0 point gang rise up.
But don’t rise too quickly. I know our backs don’t like that.
0 I have 0 points 👴
Right there with ya.
Yuuuup.
Same and some of these things I’ve done in the last couple years.
Done them all and I see 4 that still apply today.
1 reporting in 👨🦳
What’s the thing you’ve never done?
I’m at 1 as well for never owning an encyclopedia. I’m actually surprised how many have. I used the ones at the library. I’m assuming this means the physical book kind, and not a digital one like Encarta or something.
I’d count digital ones as well.
That’s how I didn’t get the point since none of my leatherback encyclopedias is a complete set (yay backyard sales).
Like a getting movies in a public library can count as renting at Blockbusters imho?
I wouldn’t think so on the movie thing. I think it would have to be a video rental store, although not necessarily specifically named Blockbuster. Technically I still “rent” movies at my library through their Kanopy streaming service, but I don’t think that’s in the spirit of the list.
Yeah I was thinking about renting physical copies not streaming.
Only one for me was blockbuster. I was more of a Rogers video child, I’m not sure we even had a blockbuster near us.
Recorded music from radio to cassette
Yeah this one is pretty niche nowadays.
I did it for my nephews because I found it funny to give them time capsules of what kind of music was broadcasted when they were born. And cassettes are a good medium for long time storage :p
Pay with a check.
Where I’m from (France) this is how you pay deposits for rentals.
We also have “bank cheques” for big expenses like houses.
Paying with cheques in regular shops is getting rarer, often requires providing two ID, and gets you weird looks. Debit cards have mostly replaced that usage.
We don’t really have credit cards afaik.
Zero as well. Damn we’re old 👴
Young Matt Damon fades into old Matt Damon.
Same and I’m not even 30 ^^`
Same what a feel bad meme.
3 points. 90s kid. The early 2000s still had remnants of a lot of this stuff.
Zero points.
This is basically a “are you old” questionaire.
Older Gen X’er here.
This list was basically a Tuesday for me back in the day.
I get zero points. Elder millennials rally at the landline we’ll have two drinks and fall asleep at 10pm!
Big fat zero for me.
1, We never had blockbuster in NL. But 0 if any other VHS rental store counts.
I even have an old rotary phone on my desk.
A perfect zero. I have done all of those things and more that the creator of that list can’t even imagine. Things that were everyday common but have faded beyond memory, (and aren’t missed at all).
0; am old. What’s funny is that it’s 2025 and anyone trying to get internet in Japan with one of the only two fiber providers (NTT) still has to send a fax to set it up.
I am reporting this post.
…. 0 points…. 🙂
Hello old friend
Yeah, the hurts-to-get-out-of-bed is real.
1 because despite being born in the early 80s, paper checks are for old people and Americans
1 Point, we don’t use cheques in Germany. Maybe 2 points, but I’d count my local Videotheque as the equivalent of the “Blockbuster” video chain.
3, same with the cheques in Germany
There was a time when people used cheques in Germany. I remember my father using them ages ago
I’m exactly the same, only i’m from the Netherlands
Actually… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocheque
(I never used one, but remember my parents paying with it at the supermarket)
Still nothing compared to how it’s used in the US.
I’ve never seen a cheque in my entire life and it’s so incredibly niche that you might as well talk about paying with stocks or gold bars.
I write an average of about 3 checks per month, even now.
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