0 I have 0 points 👴
Right there with ya.
Same and some of these things I’ve done in the last couple years.
Done them all and I see 4 that still apply today.
1 reporting in 👨🦳
What’s the thing you’ve never done?
I’m at 1 as well for never owning an encyclopedia. I’m actually surprised how many have. I used the ones at the library. I’m assuming this means the physical book kind, and not a digital one like Encarta or something.
I’d count digital ones as well.
That’s how I didn’t get the point since none of my leatherback encyclopedias is a complete set (yay backyard sales).
Like a getting movies in a public library can count as renting at Blockbusters imho?
I wouldn’t think so on the movie thing. I think it would have to be a video rental store, although not necessarily specifically named Blockbuster. Technically I still “rent” movies at my library through their Kanopy streaming service, but I don’t think that’s in the spirit of the list.
Yeah I was thinking about renting physical copies not streaming.
Recorded music from radio to cassette
Yeah this one is pretty niche nowadays.
I did it for my nephews because I found it funny to give them time capsules of what kind of music was broadcasted when they were born. And cassettes are a good medium for long time storage :p
Pay with a check.
Where I’m from (France) this is how you pay deposits for rentals.
We also have “bank cheques” for big expenses like houses.
Paying with cheques in regular shops is getting rarer, often requires providing two ID, and gets you weird looks. Debit cards have mostly replaced that usage.
We don’t really have credit cards afaik.
Only one for me was blockbuster. I was more of a Rogers video child, I’m not sure we even had a blockbuster near us.
Zero as well. Damn we’re old 👴
Young Matt Damon fades into old Matt Damon.
Same and I’m not even 30 ^^`
Yuuuup.
Same what a feel bad meme.
0 point gang rise up.
But don’t rise too quickly. I know our backs don’t like that.
I have 1 point but only because there was never a Blockbuster in Germany. Can I rise too?
Also german, I guess any spot to take out videos counts also. So welcome to the “0 point club”.
You can rise… But let’s be extra careful with raising that right arm.
I assume there was an equivalent service though?
The fire rises brother! (OK, not an appropriate quote, just wanted to say it.)
Same, 1 point because no Blockbuster in NZ
Hey folks, is this where the old farts are hanging out? Point me toward the bathroom, I’ll be a while.
Whoa whoa whoa. I’m only 33. I just happened to like old shit growing up and I got to use it all right as it went out the door and got replaced haha.
Fellow early 30s 0 point gang right here, my back has been flaring up lately…
Gotta get a heated massage chair. It does wonders. Just sit in it for 30 minutes after work and you’ll feel so much better the rest of the evening.
Preach on, brother. Just came back from my physio. He did some dry needling on my lower back because it ain’t what it used to be when I was still Wired for Sound.
Yeah I can’t recall using a typewriter seriously, but for sure I’ve used on for fun. Also trying to get a commodore 64 to print my homework in 1992 should aub in nicely.
My great aunt left me her typewriter when she passed. My father holds onto it as I have nowhere too to store it and he enjoys using it from time to time. It’s becoming harder and harder to find replacement ribbons or people that can repair it at all, but it’s still kicking. I typed out a few short papers on it in highschool just for fun.
I’m not 100% sure that’s the exact model I have but it looks like the right one.
I learned to type on one of these. I still can’t unlearn the habit of having to use actual force to type - my neighbours can hear my typing on my mechanical keyboard. :D
I did unlearn the two spaces after a ‘.’ so that’s a win at least.
Oh yeah. If you’ve been typing on one of these for awhile and then you switch to a modern mechanical keyboard you’ll be bottoming out the keys constantly. You should get some o rings or pads to help with the sound if you’re still slamming keys that hard after all these years lol.
Yup, flat zero.
I am reporting this post.
…. 0 points…. 🙂
Hello old friend
Yeah, the hurts-to-get-out-of-bed is real.
Zero points.
No wonder. You have a 26 day old account. Welcome to the world, babyface.
Edit: I can see why this can be seen as poor taste. Wasn’t trying to be mean. Obviously account age != actual age. Was making it in jest.
1 because despite being born in the early 80s, paper checks are for old people and Americans
I considered claiming this point, but I used traveler cheques once, so um not sure
There’s also bank cheques.
Born in the mid 90s in Canada. You guys should’ve seen the state of book fairs in Canada. It was easier to pay via cheque than credit card.
I had to start paying my rent by check again landlord trying to dodge taxes by cashing checks instead of depositing them.
Millennial with a big fat 0 over here
My only point was I never listened to a boom box outside.
Mine might be that we didn’t own an encyclopedia; I can’t remember if we did or not. But… I think we did.
My parents bought a set of Encyclopedias, they didn’t get much use tbh. Took up whole shelf on this antique cabinet they had.
I learned to ride my bike one handed so I could carry my boom box. Tracking down 8 D Batteries was the hardest part.
2 points cause we lived a couple blocks from the library so we never felt the need to own a dictionary or encyclopedia. Though really like 1.5 since my sister did have a CD from world book program that was like an encyclopedia for kids
You an elder millennial by chance?
2 points, but only because we don’t have blockbuster where I’m from, I have rented movies though. I have also never used a check to pay for anything.
Same.
1 point for the same reason, but having used traveler’s cheques :)
0
0 :( one of my guitar amps I hacked together out of a Walkman so I could practice while waiting for the bus how many negative points do I get
Zeeeero!
3 points. 90s kid. The early 2000s still had remnants of a lot of this stuff.
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).
I am proudly batting zero.
Older Gen X’er here.
This list was basically a Tuesday for me back in the day.
- No Blockbuster in Germany, and noone uses checks here.
Edited from Europe to Germany as some pointed out that there is Blockbuster and checks in other countries
I got zero.
Yes I’m old. On the plus side I still have my family commadore 64 from 1982.
So wish I still had my VIC-20 and 64.
