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Post by gabby on Dec 4, 2020 12:37:57 GMT -8
Bu they are wrong about #1. Crock pots are a rage among Millennials right now. Not only do I have 2 crockpots (of different sizes), I also have an Instant Pot on the kitchen counter. (Hey, it was on sale 2 Christmases ago!) I missed a lot of the pictures in autumnmist's link too - a lot of that stuff was gaming, and some was strictly "child-oriented". But, I'm still 12. I got a set of Lincoln Logs for Christmas back in the mid 50s. Mom threw them out during one of her moves while I was overseas during the 60s, along with a half gallon ice cream container full of my "cat's eyes" marbles. And, yes, I had some "steelies" for use in those "to the death" matches of five hole in elementary school. You'd sneak one out in your hand to smash the opponent's cherished ball. The teachers finally banned them, but I kept mine at home. I couldn't believe Mom threw them out! I have a lot of good and pleasant memories about drive-in theaters Back as late as the 60s, a date (at least for me) almost always included a movie at the drive-in. My 3rd date with my 1st wife was at the drive-in: the movie was John Wayne in "The Green Berets". We didn't care much about the movie, anyway - I still haven't seen it. Our very first date was in the balcony of the Aztec theater in downtown San Antonio - lasted for the entire movie. The movie was Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet", but we had to come back to actually see it later. We were in the second row of the balcony, right there in the foreground of the picture. 1st wife was a rightwing crackpot born-again, but, hell, could she snog. I don't remember anything else about that first date. When the lights went up on the floor, we had to pause for a bit to figure out where we were. I actually have that alarm clock that's #19. The wife's was like that #19, which served her for decades, but got thrown out in the 90s. I was, like, "Hey! It still works!", but she didn't like the way it looked anymore. She got one with a CD player and an atomic clock that died inside of 2 years. She now uses my old backpacking/camping Casio portable, while I use my iPhone as my alarm clock. (I never give my old phones in trade-in either: the only iPhone I "turned back in" was the 4. I still have my 4S, 6 - which the wife used when she put her Samsung Galaxy on the roof of her car - and 7. I use them in the bedroom and living room as "jukeboxes" using Spotify. My $16 family acct has up to 6 devices available, so 1 for the wife and 5 for me and my "jukeboxes".) In explanation of that last paragraph: We have these "attitudes" that date back to the stuff that we never told each other when we first met: I insist on using cheap Walmart or Target white toweling while she opts for the plush, expensive and dyed ones. It hit me one day when I was in the gym: they only supplied the barest minimum toweling in a rack by the showers, and they were always sufficient, never getting totally wet, so I thought "Why do we need those huge fluffy things we use at home?" You can get them cheap (I've paid as little as 99 cents for one before), you can stack more of them in the space in the bath closet, and more of them can get washed in a laundry tub than those huge ones that cost $20 apiece, saving water, detergent and the environment. (In fact, Target had the remainder of their stock on sale for $2 apiece this week when I went for Cafe Bustelo (also on sale in the 7.5 oz bottle), so I got a dozen. Wife screamed. She drew the line at bedsheets, though: my penchant for plain white didn't cut it.) I still have a #30 in my closet, full of backups and software that will only run on Win 95 (or earlier). One of my laptops is still running #32 (the Toshiba on top of the stack below), because there are utilities (and a version of Perl version 5.8.0) that I still use. I currently have 3 laptops in front of me in a stack. The latest one acquired was the Samsung RF710 17" that the daughter discarded (middle one in picture) because she bought a new portable gaming laptop. I loaded Ubuntu 20.10 LTS (Linux) on it and am using it as my "developer station". (chuckle - like I'm a "developer"!) Note that the keyboard in the foreground has white buttons that allow it to be used on up to 3 devices. It also has a little rack at the back for my tablets and iPhone. When I croak in a few years, there's going to be the biggest garage sale in the history of the world.We should still be using (or should go back to) #10s in all vehicles. Or, better, sliders with detents like the old British sports cars. But people would complain, wouldn't they? I can beat #3: I still have an Atari 2600 in the garage I bought for my kids back in the 70s. With games. I don't know if it still works. The daughter's 64 is out there too, but I know that one doesn't work. I was great at the ice hockey game on the Atari. In fact, I miss playing it. In my Catholic elementary school This place is like the Supreme Court! I had no idea there were so many Romans here!
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Post by johntpenca on Dec 4, 2020 12:43:29 GMT -8
In my Catholic elementary school, girls had to wear the stereotypical pleated wool plaid uniform skirts and white blouses. Boys had to wear white shirts and ties. I remember. I also remember the nuns that were terrifying. They had no hesitation to whack you with the sharp edge of a ruler or their tongue.
