This week's questionnaire. Time to get serious.
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A) What are two things you remember from your younger days that are no longer really a thing in today's world?
B) What is the saddest movie you've ever seen?
C) What food items are you most likely to select from a vending machine?
My answers:
A) My first car had no power windows and no power steering. I also fondly remember using floppy disks for storage.
B) Dancer in the Dark. That movie just destroyed me emotionally.
C) Snickers or Doritos
Comments
last commentA) video stores like blockbuster. Walkman…meaning people use to listen to their music on the go by CD format
B) The Green Mile
C) Fritos flavor twists honey BBQ
I really do miss the video stores... both DVDs and vcr tapes... I wasn't one to rent the latest releases... I liked looking through the selection of older movies...
No comment yet on saddest movie.
Last time I used a vending machine was at Costco for a bottle of water. for every other vending item vending machines are way overpriced.
A) Pond hockey; B) The Grapes of Wrath: C) Pop Tart.
78 RPM vinyl, slide rule
not the saddest, but the weepiest: Field of Dreams
Doritos and Dr. Pepper: my keep-awake combo for driving.
A) anticipating the release of an album and going to a store to buy the CD - usually on a Tuesday, sometimes stores would stay open until midnight Monday for a much anticipated release.
B) Man Called Otto. Made the mistake of watching this while on a flight and I was crying. Other than Schindlers List, I can’t remember any other movie making me cry.
C) very rarely food but if on the road I’ll buy a bottled water or Diet Coke from a vending machine.
A) Pre-Amazon, going from store to store to see if they had some random item in stock. Any old school audio format including record players and cassette tapes. Blockbuster video. Many chains of bookstores.
B) I'm not really into sad movies, but the scene in Gladiator where Maximus discovers the corpses of his wife and son gets me every time.
C) Red Bull or Protein shake
A) Car event windows and double-edge razor blades.
B) Last House on the Left
C) Moon pies
So many things...
Rotary phones and landlines; push button car transmissions and manual shifts; pencil and paper calculations and typing pools; I still pull out my slide rule on occasion just to keep in practice - when the light go out in the future, those with slide rules will rule the world!
A Dog of Flanders, followed closely by the Gettysburg miniseries, especially Pickett's Charge
Nacho Cheese Doritos
A: leaded gasoline, casettes
B: Terms of Endearment. Was always a sad movie, but after my mother passed away of cancer, it is now absolutely devastating. Shirley MacLaine is just unbelievable in that movie. She fucking nailed it.
C: Chex Mix.
A} telephone party lines. Automotive column shifters.
B} The Notebook.
C} soda, chips or candy bars.
A) Porn in the woods. I told a stripper in her early 20s about this once and she was fascinated. You could just go to the woods and they're inevitably be some weathered porn mags there. Found a great stash of Easyriders once (naked trashy biker girls). Also: Tower Records.
B) Not a big movie buff.
C) Usually only get drinks from vending machines. Gatorade or Coke Zero most likely.
A) The smell of cigar smoke at a football game.
B) Paths of Glory. Problem is the middle of this movie is so gloomy you will probably never make it to the glorious beer hall scene at the end.
C) Only time I use vending machines is when there is no close food option at a hotel.
A) Can't really think of anything. That dirty air, that made the Native American guy cry, meant I never use to ever put on sunscreen. Never worried about being able to get a hard-on, but I don't think that´s the kind of stuff you meant.
B) Silent Running I guess.
C) Honey bun.
A- Browsing DVD and CD shops. Life before end stage capitalism
B- Forest Gump
C- Cherry Coke or Sprite. Oreos or some cookies
A Sears Christmas wish book catalog
B Brian’ Song
C Lance nabs
A) 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks
B) I don't really know. Why would I watch a sad movie?
C) bottled water or Monster
a) mcdonalds-juicy cheesburgers and quarter pounders
b) the ending of benjamin button almost got me to tear up
c) kit kat or snickers
A). Creekin'. Just sloshing around the woods and creeks in my neighborhood growing up. Nowadays creeks in urban/suburban areas area all filled with listeria and shit and kids have no freedom to roam anyway.
B) The Road
C) Combos
A) a Mcdonald's apple pie back when they fried them in tallow, and you burned THE FUCK out of your mouth biting it prematurely.
B) The Notebook
C) Beer (when in Japan)
A) Poker before solvers, traditional women, fights in hockey, non political correctness/wokeness
B) Stand by me
C) Red Bull
A)
One thing that I remember was really common was teenage girls dating older guys and blatantly. Nowadays, I think that doesn’t really fly.
Another thing way different is schools, with the customer-is-always-right ways of handling “discipline.” I grew up in a time that when students talked during a test, it gets taken and they get an automatic zero. Nowadays, it’s mind boggling how low the consequences are.
B) saddest movie for me is probably Of Mice and Men
C) I’d be most likely to select a bag of Takis or Dr Pepper (but not at the same time)
A) Computer/mainframe punch cards, and the simplicity of being able to do all the maintenance myself on my '68 Firebird.
B) I'll 2nd "Brian's Song". And "Serendipity" out of joy at the ending; I'm living one like this now.
C) Milky Way and 3 Musketeer bars
I read everyone's replies...some cool responses here...
@ATACdawg "push button car transmissions and manual shifts". Honda actually has a few current vehicles with push button transmissions, and I'm thinking that the current Civic SI and Civic Type R are still manual transmission only models. Honda 6 speed manuals are freakin' awesome!
@gammanu95 I even used one system that had an 8" floppy drive...ha! As for the sad movie question, I'm not sure that I've ever intended to watch a sad movie, but I've found myself watching one whether I intended to or not...
@jaybud999 Oh geez, I HATE burning my mouth on something that is WAY hotter inside than it looks on the outside. I'm pretty sure that old school apple pie you mentioned got me at least a few times...
@Rightfield Don't fans of the winning team in the ALA-TENN football game still light up cigars in celebration of victory???
@PAWG_Patrol Porn in the woods?!? Really?!? I had no idea that was a thing! Guess it's time for me to go hiking... ;-)