#11

I think those were the ones sold to rental shops. You could buy them but obviously the cost was really high so few people would.

There was a really long lead-in of rental periods before you could buy stuff in the shops for most of the 80s I think. Like Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi only came to home VHS in about 88? But they’d been available to rent for years.

#12

Just walking (or driving) to a blockbuster (or similar) just to watch a film.

#13

Remote controls connected to the video player/tv with a two foot cable. Am I just regurgitating peter kay material now?

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#14

I lived in a house where someone had just this sort of remote control. That was about 1982, I guess.

#15

Romans

#16

Without them we would not have mango Rubicon

#17

Used to have one for the video machine that made it alternate between fast-forwarding and re-winding constantly. Totally useless.

#18

Alright, well without mango Rubicon and education and the sewage system and the roads etc what have they ever done for us?!
(sorry)

#19

That’s ok

#20

EXTRA QUESTION

Are there ads in PPV events?

#21

Not in sports ones

#22

Thank god, we DO live in a just society.

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#23

Or how about a wired remote incorporated into an ashtray?

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#26

i have never seen one of these, pure class

#27

Slavery
Child Slavery
Limp Bizkit

#28

The book marckee wishes he’d got for Christmas:

http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/remote-control-9781623563110/

#29

???

Eh?

#30

I read that people slipped out of their skin in Hiroshima and were then walking around not knowing what had happened.