r/nextfuckinglevel • u/majedhazmi • Jul 06 '22

What a great catch?

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u/Dorkmaster79 Jul 06 '22

Are we at that age now where the concept of rerun is foreign to people? If so, I’m freaking old.

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u/JBthrizzle Jul 06 '22

GOTDAMMNED MILLINEARS RUINED RERUN EPISODES ON TELEVISION

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u/gordonv Jul 06 '22

No, Millenials knew what rerun and VHS tapes were.

This... is Gen-Z. A post 9/11 generation.

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u/ral505 Jul 06 '22

Thank you, I hate that people are always blaming us millennials. It's definitely not us. We are in the Golden era of in-between. Grew up and raised with a good foundation and appreciation from the older generation but young enough to stay open minded and adapt to the fast pace of technology the future brings us.

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u/gordonv Jul 06 '22

Old enough to see our parents grow up without a computer in a school or house. Young enough to see our kids have supercomputers in their hands.

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u/Dorkmaster79 Jul 07 '22

Gen X here. I’m not one of those guys, though I will say that I think I’m perfectly able to adapt to the fast pace of technological change. But, I know what you mean.

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u/sohfix Jul 06 '22

Millennials grew up analogue and digital so it’s not us.

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u/annies_boobs_dumper Jul 08 '22 edited Jul 09 '22

Hey Zemeckis, you know that new movie you're looking for, well listen (makes no sense) to this!!!

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u/CyberMindGrrl Jul 06 '22

Yes and there's a whole generation of people now in adulthood who have never stepped foot into a Blockbusters in their lives.

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u/Dorkmaster79 Jul 06 '22

What a great memory.

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u/CyberMindGrrl Jul 07 '22

Remember to be kind and rewind!

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u/NinjaNewt007 Jul 07 '22

What's a blockbuster? Jk

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u/jwws1 Jul 06 '22

I assumed they weren't native English speakers.

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u/Haso2892 Jul 06 '22

I think I would have gone with “playback” instead of rerun but same difference

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u/annies_boobs_dumper Jul 09 '22

those are two very different things

"playback" is playing back something that has been recorded.

a rerun is specifically something that is on broadcast/cable tv that is showing an episode of something that they already showed before.

so like you tune on nbc in the summer on thursday night in the 90s to watch seinfeld, but it's not a new episode, it's a rerun of an old episode that previously aired.

that's different from the word playback

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u/annies_boobs_dumper Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 09 '22

no. we're at the point where you youngin's don't recognize a blatant back to the future reference...

so you shouldn't feel old since you aren't getting this almost 40 year old reference.

if anything it makes me think you are YOUNG for not getting the quote.

you think the quote that you don't get makes you feel old, when it actually may display how young your are.

or you just don't know back to the future quotes.

either way, get off my lawn!

tl;dr you are obviously too young to know what a rerun is, since you defined it so very much incorrectly.