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Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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I was 6 years old (circa 1954) before I ever saw my first TV and that was at my aunt and uncles house next door. I'd go over and watch Capt. Kangaroo. We also could receive the signal from channel 2 in Montreal broadcasting down to below the border. It was all in French but we were starved for entertainment and they had wrestling on Saturdays. At best all we could get back then was ABC, NBC. CBS and channel 2. If the weather cooperated we could pull in channel 8 from Poland Spring, Maine.

Even my kids never had a TV in their rooms. They did have radio and record players, but no TV. Since this was well before standard remote controls, the kids came in handy for changing channels especially after I bought a TV with push button channel selection. They would run over each other to get to change channels then.,
 
SteveBrickNJ

SteveBrickNJ

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Goofyernmost said:
I was 6 years old (circa 1954) before I ever saw my first TV and that was at my aunt and uncles house next door. I'd go over and watch Capt. Kangaroo. We also could receive the signal from channel 2 in Montreal broadcasting down to below the border. It was all in French but we were starved for entertainment and they had wrestling on Saturdays. At best all we could get back then was ABC, NBC. CBS and channel 2. If the weather cooperated we could pull in channel 8 from Poland Spring, Maine.

Even my kids never had a TV in their rooms. They did have radio and record players, but no TV. Since this was well before standard remote controls, the kids came in handy for changing channels especially after I bought a TV with push button channel selection. They would run over each other to get to change channels then.,
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You are older than me but maybe my age 6 comparison story will be of interest to you anyway.
When I turned 6 it was 1968. I lived right where I do now.
Brick NJ
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Empire State Building to Brick Township

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So when my dad put a tv antenna on the roof he was able to provide us a few fairly clear NYC TV stations:
2 CBS....4 NBC...5 Independent(today it is FOX)....7 ABC.....9 Independent....11 Independent....13 PBS
The Philadelphia Channels were viewable but fuzzy.
 
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Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Songbird76 said:
Where is it based? Like...is it marketed to English-speakers? That seems really weird that they wouldn't speak well. I'm pretty sure most of the European countries require all kids to learn English in school now, and while some won't reach a very high level of proficiency, anyone in the travel industry would be expected to be pretty fluent. I wonder if that's one more thing that corona has thrown for a loop. They can't get employees with the skills they require so they hire people who don't meet the standards, just to have enough staff? That's kind of sad. Are you having a good time anyway?
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The ships almost always hire only people from philliphines, indonesia, india for waiters positions. Aka low paid positions with strong tipping points. It was the same on RCCL as well.

Also the ship is like 50% latinamericans (speaking spanish or portuguese).
But I think they have higher requirements for RCCL and Disney.


Almost nobody speaks spanish either, but they try! luckily our cabin crew is from mid america.

Speaking of which.. we were p'''sed yesterday. Why? An old grumpy white dude told the multilanguage guide (on the tour we all paid for) to stop speaking spanish and to only speak english. Claiming that WE SHOULD be the ones learning english.
The taiwan born and other americans were annoyed by this passive aggressive racism from this dude. Anyway, the guide continued to translate regardless. Note that he was speaking first english then he translated to spanish.

I think this POS dude was angry half the ship was people speaking spanish (he was from our ship).

Anyway, we just left Bonaire, tomorrow Curazao before going to back and get to Nicaragua.

To resume, we're having a good time indeed!

The ROCK through the ages show was very good.
There was a dancing show today too.

And an american idol finalist was 2 days ago (Latoya London)
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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Cesar R M said:
A bit too convenient lol.
Reminds me when companies started to add electronics planned obsolescence to cycle through products faster.
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We're actually not upset as it was first gen LCD screen that started in the living room, made its way into our room and eventually into ds' room. It's so old James watched it in our room before he had his own tv as there were a few kid shows that were too annoying for public consumption. It's so old PS 2 may have been the newest game system when we got it. We also got an amazing discount on it so we're not upset, just broke having finished all our holiday and winter clothes shopping.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Goofyernmost said:
I was 6 years old (circa 1954) before I ever saw my first TV and that was at my aunt and uncles house next door. I'd go over and watch Capt. Kangaroo. We also could receive the signal from channel 2 in Montreal broadcasting down to below the border. It was all in French but we were starved for entertainment and they had wrestling on Saturdays. At best all we could get back then was ABC, NBC. CBS and channel 2. If the weather cooperated we could pull in channel 8 from Poland Spring, Maine.

