“Sorry, I got to return this video”

“Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial”

“Do you have any quarters for a phone?”

“Bill Cosby really is America’s dad”

“Can I borrow that VHS?”

“Sorry, I can’t come. My favourite show is on”

“Do you know where a phone is?”

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Being a little literal, but I can guarantee someone has said 1, 3, 5, and 7 in the past twenty years. Heck, probably the last year.

    Payphones are still a thing in some places and get used - I started doing a thing involving them a yearish ago (it’s in my post history if anyone really cares). Literally had someone ask “Hey, are you done with that phone?” as I was jotting down its number, which was shocking. Can confirm where I am they still take coins (it’s 50 cents now, unless you’re calling a toll-free number).

    VHS is making a … come back isn’t really the right word, but there’s a small number of folks interested in what’s on old tapes they find and some hobbyists swap stuff. And there are still a few video rental places around (though really, really rare - or near places like campsites, catering to folks with cars that still have DVD players or households with spotty internet).

    It’s all still disappearing, no doubt, but not 100% dead yet.

  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “Can I borrow that VHS?”

    20 years ago it would have been DVDs. But even before that, we didn’t call them "VHS"es. We called them tapes, or video tapes if we wanted to distinguish from audio tapes.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “Damn, Cindy Crawford is hot!”

    Go ahead, look up photos of her now, age isn’t doing her former beauty very well…

    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I did, and I would still say that. You wouldn’t happen to have her confused with Rep. Cindy Crawford, the Arkansas politician?

      • over_clox@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        If you’re looking at the Wikipedia article, that photo was from like a decade ago. Age is catching up with her…

        • I'm_All_NEET:3@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          That’s the problem with beauty isn’t permanent. It happens to everyone from Madonna, Dick Van Dyke and Lynn Neilson. This doesn’t apply to everyone tho. Tom Cruise, Scarlett Johansson and Dewayne “The Rock” Johnson have manage to be exceptions to this rule although it’s much easier for men to do. In general women aren’t really allowed to age. Even if there looks aren’t important. I remember when the election was happening and people were dunking on Kamara Harris for having wrinkles like she isn’t a woman in her 60’s.

          • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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            2 months ago

            For some people looking good is literally their job and cost is no object when you’re rich.

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Yeah but the cost to not looking like you’re aging is going from descending a hill to falling off a cliff and landing much lower

            • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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              2 months ago

              There’s also a non-financial cost to keeping up with beauty standards via plastic surgery. Madonna is a perfect example. As soon as someone gets a facelift the ageing-clock speeds up and repeated lifts have diminishing returns until a person is left with an unexpressive piece of pleather for a face. Michael Jackson’s nose was also a good example of such issues.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      I ironically said that when I was working for IBM.

      They don’t actually fire, they do “performance improvement plans”.

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    “Sorry, I got to return this video”

    2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn’t widely aware of them until 2014.

    How about “John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term” ?

    • I'm_All_NEET:3@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s weird how slow things really are. In 2006 you could have rented a VHS from blockbuster and gone home and upload it to YouTube.

      • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I moved out on my own that year and only had cable Internet and a cell phone. Facebook was still edu only, myspace was still popular as hell, you could get DVDs through the mail from Netflix, movie piracy was extremely popular.

    • Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      Yeah I got my first mobile phone in 2004 and it was one of the Nokia’s, 3310 probably. We definitely still had a landline with speed dial and absolutely did not have streaming. Definitely still had VHS, probably got our first DVD player the year before but still used both.