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08-28-2013, 06:51 AM
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Jedi Order
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Habs Nation
Posts: 28,132
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Back in the day, we used to sit around a 15 inch TV set to watch the hockey game. And, if we wanted to change the channel, we had to get up and walk over to the TV and turn the dial. Every so often, we actually had to whack the top of the TV to get a better image, or worse, play around with the rabbit ear antennas. And, if we wanted to watch a particular movie, we often had to wait months for it to come on TV. It was quite the event too as friends would come over like it was a super treat.
Nowadays, kids can pretty much watch whatever they want, whenever they want on a huge screen TV.... lol.
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08-28-2013, 07:35 AM
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Baron Zemo
Join Date: May 2006
Location: we know each other, he's a friend from work
Posts: 16,341
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Quote:
Originally Posted by risingstar
Nowadays, kids can pretty much watch whatever they want, whenever they want on a huge screen TV.... lol.
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or on their phone...
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08-28-2013, 07:48 AM
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What's another word for Thesaurus?
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 2,328
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joefixit2
or on their phone...
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I'll never understand the "joy" of watching a movie/program on a screen only a few inches wide!
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08-28-2013, 01:04 PM
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100,000 sperm and you were the fastest?
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 1,860
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My biggest beef these days is shoes. Used to be I could walk into a store and pick up a decent pair of white leather sneakers for about 40 bucks. Now I can't even find anything so droll as a classic tennis or high top shoe. Everything is al done out in garish colours, trimmed in chrome and side vents and suspension and all kinds of other crap. And just forget about anything that's not approaching three or four hundred bucks.
I just want a pair of shoes dammit, not some effin' UFOs for my feet!!! 
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08-28-2013, 01:26 PM
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Mandarin
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: My House
Posts: 16,731
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkKni9hT
My biggest beef these days is shoes. Used to be I could walk into a store and pick up a decent pair of white leather sneakers for about 40 bucks. Now I can't even find anything so droll as a classic tennis or high top shoe. Everything is al done out in garish colours, trimmed in chrome and side vents and suspension and all kinds of other crap. And just forget about anything that's not approaching three or four hundred bucks.
I just want a pair of shoes dammit, not some effin' UFOs for my feet!!! |
I even saw those Convere Classic shoes - the ones that went for about $20 retail - and most of the time you find them on sale for way cheaper - run about $60 now. That's a ridiculous amount of money to pay for shoes that are basically cloth with a rubber sole.
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08-28-2013, 09:44 PM
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Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Dark Places, the Shadows
Posts: 9,975
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The young people are programmed (not their fault cause they are bombarded with it and no one to motivate their discipline) that they gotta have the latest techno sh!t. Trash what they have, get the latest toy and feed the need of the corporate greed. 
Same with physical fitness level. It was bad enough when I was young but now, according to my cardiologist she has never been so busy because of heart disease in the young. Garbage food is dangled in front of them and then so many toys to keep them from going out and being physically active with so few showing them the fun of outdoor games or even how good it feels to have a great workout. Sure, there are a lot of exceptions but so many are not eating right or exercising enough (if at all). Again, not completely their fault. They make some of those junk treats look pretty darn sweet til you think of the fat where it's at. 
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08-29-2013, 02:24 AM
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The Enchantress
Join Date: May 2008
Location: caught somewhere in time
Posts: 13,725
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"They make some of those junk treats look pretty darn sweet til you think of the fat where it's at."
I think we've got a hit on our hands here!
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08-29-2013, 02:53 AM
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Love me sexy
Adamantium Plus Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Awe-strail-ya
Posts: 10,645
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Every day I lose a little more faith in the youth of today. Here (in Oz) as least there's never a been a young generation that is so convinced the world owes them everything.
And I hate their stupid low slung jeans and silly wide brimmed baseball caps. Pull up your pants and put your hat on straight d!ck wads 
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08-29-2013, 05:28 AM
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Cobra Command
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: The great metropolis of Singapore
Posts: 4,905
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The English language (and probably in all other languages) has been trashed with all the text slang, short forms and poor grammar. Communication has already changed radically!
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08-29-2013, 07:43 PM
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Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Dark Places, the Shadows
Posts: 9,975
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Quote:
Originally Posted by johnclone
"They make some of those junk treats look pretty darn sweet til you think of the fat where it's at."
I think we've got a hit on our hands here!
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 Not rap tho.  It's called Crap! 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nidgit
Every day I lose a little more faith in the youth of today. Here (in Oz) as least there's never a been a young generation that is so convinced the world owes them everything.
And I hate their stupid low slung jeans and silly wide brimmed baseball caps. Pull up your pants and put your hat on straight d!ck wads
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THOSE ARE HUMANS??  I thought it was an invasion of Alien satirists.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Batwing
The English language (and probably in all other languages) has been trashed with all the text slang, short forms and poor grammar. Communication has already changed radically!
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Quiet please. I'm on my phone. 
 BW. Tho I'm often guilty of playing around with the language in a childish attempt at humor. 
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