Got_Bent

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And the synthesizers in the eighties were nothing like moogs

Irrelevant I guess. I was casually reliving a memory from when I was a child, but there's always got to be a pedant to further solidify my general withdrawal from society because I'm clearly not satisfactorily intelligent enough for it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

George Bush the first called Dan "potatoe" Quayle the Jose Canseco of politics.

JD is making him look like it in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They existed and were more of a new wave instrument at the time, but not heavily used in rock like that.

I was unaware of Brownsville Station when I was eleven.

Sorry to have failed your class professor.

We couldn't all be Jack Black in high fidelity at that age.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I believe I was in sixth grade when that album came out.

First of all, it used a whole lot of synthesizers, which were pretty new technology at the time, and I felt like I was living in the future when I heard it.

As to the album cover, it somehow didn't register with my that it was a baby smoking.

Rather, it made me think of teenagers smoking in the high school bathroom.

Motley Crue's Smokin in the Boys Room came out a year later, so I don't think that influenced my mental image.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Weren't they just throwing a collective temper tantrum about paper straws and how you could pry their plastic straws out of their cold dead lips?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

This sounds like a brand new record! For 1990!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Ted's wife is a bigwig with Sachs. I wonder if she had input with this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Combination of being salaried plus industry culture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

It's been years since I've eaten food away from my desk. And God forbid I should forget to bring food and need to run downstairs for sixteen seconds to purchase something. That's truly one of the seven deadly sins.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

What are the chances that I, a not particularly tech savvy person, go to download mint and end up bricking my computer?

Honestly, my computer is an absolute bottom of the barrel $200 Dell laptop right now, so it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but I'd hate to fuck it up, get a better computer, and fuck that up too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A very long time ago, and much less technologically advanced:

I went to boarding school. We had a little bit of a propensity for sneaking out of the dorm at night.

New dean comes in our senior year and installs alarms on all the exits.

Our senior year time capsule contains the controlling keypad to that alarm system that wasn't even functional for twenty four hours.

I've no doubt that today's teens possess the ingenuity to bypass if not completely disable this thing.

 

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