0 I have 0 points 👴
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.
1 reporting in 👨🦳
What’s the thing you’ve never done?
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.
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
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.
Only one for me was blockbuster. I was more of a Rogers video child, I’m not sure we even had a blockbuster near us.
Young Matt Damon fades into old Matt Damon.
Same and I’m not even 30 ^^`
Same what a feel bad meme.
Zero points.
No wonder. You have a 26 day old account. Welcome to the world, babyface.
Edit: I can see why this can be seen as poor taste. Wasn’t trying to be mean. Obviously account age != actual age. Was making it in jest.
You also have it the wrong way around. It’s a point for everything you have not done.
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1 because despite being born in the early 80s, paper checks are for old people and Americans
I considered claiming this point, but I used traveler cheques once, so um not sure
There’s also bank cheques.
I had to start paying my rent by check again landlord trying to dodge taxes by cashing checks instead of depositing them.
Millennial with a big fat 0 over here
My only point was I never listened to a boom box outside.
Mine might be that we didn’t own an encyclopedia; I can’t remember if we did or not. But… I think we did.
My parents bought a set of Encyclopedias, they didn’t get much use tbh. Took up whole shelf on this antique cabinet they had.
You an elder millennial by chance?
2 points cause we lived a couple blocks from the library so we never felt the need to own a dictionary or encyclopedia. Though really like 1.5 since my sister did have a CD from world book program that was like an encyclopedia for kids
A perfect zero. I have done all of those things and more that the creator of that list can’t even imagine. Things that were everyday common but have faded beyond memory, (and aren’t missed at all).
Zeeeero!
Same, seems like these are all from the 70s/80s/90s era basically.
I’m with you there! So surprised at people being proud of having any points.
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0 :( one of my guitar amps I hacked together out of a Walkman so I could practice while waiting for the bus how many negative points do I get
3 points. 90s kid. The early 2000s still had remnants of a lot of this stuff.
3 for me too , late 90s baby. We had lotf of this stuff around in 2000s in europe (except blockbuster but i substituted it for local rental store)
I am proudly batting zero.
Older Gen X’er here.
This list was basically a Tuesday for me back in the day.
I get zero points. Elder millennials rally at the landline we’ll have two drinks and fall asleep at 10pm!
- Sent or received a fax
You clearly do not live in Germany
I got zero.
Yes I’m old. On the plus side I still have my family commadore 64 from 1982.
So wish I still had my VIC-20 and 64.
My town had a family video, not a blockbuster.
My town had a “Video Tonight” and we were allowed one rental per week, leading to the following regular exchange:
“Want to go to Video Tonight?”
“No, I’d rather wait until tomorrow.”
Yep, 19 points here, never stepped foot inside Blockbuster
1 point. Never used a boombox. And yes, I have written a check at a store while people waited in line behind me. Their cold angry stares still haunt me.
All that and never had a ghetto blaster?! Hah, that’s a weird experience.
