Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

The roller coaster still rolls. If you'd asked me Saturday morning I'd say I'd been ghosted. By Saturday noon friend zoned/dumped for some local James William Bottomtooth III. By Saturday afternoon really confused. By Saturday night back to normal++. No change Sunday morning. Day's not over yet.

If I had a nickel for everyone who's said "Run, Forrest, run!" by now I could fund a Presidential campaign.

You might get your nickelback.

[Shaggy Hiker]

How does that abbreviate to MTV?

The song was so much about MTV that it could almost be the name of the song. The music video was a cartoon about MTV.

[Peter Swinkels]

So it was related to that music channel I referred to? :-) Or am I off again? :-(

[Shaggy Hiker]

No, it was related. There is likely no song that was ever more intimately tied to/about MTV than Money For Nothing. It was a song largely about MTV.

[Peter Swinkels]

Ah okay, I never really watched MTV, beyond knowing it existed and was something to do with music aimed at teens I don't know much about it.

EDIT:
Wait weren't Beavis and Butthead first shown on MTV?

[wes4dbt]

The roller coaster still rolls. If you'd asked me Saturday morning I'd say I'd been ghosted. By Saturday noon friend zoned/dumped for some local James William Bottomtooth III. By Saturday afternoon really confused. By Saturday night back to normal++. No change Sunday morning. Day's not over yet.

If I had a nickel for everyone who's said "Run, Forrest, run!" by now I could fund a Presidential campaign.

As long as you feel the ride is beneficial and your not hurt by the bumps, then enjoy the ride. From what you've posted these swings seem to be the norm and not likely to stop.

[wes4dbt]

So it was related to that music channel I referred to? :-) Or am I off again? :-(

The song actually uses the phrase "I want my MTV".

[Peter Swinkels]

I'm 99% sure I have heard music from the same band long long ago! :-) Not too surprising that this was fairly typical for the 80's and 90's.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Ah okay, I never really watched MTV, beyond knowing it existed and was something to do with music aimed at teens I don't know much about it.

EDIT:
Wait weren't Beavis and Butthead first shown on MTV?

That was after my time. Nice to see that Reply With Quote is now working again.

[dilettante]

As long as you feel the ride is beneficial and your not hurt by the bumps, then enjoy the ride. From what you've posted these swings seem to be the norm and not likely to stop.

I think you're right, though the distance probably factors in as well.

[Peter Swinkels]

That was after my time. Nice to see that Reply With Quote is now working again.

I never really cared for it myself, but how old are you if I may ask? I am 44, I'm guessing you're a few years older. :-)

[dilettante]

Ah okay, I never really watched MTV, beyond knowing it existed and was something to do with music aimed at teens I don't know much about it.

Actually it didn't carry teen music until later. The content aimed at MTV's core audience (20 to 35) at the time of its debut moved on to the second channel VH1. That made room for MTV to switch to head-banger stuff and before long "music-adjacent" content like TV shows.

[Peter Swinkels]

What time period are we talking about exactly? My memory concerning MTV is so vague I'm not even sure when I first learned about it or when it first aired. My memory is like: some american music video channel from the 90's/possibly 80's aimed at young (very broadly speaking people). I was actually surprised I even remembered Beavis and Butthead had something to do with MTV.

I was much more interested in cartoons and space operas back then. :-)

PS:
And what channel MTV was on I never have known. Back then I'd probably have to zap through a dozen channels on the satellite reciever to even be able to watch it.

[wes4dbt]

What time period are we talking about exactly? My memory concerning MTV is so vague I'm not even sure when I first learned about it or when it first aired. My memory is like: some american music video channel from the 90's/possibly 80's aimed at young (very broadly speaking people). I was actually surprised I even remembered Beavis and Butthead had something to do with MTV.

I was much more interested in cartoons and space operas back then. :-)

PS:
And what channel MTV was on I never have known. Back then I'd probably have to zap through a dozen channels on the satellite reciever to even be able to watch it.

You were 1yr old when MTV came out. It had it's own channel.

