Saturday, February 2, 2008
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November 2007
November 2007
Damn... Skyhawk... What'd u do... cut 'n paste some island dialect?
Saturday, February 2, 2008
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September 2007
September 2007
VHS ... in 90 for a several hundred.
DVD mostly played on the computer around 1998-99. my collection officially started, when a friend of mine working at ups was going to quit! and his last day stole a package labeled from an online electronic store. /there were tons of different video games, and he gave me like 30 dvds, cause he didnt care about movies.
thats when i was learning IT. i re-installed the os on his machine, and he game me all 30 dvds.
ahhhhhhh memories
DVD mostly played on the computer around 1998-99. my collection officially started, when a friend of mine working at ups was going to quit! and his last day stole a package labeled from an online electronic store. /there were tons of different video games, and he gave me like 30 dvds, cause he didnt care about movies.
thats when i was learning IT. i re-installed the os on his machine, and he game me all 30 dvds.
ahhhhhhh memories
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Member since:
November 2007
November 2007
Paid $400 for a toshiba duo Dvd player back in hmmmm 98 99???
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Member since:
October 2007
October 2007
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Damn... Skyhawk... What'd u do... cut 'n paste some island dialect?
ano ang ibig mong sabihin?
Balik tayo sa usapan, hindi ako nag bayad para makakuha ng VHS, dahil napanalunan ko iyon sa sabong.
Translation for non-Tagalog speakers:
Quote:
What do you mean?
BTW, I didn't pay anything for my first VHS player. I won it on a bet during a err... umm... sporting event.
[Post edited by Skyhawk on Feb 2, 2008]
Saturday, February 2, 2008
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October 2007
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Latitude - 57° 9 N' / Longitude - 2° 9 W' / 5:00 p.m. (time corresponding to 12:00 noon, Eastern Standard Time)
Hmmm... my new guess is perhaps upper state NY, or perhaps Boston.
Bet ya never thought you'd run into someone fluent in Tagalog on this message board, did you?
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Member since:
November 2007
November 2007
Wrong guess on the coordinates. That's the drop point for Manila.
No $h!t on finding another FLIP on this board. Then again, where else would we congregate.... a fookin' Sharon Cuneta fansite! I leave that to the other half.
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Back to the topic at hand:
I didn't have my 1st svhs until early 90's, but my VERY FIRST VHS player, was a 'ZENITH' brand (wow)- back in the days when Miami Vice TV series, was just pickin' up viewer expansion, and STEREO broadcast on tv programmings... was still unheard of. 400 bux.
I didn't get my very first DVD player until 2001-ish, for about $200. That's cheap during that time, and sure enough- died on me after a year of use. Sharp electronics don' make such good stuff... but I get what I paid for.
The one investment that I still have today, and still use, is my $450 Mitsubishi CRT TV. That 20-inch workhorse was purchased in 1988. To this day... it works like it just came out of the assembly line. I knew back then (from word of mouth) that Mitsubishi REALLY MADE GREAT crt TV's. I just didn't see it with my own eyes (metaphorically...sure) until this day- and counting.
[Post edited by xplaytendo on Feb 2, 2008]
No $h!t on finding another FLIP on this board. Then again, where else would we congregate.... a fookin' Sharon Cuneta fansite! I leave that to the other half.
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Back to the topic at hand:
I didn't have my 1st svhs until early 90's, but my VERY FIRST VHS player, was a 'ZENITH' brand (wow)- back in the days when Miami Vice TV series, was just pickin' up viewer expansion, and STEREO broadcast on tv programmings... was still unheard of. 400 bux.
I didn't get my very first DVD player until 2001-ish, for about $200. That's cheap during that time, and sure enough- died on me after a year of use. Sharp electronics don' make such good stuff... but I get what I paid for.
The one investment that I still have today, and still use, is my $450 Mitsubishi CRT TV. That 20-inch workhorse was purchased in 1988. To this day... it works like it just came out of the assembly line. I knew back then (from word of mouth) that Mitsubishi REALLY MADE GREAT crt TV's. I just didn't see it with my own eyes (metaphorically...sure) until this day- and counting.
