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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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Aight, I said I got a zero, and my husband says we both have one. So help me settle this riveting dinner discussion we’re having:
- Paid with a paper check - I say I have because we’ve made earnest money deposits via check, or down payments on loans via check. And he says “no” because the intent is using a check to pay for things like groceries. He says weve never balanced a checkbook so it doesn’t count.
I’m as old as some people in this thread, I’ve got 20.
My score was 4!
I’ve never used a rotary phone, record off radio to cassette (although I did on an MP3 player), never used a boombox outside, and I never used dial up.
Pretty boomer for someone born in '99, eh?
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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.
Your age is 40 minus your number of points.
I’ll need a couple of negative points for that to hold true.
40-4 points is 36, I’m turning 35 this year 😹 only missed it by a year
I just turned 45. But I have 1 point. I’d happily pretend to be 39 though.
Oof this is too accurate
Gasp, burn the witch
I’m 60 so I’ll take 40.
Ouch… aged three years in a single day.
7 Points. Born in 2004 🤔
0 I have 0 points 👴
Yuuuup.
Young Matt Damon fades into old Matt Damon.
Same and I’m not even 30 ^^`
Same what a feel bad meme.
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.
Zero as well. Damn we’re old 👴
1 reporting in 👨🦳
What’s the thing you’ve never done?
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
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.
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.
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2 or 4 depending on how strict you are.
Walkman, Blockbuster, Encyclopaedia, Paper cheque.
I have a Walkman, but it is broken. Blockbuster never existed in my country AFAIK. Lexicon vs Encyclopaedia. Cheques are not really a thing here except for media display (“Local company donated to local sports association”, Photo).
Two points. I’ve never paid for anything by cheque (we have had bank transfers in Finland for ages) and Blockbuster didn’t operate here (we had our local video rental chains, and the convenience store chain that I used to go to is still in business, just, you know, not having movies for rent any more)
Why is the 8-track never on these lists?
Cause it’s too old for the list writers to know about? Also, their adoption rate was pretty poor.
