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So! Feel old...?

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  • #32
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭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!


  • #33
    designbydan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭designbydan




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


  • #34
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭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?


  • #35
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


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

    Normal order restored.


  • #38
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭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.



  • #39
    Aongus Von Bismarck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    ..


  • #41
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


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


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  • #42
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭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 #. :)


  • #43
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #44
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭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..


  • #45
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


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

    stereo


  • #46
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Luciano Bumpy Poplar wrote: »
    Did you also get PTSD for Christmas or something?

    Old man new technology


  • #47
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Muise... wrote: »
    stereo

    Automatic loop!!!


  • #48
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    Automatic loop!!!

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


    So! Feel older...? :D


  • #49
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #50
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭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 ~


  • #51
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #52
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    whirlpool wrote: »
    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.

    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 video.

    When you were first shown a record player, were you 8 and asked to make it work? Or were you shown how it worked.........


  • #53
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    sopretty wrote: »
    When you were first shown a record player, were you 8 and asked to make it work? Or were you shown how it worked.........

    I wasn't asked to make it work. How could I work something I'd never used before? My reaction, like everyone else's reaction, would have been "I don't know how to work this." The end. Not OMG SO FUNNY LOOK AT ME I'M SO FUNNY OMG HAHAHAHAHAA.


  • #54
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    whirlpool wrote: »
    I wasn't asked to make it work. How could I work something I'd never used before? My reaction, like everyone else's reaction, would have been "I don't know how to work this." The end. Not OMG SO FUNNY OMG HAHAHAHAHAA.

    Ye, well, these kids, were asked to figure out how to work it.


  • #55
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    whirlpool wrote: »
    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.

    Take a deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep breath.
    Exhale.
    Relax.
    And remove the stick.


  • #56
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    sopretty wrote: »
    Ye, well, these kids, were asked to figure out how to work it.

    You press play.

    Still not funny.


  • #57
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    Take a deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep breath.
    Exhale.
    Relax.
    And remove the stick.

    is it a pogo stick?


  • #58
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    whirlpool wrote: »
    You press play.

    Still not funny.

    This is why you will never make a child star.


  • #59
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    Take a deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep breath.
    Exhale.
    Relax.
    And remove the stick.

    Stick removed.

    It's still stupid. In my opinion. Don't let my opinion take up any more of your time.


  • #60
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    sopretty wrote: »
    This is why you will never make a child star.

    Child stars are the worst.

    Well almost. Their parents are worse.


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  • #61
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Muise... wrote: »
    is it a pogo stick?

    Californian Redwood Id say:p


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