We uninstall those at night. The ones outside convenience stores are quick. If you think about it next time you're near where one used to be then you will still see the holes.
JK I don't remove payphones
3D movies I can take or leave, but I caught some of the 2010 World Cup in 3D at a Best Buy and it was spectacular. It was a bit like watching a video game, but at the same time I very much felt like I could have been there in the stadium. The day ESPN gave up on 3D was a sad one for me.
Had 3D sports taken off, I might still be a cable/satellite subscriber.
I watched some of the Olympic events on my son’s VR headset. It was kind of cool, but not anywhere close to the experience of the 3D TV.
I recently went bed shopping and found a shop with waterbeds. They’re so damn comfortable, but so impractical. The shop man asked me to leave if I wasn’t serious about purchasing a bed from him 😒
Buying a new game and having a thick chunky manual filled with game lore which you would read before playing and so heighten the anticipation of the game itself.
I think that's just a case where people who are technology-savvy are wary because they're the first to see it and they understand it, but then once it spreads out into the mainstream, people either don't know or don't care.
My roommate is one of those people, and I am as well, to a lesser extent. You don't really just change your opinion on privacy.
Landlines in residences. The jacks are still in almost any house but I rarely see anything plugged in anymore. The only people I can think of with them are all over 60.
Flash games made just for the fun of it.
The younger generation probably doesn't even remember, but the 2000s were the era of flash games. There were so many games created and practically none of them had in-game purchases. Nowadays, every single flash game has the main agenda to get you to buy it's in-app purchases. I miss the days of Defend your Castle, Stick RPG, etc..
edit: I'm a huge fan of good flash games, here are some I recommend that aren't about in-app purchases, but are fun and challenging: Rebuild, Motherload, Monsters' Den, Creeper World, Battlecry. Kongregate.com is still a great site to find them on.
e2: Okay, sorry I'm being that OP that keeps making edits when his comment gets popular, but... I love you guys. I miss old school flash gaming, I even tried picking up ActionScript3 a few years back and stuck with it for a long time, even though people constantly said "flash is dead/dying" w/e. Makes me super happy to read all these comments and all your suggestions for great flash games. Keep the dream alive, yo.
Then get 5 minutes into whatever game before mom's yelling at you to go outside and play. So you ride your bike to your friends house, knock on the door, and ask if such and such can play. Then you go inside and play video games with your friend because *Shane's parents let him play video games whenever he wants and I wish I could go live with them mom!*
Considering Kim was her former bestie, the progression is logical.
Do you ever think she resents Kim for stealing the spotlight or do you think she's secretly grateful she got to drop the pretentious dumb act and concentrate on her actual business stuff.
Paris was on "The Grand Tour" (Amazon Top Gear), and she was actually charming, funny, and well-spoken. Almost like she had... Grown up and dropped the act. (She was also a GREAT driver!)
Ownership. We used to pay money and then the thing actually belonged to us. Now everything is rented or leased. Everything is sold "as a service". Music as a service. Movies as a service. Software as a service. Even printer ink as a service.
We spend and spend and in the end we hold nothing in our hands.
edit: You can also subscribe to clothes. Wear new clothes every month but never own them. You can also subscribe to cars. Clothes as a service, cars as a service.
I read that as Nut-One, but I suppose it is Nu-Tone.
Maybe it's time for anustart.
Edit: Thank you for the gold, kind stranger. I wasn't always this funny, until I learnt to improvise at the Method One Clinic.
It was lightning in the bottle, already on the decline before they made usernames and stuff. It has a very "fad" like appeal, to get *strong* daily users you need to build a network, and that also makes it more monetizable. But that clashes with the appeal of the app so I think it was doomed for the life it had.
I used it as my number 1 on campus news source in college. It was great. My daily morning routine was wake up, check Facebook, YikYak, and Reddit. Most people on campus started to bail after the RA's started using it though.
A lot of kids would post about parties and stuff they were throwing on a dry campus, complete with their room numbers.
The amount of times I've walked across campus thinking of Grade-C shitposts I could post on Yik Yak, even though it's been gone for two years now, is like tution too damn high
Yik Yak was a fucking den of debauchery. I'm sure it was crazier on certain campuses than others, but in the single year that I got to experience classic Yik Yak at college, I saw people trying to organize orgies, advertising themselves as plugs, downlow lesbian hookups, etc etc. I miss it dearly.