I was never into it. Especially at first, they were playing Devo and Flock of Seagulls. Plus I was pretty busy in those days.

[Peter Swinkels]

Alright, that means MTV is much older than I thought! :-) I never got into MTV, once I learned to appreciate cartoons with crude humor I kind of liked Beavis and Butthead and their movie. But we were talking about music for the most part, let's see, all I can really say is that if I haven't heard just about every popular song from the 80's and 90's at least a dozen times or so I might still enjoy them, especially for nostalgic reasons. Anyway I never really was that much into music to begin with.

I might have occassionally watched MTV on vacation in the US or during those years I lived there (for my father's job) on cable. If we even could recieve MTV in the Netherlands it was through our satellite dish. :-) It definitely wasn't in the package you got when recieving via antenna and probably was available with some of sort of cable subscription (likely one with extras), which became available in our area around 1995. If I felt like it I could check, but my guess is that with digital tv these days I probably recieve just about every channel available in the netherlands you can imagine by default. Or perhaps not.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm 56, so yes, a few years. I watched a fair amount of MTV videos as a freshman in college.

[Shaggy Hiker]

When I was watching MTV was 85-86. I don't remember ever watching it after that, though.

[Peter Swinkels]

Sounds like you were 16 or so back then, pretty much around the age I'd expect for someone to be interested in MTV.

[Bonker Gudd]

Guess his age to the nearest second.

[Peter Swinkels]

56 years, 7 months, and 17 days old - I am not even touching seconds! XP

[Shaggy Hiker]

Technically, you were about six hours early on that guess.

[Peter Swinkels]

I was off by six hours?! OMG! OMG!


(Ahem)

I was born about one month and three weeks prematurely. If you ignored that I'd be 44 years, 3 months, 24 days, 15 hours, and 53 minutes old. :-)

PS:
How do you display images again here? I keep forgetting. And while this forum is mostly fairly easy to use the system for handling attachments and images could be modernized a bit imho.

[wes4dbt]

Use "Go Advanced" then select "Manage Attachments"

[wes4dbt]

Is it just me or has anyone else notice that this site has slowed down. Takes a long time to open, takes a long time to navigate between pages. It's like that on both of my computers. All the other sites I normally visit are fine.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It's not just you, and it comes and goes. This is part of whatever the issue was that is getting resolved.

[Peter Swinkels]

Use "Go Advanced" then select "Manage Attachments"

Done! :-) This forum is slow! :-(

[Shaggy Hiker]

At the moment, it certainly is.

[wes4dbt]

VBF has been very fast all day. Nice change.

[Peter Swinkels]

Glad to hear that, let's hope it stays that way for now! :-)

[Shaggy Hiker]

Glad to hear that, let's hope it stays that way for now! :-)

And we can reply with quotes.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Life is good.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Or at least good enough.

[Peter Swinkels]

Well, I am glad you feel that way Shaggy. :-) What else could we discuss in this post race? I am out of ideas atm. :-(

[2kaud]

Well for 68754 the sum of its digits is 30. It has a total of 4 prime factors and 16 positive divisors....

[Peter Swinkels]

"Well for 68754 the sum of its digits is 30. It has a total of 4 prime factors and 16 positive divisors...." - Can you write a good joke about that?

ChatGPT
Why did the number 68754 go to therapy?

Because it was feeling divided! Its therapist said, "You've got to sum up your digits and find your prime factors." But all it could think about was how it was divided into 16 different parts!

So stupid it is actually kind of funny. :-)

[Shaggy Hiker]

I see that the buttons are now missing for replies, quick or otherwise, and that reply with quote is back to not functioning.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Two steps forwards, one step back.

[wes4dbt]

I see that the buttons are now missing for replies, quick or otherwise, and that reply with quote is back to not functioning.

No for long. Unless only VIP's like me get them. lol

[Peter Swinkels]

For what it is worth, the forum seems to work fine for me.

[Shaggy Hiker]

For what it is worth, the forum seems to work fine for me.

Yeah, what was missing was missing only temporarily. All is well, today.