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TropicalDingdong, in Back in my day

Bonus points if you recorded it yourselves on VHS.

themeatbridge,

My daughter asked me what a VHS Player was last night. It was in one of her books, and I couldn’t tell her how it works. But I got to tell her why we say “rewind” when we reverse a movie.

elscallr,
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Data is written to a tape in one direction. It’s on a very long magnetic ribbon. That ribbon is wrapped around two spools.

Once you read through the data you have to wind it all the way backwards to read it front to back again.

bleph, (edited )

He got to explain to his daughter and you got to explain to the comment section, circle of life

elscallr,
@elscallr@lemmy.world avatar

They say you don’t fully understand something until you can explain it to a 7 year old.

Blackmist,

Complete with adverts for shops that no longer exist.

InquisitiveFactotum,

Oh, man. Idea: When watching a vintage movie on a steaming service they should run ads from the same time period.

Watch an 80s movie with 80s McDonald’s and Folgers commercials.

Jubei_K_08, in Fishing

You catch all the bAss.

sour, in Don't do Crunch Kids!
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π

ininewcrow, in Save thousands
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If it were up to me … I’d prefer you just wrap my body in a plastic bag and throw it in the trash

The world disregards human life so easily in so many parts of the world … why should anyone have any respect for my dead body.

FlickOfTheBean,

The unfortunate answer to your question is very likely only because there is money to be made…

pg_sax_i_frage, (edited )

I don’t know about that one, bit I know of a somewhat similar option. Yiu can. in so. e states, havarranhe to Hove your body wrapped in a… fabric shroud, amd laid into a … vat filled with organic material, usually woodchils and the like(wood hips are sometimes consodered a waste or a garbage product) , then after after a few weeks you ahve compost or soil basically, that can be used for land conseravtion ect.

I might add, to yiur point, that representatives of the Catholic church have repeatedly opposed this posted etah option from becoming avakabke, on the ground that get this they considerit to be undignified’, (granted, they’re just about the only ones who take thatbosition, one they know moanybof the detail and context, but it’s a substantial and influential organisation), and then random passerby who doesn’t know anything other about the process than a sensational news headline on might well condiser it undignified too, in the moment anyway.

And of course, you could consider it to be as if you had arranged for your foture corpse to be turned into literal dirt, dirt, and then what could be more gloriously u dignified than that.

… more on that subject at: orderofthegooddeath.com/…/green-death-technology/… and at www.recompose.life (I shiuld warn, neigher of these resources make the process sound or look larocularky undignified, but then these things are a matter of perspective after all, in some ways)

youCanCallMeDragon, in I use a goat
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I used a high powered laser to burn away each hair follicle one at a time over months

Maultasche, in Fishing

Fetish

qwerty_bastard, in Choose A or B

Seriously specific

agamemnonymous, in Back in my day
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The daycare I went to after school when I was a kid had a few that got a lot of play, but the most obscure were a 1994 ABC Family animated rendition of The Secret Garden and a 1985 Hanna-Barbera Pound Puppies TV special.

callyral, in I use a goat
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

all of the above

Dkarma, in Fishing

Adventurous housewifeicus

PeterPoopshit, (edited ) in Choose A or B

B all the way. I’ll use my real estate and no taxes to figure out a way to make a fuck ton of $400/month apartments like it’s 1990 to help the less fortunate/average person. I’ll then use the no taxes to hopefully refine my business model to the point of making my affordable apartment business more widespread across the entire country and just keep expanding until I get either assassinated or receive a Nobel Prize.

TseseJuer,

rip in pices

Olmai,

Depends on how scared the neighbors are. Are they “let’s avoid that guy” scared, or “we better kill him before he kills us” scared ?

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

I feel like it depends on who the neighbors are. Live in a suburb, cool. Live 45 minutes from the closest grocery store… yeah that neighbor is likely to murder you.

morrowind,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

unfortunately the real estate is in mongolia. Already pretty cheap there, but no one wants to move there

Im_old, in Choose A or B

A: uncles take care of themselves (unlike the fish), you can have much more fun with uncles. Always hard could be a problem… I mean, it means I could never wear jeans again. Could be always hard on demand. Also I really like lambos. Tom Hardy is a cool guy as well.

CoffeeJunkie,

You have serious real estate & infinite rare fish you can sell for a lot of money, and the government isn’t tax-raping your profits to death, you can buy several or more lambos.

Im_old,

I might not be up to date with Mongolia real estate value. Isn’t it most steppe? Plus I really don’t want to deal with people to sell them the fish. I’m more for a relaxed and fun life with all my uncles and Tom Hardy, not the hustle.

samus12345,
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If you don’t like the Mongolian real estate empire, it doesn’t say you can’t sell it.

Muhr, in Fishing

Kanye … Was the first thing I thought

shalafi, (edited ) in Save thousands

No joke y’all, plan shit like this now, not tomorrow, not next year. And I don’t care your age or health. If you die tonight, the funeral industry vultures will swoop on your grieving people and fuck them over.

Working on end-of-life stuff with my new wife (both of us 52), and she doesn’t like it, but it’s getting done. If I eat it tomorrow, she’ll be buying a casket, plot, headstone, whatever the hell she’s told to buy.

Get a will drawn up, get a Living Will signed and notarized. Hell, just look up “end of life documents” and get to work if you love the people you might be leaving.

And if you’re married, FFS get life insurance, preferably whole life. It’s hilariously cheap if you’re young, and I mean stupid cheap, like $10-20/mo. cheap for fat stacks. Study on it a bit, don’t get jerked around! Had a good friend over the other night who sells and explained much.

Tried to get us on a plan that immediately pays out funeral expenses. Sounds great! Nah, we’ll self-insure that small bit. Instead we’ll setup a joint account and auto-pay $100-$200 a month until we’re feeling good about it. $10-20K? Can’t afford that? Who cares?! Pay $25/mo., whatever, it’ll stack if you’re young.

tl;dr: The funeral business gets away with this shit because we don’t plan, and that’s on us. And if you want a casket? Sure, take a plan as pictured.

Hellnikko,

Plan WAY ahead and donate your body to science. Family isn’t stuck with a bill to the vultures. Cremation even costs way too much to pay people that prey on grieving family for something that is inevitable. And science benefits from your donation. Ultimate win.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

“science” doesn’t take every body, and I’ve outlived two of the three doctors who want to experiment on my corpse (much to their chagrin).

shalafi,

THAT is a fine idea! Totally forgot!

And let’s not forget to check that organ donor box. See how it works in your country.

Blackmist,

Also, tell the guy that digs the hole how big the coffin is including handles.

Because I went to a funeral last year where it didn’t fit.

minyakcurry,

Good God what happened then?

neuracnu, in Back in my day
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Bringing in the deep cuts:

  • The Peanut Butter Solution
  • DARYL
  • Ewoks; The Battle for Endor
  • Enemy Mine
  • Police Academy and The Blues Brothers (edited for broadcast TV)
ReplicantBatty,

We grew up watching Blues Brothers, we’d watch it like every other week. That movie holds up so well, i still watch it occasionally.

WhiteOakBayou,

Enemy Mine is a sentimental favorite of mine

Sadrockman,
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“I still don’t understand…what’s a hooker?” “Ok,its him.” Im glad somebody mentioned D.A.R.Y.L. That and Police Academy 2 were my go tos as a kid,since we lived in bfe.

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