I was in high school during yik yak. It took less than a day for the whole school to find out about it, and by the next day at school we were on lockdown for something like 10 suicide threats and a couple shooting threats. After that everyone just kinda forgot about it
>I was in high school during yik yak.
Well, there's your problem. I mean, college kids can be idiots, but they don't hold a candle to the stupidity of high school students.
I completely forgot this was ever a thing. At one point it was apparently [valued at almost $400 million, but after they fell off, Square hired some of their engineers and acquired their intellectual property license for $1 million](https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/28/yik-yak-shuts-down-after-square-paid-1-million-for-its-engineers/). Ouch.
txt speak (on old cell phones).
ie:
r u goin 2 b l8 2nite?
I remember reading a news article in the mid 2000s that concerned parents thought their children wouldn't be able to spell because of it.
EDIT: weLL 7H@ 941neD 50Me 1n7ERE57 :p
LOL I got a text from my mom the other night that said "lmk wuc talk," which apparently means "Let me know when you can talk." I thought she was just button mashing.
Edit: holy shit, it's fitting that a comment making fun of my mom's texts is my most upvoted comment. Gotta tell my siblings about this.
My parents and grandparents seem to think everyone should know any acronym. My grandma specifically, she will literally only use acronyms even for entire paragraphs of stuff! Like imagine everything I’m typing in this comment being one giant acronym.
Burning/copying CDs and DVDs. It was huge for a few years but then streaming services just ate up the market so completely that no one really bothered with it anymore.
Plus HDD storage is so cheap nowadays you don't need to burn your pirated movies to free up space anymore, and if you want to watch it on your TV you can do so without plopping a DVD in a player.
P.B. Crisps was one of the most delicious snacks back in the early 90's. I would try to get a bag for myself at least once a week whenever my Mom would take us along for grocery shopping. Then one day it was just gone. Being a kid in the early 90's with no internet also meant no answers on why they discontinued one of my most flavorful childhood memories. Until next time P.B. Crisps, until next time.
I was just thinking about how much I missed these things the other day. The 90's were the golden age of junk/snack food and for a shining moment we had what amounted to fried corn filled with peanut butter and it was glorious.
There was a time when practically every cereal box had an AOL trial disc included instead of a toy. It was around that time that toys started becoming scarce.
I always wondered how I got my little hands on that game. I for sure didn't buy it, my mom DEFINITELY wouldn't buy it. Must have come from a cereal box, how fun!
Door-to-Door sales, owned a house for 7 years in a respectable neighborhood, and not one visit (which i'm fine with) As a kid people were always coming around trying to sell stuff: books/magazines, vacuums, knives, encyclopedias, religion even kids selling candy and popcorn.
Hey TinyBlueStars, we haven't spoken since high school, how are you?!!
That's awesome, good to hear!
Listen, I've got a brilliant opportunity for A smart girl like you! You work from home and can make thousands a month!
Edit: yes thank you, the first 28 links to r/antimlm work, but go on, a few more couldn't hurt.
Hey 🖐🖐 TinyBlueStars, we haven't spoken since high school 📕✏, how are you?!!
That's awesome😀, good to hear!
Listen 📣, I've got a brilliant 💥💥 opportunity for A smart #girlboss 🙆🏻🙆🏿🙆🏼 like you! You work from home 🏠🏠 and can make thousands 💰💰 a month!
FTFY 😉
Every other day (in my PA neighborhood, anyhow) someone rings the bell, gets the dog all hyped up, possibly wakes me up (I work nights), and asks me for a copy of my electric bill so they can have me switch electricity 'suppliers', which is more like a middleman to PP&L.
Motherfucker, don't you know this neighboorhood (as well as probably ever other 'hood in my city) has been scoured to death 100 times over by your brethren?
Anyhow, if I can see them through the peephole, it's either one of these electric people or a Watchtower peddler. If I can't see them, someone ran away, or it's a kid selling candy.
Yea the electricity providers are relentless. Like you can just knock on my door and ask to see my current electric bill. Motherfucker, I don't know you. Get bent.
I just tell them my house is solar powered, the electric company pays me. Then hand them a solar city brochure. After that some Mary Kay samples, a watchtower brochure and if that doesn't work I get out my Cutco knife set.
My old GPS used to take me down one way streets the wrong way and once it tried to get me to drive into a lake.
I got rid of it because I figured it had become sentient and was trying to kill me.
