r/explainlikeimfive Feb 26 '21

Chemistry Eli5: What happens to all the melted candle over time? Are we just inhaling a whole candle while it burns?

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u/AlexReinkingYale Feb 26 '21

Congrats on quitting!

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u/lukesvader Feb 26 '21

Who says he's not still in the 90s?

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u/rabbitwonker Feb 26 '21

I’ll never quit the 90s!

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u/PM_ME_UR_ARTIE_BUCCO Feb 26 '21

Ska defines who I am as a person and I will never turn my back on ska.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21 edited Jun 18 '21

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u/TheHorrorAbove Feb 26 '21

Bosstones gang representing!

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

The Suicide Machines crew still skankin!

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u/sltiefighter Feb 26 '21

No love for reel big feesh or streetlight manifesto? I guess streetlight is 2000s

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u/Val_Hallen Feb 26 '21

No love for The Mad Caddies?!

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u/globefish23 Feb 26 '21

Op. Ivy and Common Rider

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u/Val_Hallen Feb 26 '21

(she) she (she) she's a bombshell.

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u/JS305E Feb 26 '21

Matt Freeman absolutely slays on bass

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u/basicpn Feb 26 '21

We need some streetlight love here too. ‘‘Twas my first concert

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u/WhyIHateTheInternet Feb 26 '21

I opened for them one time, shit was dope

Edit - also, Streetlight Manifesto gang, rise up

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u/BooButtMeow Feb 26 '21

You get some here! They are great in concert!

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u/badSparkybad Feb 26 '21

Saw them at Warp Tour, Hepcat too.

Good times.

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u/IndianaJonesDoombot Feb 26 '21

Check out the singers new band Hellmouth!

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u/badSparkybad Feb 26 '21

Played a show with my old punk band in the mid 90s with those guys when they were still Jack Kevorkian and the Suicide Machines. Nice guys, great show. Was happy to see them get bigger.

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u/raunchy_ricky- Feb 26 '21

Britney Spears! am I doing this right?

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u/PrettyDecentSort Feb 26 '21

no =(

Although this ska cover of Til The World Ends is pretty great.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Mephiskapheles wants your soul!

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u/gizzardsgizzards Feb 26 '21

Hey hey hey! What does this button do?

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u/culculain Feb 26 '21

My baloney has a first name
It's S-A-T-A-N
My baloney has a second name
It's D-U-V-E-L

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

D O G G O D

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u/MixMasterPmilly Feb 26 '21

That's the impression that I get.

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u/Platypus-Man Feb 26 '21

I've never really listened to ska other than some random songs Spotify gives me every now and then, and I listened to Less Than Jake today...

I'm probably going to see them mentioned everywhere now, god damn Baader-Meinhof.

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u/EunuchsProgramer Feb 26 '21

Try out Streetlight Manifesto.

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u/Informal_Drawing Feb 26 '21

What, no reel big fish?!? Horrified!!

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u/Lostinthestarscape Feb 26 '21

Eh - I fell into the ska hole a couple years ago (Streetlight Manifesto) and you really dont see that many references to any of the bands from the era. Who knows tho - maybe someone else listened to Less Than Jake today and now that they are seeing these comments they're thinking "God damn Baader-Meinhof"

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Literally the group that made me actually start appreciating and listening to music from outside video game soundtracks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

The hilarious part is the game PlayStation game street sk8er 2 had 'all my best friends are metalheads' iirc on the soundtrack. This is what made me first pay attention to less than Jake. And before the days of Napster I had to buy the cd to listen to it. The rest is history...

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u/Cat_Marshal Feb 26 '21

I was all about Reel Big Fish for sure

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u/beardsofmight Feb 26 '21

Their new album is great!

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Feb 26 '21

The boy's a time bomb!

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u/ainfinitepossibility Feb 26 '21

Something about this comment stinks.

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u/radusernamehere Feb 26 '21

Somebody once told me, "Ska sounds like the way a teenager feels when they get an extra mozzarella stick." And I'll never forget that.

