Store, and had a programmable timer (very big deal) and a wired remote control. It was a front-loader rather than a top loader. I bought it in 1984, at which time there were no video store chains (West Coast was just starting to penetrate the east coast video market, Blockbuster opened their Montgomeryville store a quite a few years later) and the mom and pop video store I joined (you had to pay a membership fee in the bad old days) in Ambler was 3/4 Beta to 1/4 VHS. I watched that ratio change over time, until they finally discontinued their Beta collection, mostly by selling it off to tape-hungry BetaMax owners. Unlike the major chainstores, the mom and pops' had the infamous "back room" for adult oriented viewing, so I was able to see such classics as Caligula and Alien Lust.

originally posted by OnyxCougar
Talk about old, I can remember when the ' and the " were on a typewriter on the upper left of the keyboard, where the ` and ~ is now.

HAH. I remember typewriters that were produced without a number 1. You had to remember to type a lowercase "l". I also suffered through the use of a "proportionally spaced" typewriter. This IBM electric monstrosity produced beautiful business correspondence, unless you made a mistake, because the letters each had different widths. You also had to remember that a "W" required three backspaces, but a "n" needed only two.

LJ mentioned jinx having an unusual belief regarding nuke-a-matics

As far as the microwave sucking nutrients out of food ... if you are cooking fresh foods, that doesn't seem logical, at least it won't suck anymore nutrients out of something than conventional cooking would. And, for veggies, since the cooking time is shorter, and you are essentially steaming them, just so long as you don't cook the broccoli into a gooey mess, then it should retain more vitamins than if you boil them. Prepackaged microwavable foods have the nutrients pre-sucked out of them at the factory, though. Perhaps that's what you should be worried about.

[BrianR]

I believe we both went to the same place. That's the one where one of the clerks was a moonlighting Ambler cop, right?

And membership records were kept on library-style cards in a box up front?

Brian

[kerosene]

I;m with ya.

[wolf]

Yes, Brian, that's the place, next to Guiseppe's Pizza ... it was the ONLY video store in town ... until the West Coast opened up in Broad Axe about 5-6 years later.

[jinx]

Originally posted by Undertoad
Not to pick on jinx all the time, I swear I don't mean to, but this is one of those shit molecule theories that juju can disprove with dye and paper.

IMO, naturally

Oh, seriously, don't worry about 'picking on' me becuase you disagree..... disagree all you want. I'm pretty confident in any decision I've made that I've bothered to research at all, you're not going to bust my bubble by cracking a little joke. And hell, if you want to nuke your food, or hold a radar gun in your lap, or live next to a cell tower - you go for it man. More power to ya!
I just don't know how you can choke the shit down... yuk.

[wolf]

I was looking for a different thread and found this ... Just happened to have an experience to add.

We have a new ambulance kid at the nuthouse. He's 19, or maybe 20. I had to explain Woolworth's to him.

And then two of the guys made a joke about Kung Fu (miming picking up the heated bowl at the end of the trial), that they then had to explain.

The young man assures me, however, that he remembers his grandmother having a rotary dial phone, so today's youth are learning something of history.

[DanaC]

Kid's hearts beat faster than adults; therefore they have a different perception of time. The smaller the creature, the faster the heartbeat, the slower time moves.

[Nirvana]

Originally Posted by DanaC

The smaller the creature, the faster the heartbeat, the slower time moves.

That is not necessarily true. Many obese people have resting heart rates in the 100s. Mine is 65-67bpm, my 2 lb Chihuahua is 72 bpm. Go figure. . .

[fargon]

I know I'm getting old. We had a rotary dial phone just one , and it was in the kitchen. We had only one TV black and white with no remote. my mom stayed home and took care of us, making our clothes. We had a washing machine but no dryer she used a clothes line in the back yard. My Dads uniforms had to be stiff starched I well remember her doing that. We had a Crosley stove, and a Kelvenator refrigerator. Our house cost $15,500.00 a 2br 1ba with a car port on a standard city lot, 1 mile from the beach it has an ocean view sort of. It last sold 2 years ago for 1.5 Million, ridiculous. I loved that old house.

[SteveDallas]

"You're Old!!!" moments

When somebody posts something to an old thread you started, and you see that you started it six years ago.

[Tulip]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

When somebody posts something to an old thread you started, and you see that you started it six years ago.

And you felt old then....

[DanaC]

lol Glinda!

I just had a You're Old moment. Was watching an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and in the identity parade round, they showed a video clip of an indie band from 1994, then when the line up came on for the team to guess which one was the base guitarist, they all looked like old blokes! I thought shit! They're my age! I'm an oldie! I still think of the 90s as kind of modern. It's so not *sobs*

[xoxoxoBruce]

Heh, I put brand new 20 year shingles on the roof so I wouldn't have to worry about it... 22 years ago.

[Gravdigr]

Yeah, when I programmed the station presets on my most recent car stereo, the oldies station was one I put in there. When the station came on after I programmed it, it was the Eagles. Hotel California. "Hey, I remember when that came out." Awww, shit. I'm old.

[Cloud]

Eight grandchildren.