Time Travel is real?

[Darth SS]

So, my friends have determined that I am living proof of time travel. Not going backwards, however, but rather going forwards. For reasons below they have decided that the 1950's sent me to the present.

Here's their logic.

- I use cash, whenever possible. I have a credit and debit card, but eschew their use as much as possible. I collect my cash by speaking to a teller. For large payments, I use cheques.

- Recently, the truck I got from my dad as a 16th birthday gift finally croaked. It was a 1993 Ford Ranger, with no options selected. I drove it for 150 000km, and just replaced it with a Hyundai Genesis Coupe because it had the fewest number of electronic nannies, and single-push-defeat of the traction control.

- I drive a standard transmission, always. I've often said to my friends that driving automatics just feels like cheating.

- I shave with a straight razor. I used to use a Mach 3, then the Schick Quattro, but then I switched to a "Feather Razor." Thankfully it has a guard so I can't kill myself. But I have been looking into buying a DOVO, without the guard and doing all the stropping myself. The shave is just...better, y'know? Less irritation. Fewer missed spots.

- Apparently it's not common to stand until women have taken their seats at a meal. Also, it's apparently not common to say please and thank you with your waiter/waitress.

- SCOTCH. I lurv me some scotch.


Is their logic sound?
Are you perhaps another person that's been sent into the future?
What do you do which makes others think "Hey now, that's remarkably old fashioned..."

[POS Industries]

I think it's safe to assume that we've all traveled forward in time.

[Darth SS]

I think it's safe to assume that we've all traveled forward in time.

Smart ass.

[Loyal]

So what you're saying is that deep down inside, you're really an old man.

[Flarecobra]

- I use cash, whenever possible. I have a credit and debit card, but eschew their use as much as possible. I collect my cash by speaking to a teller. For large payments, I use cheques.

- Apparently it's not common to stand until women have taken their seats at a meal. Also, it's apparently not common to say please and thank you with your waiter/waitress.

- SCOTCH. I lurv me some scotch.


I also do the quoted things... But no one's said a word.

[Sithdarth]

Personally I'm all for the electronic devices in well pretty much everything. However, I do know how to drive standard and very much prefer driving a standard but it is certainly not a deal breaker in terms of a car. I've also been installed with what might be considered old fashioned manners. Essentially everything deserves a please or thank you, holding open doors for people behind you or coming through from the other side, etc. I'm a bit like that new character on Eureka that was a scientist from 1947 and got dragged to the future. I have a lot of old fashion sensibilities but have adapted well to this new technological future.

[Arhra]

Of course time travel is real.

I wouldn't be living in the future (Sunday, August 15, 2010) if it wasn't.

[Daimo Mac, The Blue Light of Hope]

Hey now let's not mock Darth SS. it's not his fault he is stuck in the past.

[Darth SS]

Hey now let's not mock Darth SS. it's not his fault he is stuck in the past.

What is this glowing rectangle? And why is pushing these...square things...causing changes in it?

WITCHCRAFT!

[Lumenskir]

I also do the quoted things... But no one's said a word.
I think SS is so boring the things he has listed are the only things his friends have to make injokes about.

[EVILNess]

Are you this guy? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2sp-clMk8s)

[Magus]

Do you wear three-piece suits and chainsmoke while drinking the scotch and try to come up with advertising slogans?

Anyway, since when do people not say please and thank you with their waiters and waitresses? Pretty basic civility, I'd say. Standing for women may be a little old fashioned but I've done it before many times without even thinking about it, especially on a date or something. I think I've stood many times for men, too, it probably depended on how formal the dinner was. It makes basic sense to stand up and greet the person, shake their hand, etc. It doesn't really seem like I was taught it either, since my parents aren't exactly upper class people...

[Azisien]

I guess so, I actually do the EXACT opposite of what SS describes in his first post. Literally:

- I use credit whenever possible, debit if its a tiny, pointless purchase. The only time I will use cash is an unfortunate situation where something is cash only.

- I ride the most technologically advanced, high-efficiency personal vehicle: a bike. Hmm okay this doesn't fit so well.

- I've used automatic since I started driving and anything else seems kind of silly.

- I shave with an electric razor 99% of the time, and not just any electronic razor. My razor is almost a robot (http://www.braun.com/medialib/images/common/male-grooming/shaving/pl-shaving-stage-series-790cc-4.jpg).

- Waiting to sit somewhere before or after someone else does or doesn't seems odd. If the situation calls for sitting, I sit, whether I'm to be sitting with a male, female, or giant hermaphroditic sea slug.

- Scotch is basically lightly diluted paint thinner, and the two ends of any spectrum of something alcoholic ranges from "Lightly Shitty" to "Unspeakably Shitty." Certain drinks call for various other descriptors though. Beer, for instance, is often likened to piss (light), or mud (dark).

[Darth SS]

- I've used automatic since I started driving and anything else seems kind of silly.

- I shave with an electric razor 99% of the time, and not just any electronic razor. My razor is almost a robot (http://www.braun.com/medialib/images/common/male-grooming/shaving/pl-shaving-stage-series-790cc-4.jpg).

- Scotch is basically lightly diluted paint thinner, and the two ends of any spectrum of something alcoholic ranges from "Lightly Shitty" to "Unspeakably Shitty." Certain drinks call for various other descriptors though. Beer, for instance, is often likened to piss (light), or mud (dark).

How are you okay with the car deciding what gear it wants to be in? How does that not drive you crazy?

I tried an electric razor once upon a time. I found it wasn't very good at getting a real close shave. It also just gave me a horrible case of razor burn. Like, my neck went solid red maybe twenty minutes after. Besides, what happens if you're attacked by ninjas while you're shaving? Is that what the mustache trimmer is for?

*gasp* NEVER speak down to Scotch! Except in this case where we seem to be moving towards a "to each their own" moment. If you don't like the burn, I would suggest you try a combination of 1/4 rum 1/4 root beer schnapps and 1/2 coke. The sugar masks the burn, so you can't actually tell that it's full of booze. Or at least that is what I discovered in my first year of university.

[phil_]

I just want to pop in and say:

Still driving my '89 Bonneville, Darth SS, and

You make me upset with your descriptions of alcho-hope, Azisien.

[Azisien]

How are you okay with the car deciding what gear it wants to be in? How does that not drive you crazy?

I tried an electric razor once upon a time. I found it wasn't very good at getting a real close shave. It also just gave me a horrible case of razor burn. