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The Bad Old Days
Date: December 07, 2010 10:36PM

Everyone talks about "the good old days." But no one ever talks about the "bad old days." The shit you used to have to put up with that you don't have to today. For instance, when I started out in the working world, virtually no one had a cell phone. If you wanted to make a phone call, this was the shit you had to put up with...

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...Before I had an ATM card, if you wanted to go to a bank you had to put up with this shit to get $20 out of your account...

standing_line_bank.jpg

...And if you wanted to go to a store on a Sunday evening, chances are you would run into this...

store-closed.jpg

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Date: December 07, 2010 10:42PM

/Thread.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: December 07, 2010 10:49PM

How about no ABC on Sunday...

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Date: December 07, 2010 10:53PM

ITRADE Wrote:
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> How about no ABC on Sunday...


Or your choice of four or five channels. And that's it.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: December 07, 2010 10:55PM

Eh.....Sunday = football so I really don't give a shit (at least in fall). Other times it meant baseball.

Of course, back then the networks had good programming and reliable news. Not every show was a reality show or single elimination competition show.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: ThePackLeader ()
Date: December 07, 2010 10:58PM

I used to love messing with the pay phones. I'd always dial the call back code, then hang the phone up, and it would start ringing like crazy. I was bored at my high school one day, while waiting for my ride, so I did it to all six payphones outside the main lobby. Lol, people ran outside and were frantically trying to get them to quit.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Date: December 07, 2010 11:02PM

Remember this shit? God forbid you should make a typo or need to edit something...

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...Or trying to load this dogshit into a Fax machine?

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: December 07, 2010 11:09PM

Yah, but back then you had this:



And it smelled much better back then!

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: Bounce House ()
Date: December 07, 2010 11:30PM

'member having to stand up and walk to the TV to change the station?

'member having to take your paper paycheck to the bank at lunch on Friday and make a command decision about how much cash you'd need to get through the weekend?

'member having to wait a half hour to download a ten second porn clip using dial-up?

'member having to depress the pedal just right to get your car started in the winter?

'member Lotus 1-2-3?



'member

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: *Grape Kool-Aid* ()
Date: December 07, 2010 11:52PM

'member Members Only jackets?

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: tomahawk ()
Date: December 07, 2010 11:53PM

Remember when you made plans to meet your friends at a bar or a restaurant, and if they didn't show, oh fucking well. No cell phones, no way to get in touch.

Remember when there was no GPS and no google maps. If you wanted to get somewhere you had to read an actual map and write directions down. And if you got lost, your best bet was to ask a gas station attendant or find a pay phone.

Remember when you wanted to find out any fact about ANYTHING and there was no internet, no search engine, no wikipedia, no IMDB, no lyrics look-up sites, no nothin'. If you were lucky you could find something in an encyclopedia that cost your parents a fortune and which had more errors than wikipedia and was out of date the minute it was printed. Or maybe you could go to your local library and look something up in the card catalogue or the vertical file, and dig through microfiche slides of fifty-year-old newspapers.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Date: December 08, 2010 12:03AM

Speaking of 50, have you heard his latest album. It's on iTunes, hit 'em up!

Check it out : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjE_s6_5G9w <<--- CLICK Here

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: The Software ()
Date: December 08, 2010 02:49AM

Bounce House Wrote:
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>
> 'member Lotus 1-2-3?
>

'member Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS? You had to use the "/" (slash) key to get into all the commands so you could access the menu.

'member Word Star for DOS ... predecessor to Word Perfect?

'member programming BASIC code in a DOS shell?

'member batch (.bat) files for DOS and early Windows computers?

'member dot-matrix printers that had like 3 font choices ... and they all looked like crap due to the dots?

'member having to wear a tie to work, each and every day?

'member when pay raises were 8 - 9% because inflation was up in the 3-4% range each year?

'member when there were a lot of middle management jobs in companies, so there was always a career step for you?

'member when companies used to actually give you promotions ... as opposed to you having to leave the company to move to that next level?

'member when you could actually tell politically incorrect jokes at work ... and, it was acceptable?

'member when it was actually acceptable to have a drink or two at work when out to lunch with co-workers or even the boss?

'member when there was no option to telecommute?

