The lit old timers thread

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The old timers need to die and make room for us kids. You feel me?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

This. Plus, people were getting outted here quite a bit. It got to where you didn't know who to trust. If you knew people IRL, it was just safer to stick exclusively with things like Facebook.

Some of the most fun I've had here were getting trolls to believe they had "Found" me. Watching their joyful little hearts get crushed when they learned they'd been played was delightful.

It's the little things.

 

[Queersetti]

The old timers need to die and make room for us kids. You feel me?

Shouldn't you be out picketing or something?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

It's not third grade. They allow phones on the line.

 

[patient1]

One of them new-fangled private lines? Tone or pulse?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

One of them new-fangled private lines? Tone or pulse?

God you're old.

 

[thør]

Jesus was his kid.

 

[patient1]

Cheyenne says hello.

 

[pink]

When I was growing up, we shared a phoneline with 2 other houses

 

[patient1]

When I was growing up, we shared a phoneline with 2 other houses

I lived in a 2-houses to the line village, moved away when I was almost 8. Where you rural?

 

[Dionysian Beast]

I am still around. Sorta, kinda.

 

[patient1]

I am still around. Sorta, kinda.

Good to see you at our rolling revival. If you know anybody else we haven't seen in a long time, ask them to drop by!

 

[Dionysian Beast]

Good to see you at our rolling revival. If you know anybody else we haven't seen in a long time, ask them to drop by!

Thanks! Good to see you, as well.

I am in touch with a selected few, but I got the feeling that most are choosing to stay away I will definitely mention it, though.

 

[patient1]

Thanks, they are welcome to lurk a while to see if they want to put a toe in the pool, same as we all did before we originally joined. These days, the GB is not the worst or the best it's ever been, but it's on an improving part of the cycle.

 

[AchtungNight]

I’m an old timer who wrote stories once. More into the friendships these days, honestly. The real me is not the fantasy I was on here once. It could be, but… nah.

 

[pink]

I lived in a 2-houses to the line village, moved away when I was almost 8. Where you rural?

I was outside the city limits so yes.

 

[Plasmaball]

I was outside the city limits so yes.

Fucking Amish basically

 

[crazychemgirl]

One of them new-fangled private lines? Tone or pulse?

Omg … memories

 

[patient1]

I was making a sales call in a home near the turn of the century. What should I see but, an original Western Electric seafoam green princess phone! And yes, she was still leasing it from the Bell system. Lord knows how many times she paid for it, but they were built to last.

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

I was making a sales call in a home near the turn of the century. What should I see but, an original Western Electric seafoam green princess phone! And yes, she was still leasing it from the Bell system. Lord knows how many times she paid for it, but they were built to last.

Was it hard-wired too bro?

Stew

 

[Noor]

I was making a sales call in a home near the turn of the century. What should I see but, an original Western Electric seafoam green princess phone! And yes, she was still leasing it from the Bell system. Lord knows how many times she paid for it, but they were built to last.

I still have one for my landline, it’s beige, a repair guy gave it to so I wouldn’t kill him for using my sewing shears on wire, he also paid for new shears. All it took was the “ look”

 

[thør]

I still have one for my landline, it’s beige, a repair guy gave it to so I wouldn’t kill him for using my sewing shears on wire, he also paid for new shears. All it took was the “ look”

That would rate a 15 in the "relationship offenses" thread.

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

That would rate a 15 in the "relationship offenses" thread.

That's a silly thread. It makes it seem like all couples are still living in the 80's.

 

[With_David_Bowie]

Hey!

Good to see you. Well, American politics is more adversarial and polarized than it was at the turn of the century, and I think that was demonstrated in flame wars on the GB. I don't blame people for complaining about that, and making politics stand in the corner was a plausible, if not perfect solution.

As for who's an oldie, I don't go by year so much as if I recognize a name or an avatar. It's further complicated by posters who get banned and return under ALT names.

I dont actually know whether it is, but I've barely looked in 10 years, there was the mega anti bush and other, but 9/11 probably tamped that down.

I've been here more than half my life but barely looked in for years, however, I'm about to start a new thread destined to fade into nothing.

Great that you and the boss are still going well

 

[patient1]

Thanks. Cheyenne says "I'm supposed to be the boss? Interesting."