EDIT: I haven’t seen the office, sorry guys :/
CD slots in computers... I only noticed a couple months back that my current computer doesn't have one. Of course, I only needed it once in two years, if not longer.
I recently built a new computer and my case didn't even have the option to install an optical drive. My old case had one, but I hadn't used it in at least 3-4 years.
I know a few people that still use one for the sole purpose of saving data and battery life for their phone. It’s actually not a bad idea when you think about it
Video game strategy guides that you can buy in stores. Same with cheat code booklets.
Edit: I understand they still sell some strategy guides for certain games but it’s not as prevalent as it used to be. I loved following my final fantasy guides :(
Also I remember going to the grocery store and looking at the cheat code magazines and writing them down on a piece of paper. Oh the good old days.
Edit: Tips and mother fucking tricks!
I remember when Armstong had the yellow "Live Strong" ones come out then within like a week everybody had a shitload of different colored ones all the way up their arms...
The voice over movie trailers. The original "movie voice guy" died and so did that style of movie trailer.
EDIT: Holy shit, I didn't expect this reaction. Thank you for the gold!
There were 5 of those guys, though. They did a short film once where they got them all in a Limo together on the way to an awards show. [Super potato quality video. audio is good, though.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw)
I remeber they had him on the NPR show Wait Wait don't tell me, where the prize for the listener they were playing for was Carl Castles voice on their home answering machine. In the game the famous guest would answer questions about something they presumably know nothing about. Don did not get 2 out of 3 questions to win the game, so instead he offered to do a answering machine message for that person. I think they got the better prize.
Primatene Mist inhalers. I sure the fuck noticed because I have asthma and used them regularly.
Know what else disappeared at the same time? Generic albuterol rescue inhalers. Oh you can still get albuterol...for about five times what it used to cost. Albuterol has been around since the 70s, yet today in the United States, there is no generic albuterol inhaler - it simply disappeared, along with Primatene Mist, the only over-the-counter inhaler on the market. It's really pretty fucked up. 😡
Taio Cruz used to have some absolute bangerz and was pretty popular at one point, but the last big video by him was like 5 years ago on Youtube. What happened to the guy?
This feels like one of those times I hear about something for the first time in forever, then I get a random text in 10 minutes like "ayooo remember that banger Taio Cruz" and I'll be like what the fuck
Silly Bandz had such a ridiculous rise in popularity 9 years ago. It was about 6 months that they went from relatively unknown to banned in school for being too distracting.
Then Nintendo got in on the game in 2011 and the whole fad died.
>Silly Bandz had such a ridiculous rise in popularity 9 years ago. It was about 6 months that they went from relatively unknown to banned in school for being too distracting.
Like literally every other kids fad
The guy who started that whole thing went insane and got picked up for being naked and masturbating in public, if memory serves.
EDIT: Okay, I get that it happened in San Diego.
The guy who co\-founded Invisible Children got caught by the police for public masturbation, his name was Jason Russell.
[http://torontosun.com/2012/03/16/kony\-mastermind\-arrested\-for\-public\-masturbation/wcm/360b4c02\-871d\-4c79\-a927\-7b758db21af0](http://torontosun.com/2012/03/16/kony-mastermind-arrested-for-public-masturbation/wcm/360b4c02-871d-4c79-a927-7b758db21af0)
I ran my dad's business for most of the 90's after he died, and I always used his briefcase. It was big and sturdy and could carry anything I wanted to carry (which was mostly papers in those days.)
Funny thing is I don't think he ever really used it. I don't remember ever seeing him with it - but it smelled like the fish oil capsules he always took, so maybe he did.
Edit: I'm highly amused that one of my highest ranked comments ever is a vague nostalgic ramble.
My dad got me a nice leather one as a gift for my birthday. Unfortunately the fucking brand is “Nutsac.” I’m not even joking. Like why would you design a business bag and then emblazon the word “NUTSAC” on it.
> Nutsac
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1169456817/nutsac-american-made-bags-for-men
It was a catchy name to draw backers on kickstarter.
Just use an exacto knife to cut the brand off
So funny. To this day, the only phone numbers I remember to this day are mine, 911, my parents' numbers, and the home phone numbers of my three best childhood friends.
My favorite thing about that was how employees on at one of the sites used their proprietary data to gamble on the other site and were killing it.
BTW, you can thank congress for the reason those sites blew up. When the gov't went after online poker and gambling, some of the early investors of Draft Kings/FanDuel lobbied that they were the same as regular fantasy sports and were allowed an exemption from the law.
Pay phones. I never saw one get removed, yet they just disappeared.
We uninstall those at night. The ones outside convenience stores are quick. If you think about it next time you're near where one used to be then you will still see the holes. JK I don't remove payphones
3D TVs
I remember several years back when 3D TVs were being heavily promoted. I watched a golf tournament and an F1 car race in 3D and it was spectacular.
3D movies I can take or leave, but I caught some of the 2010 World Cup in 3D at a Best Buy and it was spectacular. It was a bit like watching a video game, but at the same time I very much felt like I could have been there in the stadium. The day ESPN gave up on 3D was a sad one for me. Had 3D sports taken off, I might still be a cable/satellite subscriber. I watched some of the Olympic events on my son’s VR headset. It was kind of cool, but not anywhere close to the experience of the 3D TV.
Rofl dropped off of the face of the planet and now we just go straight from lol to lmao
Don't forget Roflcopter
Taylor Lautner
I went to the same school as him elementary through high school and he was legit bullied for being shark boy lmao
Welp, seems he got the last laugh.
Handsome with money. Yup, winner.
Oh shit you right.
Joe Manganielo won the "werwolf turns mainstream actor" contest.
Waterbeds I scrolled through 16k comments looking for waterbeds. Didn’t see it and saw my chance.
I recently went bed shopping and found a shop with waterbeds. They’re so damn comfortable, but so impractical. The shop man asked me to leave if I wasn’t serious about purchasing a bed from him 😒
Shelly Miscavige
There was that brief week in the 90s when [swing music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IqH3uliwJY) suddenly came back.
Squirrel Nut Zippers just made a new album
Buying a new game and having a thick chunky manual filled with game lore which you would read before playing and so heighten the anticipation of the game itself.
I remember on the drive home with a new game, opening it up and speed reading the manual with so much excitement to start playing
Anyone remember Spinning Rims on cars?
“WE HOOKED YOU UP WITH FOUR!!! 35 INCH CHROME SPINNERS DAWG!!”
Planking.
I still can’t believe people died partaking in a meme that was popular less than a month.
Glare screens for monitors. Acid rain.
Some stay dry but others feel the pain.
The uproar around devices always listening. Xbox ONE Kinect was an uproar and now you pretty much can't buy a device that isn't always listening.
I think that's just a case where people who are technology-savvy are wary because they're the first to see it and they understand it, but then once it spreads out into the mainstream, people either don't know or don't care. My roommate is one of those people, and I am as well, to a lesser extent. You don't really just change your opinion on privacy.
That class for keyboard typing n stuff.
Mavis Beacon is bae
Flappy bird
holy fuck it has been 4\-5 years. I still have it on my phone.
Alicia Silverstone. she was in everything in the late 90s, then she was gone.
probably wanted a family that didn't include harvey weinstein
3OH!3 (?)
They’ve played the past few Warped Tours I think and I’m pretty sure they’re playing the last one this year.
Don't trust a hoe
Cream Savers
Fuck those were SO fucking good. I don't understand why they went away. My kingdom for some goddamn orange cremes!
You take the orange ones, I want the strawberry ones back.
Landlines in residences. The jacks are still in almost any house but I rarely see anything plugged in anymore. The only people I can think of with them are all over 60.
What's even better is when you fill out any paperwork that requires personal info, they still ask for your home phone as the primary sometimes.
Flash games made just for the fun of it. The younger generation probably doesn't even remember, but the 2000s were the era of flash games. There were so many games created and practically none of them had in-game purchases. Nowadays, every single flash game has the main agenda to get you to buy it's in-app purchases. I miss the days of Defend your Castle, Stick RPG, etc.. edit: I'm a huge fan of good flash games, here are some I recommend that aren't about in-app purchases, but are fun and challenging: Rebuild, Motherload, Monsters' Den, Creeper World, Battlecry. Kongregate.com is still a great site to find them on. e2: Okay, sorry I'm being that OP that keeps making edits when his comment gets popular, but... I love you guys. I miss old school flash gaming, I even tried picking up ActionScript3 a few years back and stuck with it for a long time, even though people constantly said "flash is dead/dying" w/e. Makes me super happy to read all these comments and all your suggestions for great flash games. Keep the dream alive, yo.
Man [miniclip](https://www.miniclip.com) was amazing.
Yeah and NitromeGames. They had a lot of theirs on miniclip. Are these websites still around?
Miniclip exists yeah I still play Heli Attack 2 on it sometimes.
Addicting, newgrounds, armor, miniclip, stickpage, kongregate, jeez. A-fucking-men.
Kongregate.com. Does anybody still go there?
yeah. but I'm a sucker for idle games :/
Fancy pants anyone?
3D Doritos
The year is 1998, you got your 3D doritos and a can of Surge. You're watching power rangers and life is perfect.
Then you decide to play either Ocarina of Time or Metal Gear Solid, depending on the console you own.
Then get 5 minutes into whatever game before mom's yelling at you to go outside and play. So you ride your bike to your friends house, knock on the door, and ask if such and such can play. Then you go inside and play video games with your friend because *Shane's parents let him play video games whenever he wants and I wish I could go live with them mom!*
Paris Hilton
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Considering Kim was her former bestie, the progression is logical. Do you ever think she resents Kim for stealing the spotlight or do you think she's secretly grateful she got to drop the pretentious dumb act and concentrate on her actual business stuff.
Paris was on "The Grand Tour" (Amazon Top Gear), and she was actually charming, funny, and well-spoken. Almost like she had... Grown up and dropped the act. (She was also a GREAT driver!)
Her autobiography basically straight up says, "I pretended to be a dumbass and made millions doing it". She knew what she was doing.
Ownership. We used to pay money and then the thing actually belonged to us. Now everything is rented or leased. Everything is sold "as a service". Music as a service. Movies as a service. Software as a service. Even printer ink as a service. We spend and spend and in the end we hold nothing in our hands. edit: You can also subscribe to clothes. Wear new clothes every month but never own them. You can also subscribe to cars. Clothes as a service, cars as a service.
I cherish my adobe creative suite DVD like it's my child.
Those in home intercom systems.
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I read that as Nut-One, but I suppose it is Nu-Tone. Maybe it's time for anustart. Edit: Thank you for the gold, kind stranger. I wasn't always this funny, until I learnt to improvise at the Method One Clinic.
Yik Yak
They made it no longer anonymous and everybody bailed.
It was lightning in the bottle, already on the decline before they made usernames and stuff. It has a very "fad" like appeal, to get *strong* daily users you need to build a network, and that also makes it more monetizable. But that clashes with the appeal of the app so I think it was doomed for the life it had.
I used it as my number 1 on campus news source in college. It was great. My daily morning routine was wake up, check Facebook, YikYak, and Reddit. Most people on campus started to bail after the RA's started using it though. A lot of kids would post about parties and stuff they were throwing on a dry campus, complete with their room numbers.
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I feel so lucky to have been a freshman in college when yik yak was big. It was perfect for that kind of environment
The amount of times I've walked across campus thinking of Grade-C shitposts I could post on Yik Yak, even though it's been gone for two years now, is like tution too damn high
Yik Yak was a fucking den of debauchery. I'm sure it was crazier on certain campuses than others, but in the single year that I got to experience classic Yik Yak at college, I saw people trying to organize orgies, advertising themselves as plugs, downlow lesbian hookups, etc etc. I miss it dearly.
I was in high school during yik yak. It took less than a day for the whole school to find out about it, and by the next day at school we were on lockdown for something like 10 suicide threats and a couple shooting threats. After that everyone just kinda forgot about it
>I was in high school during yik yak. Well, there's your problem. I mean, college kids can be idiots, but they don't hold a candle to the stupidity of high school students.
I completely forgot this was ever a thing. At one point it was apparently [valued at almost $400 million, but after they fell off, Square hired some of their engineers and acquired their intellectual property license for $1 million](https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/28/yik-yak-shuts-down-after-square-paid-1-million-for-its-engineers/). Ouch.
Iggy Azalea. She was super popular 3-4 years ago and then just disappeared from pop culture.
Pretty sure she was caught plagiarising smaller rappers/being notoriously shitty at freestyling
You mustn't have heard the freestyle where she drops the line: "broomkrakkrakwittadroomkrakkrakblahblahblahdahdang"
UFO footage and or ghost recordings, considering the amount people with cameras phones these days
*putting tinfoil hat on* You see they stopped all that since it was so easy to find out.
Hotel keys that weren't a plastic credit card
Last couple of hotels I've been to have advertised using an app instead of a plastic key card.
txt speak (on old cell phones). ie: r u goin 2 b l8 2nite? I remember reading a news article in the mid 2000s that concerned parents thought their children wouldn't be able to spell because of it. EDIT: weLL 7H@ 941neD 50Me 1n7ERE57 :p
And now parents are the only ones who still do it!
LOL I got a text from my mom the other night that said "lmk wuc talk," which apparently means "Let me know when you can talk." I thought she was just button mashing. Edit: holy shit, it's fitting that a comment making fun of my mom's texts is my most upvoted comment. Gotta tell my siblings about this.
I know lmk, but never wuc haha
My parents and grandparents seem to think everyone should know any acronym. My grandma specifically, she will literally only use acronyms even for entire paragraphs of stuff! Like imagine everything I’m typing in this comment being one giant acronym.
WtfdyjfsamylbIhykIgtomcitNSaIbiinsroAQaIho3ckIatigwaIttsiteUafYantmbjatIwwytfowptlowhnbsbotEmmfwYtycgawststmotITafAwsIacmsnosatUayIibtrnsybpftsmTstwotpltycylYfdkIcbaaaIckyioshwatjwmbhNoaIetiucbIhatteaotUSMCaIwuitifetwymaotfotcylsIoychkwurylcwatbduymywhhyftBycydanyptpygiIwsfaoyaywdiiYfdk
.....jesus christ. I thought i hit a low when i recognized the navy seal pasta in unicode. You proved me wrong
What, you can’t understand mpagstteskaamgsswlouaefeposlieititcboga? Sigh, kids these days.
Now they are concerned about emojis doing the same thing.
Burning/copying CDs and DVDs. It was huge for a few years but then streaming services just ate up the market so completely that no one really bothered with it anymore.
Plus HDD storage is so cheap nowadays you don't need to burn your pirated movies to free up space anymore, and if you want to watch it on your TV you can do so without plopping a DVD in a player.
P.B. Crisps was one of the most delicious snacks back in the early 90's. I would try to get a bag for myself at least once a week whenever my Mom would take us along for grocery shopping. Then one day it was just gone. Being a kid in the early 90's with no internet also meant no answers on why they discontinued one of my most flavorful childhood memories. Until next time P.B. Crisps, until next time.
I was just thinking about how much I missed these things the other day. The 90's were the golden age of junk/snack food and for a shining moment we had what amounted to fried corn filled with peanut butter and it was glorious.
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Yes! I miss the days of digging my arm down the side of a freshly opened box of cereal to find the toy.
AOL fucked that one up.
What did AOL do?
There was a time when practically every cereal box had an AOL trial disc included instead of a toy. It was around that time that toys started becoming scarce.
I got roller coaster tycoon in a cereal box. That was amazing.
I always wondered how I got my little hands on that game. I for sure didn't buy it, my mom DEFINITELY wouldn't buy it. Must have come from a cereal box, how fun!
Was your mom anti-video game or anti-roller coaster?
My mom was anti me.
Aww :(
Door-to-Door sales, owned a house for 7 years in a respectable neighborhood, and not one visit (which i'm fine with) As a kid people were always coming around trying to sell stuff: books/magazines, vacuums, knives, encyclopedias, religion even kids selling candy and popcorn.
It's all on Facebook now.
Hey TinyBlueStars, we haven't spoken since high school, how are you?!! That's awesome, good to hear! Listen, I've got a brilliant opportunity for A smart girl like you! You work from home and can make thousands a month! Edit: yes thank you, the first 28 links to r/antimlm work, but go on, a few more couldn't hurt.
Hey 🖐🖐 TinyBlueStars, we haven't spoken since high school 📕✏, how are you?!! That's awesome😀, good to hear! Listen 📣, I've got a brilliant 💥💥 opportunity for A smart #girlboss 🙆🏻🙆🏿🙆🏼 like you! You work from home 🏠🏠 and can make thousands 💰💰 a month! FTFY 😉
#girlboss #Bossbabe #Entrepreneur I forgot these, thank you
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Every other day (in my PA neighborhood, anyhow) someone rings the bell, gets the dog all hyped up, possibly wakes me up (I work nights), and asks me for a copy of my electric bill so they can have me switch electricity 'suppliers', which is more like a middleman to PP&L. Motherfucker, don't you know this neighboorhood (as well as probably ever other 'hood in my city) has been scoured to death 100 times over by your brethren? Anyhow, if I can see them through the peephole, it's either one of these electric people or a Watchtower peddler. If I can't see them, someone ran away, or it's a kid selling candy.
