I did NOT see that last bit coming. The whole sketch is very funny, but the end... I bursted out laughing like a maniac. Excellent job to everyone involved in it!
The ending was gruesome. I didn't think it was funny at all. I was laughing and enjoying everything until the stabbing part. Not funny to me...the ending was in poor taste.
How is the google profiting from one-liner sock puppets making comments? Plus more offensive ads! Maybe depoliticizing America's legal system would help? So: "A nonpartisan Justice may compel two recusals by junior partisan Justices." How about that idea?
@@debbiewassylenko5569 Humor's taste is never poor or rich, it is the people who has a taste different from each other. If you don't like it, then it is ok. There are other jokes that may be better for you.
No joke, when I worked at Home Depot a few of my colleagues and I learned semaphore. We had the flags for leading the forklifts and lift trucks so I suggested we learn basic semaphore for on the shop floor. We could insult customers without them ever realizing what we were saying. One of my coworkers was even able to flash SOS to another team while she was being harassed by a very angry customer
Grew up in the 80s. Digital cameras? How about a normal one with actual film where you physically had to find a kodak shop to process just to find you forgot to remove the lens cap in half of them!
Kodak increased their film price. That is why digi cams are making a comeback. Fuji X100V is the hottest thing. When you put a cinebloom filter on it, it's like magic.
It would have been funny, if they had tried to TEXT for help on a flip-phone.. 😂Remember when you had to press the same key three times to get to the next letter? 😂 I feel old.
@@JC_923 it made us SO UNCOMFORTABLE when students would do that. We knew something was going on. And if you're instructing hormone-addled teenagers, you're never sure what that is. Yes, we thought you guys were doing something else with your hand in your pants - that's why we tried to never say anything and draw attention to it.
The flip phone becoming popular again actually makes sense. Smartphones, for all their convenience, are full of apps vying for our time, attention, and money. They're lucky if they're even used to make a call on some days. But a flip phone is a return to basics. And considering tablets and laptops exist, having one less "do everything" device does have its appeal. And if this encourages phone companies to come up with cool designs again, sign me up!
Seems like there'd be a market for a flip phone with a camera as good as a smartphone. The screen wouldn't have to show it, but no reason the cameras have to be as bad as they were 10-20 years ago.
@@radellaf they have "dumb phones" that are really smart phones with apps blocked. We were looking into one for our 11 y.o. (the school office will NOT tell students anything, like you're getting picked up today, or I brought you lunch in, they assume that ALL kids have phones... I literally went in to get the older one for a Dentist appt and they were like "just text them you're here" and I said "they don't have a phone, you'll have to call the room." which lead to lots of sighs and drama) the issue is they're still not cheap, and $300 for something that's just as much of a security risk is pointless.
@@alisonalbright1756 That is surprising. I'm not sure that I take _more_, as I'm one of few who bothered to carry a camera with me most places, but I sure don't take less. Digital resulted in more exposures, but not really any more "keepers". The keepers are better, in general, though. The big difference for me is : more videos. Pretty hard to record a video until recently, especially one of decent quality.
I can't believe Stephen left out the hardcore younger communities who are investing in old school 35mm and 120 film photography, seriously those things are making a big comeback.
Well, there is something to be said for film that digital doesn’t cover. Things like High Dynamic Range and White Point are basically incomplete workarounds to make up for the fact that digital image sensors cannot capture and encode a super wide range of colors and light levels. And with modern film chemistry, you can capture a lot more than digital has ever been able to thus far.
@@Tustin2121 Modern full frame sensors exceeded what 35mm film could do a while ago, especially 200-400 ISO... and very few photographic situations require that much dynamic range. Now if you're talking 70mm+ low ISO film, OK, that stuff can be pretty impressive.
Same here. My 60+ friends who are obsessed with "smart" phones think I'm nuts, but I keep pointing out that most humans can speak somewhere between 250-300 words per minute. So how fast can you text on a smart phone? 10 words per minute if you're lucky? It's simply easier to pick up the phone and *talk to someone*. Oh wait! Talking to another person? To quote Mork from Ork: "what a concept!"
