What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[Zombie_61]

:eusa_clap
I had that album when I was a kid.

So did I, and just about everyone I knew while I was growing up and going through school. Between that, listening to Dr. Demento on the radio on Sunday nights, and watching classic comedies on television, we were all well versed in famous (and some not-so-famous) comedy routines, many of which were recorded before we were born.

I'm havin' Bill Cosby flashbacks. :eusa_clap

Finally! Thank you! :yo:

 

[Gregg Axley]

I'm havin' Bill Cosby flashbacks. :eusa_clap

I hope those don't include Leonard Part 6. :eusa_doh:

 

[hatguy1]

I won't miss those cumbersome long receipts at restaurants with all the details about taking a survey and maybe winning a gift card. Some of those receipts remind me of a tax return. Just give me the total and if I'm paying by cc a place to add tip and sign.

 

[jamespowers]

I won't miss those cumbersome long receipts at restaurants with all the details about taking a survey and maybe winning a gift card. Some of those receipts remind me of a tax return. Just give me the total and if I'm paying by cc a place to add tip and sign.

My friend was complaining about the same thing yesterday. lol lol They do the same thing at many stores now too. He was complaining about Sears and showed me the receipt. It was about a foot long.

 

[Zombie_61]

I hope those don't include Leonard Part 6. :eusa_doh:

Nah, he said "flashbacks", not "projectile vomiting".

 

[Gregg Axley]

Nah, he said "flashbacks", not "projectile vomiting".

Or rabid lobsters.
I remember that, and a Camo Porsche 928.
Thank goodness for a bad memory.

I agree with the 3 mile long receipts. And btw those surveys are data mining tools, designed to flood your e-mail with spam.
If you don't get a lot of e-mails, then I suggest trying that method.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

You should see what K-Mart gives you.

My friend was complaining about the same thing yesterday. lol lol They do the same thing at many stores now too. He was complaining about Sears and showed me the receipt. It was about a foot long.

 

[jamespowers]

You should see what K-Mart gives you.

I don't go in there here.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Attention Kmart Shoppers!!!

[video=youtube;KYxXuY6_Png]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYxXuY6_Png[/video]

 

[Shangas]

I suppose you would call this Modern political correctness, prudishness, squeamishness or whatever...

I REALLY CANNOT STAND...

"Banned" stuff. It's driving me nuts. It's all over bloody YouTube.

"Banned" vintage cartoons. "Banned" commercials. "Banned" movies.

None of these things are "banned". They were never "banned". They are, were, and always will be, legal.

People forget how STRICT film censorship was back in the 1930s and 40s. If it was "BANNED", then it would never have existed to begin with, because the Hays Code would never have passed it. The idea that these things are suddenly available when once they weren't is absolutely absurd.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Attention Kmart Shoppers!!!

[video=youtube;KYxXuY6_Png]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYxXuY6_Png[/video]

Great. Now I want a Dr. Pepper.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I suppose you would call this Modern political correctness, prudishness, squeamishness or whatever...

I REALLY CANNOT STAND...

"Banned" stuff. It's driving me nuts. It's all over bloody YouTube.

"Banned" vintage cartoons. "Banned" commercials. "Banned" movies.

None of these things are "banned". They were never "banned". They are, were, and always will be, legal.

People forget how STRICT film censorship was back in the 1930s and 40s. If it was "BANNED", then it would never have existed to begin with, because the Hays Code would never have passed it. The idea that these things are suddenly available when once they weren't is absolutely absurd.

Much of this BANNED stuff was all over television as recently as the '70s. But the Yoo Toob generation has no awareness of anything that occured before about 1995, so as far as they're concerned, they're being bold rebels by bringing this stuff back to the surface. I hope they won't mind if I yawn.

 

[John in Covina]

One thing is racism was institutionalized and is represented in a lot of the "banned" media. Since society is very thin skinned about it there are all sorts of cartoons and comedy shorts that will not be seen on TV in our lifetimes. As an example of how it works, just think of Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles" -it would be impossible to make that film today. The protests would be enormous, there would be rioting in the streets if it were to be shown publicly (as a new movie) probably anywheres in the US.
(4 legs good , 2 legs bad)

 

[Foxer55]

Tom,

You should see what K-Mart gives you.