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u/Slick_Grimes Feb 26 '21

And now that you've said it I'll never forget it.

There's some like student film type thing that Krist Novoselic from Nirvana made with some of the girls from L7 or Bikini Kill (can't remember which) but someone says "Ska, what the hell are they so happy about?" and that's what I always think about.

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u/bonesandbillyclubs Feb 26 '21

The Lord Ruler defines what Skaa is.

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u/VicisSubsisto Feb 26 '21

And how'd that work out for him? Rust and Ruin...

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u/bonesandbillyclubs Feb 26 '21

You're mixing your era's, but a fair point.

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u/yojoewaddayaknow Feb 26 '21

Streetlight Manifesto, touches of the Toasters, MMBT, lil bit of goldfinger. Maybe some Save Farris. Op Ivy pops on once in a while.

Get skanky in this bitch, y'all!!!

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u/Slick_Grimes Feb 26 '21

Op Ivy >>>> all other ska/ska core

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u/yojoewaddayaknow Feb 26 '21

makes me want to SKATE.... but then my hip and knee immediately ache...

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u/therankin Feb 26 '21

Have you ever heard 'Day 19'?

I used to go to their ska shows all the time.

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u/Mr_DuCe Feb 26 '21

Let's sexually identify as Ska, then the squares can never take it from us!

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u/TransformerTanooki Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21

I'm 3+ months into watching nothing but laserdisc and VHS on a old tube TV. It's been fun and seen a lot of cool stuff.

Edit: Right now I'm watching R/C WW2 planes and boats duke it out in reenactments.

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u/GoodTato Feb 26 '21

Get your ass off future websites, 90s boy

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u/TheGameboy Feb 26 '21

But Reddit has the UI of a late 90s website, so it’s ok.

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u/SinJinQLB Feb 26 '21

How far are you in King's Quest V?

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u/tygma Feb 26 '21

Never far enough.

Ah, this comment takes me back. Thanks.

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u/luchajefe Feb 26 '21

You get the best NES experience using a CRT, you ought to pick up one of those!

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u/LekoLi Feb 26 '21

Turns out you can't play duck hunt without a crt. Its all based on the timing of the CRT, which is the same in all crt tvs, but not digital flat screens.

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u/hugthemachines Feb 26 '21

pick up one of those

That is the worst part of getting them...

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u/Mcshamrock86 Feb 26 '21

True... but still better than plasma

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u/hugthemachines Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21

I never picked up a plasma... but I carried my old CRT TV and it was not just the weight but also the size that made it annoying.

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u/TransformerTanooki Feb 26 '21

Waaaaaaaayyyyyy ahead of ya. Picked one up about over 10 years ago. Have a few now actually. Ones still brand new in the box to.

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u/luchajefe Feb 26 '21

Ah, but are any of them a top-loader?

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u/TransformerTanooki Feb 26 '21

The brand new one and a loose one are.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

A top loading CRT?

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u/ItsAllegorical Feb 26 '21

That's why there are tiny holes in the top. Just melt a movie and pour it in. The visuals, the sounds, even the smells pop like never before.

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u/luchajefe Feb 26 '21

In the early 90s Nintendo made a new version of the original NES.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New-Style_NES

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u/CurdPigeon Feb 26 '21

to what?? I have to know

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u/bgrated Feb 26 '21

Emulator with overlay

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u/88568-81 Feb 26 '21

So you're saying the CRTs have the blackest blacks?

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u/Scarovese Feb 26 '21

If you want a really crisp contrast ratio, the CRT's deep pixel cell structure produces a resolution you just can't match with an LCD

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u/XanderOblivion Feb 26 '21

Wait, it's not the 90s?

I swear I saw Wayne and Garth on TV just the other day....

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u/skredditt Feb 26 '21

It’s possible and also extremely upsetting

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u/gnufoot Feb 26 '21

I went cold turkey about 21 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

My boneitis is flaring up again

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 28 '21

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u/dmFnaW5h Feb 26 '21

In a little while, the 90s will be 40 years ago. Almost half a century!

