dishstandsbyyou gives you a great credit for fox dispute

[dare2be]

The older I get, the more cynical I have become, because of all the head-shaking things that I have experienced occurring more recently/frequently.

Also, the internet/facebook/twitter has given the extreme fringe voice more of a mainstream exposure.

 

[ChadT41]

The older I get, the more cynical I have become, because of all the head-shaking things that I have experienced occurring more recently/frequently.

I am a Millenial, and can I be the first to say... Millenials are the worst generation that has existed. We are self entitled, refuse to work for anything, crying little babies. That said, yes, you older folks are cynical. And rightfully so. But you must admit, because of your experience, it is easier for the larger crowd to be stuck in their ways. Millenials do not stand for anything, and the older generation stands firm, even if they are wrong. lol.

 

[dare2be]

Nope, I'll admit when I'm proven wrong...thankfully not too much.

 

[ChadT41]

Nope, I'll admit when I'm proven wrong...thankfully not too much.

Haha. I do have respect for you folks. It is awesome to do and see a lot of the stuff yall have been through. Those in their 60's, just consider this. You were around at the invent of the Internet and its distribution outside of the Military. And here we are BSing on it, and folks like me, are doing it from their phone.

 

[KAB]

Haha. I do have respect for you folks. It is awesome to do and see a lot of the stuff yall have been through. Those in their 60's, just consider this. You were around at the invent of the Internet and its distribution outside of the Military. And here we are BSing on it, and folks like me, are doing it from their phone.

Chuckling...when I grew up you actually had to DIAL a phone...number by number, left to right.

 

[Bobby]

Chuckling...when I grew up you actually had to DIAL a phone...number by number, left to right.

Didn't you mean clockwise?

 

[ChadT41]

LOL. I loved going to my Great Grandmothers house, for the sole purpose is they had a rotary phone. They also had a tractor, a bench swing, a tire swing, and a TV that you changed the channel by (gasp) turning the knob on the TV. I remember all my cousins crying about how they only had so many channels, and no remote, but I always enjoyed it. I have an old UHF/VHF TV that requires a quarter to work and you get access for 5-15 minutes at a time(being for the nostalgia, I havent tested it out yet.) It came out of a restaurant that wanted to upgrade about 2 years ago. Unfortunately, I wanted to put it on my desk at Dish, and the GM did not share the same sentiment.

 

[KAB]

Didn't you mean clockwise?

That too...what a b*tch!

 

[KAB]

LOL. I loved going to my Great Grandmothers house, for the sole purpose is they had a rotary phone. They also had a tractor, a bench swing, a tire swing, and a TV that you changed the channel by (gasp) turning the knob on the TV. I remember all my cousins crying about how they only had so many channels, and no remote, but I always enjoyed it. I have an old UHF/VHF TV that requires a quarter to work and you get access for 5-15 minutes at a time(being for the nostalgia, I havent tested it out yet.) It came out of a restaurant that wanted to upgrade about 2 years ago. Unfortunately, I wanted to put it on my desk at Dish, and the GM did not share the same sentiment.

Still have an early 70"s rotary channel 19" Sony TV. Still work perfectly, for what it was.

 

[papachops]

Hell I remember crank phones. Operator placed local calls also. My Grandparents home phone number only had two digits. That was in the late 40's.

 

[TNGTony]

In the 70s I lived in a town with only 4 digit phone numbers.

 

[dare2be]

Remember when you could dial your own number, hang up, and then the phone would ring? We would do that to get the attention of someone on a different floor of the house. If two people picked up the phone, you could talk to each other.

 

[thomasjk]

And party lines where several homes shared one line.

 

[KAB]

Hell I remember crank phones. Operator placed local calls also. My Grandparents home phone number only had two digits. That was in the late 40's.

Yeh,"Hi, Hello Sarah?"

 

[AZ.]

Remember when you could dial your own number, hang up, and then the phone would ring? We would do that to get the attention of someone on a different floor of the house. If two people picked up the phone, you could talk to each other.

That would be 971 dial tone 6...

 

[papachops]

Lots of senior members around here aren't there.

 

[dare2be]

heh, I'm still under 50.

 

[thomasjk]

I'm over 70. We had a party line in our first house in 1969.

 

[MikeD-C05]

I'm 52 and I remember the dial your own number thing and it would ring. Used to do this to spook my younger sister and say" Dad said he knows about your grades and when he comes home you're going to get it! " I was 15 and she was 10 and it would freak her out. When my dad got home she would be hiding in her bedroom under the sheets. I would tell my Dad go down there and surprise her and he would come down and open the door quickly and say SURPRISE!!! My sis would bust out crying and start making excuses about her grades and tell all on herself. I would just sit back and laugh and laugh. OF course I only got away with this trick a couple of times before she didn't believe me anymore, but I was a real mean son of B*tch back when I was a kid.

 

[KAB]

I'm over 70. We had a party line in our first house in 1969.

Pushing 62, but us, too. Our original number, before going all numeric, was Tilden 9 ****.