Not To Worry, Friend, "There's Always Another Sale™"
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I imagine it's not supposed to be out yet. Probably a new release in the coming days. @NSFW, I agree about those shutters. All the windows you can see are long and tall, and if you open only one section, it's from top to bottom, not angling out from the middle. Maybe the accidental early addition to the store and our converstation here will alert Daz QA to the issue. Hopefully that won't get released that way. I know I won't buy it until that's fixed.
My brain is still stuck in the era where a paperback novel cost $3.99-$4.99. Which is sometime after 10 cent candy but around when a whole candy bar cost two quarters.
I can remember when gas was 25¢ per gallon and lower when a gas war got going.
Don't forget those wax parafin lips, sugar fake cigarettes (white with the red tips, there were two welded together) and the gum could be purchased in quantities of two. They had a white 1/2" strip of paper around the middle banding them together, in wrappers just like today. Definitely NOT tamper proof. I remember Boston Baked Beans candy, Black Cows. And still love Milk Duds today! Oh and that Teaberry Gum Shuffle commercial. Love this! That football player rocks it! (and gum is still available at Cracker Barrel!) Here's another commercial.
Now, I'm feeling really old. I still have a couple of old comics around that were 35 cents. And, I remember penny candy and pinball machines in the local 7 Eleven. I also remember when Saturday matinees were actually cheap.
It actually looks like there might be an option to open both ways. Some windows look like they open from the middle and two of those open from the bottom which I have to admit looks rather strange. I don't think I've ever seen those type of shutters open that way before. Perhaps some weird architectural thing going on in Tuscany?
Thanks, they've already taken care of it...fast enough that I was able to get the refund and buy the bundle within a few hours.
Daz gets an A+ in the Customer Service Dept.
Hmmm...not sure I'm seeing what you mean. If you're talking about the way the window hinge in the middle, I can tell you that there are lots of these types and many other crazy hinging shutters and windows all over Italy and Greece. We had window sashes and shutters on our house in Santorini that could open in the middle, from the top, bottom, or swing from the side. I think they were designed to make as much use of the natural breezes as possible.
LOL...My sister loved those necklaces. She used to buy them by the bagful. I remember my dad would give me $1 to spend on the weekend. My sister and I and some of the other neighborhood kids would ride our bikes to the White Hen Pantry...the convenience store before they were called convenience stores. They had the red hotdog shaped bubblegum, Sugar Daddies and Babies, SnoCaps, Bit O' Honey, and even candy and bubblegum cigars and cigarettes. The bubblegum cigarettes were awesome because you could blow through the paper wrapper and the powdered sugar would come out the end in a puff of smoke. Don't forget Lik'em Aid - those pouches of flavored powdered sugar that came with a candy stick that you stuck in the powder and then licked off.
At that time (as mentioned), the full size Hershey bars were a dime. I remember when they made them smaller. That was one of my early experiences with inflation. I could buy a respectable amount of candy to last all week on that single dollar. Nowadays, I'd be lucky to find a full sized Hershey bar, let alone buy more than one for just a buck.
I think I had an addiction to those old fashioned lemon drops. :)
Maybe this is just me, but did anyone else love to buy a bag of Twizzlers, then open them and leave them for a few days so they would get leathery, almost like candy jerky? Hey, don't knock it until you try it! :P
I remember when I was young, sitting on my neighbor's porch, listening to the old guy talk about party line phones, the real Black Friday, his first car (a used model A, I think), gathering eggs out from under angry chickens...
I recently found myself explaining to a young lady about pay phones, long distance charges, British sports cars, and big blocks with cherry bombs...
As she sat on my porch listening to the old guy talk.
It's okay, she'll never know the thrill of driving a Triumph Spitfire with her butt three inches above the pavement, whipping through corners with the top down and the music of a finely-tuned British motor snarling in full voice, or (shudder) synchronizing dual Webers, or the joy of dealing with Lucas, the Prince of Darkness.
But she did look at some Spitfire photos and ask sadly,
"Why can't they make cars that look like that today?"
Fought the Lucas with my BSA 650 Thunderbolt
...I remember being able to fly between Portland OR and the Bay Area for as little as 19$ each way during the fare wars of the 90s. Cheaper than the bus or train. The best part of the deal was I received full mileage credit and if I volunteered to be bumped, I got a free round trip ticket to wherever that airline flew in the lower 48.
No wonder so many airlines went under or merged.
I remember when we had penny-chews, and some only cost half-a-penny...so I also remember when we had half-penny coins.
I only have vague memories of the late 70s though, as I was born around Star Wars when it was just 'Star Wars'.
OK, if anybody gets Bolnarr, can that person put him in the sharpest suit they have and post him here? I want to see.
I got him to see if he can double as a Neanderthal (maybe dialled in at a lower percentage), but I'll see if I can find a suit for him
...you're feeling old.
I remember when comics were still 12¢, pinball machines cost 10¢ or 3 plays for a quarter, and yes, penny candy. With some you got a couple peices for a penny like red hot dollars and cinnamon bears. Boxes of Jujyfruits, Dots, and JuJubees were a nickel, a 5¢ Hershey, Nestle Crunch, or Chunky bar was big, a 16 oz bottle (glass) of Coke (with real sugar) was 12¢ (and you got 2¢ back when you returned the bottle), and a nickel snack sized bag of crisps was bigger than what you get for 1$ today.
