When my family goes out we usually have to put our phones away. It was my rule, but now I break my own rules and my kids have to tell me to put my phone away. I guess my kids are better than me now.
Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price
Submitted 12 hours ago by Edward@lemmy.4d2.org to [deleted]
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UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
“Here’s the $0.85 for the coffee, thanks!”
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Your welcome! Enjoy your styrofoam cup coffee from a deli that smells of Malboro cigarettes. The sugar has weird moving black things and milk has been left out for 3 days.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Remember playing pool in the 90s, I didn’t even smoke but I feel I will have copd.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I never understood why Starbucks became big in the US, but I always assumed it was something like that.
merari42@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
This sign goes hard in countries that belonged to former Yugoslavia.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
“Do u think y2k is gonna happen?,”
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I don’t know but I’ve been stockpiling canned food in my basement and I bought a portable toilet just in case.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
We Do Not Have ✨WiFi✨
Use The Hotspot On Your Phone Like A Normal Person
Or Get A Data Card For Your Laptop IDK Or Care
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
There’s a place near me that I don’t go to very often, and almost never if I’m alone. They have great food and it’s pretty cheap, but they don’t have WiFi.
That normally wouldn’t be a problem, because I rarely use any of my cell data, but it’s a super old building full of interference and I can only get cell signal if I happen to get one of the 3 seats within 10 foot of the front windows.
If I do go by myself, I get weird looks for bringing comic books or video games and just existing by myself, but there’s nothing else to do while waiting for food so…
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 53 minutes ago
Yeah, I think there’s about two games you can download to your phone that will run without an internet connection. Even fucking Balatro—what do you need internet for? People have paid for the game!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
except that in america at least lots of data plans somehow block you from using the hotspot function, i do not fathom how the fuck it’s possible but people keep talking about it so i have to assume it’s a real thing…
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 55 minutes ago
What? That’s… that’s insane
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 hours ago
Depending on the country, paying like it’s 1995 would be the best power move. Here’s, dunno, 100 francs? 5 marks?
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Oh yes. If you’re a Dutch soldier you even get free drinks, and it only costs your honor.
“Toast of shame” - Mladic and Karreman drinking together
Happy 30th anniversary. Cheers to the Dutch Army.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
what am I missing? why is the picture titled the toast of shame?
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 hours ago
A million lire for a coffe? What a steal
lena@gregtech.eu 2 hours ago
I saw this exact same sign in a restaurant in Newfoundland
hash@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
Cool. Lemme just paint the ceiling with my brains so I can approximate what it was like when I wasn’t around.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
GET OFF MY LAWN!
Just kidding. I’m a millennial. I don’t own a lawn.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Am i the only one who wishes this was common? Put your stupid phones away. How have we not matured enough to not be so addicted to little flashy lights.
ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe 4 hours ago
i guess i am getting old. but i really think it is sad, when a group goes to the restaurant/coffee/bar and everyone is staring at their individual screen
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
McDonald’s STILL has newspapers sitting in a rack next to the counter where I am. Growing up these places had magazines and newspapers available to read. People “back then” didn’t just randomly talk to strangers, they just kept themselves busy with other things.
Yes, there’s a problem with people not interacting physically anymore, but it’s not cause we have electronics, it’s cause people don’t have a place to go outside the home anymore. This is a problem with a lack of community centers and walk-able neighborhoods, not a problem with phones.
Lootboblin@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
and they just swipe around to see stuff that are 95% useless information. It’s addiction.
lime@feddit.nu 8 hours ago
who talked to random strangers at coffee shops even before phones?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I did this at multiple coffee shops I hung out at. This is how you met people. Also no one smokes anymore. That was also a big part of socialization.
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I spend most my time on the phone socializing anyway. I’m addicted to feeling connected with people I care about not “little flashy lights”. I’m not at coffee shops to meet people I’m there to change pace for a minute and reset before I move to another task. If I’m specifically with someone then sure I talk to them but usually I want to be anywhere else because coffee shops in Seattle are so loud I can’t hold a conversation
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah, and who said all these kids could be on my lawn???
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 hours ago
That stupid little flashy light? Do you think of tamagochis? Because my phone has access to all the knowlege on the planet.
simplejack@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Just page me.
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
what did coffee cost in 1995 ?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
That sign looks like it really blocks access to those refrigerators. is it even necessary to be so obnoxious about your lousy cheap lack of WiFi? Just have a little sign that says “no WiFi” if that is even really necessary, without being sarcastic about it.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I don’t know about you, buy I would probably go around the counter, instead of climbing over it and through a sign, if I needed to get to the fridges behind.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Oh that’s a counter lol. The perspective is weird here to me. Almost looks like a little bench or something.
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Do you think McDonald’s has the monopoly picks for the 1996 Olympic Dream team yet? There is no way they can be as good as last time right… Bird, Jordan, Magic, there wasn’t a bad player on the team!
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
The 1996 McDonalds Monopoly game was one of the games that the sweepstakes company fixed, right?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Former police officer stole the winning pieces for years, made $24 million for him/friends/family apparently. Was supposed to go on trial September 10 2001. The next day 9/11 happened and no one paid attention to what happened
EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Or just don’t be a broke bitch and get unlimited data, it’s not expensive 😅
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
How much are you paying for that?
EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
50 a month at MetroPCS, it’s not rocket science, and I’m not rich. I literally live on the streets.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
100$/month and a one time purchase of a 200$ wifi router
jimmux@programming.dev 12 hours ago
Gaaaaaay!
(Am I doing it right?)
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
No and that’s pretty fucking queer, buddy. /s
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah exactly. It’s not the real 1995 unless you can get called a slur for not hyperbolically performing your agab like it was a Tony award performance.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 11 hours ago
No
jimmux@programming.dev 10 hours ago
I guess you had to be there.
And happy to not still be there.
vga@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I once was in a lunch group where one of the people honestly asked the restaurant staff about wifi, standing almost next to this sign. The guy smugly pointed at the sign and said nothing.
It was cringy for everyone involved.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Is that Lighthouse Coffee?
hopesdead@startrek.website 11 hours ago
Back in January I went into a Bagel Me! and it looked like New York City from the 90s as depicted in tv and movie. Such a weird feeling.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 hours ago
If you put this passive agressive bullshit up ima gonna smoke indoors and pay 25c for my drink.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 4 hours ago
Maybe drink too much, assault a woman and call the bartender the f slur. Feeling cute.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
What the fuck is the f slur? Other than fuck