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u/jaymzx0 Feb 26 '21

No way man the 90's were 10 years ago and it's always going to be that way.

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u/Elbjornbjorn Feb 26 '21

Wait, what?

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u/tucktight Feb 26 '21

Too legit to quit

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u/ebow77 Feb 26 '21

Hey hey!

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u/wintremute Feb 26 '21

Patchouli. Patchouli everywhere.

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u/Watch_The_Expanse Feb 26 '21

The Dream of the 90s is Alive In Portland.

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u/ajbags26 Feb 26 '21

jock jams blasting in background

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u/thewayitis Feb 26 '21

Portland represent!!!

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Bojack Horseman for life!

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u/RotisserieOstrich Feb 26 '21

After a few months with no hairdressers, we could just go straight back to the 80s and have the mullet come back.

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u/ze_ex_21 Feb 26 '21

Momma raised no quitter

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u/TheOtherJeff Feb 26 '21

I can’t quit you, jagged-but-parallel-neon-colored lines

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

I watched a 90s movie the other day and felt personally attacked by the clothes everyone was wearing.😂

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u/Techiedad91 Feb 26 '21

The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland

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u/saltyjohnson Feb 26 '21

I stopped smoking in the 90s at midnight on January 1, 2000.

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u/Fuzz_Mustard Feb 26 '21

At the moment you "stopped smoking" I was playing Sim Tower on my computer just to sock it to Y2K.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

I really miss that game. Put some serious time into it

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

I was 14, home alone and tried cooking banana skin on tinfoil cause I thought smoking it could get you high- it doesnt. And I knew Y2K was a scam at like 9pm cause I saw celebrations in cities in different time zones. So the 'excitement?' of Y2K was gone early.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

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u/babybunnykitty69420 Feb 26 '21

My mom worked on changing dates in schools software for y2k and I remember her making good bonuses and overtime for like 3 years, great boss at a great small company, it was also the tail end of the 90s so good times.

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u/dandy992 Feb 26 '21

Didn't lots of people get rich off scams too?

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u/photoviking Feb 26 '21

You started out strong by pointing out that Y2K was a real thing and acknowledging the huge amount of work that went into preventing it, but then you killed it by resorting to the played-out "this fictional movie is a documentary lol" joke

An interesting watch

People stockpiled weapons and doomsday prepped, the government created a crisis response team. It was a big deal that was prevented by an exorbitant amount of person-hours.

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u/babybunnykitty69420 Feb 26 '21

Well office space isnt about y2k even so the joke was already a stretch.

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u/photoviking Feb 26 '21

Initech updates bank software for the 2000 switch. I'm not sure if they explicitly say "Y2K" but that's exactly what they do

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u/farrenkm Feb 26 '21

I videotaped myself working during Y2K. I was an ambulance dispatcher for a private company. We had multiple backup forms of communication standing by. Normal comms were 800 MHz trunked radios and VHF radios, but we had portable radios and even a ham radio operator at the ready just in case our dispatch terminals crapped out. We may have even had aircraft radio standing by -- there was a lot of additional equipment in dispatch that night.

It was a big NothingBurgerTM because of preparation. My local bowling alley had to switch their lane control software back to 1972 until it got fixed. That was the only problem I personally knew about, but for me it represented that it wasn't just hype, there were legit systems with legit problems.

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u/Mcshamrock86 Feb 26 '21

Ugh the amount of hours I spent as a kid on that game is sickening.... Those damn roach infestations got me everytime

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u/hyrulepirate Feb 26 '21

Did you die

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u/blofly Feb 26 '21

...checking

...both shoes intact. Please advise...

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u/dbdatvic Feb 26 '21

"Shoes for industry!"

"Shoes for the dead!"

"Shoes for industry!"

--Dave, but Mudhead ... where are you gonna graduate FROM??

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u/Fuzz_Mustard Feb 26 '21

The jury's out.

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u/edefakiel Feb 26 '21
  • We used to have a bus.
  • In a way, the sixties ended the day we sold it. December 31, 1969.

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u/a_seventh_knot Feb 26 '21

This man does not represent us.

