An whole point for not living in an area near a blockbuster
Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE
Submitted 11 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Afflictedlife@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Spicy_Canada_Dry@lemmy.world 11 months ago
5
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 11 months ago
18 points.
I’ve owned a dictionary and an encyclppedia.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hello officer? I’d like to report a suspicious person in my retirement community!
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 11 months ago
I don’t know how to retire a car but my dad has guided me through replacing a few bits, so does thay count?
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Get off me lawn!!
letsgo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Null pwang! Maybe I should consider entering Eurovision.
Geldaran@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- ::shakes fist:: Get off my lawn!
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
1 point. I’ve never sent/received a fax.
histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
14
Denjin@lemmings.world 11 months ago
1 and that’s only because Blockbuster wasn’t a thing near me and we instead went to the local video shop.
Jayk0b@lemm.ee 11 months ago
1 point, number 4.
But I know I am gonna get a other point soon.
I already know that my gf gifts me a acdc Back in Black Vinyl.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can’t increase your score. Once you have listened to a vinyl record you can’t undo it. If you have done an item on the list, you score 0 for that item. If you have not done that item, you score 1.
Contemporarium@lemm.ee 11 months ago
4
marito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same. 9, 11, 16 and 17.
macmarkus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
20
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We’re old.
macmarkus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Haha I had the same thought initially. Then I thought it was really neat how far we have come from those days… It’s kind of crazy, I can’t wait to see what comes next in terms of advancements in technology and science working in harmony with nature.
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
I’m old, but never sent or received a fax or rented from Blockbuster specifically, we had plenty of local “mom&pop” stores.
Never paid with cheque, by the time I was old enough to have any significant amount of money (~2011) they were already almost entirely phased out
bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My hair dresser doesn’t take electronic payments. Check or cash.
Surp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
0
bluewing@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A perfect zero. I have done all of those things and more that the creator of that list can’t even imagine. Things that were everyday common but have faded beyond memory, (and aren’t missed at all).
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Some of the stuff I’d like to try again, maybe once or twice. The sound of the pips, modem sounds, aligning a type written head after using some tipex, the rhythmic sounds of a floppy drive, the added noise of your favourite song recorded on an old tape, low battery on a walkman. The list goes one!
bluewing@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I was thinking of even older things.
The feel of the keys and staccato sounds of a mechanical typewriter.
The sound of a wringer/washer machine
The muffled sound of my am band 9 transistor pocket radio “hiding” under my pillow late at night for as long as the 9V battery would last (I loved the Mystery Radio Theater show that started at 10pm)
The soft crackling sound of a tube black and white TV as all the tubes warmed up. (And the time it took to do so)
The sound and smell of the percolator coffee pot in the morning
The sound of a wooden screen slamming shut
The smell and sound of a mimeograph machine printing copies in the school/church office (And the slight buzz you could get from copy fluid-- Petroleum aromatics Yum!)
Doing my math homework with a slide rule.
The smell of a fresh fired paper hull shotgun shell on a cold crisp late fall morning
And so much more that no longer exists.
vga@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
- Paper cheques was a close one, but I actually paid a house once with a cheque.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
6, 7 if Bluetooth speaker outside doesn’t count as boombox, because my speaker is a box and it booms, but it’s not called that.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
4 points, am 35.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 months ago
17
I live in an Eastern European country
FirstUser@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I live in a Western European country. I have listened to music on CD, i used to own Encyclopedias and i own a copy of DOOM on floppy!
RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 months ago
I own a copy of DOOM in a book
melvisntnormal@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I turn 29 in a few months and scored 2. I would not be surprised if I’ve forgotten an instance of using a typewriter or listening to a boombox outside though.
playarecord@feddit.uk 11 months ago
At least 8 and Im 31, more if I get super pedantic.
Johanno@feddit.org 11 months ago
8 points
But only because we pay in cash and block buster was never a thing here.
I have touched a type writer but never used it for writing letters or whatever you write with it.
I just sent a fax a few days ago…
I never owned a walkman or discman but my older sister had a discman and I got one of the first mp3 players xD.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Yeah I score 0 but quite a few of these are more “because there was an old one there and I felt like trying it out” rather than because I needed to use them daily.
LorIps@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I got 8 Points and I was born this century.
UncleArthur@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I am proudly batting zero.
tomi000@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- No Blockbuster in Europe, and noone uses checks here.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Folks literally still using cheques in France to this day!
PeroBasta@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Blockbuster was present in Italy for example
Matombo@feddit.org 11 months ago
5 but it depends if “used” is defined as actually in an every day situtation or because found an old typewriter in the attic and played around with it
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- Used the old broken 19" TV as a stand for the new, smaller, sleeker 19" TV.
- Your first video game console had a rotating paddle for a controller
Zip2@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Just the 1. I’ve never listened to a boombox outdoors.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Yeah IDK about this one.
I def had a boom box. It def used batteries. I’m certain I listened to it outside but I just can’t remember specifically doing that.
Also encyclopaedias. I’m certain that we had one of those single volume ones at least.
aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
I’ve never used a typewriter. I’ve also never been to blockbuster, but I assume this is just American for “rented a film from a physical store”.
Zip2@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Given how obsolete videos are, I’d imagine all of the stores have gone too.
We had blockbuster in the UK, and we had boomboxes. No one I knew took them outdoors though.
FIbynight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Do I get negative points if I still own and use many of these things?
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
1 point. I’ve never sent a postcard… I bought one with a shifting hologram on the front for the purposes of sending a Thank-You note. I just never got around to sending it.
RBWells@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But probably -1 for not only rotary phone but “party line”; sometimes you couldn’t use the phone because someone else, in another house, was using that line.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Wasn’t that the case for like, all landlines?..