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Post by reuben on Dec 4, 2020 12:55:01 GMT -8
I know what I did, but I'm unsure of the statute of limitations. Or was that covered in President Carter's pardon? Every few years I have to explain why I wasn't registered for the Selective Service. Today's background investigators are too young to remember that registration was suspended between 1975 and 1980. Yup, right when I became eligible. I called and they said don't bother to register because Congress is about to change the law.
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Post by reuben on Dec 4, 2020 12:58:20 GMT -8
Crockpots? Nah. I've got three 100 year old cast iron Griswold dutch ovens.
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Post by Deborah on Dec 4, 2020 14:02:56 GMT -8
On a nonpictorial level, do the women here remember having to wear skirts or dresses to school? We weren't allow to wear slacks, not at all, when I was in high school. Yes. They finally started allowing girls to wear jeans or slacks the year after I got out of high school.
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Post by Travis on Dec 4, 2020 14:38:32 GMT -8
Every few years I have to explain why I wasn't registered for the Selective Service. Today's background investigators are too young to remember that registration was suspended between 1975 and 1980. Yup, right when I became eligible. I called and they said don't bother to register because Congress is about to change the law. I remember very well once when Congress changed the law, because it happened 4 days after my draft lottery number came due. I was expecting a draft notice any day in the mail. But the new law I remember ended the draft and rescinded my draft status. Talk about whiplash.
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Post by BigLoad on Dec 4, 2020 14:59:49 GMT -8
In my Catholic elementary school, girls had to wear the stereotypical pleated wool plaid uniform skirts and white blouses. Boys had to wear white shirts and ties. I remember. I also remember the nuns that were terrifying. They had no hesitation to whack you with the sharp edge of a ruler or their tongue. My ears are twice their normal sized from the nuns dragging me around by them.
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Post by BigLoad on Dec 4, 2020 15:04:12 GMT -8
Yup, right when I became eligible. I called and they said don't bother to register because Congress is about to change the law. I remember very well once when Congress changed the law, because it happened 4 days after my draft lottery number came due. I was expecting a draft notice any day in the mail. But the new law I remember ended the draft and rescinded my draft status. Talk about whiplash. I spent most of my childhood in fear of eventually being sent to Viet Nam. I breathed a huge sigh of relief in 1975.
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Post by gabby on Dec 4, 2020 18:41:10 GMT -8
I spent most of my childhood in fear of eventually being sent to Viet Nam. I understand that. I used to wake nights when I was in the single digits in fear that I'd have to go to Korea. Dad would leave the radio war reports on at night after he went to bed: most were absolutely terrifying to a child. Now people I know tell me that death is terrifying. I tell them, no, I've already been there - at least as far as the "fear" part is concerned.
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 4, 2020 18:54:53 GMT -8
Mrs. big_load still uses a (real) Rolodex On a nonpictorial level, do the women here remember having to wear skirts or dresses to school? We weren't allow to wear slacks, not at all, when I was in high school. But we had to wear those one-piece gym suits for mandatory gym class. Dresses weren’t mandatory at any school I attended, but when I started school they were mandatory for *me*. One of the drawbacks of being the preacher’s kid. Before I started 2nd grade my dad left the ministry and we moved to Washington (state), and eventually my mom recognized that the other girls wore jeans.
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Post by rebeccad on Dec 4, 2020 19:00:51 GMT -8
I also agree with DD that the second set is quite a bit newer stuff—from my childhood and later. Those video-game things are alien to me for the most part; the big video game when I was in HS was Pong.
#23... they still sell those. My boys had one. I don’t think they had them when I was young.
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Post by swimswithtrout on Dec 4, 2020 19:02:28 GMT -8
I still have a stack of these in my keepsakes...and I consider them "new"
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Post by johntpenca on Dec 4, 2020 20:47:45 GMT -8
Fortran?
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Post by ErnieW on Dec 4, 2020 21:29:32 GMT -8
Every few years I have to explain why I wasn't registered for the Selective Service. Today's background investigators are too young to remember that registration was suspended between 1975 and 1980. I turned 18 in 1978 and I thought I had to register but no more draft. I guess when you can't remember stuff like that from when you a teen you are old.
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Post by BigLoad on Dec 4, 2020 21:58:16 GMT -8
Yeah, when you've experienced over 40 years of adulthood, you're old. Fortunately it's not the same kind of old my grandparents were at this age.
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