[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by Turkish Pickle

I once held a cassette, am I one of the cool old guys now?

Maybe. Did you stick your pinky finger into one of the reel hubs and turn it, to take the slack out of the tape? We used to do that as a precaution, so the next time you put it in a tape deck the slack tape didn't get grabbed by the capstan roller or something and the tape got "eaten." If you did that, then you're definitely in. Otherwise...we'll see.

[Rmtt]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I was my father’s remote control. 2,4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 and repeat. Twist that dial.

Same here.. .and I remember breaking the knob and then we had a pair of channel-locks permanently attached to the stem so that we could change channels!

[lsturbointeg]

Originally Posted by Rmtt

Cars are one way. Back when I was single and in really good shape, I traveled a lot with my friend to fitness expos/contests as he had contracts to show up.

Being at a booth and wearing a tank top.....I was pulling women that lsturbointeg always talks about drooling over at his gym in the other thread.

Hey, can't help it that my gym has too many hot chicks with yoga pants walking around squatting, and bending, and stretching and squeezing and thrusting and shaking and cat walking and flipping and twerking and booty clapping and...I think that's it?

[Rmtt]

Originally Posted by lsturbointeg

Hey, can't help it that my gym has too many hot chicks with yoga pants walking around squatting, and bending, and stretching and squeezing and thrusting and shaking and cat walking and flipping and twerking and booty clapping and...I think that's it?

Lol....Just wish my gym did. It probably does, but they aren't there at the time I go!

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Maybe. Did you stick your pinky finger into one of the reel hubs and turn it, to take the slack out of the tape? We used to do that as a precaution, so the next time you put it in a tape deck the slack tape didn't get grabbed by the capstan roller or something and the tape got "eaten." If you did that, then you're definitely in. Otherwise...we'll see.

#whipperpickles

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Whippersnappers! They have no idea how easy they have it. Maybe we should revert back to that technology to regain a foothold on our youth!

Can you imagine the bill they could run up at the going rate of $0.85/minute for airtime back in the day...plus the ground call charge!

I had a Globalstar satellite phone for six years a while back, and that was $1.49/minute to use with something like 30 free minutes per month. (My DW was doing field work in some pretty remote areas, and I would have gladly paid $25.29/minute if she needed help!) It was fun to use from cruise ships at sea, when using the on-board satellite cellular link was over $2.00/minute.

In the 1990's, we had a Skycell geostationary satellite phone in the One Lap of America car, as a sponsorship deal since we were running a huge press campaign from the road for a worthy cause. That phone had its own 800 number, and the going rate for satellite time was $2.49/minute. Fun times making calls from the desert with that thing.

Originally Posted by UncleWede

And rotary TV channel changers

Does anyone need tuner cleaner? I still have an old spray can of the stuff in the bottom drawer of my toolbox.

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

I was my father’s remote control. 2,4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 and repeat. Twist that dial.

What? No WHT on channel 68? How did you get your daily Uncle Floyd fix?

Although now moving into the realm of the old farts thread, I actually wrote a state grant when I was in high school back in the late 1970's to buy four blank VHS tapes for the school...at their 1970's retail price of $49.99 each!!!!!

[UncleWede]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Can you imagine the bill they could run up at the going rate of $0.85/minute for airtime back in the day...plus the ground call charge!

I had a Globalstar satellite phone for six years a while back, and that was $1.49/minute to use with something like 30 free minutes per month. (My DW was doing field work in some pretty remote areas, and I would have gladly paid $25.29/minute if she needed help!) It was fun to use from cruise ships at sea, when using the on-board satellite cellular link was over $2.00/minute.

In the 1990's, we had a Skycell geostationary satellite phone in the One Lap of America car, as a sponsorship deal since we were running a huge press campaign from the road for a worthy cause. That phone had its own 800 number, and the going rate for satellite time was $2.49/minute. Fun times making calls from the desert with that thing.

Does anyone need tuner cleaner? I still have an old spray can of the stuff in the bottom drawer of my toolbox.

What? No WHT on channel 68? How did you get your daily Uncle Floyd fix?

Although now moving into the realm of the old farts thread, I actually wrote a state grant when I was in high school back in the late 1970's to buy four blank VHS tapes for the school...at their 1970's retail price of $49.99 each!!!!!

Which means you must have had one of those baller $1000 VHS RECORDERS

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Which means you must have had one of those baller $1000 VHS RECORDERS

Top loading!!

[pennsiveguy]

BETAMAX!!!

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by UncleWede

Which means you must have had one of those baller $1000 VHS RECORDERS

The school had two brand new ones, along with two cabled color cameras. There was no budget left for tapes for student projects, hence the state grant for four tapes ($200 total). I had to lug the bigger VHS deck about 45 minutes away to the cable company's TV studio every Thursday afternoon, to dub the week's school news productions from VHS onto 3/4" so they could air them. Think of how easy life would have been if we had a stinking iPhone back then!

Originally Posted by MKSixer

Top loading!!

Absolutely! The B&W reel-to-reel VTR and cabled camera that I inherited from before the color VHS stuff was actually top-threading. Oh, and all of it was manual tracking knobs only to align the heads between different tapes.

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

BETAMAX!!!

No, but my high school graduation tape and most of my other TV productions from that time are on 3/4" Sony U-matic if anyone still has a working deck.....

