The Belt Onion club
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You feel old when you feel old and it's not the first time you've felt old.
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@Zecc What is that character anyway? I remember he was sometimes presented in concert of one of those Conan rip-offs... "He-Man", or something?
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public static void main(String[] args)
what is that method for?
I will slap you until you get the right answer.
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@error_bot xkcd movie ages
This chart is a decade old.
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
You press the button, then you turn the wheel to advance the film.
What do you mean there is no film?
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@boomzilla Being a winning coach really sucked.
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Did you remember to park the heads?
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I think you're already using that IRQ...
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@Watson Interesting penholder!
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@PleegWat said in The Belt Onion club:
You press the button, then you turn the wheel to advance the film.
I would suggest doing that the other way around, at least if you don’t want to waste a picture almost every time you put the camera in your pocket or bag.
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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
@PleegWat said in The Belt Onion club:
You press the button, then you turn the wheel to advance the film.
I would suggest doing that the other way around, at least if you don’t want to waste a picture almost every time you put the camera in your pocket or bag.
As opposed to ruining your last photo when you put it in your bag? I never actually used an analog disposable camera; my compact camera had a mechanical switch to disable the camera when not in use.
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@PleegWat How would you ruin the last photo that way? Once the button has been pressed, the shutter should not be able to open again until the wheel has been turned far enough to advance the film by one photograph. Maybe a cheap disposable camera might not be all that reliable, of course, but any reusable camera should be good enough to at least prevent multiple exposures from pressing the button more than once.
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I'm waiting for when my kids are older so I can start to tell them about the old days when prime time TV actually meant something. If you wanted to watch the latest episode of Home Improvement, you had to sit your ass on the couch at promptly 8pm and make sure you go to the bathroom beforehand. Because commercial breaks were only 45 seconds long and there was no way to pause the show. I mean, hell, if you asked someone to pause a live show, they'd look at you like a fucking idiot.
If they asked about recording, I'd say, yes you can record. Make sure you get yourself a $5 blank VHS tape and put it in. If you had a real fancy VCR you can program it to record at a specific time, but you better hope a solar flare doesn't reset the VCR to blink 12:00 or you accidentally put in your wedding video.
I'd also like to face my teenage self in the year 1999 when I was just beginning to learn Javascript, and tell him they ported DOS games into Javascript. I think I'd blow his mind.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
Because commercial breaks were only 45 seconds long and there was no way to pause the show.
Urination time is about 20 seconds - this even holds across species.
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@Gribnit According to the CDC you should wash your hands for 30 seconds after a bathroom break. This makes you 5 seconds late to watching Tim Allen hammer his thumb for the 600th time.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
According to the CDC you
paying attention to them indicates that you are not
watching Tim Allen
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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
@PleegWat How would you ruin the last photo that way? Once the button has been pressed, the shutter should not be able to open again until the wheel has been turned far enough to advance the film by one photograph. Maybe a cheap disposable camera might not be all that reliable, of course, but any reusable camera should be good enough to at least prevent multiple exposures from pressing the button more than once.
Right. Advancing the film also cocks the shutter so it can open again. Don't advance the film; the shutter can't open. In theory, anyway.
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@error_bot This is the one that always gets me. I have to remember most of the kids at the store are somewhere between 16 and 19. They really don't get any references older than about 2010. No Monty Python, no Seinfeld, no classic Simpsons, etc. I went bowling with a few of the older ones recently wearing an A-Team shirt and they had no idea it referred to a TV show. Or a movie...
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@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
prime time TV
Home Improvement
I don’t think so, Tim!
No seriously, that kind of stuff tended to air between 5-8pm, but never at 8.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
you should wash your hands for 30 seconds after a bathroom break
Moisten, add soap, lather, inside hands, outside hands (left, right), between fingers, fingertips (left, right) wrists (left, right), rinse. You'll be hard pressed to do it below 20.
