To me: “That’s creepy but useful, thank you.”
(Regarding Google Maps timeline)
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“My morality leaves my body when the villain is hot”
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“Bitcoin is not like Sanji.”
(One Piece character who later learns to stand/walk on air)
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“Now the homeless have their own sex nun”
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“Are we going to have to pull out the X card for doors now?”
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2300AD Bayern today:
(Considering the traditional odds of survival in the scout service)
“What, still alive after three missions, a clean upstanding lad like you?”
“He;s all wardrobe and no Narnia.”
“And therefore those plants might be psychic. Unless of course I’ve gone crazy.”
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(We are working for a shadowy government agency, looking into a company’s purchasing records.) “Oh, they use [SaaS provider]. We already have a back door into them. We didn’t have to ask for it, they’re just a bit rubbish.”
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“Sorry about the lack of trousers.”
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“Was it Wednesday today?”
“What do you mean ‘was it’ ?!”
“I mean, it’s nearly over… Has it been Wednesday?”
“It’s Wednesday.”
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“A chicken on the head is better than a sausage around the throat.”
PCs when musing on how to hide their food/rations when traveling to an area where food is scarce.
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“Technology is better than when I was a kid.” — my 11 year old.
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Museum announcement: “Starting in ten minutes, one of our volunteers will give a lecture on ‘Things You Didn’t Know About First World War Zeppelins’.”
Me, looking over at friend who knows significantly more about zeppelins than I do, and I know quite a bit: “I think that would be cruelty to volunteers. Let’s not.”
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I said that to two ambulance paramedics just the other day. They said “Oh not at all.” Nice ladies.
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“I’m still tempted to move to LA just so Eliza Dushku can feed me hallucinogens”
“Aren’t we all, though?”
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Not all pancakes are created equally.
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My 14-year-old niece was unable to comprehend the concept of telephones which did not belong to a specific person. She felt repulsed and anxious at the thought of calling a telephone number where any random parent or sibling might answer, instead of the friend she was trying to call. She thought we were making it up.
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I’ve heard the same thing from othe other young people. Have you told her about party lines? We had one as a kid, because my dad is cheap. It was four houses when I was very young, and then only two. For the last few years we were in that house, it was only us, but we had the distinctive ring, so it was still wired as a party line. I remember being excited when we moved, because we had Touch-Tone!
I have come to the conclusion that we gave up on landline phones too quickly. Sometimes, it’s very useful to be able to call a place, and not an individual.
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I don’t think anyone I knew in Iceland had party lines. In terms of telecommunications, at least. We may have been a lot more backward back then, but we did have cocaine back in the 80s, and still do.
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I feel exactly the same way, and always have. I’m 56.
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