[pennsiveguy]

The irony of the last several posts where we all reveal how old we are...on a dating thread.

We're not too old to have fun. We ain't dead yet.

[premier3is]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Maybe. Did you stick your pinky finger into one of the reel hubs and turn it, to take the slack out of the tape? We used to do that as a precaution, so the next time you put it in a tape deck the slack tape didn't get grabbed by the capstan roller or something and the tape got "eaten." If you did that, then you're definitely in. Otherwise...we'll see.

I also remember doing this just for the hell of it lol. Man sometimes I miss the good ol' simple times, even though we have advanced so much now.

[premier3is]

Originally Posted by Turkish Pickle

I once held a cassette, am I one of the cool old guys now?

Maybe if you also remember using a VHS as well, you may be considered to enter the cool group

Or if you ever used blank cassettes to record songs from the radio when you couldn't spend money on..... here it is.... albums from artists on cassettes. Lol

[pennsiveguy]

Here's a snippet from a text thread with the woman I met for lunch last Saturday. She and some fellow parents of high schoolers are discussing a Coronavirus-motivated "Plan B," having booked a cruise for them and their kids for Spring Break.

Side note: who the fuck under the age of 80 books cruises? And...for high school kids' Spring Break? Why not go balls-out and book a stay at an Amish farm and live on the edge, for fuck's sake?

So I try to inject some playfulness and humor by suggesting a trip to Minot ND. Everyone in the Midwest knows that to be pretty much the end of the earth and would find the suggestion of a trip there to be funny, especially in this bleak time of year. Yeah...not this terminally geeky, dour lass.

[Turkish Pickle]

Originally Posted by premier3is

Maybe if you also remember using a VHS as well, you may be considered to enter the cool group

Or if you ever used a blank cassettes to record songs from the radio when you couldn't spend money on..... here it is.... albums from artists on cassettes. Lol

I never have used a VHS at home actually, I really don't recall us having the player for it either. I know we have hella tapes somewhere but I was basically a CD kid. At school though we had tapes and the yellow school bus/goosebumps stuff was such a treat

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Here's a snippet from a text thread with the woman I met for lunch last Saturday. She and some fellow parents of high schoolers are discussing a Coronavirus-motivated "Plan B," having booked a cruise for them and their kids for Spring Break.

Side note: who the fuck under the age of 80 books cruises? And...for high school kids' Spring Break? Why not go balls-out and book a stay at an Amish farm and live on the edge, for fuck's sake?

So I try to inject some playfulness and humor by suggesting a trip to Minot ND. Everyone in the Midwest knows that to be pretty much the end of the earth and would find the suggestion of a trip there to be funny, especially in this bleak time of year. Yeah...not this terminally geeky, dour lass.

DUDE this woman is THE reason "Karen" and "boomer" memes exist I swear to god this can't be real - please tell me she wasn't serious when she said she was combatting the V I R U S by wiping trays in an airplane?

Also, check your PM

[premier3is]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Here's a snippet from a text thread with the woman I met for lunch last Saturday. She and some fellow parents of high schoolers are discussing a Coronavirus-motivated "Plan B," having booked a cruise for them and their kids for Spring Break.

Side note: who the fuck under the age of 80 books cruises? And...for high school kids' Spring Break? Why not go balls-out and book a stay at an Amish farm and live on the edge, for fuck's sake?

So I try to inject some playfulness and humor by suggesting a trip to Minot ND. Everyone in the Midwest knows that to be pretty much the end of the earth and would find the suggestion of a trip there to be funny, especially in this bleak time of year. Yeah...not this terminally geeky, dour lass.

Would you like us to text her how dumb she is on your behalf?

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by Turkish Pickle

I never have used a VHS at home actually, I really don't recall us having the player for it either. I know we have hella tapes somewhere but I was basically a CD kid. At school though we had tapes and the yellow school bus/goosebumps stuff was such a treat


DUDE this woman is THE reason "Karen" and "boomer" memes exist I swear to god this can't be real - please tell me she wasn't serious when she said she was combatting the V I R U S by wiping trays in an airplane?

Also, check your PM

Oh, she was serious alright. I don't think there's anything she's not deadly serious about.

She's a PK. That is, a "Preacher's Kid." It's "a thing" which I had no knowledge of until I dated a Protestant woman, having grown up Catholic. Along with "MK's" which are "Missionaries' Kids." I won't delve into the psychological dynamics of it; you can research it on your own.

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by premier3is

Would you like us to text her how dumb she is on your behalf?

Yeah, please do. It's somebody else's turn to get the fuck bored out of them.

[premier3is]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Yeah, please do. It's somebody else's turn to get the fuck bored out of them.

Figured you left the number up there for someone else to be bored out of their fuckin mind too LOL!

[pennsiveguy]

Originally Posted by premier3is

Figured you left the number up there for someone else to be bored out of their fuckin mind too LOL!

Yeah, it was a challenge. I managed to stay awake for 41 minutes and 8 seconds talking to her. Go ahead...see if you can beat my time.

[premier3is]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

Yeah, it was a challenge. I managed to stay awake for 41 minutes and 8 seconds talking to her. Go ahead...see if you can beat my time.

I'm good, I'm burned out from all these females lately lol.. do y'all ever just take a break from dating? Shits such a headache lol.

[Dang3r]

Originally Posted by pennsiveguy

BETAMAX!!!

Only for porn