“Sorry, I got to return this video”
“Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial”
“Do you have any quarters for a phone?”
“Bill Cosby really is America’s dad”
“Can I borrow that VHS?”
“Sorry, I can’t come. My favourite show is on”
“Do you know where a phone is?”
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Check out my GeoCities
Geocities was over the hump at that point, but i guess that makes it even more true.
“Damn, Cindy Crawford is hot!”
Go ahead, look up photos of her now, age isn’t doing her former beauty very well…
She’s almost 59 years old, and looks damn good for her age.
I did, and I would still say that. You wouldn’t happen to have her confused with Rep. Cindy Crawford, the Arkansas politician?
If you’re looking at the Wikipedia article, that photo was from like a decade ago. Age is catching up with her…
I was looking at Insta posts from August. Difference of opinion, I guess.
2024 photo. I still wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers.
That’s the problem with beauty isn’t permanent. It happens to everyone from Madonna, Dick Van Dyke and Lynn Neilson. This doesn’t apply to everyone tho. Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson and Dewayne “The Rock” Johnson have manage to be exceptions to this rule although it’s much easier for men to do. In general women aren’t really allowed to age. Even if there looks aren’t important. I remember when the election was happening and people were dunking on Kamara Harris for having wrinkles like she isn’t a woman in her 60’s.
For some people looking good is literally their job and cost is no object when you’re rich.
There’s also a non-financial cost to keeping up with beauty standards via plastic surgery. Madonna is a perfect example. As soon as someone gets a facelift the ageing-clock speeds up and repeated lifts have diminishing returns until a person is left with an unexpressive piece of pleather for a face. Michael Jackson’s nose was also a good example of such issues.
Yeah but the cost to not looking like you’re aging is going from descending a hill to falling off a cliff and landing much lower
It’s 2004
Surly there were always people who say things like “wow, I can’t believe this thing is happening it’s like it’s 2004” or something.
“it’s literally the year two thousand and four”
Happy new year 2005!
Why did you remove me from your top 8 friends?
Have you heard of the Information superhighway?
“Will that be smoking or non smoking?” Asked as a restaurant
“I think you flooded it” in relation to a car not starting. (well unless you work on very old cars)
“I got it off Napster”
“want to listen to my mix tape?”
“I can burn you a CD of that”
“Will that be smoking or non smoking?” Asked as a restaurant
I was asked this at a café less than ten minutes ago now.
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future.
“Sorry, I got to return this video”
There is a video rental place in town here.
Is it like a nostalgic novelty place?
It is also a cigarette shop now. I have not been in there since it was the original owners back in the 90s.
Nobody referred to videos as “VHS” unless they were explicitly trying to distinguish the medium from betamax. They just called them “videos” and “tapes” or “videotape.”
for example: Hey can I borrow that tape?
That movie just came out on video.
Be kind, rewind your videotape.
I was born in the late 80’s by the time Betamax had died out so VHS was the de facto only video tape format in wide use, Hi-8 existed but was only used in the airlines despite being smaller and better. So movie previews would talk about “Coming soon to own on video” or people would say “I’ve got it on tape.” It would feel weirdly early 80’s to specify…until late in the DVD era and into blu-ray when VHS was a truly dead format and people started calling it that again.
Similarly, I never heard anyone pronounce “SNES” as a one letter word until at least the Gamecube era; it was the Super Nintendo at the time.
I was growing up when the SNES came out. I was a rare person that had an NES and I knew of no one with both an NES and SNES so most people I knew called the SNES “Nintendo”.
After the game cube was absolutely when “S’ness” became popular.
Conversely, I still sometimes refer to DVDs, Blu Rays and even streaming media as “videos”.
Which is both anachronistic, but also technically correct.
What’s your AIM screen name?
Where did I leave my zip disk?
Next to the minidisk
Yes, that was two decades
I still use minidiscs!
Hell yeah. My Zip disk lives somewhere and contains nude shots of Dragon Ball (original and Z) from when I was like 10. It was the only way I could hide them from my family.
Inserts disk: click, click, click
“fuck, I knew I should have put that on a CD-RW.”
Did you see Mozart’s new concerto?
I vividly remember… I was in the office and one of my coworkers comes up to me with a shit eating grin on his face - like he had something he wanted to share…
He said, “Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?” I said, “No…” He explained (sort of) what he thought it was, but sounded more like an investment opportunity (blah blah blah) less than 10 cents per… I didn’t bite.
Lets just say this didn’t age well for me, lmao.
When I first read about Bitcoins, my takeaway was it was some kind of credits you could earn by using your unused use CPU cycles, but it wasn’t a sure thing, it’s a lottery, you have a chance to earn a credit (a “coin”) every few minutes, as long as you keep donating your CPU cycles. (This was before gpu mining was a thing). I tried it, and after 3 days I had earned 3 coins, but then I looked into the value, and they were only worth about 10c each, and you couldn’t spend them anywhere. Except that one pizza place, where it cost a few thousand coins for a pizza.
I had a very similar experience. Read about it. Mined a couple coins just to try it. Said “Well that’ll never go anywhere”. I think i still had them years later but by the time i remembered i couldn’t find where the wallet ended to. I think it’s gone, now.
I’ve enjoyed my time talking with you and getting to understand how you see the world and, although I don’t agree with you, I’m glad to have had this exchange of opinions and will now reflect upon what I’ve learned.
Why didn’t you page me back?
Let me check the answering machine.
