So! Feel old...?

Renegade Mechanic

How about now?:D

Pumpkinseeds

Damn you Renegade, damn you to Hell for making me feel ancient:D

cloud493

**** this digital music crap. Tapes were the best.

Skeleton XIII

Age is just a state of mind.

Grayson

cloud493 wrote: »

**** this digital music crap. Tapes were the best.

especially when they were used to load computer games

KungPao

Meh. One of them is 13. He just doesnt have any real interest in technology. My nephew is 14 and as much as he likes his iPad etc. he loves my old Megadrive, messing around with old PCs and playing records.

wp_rathead

Are all children that annoying?

cloud493

Grayson wrote: »

especially when they were used to load computer games

And you could pull all the stuff inside out and then wind it back in. And then your batteries would run out and you'd have to wait to save up 2 weeks pocket money to buy more. Or rob batteries out of some tv remote.

knarkypants

cloud493 wrote: »

**** this digital music crap. Tapes were the best.

Nah Vinyl was the best.

sopretty

Lol! I had one. :pac:

Coolest thing Santa ever brought me. :cool:

Ate batteries though. :mad:

LizzieJones

Girl is handed some headphones ..... "Oh!! My grandpa has these!!" Priceless. LMAO

SEPT 23 1989

Always a pack of 5 BASF tapes in the Christmas stocking. always

sopretty

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Always a pack of 5 BASF tapes in the Christmas stocking. always

While you record love songs from Atlantic 252......

LizzieJones

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Always a pack of 5 BASF tapes in the Christmas stocking. always

Used to tape songs off the radio so I wouldn't need to buy the whole cassette. Good times.

sopretty

LizzieJones wrote: »

Used to tape songs off the radio so I wouldn't need to buy the whole cassette. Good times.

The earliest form of music contraband

KungPao

wprathead wrote: »

Are all children that annoying?

Don't ya feel a bit like this after listening to these bloody kids?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YYmS7NL3Po

mikom

I'd like to see an iPhone keep birds off a seed bed.

bear1

It's not that we are just old, it's that the generation which has replaced us has gotten more stupid.

pickarooney

I don't get why they don't understand headphones. Or why it takes them so long to open the thing up. A chimp would have it working in less time. It might be covered in faeces, mind.

banie01

I showed my young fella a cassette tape a couple of years ago(he was @7)
He asked me what it was, I told him it was how we used to listen to music when i was his age.
He took it from me, examined it very carefully....
Then asked me......
''Where d'ya plug in the headphones Dad!''

LizzieJones

bear1 wrote: »

It's not that we are just old, it's that the generation which has replaced us has gotten more stupid.

I would love to see what they would do if you handed them a pair of Klackers.
The old ones with the glass balls.

sopretty

pickarooney wrote: »

Or why it takes them so long to open the thing up. A chimp would have it working in less time. It might be covered in faeces, mind.

They're not used to having to open things up to get music to play! You download it. No way of opening up an ipod to stick the music in!

hoodwinked

pickarooney wrote: »

I don't get why they don't understand headphones..

yeah i thought that too, especially since ipods have headphone slots and cannot play music without them (unless you have those fancy ipod touches)

PizzamanIRL

Those kids are trying too hard to be funny.

Renegade Mechanic

hoodwinked wrote: »

yeah i thought that too, especially since ipods have headphone slots and cannot play music without them (unless you have those fancy ipod touches)

Think theyre all about "earphones" rather.. That or, in fairness, phones easily match mp3 players now in terms of music capacity and quality. So mabye the play-your-music-on-loudspeaker generation is still alive and well..

Renegade Mechanic

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Those kids are trying too hard to be funny.

Remind you of anywhere?:D

BBDBB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXDK3x5lAYI

hoodwinked

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

Think theyre all about "earphones" rather.. That or, in fairness, phones easily match mp3 players now in terms of music capacity and quality. So mabye the play-your-music-on-loudspeaker generation is still alive and well..

i thought "beats" were the big thing though? oh i don't know I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I'm with isn't *it*, and what's *it* seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you...

PizzamanIRL

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

Remind you of anywhere?:D

They're the next generation of After Hours boardsies.

holystungun9

Skeleton XIII wrote: »

Age is just a state of mind.

Hell ya!

