You know you're old when...

cmyx6go · 03-15-2021, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Saw it in the theater in 1973. Was 18 yeas old.

You're older than me

I'll get off your lawn now.

Esteban · 03-15-2021, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by cmyx6go

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

...only if you play it backwards!

I thought that was the Beatles - I buried Paul!

I think the rumor was it really said "I'm very bored." Strawberry Fields Forever. (At the end)

fiveohwblow · 03-15-2021, 04:31 PM

Smells like diapers in here...

vreihen16 · 03-15-2021, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

I think the rumor was it really said "I'm very bored." Strawberry Fields Forever. (At the end)

Everyone was distracted by the obvious "Paul is dead" deception at the very end, and missed the *real* hidden message in another part of the song.....

3.0L · 03-15-2021, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

...only if you play it backwards!

Cheech & Chong:

Chong: “One day I took some acid and played Black Sabbath at 78 speed.”

Cheech: “Yeah? And then what happened?”

Chong: “I saw… GOD!

Esteban · 03-15-2021, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

Everyone was distracted by the obvious "Paul is dead" deception at the very end, and missed the *real* hidden message in another part of the song.....

Okay, I'll bite, what is the "*real* hidden message?" lol

TiMSport · 03-15-2021, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by King Rudi

It boiled down to whatever format the porn industry went with.

Yep, I remembered that. To be fair, I do think it was the prohibitive cost of the Sony Betamax gear that brought it all to that point. VHS won the war once they began releasing porn.

vreihen16 · 03-15-2021, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Esteban

Okay, I'll bite, what is the "*real* hidden message?" lol

I still haven't managed to decode it. If I'm lucky, it's a Liverpool telephone number with a million quid prize waiting.

On my bucket list, though.....

Esteban · 03-15-2021, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

I still haven't managed to decode it. If I'm lucky, it's a Liverpool telephone number with a million quid prize waiting.

On my bucket list, though.....

Haha, ok...

3.0L · 03-15-2021, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ky0u

As of this year, everyone born in a year starting with 1 is of legal american drinking age

I've been of legal drinking age for 52 years. However, when I was based in Germany at age 20, our enlisted men's club didn't check ID's. Heh!

Beer was 25 cents a bottle, with flip tops. That was very potent German beer.

M_Six · 03-15-2021, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 3.0L

I've been of legal drinking age for 52 years. However, when I was based in Germany at age 20, our enlisted men's club didn't check ID's. Heh!

Beer was 25 cents a bottle, with flip tops. That was very potent German beer.

Yeah, I remember 50 cent mixed drinks at the NCO/EM club in Korea in the 70's. Dangerous to let 18 y.o. kids order $1 doubles. I paid the price (above and beyond the booze) a few times.

vreihen16 · 03-16-2021, 07:53 PM

Time for my rant du jour. I was checking out the alarm clock feature on the iPhone over the weekend, and set a recurring weekday alarm out of curiosity.

Before I continue, let me ask if my parents were the only people on the planet to hang a wind-up music box over my crib as an infant? The sound makes me sleepy to this day.

So, as I scrolled through the iPhone's alarm tone options, I noticed that every single one of them sounded like a soft wind-up music box. No submarine DIVE! horn, no air raid siren, not even a "beep, beep, beep" to actually wake me up...just lullaby music to put me back to sleep.

Most millennials these days use their phones as alarm clocks, and let's just say that it is suddenly obvious to me why whey are not morning people and always late for work/school. Their phones put them back to sleep, instead of jarring them out of bed!

Maybe the sound of a wind-up music box jars millennials into fight-or-flight adrenaline rushes from Hollywood's use of them in horror movies? I don't watch the genre, but I'm pretty sure that a chain saw sound would jar me into consciousness long before a music box melody. Not because of the hockey mask guy, mind you, but because my old man accidentally dropped a tree onto my bedroom roof at 7 AM using a chain saw...and a tree smashing the window out will wake anyone up from a deep sleep!

Good thing that I've reached the age where I'm usually up before my alarm goes off, because I'd never cut it as a millennial using an iPhone as my alarm clock.....

