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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #450 on: March 24, 2016, 11:46:11 AM »
When you see a video store and it's all VHS tapes, it feels like you have stepped into a time capsule. (this actually happened a few weeks ago when my husband and I went to the coast and it was like they never left the 90's and they had very little DVDs, that was how it was when I was in middle school and beginning of high school when DVDs were starting to get more popular. It brought back my childhood)

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #451 on: March 24, 2016, 11:55:03 AM »
When you see a video store and it's all VHS tapes, it feels like you have stepped into a time capsule. (this actually happened a few weeks ago when my husband and I went to the coast and it was like they never left the 90's and they had very little DVDs, that was how it was when I was in middle school and beginning of high school when DVDs were starting to get more popular. It brought back my childhood)

  I owned a (used) VCR in my 20s.  I remember the washed-out, watery colors of the VHS tapes.  :nerdy:
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #452 on: March 24, 2016, 12:03:30 PM »
We still have a VCR. My son thought the video tapes were strange looking when he saw them. I told him that is what we used before we had DVDs. Reminds me of the days when I thought the 8 tracks were strange looking cassette tapes and thought a Beta tape was a smaller VHS.

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #453 on: March 24, 2016, 12:35:11 PM »
..you remember your neighbours who showed you something called a VCR that could play tapes up to 30 minutes long.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #454 on: March 24, 2016, 12:36:10 PM »
..you remember your neighbours who showed you something called a VCR that could play tapes up to 30 minutes long.

      Be kind, rewind!  :autism:
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #455 on: March 24, 2016, 12:43:22 PM »
..you remember your neighbours who showed you something called a VCR that could play tapes up to 30 minutes long.

      Be kind, rewind!  :autism:

Rent a VCR.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #456 on: March 24, 2016, 02:33:58 PM »
  ... when you always have antacids in your possession!  :sick:

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #457 on: March 24, 2016, 10:30:38 PM »
..you remember your neighbours who showed you something called a VCR that could play tapes up to 30 minutes long.

      Be kind, rewind!  :autism:


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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #458 on: March 24, 2016, 10:59:26 PM »
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #459 on: March 25, 2016, 01:37:37 AM »
...when you shrug at this thread, thinking "the kids of today".
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #460 on: March 25, 2016, 06:04:16 AM »
  ... you accept that your teeth will be under construction till you die, like the Sarah Winchester house.  :fp:

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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #461 on: March 25, 2016, 08:20:54 AM »
  ... you accept that your teeth will be under construction till you die, like the Sarah Winchester house.  :fp:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House


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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #462 on: March 25, 2016, 08:30:24 AM »
..you remember your neighbours who showed you something called a VCR that could play tapes up to 30 minutes long.

      Be kind, rewind!  :autism:


And you better return the tape! :zoinks:

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A wanted North Carolina man was arrested this week on charges he failed to return a VHS tape to a video store 14 years ago, police said on Thursday.

James Meyers, 37, of Concord, was driving his daughter to school when he was pulled over by police for a broken brake light, according to a video Meyers posted on YouTube on Tuesday.

Meyers said officers ran his driver's license and told him he had an outstanding arrest warrant for not returning a movie to J&J Video in Salisbury, North Carolina.
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #463 on: March 25, 2016, 06:19:46 PM »
  ... you accept that your teeth will be under construction till you die, like the Sarah Winchester house.  :fp:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House




  That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid.  I have an appointment for 8:30 on Tuesday morning.  :tard:
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Re: you know that you are getting old when....
« Reply #464 on: April 18, 2016, 07:39:24 PM »
  ... you suddenly realize most of your furniture is ugly shabby hand-me-down shite,
  and that you want some nicer things before you die, so you'd better get on that pronto,
  because time's a-wasting and ya never know.    :death:  :trollskull:
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