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In the 80s it was a right of passage to camp out for days to get tickets to a concert. Today I’d rather eat gas station sushi than go out and wait in line for a tv or anything. Just order online or go without.

And honestly who doesn’t already have a tv? And kids don’t even watch tv (well, YouTube) except on phones these days!

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I remember the "Cabbage Patch" craze of Christmas of '83, remember when a B-29 bomber was supposed to fly out, take a picture of your Credit Card (you held it up to the sky-norden bomb site), and then 1 doll would be dropped from the WW II nuclear bomber.

Not that this was a feasible idea, but the fact that the stadium (Cincinnati?) actually had people in it.

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It's everywhere.... The hype. I made the mistake of going out on Friday (subconsciously thinking it was an online thing) to Boe, the out of town pre-fab shopping zone outside Agen (SW France)... The busiest I have ever seen it. Plastic tat a-gogo... I try hard to be a humanist but days like that...

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"As I rained down blows I thought there had to be a better way." - Frank Costanza

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frank costanza is always a welcome reference here

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I used to have a TV but then the cowboys lost even against the Texans and I just had to trash it 😀

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