@@gallifreyantauri But if time allows there is nothing wrong with texting. In fact, it may be more beneficial to some people because you can easily find among messages the stuff that you forgot. Also, texting can help to express your thoughts more coherently and systematically which lowers the probability of misunderstanding. In addition, some people just don't want to talk every time because it can get tiresome. So, no, it's not only about speed.
@@gallifreyantauri Well, IMHO if used "properly" the text is for short messages that don't interrupt the other person. If you really have a lot to say, the silliest thing I see is people writing long texts to each other while both looking at their phones. If you don't need to be quiet, then... yeah, seems ridiculous.
Flip phones had cameras. Some of them, anyway. More importantly, they had that satisfying "snap-shut" motion that smartphones today just don't have. It's like hanging up the phone: no one does it anymore because no one *can* do it anymore. A good flip phone lets you snap it shut with varying degrees of intensity. So satisfying.
Born in 82. Nothing like forgetting to take extra batteries for your camera, then having to figure out where the nearest store is in a location you're unfamiliar with.😂
Wired headphones are retro? It's the only ones I trust. Wireless ones fall out of my ears, and wireless ones connected to each ear like an earmuff hurt my ears. Wired headphones allow my ears space, and can actually stay with my ears through a whole song.
A while back college kids in my city had a fad for giant 1970s earphones. They needed an adapter to play on phones or MP3 players but the sound quality and comfort was so much better.
@@WyvernYT l'm surprised they needed an adapter. Headphone jacks haven't changed since the 70s. I have a 90s cassette player which works with my 2010s headphones.
@@somad6997 Oh yeah, there's two different versions. My B. But other than that version, I'm still amazed that most headphones haven't changed in 30-50 years. I love backwards compatibillity like that.
So combining Monty Python's "The semaphore version of Wuthering Heights" and "Salad Days" sketches into one modern take on young people. Brilliant. They really are bringing the classics back!
i like the feeling of analogue technology, it feels so much more "real" for lack of a better word lol, either that or the feeling of clicking buttons & stuff is just satisfying, makes some part in the back of my brain happy
You've given me hope that it will be finally be possible to find buyers for my old cameras, an old flip phone and maybe my ancient Radio Shack TRS 80 Model 100.
My father joined the Navy in 1938 and learned semaphore and could send and receive. I remember his story of how, after he first learned, made the mistake of proudly sending to "go ahead and send full speed" to another signalman and promptly regretting it as the man barraged him and he had to ask him to slow down again.
Gen Z really missed out on the cell phone revolution of the early 2000’s. Back then, each year new phones would come out with exciting new features. Today smartphones just get minor updates. Motorola Razor was a popular phone. Sleek. Great flip phone, and had a camera. Many flip phones had a camera. I still miss my “chocolate” phone. It was a slider and brown and I guess shaped like a tiny chocolate bar? It was tiny and the antenna was built in. Before that I had a cool phone that had a wireless hands free ear piece that stored on the back of the phone. Quickly pop it out and put in your ear to have hands free calls - without having carry around the hands free headset separately. If Gen Z wants to “earn their photographs”, let them convert old 80’s SLR’s to digital, and deal with setting the f-stop manually. The little point and shoot compact cameras were a serious compromise to get a camera that could fit in your pocket.
You know what would be cool? Smartphones that can play radio by using wired headphones as an antenna, like my old crappophone. I miss going outside and listening to the radio on my phone. Also, ringtones. These old ringtone apps were nice.
The wired headphones thing being "vintage" always annoys me. Audiophile headphones with the best sound quality are always wired. They're never going to be phased out.
wireless sound quality is fine these days, for 99.9% of us, but there's just nothing to make you want a wire more than an unexpected BATTERY LOW! in the middle of your music. Usually a non-replaceable battery, even in $200+ headphones. Just sad.
