[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

If you had a 1958 Philco Predicta TV.

In 1958, that passed for "ultra modern." Jetson's level stuff.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

If you had a 1958 Philco Predicta TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicta


Attachment 3740596

Yuk! 🤣

Having unpacked thousands of televisions, I’m wondering what the packing
materials looked like for the Predicta abortion.

Our 50’s vintage Philco was in a colonial maple cabinet. All of our furniture
was maple.

[Vindicator3]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when you go to the amusement park with your daughter and grandchildren and you don't want to go on the the big, fancy, upside down coasters anymore.

Finally a marker of "old" that I haven't reached yet. Time to enjoy my "youth" while I can - road trip to Cedar Point?

[Lady Jane]

If you used one one of them on a regular basis.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

If you used one one of them on a regular basis.

Only in cheap state-owned campgrounds. But when I was a kid, the house next to us had one. It was the original farmhouse for the farm that became our neighborhood. I don't recall anyone ever using it. I think it was just left over from the early days.

[RickFLM4]

Reminds me of week-long Boy Scout camp where we had latrines and one of the other kids in our troop decided he was going to “hold it” for the week. One day we were out marching and, well, you can probably guess what happened that day.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

Reminds me of week-long Boy Scout camp where we had latrines and one of the other kids in our troop decided he was going to “hold it” for the week. One day we were out marching and, well, you can probably guess what happened that day.

Definitely not a healthy thing to do.

[sygazelle]

...when you go through a Taco Bell drive-thru and:

1) you can't read the menu very well
2) you can't understand the words of the employee speaking to you over the speaker and have to ask them to slow down a little bit.
3) They ask you if you placed your order though "the app". I'm old. I don't place orders through apps. I don't even use the touch screen when I go inside. The GD touchscreen was designed by junior G-rangers who skipped class the day they taught intuitive.
4) They finally slow down and you hear them say, do you want sauce with that, and you say no thanks (the tacos are plenty spicy enough for this old guy)
5) They ask you if you want to round up to nearest dollar and you say, no. (I'm retired and I'm not giving my money away unless it's to a charity I know)
6) you don't care that your fellow forum members are absolutely going to scold you for going to Taco Bell and eating that crappy food.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when you go through a Taco Bell drive-thru and:

1) you can't read the menu very well
2) you can't understand the words of the employee speaking to you over the speaker and have to ask them to slow down a little bit.
3) They ask you if you placed your order though "the app". I'm old. I don't place orders through apps. I don't even use the touch screen when I go inside. The GD touchscreen was designed by junior G-rangers who skipped class the day they taught intuitive.
4) They finally slow down and you hear them say, do you want sauce with that, and you say no thanks (the tacos are plenty spicy enough for this old guy)
5) They ask you if you want to round up to nearest dollar and you say, no. (I'm retired and I'm not giving my money away unless it's to a charity I know)
6) you don't care that your fellow forum members are absolutely going to scold you for going to Taco Bell and eating that crappy food.

The Mexican Pizza there is pretty good.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when you go through a Taco Bell drive-thru and:

1) you can't read the menu very well
2) you can't understand the words of the employee speaking to you over the speaker and have to ask them to slow down a little bit.
3) They ask you if you placed your order though "the app". I'm old. I don't place orders through apps. I don't even use the touch screen when I go inside. The GD touchscreen was designed by junior G-rangers who skipped class the day they taught intuitive.
4) They finally slow down and you hear them say, do you want sauce with that, and you say no thanks (the tacos are plenty spicy enough for this old guy)
5) They ask you if you want to round up to nearest dollar and you say, no. (I'm retired and I'm not giving my money away unless it's to a charity I know)
6) you don't care that your fellow forum members are absolutely going to scold you for going to Taco Bell and eating that crappy food.

2) You have to ask them to speak English (their accent is so heavy you wonder what country you're in)...

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

2) You have to ask them to speak English (their accent is so heavy you wonder what country you're in)...

In this case she was speaking perfect English but she was just speaking really fast, the speaker sucks, and my hearing is worse. When I got to the window she gave me a huge smile and an apology for speaking so fast. She could not have been more pleasant.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

In this case she was speaking perfect English but she was just speaking really fast, the speaker sucks, and my hearing is worse. When I got to the window she gave me a huge smile and an apology for speaking so fast. She could not have been more pleasant.

It is more common imo to not hear those people through the speakers clearly than it is to hear and understand everything they say. I’m always asking them to repeat themselves. I have excellent hearing, btw.

[BS9000]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

...when you go through a Taco Bell drive-thru and:

1) you can't read the menu very well
2) you can't understand the words of the employee speaking to you over the speaker and have to ask them to slow down a little bit.
3) They ask you if you placed your order though "the app". I'm old. I don't place orders through apps. I don't even use the touch screen when I go inside. The GD touchscreen was designed by junior G-rangers who skipped class the day they taught intuitive.
4) They finally slow down and you hear them say, do you want sauce with that, and you say no thanks (the tacos are plenty spicy enough for this old guy)
5) They ask you if you want to round up to nearest dollar and you say, no. (I'm retired and I'm not giving my money away unless it's to a charity I know)
6) you don't care that your fellow forum members are absolutely going to scold you for going to Taco Bell and eating that crappy food.

Taco Bell is damn delicious and I'm not that old and I can't understand the employees over the drive up speaker either.

[M-technik-3]

It's the long weekend and your driving to your destination somebody passes you weaving through traffic dangerously and instead of road raging which you might have done some years back. You just continue at your pace knowing you'll get there at the time you expected or planned too.

See too much evening news where industructable it won't happen to me happens and of course traffic is backed up for miles and death or something else happened as an aftermath.

I just wait for a track day for my speed junkie or get my shifter kart out and go the local track. 2 hours in traffic yesterday too go 3 miles because of stupidity.

[M_Six]

Last time I was in MA I saw some nutcase weaving in and out of traffic on I-495. Had to be going 100+. At one point he zoomed by me close enough to shake our car. We were in the right lane and he blew across my front and went down the breakdown lane, which raised a cloud of dust and debris. Then all the way across to the left lane at that speed. Pure idiocy.

[3.0L]

My, how times have changed.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

My, how times have changed.

I'm surprised he's not wearing an O2 tube.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

My, how times have changed.

Thank god they have changed. We were so ignorant; that's the way the tobacco companies wanted us to be.

[BeEmVe]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

I used to do this for my two kids when they were little.

When I lived in France I made American pancakes for my little cousins (rather than crepes). For my littlest cousin she too got Mickey Mouse pancakes. That was over 25 years ago. She now has two daughters so I make a Mickey Mouse pancake for her littlest one.

So give yourself a few years and you too will be going it for another generation.

[vreihen16]

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[M_Six]

^^^That's Wifey. She'll be tired at 9PM but won't go to bed because it's too early.

[unluky]

When you are mad at the @#%#@$%#@ NEVER ENDING WINTER THIS YEAR!