They still make them! Check out jamsworld.com. I keep meaning to buy a pair because my family couldn't afford real ones in the '80s (only knock-offs from discount stores). Normally there's no way in hell I'd pay $60-80 for a single pair of shorts, but I want to do it now just to make…Â
@Teri I was nine when it aired, too, and I feel like I probably shouldn't have been allowed to watch it; I think I was a bit too young, plus I had a lot of anxiety already. It really terrorized me! Testament came out that same year and I was allowed to watch that, too. What a double…Â
I totally agree. I turned 25 in 1999 and even as a grown-ass adult I was burning a lot of CDs, both for myself and for friends. In fact, that was the exact year I got my first computer, so it was my first opportunity to burn CDs. Up until that point my only option was mix tapes. I…Â
It's definitely a Boomer and pre-Boomer thing. By the time we Gen Xers were ready to start buying houses in the '90s and beyond, the prices were no longer--by and large--easily affordable. However, my grandparents (Greatest Gen) and parents (dad: Silent Gen; mom: first-wave Boomer)…Â
Right? I thought, "$250 is ridiculously low!" I'm also asexual and personally I have NO interest in getting reproductive organs removed to feed cannibals, but if I did decide to do it for some reason, you can be damn sure I would charge more than $250 a plate!
@Didi, come on. @mostlyharmless42 didn't say that Americans have a long history of being absolutely useless, pointless, and awful. They talked about two specific things: our ridiculous gun laws and our ridiculous healthcare system. They are right!
Gun violence is bad here and while…Â
Twelve hours seems a bit long, given how simple the designs are. I cross stitch lyrics and embroider lyrics and 12 hours is probably about what I spend on a piece--and mine have more flourishes around the lyrics.
Wow, this really makes me wish my yearbook had included senior quotes. Then again, being the morose, disaffected teen that I was, I can only imagine what melodramatic dreck I would've offered up as my quote.
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