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: Warhawk ()
Date: December 08, 2010 07:00AM

Remember in the days before internet porn, this is what you'd have to jerk off to if you couldn't get access to a Playboy or Penthouse?

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Date: December 08, 2010 07:08AM

I remember my mom trying to reheat roast beef and mashed potatoes on a conventional stove before we had a microwave. Nasty. I also remember having to wait an hour for a TV dinner to cook and then the metal tray burning the shit out of my hands. I also remember being shit out of luck if you missed a TV show because there was no VCR or DVR.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: justsayin ()
Date: December 08, 2010 07:17AM

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> and then the
> metal tray burning the shit out of my hands.

Thank goodness the oven glove was invented since then.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Date: December 08, 2010 09:03AM

justsayin Wrote:
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> WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > and then the
> > metal tray burning the shit out of my hands.
>
> Thank goodness the oven glove was invented since
> then.


No. What I am saying is that the tray was hotter than shit the entire time you were trying to eat the food. You would burn the sides of your hand when you were trying to eat from the thing.

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Washington Post Poll- Obama Administration LESS COMPETENT Than Clinton's,Bush's
Posted by: WingNut ()
Date: December 08, 2010 09:11AM

How about those stupid little things people who worked in offices would Xerox and pass around?

We don't do anything that stupid nowadays...


idontlikebeingrightaboutshitlikethisbutiam



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Re: The Bad Old Days
Date: December 16, 2010 09:01AM

Back in the 70s, this seemed to be what passed for ham. I don't think I ate a real ham until I was in my teens.

canned-ham-front.jpgham_canned.jpg

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: Good Ol' Boy ()
Date: December 16, 2010 09:08AM

> ...'member having to stand up and walk to the TV to change the station? ...

Once had a cousin visit from Texas. He looked at and operated the TV remote then commented "Lazy ass way to change channels".

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Date: December 16, 2010 09:17AM

Good Ol' Boy Wrote:
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> > ...'member having to stand up and walk to the TV
> to change the station? ...
>
> Once had a cousin visit from Texas. He looked at
> and operated the TV remote then commented "Lazy
> ass way to change channels".


Sure, when you had three or four channels. Now it's a fucking nightmare when you can't find the remote.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: FurfaxTownie ()
Date: December 16, 2010 11:30AM

'member when hot college chicks used to wear granny panties and not thongs

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: Old Fart ()
Date: December 16, 2010 12:01PM

Bounce House Wrote:
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> 'member having to stand up and walk to the TV to
> change the station?


My mother in law had an old portable tv that she gave us for our
kitchen. When the kids came home from school and saw it they said
"Where's the remote?" When I showed them how to operate it they
laughed and thought it was stupid.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: December 16, 2010 12:32PM

remember when Facebook was college only?

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: mcsmack ()
Date: December 16, 2010 12:38PM

I remember having a TV with a remote that was wired to the set. Still only had 4 stations.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: December 16, 2010 12:39PM

Remember for a while back in the early nineties computers had turbo buttons?

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: December 16, 2010 12:43PM

Turbo buttons????

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: Wahhh ()
Date: December 16, 2010 12:45PM

I remember how lonely my mom was following my parents divorce, and how she really needed a man in her life. Now they have these pillows, which make it all better for single divorcees:
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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: ferfux ()
Date: December 16, 2010 12:49PM

thats really sweet.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: mcsmack ()
Date: December 16, 2010 12:51PM

Then we got this.


You would push a button and the click sound produced a certain frequency that the set would pick up and do the corresponding command. There were no batteries it just worked off the clicking sound. All you could do is change channels and adjust volume if I remember right. Neighbors would come over and marvel at it.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: eesh ()
Date: December 16, 2010 12:54PM

Wahhh Wrote:
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> I remember how lonely my mom was following my
> parents divorce, and how she really needed a man
> in her life. Now they have these pillows, which
> make it all better for single divorcees:





That reminds me of this:
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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: SuperTV ()
Date: December 16, 2010 02:42PM

Remember trying to watch scrambled "Super TV" to catch some boobies?

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: Warhawk ()
Date: December 16, 2010 02:49PM

SuperTV Wrote:
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> Remember trying to watch scrambled "Super TV" to
> catch some boobies?


Fuck yeah! Friday and Saturday nights, no sound, and constantly adjusting the rabbit ears. LOL!