@@danielgehring7437 Gibberish. Or they have a stuttering problem. Think of your hands like clock hands but switch between hour and minute hands as they go around from top to bottom back around to top again, "A-I" are also 1-9, "K" is 0 "J" or a backwards "T" switch between letters and numbers, waving like flapping is "Attention", crossed at the feet means "Stop" or "Rest". There's a few other signs but it's pretty simple to learn.
@@ll7868 Well thank you for confirming. I figured it would just be random but you never know when the writing staff will stick in a joke only a few people would ever get. Like they could have been describing the filthiest pr0n ever made and nobody would know.
@@danielgehring7437 TBF it's even easier to learn than the alphabet in sign language. I learned semaphore 40ish years ago and still remember it. I barely remember "SOS" in Morse.
I still use a Motorola Razr for calls and texts! My iphone is purely for them internets - i love knowing that when my flip phone goes off, its not just an app trying to get my attention. Its my friends! .. and sometimes work i guess lol
I hear that a lot... gotta remind people that you can turn off all the app notifications, or at least the sound/vibration ones. I don't need to be buzzed for every amazon or facebook notification.
I actually liked my old digital camera. My phone camera is alright, but it doesn't have the same settings you can control, and no phone cam has an optical zoom. If you want a good looking closeup, you have to have optical zoom. Otherwise the camera distorts your face.
GenZ may be the finest among us. The ones in my life are broadminded, kind, sensible, and hip to gaslighting. And yes, the youngest has taken over all my old tech. And the oldest has raided & cleared out my old clothes. 😊
I would like to meet those GenZers you've met. Because the ones I've met are just regular humans with all the flaws of every other human being in any other generation.
Very true! I have 2 80s kids. I also have 2 70s kids. They all are kind and quick witted, but those 2 decades definitely had a separate focus. Birth order plays into this, too, as well as the intelligence of (or lack of) the parents.
@@mho... Exactly. Plus many of these things are not actually secure at all. Admittedly cable management is a price and the occasional contact issues spring up, but its not like wireless doesnt have its own issues.
“T9 texting” was the best. You could write text messages without looking at your phone, and also finish them faster than on a modern smartphone. It was brilliant. The only trick was knowing the few common words it had trouble with. “Cool” often turned into “book”. (Fun fact : “book” became slang for “cool” 😆)
I guess everything becomes eventually "authentic" and "vintage", if you wait long enough. Who knows, in 10-20 years time, we will be hearing about a nostalgia boom in e-mail or Excel 😂😂
Years ago a Gen-Z friend of mine was rummaging through some old stuff and found an "old" film camera, the thing wasn't even that old back then, but I understand how it would have looked like an antique to her. I burst out laughing when she asked "how many megapixels was this thing even?"
wired headphones never went anywhere. That's what happens when marketing invents a solution to a made up problem, when most people just want to listen to music without worrying about earphones dying.
The biggest advantage of wired anything, in my opinion: If it's plugged it, that's where the signal is going. You never have to troubleshoot whether your headphones are refusing to connect or whether your phone connected to the neighbor's TV for some reason. It's a massive reliability advantage. I still use wireless when I'm working, but Bluetooth is older that Gen Z itself and it shows.
I work in a place where I have to wear earplugs because of the noise. On my breaks and lunches, I use headphones with wires to listen to music because I don't want to have to take the earplugs out. Not everything from the past should be discarded just because it's not hip and trendy anymore. And don't tell me about "noise-cancelling" this and that. I'm a poor man; I can't afford every trendy gadget that comes out.
@@HavokTheorem Lmao. I spent years adjusting my wired headphones so it's plugged in just right otherwise the sound would not come out or come out in one ear only. One wrong twist and it stopped working. Wired headphone ain't problem free. The wire broke all the damn time. Let's be honest, they both have their pros and cons. Wired headphone means never having to charge the battery and easy connect. Wireless is great when you need to move around the house doing chore and want to connect to a laptop or computer instead of your phone. Wireless is also great for dancers and performers practicing their routine with music on without bothering anyone else. Many people can practice in the same place, to their own music instead of fighting each other for the speaker.
no reason to NOT learn semaphore... but that had to be one of the funniest things I have seen on the show in a long time... normally their cutaway gags are quick one-and-dones with little actually follow-up.. this was well-made and funny.
