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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,179
    Watching the new year come in with a frozen picture and that damn buffering circle spinning with 2.5 min. to go SUCKED!

    I tried to find all kinds of different channels that didn't buffer but NOOOOOO. Every channel seemed to be buffering off and on.

    I saw on my PC the time was 12.01. :o The TV was still frozen! >:):s:#

    This new tech for an old guy didn't sync last night.

    When I was younger, the TV didn't have this crap to mess with.

    This streaming is cheaper than cable but maybe I should've got my signal off the old FREE air waves method instead of streaming!

    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,459
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    When your kids hit their 40's you are old. I'm pretty sure it gets
    worse when your grandkids hit 40.

    My oldest daughter turns 44 next month. My son is 38. My youngest daughter is 16......I don't even know who I am anymore much less know how old I am....
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,840
    Geoff4rfc wrote: »
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    When your kids hit their 40's you are old. I'm pretty sure it gets
    worse when your grandkids hit 40.

    My oldest daughter turns 44 next month. My son is 38. My youngest daughter is 16......I don't even know who I am anymore much less know how old I am....

    28 years between kids? 😱
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,954
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,209
    ... and then, buy all the records again for twice the cost.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,182
    Nope. Some of us never got into cassette tapes or MP3's and still have the ever-growing LP and CD collections that started when we were kids. Streaming isn't needed when you have physical music but is awesome to check out an album prior to purchasing.....or for a selection that isn't on physical music.

    That meme (to me) is more about not so smart music collecting, than age. But I do get the humor it's trying to relay.

    I did do R2R tapes BITD. That was fun but it came with it's own set of deficiencies. Mainly tape hiss but tapes were also harder to aquire for me back then. You couldn't just walk into a store and buy them, like you could vinyl (or CD's after they first came out).

    Tom
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  • tonyp063
    tonyp063 Posts: 1,091
    SeleniumFalcon wrote: »
    There are four vultures playing cards outside your bedroom window.

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,455
    msg wrote: »
    ... and then, buy all the records again for twice the cost.

    You wish it was twice the cost… more like ten times.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,840
    edited January 2
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
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    I'm solidly in the middle of GenX and I didn't start with an album collection. It was a Tape collection to start, but by 1988, I mostly bought CDs, made metal tape copies for the car, and never replaced the original tapes as they wore out. Vinyl albums came later at a very low cost (before the current skyrocketing vinyl prices). Now I seek hard to find pressings of CDs, pay occasionally for high Res downloads, and use a couple free streaming services.
    Now, talking about videos, that is a place where I've been a sucker for replacing the same movies on the latest media format...
    Lord of the Rings box set on DVD in 2005, Lord of the Rings Box set on BluRay in 2012, Lord of the Rings 4K Extended (and Theatrical) set on UHD BluRay in 2024...I might have bought a few copies of some other classics too.
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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 1,189
    msg wrote: »
    ... and then, buy all the records again for twice the cost.

    ^ This is so true….
    Acquired some of those Classic Records re-do’s, when came out, and recently looked at the prices they’re selling at 😳
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,209
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    msg wrote: »
    ... and then, buy all the records again for twice the cost.

    You wish it was twice the cost… more like ten times.
    Ha, certainly for some albums. I do have a handful of records that I paid dumb prices for, because they are original issue and no longer available, even as represses. Collected over time.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,209
    skipshot12 wrote: »
    msg wrote: »
    ... and then, buy all the records again for twice the cost.
    ^ This is so true….
    Acquired some of those Classic Records re-do’s, when came out, and recently looked at the prices they’re selling at 😳
    Yeah, pretty crazy. Especially if you're looking for the early presses, or special releases.

    Luckily, I didn't have many records when I was a kid before switching to tapes for convenience, and then CDs. Maybe 20 albums, and a bunch more 45rpm singles.

    Still didn't mean my little brother was entitled to take and likely sell them. He goes ghost whenever I've asked him about it, or plays it off, never really admitting to anything. This is the kid who once sold a schiity stamp album to a girl in his class for $40 when he was in 2nd grade. He'd hidden the money under his mattress, and then our mom found him hiding under the bed when the girl and her mom came to our door after school to get the money back :D

    Most of those records sucked anyway. I think my best one was Van Halen's 1984.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,209
    edited January 2
    treitz3 wrote: »
    Nope. Some of us never got into cassette tapes or MP3's and still have the ever-growing LP and CD collections that started when we were kids.
    Tom
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,333
    msg wrote: »
    Lol, well I'll be 77 this year, but I saw the NK photo earlier this afternoon on one of those IMDB "stars when they were younger" photo collections.

    .... when you reveal you age.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"

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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,840
    BlueBirdMusic wrote: »
    msg wrote: »
    Lol, well I'll be 77 this year, but I saw the NK photo earlier this afternoon on one of those IMDB "stars when they were younger" photo collections.

    .... when you reveal you age.

    Or if you are gullible enough to believe that...
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,209
    edited January 3
    no one's gullible. was a joke I was playing along on, all deadpan-like, and it went long.
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,581
    When the height/softness/firmness of your pillows becomes one of the most crucial aspects of your life…
    “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
    ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,209
    @tonyb - don't forget getting locked out of the house in your underwears. Didn't you get a headstart on that one?
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  • ken brydson
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,990
    msg wrote: »
    @tonyb - don't forget getting locked out of the house in your underwears. Didn't you get a headstart on that one?

    Still have your memory huh, LMAO.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,209
    Some things you just can't unsee, no matter how you try LOL
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,459
    tonyb wrote: »

    Looking for your reading glasses....while they are sitting on your head.

    .

    LOL, my ex came to me once and asked, "Have you seen my glasses?" I looked up at her and said, go look in the bathroom....she replied, "they're not going to be in there"...I said, just go look in there.

    She yells, "They're not in here!!"....I said, Look in the mirror!!....she didn't think that was funny by golly and I was laughing my azz off

    My son, 13 at the time, and I were walking through the neighborhood and stopped at a garage sale. There was an item on one of the tables and I said to him, Son, if you can tell me what this is, I'll buy anything you want, in fact, I'll even buy you a car. He says, any car I want?....yes, any car you want......he guessed and guessed but was never even close......it was an album cleaner, the wooden block covered in velvet, hollowed out for the solution bottle to fit in.
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    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,722
    I had one of those. They worked pretty well.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,649
    I thonk we all had that kit once upon a time.
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  • Geoff4rfc
    Geoff4rfc Posts: 2,459
    F1nut wrote: »
    I had one of those. They worked pretty well.
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    Yep, that's it right there. Little dude couldn't tell me what it was to save his life lol
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    Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)

    EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
    When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,840
    edited January 4
    I still have one of those, along with the anti-static gun that came as a kit.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,722
    billbillw wrote: »
    I still have one of those, along with the anti-static gun that came as a kit.

    Ya know what, I just took a look and I still have mine. Not sure why, I haven't used it in decades.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • bcwsrt
    bcwsrt Posts: 1,964
    I just got rid of mine within the last year after I got an ultrasonic RCM! Figured that old fluid couldn't possibly still be good!

    Brian

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