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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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Shoutout to Mr. and Mrs. "E" for their upstairs and downstairs VCRs always set to the correct time.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (8 children)

It's not that it was difficult to set the clock. It's that you had to do it every time the power blinked, and most people didn't use the timer function to record things very often.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

True, but so did the oven and microwave clocks (and clock radios if you didn't keep the 9V backup battery maintained). Clock radios are kind-of a given by their nature, but most of the time the oven and microwave clocks would get reset.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wife and I don’t fix clocks on any appliance in the house, never have, don’t care. Either it picks up time from the daily signal in Colorado or we ignore it but there’s no way we’re setting it every time power blips. We fall in the middle of GenX.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Are power outages that common over there?

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