M_Six · 03-16-2021, 08:49 PM

If I need to make very sure that I wake up, I use my Apple Watch and set it to vibrate and then set the iPhone to go off a couple minutes later at a standard beep. That way I can kill the iPhone alarm before it goes off as long as the AW wakes me up.

Wifey sets our clock radio alarm to a country music station because she knows that will drive me nuts and I'll have to wake up to kill the alarm if she's not there to do it.

Buug959 · 03-16-2021, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by M_Six

If I need to make very sure that I wake up, I use my Apple Watch and set it to vibrate and then set the iPhone to go off a couple minutes later at a standard beep. That way I can kill the iPhone alarm before it goes off as long as the AW wakes me up.

Wifey sets our clock radio alarm to a country music station because she knows that will drive me nuts and I'll have to wake up to kill the alarm if she's not there to do it.

A friend of mine hates rap music. He sets his clock radio alarm to the rap station and puts it at the other end of the room with the volume cranked. He says when it goes off he gets up to shut that damned shit off. It gets him out of bed.

UncleWede · 03-16-2021, 10:38 PM

Y'all can still get out of bed??

vreihen16 · 03-17-2021, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by UncleWede

Y'all can still get out of bed??

At least 6 times every night here, visiting the, um, drivers' lounge.

Get off my lawn, kid, and watch out for that yellow puddle.....

Esteban · 03-17-2021, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by UncleWede

Y'all can still get out of bed??

At least 6 times every night here, visiting the, um, drivers' lounge.

Haha, me too.

Tommy-G · 03-17-2021, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

At least 6 times every night here, visiting the, um, drivers' lounge.

Get off my lawn, kid, and watch out for that yellow puddle.....

6 times? I was ready to go to the doctor for 1-2 times a night

Buug959 · 03-17-2021, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by TommyG-inFlaNow

6 times? I was ready to go to the doctor for 1-2 times a night

My doctor asked me how often I went to the bathroom during the night and I told her about 5-6 times. She asked with astonishment "every night???". I said "What-no, a year." She seemed to calm down after that.

Tommy-G · 03-17-2021, 04:01 PM

Thats great! ^^

Esteban · 03-17-2021, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by TommyG-inFlaNow

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

At least 6 times every night here, visiting the, um, drivers' lounge.

Get off my lawn, kid, and watch out for that yellow puddle.....

6 times? I was ready to go to the doctor for 1-2 times a night

For me, it's my medicine helping to expel sugar.

Tommy-G · 03-17-2021, 04:19 PM

I try to drink a poop ton of water to counter the ton of Titos I have on the weekends. Plus the fact that I don't like soft drinks anymore (soda, teas, fruit drinks etc) so water it is

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vreihen16 Recovering Perfectionist 21669 Rep 1,023 Posts Drives: BMW-less :( Join Date: Jun 2019 Location: Orange County, NY iTrader: (0) Garage List 2014 Mighty Freight ... [0.00] 2000 Audi TT Quattro [0.00] 1967 Formula Vee [0.00]	Time for my rant du jour. I was checking out the alarm clock feature on the iPhone over the weekend, and set a recurring weekday alarm out of curiosity. Before I continue, let me ask if my parents were the only people on the planet to hang a wind-up music box over my crib as an infant? The sound makes me sleepy to this day. So, as I scrolled through the iPhone's alarm tone options, I noticed that every single one of them sounded like a soft wind-up music box. No submarine DIVE! horn, no air raid siren, not even a "beep, beep, beep" to actually wake me up...just lullaby music to put me back to sleep. Most millennials these days use their phones as alarm clocks, and let's just say that it is suddenly obvious to me why whey are not morning people and always late for work/school. Their phones put them back to sleep, instead of jarring them out of bed! Maybe the sound of a wind-up music box jars millennials into fight-or-flight adrenaline rushes from Hollywood's use of them in horror movies? I don't watch the genre, but I'm pretty sure that a chain saw sound would jar me into consciousness long before a music box melody. Not because of the hockey mask guy, mind you, but because my old man accidentally dropped a tree onto my bedroom roof at 7 AM using a chain saw...and a tree smashing the window out will wake anyone up from a deep sleep! Good thing that I've reached the age where I'm usually up before my alarm goes off, because I'd never cut it as a millennial using an iPhone as my alarm clock..... __________________ Currently BMW-less.
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