Also, the days of toll calls are over, at least for most of us.
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Only 7 ?, you guys are lucky, we have to use 10, we have to dial area code even if weāre calling the same area code.
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I forgot about calling the next city over (same county) and it being long distanceā¦ lol
That didnāt happen here fully in the Nashville area until around 2015 on our work phones (615) we went to 10 digit even if using the same area code due to the new 629 area code in the same area, cell phones started making us use 10 digits about the same time, maybe for the same reason (I donāt know), maybe a nationwide thing for the cells, and no idea about house phones, hadnāt used one in almost 20 yearsā¦
But looks like up until August 2025 you only needed 7 digits in some parts of TNā¦
Weāve been that way in NH for a few years now. And NH only has one Area-code (603).
What do you consider the āgood ol daysā as far as music is concerned?
For me, thatās 1970s music . . . lots of good stuff across various genres, as far as Iām concerned
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Your body doesnāt know the difference between fructose, glucose, and sucrose. If youāre not lactose intolerant, the same goes for it. Where your health is concerned, sugar is sugar.
Your taste buds might notice though. I hear Mexican Coca Cola, made with cane sugar, tastes a lot better than American Coca Cola, made with high fructose corn syrup.
See https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/are-certain-types-of-sugars-healthier-than-others-2019052916699
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I have CRT televisions, they are not plugged in. I might connect one to my VCR, but I donāt feel the āgood-old-daysā enjoyment from CRT TVs or monitors.
Do they pour corn syrup on hamburgers now? Chicken? Baked potato? Deli sandwiches?
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Iāll second that emotion. On volume scale of 1 to 10, Godzilla MUST be played at 15. Or more! Still, I like new music a lot. My favorite radio station plays adult progressive music (mostly), but I can can hear oldies too. Yes, they do occasionally play Blue Oyster Cult. And Hendrix. And the Kinks. And so onā¦.
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Great music = music I grew up with
Once my dad, complaining about rock, said āThereās only so many ways to put notes together, and all the good ways have been done.ā Right, pops. He did love his Benny Goodman.
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Iām with you there! So we do agree on something.
Bobo, Nev:
If this forum allows links, please watch or listen to the following, it was eye-openng for me:
The title of the video is āWhy 1970s fast food didnāt make people fat" in case you need to look it up on YouTube. And notice there is one item on that meal tray that definitely helped, women especially, with the thin aspect of itā¦.
To everyone: I tried using āCopy Quoteā but when I got down to the bottom and my reply, there was no āInsert allā or āpaste allā. Sorry if it looks like my replies are all aimed at one participant! 
Boy was your pops ever right: Have you noticed, the last 10 years or so, how many lawsuits by legacy artists against recent artists about similarities between the older song and something just released?
A classic example, and I hope the Community will not censor his name: Gaye Estate vs. Robin Thicke (alleged similarities between Marvinās āGot To Give It Upā and Thickeās āBlurred Linesā). The Gaye Estate won, based not on similarities, but on āhow the song made one feel when listening to it.ā That verdict contributed to my loss of faith in our judicial system, because not everyone will react to hearing a song the same way! Thatās a fundamentally intrinsic value, and cannot be quantified, in dollars or by any other measure.
I sincerely believe that, as time goes on, we are running out of ways to combine the finite quantity of notes in the musical scale, and that is why suits like this are occurring more often.
I feel the same way about Kashmir ā¦. And Cat Scratch Fever.
Been reconnecting with progressive rock lately on Prime music.. Yes, David Gilmore, Rush, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Alan Parsons and more.
I watched the first two minutes: people are eating too much. Ordering large hamburgers, large side orders and soft drinks that contain sugar or corn syrup. I didnāt make those mistakes in the 1970ās and I donāt eat that way today.
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Well, the video seems to imply that the larger quantities were more likely foisted by corporate upon the public, than demanded by the public.
And I will always believe that High-Fructose is the ānuclearā version of plain olā table sugar.
The same logic explains why Rick bought a Chevrolet Tahoe instead of a fuel-efficient car. Rick used to drive a Prius. General Motors is to blame.
Do you believe, on the food side of that debate, that the public, from letās say 1990 forward, really wanted 20+ oz. drinks with their fast food instead of 12-14oz? Or wanted three burger patties instead of one, plus bacon, in their Quarter Pounder?
Were surveys conducted prior to rolling out such super-sized products?
People are weak and submit to temptation. They donāt need a double hamburger or a quart of sugar water.
Similar feelings lead people to buy a 7-passenger vehicle after having a child just to have sufficient room for a stroller. It is possible and more economical to get by with a mid-sized sedan.
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Nevada:
One of my elective courses in university was Marketing 201, in my senior year. And nearly thirty years later, the one phrase that sticks in my mind from that course is ācreated/creating needsā as a function of a marketing department.
Your statements above speak both to what we studied in that course long ago, and to my words about corporate, one post above yours.
Iāve driven a silverado before the Caprice. I still have it however the tin worm is ravaging it.
Everyone does what they want so I will drive what I want. Its not like me saving resources will make a difference in the big picture. I have given up. 2012 Rick and post 2016 Rick are two different people with different ideologies.
I have decided that I want to drive a RWD V8 and the closes thing to a caprice I could find is the tahoe.
I may try to get another caprice to add toy fleet but the Tahoe fell in my lap. I love RWD V8 torque and power.
I loved the prius but it was the most unlucky car I have ever had. It was constantly getting damaged by mother nature, freak accidents and enraged rednecks purposefully damaging it. It was damaging my mental health trying to drive it and not having an issue.
If I lived in a neighborhood with mainly domestic sedans and utilities in every driveway, Old Glory on a pole in every other front yard, and I replaced my domestic with a Prius or any other import, especially Japanese, I know that Iād be taking my chances, and would have to accept the possible consequences.
Iām sorry you had to learn that, but even more sorry for those that had a problem with your import.
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