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@PleegWat said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
you should wash your hands for 30 seconds after a bathroom break
Moisten, add soap, lather, inside hands, outside hands (left, right), between fingers, fingertips (left, right) wrists (left, right), rinse. You'll be hard pressed to do it below 20.
Since one hand washes the other, you may be able to halve the time.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
If you had a real fancy VCR you can program it to record at a specific time
Are you confusing the early 1980s with the entire 1990s? Or was your area the one where they dumped all the ancient VCRs that hadn’t sold, in the hope of getting at least some money from them?
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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
If you had a real fancy VCR you can program it to record at a specific time
Are you confusing the early 1980s with the entire 1990s? Or was your area the one where they dumped all the ancient VCRs that hadn’t sold, in the hope of getting at least some money from them?
, but I'm pretty sure VCR's with on-screen displays which made programming user-friendly didn't start showing up till the mid 90s.
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@PleegWat said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
If you had a real fancy VCR you can program it to record at a specific time
Are you confusing the early 1980s with the entire 1990s? Or was your area the one where they dumped all the ancient VCRs that hadn’t sold, in the hope of getting at least some money from them?
, but I'm pretty sure VCR's with on-screen displays which made programming user-friendly didn't start showing up till the mid 90s.
User friendly is for wusses. I don't think I've ever had a VCR with OSD.
However, IIRC we had one capable of recording at a specific pre-programmed time in literally 1984.
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@PleegWat said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
If you had a real fancy VCR you can program it to record at a specific time
Are you confusing the early 1980s with the entire 1990s? Or was your area the one where they dumped all the ancient VCRs that hadn’t sold, in the hope of getting at least some money from them?
, but I'm pretty sure VCR's with on-screen displays which made programming user-friendly didn't start showing up till the mid 90s.
<googles> https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/642374/vcr-history
But Sony also had a cool advertising campaign lined up for the machine’s U.S. debut in 1975.
Thanks to the built-in timer and dual tuner, you could record shows on channels you weren’t even watching or catch shows that aired when you weren’t home.
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@PleegWat said in The Belt Onion club:
VCR's with on-screen displays which made programming user-friendly didn't start showing up till the mid 90s.
I don’t remember seeing any on-screen display for a VCR ever, but the normal seven-segment LCD on the front of the device itself worked just fine for setting a start time, an end time and the channel to record from.
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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
the normal seven-segment LCD on the front of the device itself worked just fine for setting a start time, an end time and the channel to record from.
That sounds like 30 segments plus some special icons...
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
prime time TV
Home Improvement
I don’t think so, Tim!
No seriously, that kind of stuff tended to air between 5-8pm, but never at 8.
Home Improvement debuted at 8:30 Eastern, leading in to Rosanne at 9. (Prime time for me has always been 7-10 Central, though.)
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@Parody said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
prime time TV
Home Improvement
I don’t think so, Tim!
No seriously, that kind of stuff tended to air between 5-8pm, but never at 8.
Home Improvement debuted at 8:30 Eastern, leading in to Rosanne at 9. (Prime time for me has always been 7-10 Central, though.)
I of course didn’t mean to say that what he wrote isn’t true but that it wasn’t like that over here. (Germany)
Thought that was clear, sorry for the confusion.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@Parody said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
prime time TV
Home Improvement
I don’t think so, Tim!
No seriously, that kind of stuff tended to air between 5-8pm, but never at 8.
Home Improvement debuted at 8:30 Eastern, leading in to Rosanne at 9. (Prime time for me has always been 7-10 Central, though.)
I of course didn’t mean to say that what he wrote isn’t true but that it wasn’t like that over here. (Germany)
Thought that was clear, sorry for the confusion.
Those shows are garbage no matter where you watch them.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@Parody said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
prime time TV
Home Improvement
I don’t think so, Tim!
No seriously, that kind of stuff tended to air between 5-8pm, but never at 8.
Home Improvement debuted at 8:30 Eastern, leading in to Rosanne at 9. (Prime time for me has always been 7-10 Central, though.)
