yeah, my dad got one of those while i was in college. but, i didn't have a lot of money for fancy pants car phones starting out, so my first cell phone was that bag phone, because i got it second hand. until, when i got mine installed in my truck, mine did this. (true story: i have still have the same mobile phone number as that bag phone from 21 years ago.)
what amazes me is now even little kids have smart phones. poor teachers don't stand a chance. i'm sure they sometimes wish they taught back in the day of corporal punishment. those dam things would drive me mad if i was trying to manage a class.
what does it matter? you can't fail them. you can't use a red pen on their tests or mark wrong answers with a big, mean red "x". you have to coddle millenials. people born after 1999 are not like the humans born in the last 100,000 years at all. they are special snowflakes and deserve every inch of their false, rectally-produced entitlements.
when i was in third grade, my teacher kept the chart on the board that listed all the people who may have forgotten to turn in their homework for the entire semester. every time you forgot to turn in an assignment he would put his zero by your name. he would make a public spectacle of adding the zeros one by one for each kid who forgot their homework and all the other kids but laugh at them. and one of my classrooms there was a door in the middle of the wall connecting an adjacent classroom. if you spoke out of term he would make you walk up to the door and face it. and just stand there for about five minutes with your face against the door. and then if you had had enough and kept on misbehaving, he would make you sit at the kindergarten table during lunchtime. you can't punish and humiliate kids like that anymore.
i remember kids getting paddled at school. actually getting spanked on the ass with a wooden paddle for misbehaving. corporal punishment. i also remember my grandad saying something to the effect of "people talk about the good ole' days, buuuulllshit. these are the best days i've ever seen. i can turn a knob on the wall in my house and inside the house gets cold (thermostat). these are the best days i've ever seen." he grew up dirt poor and used to tell us about not having glass in the windows of his house and being able to count all the chickens through the cracks in the kitchen floor. it's crazy to think that something like air conditioning, that i completely take for granted, hasn't been widely available for very long at all. when i was 8 i played legend of zelda on the nes and thought it was the most amazing thing ever. i distinctly remember saying that when i get older, i bet video games will be like playing tv. pretty close.
i voted for orgy's stitches on trl fool! that's how we requested music in my day. i am stunned by cell phone technology these days. i have been consistently 3-5 years behind everyone when it came to phones. i just got my first iphone/smartphone this past spring. the amount of uses you can get out of network connected apps is crazy. i got standard nokia as a senior graduating gift in 2003 (same age fool!) with the black and white screen and snake. a few years later everyone was getting razors and i got my first upgrade when someone gave me their old random clam phone. i had a sidekick knock off until this march. video streaming on demand plus torrenting has made me wonder how the fuck we dealt with commercial interruptions as long as we did. blockbuster? ha! membership cards, late fees, rewinding! we even had the stand alone rewinding unit. i don't even know why redbox is still a thing. if we ever wanted to share videos, and by share i mean sell bootleg porn, we had to connect two vcrs together covertly to dub them with very noticeable diminishing quality. just seeing the original analog tv signal compared to high def is crazy. so how the fuck old is rush anyway? hear him tell it he is giving methuselah a run for his money. yet still claims happyfunball is constantly hitting on him. so are you 17 or 75? im confused.
remember low rise jeans with no ass pockets in the early to mid 2000's? i think we've gone backwards in that regard now that mom jeans are back in style, but at least we have yoga pants now.
Ch-chunk i'm about to be 46. it's the paradox of being around all these young whipper snappers on tib that simultaneously makes me feel old, but keeps me young, that i enjoy. i had one of these: one of my sisters had a blue on and my other sister had a yellow one. i had billy joel's the stranger on 8-track, and i learned scenes from an italian restaurant with the ch-chunk in the middle of it when it switched from track 3 to 4. there were some other songs like that, but that's the one i remember the most. spoilered for size. Spoiler edit: is there a bb code to make the photos smaller?
Re: Ch-chunk yes, it's called 'stop using 8 tracks you fucking fogey.' i know, a lot of technical terms there. ipods, and mp3 players, have to be one of the most amazing advancements. i remember starting with records, moving to tapes, then chrome tapes, then cds. now? you don't even have a physical representation of the song and everyone is pretty ok with that. very strange to a guy like me that used to have record covers hanging on his walls growing up.
i miss the excitement of getting a new cd on the day it came out. and, because my car is a 2008 and i was cheap, i don't have a fancy auxiliary hook up to play my ipod, so i still buy cds to listen to in my car. however, it makes me sad i can't use the awesome stereo i got for my high school graduation to play my mixed cds without getting chastised. that thing had incredible bass. tv technology amazes me. i don't know how i grew up without a "favorites" channel list on my guide. i remember reading the tv guide that came in the paper to figure out when my favorite shows were on. then going up to the tv and turning the dial to change the channel. and actually having to watch commercials. craziness. i feel like new technology has definitely increased my impatience. there's no way i'm watching commercials when another show that i like is on--i'm constantly changing channels. and if i have to wait for word to open on an older computer? forget it. my whole day is ruined.
i miss those jeans so much. i remember my gf at the time had a pair and they were fucking fantastic. i never saw them catch on widespread, but um...i was in h.s. at the time so my analysis was limited.
they were the greatest female fashion trend of my lifetime. and now they're gone, because apparently looking like you're hiding a pregnancy is what's sexy now. apparently. focus: the video rental boom of the 80's. i was there. sooooooo many movies in video stores then, and every store had a thin red line where one half was beta and one was vhs. i surprised no turf wars ever erupted. our first vcr cost over $500. and that was 1984 dollars.
whats weird is that short of them coming back on trend, girls wearing them now look weird. i saw a pair, must have been vintage, the other day on a relatively attractive girl and they looked borderline terrible. but i remember 3-4 girls specifically in hs and college rocking them and i had looney tunes roll-out tongue going.
i still have one of these, still works but hasn't been used in years. and a bunch of these, still in the original wrapper.