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Most of the stuff I own is old, but I also find newer stuff to be annoying so that might have something to do with it.
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I love antiques. Especially furniture. Oo, and tins.Most of the stuff I own is old, but I also find newer stuff to be annoying so that might have something to do with it.
I mean, I was pretty obsessed with Hot Topic back when it was hardcore too, but he gets serious dedication points for having it on a cake XD Though I think that kind of goes against the old branding philosophy Very cool btw, I definitely don't remember these with the inner frame design. So spooky!!:blackcat:@quartz_ and @AzaleaArt what I was talking about was borders actually "in" the picture part. Not just where the white usually is. Polaroid had a few holiday and like B-day themes and it printed in the picture. I have 1 example I found to share. It's a silly pic of my little brother's B-day cake, he went through a phase in the late 90's where Hot Topic was just "the thing" everything he had came from that store so I made him a Hot Topic B-day cake and I think the only camera with film in it at the time must've been the Polaroid. This is how they looked
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Yup, I think I'm like the fourth person in this conversation to have one of those drives tooSpeaking of old formats, in a weird digression, I have a 3.5" floppy disk to USB drive here, if anyone has files they desperately need to get off old disks, and no idea how to extract them.
One of my embroidery machines only reads floppies, so I have to keep a stack, and a way to write files to them.
Couldn't agree more. It's all consumerism bs and most of the things people think they need are just expensive toys with limited functionality and planned obsolesce. Also, there have been studies done that prove that people will play more for expensive items because they assume that more expense means higher quality. Mark-up rates are just plain criminal these days. People need to learn to think for themselves and stop letting big companies & their well-compensated mouthpieces dictate the definitions of inclusivity and success."If it's not broke, don't fix it."
Honestly, why upgrade needlessly and, personally, I love older photos. Cameras with real film required much more skill. Now, there are so many ways to edit, it's making photography as a career almost obsolete. My tv is older than my daughter, no blu-ray player, no printer, and many other things that people think of as "essential".
I'm with you. On the playground at school we dared each other to make faces or eat bugs, my daughter doesn't see how we managed to have fun. My favorite place was the old rock quarry. We had a warren of tunnels.When I was a kid I had some expensive toys but it was more fun to beat an old tire with a stick or drag it up the hill and let it roll down then chase it and try to kick it over before it fell over on its own.
Kids these days don't have imaginations.I'm with you. On the playground at school we dared each other to make faces or eat bugs, my daughter doesn't see how we managed to have fun. My favorite place was the old rock quarry. We had a warren of tunnels.
Everybody had a cellphone in high school except me, except no one cared that I didn't have one.Now, just last year she was in fifth grade and every kid in class had a cellphone, a fitbit style watch, and a morning coffee! I made my girl the uncool kid, because all she had was the newest ipod that her grandparents got for her. No cellular acess, so no youtube, just music.
My girl isn't upset. I have a bad reaction to caffeine, it feels like I dipped my feet in acid, the swell, and they itch. My girl doesn't even have soda often. Juice, water, Crystal light for me, and Gatorade for her. She's not upset. She's actually taken a liking to being the oddball.@Tak You're doing good. No matter how much grief she gives you for being the odd duck out in the regard to 'essentials'. Also, am I the only one who's really weirded out with Starbucks catering to children now? Soda isn't healthy either but idk
I was uncool for a lot of reasons but one was that we didn't have access to any TV channels. 'Just' a VCR and a SNES/PS1. I was heartbroken, embarrassed and pretty ticked off about not having cable (I thought basic channels were cable until my 20's) like everyone else I knew.
I'm definitely not the most successful person I know, but most of the kids I grew up had parents that let them watch TV from the time they woke up to the time they went to sleep and were always plopped down in front of the TV--as was I whenever I went over to their houses--and now, most of them are very dependent on constant entertainment and have puny imaginations, attention spans & analytical abilities/are incapable of being alone so I'm glad I didn't grow up with what everyone else had, I think it made me a better me than I would have been.
Perhaps it's wrong of me to focus on the negatives and I'm certainly not implying that everyone who grew up with cable in the house are like the people I know. I just think that prime developmental years need to be safeguarded a little closer than what I've seen.
I can only imagine how kids these days are going to be when they're grown, with absolutely no lapse in stimulation. I mean, all the titans of the technology industry seem to extremely limit phone/tablet usage with their own children or outright forbid it. That's pretty telling, isn't it?
So... any turtle update?In my day we ate rocks and played with dirt! Now alla you punks get offa mah lawn!
So... any turtle update?
Can you rake the lawn before mowing? Or are we talking large field sized patch of grass?