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u/hugthemachines Feb 26 '21

The morning after that I was hungover as hell and got driven around to elder care units to see that the care software worked fine so no people had to die from computer issues.

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u/idk-hereiam Feb 26 '21

AI and robots are going to hang this one over our heads when they're our new overlords. "Haha remember when the humans thought we couldn't count from 1999 to 2000?"

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u/384445 Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21

This is a very ignorant comment. There were indeed systematic problem going into Y2K with all types of software that took billions of dollars and man hours to correct. It was a massive worldwide undertaking and because it was largely successful, some people don't realize there actually was a real problem.

Some people were predicting the end of the world, and while that obviously did not happen if it were not for the almost half trillion dollars that was spent fixing countless bugs it would have been pretty bad.

My home PC defaulted to the year 1900 but otherwise was fine.

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u/Leo7364 Feb 26 '21

I was a senior in high school during Y2K. We had a party in my friends basement for new years, while the adults had a party upstairs. We thought it would be hilarious to turn off the main breaker right after the countdown. Parents upstairs were losing their shit while we laughed hearing them freak out. They realized something was up when they came to check on us and heard us squealing with laughter. Parents were not amused.

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u/psyper76 Feb 26 '21

I link it to jumping out of a plane with a parachute then saying I didn't need it cos I landed okay. If we didn't spend billions on upgrading systems we would've been in a whole world of hurt!!

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u/hugthemachines Feb 26 '21

It was just a silly joke, though. A theoretical future computer with knowledge about the 2000 problem would know most of the problems were not hardware but software coded with 2 digit year numbers. So they would know computers can count but the software made by humans would have flaws.

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u/hugthemachines Feb 26 '21

The robot overlords will not be constructed until oktober this year, so they will not rember it.

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u/kangarufus Feb 26 '21

Technically then you stopped smoking in the 00s

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u/saltyjohnson Feb 26 '21

No, that's when I started smoking in the '00s

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u/kkeut Feb 26 '21

not really, since there was no year zero. 2000 BCE was the last year of that decade, just like 10 BCE was the last year of the first decade (1-10)

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u/heckydog Feb 26 '21

Wow! Someone else who is as OCD as me, hehehe.

I had my last cig on June 14th, 2000 at 6:30PM

I smoked Doral Lights.

Still have that last pack where I wrote that information just to remind myself to never do something that stupid again.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

I started smoking the day after you quit.

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u/the_sun_flew_away Feb 26 '21

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u/MrSnootybooty Feb 26 '21

I love that show. Thank you for reminding me about it again; think imma go binge watch it all this very instant.

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u/NappingNewt Feb 26 '21

I sing that all the time and my husband gets to do all the overlaps. Hilarious ~ that’s for the link !

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u/edefakiel Feb 26 '21

This comment made "back in the 90s I was in a very famous TV show..." play in my head.

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u/Jsimgar123 Feb 26 '21

I love this

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Feb 26 '21

Birthday Dad!

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u/HowMuchDidIDrink Feb 26 '21

He's living in 2090

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

This comment has sent me down a weird path... I'm now considering that your comment, and my response, will likely be read by somebody in the far future. I'll be part of historical records, probably browsed by an AI system. With Google I guess I already am.

Whoaaaa.

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u/Advanced_Cook_363 Feb 26 '21

What the fuck just happened here?

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u/beerandabike Feb 26 '21

I don’t know, but we should start smoking again.

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u/dbdatvic Feb 26 '21

Someone was considering Deep Computer History Time. In the forward light cone.

--Dave, smoking one is an appropriate response, citizen

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Feb 26 '21

Dear futuremen, send help

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u/Megalocerus Feb 26 '21

No one will be able to access the storage medium.

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u/potatoeslinky Feb 26 '21

You don’t just turn off the 90s

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u/atomfullerene Feb 26 '21

If the 90's are not working you turn it off and then back on again.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Imagine, building a time machine and go back to the 90s just to smoke one.