[Post edited by xplaytendo on Feb 2, 2008]
Sunday, February 3, 2008
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October 2007
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FLIP
I just read this. Just because you don't know what it means doesn't make racial slurs any more appetizing to those whom it is directed to.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
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November 2007
November 2007
(sigh)
[Post edited by xplaytendo on Feb 3, 2008]
[Post edited by xplaytendo on Feb 3, 2008]
Sunday, February 3, 2008
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I grew up with Phillipinos and they call themselves Flip all the time, even the girls. Wasn't a racial slur to any of us.
As for the topic at hand my Dad purchased a JVC VCR back in the day and it was a pretty good model. I remember it had the remote that you could attach to the front of the VCR so you wouldn't lose it, pretty cool actually. Anyway he paid between $400-$500 for it. The irony is I spent $20 for high quality blank VHS tapes! They did a great job too. Then I remember one day we saw the JVS Super VHS and we were both in awe. It looked so advanced and had a from loading panel with so many buttons! It cost around $600 I believe and we never ended up getting one but I remember watching the demo and it was a nice improvement over VHS.
I paid $500 for my first PS2 and I still have it to this day. I did have the Disc Read Error messages that the PS2's were famous for but I was able to fix it myself through an online tutorial someone made (thankfully) and I have not had an issue since.
Now my HD-A2 HD DVD player seems like such a bargain.
[Post edited by Falcon01 on Feb 3, 2008]
As for the topic at hand my Dad purchased a JVC VCR back in the day and it was a pretty good model. I remember it had the remote that you could attach to the front of the VCR so you wouldn't lose it, pretty cool actually. Anyway he paid between $400-$500 for it. The irony is I spent $20 for high quality blank VHS tapes! They did a great job too. Then I remember one day we saw the JVS Super VHS and we were both in awe. It looked so advanced and had a from loading panel with so many buttons! It cost around $600 I believe and we never ended up getting one but I remember watching the demo and it was a nice improvement over VHS.
I paid $500 for my first PS2 and I still have it to this day. I did have the Disc Read Error messages that the PS2's were famous for but I was able to fix it myself through an online tutorial someone made (thankfully) and I have not had an issue since.
Now my HD-A2 HD DVD player seems like such a bargain.
[Post edited by Falcon01 on Feb 3, 2008]
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Member since:
October 2007
October 2007
I have friends of African decent that call themselves the "n" word all the time too (actually the children I know of some friends), however others (including the parents themselves) find the term racially degrading and know something of its history and wish their children didn't refer to themselves using that name.
The correct term for an individual from the Philippines is Pinoy/Pinay - like in the song: "Pinoy Ako":
Pinoy ikaw ay pinoy
Ipakita sa mundo
Kung ano ang kaya mo
Ibang-iba ang pinoy
Wag kang matatakot
Ipagmalaki mo pinoy ako
Pinoy tayo
Somehow substituting the degrading acronym made up by American soldiers for "pinoy" not only takes away the spirit of the song (pinoy pride and identity), but I guarantee it would not go down good at the Cowboy Grill in Mabini. And it doesn't go down good in the local Philippine community where I live in Canada either. My wife finds it offensive, and I know of no adult here who wouldn't either scold, pinch, or slap a kid for using the term.
Although many young people of many ethnic identities feel that using racial slurs with one another is endearing, many do not. My wife and I and everyone I know fall into the later category.
Sorry to go off topic here, but I have low tolerance for racism and degrading racial slurs thrown around like it's "OK".
[Post edited by Skyhawk on Feb 3, 2008]
The correct term for an individual from the Philippines is Pinoy/Pinay - like in the song: "Pinoy Ako":
Pinoy ikaw ay pinoy
Ipakita sa mundo
Kung ano ang kaya mo
Ibang-iba ang pinoy
Wag kang matatakot
Ipagmalaki mo pinoy ako
Pinoy tayo
Somehow substituting the degrading acronym made up by American soldiers for "pinoy" not only takes away the spirit of the song (pinoy pride and identity), but I guarantee it would not go down good at the Cowboy Grill in Mabini. And it doesn't go down good in the local Philippine community where I live in Canada either. My wife finds it offensive, and I know of no adult here who wouldn't either scold, pinch, or slap a kid for using the term.
Although many young people of many ethnic identities feel that using racial slurs with one another is endearing, many do not. My wife and I and everyone I know fall into the later category.
Sorry to go off topic here, but I have low tolerance for racism and degrading racial slurs thrown around like it's "OK".
[Post edited by Skyhawk on Feb 3, 2008]
