Isn't it funny how.......

[Hisrudeness]

Non collector friends or family who tease and ridicule your collecting throughout the year then ask you to find or sell them a boombox for their kids. So they can run their crappy IPods through them. Especially at Xmas.

Anyone else fancy ranting about this?😁😁😁

 

[Beosystem10]

I don't let this phenomenon get at me, I simply tell them all to f**k right off. Job done!

 

[Hisrudeness]

I don't let this phenomenon get at me, I simply tell them all to f**k right off. Job done!

For other readers not from the UK. The further north you go up the UK the blunter folks are! Hence our John's verbal solution to this phenomenon!

 

[Ken]

For other readers not from the UK. The further north you go up the UK the blunter folks are! Hence our John's verbal solution to this phenomenon!

 

[Beosystem10]

He's right. Actually, I've spent some time down south so I'd probably say "please f**k right off.."



BUT.... Suppose we help out with such requests, we would then have a golden opportunity to educate members of the ipod generation in the ways of real, lossless analogue music. If every member did this, within a year there'd be a whole new craze for records, cassettes, 8-track carts and other analogue formats among the young people.

 

[T-STER]

Ya know, Rudeys actually right about this and it does my head in. I have a friend that frequently busts my chops about my collection and informs me my lounge "looks like a branch of Rumbelows from 1986" or some such quip and just tonight I have just dropped him off a boombox for his kitchen and he loves it. He has it hooked up to his netbook playing some old rock when i left.

I also gave the lady near my work a boomer for her kitchen recently and when i opened my boot with 3 to choose from she nearly wet her drawers.

Go figure.

 

[Brutus442]

Like Rudey and Tre...I've got similar issues.

My friends and family jab at me for never letting the 80's go when it comes to my choice in audio.... YET......they are the first to start farting around with all of the knobs, sliders, graphic equalizer during family get togethers and they're the also the ones who ask if they can borrow/buy one of my boxes for work party's or cottage weekends....Unreal..

There is nothing like a box belting out great tunes around a campfire or helping forget how many drinks you've finished helping someone build a fence or dock!

As Peter Griffin would say "That grinds my gears"!

 

[superlew]

"So, you're really just sitting at your kitchen counter working on a radio? Call me when you feel like doing something."

...Three days later, with said "radio" in hand...

"Whoa - That thing is bad-a$$! If I found one, could you restore it for me?"

"Sure. Because I'm such a nice guy."

P.S.: They never find 'em.