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I remember when,.......

Pinball Wizard

The wand chooses the wizard
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Me and you never played with GI Joe dolls. Little brothers yes, us no.

SGT Rock don't need no dolls.:dance013:..cause, that frown is permanent
 

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gekolite

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morris minor

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I remember when I could not start my first car, a Morgan roadster 4 seater, I would just start it with a hand crank rod in the front. That was in 1965. You had to be careful with it they could give quite a kickback.
Anyone else remember that long ago?
-SamS

I remember , my first car was a morris minor , it had a crank start , I worked on that car more than I dove it , fun little car when it did run . ,, the kick back was something fierce for a 4 cylinder . It was a hand me down from older brother , who at one time had to devise a sail to get it home , it was a convertible .
 

oldchuck

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I remember when I could not start my first car, a Morgan roadster 4 seater, I would just start it with a hand crank rod in the front. That was in 1965. You had to be careful with it they could give quite a kickback.
Anyone else remember that long ago?
-SamS

I was very fond of 1954 Chevrolets. Got one for high school graduation present from my parents in 1963. Subsequently owned two others. Always wanted a '58 but had to settle for a '49.
 

LowFalutin

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...getting sucked into this deal in the 70s...
columbia-house.jpg


On a lighter note, they just declared bankruptcy...
from http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/columbia-house-files-for-bankruptcy-blames-streaming-20150811

Columbia House, the mail-order music retailer that turned an "Eight CDs for a penny" offer into an annual profit of $1.4 billion at its peak, has filed for bankruptcy. Filmed Entertainment Inc., the parent company for Columbia House, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York Monday, citing the ever-changing digital and online landscape that continue to erode at the physical medium's sales, the Wall Street Journal reports.
 

Pinball Wizard

The wand chooses the wizard
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I remember when...

I remember when...

..I made a magazine rack in 9th grade shop class & got a D-..wtf?

it was beautiful!
 

dddaver

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Do mothers even pin notes on their little kids intended for the kid's kindergarten teachers anymore? More likely the parent now looks on the school website, finds the teacher's number or email, and then sends a text or note that way. And then the parent thinks they are being good, responsible parents. Because all this bullshit social media tells them they are. But they aren't.

In reality, that teacher never sees anything because her mailbox or that message box on her phone just gets jam packed full. So the teacher just ignores them. Therefore the teacher never sees anything.

So the whole thing is a waste of time and just a practice in futility. Meanwhile whatever the original note was about goes unread and so it is the kid is the one who is left in the cold by that. Meanwhile these responsible adults run around in circles doing this to the poor kid. Progress? Where?

Just pin the damned note to the kids shirt.

BTW, I also wrote totally crazy-ass notes myself, mostly in college too. Took me that long to figure it out. They were totally meaningless to anyone else, people tried copying my notes, didn't work for them. But I always knew what I meant. And I found the dirtier and more perverted it was, the more likely I was to remember what that note was about too.

A hot blond wanted to copy my notes once. I was hesitant but figured what the hell and gave them to her. She gave me my notebook back the next day then acted totally weird around me after that. I knew why. :laughing:
 
I remember when
ALL Ecstasy was Pure MDMA
The "Rave" scene was just a bunch of weirdo's that no one understood
You would actually DJ with turntables and records
Getting non-brick weed was like Christmas Day
You thought this would last forever :)
 

Skip

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Do mothers even pin notes on their little kids intended for the kid's kindergarten teachers anymore? More likely the parent now looks on the school website, finds the teacher's number or email, and then sends a text or note that way. And then the parent thinks they are being good, responsible parents. Because all this bullshit social media tells them they are. But they aren't.

In reality, that teacher never sees anything because her mailbox or that message box on her phone just gets jam packed full. So the teacher just ignores them. Therefore the teacher never sees anything.

So the whole thing is a waste of time and just a practice in futility. Meanwhile whatever the original note was about goes unread and so it is the kid is the one who is left in the cold by that. Meanwhile these responsible adults run around in circles doing this to the poor kid. Progress? Where?

Just pin the damned note to the kids shirt.
Actually this is a sign of the times...

Younger generations ARE more wired now, and teachers are EXPECTED to do a lot of work online, esp. with older children and their parents.

Many college professors NEVER see their students anymore (unless they teleconference). Some teach students around the world at the same time. It's really the revolution in education that I've anticipated for all my life. Too bad I'm so old now and really can't do much with it. Maybe next life?
 

waveguide

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don't see the point.. guy just died who did some of the first work in AI.

he, as i, was fascinated by what is called "emergent" behaviour, eg. the thingy does something neat you don't expect. i enjoy creation, art, with minimalism - if an AI can do a lot of shit with ten lines of code, those are ten good lines of code, and you've learned something about the synergetic nature of .. specification, procedure, "algorithm" if you talk ****ese.

eg. the game industry doesn't want "emergent" behaviour, they want "believable" behaviour, and as you may imagine, my response is that if you are doing things for predictable outcome, then there's no fucking point in doing them.

all these assholes making games that are the same shit as the last one, what's the fucking point? too scared to do anything "unbelievable" because it might force their fuckarse brains to actually grow or think or be nonconformist, and then they'd miss out on the juiciest cuts of soylent green.

so i say, instead of going to college, post shit on the internet about what assholes everybody is, because there's much more truth in it. :p :)


fuck just think... where would our species be now, if we were permitted to distribute interesting products that stimulated, grew our conceptions, expanded our sensibilities... it makes me fucking pissed to think how these conformist cocksuckers have sold out the finest aspirations of living existence so they can fuck a fucking honeypot.
 

FunkBomb

Power Armor rules
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I remember when people used their brains to figure something out. Not so much of that anymore it seems.

-Funk
 
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