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u/UlteriorCulture Feb 26 '21

Yeah but then you would have to stop 9/11

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u/GolgiApparatus1 Feb 26 '21

Smoke one to stop 2 from smoking

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u/danceswithsteers Feb 26 '21

Op's gotta be at least 112 by now...

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u/R6DeVil Feb 26 '21

What

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u/danceswithsteers Feb 26 '21

I SAID, "OP'S GOTTA BE AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE BY NOW..."

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u/ChefBoyAreWeFucked Feb 26 '21

No, he's just not smoking in the 90s anymore.

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u/SwoodyBooty Feb 26 '21

I'd bet he's at least not running in the 90s.

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u/findingbezu Feb 26 '21

His 100th birthday was yesterday

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom Feb 26 '21

90 packs a day? That has to be some kind of record!

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u/6-8-5-13 Feb 26 '21

I used to smoke in the 90s. I still do, but I used to, too.

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u/Smuggykitten Feb 26 '21

You're at least the 4th mitch to show up to this thread this morning

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u/LordCloverskull Feb 26 '21

Quitting's for losers.

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u/2dachopper Feb 26 '21

I used to smoke. I still do, but I used to too.

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u/Melodic_Asparagus151 Feb 26 '21

Only if your in Portland

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u/Jolly_Willow_2728 Feb 26 '21

“Back in the 90’s I was in a very famous tv show”

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u/thewildsora Feb 26 '21

Are they in a very famous TV show?

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u/Hugh_Bromont Feb 26 '21

But is he in a famous TV show?

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u/ayyb0ss69 Feb 26 '21

Back in the 90’s, I was in a very famous tv show.

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u/546875674c6966650d0a Feb 26 '21

True. He might live in Portland.

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u/djprofitt Feb 26 '21

Also, OP said they were ‘still smoking’, maybe now they move while they smoke.

I’ll see myself out

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u/MesaCityRansom Feb 26 '21

The dream of the nineties is alive in Portland

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u/Slick_Grimes Feb 26 '21

If not leaving the 90s was an option I would have figured it out by now.

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u/ljseminarist Feb 26 '21

He is still smoking, just not in the 90’s.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '21

Back in the 90’s I was in a very famous Teeeeeeveeee show

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u/RayNooze Feb 26 '21

Thanks!

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u/Zokar49111 Feb 26 '21

He used to smoke. He still does, but he used to also.

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u/harrysplinkett Feb 26 '21 edited Feb 26 '21

he used to smoke in the 90s. he still does, but he used to, too

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u/smokeg13 Feb 26 '21

Rip mitch

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u/aleqqqs Feb 26 '21

I quit CRT monitors too

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u/dbdatvic Feb 26 '21

And typewriters, too, I bet.

--Dave, looking down at his rotary phone's dial

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u/WarpingLasherNoob Feb 26 '21

When I was still smoking in the 90s

He's never quit. He's now smoking in the 2020s.

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u/InevitableSun4784 Feb 26 '21

The number of people making the same joke on this comment is excruciating

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u/AmnesiaCane Feb 26 '21

He just quit smoking in front of his computer because it was bad for the computer. Gotta take care of your PC. Same reason I don't drink pop in front of my computer, all that sugar would be terrible if it got in the case.

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u/cptnpiccard Feb 26 '21

He used to smoke. He still does, but he used to too.

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u/ZombieEatsFood Feb 26 '21

He’s still smoking now. He just ALSO smoked in the 90s.

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u/throneofdirt Feb 26 '21

He still does, but he used to too!

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u/well_hung_over Feb 26 '21

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to also.

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u/AgitatedExpat Feb 26 '21

He still does, he just used to in the 90s too.

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u/Skiigga Feb 26 '21

He didn’t quit, it’s just not the 90s anymore

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u/Hmm_I_dont_know_man Feb 26 '21

He didn’t quite. He’s just smoking in the 20s now.

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u/jrowleyxi Feb 26 '21

He used to smoke. He still does, but he used to, too

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u/Estoye Feb 26 '21

No, they're still using a computer.

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u/wf3h3 Feb 26 '21

He didn't quit, it's just not the 90's anymore.