You know you are getting old when:

[Zombie_61]

B-E-E-R-S-N-A-C-K-S !!

Monday to Friday, every day fresh!!

JUST A DOLLAR!!
Hop in and have a hearty snack!



Too cheesy, too old-fashioned, too low price??

I read recently that there are businesses here in the U.S. that are petitioning the U.S. Government to eliminate the use of coins in U.S. territories around the world, and that some politicians are taking it farther and want to eliminate dollar bills, which would make the five dollar bill the lowest denomination. I don't know how feasible it would be to eliminate dollar bills, but I could do without having to make smaller change.

That said, yes, I think a dollar would be too low a price, and you'd be broke within a few months unless you started with a gazillion dollars.

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Learning the local code was the first order of business when a committed drinker found himself in unfamiliar territory.

The liquor laws in Washington state have loosened quite a bit from where they were when I moved there, in 1968. Back then a person could get a drink on Sundays, but only when it was accompanied by a “meal.” So many a bar kept these cellophane-wrapped hotdogs and hamburgers and such (you’d have to be hungry) in a cooler and tossed them in a countertop oven (we’re talking pre-microwave oven times) so that the customer could drink his fill and neither he nor the business would be in violation. It’s doubtful the bar broke even on the “meals,” but the sale of booze more than made up for it.

And then there were the changing food-to-booze sales ratios. Licensed liquor servers by law procured their inventory from the state Liquor Control Board, so the state knew how much booze they were selling, making it difficult for the bar to cheat on that end of the equation. I’m familiar with a bar owner who drove to another state, one with warehouse liquor stores selling to the public, and loaded up a truck with cases of hooch. Once back home that out-of-state liquor was poured into empty bottles bearing the Washington state seal.

I believe the statute of limitations has long passed, but I still ain’t naming names.

Up until about five years ago alcohol sales were prohibited on Sundays here in Indiana. Now you can purchase from noon to 8pm. (Still only water for Jesus to transform in the morning.) And up until July 1 of this year Happy Hour was prohibited as well. Every restaurant with a liquor license is now offering food and drink specials, sadly which I've yet to partake in.

The latest debate about loosening restrictions centers around designated outside contained areas for open container. A favorite local taproom has outside patio seating which I like to partake in especially when the weather is nice. They also service the biergarten near the riverfront directly across the (minor) street that is owned by the city and maintained by the parks and rec department. But it's illegal to carry your drink between the two.

 

[GHT]

You know that you are getting old when you look at current music and haven't the foggiest idea who anyone is in the top one hundred!

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

I know what you mean. To me, a "new" band is Dave Matthews or Counting Crows, both formed in 1991! While I can't possibly have avoided knowing who Taylor Swift is, I can honestly say I don't remember ever hearing one of her tunes.

 

[tonyb]

… While I can't possibly have avoided knowing who Taylor Swift is, I can honestly say I don't remember ever hearing one of her tunes.

You and I are among the millions who could make that very observation. I may have heard a Taylor Swift recording, but I couldn’t say where or when or what it was.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Apocalypse Now is now a 45 year old movie.

 

[Zombie_61]

You know that you are getting old when you look at current music and haven't the foggiest idea who anyone is in the top one hundred!

I've heard some of that horrid "current music" in the "Top 100"; I don't WANT to know who any of them are.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Lemon cake, Grandma style, is not very common these days, right?

 

[Trenchfriend]

Bento Boxes??

Okaaay...

 

[GHT]

The first time that I heard the term: "app," was on the radio. The broadcaster was using it as though everyone knew what he was on about. Years later I am still none the wiser.

Thankfully I spent a childhood outside, filled with imagination whilst collecting bruises. Having a personal phone that I would spend hours staring out was totally science fiction.

 

[Trenchfriend]

And I have no clue, why a "(computer) program" hast to be named "app(lication)", these days...

 

[tonyb]

We sure did adopt that stuff, though, in part because we kinda had to, provided we wished to more fully participate in the economy.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

And I have no clue, why a "(computer) program" hast to be named "app(lication)", these days...

There all all kinds of computer programs. Ones that are intended for use by the public are application programs.
Web browsers, word processors, spreadsheets are some examples of these.

There are others that keep the wheels on that don't have snappy names. Programs that test systems, programs that run databases, programs that undergird the artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT are some examples. These are rarely called "apps" or "applications". They are the, well, it's hard to work up a simile based on the physical world, but if I could come up with one, they would be like that.