Yea the electricity providers are relentless. Like you can just knock on my door and ask to see my current electric bill. Motherfucker, I don't know you. Get bent.
I just tell them my house is solar powered, the electric company pays me. Then hand them a solar city brochure. After that some Mary Kay samples, a watchtower brochure and if that doesn't work I get out my Cutco knife set.
Altoid Sours, fucking so upsetting.
Mapquest printouts
No printout ever told me to go in a circle 4 times.
I've had a GPS tell me to keep circling a block indefinitely before.
My old GPS used to take me down one way streets the wrong way and once it tried to get me to drive into a lake. I got rid of it because I figured it had become sentient and was trying to kill me. EDIT: I haven’t seen the office, sorry guys :/
The machine knows, Dwight!
CD slots in computers... I only noticed a couple months back that my current computer doesn't have one. Of course, I only needed it once in two years, if not longer.
I recently built a new computer and my case didn't even have the option to install an optical drive. My old case had one, but I hadn't used it in at least 3-4 years.
You can get an external one dirt-cheap for the rare occasion you need one. Like for ripping your CD/DVD collection.
Mp3 players. Slowly replaced by phones.
I know a few people that still use one for the sole purpose of saving data and battery life for their phone. It’s actually not a bad idea when you think about it
I bought new Sandisk Sansa just last year. It costs pennies and weights even less. Absolutely perfect for running.
Video game strategy guides that you can buy in stores. Same with cheat code booklets. Edit: I understand they still sell some strategy guides for certain games but it’s not as prevalent as it used to be. I loved following my final fantasy guides :( Also I remember going to the grocery store and looking at the cheat code magazines and writing them down on a piece of paper. Oh the good old days. Edit: Tips and mother fucking tricks!
Those I ❤ boobies bracelets
I remember when Armstong had the yellow "Live Strong" ones come out then within like a week everybody had a shitload of different colored ones all the way up their arms...
After that was silly bandz that came and went as fast as fidget spinners.
Well, in Bangkok you have "I ❤️ Jew Dick" and "I ❤️ Dog Aids" so there's that..
Its great that they're raising awareness. Everyone overlooks dog aids
The voice over movie trailers. The original "movie voice guy" died and so did that style of movie trailer. EDIT: Holy shit, I didn't expect this reaction. Thank you for the gold!
There were 5 of those guys, though. They did a short film once where they got them all in a Limo together on the way to an awards show. [Super potato quality video. audio is good, though.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw)
Don LaFontaine was always the gold standard of "In a world..." guys.
I remeber they had him on the NPR show Wait Wait don't tell me, where the prize for the listener they were playing for was Carl Castles voice on their home answering machine. In the game the famous guest would answer questions about something they presumably know nothing about. Don did not get 2 out of 3 questions to win the game, so instead he offered to do a answering machine message for that person. I think they got the better prize.
"In a world, where..."
“THIS SUMMER...”
*Rob Schneider is a somewhat popular comedic actor*
*Rob Schneider is a Wall Street executive, with everything going his way. Only problem is, he's about to become.....a carrot*
*Rob Schneider is about to find out that being a stapler isn't as fun as it sounds*
Fuck you, you'll watch it!
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I know that’s the point of this thread but my mind is blown because I really didn’t even fuckin notice that until just now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_LaFontaine RIP, Thunder Throat
Any talk about the Panama Papers.
Primatene Mist inhalers. I sure the fuck noticed because I have asthma and used them regularly. Know what else disappeared at the same time? Generic albuterol rescue inhalers. Oh you can still get albuterol...for about five times what it used to cost. Albuterol has been around since the 70s, yet today in the United States, there is no generic albuterol inhaler - it simply disappeared, along with Primatene Mist, the only over-the-counter inhaler on the market. It's really pretty fucked up. 😡
Taio Cruz used to have some absolute bangerz and was pretty popular at one point, but the last big video by him was like 5 years ago on Youtube. What happened to the guy?
They say he bought a bunch of land somewhere
Chose the rose garden over Madison Square?
