Thank you, they have gotten so VERY stupid.
I once heard that sometimes they make them annoying so people will remember their product.
The thing that chaps both cheeks of my butt is all these Big Pharma commercials
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I once heard that sometimes they make them annoying so people will remember their product.
The thing that chaps both cheeks of my butt is all these Big Pharma commercials
Yeah, I was sort of inadvertently in advertising once, in a very left-hand way (LOL!), but that's true, the more annoying or disgusting an ad is, the more people will remember it. They remember cute and funny commercials, too, but they remember the bad ones MORE.
I'm with you on the Pharma commercials, Jimi. The side effects are worse than the thing you're taking the drug for. I don't understand why they're allowed to put this stuff on TV. At the same time, a perfectly good and useful medicinal herb MIGHT have caused liver cancer (I don't believe it, I think the data was skewed) in ONE person back in the 70s, and it's still being "warned" against. It's not illegal, but all the "authorities" say not to use it, it's POISON! Yeah. Right. How 'bout all those "imumab" drugs, for instance? Those aren't poison? Bah!
I'm with you on the Pharma commercials, Jimi. The side effects are worse than the thing you're taking the drug for. I don't understand why they're allowed to put this stuff on TV. At the same time, a perfectly good and useful medicinal herb MIGHT have caused liver cancer (I don't believe it, I think the data was skewed) in ONE person back in the 70s, and it's still being "warned" against. It's not illegal, but all the "authorities" say not to use it, it's POISON! Yeah. Right. How 'bout all those "imumab" drugs, for instance? Those aren't poison? Bah!
On the school bus in the afternoons.
Did anyone have to wait for a school bus
Every day.
It doesn't anymore? They still have paper cartons at the grocery store in town, but the plastic tubs are cheaper, so we always got those. Now I make our own, much, much better.
I saw a commercial for Hershey bars yesterday and I was remembering when they used to come wrapped in that white paper, then had the shiny brown sleeve over that. The chocolate TASTED better in that white waxed paper, I'm convinced of it. It could BREATHE. Now it's locked inside a hermetically sealed plastic wrapper and it's just not the same.
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And you could open that box all the way and slice the ice cream with a knife. Ends the he got more than me sibling wars... Also, you can easily get all the goodness out.
We used to just cut through the cardboard and all, into equal amounts. Then just push the ice cream out of the cardboard into the bowls. Why not? We used to eat the fake ice cream out of toilet paper rolls decorated with polka dots.
you were a goodlooking guy in those days jimmi you like fringes on your clothes
You bet mate
i see you standing on he yellow part of the sidewalk jimmi, your wishing that red car was yours
You bet I'd take most any of them
you could not reach the pedals buddy! better of with your stage coach!
Yup, sure did and had fun. There for a bit thought about being a Roller Derby babe. I probably would have been the smallest girl on the team, they could have just thrown me across the rink, lol.Did anyone roller skate on the sidewalks/streets?
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Nowadays, can also be used to clean out the holes on the cell phone.
Floppy discs were used when I was in high school to store data on in computer programming class, which I failed. But then, I was never smart enough to learn program formatting without instruction or example.
But, flash drive, thumb drive, or whatever you wanna call it... these things store so much more data, music, pictures, or whatever. Yet, people still sell those worthless floppies at yard sales at awful prices, as if you could still use them.
Who remembers Fanta
I was 30 years old, or thereabouts, when I used my first computer at work. It was an old DOS system that used the paper 5-1/2 inch floppies. That's where the name "floppy disk" came from, because those first ones WERE floppy, LOL! I didn't get to use a PC with Windows ('95) until 1998. I actually liked the old DOS terminals better. I wouldn't like them TODAY, but back when I was making the change, I just wanted to keep my old black screen and green letters.
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The 8 inch floppies I've worked with were really floppy and make the 5.5 inch ones seem like they are rigid.I was 30 years old, or thereabouts, when I used my first computer at work. It was an old DOS system that used the paper 5-1/2 inch floppies. That's where the name "floppy disk" came from, because those first ones WERE floppy, LOL! I didn't get to use a PC with Windows ('95) until 1998. I actually liked the old DOS terminals better. I wouldn't like them TODAY, but back when I was making the change, I just wanted to keep my old black screen and green letters.
This pic is a 5 1/2 on top of an 8 inch floppy.
I was remembering back to riding the bus to and from school. I still remember the bus number and the driver's name for the bus carrying both junior and senior high students. Reggie was cool. One day, someone ran into the side of the bus with their car. We barely noticed. Those busses were like tanks. Reggie stopped and radioed in for police. A cop came aboard and asked if anyone was hurt or injured. We just hollered in our sarcastic tone "whiplash". The cop laughed and got back off the bus.
Then, one day Reggie called out for some reason, and we got a substitute driver. Not even a mile from school, she starts yelling that everyone needs to shut up, because a few kids were talking... not even loud. Another mile or so, and she pulls the bus over, andvradios in for dispatch to send police. This time, most of us are talking, and she goes full on crazy. By the time the police and someone from dispatch arrive, she points out every student that does not look like a total dork for being disruptive. We got a new substitute for the remainder of the trip.
The next school day, I am called in about being disruptive to give my account about what happened. I tell the truth, and mention the substitute should stay away from kids if she hates them so bad.
Then, one day Reggie called out for some reason, and we got a substitute driver. Not even a mile from school, she starts yelling that everyone needs to shut up, because a few kids were talking... not even loud. Another mile or so, and she pulls the bus over, andvradios in for dispatch to send police. This time, most of us are talking, and she goes full on crazy. By the time the police and someone from dispatch arrive, she points out every student that does not look like a total dork for being disruptive. We got a new substitute for the remainder of the trip.
The next school day, I am called in about being disruptive to give my account about what happened. I tell the truth, and mention the substitute should stay away from kids if she hates them so bad.
How did we ever survive . Lead piping, No Refrigerator, No Sell by Dates, Aspestos lagging, No Seat Belts, Coal Fires, No Fat content Warnings , And only Fish n Chips Takeaways. Life was simpler and expectations realistic. People were kinder and grateful to be alive after two world wars.