39¢ would get you a cheese burger, fries and a Coke at a McDonalds drive in 45¢ would get you the "All American" meal (Hamburger, Fries and Shake). A cup of coffee really did cost a dime and you could get a 2 egg breakfast with a couple strips of bacon or link sauseages, and hashbrowns for 50 - 60¢. A gallon of that great creamy A & W Root Beer was 85¢
A phone call from a public phone cost a dime (in New Orleans it was still a nickel in the mid 70s).
Plastic scale model cars and planes were 95¢ to 1.25$, a Hi Flier™ diamond kite cost a dime and a box kite, a quarter, Saturday double feature matinees with 2 cartoons (with the organist occasionally performing popular tunes between films) were 50¢. Bus fare was a dime for kids, 20¢ for adults (and it was a private company that ran the service) and many of the buses were electric with overhead wires. A "Knothole Club" ticket to watch the Braves was 25¢ (later 50¢) which included the bus ride to the ballpark. 4th row tickets to see the Beatles when they came to town were a whopping 4.50$. A 45 RPM single was 59¢ - 99¢, an LP album, 2.49$ - 2.99$
OK, OK, Ill stop now.
I never understood how the British could like warm beer until I visited there:
Lucas also makes refrigerators.
OMG! I owned a 1970 Triumph Spitfire MKIII. I absolutely adored that little car in spite of some serious time underneath it patching holes in the floorpan, replacing 3 starters, a muffler, and just about any electrical component on the machine. Often, the new bits were just as screwed as the old bits. On days when they were feeling up to it, the headlights and other various electricals worked fine. Other days, you thought the battery died...but no, it was probably yet another loose connector or burnt out solenoid. But, Petercat, you clearly have experienced what it means to own one of these machines. I was in love the first time I saw it, even with all the rusty bits. And, I will never forget flying down the country roads with the top down, the heater blasting, and my cassette deck screaming the Kinks' Give the People What They Want at full volume. I think the fastest I ever got it going was about 105mph. But, with the wheels barely touching the ground and my butt almost to the pavement, it might as well have been double that speed. And, how could you not think it was cool that the entire front end of the body lifted forward to get to the engine and mechanicals?
I sold it to my cousin when I graduated college. But, there isn't a year that goes by that I don't think of that bright red little sportscar. I've owned MGs and Austin Healeys since then for short periods of time until the pain of keeping them running got more frustrating than the fun. But, I've never had a love affair with a car like I did that Spitfire.
The first time I ever saw a Spit was at the movies. Before "The Man with the Golden Gun," Triumph had an ad playing. As a young boy watching that car twist around the mountain curves, I think my eyes actually glazed over and started to sparkle.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Well, on a Daz related note..Anyone else think that it's odd that a PA item, Aeon Soul's "Nova Hair" is the banner render for DO Genesis 2 hair? I mean, it's not even in the sale. I was all ready to buy it too.
Can I add to the "I can remember" list.
I can remember standing on the River bank with my school class and a teacher, watching them load cable onto the cable laying ship that was laying the first telephone line to America, before that line was completed there had only been a telegraph cable, no speech.
@chohole That's just waaaaay cool. What a memory!
I'm a bit confused this morning. When it says PC members get an additional 20% off, that isn't ALREADY in the price is it? Because the New Debuts aren't doing it. The Clydesdale is giving me the additional discount with the orange banner (requires previous purchase) so it goes to 5.36, but there is no additional 20% off for being a PC member. And the Shape Shift Bundle doesn't discount further either. It's showing 52% off. Or, is our 20% already in that?
52% off is indeed the regular 40% off with additional 20% off (you pay 0.6*0.8=0.48 of the base price).
Thanks @leana I hadn't shopped much in this sale and am still getting the PA sale stuck in my head. Plus, with glitches that happen, it messed with consistency.
That's because it's real beer (aka ale) and if it's chilled below room temperature you lose half the flavour. We drink lager (i.e. German style or Pilsner) chilled because it doesn't taste of much to start with! (IMO
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Warm beer typically means warm weather here too. It's such a rarity that we're happy to embrace all the side-effects :) Apart from the tendency of part of the population to expose masses of flesh in case it never gets the chance to see a sunbeam again. There's nothing like a British heatwave to demonstrate that there's no such thing as 'average', and that if there is then it's a long way from what's suggested by the Daz store :)
Oh my goodness. Thank you! He looks great. Something about that contrast.
Appears that we share the same timeline
I remember getting paid each week in cash in a yellow envelope. LOL
Sherbert lemons, pear drops and pineapple chunks :) (because I am old too)
oh goodness, that takes me back! we had them over here, in a little box. They were called Fags back then, as a fag is a cigarette in England/Australia. They were changed to "Fads" a little while ago, not sure when. But we loved those as kids - thought we were soooo cool pretending to smoke. LOL. Aussies will know Bundaberg ginger beer/sarsparilla drinks too.....they are in beer stubbie bottles and as a kid, you'd put your hand over the yellow label while drinking and think you looked so cool cos you thought it looked like you were drinking beer. LOL. I remember when we were kids, my brother and I would spend the weekend with my grandparents - my grandad was working on a farm at the time, and he'd take us out there very very early on a Saturday morning, and on the way, he'd stop at the milk bar and would buy us each $1 worth of mixed lollies (which was a HUGE amount) and a bottle of Export Cola, so we could sit in front of the saturnday morning cartoons eating and drinking all that damn sugar. LOL. My brother and I would have burping contests with the cola and then Pa would take us around the rabbit traps on the farm and skin the rabbits right there in front of us. He always made sure to point out the "poo bag" which would alternatively gross us out and have us laughing in hysterics cos he would say "sh** bag" and we thought that was SO daring. LOL