Even my kids never had a TV in their rooms. They did have radio and record players, but no TV. Since this was well before standard remote controls, the kids came in handy for changing channels especially after I bought a TV with push button channel selection. They would run over each other to get to change channels then.,
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I’m roughly 15 years younger than you are, so just for comparison…
I don’t remember us not havin’ a TV, but, we didn’t have our first color TV ‘til about 1970. It was a dial, no push buttons. I remember the rabbit ears, and a small box with a dial that would rotate the antennae on the roof.
We had 5 channels…ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and our local Chanel 36.
Oh, how Pop would spend so much time tryin’ to get the reception just right…!!!!! :hilarious:

First phone I remember us havin’ was one flat black rotary desk phone. I think it was replaced by a “Trimline” in about 1972. Still just the one phone. We never had more than one phone or TV in the house before I graduated from high school.

I slept in the same room with my 2 younger bros since after our sis’ was born in March of 1975. One bunk bed and 1 twin in No Cal, and 3 twins in a bigger room back here in Texas.
Never had a TV in our room(s). Had only a small portable AM/FM radio, ‘til we moved back to Texas and I used saved up lawn mowing money to by a cheap stereo for our room.
Also, there was a short period of time back in No Cal when I did solely occupy the room our sister would eventually be moved into. I had this cheap K-Mart cassette recorder that I would record “Happy Days” episodes on (I would just set it up on the s h a g carpeting in front of the TV 😅), and then listen to them at night to put me to sleep…and, thus the problem…I would fall asleep and the batteries would, of course, be stone cold dead when I woke up in mornin’…!!!!! 🤣

My folks didn’t even have cable TV ‘til after I graduated from High school. And even then, it was maybe 30 channels…? There was this big-Ish box attached to the cable box by a cord that we used to call the “rip-rip box”, ‘cause that’s the sound it made if you moved the channel selector back and forth too fast…!!!!! 😂

My folks now have 3 TVs, 3 landline phones, and 1 cell phone each.
We have 3 TVs, no landlines, and one cell phone each…!!! :)
 
Figgy1

Figgy1

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donaldtoo said:
I’m roughly 15 years younger than you are, so just for comparison…
I don’t remember us not havin’ a TV, but, we didn’t have our first color TV ‘til about 1970. It was a dial, no push buttons. I remember the rabbit ears, and a small box with a dial that would rotate the antennae on the roof.
We had 5 channels…ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and our local Chanel 36.
Oh, how Pop would spend so much time tryin’ to get the reception just right…!!!!! :hilarious:

First phone I remember us havin’ was one flat black rotary desk phone. I think it was replaced by a “Trimline” in about 1972. Still just the one phone. We never had more than one phone or TV in the house before I graduated from high school.

I slept in the same room with my 2 younger bros since after our sis’ was born in March of 1975. One bunk bed and 1 twin in No Cal, and 3 twins in a bigger room back here in Texas.
Never had a TV in our room(s). Had only a small portable AM/FM radio, ‘til we moved back to Texas and I used saved up lawn mowing money to by a cheap stereo for our room.
Also, there was a short period of time back in No Cal when I did solely occupy the room our sister would eventually be moved into. I had this cheap K-Mart cassette recorder that I would record “Happy Days” episodes on (I would just set it up on the s h a g carpeting in front of the TV 😅), and then listen to them at night to put me to sleep…and, thus the problem…I would fall asleep and the batteries would, of course, be stone cold dead when I woke up in mornin’…!!!!! 🤣

My folks didn’t even have cable TV ‘til after I graduated from High school. And even then, it was maybe 30 channels…? There was this big-Ish box attached to the cable box by a cord that we used to call the “rip-rip box”, ‘cause that’s the sound it made if you moved the channel selector back and forth too fast…!!!!! 😂

My folks now have 3 TVs, 3 landline phones, and 1 cell phone each.
We have 3 TVs, no landlines, and one cell phone each…!!! :)
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Always had a wall phone, 2nd phone same line added 3rd grade, 2nd line 12th birthday (princess phone)
Large Zenith color console in living room, parents had B&W in their room when I was very little, 8th grade we got cable. 7 local channels before cable (Relatives in industries so we got major discounts on electronics and air conditioners)
4 tvs, I'm afraid to count monitors (I'm also afraid to go into James' room), 4 cell phones no landline
All monitors except 2 were rescues
 


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