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: December 16, 2010 02:56PM


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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: tomahawk ()
Date: December 16, 2010 11:05PM

I had a AMD 386 computer with a "turbo" button that kicked the clock speed up from like 10 Hz to a screaming 40 Hz! I never understood why anyone would turn off the turbo button; none of the games me and my friends played would run on a 10 MHz machine anyway.

Speaking of DOS, anyone else remember when Windows was just an expensive and unnecessary program for people too lazy to use a command line?

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: 486DX Turbo ()
Date: December 16, 2010 11:30PM

Loading games/"apps" on a apple II via cassette.

First computer I ever built paid $25/meg for memory. Maxed out motherboard (8MB) cost $200 for RAM.

Strip mall retail stores that "rented" Software.

The 1.2 meg floppy! for that matter the 5 1/4.

Installing an OS or large program only to have disk X of 15 crap out.

Hacking the directTV cards. alt.dss.hack anyone?

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Date: December 25, 2010 08:57PM



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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: Dane Bramage ()
Date: December 25, 2010 09:49PM

and don't get them near a magnet.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: @Amazon prime ()
Date: May 25, 2023 04:16PM

It sucked when you wanted something and you had to get off your ass to go to a store.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: State of Music ()
Date: May 25, 2023 05:08PM

The Bad Old Days were before Meade Skelton hit the music scene and before you could watch his videos and vlogs on YouTube.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: what's so bad about that? ()
Date: May 25, 2023 05:14PM

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> Everyone talks about "the good old days." But no
> one ever talks about the "bad old days." The shit
> you used to have to put up with that you don't
> have to today. For instance, when I started out in
> the working world, virtually no one had a cell
> phone. If you wanted to make a phone call, this
> was the shit you had to put up with...
>
> src="http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/3FB8849
> 7-9022-4478-8A45-4D12A9A802A6/PE-297-0101.jpg"/>
>
> ...Before I had an ATM card, if you wanted to go
> to a bank you had to put up with this shit to get
> $20 out of your account...
>
> src="http://0.tqn.com/d/artsandcrafts/1/0/U/1/-/-/
> standing_line_bank.jpg"/>
>
> ...And if you wanted to go to a store on a Sunday
> evening, chances are you would run into this...
>
> src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_I-d0JDZ1abk/S0JINOi
> lRAI/AAAAAAAAAm4/hmCeRMfF6nI/s640/store-closed.jpg
> "/>


Internet is a portal for good but used religiously as a portal for bad, even evil. If you were aware, and you probably were, that some stores were closed on Sundays you'd prepare for it. Not sit and scream at the wife for it, like you probably do. There were better places to go back then and things to do. Didn't worry about the crazy liberals back then.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: people weren't so fat. ()
Date: May 25, 2023 05:17PM

@Amazon prime Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------You had maybe two fatties in a classroom back then, in the minority number. Now you have maybe two kids in proper shape.

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: RIP Landon ()
Date: May 25, 2023 08:37PM

Dane Bramage Wrote:
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> and don't get them near a magnet.


RIP Landon Wade Bowers aka Dane Bramage aka Ying Ko. Who ended up with his hot wife?


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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: Ying Ko.. ()
Date: May 25, 2023 10:00PM

Said he had bought a Ruger single action Blackhawk big bore handgun a .45 Colt

What happened to him , if this is him , if not why did you post a name and how do you know who posted as Ying Ko or the other names

" Early morning on October 10th, Landon Bowers, 29, endured a fatal car crash in Culpeper as he was headed to work. Landon was driving a 2001 Ford Ranger when he ran off the road and struck a tree. His life was taken away unexpectedly and has caused great grief to all whom had the chance to get to know Landon."

BUT how can we know thats him. I wont cite where I saw this obit tribute . I engaged Ying Ko here on FXU many times and found him to be a semi libtard on the 2nd but a decent person and he did say he bought that Ruger

RIP and peace to Landon's family in any event, he seems to have been a great fun guy to know , a real tragedy he died so young .

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Re: The Bad Old Days
Posted by: 1968? ()
Date: May 26, 2023 03:26AM

Remember the blue laws? I remember reading in the paper how someone got busted for selling shoelaces on Sunday at the Drug Fair in ravensworth shopping center. It was a shocking crime.

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