“Sorry, I got to return this video”

“Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial”

“Do you have any quarters for a phone?”

“Bill Cosby really is America’s dad”

“Can I borrow that VHS?”

“Sorry, I can’t come. My favourite show is on”

“Do you know where a phone is?”

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    7 days ago

    Being a little literal, but I can guarantee someone has said 1, 3, 5, and 7 in the past twenty years. Heck, probably the last year.

    Payphones are still a thing in some places and get used - I started doing a thing involving them a yearish ago (it’s in my post history if anyone really cares). Literally had someone ask “Hey, are you done with that phone?” as I was jotting down its number, which was shocking. Can confirm where I am they still take coins (it’s 50 cents now, unless you’re calling a toll-free number).

    VHS is making a … come back isn’t really the right word, but there’s a small number of folks interested in what’s on old tapes they find and some hobbyists swap stuff. And there are still a few video rental places around (though really, really rare - or near places like campsites, catering to folks with cars that still have DVD players or households with spotty internet).

    It’s all still disappearing, no doubt, but not 100% dead yet.

  • ad_on_is@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    Can you turn the antenna to ___ insert satellite name ___ ?

    For context

    where I grew up, almost every immigrant houshold had a satellite antenna, to watch channels across the world. Since my parents were immigrants, we had to turn the antenna each time we wanted to watch either local news or news from our country of origin.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 days ago

      “Antenna”? Don’t you mean “dish”?

      Yes I know that dish antennas are antennas, but I’ve never heard of anyone calling them just “antennas”.

      • ad_on_is@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        yeah… dish … thank you …

        English isn’t my first language, and I never used that word in a sentence to remember it.

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
    511·
    9 days ago

    Nobody referred to videos as “VHS” unless they were explicitly trying to distinguish the medium from betamax. They just called them “videos” and “tapes” or “videotape.”

    for example: Hey can I borrow that tape?

    That movie just came out on video.

    Be kind, rewind your videotape.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      I was born in the late 80’s by the time Betamax had died out so VHS was the de facto only video tape format in wide use, Hi-8 existed but was only used in the airlines despite being smaller and better. So movie previews would talk about “Coming soon to own on video” or people would say “I’ve got it on tape.” It would feel weirdly early 80’s to specify…until late in the DVD era and into blu-ray when VHS was a truly dead format and people started calling it that again.

      Similarly, I never heard anyone pronounce “SNES” as a one letter word until at least the Gamecube era; it was the Super Nintendo at the time.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 days ago

        I was growing up when the SNES came out. I was a rare person that had an NES and I knew of no one with both an NES and SNES so most people I knew called the SNES “Nintendo”.

        After the game cube was absolutely when “S’ness” became popular.

    • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      Conversely, I still sometimes refer to DVDs, Blu Rays and even streaming media as “videos”.

      Which is both anachronistic, but also technically correct.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
      26·
      9 days ago

      I ironically said that when I was working for IBM.

      They don’t actually fire, they do “performance improvement plans”.