I'm disappointed in K-Mart. Its kind of like how Sears wound up. My mother use to buy everything at Sears and they had damn good products. But that ended in the '80s with the investment boondoggle. I used to like K-Mart, they had a lot of good stuff if you looked around but since they got involved with Martha and Sears, they're now headed down the same road. I remember standing in a line a while back at KM and some guy in the line on his cellphone was saying "Yeah, I'm in line at K-Mart. They have 20 registers and only one is open." The stores have become dirty and disorganized, and their products just don't seem to be as diverse as in the past although prices seem to be holding, at least to me. I used to buy a LOT of stuff at K-Mart but that changed.

I think we've lost the old guard ownership and management to a newer generation that thinks a fast buck from junk is the way to do business.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Sears had the same CEO as Kmart at one time.
He brought Kmart out of an incredible slump, and Sears hired him to do the same.
The results? An absolute disaster.
I know someone that worked there when he took over, they were in management.
How did he keep cost down? X amount of items were placed on the shelf, a small x I might add.
Once they ran out, there were no more in the store room. Just in time delivery was used instead, to stock the shelves.
The only problem was just in time was often times just too late.
Sears made a lot on small appliances, and these were the items they ran out of a lot.
More with less became the norm with not only store items, but with employees.
Foxer, you hit the nail on the head with disorganized and dirty.
Add apathy of most employees to the list, but can you blame them?
Low pay, and extended hours due to shortages in staff make for a wonderful environment.
I remember back in the 70's when a friend's parents worked for Sears
One in cosmetics, one in Lawn and Garden, and Appliances.
They tried the products, they learned all they could about them, and stood behind the quality.
You weren't making a sale back then, you were making a customer for life if possible.
Not anymore...

 

[sheeplady]

One thing is racism was institutionalized and is represented in a lot of the "banned" media. Since society is very thin skinned about it there are all sorts of cartoons and comedy shorts that will not be seen on TV in our lifetimes. As an example of how it works, just think of Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles" -it would be impossible to make that film today. The protests would be enormous, there would be rioting in the streets if it were to be shown publicly (as a new movie) probably anywheres in the US.
(4 legs good , 2 legs bad)

Song of the South is not banned by society- Disney is pretty embarrassed over that one. Disney is more than free to release it on home video, it just fears the backlash (the last time it was released in theaters was 1986- for marketing purposes.). Even at the time it was made, it was known to be potentially highly offensive. There were major protests when it was originally released in the 1940s.

The idea that we're sensitive to racism and 60 years ago nobody cared is illogical considering the roots of the civil rights movement.

 

[Shangas]

Much of this BANNED stuff was all over television as recently as the '70s. But the Yoo Toob generation has no awareness of anything that occured before about 1995, so as far as they're concerned, they're being bold rebels by bringing this stuff back to the surface. I hope they won't mind if I yawn.

70s? Try 90s. I grew up watching half the stuff on Saturday cartoons that are now supposedly "banned".

 

[Dragon Soldier]

Oh I dunno... Battleship Potemkin was banned for long enough in the UK, Clockwork Orange disappeared for a couple of decades and Visions Of Ecstasy was rather famously banned for being "blasphemous".

So it can certainly happen.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Oh I dunno... Battleship Potemkin was banned for long enough in the UK, Clockwork Orange disappeared for a couple of decades and Visions Of Ecstasy was rather famously banned for being "blasphemous".

So it can certainly happen.

I think "Banned" means different things in different parts of the world. In the US there's no actual legal mechanism in place for banning any book or movie -- the First Amendment prevents such censorship. The only mechanism for "banning" creative works comes from trade associations. In the Era, the Hays Code -- enforced by the Breen Office -- was a mechanism put in place by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association, to which all the reputable film companies belonged. A film without the MPPDA seal could not be distributed or exhibited by any Association member -- not by government law, but by the by-laws of the association. But the MPPDA code itself had no force of actual law, and couldn't be challenged in court because it had nothing to do with the Government.

Individual states and cities *did* have boards of censorship that could prohibit the exhibition of any picture they deemed offensive or contrary to public morality, but these had no Federal standing, and were essentially dismantled by the 1960s. These days about the only actual "banning" that exists is that done by school boards, and that has no force outside of a school room.

 

[jamespowers]

Oh I dunno... Battleship Potemkin was banned for long enough in the UK, Clockwork Orange disappeared for a couple of decades and Visions Of Ecstasy was rather famously banned for being "blasphemous".

So it can certainly happen.

I wish we could ban Clockwork Orange here.