“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?”

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    “Damn, Cindy Crawford is hot!

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

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

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

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          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.

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

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              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

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              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.

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      I ironically said that when I was working for IBM.

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

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    I borrow movies sometimes from the library, I’ve used that first one. (Sometimes you want a DVD of a kid’s show instead of streaming it)

    Also: looking for a phone, any phone in our house has happened.

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          DVD’s are dog shit though. They break really easily, those ungodly annoying ads at the beginning and the amount of space they take. Streaming just beats DVD’s 10-to-1.

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            You don’t need quality to watch paw patrol in the car or on a plane. A cheap portable DVD player does wonders for sanity while traveling without needing to dedicate and pre load a tablet with kids stuff.

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            They were also talking about a kids show, maybe for some backseat entertainment on a long drive with limited cell reception and/or data? Or maybe the kids have an old TV at home with a DVD player and no smart features?

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        Young kids, you want the least amount of confusion and you don’t want to buy them a tablet that you have to maintain/load up with videos to watch.

        Eventually there are better options, but there was a window of age that DVDs made all the sense.

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        Not everything is available on streaming. Even things that are available might not be on the services they have subscribed to. Also, while DVDs often have a “play all” option, you can typically play a single episode, and it will stop when it’s over, which is pretty useful for helping to limit how long the kids are watching TV.

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        If you borrow a DVD from the library for free you don’t need to pay for whatever streaming service is holding that particular film hostage, if it’s even available at all. And if it’s a Blu-ray Disc it will have better picture quality than a compressed stream. Making copies is also very easy if you have a computer with a drive, and doesn’t require paying for a VPN to avoid facing the risks of online piracy.

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      God almighty I could have any audio as my Nokia ringtone in the Bush era. Today? I wish I could have the ringtone I wanted.