People get bored at what they got if they're using it everyday so that's why old trends comes back and the new generation are fascinated by old technology because they never saw/used them before!
I wouldn’t say we’re ditching e-books for real books, we’ve always used real books. I literally needed a second bookshelf because I had too many books to store on my one. And that’s not including my comics.
I went back to flip phone. I will not have equipment that sets MY agenda. When I want a phone, I want a phone. Not shit-based ads blocking a call to an ambulance for a friend. Bastards.
@@anobody3803 I used to do that for a living. Much easier to replace a small little lcd than buying equipment to heat the adhesive the smartphone screen has etc etc
Except those old flip phones ran off 2G or 3G networks that are no longer operating, so in most places the old flip phones wont work. Newer flip phones work bc they’re made for today’s networks.
I am gen X, and my son is 2014 (gen Alpha). He loves new and old tech. All game consoles and games, CGI to stop motion and claymation, AI and handmade, texting and post-it notes, acustica to dubb step, 80's cartoon/anime to present. It's been so much fun raising him. He loves my Nintendo 3DS, old school donkey Kong, arcade style TMNT, and Spore, plus can talk your ear off about them just as well as the new stuff. He does prefer handmade to mass produced, especially when I make it as he loves to see how things are made, plus asks where he can help. ❤
Mmmmmmm I was born in 1980, whatever that generation is, and I agree with Gen Z. I even get excited when I show my kids how VHS and old cassette tapes work or rotary phones... I have never read an e-book in my life (or audiobook) and I still put my CDs on the living room to listen to music (I do use streaming services too, but still). PS. You looked amazingly handsome and cute, Steveeee!
I've always been a fan of audiobooks, but there was nothing vintage-chic about needing a box full of tapes or CDs just for one book. They could have made CDs capable of holding hours of mono, lower quality, sound. Never did.
A few years ago, my son was telling me about a great new shaving technology; double edge safety razors. He was a bit deflated when I told him that my father used one. I will admit however that this led me to dumping cartridges for safety razors . . . .
I get that it’s funny that gen Z is using lower quality old technology but it can be really great. Found an aiwa Walkman in my grandparents basement and when I got home my parents showed me their old cassette collection. It brought back so many memories for them. I found my moms old Graceland cassette and asked if I could listen to it and she said I could but it might be worn out from how much she used to play it 🥲. Luckily it’s still in great condition and I listen to it all the time. And seeing all of the mixtapes they made for themselves and each other and friends and ones that friends made for them was so meaningful. I listen to some of my dads and can see his tiny handwriting on the paper inside and think of how long it must’ve taken for him to record them and label them. Helps that my parents have good taste in music. But seriously old technology can be awesome. And the audio quality of the cassettes with the little headphones that came with the player was often much better than my AirPods!
@@petesmitt if you look it up, antique dealers consider something vintage if it's at least 40 years old. So nothing made after the year 2000 is vintage yet.
@@MidnightSonnet The actual definition of vintage is something produced in the past, and typical of the period in which it was made; there is no actual age limit, but yes, some antique dealers like to use retro for items 20 - 40 years old and vintage 40 years and older up to 100 years; however, that's what suits their sales pitch; retro is actually something that's new but styled to look old. Look up vintage clothing; a generally accepted industry standard is that items made between 20 and 100 years ago are considered "vintage" if they clearly reflect the styles and trends of the era they represent.
@@TheUluxian That definition relates to an era of car production. The Antique Automobile Club of America defines an antique car as over 25 years of age. However, the legal definitions for the purpose of antique vehicle registration vary widely. The antique car era includes the Veteran era, the Brass era, and the Vintage era, which range from the beginning of the automobile up to the 1930s. Later cars are often described as classic cars.
