Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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I honestly don't think I can do it as a way to describe myself. I could allude to my sense of humor or my appreciation for story or character. But I don't see myself in film characters often.
Office Space, Idiocracy, Hackers (1995), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Airheads (1994). If there's a sixth, it'd be Mallrats.
GasBandit
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Some of you didn't define your adolescence by pop culture references and it shows.
I spent 6 years living in Australia (until I was 10) do my experience is a bit abnormal. Still, I grew up with A-team and Voltron and Transformers. I just wouldn't say I am anything like Howling Mad Murdock, though.
GasBandit
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You identify as a conversion van!
Princess Bride ,Once, Night Trips, Best of the Best, and Secretary.
Office Space, Idiocracy, Hackers (1995), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Airheads (1994). If there's a sixth, it'd be Mallrats.
(omg, I think I edited this at least 4 times)
I feel ya. Took extra time to think of movies that represent me rather than just being movies which represent what kind(s) of movies I prefer.
Wizard of Speed and Time, Allegro Non Troppo, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (The Gene Wilder one*), Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back, and Shrek.
—Patrick
*Yes I know the other one was “Charlie and…” but I don’t want any confusion.
figmentPez
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I am so called out:
This haircut says "I want to see your manager's manager."
When I was in high school "wikipedia" was a set of 32 hardback books that took up two book whole shelves of the bookcase and cost $1400 in 1980's dollars.
Here's one to go with that and a few of my own
- Finding a book in the school library required learning (at least the basics of) the Dewey Decimal System, then looking in a card catalog (with actual cards) to see if the library had it, then searching the library for the that particular number or numbers as research for classes needed multiple books.
- Learning to type on an actual typewriter and learning how to unjam the pieces when you accidentally hit too many keys at once.
- Learning what IRQ ports were, figuring out which ones were conflicting, and editing .ini files so that my first games could play that tinny sound.
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Lessee...
"Zap my Zinger and I'll move your nose to another part of your face!" (also "We're Beatrice.)
Gas pumps with spinners or actual glass bowls on the top so customers wouldn't feel like they were being cheated.
Audio/video equipment you had to turn on several minutes in advance so it would be ready by the time you actually wanted to use it.
Phones you couldn't unplug from the wall. They were literally wired to it.
Margarine that came with that little color pill you had to knead into it to turn it yellow.
Adding machines. The kind that you pushed all the buttons first and then pulled the lever.
--Patrick
"Zap my Zinger and I'll move your nose to another part of your face!" (also "We're Beatrice.)
Gas pumps with spinners or actual glass bowls on the top so customers wouldn't feel like they were being cheated.
Audio/video equipment you had to turn on several minutes in advance so it would be ready by the time you actually wanted to use it.
Phones you couldn't unplug from the wall. They were literally wired to it.
Margarine that came with that little color pill you had to knead into it to turn it yellow.
Adding machines. The kind that you pushed all the buttons first and then pulled the lever.
--Patrick
Dave
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Grog burn hand on hot moving thing gods gave us from the sky.
How about phones that you had to dial by putting your finger into the hole on the dial, spin it around to the stop, wait for it to finish going back before dialing the next number? (rotary phone) We had one of these when I was younger.
My parents told me about when they had a "party line" for their phone - you had to see if one of your neighbors were on the phone before you could use it, you had to listen to how many rings the phone did to be able to know if the call was for you.
We had a rotary phone until I was 16. Because it was rented from AT&T much like cable boxes are rented from Comcast. But it seemed too cliche to mention it
When I was a teen, my great grandmother had a 4 digit phone number in her small town.
I still have one. It's a beast.it seemed too cliche to mention it
Also: https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html
--Patrick
Dave
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We had a party line. They always tried to put family members on the same circuit. So it was us, my aunt/uncle, & my grandparents. My aunt & uncle were fine but my grandmother would ALWAYS pick up the phone & listen in to every conversation. It sucked. I did fuck with her a few times but I got in trouble.
I feel old now. I had a 4 digit number until I was 8, it changed to a 5 digit for the next 7 years and it moved to a full 7. We still haven’t had to go to area code plus dialing in the area. We haven’t had a landline in over 15 years.We had a rotary phone until I was 16. Because it was rented from AT&T much like cable boxes are rented from Comcast. But it seemed too cliche to mention it
When I was a teen, my great grandmother had a 4 digit phone number in her small town.
