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Yeah, these days he'd have piss bottles in his sun visor.
Rocky Maivia
Meme source: 2009 movie, Race to Witch Mountain.
To me, who saw the original Escape to Witch Mountain in the theater in 1975, this meme is fresh.
How's retirement treating you?
OK, grandpa. I'll roll you out onto the patio and bring you a blanket for your legs.
Well, congrats! That "more time passed since X than between X and Y" meme still doesn't work with those.
I ain't ON your lawn.
The movie may be that old, but that doesn't say anything about the meme.
This meme also isn't +100 years old:
This one is really fascinating TBH. It's like they did this after a lifetime of scrolling 9gag.
I'm probably one of the older users on this site, and can say with depressing clarity that everything just repeats over and over. The details, tone and accessories may change through the decades, but the rest stays the same, just this flat circle spinning 'round and round forever.
I really understand how people with otherwise good lives get to an age where they no longer want to live forever.
I really understand how people with otherwise good lives get to an age where they no longer want to live forever.
I kinda take solace in this a bit. I'm 38, got young kids, and I don't generally stop to think about my mortality but when I do it's always with the thought that I'd miss stuff, mainly related to my kids and them growing and us all being a family. But presumably the rigors of life just become life, and you get to a point where you're okay saying "Welp, that's enough!" Perhaps I'm just rationalizing my future fears or something, I dunno, but that's my hope, that I'll reach an age where I can comfortably say I think I've seen it all, or seen enough that I can go peacefully into nothingness.
Obviously the darker alternative is that I've seen enough pain and I can't take anymore. But I am not here for that! Good feelings only!
I feel it's a little of column A and a little of column B.
But what happens is all the good stuff, the bad stuff, everything in between, it just stacks up and stacks up. You get bored with a lot of things because you've seen it all before so many times. I cannot stand "new" movies because I've seen them all before in other forms. I am disappointed by tragic things humans do, but even with current problems in society, it's new specifics but the broad story is the same. I see people debating things that they were debating 30 years ago. I see people voting against their best interest just a few years after doing the same thing.
What burns you out on life broadly, not in a dark, depressing way, is just the utter lack of novelty after a while. You will want to see more new things, you will want to travel and try new foods and experience new things, but even that all starts to feel cyclical.
After a point, and I'm not there yet, I am quite certain that I will feel a draw to a great unknown, because there's nothing new left here to surprise me.
I'm not the penguin walking to the mountains yet, my community needs me and I need them... but I always have a side-eye to the mountains and a little voice in the back of my head: "Someday."
Are you also cyclical? If not, why are you special? If yes, how can you get bored as that would be something new?
I have delved deep and hard into my own limitations and contradictions and predictable responses as a life form and as a complicated human entity. That part is even more soul-crushing because if I have learned how limited I really am and how predictable my brain is, and it means that the average person who doesn't meditate or contemplate their own thinking must be either far more trapped in cyclic behavior, or even more crushing... far happier.
I wonder what a flashlight is in this context.
A flashbulb or powder flash for a camera.
Thank you
You guys have cars with working stereos? La dee dah looka mister fancypants over here, vibing on Alanis Morissette
Ironic, ain’t it?
you're uninvited. Thank you.
This shit is making me crazy! I swear you won’t be happy 'til I'm bound in a straitjacket!
I still use my CD player. Especially if I've forgotten to turn bluetooth on and can't be bothering with flipping my phone out. Fiddling with a bunch of plastic and easily scratchable CDs is much better.
I don't understand these words: "Forgotten to turn on Bluetooth".
You turn Bluetooth off, or D by use automation to manage it?
Over the years I've ysd a combination or NFC and Macrodroid/Automate/Tasker to manage connections.
Like I always wanty phone to connect to my car, so NFC tag right beside the phone mount. Quick touch and all is configured - BT connection, volumes, etc.
You're trying to communicate. I can feel it.
I think you just made OP’s case about the simplicity of popping a cd in the cd player and being done with it. What you described almost needs a degree to understand. 😂
Active BT & WiFi radios can be used to identify you and track your movement, so I tend to keep them off whenever not in use. I do try to have it automated but I often need to manually toggle it.
Yes
I used to have the same thing, until someone broke in and stole it. Ever sense then I had burned CDs in the car. My current car has MP3 ability so I have 300 songs on a CD.
None of my current cars have a cd player. I can only consider that a bummer through nostalgia. The cd is antiquated as portable music.
I still use CDs, it’s a way to own the music, and it doesn’t play ads. Oh and no subscriptions
USB drives? It's much easier.
I use thumb drives on my Bluetooth speaker. Different playlists on each.
No, I get that. I dont do it myself, but if I did, id buy the cd, rip it, and then store the cd in my home so it doesnt get all fucked up from repeated use. Classic Ipod or even usb stick didnt have a subscription.
I like and appreciate the extras that physical albums bring, as well as the freedom and reliability of physical media.
But even as an old guy that's all about connecting with the physical world and stimulating all the senses and all that, when it comes to the mechanisms of listening to music it's hard to beat FLAC albums on the Jellyfin server. It takes up so little space.
Brilliant!! Why didn’t I have this before? I have a 2005 ‘modern classic’ that has a cd multichanger, and the glovebox has a cakebox cd stack in that could definitely migrate to this Sun visor
Those sun visors (and pretty much any soft case or sleeve type holder) absolutely devoured CDs. I had one too, everybody did, but I only let mine eat my burned CDs (mostly mixes I crafted with cross-fades and normalized levels using foobar2000 and a pirated copy of SoundForge) and carefully curated MP3-CDs. Scratched? Who cares, I burned multiple copies to pass around and trade with friends anyway.
Nothing hits better on a drive than a good mixed CD. Even making a playlist on your phone, which is basically the same thing, is totally not the same.
The one thing I like about streaming music from a service like Spotify is that eventually I will find music I have forgotten about or never knew existed, and it happened organically. Unfortunately , that is a one thing CDs cannot offer.
It kinda can but not as easily.
Back when I just downloaded everything under the sun on Napster/Limewire, I'd make highly curated CDs of known-hits as well as ones where I sprinkle in some random songs that were in my downloads that I'd never heard before. Not exactly the same, but I've definitely listened to a CD I made and been like "what's that song?! I love it!".
Plus, for road trips, everyone would usually burn a CD or two of their own to swap in (a precursor to "pass the aux cord") so there was some novelty/variety.
This is where the classic ipod was king. Shuffle All legitimately shuffled everything you had ever put on the ipod. Spotify algorithms fuck that right up -- shuffle Liked Songs is still automatically curated and serves up the same shit for months on end. That is not shuffle.
What kind of car were they in? They haven't made dome lights that big in cars since 8 tracks
Gotta be a pickup.
Edit: went looking. It’s actually a Chevy Caprice outfitted as a cab, that's why the aftermarket large dome light. Here’s the scene.
Yeah, but there's also seatbelts in the back. The car is either straddling the line between generations or it's set design fucking with us.
One day I will find out what film this meme is from.
It’s a mid-2000s remake of a 70s movie called Race to Witch Mountain.