• SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    The picture is on my phone.

    It is the picture of a bunch of sweaty dudes. They are in a dorm room, in 2002.

    In twelve seconds time, I drop the phone to the floor at my feet, a clumsy old fool.

    It’s already lying there, twelve seconds into the future.

    Ten seconds now.

    The phone is in my hand.

    I found the picture in my photo archive, twenty-seven minutes ago.

    It’s still there, twenty-seven minutes into the past, in a folder, unopened for the last two decades.

    I’m still there, looking at it.

    The picture is on my phone. Twelve boys have set up two televisions and Xboxes in a 10x12 room. Halo: Combat Evolved is paused.

    Seven seconds now.

    It’s December, 2024. I’m on the toilet.

    It’s July, 2002. I’m in New Jersey, in my dorm room.

    Four seconds, three.

    I’m tired of sitting on the toilet now.

    I stand up.

    The phone falls to the floor at my feet.

    I am going to take pictures of the stars. They are so far away. And their light takes so long to reach us… All we ever see of stars are their old photohraphs.

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        11 hours ago

        Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Ligma Balls.

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          A common mistake. You’re thinking of Steven Peter Jobs, known for his cable knit sweaters .

          Steven Paul Jobs gained his fortune from his family’s Dragon Foods company. While they made small gains in the industry through the nineties, that nearly lost everything through poor financial management during the dot com bust. Fortunately a strategic merger with the “Dee’s” family snack brand bought them some time.

          True success would come ironically, through an ad-lib moment on Brooklyn Nine Nine. After multiple takes, Terry Crews threw a snack bag of mixed nuts at Andy Samberg, yelling “That’s what you get! Dragon-Dee’s nuts, right across your face!”

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      17 hours ago

      The picture is on my phone. Twelve boys have set up two televisions and Xboxes in a 10x12 room. Halo: Combat Evolved is paused.

      Whenever I see old LAN Party photos like that, all I can think about is how awful those rooms must have smelt like, and the electricity bill.

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        14 hours ago

        I like it. My living room walls are pretty much salmon, but the shitty carpet is light brown. If we ever get to buy a place I’ll see how much my wife will put up with. But we both love art Deco and 70s shit so it’ll probably be a beautiful disaster.

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        18 hours ago

        My inlaws still have the fake wood paneling in their house. It’s by choice.

        My own grandparents removed it from their house in the 80s.

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        15 hours ago

        Only after watching Fear and Loathing…

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    20 hours ago

    Excuse me I was a cool 16yr old in 2000 so I was busy smoking weed and being way more sexually promiscuous than I realized at the time

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    “yeah you know the pizzas are hot and ready right? like you just walk in”

    a conversation my dad had many times before they started just going “okay got it. one supreme. one cheese. one pepperoni. we should have that ready in about 20 minutes” (we lived 20 minutes from the store)

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      22 hours ago

      Did your dad ever hang up the phone and say something like “you just have to know how to talk to them.” to you?

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    23 hours ago

    And if you went to pick up the pizza, you could say “pizza pizza” to the cashier and they’d give you a toy.

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      22 hours ago

      Pizza Hut was the Bigfoot. Little Caesars was the two pizzas deal (hence “pizza pizza”). Both were on cardboard trays and wrapped in paper, though.

      We always did the Bigfoot because we could only get delivery from Pizza Hut and were too young to drive. $12 including tip!

      https://youtu.be/KOF8YB56BnQ

      EDIT: Maybe you were thinking of “Pizza by the foot” from LC? I forgot about that one.

      https://youtu.be/Ny_LUq7BBJc

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        22 hours ago

        Meh just mixed up Bigfoot and LC’s Big Big Cheese. Nothing for you to get worked up about. Thanks for the research. ᕕ( ᐛ)ᕗ