“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?”

33 points

I lost one of my Diablo install CDs can i borrow your set

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“What do you think about John Kerry?”

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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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2024 photo. I still wouldn’t kick her out of bed for eating crackers.

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I was looking at Insta posts from August. Difference of opinion, I guess.

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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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She’s almost 59 years old, and looks damn good for her age.

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Ska is forever!

Blackberry and Nokia will always be around.

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Hand me my Razor

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People who want to shave still say this sometimes.

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2004 Nokia bricks are probably still around. Them things were indestructible.

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Ska is forever, though.

“Ska is what plays in a 13-year-old kid’s head when he gets extra mozzarella sticks”

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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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Why would you want a DVD over streaming it?

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If you don’t want to sail the high seas, and you don’t want to pay, the library is a great, free option.

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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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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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privacy, and preservation

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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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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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