[pollystyrene]

I was amazed, though- my friend's 4-year-old knew what a record was- apparently they still use them at her preschool. We were talking about records and she said "I know what a record is!" We were skeptical and asked her what it looked like and she said it was black and round and flat and you put a needle on it to play it. We were pretty surprised.

It's so hard to get a good record player without spending a shitload of money- we bought a pretty crappy one for about $130 a couple of years ago, but to get a good one is like $300-$400 because at this point, the high-quality market is DJ's and we just can't afford that!

[mornington]

that's what I was takling about godslioness! Thos things crack me up... my friend has one and he uses it every now and again.

mind you, he strolls round london in a barbour and flat cap.

Hell, we had typing lessons at school. On typewriters... this was six years ago.

[venetia]

I couldn't fit one of those in my pocket, but I'd love an old bakelite one for my home phone. They were just so comfortable.

[margot]

Yay! I had one of those handsets for my mobile. It made a few people smile when my bag rang, and I pulled out a big handset.

[godslioness]

My friend had to take her 8 year old to the Imperial War Museum to show him what a typewriter was...

There was a minitrend in London for mobile phone ear/mouth pieces made out of old rotary-dial phone handpieces. You just plug them into your cell/mobile.

[pollystyrene]

Up until about 8 years ago, the phone my parents kept in their bedroom was an old black rotary phone. I think it still works and it's in their basement. And it's mine, all mine!

Speaking of ignorant whipper snappers, there's this obnoxious woman at work who's a couple of years older than me (she's like 29, I think) and I overheard someone else in the office reference W.C. Fields in a conversation and she said, "who's W.C. Fields?" Me and the 23-year-old who sits in front of me had to restrain our laughter.

[whammy_bar]

Thanks for the tip about IKEA because me and the boy have a ton of albums. Really cool ones like Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Wire, Sex Pistols, Jimi Hendrix, Stiff Little Fingers, Black Flag, the Raincoats, Patti Smith, everything of Bowie's, 80s HipHop and Dance Mixes, PiL, B-52s, Joy Division, Magazine, New York Dolls, Shangri-Las Velvet Underground and Led Zep

And 45s from the early 60s as well as the early 80s.

Yeah. Vinyl rules.

We have really CRAZY speakers with a big bass box.

After moving, i must say it's tempting to switch over to all MP3s

I would LURVE a rotary phone. All phones you buy to put on a table these days are cheap and ugly. Or even a cool original 70s pushbutton phone -- they used to make this bright yellow color that was so cool!! I bet that would cost a shitload of money now.

It was gorgeous and so well solidly made and heavy that if Naomi Campbell beat someone with it they would be dead.

[numbnuts]

I thought of something funny. Not only do I sometimes refer to new musical releases as albums, but I have been known to talk about how much "film" is left in my DIGITAL camera.

[missladyj]

nice one girlbomb!

[sixelacat]

They look at me like I'm crazy, anyway. I use my cell phone as a modem for my laptop so I can connect to the internet and download old radio shows from the 40's and 50's, then sync them to the memory card in my cell which also plays mp3s.

All so I can listen to Vincent Price as "The Saint" or "The Adventures of Philip Marlowe".

Which I used to listen to on vinyl back in the 70's.

[girlbomb_redux]

I used to a have a bit in my old stand-up act about younger men -- I'd pick out a kid in the audience and start flirting with him, saying, "What are you, twenty? You don't even know how to dial a rotary phone, do you?"

The punchline was, "I have abortions older than you."

[pepper]

oh, that's like having to get up to change the channel. the young'uns just look at you like you're crazy when you even suggest such a thing but they'll happily ransack the house looking for the remote for half an hour or more. so funny.

[missladyj]

I want a rotary princess phone. In pink.

I still say album and since hubby deejays we buy more vinyl that anything else. we have two turntables.( and a microphone, sorry just couldn't resist) And a wall of records literally a whole wall which would be lying on the floor if it wasn't for Ikea.

We also have a house rule that the guest gets to pick the album that we listen to. That way we get to hear shit we wouldn't normally play.

Margot, don't feel bad I had to explain to my students once that in order to play songs on a record, you had to actually turn it over. They were astounded.

[smurfin]

-- basking in the forgiving air all around --

[yuefie]

*sigh*

TG and Tyger have both made some very valid points. I am guilty as charged, of taking part in a territorial pissing contest.

But when you enter a place and step on toes, you do have to expect a certain amount of shit to come your way. But we all should stop encouraging retaliation by trolls by instigating them further.

And numbnuts, if you aren't really a troll, show us.

[margot]

Just after I had my baby, I was adjusting badly to motherhood, after thinking of myself as Miss Hotstuff, and feeling really old and frumpy.
I went into Woolworths to buy a single, and specifically wanted a record. So I asked for a 7 inch (This is the UK) and the 16 yr old employee said "A what?"
So I said "You know, a record, a single"
He said "A what?"
I said "VINYL"
And he said "I'm sorry, I don't understand you"
I felt bad about myself....

[auralpoison]

Dang! Ya'll make it sound like nobody makes records anymore! I have a nice turntable & am a regular consumer of the vinyl. Indie 7" & LPs abound. I mostly buy a lot of singles & I still buy Cds.

[numbnuts]

Well, Tyger, I understand and agree with pretty much everything you just said, except the stomping around, making threads like a four year old bit. To put it in perspective, I naively made ONE thread. I'll be the first to admit that forgetting that I posted the query about the automotive thread in the community forum and starting the thread after a negative response to said query (which I didn't read because I forgot about my initial post) looked really bad, but it was an honest mistake.

Anyway, I'll keep in mind what you said. At least someone is willing to give me the benefit of a doubt.

While I'm posting, I might as well address the conversation at hand. I'm too young to remember actual albums as well, but I often refer to new musical releases as albums, too. "Hey, did you catch the latest Christina Aguilera album?" It sounds funny, doesn't it?

[tyger]

i don't really use album. if it's a cd i say cd, tape i say tape, and for vinyl i say licorice pizza. i really need a working turntable, as i bought the cats soundtrack on impulse at a garage sale.

that, and please let's all stop the witch-hunt. numbnuts, i'm going to say this to you: don't play the victim anymore. i really don't think you're a troll, but you don't seem to have found the groove of the lounge, and yes, people did target you, but all you've done lately is prove them right, and make me re-think your troll status. so, i'll offer a suggestion: take a step back and lurk for a week or two, get to know the rythm of threads that interest you, and then decide if you want to contribute. not act like a four year old, not stomp around making threads just because you think we need them, but contribute.

can everyone please stop biting heads off and jumping on every. single. thing. that isn't done as we usually do it as either a troll or spam? for the most part there is no need to attack people, just guide them in the right direction. i don't like how vicious people seem to be getting right off the bat, it really makes me uncomfortable

[auralpoison]

I call 'em all records. I don't care if it's a CD or an album. I guess since I go to the record store, I always use record.