Kid told me that he just watched “some crazy old movie” about how a kid hacked into NORAD.

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    10 months ago

    I swear my kid thinks we were all hand starting our Ford Model-Ts before 2012 (his birthday).

    Kinda like I perceive the 70s I guess. The dark ages, the before time before I existed.

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      10 months ago

      Completely off topic to the thread, but you just reminded me of a time I snuck onto a movie set and got to actually do that. I posed as a driver for the car company and got to start/drive one of those bad boys with the hand crank. Inside was all switches too which was wild. The most uncomfortable ride of my life.

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      10 months ago

      My kids are convinced that we didn’t have cars when I was a kid. I was explaining to them what the before GPS times were like.

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      10 months ago

      I remember time before time existed, on cold winter mornings we’d gather around in front of our Model T and turned that crank just below the grill.
      Back then we also had to crank-watch television in black and white, uphill, backwards both ways, during snowstorms… just to get to bed.