 

[GHT]

There all all kinds of computer programs. Ones that are intended for use by the public are application programs.
Web browsers, word processors, spreadsheets are some examples of these.

There are others that keep the wheels on that don't have snappy names. Programs that test systems, programs that run databases, programs that undergird the artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT are some examples. These are rarely called "apps" or "applications". They are the, well, it's hard to work up a simile based on the physical world, but if I could come up with one, they would be like that.

If I had been lucky enough to have had a lecturer in physics that explained the science of computer programming with the same eloquence of your post, maybe the subject might just be of interest to me.

Teaching, as Edward will attest, is a skilful art. My interest in literature and love of Shakespeare, only came about through the talented teaching, in the subject, by a teacher to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.

 

[Trenchfriend]

like ChatGPT

People often mention this in daily life.
But luckily I'm 40.

So, the question is: "Should I have this in my life?".

 

[Trenchfriend]

My first DSLR is now 17 years old, so I'm now...

 

[Zombie_61]

Lemon cake, Grandma style, is not very common these days, right?

I think it depends on whose "Grandma" baked it.

 

[Trenchfriend]

A simple question to the older:

In Germany, the stores offer Chinos in slim-fit, tapered-fit, regular-fit and relaxed-fit. Were the authentic Chinos in the older days matching the regular-fit or the extra roomy relaxed-fit?

When I see pics on the net, the old-days Chinos look kind of extra roomy, right?

 

[Edward]

I read recently that there are businesses here in the U.S. that are petitioning the U.S. Government to eliminate the use of coins in U.S. territories around the world, and that some politicians are taking it farther and want to eliminate dollar bills, which would make the five dollar bill the lowest denomination. I don't know how feasible it would be to eliminate dollar bills, but I could do without having to make smaller change.

That said, yes, I think a dollar would be too low a price, and you'd be broke within a few months unless you started with a gazillion dollars.

I remember in the eighties our German teacher telling us about parts of Germany he'd visited where instead of small coinage (this long pre the Euro), if you were owed a few pennies in change you'd be given a small bag of sweets or a book of matches or something similar. It'd be fascinating if something like that arose as essentially a barter economy. I know this discussion is happening in the UK, and I suspect the most likely outcome will be all coinage below five pence will be dropped. I remember the half-penny coin being dropped in 1984. It'll be the same. I expect then we'll see a lot of default pricing at X.95 instead of x.99. (a system originally developed to keep the staff honest, because they had to open the till to get change and couldn't just pocket the full x.00).

I know what you mean. To me, a "new" band is Dave Matthews or Counting Crows, both formed in 1991! While I can't possibly have avoided knowing who Taylor Swift is, I can honestly say I don't remember ever hearing one of her tunes.

I think part of it is inevitably we lose interest in things for which we are no longer the target market, but I also believe these days the market is just so much more fragmented. When we had three TV channels over here, people as likely as not largely saw or were at least aware of the same stuff. Now we have over forty free to air channels, endless subscription options, and at least ten major streaming platform options, all with their own exclusives. Same for specialist radio stations, and the web more broadly. Inevitably, nothing has the potential reach it once might have done.

It does, though, show just how huge Taylor Swift is that we've even heard of her, despite all that!

A simple question to the older:

In Germany, the stores offer Chinos in slim-fit, tapered-fit, regular-fit and relaxed-fit. Were the authentic Chinos in the older days matching the regular-fit or the extra roomy relaxed-fit?

When I see pics on the net, the old-days Chinos look kind of extra roomy, right?

Trousers have varied between very slim and very wide with the vagaries of fashion ever since trousers have been a thing. In my lifetime, mainstream fashion has gone from favouring wider trousers in the 70s, to drainpipes in the early eighties, back to wider in the late 80s and into the 90s, 00s, and then somewhere in the 2010s the skinny fit came back. Unfortunately even in eras when the wider leg has been in fashion ,certainly much after 1999, mainstream fashion has still insisted on a waistband between two and four inches south of the natural waist. Uncomfortable and looks ridiculous. It's a rare pair of trousers I've been able to buy in a bricks and mortar store for that reason these last twenty years.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I've never understood the theory behind low-rise pants on men. If a man is slim-and-trim, a low waistline makes him look like he's about to tip over with his long torso and stumpy legs. If a man is of substance, the waistline rides below his avoirdupois and only serves to draw attention to it.

And if he wears low-rise shorts and a t-shirt he walks the streets looking like Charlie Brown.