The Belt Onion club
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@loopback0 said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
Seriously, though, WhoTF are Currys?
They sell electronics and appliances.
Oh, good. I thought it was a nasty reference to Indians.
Not that anyone would ever do something like that. Well, other than that chain of electronics/appliance stores in the area where I lived many years ago, called "Tokyo Shapiro".
Tokyo = Japan = Electronics
Shapiro = Jewish = Cheap
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
That looks like somebody had been recently playing Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards when they came up with that verification system. I wonder if pressing Ctrl+Alt+X will get you past the questions.
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@Gurth now I have that theme song in my head, thaaaaaaanks.
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@Gurth Careful though!
"An increasing number of senior citizens have been disappearing online without a trace because they accidentally pressed the Alt and Del keys."
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Hold on. Star Wars: Episode1 - The Phantom Menace was released in May 16th 1999? That can't be. That was 25 years ago.
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@Zecc yup, there’s been 25th anniversary showings here, especially a couple of weeks ago for May 4th weekend.
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@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
Hold on. Star Wars: Episode1 - The Phantom Menace was released in May 16th 1999? That can't be. That was 25 years ago.
Bah! A week from Saturday will be the 47th anniversary of of Episode IV — A New Hope. I was working full-time and taking night classes at college when it was released.
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Remember when the internet came on a floppy disk?
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@coderpatsy Using THE INTERNET for only $2.50 an hour!
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@coderpatsy oooh, free floppy disk!
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@Watson said in The Belt Onion club:
@coderpatsy Using THE INTERNET for only $2.50 an hour!
Before the WWW became widely used, CompuServe charged $6.00 an hour.
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And if you think that's expensive, remember that in some countries, you had to pay for the phone call itself in addition.
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@Zerosquare said in The Belt Onion club:
And if you think that's expensive, remember that in some countries, you had to pay for the phone call itself in addition.
Even in the U.S., if you are using a "land line" it used to be that a call made to anywhere outside of the area served by your local phone company was considered a "long distance call" that incurs a per-minute charge.
It has only been in the last ~15 years, thanks to the widespread use of cellphones and "broadband Internet", that the concept of "long distance" phone calls has mostly gone away.
My first adventures with "Bulletin Board Systems" and my 300 baud Radio Shack modem, involved calling all over the country and running up significant phone bills.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Belt Onion club:
Even in the U.S., if you are using a "land line" it used to be that a call made to anywhere outside of the area served by your local phone company was considered a "long distance call" that incurs a per-minute charge.
Yeah, but I think the largest USA ISPs had a local Point of Presence in the area they served, didn't they?
Here, you had to pay for local calls as well. They were cheaper than national calls, but still expensive enough to get yelled at by your parents if you spent too much time online.
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docsigma2000: jesus christ man
docsigma2000: my son is sooooooo dead
c8info: Why?
docsigma2000: hes been looking at internet web sites in fucking EUROPE
docsigma2000: HE IS SURFING LONG DISTANCE
docsigma2000: our fucking phone bill is gonna be nuts
c8info: Ooh, this is bad. Surfing long distance adds an extra $69.99 to your bill per hour.
docsigma2000: ...!!!!!! FUCK FUCK FUCK
docsigma2000: is there some plan we can sign up for???
docsigma2000: cuz theres some cool stuff in europe, but i dun wanna pauy that much
c8info: Sorry, no. There is no plan. you'll have to live with it.
docsigma2000: o well, i ccan live without europe intenet sites.
docsigma2000: but till i figure out how to block it hes sooooo dead
c8info: By the way, I'm from Europe, your chatting long distance.
** docsigma2000 has quit (Connection reset by peer)
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Oh, there's a bash.org archive? Cool!
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@Zerosquare yeah, I was so glad to find one that I had to share it.
The gitlab one... I don't know, maybe the search is easier than with the full archive, or if you want to download a copy for yourself?
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
I wonder if it's a reaction from the 2023 parents to how they were treated on their last day of school in 1988.
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
I don't know which age 2nd grade equates to, but over my entire primary school career I don't recall ever having been dropped off or picked up by car. It was bicycle all the way. Though there are a handful of occasions where I was picked up at secondary school when I had a flat tire, so that may have happened in primary as well.
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@PleegWat same here, we took the bus. But apparently nowadays parents drop their kids off at school / pick them up everyday with their oversized SUV tanks and then complain that there's too much traffic in front of the school by dangerous tanks that aren't designed for pedestrian safety.
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@topspin Oh, that's a big problem here too, both now and when I was a kid. School buses aren't a thing here. But my primary school was on a street which was a dead end for cars, and the sidewalk was protected by posts. If you arrived by bike from the other direction you never had direct conflict with cars, though some cyclists may have been a danger to pedestrians.
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@PleegWat said in The Belt Onion club:
though some cyclists may have been a danger to pedestrians.
Emphasis on the gross understatement.
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@izzion true in general, but in we (usually) have separated the sidewalk from the bicycle lane...
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@PleegWat said in The Belt Onion club:
I don't know which age 2nd grade equates to
~8-yo.
Throughout elementary school, I lived too far from the school to walk or bike, and for most of it, too far for the school bus. I did take the bus for a year (before we moved further away), but I had to walk maybe half a kilometer to get to/from the nearest point on the bus route. It also the disadvantage of taking something like an hour to get home, because I lived at almost the very end of the route. And sometimes I needed a ride anyway, because I missed the morning bus. I think the bus was rather expensive, too, and since my mom was not employed outside the home, she had the time available, and it made more sense for her to drive me. After we moved, there wasn't any choice, since we were beyond the bus route.
When I started junior high and high school, we lived about half a block from the school, so walking was obviously the main method of transportation, except when I stayed for some after-school event that ended after dark, because my route was through an unlit alley. Occasionally, I'd get a ride from my dad on his way to work, and of course when I turned 16 and got my driver's license, I drove myself as often as possible, because driver's license, even though it was only half a block (sorta; the route to drive was actually much longer than the walking route, because I couldn't take the shortcut through the alley, and the parking lot was on the other side of the school).
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@PleegWat same here, we took the bus.
I walked, and I don’t think my mother ever brought me to school after I turned five or so. But then, I lived something like 2 minutes’ walk away from school. At the end of the morning or afternoon, there were also hardly ever any parents waiting to pick up their kids — everybody just walked home, or rode bikes if they lived on or beyond the outskirts of the village.
These days, though, if I make the mistake of walking past the school around the time it finishes, I have to weave my way through the crowd of parents who stand there talking. Apparently, a lot of kids go home on their own even if their parents are there waiting for them because some parents seem to do this more to chat to each other than to pick up their children. At least most of them don’t seem to come by car, though.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Belt Onion club:
So, yes, you can still change the cursor but now the only choices are boring. Just one more thing that Microsoft ruined
You can get high quality third-party cursor sets like Posy's pack
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@hungrier said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Belt Onion club:
So, yes, you can still change the cursor but now the only choices are boring. Just one more thing that Microsoft ruined
You can get high quality third-party cursor sets like Posy's pack
Yes, custom cursors are still a thing and never went away.
But I want the peeling banana.
Fucking Microsoft.
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And then, accidentally sticking to the topic, I clicked away forgetting to post the thing I came into the topic to post
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@Zerosquare When I get old, I won't become one of those old bastards with JPEG artefacts
*gets old
Me: