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Navigated with a Thomas guide.
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Made your crush a mix tape.
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Returned a milk bottle for a deposit.
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Worn white tube socks with a single stripe near the top.
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Hung out all day at the mall with your friends just walking in circles.
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Checked out books from a public library.
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Ridden in the bed of a pickup (with no seatbelt).
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Shared a family sized ice cream sunday.
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slapped the side of a tv set to fix it.
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Eaten at an all you can eat salad bar.
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Used an abacus.
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Seen someone riding on a horse drawn buckboard on a public road.
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Played a playground game with a soccer ball called “smear the queer”, or jokingly call your friend a “fag”.
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Ridden in a wood paneled station wagon.
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Used a typewriter.
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Balanced your checkbook.
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Burned your trash.
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mailed someone a letter as a form of communication.
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gotten a busy signal when trying to call someone.
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Used black and white film.
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0 I have 0 points 👴
Yuuuup.
Right there with ya.
Same and some of these things I’ve done in the last couple years.
Done them all and I see 4 that still apply today.
1 reporting in 👨🦳
What’s the thing you’ve never done?
I’m at 1 as well for never owning an encyclopedia. I’m actually surprised how many have. I used the ones at the library. I’m assuming this means the physical book kind, and not a digital one like Encarta or something.
I’d count digital ones as well.
That’s how I didn’t get the point since none of my leatherback encyclopedias is a complete set (yay backyard sales).
Like a getting movies in a public library can count as renting at Blockbusters imho?
I wouldn’t think so on the movie thing. I think it would have to be a video rental store, although not necessarily specifically named Blockbuster. Technically I still “rent” movies at my library through their Kanopy streaming service, but I don’t think that’s in the spirit of the list.
Yeah I was thinking about renting physical copies not streaming.
Recorded music from radio to cassette
Yeah this one is pretty niche nowadays.
I did it for my nephews because I found it funny to give them time capsules of what kind of music was broadcasted when they were born. And cassettes are a good medium for long time storage :p
Pay with a check.
Where I’m from (France) this is how you pay deposits for rentals.
We also have “bank cheques” for big expenses like houses.
Paying with cheques in regular shops is getting rarer, often requires providing two ID, and gets you weird looks. Debit cards have mostly replaced that usage.
We don’t really have credit cards afaik.
Only one for me was blockbuster. I was more of a Rogers video child, I’m not sure we even had a blockbuster near us.
Zero as well. Damn we’re old 👴
Young Matt Damon fades into old Matt Damon.
Same and I’m not even 30 ^^`
Same what a feel bad meme.
0 point gang rise up.
But don’t rise too quickly. I know our backs don’t like that.
I am reporting this post.
…. 0 points…. 🙂
Hello old friend
Yeah, the hurts-to-get-out-of-bed is real.
1 Point, we don’t use cheques in Germany. Maybe 2 points, but I’d count my local Videotheque as the equivalent of the “Blockbuster” video chain.
3, same with the cheques in Germany
I’m exactly the same, only i’m from the Netherlands
Actually… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocheque
(I never used one, but remember my parents paying with it at the supermarket)
Still nothing compared to how it’s used in the US.
I’ve never seen a cheque in my entire life and it’s so incredibly niche that you might as well talk about paying with stocks or gold bars.
I write an average of about 3 checks per month, even now.
There was a time when people used cheques in Germany. I remember my father using them ages ago
Zero points.
1 because despite being born in the early 80s, paper checks are for old people and Americans
2 points, but only because we don’t have blockbuster where I’m from, I have rented movies though. I have also never used a check to pay for anything.
Millennial with a big fat 0 over here
Your age is 40 minus your number of points.
I’m 60 so I’ll take 40.
40-4 points is 36, I’m turning 35 this year 😹 only missed it by a year
40-14 is also off by half a year, dang
I just turned 45. But I have 1 point. I’d happily pretend to be 39 though.
Gasp, burn the witch
I’ll need a couple of negative points for that to hold true.
Ouch… aged three years in a single day.
Oof this is too accurate
0
3 points. 90s kid. The early 2000s still had remnants of a lot of this stuff.
A perfect zero. I have done all of those things and more that the creator of that list can’t even imagine. Things that were everyday common but have faded beyond memory, (and aren’t missed at all).
Zeeeero!
- No Blockbuster in Germany, and noone uses checks here.
Edited from Europe to Germany as some pointed out that there is Blockbuster and checks in other countries
