Oh good god that was a terrible place to put the brackets.

Funny you should say that -

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91tSWuw6NjS._UF350,350_QL50_.jpg

The Germans did not like Lizzie II.

Eh. I group things in decades so I was kind of right (it’s less than 20) :)

Dara O’Briain did a sketch about all this from a show that I think is maybe 10 years old? But it’s all about attitudes changing and people needing to catch up.

It’s Dara, so – you know – swearing :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14xB1uKGLik

I’m thinking it’s just a matter of time…

I’d have thought it would be obvious - no guy would make another guy smooth down there.

Sounds funnier than the latter series of Friends :)

Oh I don’t know.

If you eat someone’s brains you get a snack as well as a memory.

I don’t ever remember my school having a science fair. (From the UK).

Not once. I’ve seen enough on TV shows to get the idea but… yeah. We have a very different approach to education. No science fairs, and I am pretty sure no job fairs either? We occasionally had people come in to talk to us (Fire Brigade, two Soldiers, two nurses) but I think that was more about the teachers just wanting a morning off from teaching than thinking we should do a specific job. And no “bring your parent to school” day or “what does your parent do” day.

The UK is very different to the US I am guessing?

Atari 2600 ET?

Yeah. Not the best game ever made :)

Look behind you! A three-headed monkey!!

Elite was the first “proper” video game I played on a computer. Before that it was all games in the arcade, and on the Atari 2600.

Also (from a certain point of view) the first RPG I played (excluding D&D obviously – I’m not an animal!).

Civ 1. So many happy memories.

• Elite (Spectrum),
• Gauntlet (arcade then Spectrum),
• Dragon’s Lair (arcade),
• Star Wars (arcade),
• The Hobbit (Spectrum)

with a bonus mention for “The Empire Strikes Back” on Atari 2600.

So yeah – all these games people played as “teenagers” are games I started playing last year, relatively speaking :)

You really aren’t.

The first one on my list was a game in the arcade, then a game on the Atari 2600 :)

If I am honest, I skip the episode every time.

It just seems like a snotty and kind of cheap commentary on current life that makes no real attempt to understand how current life works. It’s like Seth and his writers looked at Twitter et al and thought “Oh, I’ve seen one or two bad incidents of something like this happening, so lets blow it up into something it isn’t”

It kind of annoys me, and appeals to the idea that the internet is a “bad thing” ™ that is going to be the end of society and destruction of civilisation.

Which, as I said, annoys me.

For a series that I really like (and I do really like it) it’s the one episode I really can’t stand.

Yeah… I’m going to steal this for the next fanfic. (I’ll credit the tumblr user)

I will remember that – thank you :)

No – it’s Lemmy. You can see the banner at the top of the page :)

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