Rotary phones weren’t even that long ago?!??! I still remember the swooop, click-click-click-click sound, oh, and the ear shattering ringing bells. I am happy that in our lifetime we’ve come so far that kids don’t understand tools from just a couple decades ago. I remember my father showing me a stack of punch cards he used at work and warning me not to touch them - but what I also know is, that those kids better get the hell off my damn lawn!
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Mid 40s, and I too feel old now - at first I thought OP was setting us up for a joke. The local phone company still delivered phone books to everyone in my city until a few years ago.
I think it was an old legal requirement for any phone company providing landline services to also provide phonebooks. Unfortunately most weren’t even recycled, they were either burned in backyard firepits, or just thrown out
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What electric toothbrushes do you guys use?English1·10 months agoSame here, I feel as though I see the Oral-B heads on sale at least once a month, but the Sonicare heads are almost never on sale. Years ago I noticed the Philips Sonicare site running sales around Black Friday, but there haven’t been any for the last couple of Black Fridays.
Every now and again I’ll see discounted heads on Amazon, but I’ve also heard stories that there is a 50/50 chance of getting a knock-off that won’t work with handles - as Amazon combines all of their products for storage regardless of the seller
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Posted from my Squatty PottyEnglish331·10 months agoSpeedo = Scrotie Totey
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto FoodPorn@lemmy.world•Homemade tortillas just hit differentEnglish2·10 months agoAre you the guy that made a tortilla press for his 3yr old? I saw this on Imgur and it made my day imgur.com link.
I had no idea homemade tortilla presses were a thing, but I guess they had to come from somewhere before mass production
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have?English8·10 months agoThat’s a pretty boss move, I don’t know if I’d be that quick thinking
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What movie did you watch as I kid which you shouldn't have?English6·10 months agoOmen, Excorcist, Nightmare on Elm St, Jason, Cujo, Friday the 13th - I was a very free range kid. The one that really sticks out is (IIRC) The Amityville Horror. There is a scene with these red glowing eyes down a dark hallway…the adult in me knows it was probably just some guy with two flashlights, but it still raises the hairs on my arms thinking about it
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK rice commonly contains arsenic, but most of it can be removed by boiling in water (4:1 ratio) for 5 minutes, and discarding that water before starting the regular cook cycle.English1332·11 months agoThe microplastics in my body laugh at arsenic’s petty attempt on my life!
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?English4·11 months agoIf you’re a chili purist, I’d recommend not ordering chili in Cincinnati. Way back when, some Greek guy wanted to sell Greek meat sauce to a bunch of Germans, but he wasn’t gaining any traction - because what sausage loving German wants Greek meat water.
He then had the bright idea of renaming it ‘chili,’ and an unholy abomination was concieved that day, it threatened to plunge all of existence into the void…actually if you’ve ever had italian (the tomato based) meat sauce on spaghetti, it’s kinda like that, just with a handful of cinnamon and neon yellow shredded cheese…because, why not. Folks in Cincinnati seem to like it though, so much so they sell it in cans in the grocery stores
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?English3·11 months agoI too loose it when people can’t get the difference, it’s like c’mon, you can’t be so lose with your words
Sorry, couldn’t help myself 😁
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?English14·11 months agoDon’t worry, it finally gets renamed in 2630
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?English12·11 months agoI see you woke up and chose violence. Dueling pistols at dawn it is then
For me, it’s actually much better for file name sorting - and just about everything else. It numerically orders items in a logical manner allowing for batch processing of large sets of data using wildcards or regex, but I understand that it may not fit everyone’s usecase…which is why, it seems everyday, there’s someone introducing a new date format
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?English46·11 months agoFor me it’s YYYY-MM-DD https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html
Also, there is a special place for those people who keep making up new timestamps
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Destruction of a Russian UAV with a Mi-8T helicopter.English8·11 months agoProbably something like this (forgive the red circle, not my edit)
Looks as though it can be stowed in the twin landing gear looking doors
I miss Final Space and Mooncake!
wallybeavis@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•How to Get Wifi Signal Strength via CLI using nmcli on Fedora or UbuntuEnglish3·11 months agoTiL. I’m going to have to play around with this, thank you!
pizza fried rice bean and potato soup chimichanga gyro
I put it on basically anything that’s fatty/greasy. I feel it helps to balance out the flavours with the right amount of acid
Did the voice on the payphone say: You must please deposit 25 cents to place your call LOL I think that’s engrained in my memory
Fun fact:
Once touch tone phones became the norm there were actually games you could play by just calling a number. There was also a number you could call and get the local time and temperature. Oh, and lets not forget Mr. MoviePhone!