*throws zimmerframe away












*Falls

Grayson

cloud493 wrote: »

And you could pull all the stuff inside out and then wind it back in. And then your batteries would run out and you'd have to wait to save up 2 weeks pocket money to buy more. Or rob batteries out of some tv remote.

then eventually you'd spend a fortune on some rechargeables which would last 20 minutes between charges.

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Always a pack of 5 BASF tapes in the Christmas stocking. always

TDK 90's

Renegade Mechanic

hoodwinked wrote: »

i thought "beats" were the big thing though? oh i don't know I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I'm with isn't *it*, and what's *it* seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you...

True.... Mabye they just knew so so little about it, it didn't even dawn on them that it needs headphones like other stuff!:D Yed be surprised just what ignorance can remove from plain sight!

designbydan

In fairness some of those kids were just idiots, not knowing what the play button was. . . . or what volume was. . .

Mrs Garth Brooks

pickarooney wrote: »

I don't get why they don't understand headphones. Or why it takes them so long to open the thing up. A chimp would have it working in less time. It might be covered in faeces, mind.

Wonder would they know how to put batteries into things these days?

jimgoose

The Walkperson was all well-and-fine for when you were out perambulating and/or excursioning of course, but back in them days you just weren't Hep without you 'ad a big-ass muddafugga of a dual tape deck, which was also required for running off software backups.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Even the old iPods, with the clickwheel that everyone was going mad about ten years ago, look archaic by today's standards. Strange time.

anncoates

Showing complete disgust, incomprehension and mistrust of nostalgic, obsolete cultural artefacts droned about at length by boring, old people.

Normal order restored.

jimgoose

anncoates wrote: »

Showing complete disgust, incomprehension and mistrust of nostalgic, obsolete cultural artefacts droned about at length by boring, old people.

Normal order restored.

Aongus Von Bismarck

I've very little time for the mawkish sentimentality of the 80s nostalgia.

Its rather pathetic really. It gets very tiring when people share articles from that God-awful Journal.ie site with headlines like "16 things you'll only know if you grew up in the 80s"

People seem to see it as some sort of achievement that they were alive in the 80s. So was I, but its of absolutely no consequence.

SEPT 23 1989

..

Call Me Jimmy

The preview image is obnoxious enough for me to pass on that

Muise...

banie01 wrote: »

I showed my young fella a cassette tape a couple of years ago(he was @7)
He asked me what it was, I told him it was how we used to listen to music when i was his age.
He took it from me, examined it very carefully....
Then asked me......
''Where d'ya plug in the headphones Dad!''

Children have @ages now?

Ancient, I am, I have only digits. Not even a #.

4zn76tysfajdxp

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Always a pack of 5 BASF tapes in the Christmas stocking. always

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Always a pack of 5 BASF tapes in the Christmas stocking. always

Did you also get PTSD for Christmas or something?

Renegade Mechanic

Luciano Bumpy Poplar wrote: »

Did you also get PTSD for Christmas or something?

No, theres definitely a hidden reason for him doing it, I just haven't figured it out yet..

Muise...

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

No, theres definitely a hidden reason for him doing it, I just haven't figured it out yet..

stereo

SEPT 23 1989

Luciano Bumpy Poplar wrote: »

Did you also get PTSD for Christmas or something?

Old man new technology

Renegade Mechanic

Muise... wrote: »

stereo

Automatic loop!!!

Muise...

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

Automatic loop!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PG5PCd284o

So! Feel older...?

banie01

Muise... wrote: »

Children have @ages now?

Ancient, I am, I have only digits. Not even a #.

well back in my day ''@'' was shorthand for ''approximately''
Its not all about the tagging :P

sopretty

banie01 wrote: »

well back in my day ''@'' was shorthand for ''approximately''
Its not all about the tagging :P

Well I'm not sure what day you were in, but in MY day, 'approximately' was denoted by a double squiggle like this ~

whirlpool

The video is a load of ****e. The situation is set up. The kids know they are expected to have a "funny" reaction. They fail at that part of it, but hey they're only kids.

I didn't have some stupid OTT reaction when I was first shown a record player. Nobody did.

Show a Walkman to a kid in real life, he'll have a pretty uninteresting unremarkable reaction which will probably be something like "Oh."

Stupid fake video.

Child "performers" are among the worst people in the world.