▲
2
0
▼

Age Test Thread


 invite response                
2024 Aug 16, 10:44am   1,587 views  103 comments

by DemocratsAreTotallyFucked   ➕follow (3)   💰tip   ignore  



Comments 1 - 40 of 103       Last »     Search these comments

4   clambo   2024 Aug 16, 11:16am  

Fuses, drive-in movies speakers, window crank, IBM Selectric typewriter ball. They were changeable to have different fonts.
7   DemocratsAreTotallyFucked   2024 Aug 16, 4:03pm  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says






I just posted this one on FB with the following text:

Now young people, gather around for another story from Back In The Day.

This here is how we changed fonts in Google Docs or Microsoft Word. We had to buy these and mail them in each time.

Took about a week. Like we had to send film in and wait for our pictures.

So the smarter of us figured out we could use this as an excuse to extend our deadlines for term papers in school:

"Sorry teacher. But I am still waiting for Microsoft to update my Word font!"

True story!
8   clambo   2024 Aug 16, 5:34pm  

The above is in error.
That's a ball for the IBM Selectric typewriter.
9   DemocratsAreTotallyFucked   2024 Aug 16, 6:29pm  

clambo says


The above is in error.
That's a ball for the IBM Selectric typewriter.


THAT is another Age Test tho.


10   clambo   2024 Aug 16, 7:06pm  

Oh I made an error myself evidently.
11   Onvacation   2024 Aug 16, 7:17pm  

Dot matrix printer from 1983. It had a switch to print in italics. But the whole document was printed in italics!


13   RWSGFY   2024 Aug 18, 7:09pm  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says






Um, no: if you know what these are you're officially dead.
14   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2024 Aug 18, 7:27pm  

RWSGFY says


DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says







Um, no: if you know what these are you're officially dead.



and now voting Democrat from the grave.

Those were curb finders. similar concept to break censors… they scrape when you too close to scraping the curb.
15   DemocratsAreTotallyFucked   2024 Aug 18, 8:26pm  

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

Those were curb finders. similar concept to break censors… they scrape when you too close to scraping the curb.


For women drivers.
17   komputodo   2024 Aug 18, 9:05pm  

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says


Those were curb finders

we used to call them CURB FEELERS. The lowriders and the joggers were still using those in the 70s...BTW, does anyone remember when people would have 2 rubber straps dangling from the chassis and touching the road...something about static electricity?
18   komputodo   2024 Aug 18, 9:09pm  

You are officially old when you know what 2 BITs are
19   PeopleUnited   2024 Aug 18, 9:53pm  



Lightning McQueen saw these in radiator springs.

But here’s one for everyone...

20   DemocratsAreTotallyFucked   2024 Aug 18, 11:28pm  

PeopleUnited says

But here’s one for everyone...




True story: I hid under one these babies during the Loma Prieta Earthquake. I, a librarian and a little girl. All hell was breaking loose. Encyclopedia Brittanicas were flying all over the place.

All three of us figured out that the card catalogs were the safest places to dive under.

I had a student job there as a page. My shift started at 5pm. I was just starting to take a cart of magazines to shelve when the quake hit at 5:07pm.
22   Onvacation   2024 Aug 19, 5:17am  

FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says

curb finders

Curb feelers


Wouldn't want to scrape those whitewalls.
23   Onvacation   2024 Aug 19, 5:23am  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Encyclopedia Brittanicas

I remember my old set from the 60s. Someone intentionally broke up the volumes so it said something interesting on the spine. My favorite:


24   zzyzzx   2024 Aug 19, 8:26am  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says






The vastly more reliable manual crank windows.
25   WookieMan   2024 Aug 19, 8:39am  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says





I got all 20 and I'm not even that old. The curb scraper thing is new to me. Just don't hit the damn curb. Not that hard.
26   WookieMan   2024 Aug 19, 8:43am  

zzyzzx says

The vastly more reliable manual crank windows.

I've never had a problem with any car I've owned with electric windows. 7 cars deep and no issues. My first car did have manual windows though. Kind of a pain if I'm being lazy, which I am. Former smoker so just one window was not enough to get the smell out, so reaching over to the passenger side was a bitch. Thank god I quit that habit and got a newer car.
28   clambo   2024 Aug 19, 10:16am  



My grandfather would give me a silver dollar when he saw me.
29   komputodo   2024 Aug 19, 12:23pm  

Onvacation says

Wouldn't want to scrape those whitewalls.

anyone remember those fake wide whitewalls that stuck to the tires? Also when they started making tires with white lettering and then red lettering and/or a red stripe?
30   DemocratsAreTotallyFucked   2024 Aug 19, 12:26pm  

clambo says



My grandfather would give me a silver dollar when he saw me.


I have a bunch of these also.
31   Ceffer   2024 Aug 19, 2:11pm  

clambo says

My grandfather would give me a silver dollar when he saw me.

Really? What did you have on him? The babysitter?
32   HeadSet   2024 Aug 19, 3:26pm  

Ceffer says

clambo says


My grandfather would give me a silver dollar when he saw me.

Really? What did you have on him? The babysitter?

Oh, that is a bit tame for a Ceffer joke. We would expect something like "I bet you wondered why he paid so much for your dirty underwear."
36   Patrick   2024 Aug 20, 9:07pm  

Onvacation says

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says


Encyclopedia Brittanicas

I remember my old set from the 60s. Someone intentionally broke up the volumes so it said something interesting on the spine. My favorite:





I remember a Britannica volume "Chicago to Death".

The Chicago article started with (to the best of my memory) "While many people grow up suspecting that government is corrupt, children in Chicago grow up knowing it to be a fact."
37   Patrick   2024 Aug 20, 9:10pm  

clambo says



My grandfather would give me a silver dollar when he saw me.


I still have the silver dollars my grandfather gave me.
38   WookieMan   2024 Aug 21, 2:02pm  

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says





I've got 137,135 unread emails... lol. 455 unread text. I think 11 voicemails. Fuck technology. I only talk and communicate with people I have in my contacts. I hate the phone.
39   Onvacation   2024 Aug 24, 10:46am  

Inspired from the new big mac thread

"Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun."

Comments 1 - 40 of 103       Last »     Search these comments

Please register to comment:

api   best comments   contact   latest images   memes   one year ago   random   suggestions   gaiste