I of course didn’t mean to say that what he wrote isn’t true but that it wasn’t like that over here. (Germany)
Thought that was clear, sorry for the confusion.
The problem with US is that they have 4 timezones but one TV channel. New York prime time is quite a bit later than San Francisco prime time.
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@GÄ…ska said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@Parody said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
prime time TV
Home Improvement
I don’t think so, Tim!
No seriously, that kind of stuff tended to air between 5-8pm, but never at 8.
Home Improvement debuted at 8:30 Eastern, leading in to Rosanne at 9. (Prime time for me has always been 7-10 Central, though.)
I of course didn’t mean to say that what he wrote isn’t true but that it wasn’t like that over here. (Germany)
Thought that was clear, sorry for the confusion.
The problem with US is that they have 4 timezones but one TV channel. New York prime time is quite a bit later than San Francisco prime time.
Hence sometimes, duplicated or shifted schedules. Live broadcasts were not very common.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@Parody said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
prime time TV
Home Improvement
I don’t think so, Tim!
No seriously, that kind of stuff tended to air between 5-8pm, but never at 8.
Home Improvement debuted at 8:30 Eastern, leading in to Rosanne at 9. (Prime time for me has always been 7-10 Central, though.)
I of course didn’t mean to say that what he wrote isn’t true but that it wasn’t like that over here. (Germany)
Thought that was clear, sorry for the confusion.
Ahh. It sounded like you were talking about it being in the news and syndicated show time slots leading up to prime time. Many stations did show it there after it became a hit, of course, but first run episodes were in prime time.
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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
If you had a real fancy VCR you can program it to record at a specific time
Are you confusing the early 1980s with the entire 1990s? Or was your area the one where they dumped all the ancient VCRs that hadn’t sold, in the hope of getting at least some money from them?
I grew up with a VCR that could barely auto-track. And my parents never bought blank tapes anyways so I was deprived of ever recording any shows I wanted anyways.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
my parents never bought blank tapes
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@HardwareGeek They were always hard to come by. I swear I think we'd buy like a pack of 5 once a year.
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@GÄ…ska said in The Belt Onion club:
The problem with US is that they have 4 timezones but one TV channel.
Usually two transmission times for everything though, once for
NYCthe East Coast and one forLAthe West Coast. And they mention that Central doesn't get its own timing (and I guess assume that people on Mountain, Alaska or Hawaii time are smart enough to figure it out for themselves without being told).Doesn't make any of it more worth watching.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
I was deprived of ever recording any shows I wanted
The main point of having a VCR for anyone I knew was to record things when you either couldn’t watch it as it was broadcast, or because you wanted to keep it for later too. Sure, people would rent movies as well, but I doubt many people rented more than they recorded.
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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
The main point of having a VCR for anyone I knew was Punky Brewster
... I had kind of a thing for Punky Brewster. I'll leave you to wonder whether it was age-appropriate.
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A drone is a male bee.
Amazon is a forest.
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@Gurth said in The Belt Onion club:
@The_Quiet_One said in The Belt Onion club:
I was deprived of ever recording any shows I wanted
The main point of having a VCR for anyone I knew was to record things when you either couldn’t watch it as it was broadcast, or because you wanted to keep it for later too. Sure, people would rent movies as well, but I doubt many people rented more than they recorded.
Nope. We were Blockbuster junkies. And we had a closet full of purchased VHS tapes.
Sure we had a few taped shows, but they were few and far between. My dad's rationale was always: "Well, we'll just have to wait for the repeats."
I think my dad was a low-key version of Calvin's father who would go just short of saying "it builds character."
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@The_Quiet_One Different cultural expectations, I suppose. Repeats were just about unheard-of here — if you missed a TV programme you really wanted to see, you almost certainly weren’t going to get a second chance. Movies … maybe in a few years’ time you’d get another shot? If you were lucky that they’d show a popular one that had already been on, anyway.