You sound like my sister. She had a lazy eye, so they cut a muscle in it and she doesn't have the ability to move her eyes independently.
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You sound like my sister. She had a lazy eye, so they cut a muscle in it and she doesn't have the ability to move her eyes independently.
Living in a digital age, it's hard for young people to comprehend the analog era. Consider how 8-tracks were an advancement in recording technology over reel-to-reel systems [[for portability, not sound), cassettes improved on 8-tracks, and now I can put 50,000 songs on an mp3 player that fits in my pocket and probably costs less than that VCR that you financed.
Hey,remember when there were no-plastic trash bags,and if that paper trash bag got wet...it was your problem-or your butt,haaaaaa!!
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I remember when there was no plastic of any kind. Toys were mainly wood and some metal.
I know some of you remember going to the grocery store and seeing your moms or grandmas put Collard greens in paper bags. And also when you needed to poke two holes in the top of soda cans because they didn't have pull tops.
Maybe i'm just getting old,but i kinda miss-adjusting the rabbit ears,actually going to the tv to change the channel.
I don't have cable, so I have rabbit ears on two TVs.
Marv,jerry,you would love my neighbors[they are pigs]they dump thrash out their window and miss the can and yes i have spoken to them about it,being young is no excuse for being a pig.
Oh no, no,no, no, no! They would not be just run out of the neighborhood, they would be run out of the town here on Long Island! I can go through street after street for miles in Montreal and not see as much as a cigarette butt lying around. People like your neighbors have to be banned until they can get it together!
I was in Monroe, Michigan last summer for the Jazz festival there and the whole town is spotless, just like in Canada.
When I lived in Memphis, I couldn't drive a single block at night without seeing cigarettes spark up off the pavement from being chucked from the window. Everybody seemed to smoke down there and they couldn't care less about how they disposed of the butts. In Columbus, the trash on the sides of the highways is everywhere. You can't walk 100 feet anywhere near the freeway in the city without filling up a trash bag.
Just about every exit ramp along the L.I.E. [[Long Island Expressway) in New York, it look like huge ashtrays. The Towns on Long Island are really clean, the freeways, parkways are not. I can drive for almost 300 miles along the 401 Highway in Ontario Canada and not see any litter at all!
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Ha!Ha! We used to know exactly when we entered into USA because we started to see trash immediately when we crossed the border! That was most impressive when the border was the middle of a bridge. :cool:
Remember when Ebony magazine had those huge pages? I wonder why it was one of the largest format magazines on the newsstand. And Johnson Publishing had that little tiny Jet magazine as Ebony's companion. My brother and I used to look forward to the annual issue of Ebony that showed the black players on every NFL team. They ranged between 7 and 20 or so. Now, you're hard pressed to find a team that has fewer than 35.
And don't even lie. The first thing you did when you picked up a copy of Jet was look at the Jet Beauty of the Week, wasn't it?
Was there any other reason? ,hehehehehe!!!
LOL. I remember all the fellas on the school bus went crazy over Bernadette Stanis' [[Thelma from Good Times) Halloween photo in Jet. Weren't most of those photos snapped by LaMonte McLemore from Fifth Dimension?
And that's why I should have paid more attention to arts and crafts.
BTW: Remember how little the TV Guide magazines were back in the day? They were the same size as Reader's Digest and Jet. They only had info for four stations [[that signed off at 1:00 AM) where I grew up, I wonder if they can put enough information for 24 hours of local TV, all of the super stations, all of the news channels, HBO/Showtime/Cinemax/Epix/Starz, all of the sports channels, all of the weather channels and all of the music channels people subscribe to when they pay for 200+ channel cable TV packages?
They also use to print a local "TV Tab" in the Toledo Blade Sunday edition. All us kids would fight over who got to look through it first. We'd take it and circle the shows we wanted to catch that week. Remember there were so few channels and VCR's were not out yet, so if you missed it, you missed it!
I haven't looked at anytype of TV guide in probably a couple of decades. I watch most things now on NetFlix, Hulu and other channels that stream news from around the World over the internet. I learned I can live without cable.
I'm a cord cutter, too. Haven't had cable since I moved into my condo over 20 years ago. I have access to some cable channels via the internet and I watch sports and movies on my Amazon Fire Stick and Roku box. I have more free options than I have time to watch.
I'm trying to get the folks to sign up for Sling TV. They offer 50 channels for $35 per month. All they watch is the four local stations, CNN, MSNBC, and ESPN. Especially since my nephew hooked them up on his Netflix account.
Yes. I guess they're international now. You need to have a Roku, Apple TV or Amazon Fire TV box which cost as low as $39. If you sign up, they provide a Roku box on some packages. You also need internet connectivity. I've been waiting for somebody to get it so I could get a review and he told me that he liked it a lot.
https://www.sling.com/#dyn-grid-package-tab-3-60m
It's all about gimmicks these days. I made an electronic payment for my credit card at the bank last month before requesting an account balance inquiry. Since the transfer takes two days, the amount they told me was overstated and I made a withdrawal that overdrafted my account. I found out later that the bank made the payment, then charged me $35 to cancel it. The next day, they did the same thing [[total of $70). I told them that I didn't appreciate being ripped off and they informed me that they normally try three times, as if they were disappointed that they didn't get me for $35 more.
One thing that always makes me sad,is when i hear of a crime being committed in my old neighborhood,on the news the other night it was reported about a murder that happened on the street where i spent my happiest childhood days,yes i know it's a whole different world now but i remember when you could walk down that street at three in the morning and not a soul would bother you because everyone was in the house,some of the fond times i speak of here are from that street...how far we are from our-yesterdays.