I'm so old I remember when...

[Canoe]

... And a smoking section if I recall correctly. ...

Section?
Are you one of those anti-smoking communists?

[DoctorIknow]

I'm so old I remember when I'd fly across the Atlantic, entering by climbing up stairs from the ground, sit in seats facing other passengers, with a table between us for reading or playing cards, in a plane that had four propellers. I'd spend hours in the cockpit.
And real food.

And a smoking section if I recall correctly.

Certainly seeing a beer can opened with a "church key"; alas it was not my time to drink.

How about an electric piano in the upper deck of the new 747's

747 piano bar.jpg

Speaking of the good old days when smokers were sitting next to me on flights, the FAA started to ban them in 1990, and internationally for US planes in 2000, it makes me nervous since then to be on a flight that has ashtrays on the armrests screwed down. How old is that plane?

[^Rhino!]

*snickers at 747s*

The 747 was new when I was in my early teens. I last flew on one in 2008 on my trip to mainland China. You want a real workhorse of a plane I remember flying on, try the Ford Trimotor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Trim ... or_EAA.jpg

The Trimotor was a single wing 3-motor long distance passenger aircraft that PREDATES the Douglas DC-3 (also known as the venerable C-47 from its World War II service). In 1968, there were just two of them flying regular service in the US out of Port Clinton, Ohio. They did daily flights to South Bass Island and the resort town of Put-In-Bay. My aunt and uncle had arranged the flight for 8 of us- my Mom, Dad, aunt, uncle, my two cousins. my sister and myself for a day on the island. It's still a neat little resort town.

[Canoe]

... You want a real workhorse of a plane I remember flying on, try the Ford Trimotor. ...

I actually have. It was at an airshow and a few of us got a flight around around town and back to the airport. Sometime around '74 to '76.

[Montanarchist]

...I remember riding a little red wagon down a step road without a helmet, pads, or any sort of PPE and no one batted an eye as they drove by in their cars the other way

[Simon of the Playa]

vaccines were not a political issue, they were a health issue.

but then, people became poisoned by misinformation, misguided defiance and sheer stupidity.

[lucky420]

And they stayed stupid

[FlyingMonkey]

And they stayed stupid

Good Morning Lucky.

I respectfully disagree. People have always been stupid. It's just amplified by Anti-Social Media these days.

The social reinforcement of stupid high-fiving stupid seems to enhance it...... but it's always been there. The algorithm is the root cause of this evil. This is what happens when you distill all the different stupid & put it in different jars. Previously when all the stupid was mixed together it was diluted and less obvious.

Just sit back at a safe (social)distance & watch Darwinism work this all out.



Who made popcorn?

[lucky420]

And they stayed stupid

Good Morning Lucky.

I respectfully disagree. People have always been stupid. It's just amplified by Anti-Social Media these days.

The social reinforcement of stupid high-fiving stupid seems to enhance it...... but it's always been there. The algorithm is the root cause of this evil. This is what happens when you distill all the different stupid & put it in different jars. Previously when all the stupid was mixed together it was diluted and less obvious.

Just sit back at a safe (social)distance & watch Darwinism work this all out.



Who made popcorn?

True, yes youre correct my fren.

Pass the popcorn please

[burner von braun]

...I didn't need glasses just to find my glasses.

[Canoe]

...I didn't need glasses just to find my glasses.

...I didn't need to leave a scattering of dollar-store glasses around the house to use for those occasions.

I was explaining to a younger friend's young son how I had a turntable (still do) and I used to read the jackets or inserts of LPs instead of reading the inserts in CDs. He asked what a CD was.

[some seeing eye]

He asked what a CD was.

A CD is a 45-60 minute playlist.

[Nanny29]

vaccines were not a political issue, they were a health issue.

but then, people became poisoned by misinformation, misguided defiance and sheer stupidity.

I need to agree with you.

[Miura-7]

I’m so old I remember when “Dear Penthouse Forum” was enough to restock my spank bank as well. Not to mention I read the informative articles.

[Molotov]

I'm so old I remember my entire family willingly standing in line for an hour in 1961 waiting for a a dose of the Sabin oral polio vaccine.

[ken]

i think i remember that. we got a shot and a sugar cube on the same day. i was born in 1957.

[Patsh]

i think i remember that. we got a shot and a sugar cube on the same day. i was born in 1957.

Thanks for saying that, Ken! I was remembering both the shot and the sugar cube (Salk and Sabin), but was doubting my memory.
I was born in '51.

[Meat Hunter]

I remember when all the residential phones in my town had a big 2 battery pack attached to the wall in the general area of the phone.

The two batteries were round, with diameter of about 2.5", and about 7" tall.

As best as I can remember, the battery pack had been removed before +-1950-55.

[Simon of the Playa]

Remember When Republicans DIDN'T suck Russian Dick?

i do.

https://youtu.be/0VQgbMOezqA

[lucky420]

Yep, and this is weird as fuck ^^

[chronos]

When my Vic Tanny membership still worked

[Canoe]

... when my thick fanny still worked.

[Simon of the Playa]

flying on commercial airlines was fun, people were polite, and the cabin was spacious and comfortable.

[Simon of the Playa]

Remember When Republicans DIDN'T suck Russian Dick?

i do.

https://youtu.be/0VQgbMOezqA

still applicable.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/n ... 509539002/

[Lonesomebri]

A long long time ago I donated an old pile of sheets, so many dreams wrapped up in that bundle, to a person collecting them to sew together for shade at Center Camp. I remember standing on my porch and watching them leave for adventure and service...

[Canoe]

flying on commercial airlines was fun, people were polite, and the cabin was spacious and comfortable.

And they'd welcome me join them on the flight deck...

[DVD Burner]

flying on commercial airlines was fun, people were polite, and the cabin was spacious and comfortable.

And they'd welcome me join them on the flight deck...

I used to Fly

FIRST CLASS ALONE


From


NEW YORK TO PARIS


Sipping Mimosas.


(And I have receipts.)

[Canoe]

flying on commercial airlines was fun, people were polite, and the cabin was spacious and comfortable.

And they'd welcome me join them on the flight deck...

When I was a kid, this was particularly fun, as they'd let me stay up there for hours, watching the radar for Iceland, Greenland, Labrador & Ireland/UK, listening to the transceiver, and trying to figure out the sextant type thing sticking out the top (slightly lol, before GPS et al). They had a lot of patience.

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Elorrum]

Nobody asked me for a whole week what I did for a living.