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Why not have your spirit go live in the last operative Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon?
Instructions unclear. Arrested for attempting to squat inside the last operative Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon. Turns out, the courts do NOT accept “childhood nostalgia” as a legal defense against breaking and entering.
My friends kids are competent at taping wrapped presents.
Or a stapler, much to my distress
That seems more like “these kids don’t know basic things and/ or their names” rather than “these kids don’t know colloquialisms from previous decades”
Paper is still everywhere and staples are everywhere. How do they not know what a stapler is?
Yeah, it’s a staple!
Paperclips are for quitters.
Binder clips, best office supply ever. Fight me, I’ll die on this hill.
Im 100% behind you. Use them for tonnes of stuff, so much better than buying chip-clips
I’m kinda curious what they meant too. Live media is available on demand afterwards these days.
But it is not always available afterwards. Sometimes you have to capture that stream of bits yourself. Without a DVR that’s kind of difficult to do depending on the platform. Though I would def use the term “record” rather than “tape”. (Though you might store it in a tar archive afterwards…)
That’s the thing, it doesn’t feel like a situation where one would use the verb “tape”, so I’m curious what she was referring to.
I think she was recording something off her TV. In her younger years this would have been done by pressing record on a vcr to transfer the images displayed on the monitor from the ether into the tape. This process was colloquially referred to as taping.
“I have to work late tonight, can you tape the game for me?” "Don’t tell me what happened on the show! I taped it last night and haven’t watched it yet. "Haha, yes, I know, I’m nearly 40.
What I was trying to convey is that in the present day, where live stuff is almost universally available on demand afterwards (at least where I am), why would a recording be relevant step for the end user?
Recording devices for live media aren’t even common anymore. In the old days we all had VCRs we could record stuff on (not that most adults seemed to be able to program the damn things) and cassette decks we could capture stuff from the radio on (and certainly not to make illicit copies). These days though, what would people use? It feels like hard disk based devices for live TV are long gone.
Of course, that’s a lot of assumptions I’m making there, so chances are she’s just talking about TiVoing something (or however one capitalises that - Sky+ was the thing over here, although I never bothered with it myself. Then again, I did futz around with MythTV in 2007.).
But still, I’m hoping there’s something I’ve not thought of and it’s a situation I couldn’t have imagined, because life is more fun that way.
Lol true that. Life is more fun that way. We’re about the same age and the memories of some of my favorite movies from childhood include the taped commercials. Only viewed positively through the lens of nostalgia, I’ve done everything reasonable to eliminate commercials from my current day to day.
If you grew up with camcorders, you could use that verb for general video recording, even with your phone
Perhaps this is a regional difference then. I did grow up with camcorders (and used them extensively during university) but I’d never use “tape” as a verb for filming something with them.
To me “taping” refers to using a VCR or audio cassette to capture something from TV or radio. I suppose one might say “I’ve got tickets to a taping of (TV show)” but that feels a bit outside the scope here.
Language is a funny thing!
Never heard “taped in front of a live studio audience”?
I’ve only ever heard “recorded in front of a live studio audience”. I see no reason one wouldn’t say “taped” in that context, but I don’t recall ever hearing it!
You set up a camcorder aligned perfectly with the TV, play the on demand stream and tape it so that when it eventually gets removed from the streaming platform you still have a backup on tape.
Hah!
Set the TV to channel 3
I’m this old…
(I’m not actually this old, but I’m old enough that I’ve used this one)
I have…
I am also Spartacus.
Master System memories ❤️
I feel like a dinosaur for even remembering Blockbuster lol
People still say they filmed something
We also dial the phone and roll down the windows. I guess some phrases transcend time.
We also hang up phones, which used to literally be what we had to do, but which makes no sense today.
Is it possible to program a smartphone, so that, using gesture control of some sort, you can hang up a call by dramatically placing the phone down face first on a hard surface?
I SAID GOODDAY SIR!
If you set it down hard enough, yes it will disconnect the call.
We turn the volume up despite it probably being a button, too.
I mean, I put down a deposit recently for a new car that will have roll down windows.
It would be cool to have power windows that are activated by a hand crank. You would just rock it one direction or the other, but maybe bonus points if you have to continue rotating it to keep the window moving.
Cool? Yes. But the whole point of crank windows is mechanical simplicity. This is anything but that.
They save their data to a solid stste disc that isn’t a disc by using the icon for a 3.5" floppy disc. They punch out at the end of the workday and fill out a timesheet later.
Yeah, we use a lot of terms that are no longer literally true and kids know what it means even if they don’t know how the term originated.
The beauty of language is that you can understand without knowing what words mean
I mean… People still say “movie” which was short form for “moving pictures”
I forgot how tapes work, and pulled on a loose tape hanging out of a bag, messing it up.
… I have no concept of what you mean, having not forgotten how tapes work.
I still have my old employee ID somewhere
i still have both my blockbuster and hollywood video nametags. without a doubt the best jobs i ever had, and now that i’m in my forties they’re probably the best jobs i’ll ever know.
I was working too much to take advantage of the free rentals (they were my fourth concurrent part time job) but I loved working there regardless.
Reminds me of the time I used a rotary phone at my grandma’s and… *POOF*
I still keep my Blockbuster membership card on me, just to remind me of a different time.
I mean I used videotape too but sometime probably 25+ years ago I started saying “record”.
Still using my tapes today. Work great and they do what I want, no ads, no subscriptions, I own it. Younguns missed out on the best time. They wont own a thing and will be consumed with ads and depression
For a given value of great. The only tapes I’d describe as looking great are HDV tapes, and even then they’re anamorphic and interlaced.
I’m all for owning media but whenever I see stuff like this I wonder what the person is watching stuff on. Tapes were fine on titchy CRTs but they look pretty horrid on TVs from this decade.
Somewhat ironically they’d probably look fine on the mobile devices the younguns favour!
It’s shocking how apathetic many people have become to this. I don’t want any kind of ad anywhere. When I have to use a browser that doesn’t have my essential plugins installed every second of the experience feels like I’m taking poison damage.
I’m exactly the same. My other half doesn’t know how good she’s got it 😂 I’ve ad-proofed as much of her stuff as I can.
I’ve converted my entire family to at least use Brave on their iPhones
Studies have shown ads cause depression. But holy crao are people desensitized now. Its infuriating.
There are ways to own very high quality movies. Those ways just happen to not be legal. Still less of a hassle than maintaining a physical media collection.
I do own a record player so I see the point of added physicality though.
I mentioned UHF to one of my (younger) coworkers, and he had no idea what that meant…
We’ve got it all! (We’ve got it all) On UHF!
Well, UHF is still a common term if you’re a radio amateur. Along with VLF, LF, MW, SW, etc.
My kids: “like… sellotape?”