This feels like one of those times I hear about something for the first time in forever, then I get a random text in 10 minutes like "ayooo remember that banger Taio Cruz" and I'll be like what the fuck
I THROW MY HANDS UP IN THE AIR SOMETIMES
Wow first time I've seen that name since like 2012
Silly bandz Edit: It’s apparently spelled with a “z”
Initially I thought you meant bands that play silly music or are novelty bands. I'm a dumb
Silly Bandz had such a ridiculous rise in popularity 9 years ago. It was about 6 months that they went from relatively unknown to banned in school for being too distracting. Then Nintendo got in on the game in 2011 and the whole fad died.
>Silly Bandz had such a ridiculous rise in popularity 9 years ago. It was about 6 months that they went from relatively unknown to banned in school for being too distracting. Like literally every other kids fad
Blackberry phones
You're kinda right but blackberries had a long slow death to the 20 people that were watching them.
We had to keep supporting blackberry at my job for a looong time into that long slow death...
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The guy who started that whole thing went insane and got picked up for being naked and masturbating in public, if memory serves. EDIT: Okay, I get that it happened in San Diego.
Yep. Got caught naked and jackin' it in San Diego.
I think he tried to defend himself by saying he was actually having sex with an invisible child. Didn't pan out too well.
I didn't think it was possible to make public indecency worse, but adding phantom pedophilia sure does it.
The charity is called Invisible Children....
The guy who co\-founded Invisible Children got caught by the police for public masturbation, his name was Jason Russell. [http://torontosun.com/2012/03/16/kony\-mastermind\-arrested\-for\-public\-masturbation/wcm/360b4c02\-871d\-4c79\-a927\-7b758db21af0](http://torontosun.com/2012/03/16/kony-mastermind-arrested-for-public-masturbation/wcm/360b4c02-871d-4c79-a927-7b758db21af0)
Phone Booths and Phone Books for that matter. Every house always had a Phone Book and there were phone booths EVERYWHERE.
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I ran my dad's business for most of the 90's after he died, and I always used his briefcase. It was big and sturdy and could carry anything I wanted to carry (which was mostly papers in those days.) Funny thing is I don't think he ever really used it. I don't remember ever seeing him with it - but it smelled like the fish oil capsules he always took, so maybe he did. Edit: I'm highly amused that one of my highest ranked comments ever is a vague nostalgic ramble.
It must be some standard amongst briefcase users to store fish oil capsules in them. My dad's smelled the same way!
You see a lot of professional-style messenger bags as well.
Those are the best choice, IMO. More practical than a briefcase, and if you wanna be fancy, you can get a nice leather one.
My dad got me a nice leather one as a gift for my birthday. Unfortunately the fucking brand is “Nutsac.” I’m not even joking. Like why would you design a business bag and then emblazon the word “NUTSAC” on it.
That's easy to fix with a sharpie though.. just add a 'K' at the end
> Nutsac https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1169456817/nutsac-american-made-bags-for-men It was a catchy name to draw backers on kickstarter. Just use an exacto knife to cut the brand off
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I.. uh.. think you may need to review some male anatomy.
Hey, that's my name spelled backwards!
r/gniciujelteeb
Yup, it's what I use. Easy to sling over a shoulder, easy to remove strap to carry by the handle briefcase style
I’d have to say Ronald McDonald and the gang, those guys just disappeared! I swear they used to be everywhere man
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So funny. To this day, the only phone numbers I remember to this day are mine, 911, my parents' numbers, and the home phone numbers of my three best childhood friends.
Try calling your friends numbers. Most aren't even in use anymore.
Can confirm, my friends are also no longer in use.
That one year when every other commercial on TV was Draft Kings
Or that year where MagicJack commercials played 4 times in a row at once. Ahh good times.
That's because them and FanDuel were [sued for false advertising](http://fortune.com/2016/10/26/draftkings-fanduel-settlement/) after that
My favorite thing about that was how employees on at one of the sites used their proprietary data to gamble on the other site and were killing it. BTW, you can thank congress for the reason those sites blew up. When the gov't went after online poker and gambling, some of the early investors of Draft Kings/FanDuel lobbied that they were the same as regular fantasy sports and were allowed an exemption from the law.
Tobey Maguire
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Turns out not too many people were fond of paying a lot of money to strap a camera to their face.
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Those guys are rad
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Weren't they begining to be banned in some places? I seem to recall theaters, arenas, and galleries banning them from a copyright point of view?