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[therealdope]

Unless you were gen x, fossils(and watches in general) were gay af.

And the funny part is that we Gen-Xers are turning into fossils ourselves now.

I took my family for a vacation to the mountains in early August and we stayed in the same ski village where I once lived a classic directionless (mostly unemployed) Gen-X existance, working McJobs and sticking to the "man" (baby boomers) by never giving them the extra ketchup packs they requested.

Walk down memory lane.

 

[faustian]

Look at me

Spoiler

 

[faustian]

working McJobs and sticking to the "man" (baby boomers) by never giving them the extra ketchup packs they requested.

 

[therealdope]

First thing I've done with every car I've owned is upgrade the speakers and put in an amp. But I don't go over the top and also don't put in woofers. I just usually hate the stock speakers, which always get shitty after 6 months and the car is where I listen to music the most.

When was the last time you bought a car? I find that the audio in the last couple of cars I had was more than adequate, without upgrading to the 10 speaker premium audio.

 

[therealdope]

Dude, this book described just about every single person I interacted with during that time.

Now all of the ''working kids' in the ski village are snow boarders/skate borders which only described about 50% of us back when I lived there - LOL.

 

[faustian]

"never giving them the extra ketchup packs they requested."

 

[faustian]

This is my shtick and I'm sticking to it

 

[therealdope]

"never giving them the extra ketchup packs they requested."

In the days of the internet before web browsers, we had something called NetNews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol), which was comprised of news groups that you would subscribe to. They were an early form of message boards and not anonymous (your email was attached to posts).

The "don't give baby boomers the extra ketchup they ordered with their fries" came from a news group called soc.culture.gen-x and a thread: 'ten ways to stick it to baby boomers' --- a self-deprecating comment on how baby boomers screwed their kids.

BTW - google still maintains netnews news groups: https://groups.google.com, a remnant of how the internet worked before web browsers brought the internet to the masses.

 

[Poon Goon]

Unless you were gen x, fossils(and watches in general) were gay af.

Nah. Millennial generation is being born from 81-97. I am at the oldest end of that spectrum. Watches were still cool in middle and high school where I am from.

 

[RR]

Just checking in now that things have calmed down a little. Family is safe. Appreciate all the well wishes, prayers, pm's, texts, ect...House did flood like the vast majority of Houston. Anyways just letting you guys know what's up.

 

[iwhoopedbatman]

When was the last time you bought a car? I find that the audio in the last couple of cars I had was more than adequate, without upgrading to the 10 speaker premium audio.

We got our last car probably a little under 4 years ago now. I don't put in extra speakers. I just replace the (stock) ones that come with the car. Those cheapo paper speakers always start popping eventually, although I've never bothered taking the upgrade option from the dealer because I know it'll be cheaper to go to my friend's shop. TBF, it's possible it was unnecessary on my wife's car (most recent purchase), but I just did it for her to be nice as soon as we got it.

 

[iwhoopedbatman]

Just checking in now that things have calmed down a little. Family is safe. Appreciate all the well wishes, prayers, pm's, texts, ect...House did flood like the vast majority of Houston. Anyways just letting you guys know what's up.

Glad to hear you're all ok. Sorry to hear about the house, but that's far less important.

 

[RR]

Glad to hear you're all ok. Sorry to hear about the house, but that's far less important.

Appreciate it and completely agree. There's so many people who literally have lost everything it's impossible to feel bad about something as trivial as being inconvenienced by some flooding that our insurance will fix.

 

[PUO3]

When was the last time you bought a car? I find that the audio in the last couple of cars I had was more than adequate, without upgrading to the 10 speaker premium audio.

I stopped doing car audio because of how much better factory systems have become. The integration and technology/quality is widely better than aftermarket equipment.

Sound is not the same, but a premium system today is good enough that 95% of people would never upgrade it anyway.

 

[therealdope]

I stopped doing car audio because of how much better factory systems have become. The integration and technology/quality is widely better than aftermarket equipment.

Sound is not the same, but a premium system today is good enough that 95% of people would never upgrade it anyway.

I agree completely.

The new stuff that comes from the factory in cars is nothing like the crap that was in my '76 Lincoln "Quadrophonic Sound" - LMAO. BTW, if you route an OEM 8-track into a $3,000 Alpine audio system, it still sounds like crap.

 

[xcvbn]

Nah. Millennial generation is being born from 81-97. I am at the oldest end of that spectrum. Watches were still cool in middle and high school where I am from.

My oldest brother was '81 and a fossil wearer as well, I still give him shit for being that fgt. At least he didn't wear the Hawaiian necklace though- you?

 

[Revolver]

I stopped doing car audio because of how much better factory systems have become. The integration and technology/quality is widely better than aftermarket equipment.

Sound is not the same, but a premium system today is good enough that 95% of people would never upgrade it anyway.

This. Do people still bump loud music in their cars these days?

 

[PUO3]

This. Do people still bump loud music in their cars these days?

Not like it used to be. Still get a lot of younger people wanting to add some bass, but its definitely changed. Integration has overtaken blowing your ear drums out.

The only thing that really drives sound business still is boats.

 

[therealdope]

Not like it used to be. Still get a lot of younger people wanting to add some bass, but its definitely changed. Integration has overtaken blowing your ear drums out.

This^^^.

It's nothing like it used to be when you would hear some asshole from 2 miles away (low frequencies diffracting more than high frequencies).

 

[MarkyMcFly]

Not like it used to be. Still get a lot of younger people wanting to add some bass, but its definitely changed. Integration has overtaken blowing your ear drums out.

The only thing that really drives sound business still is boats.

Some of the sound systems on motorcycles these days is mind blowing.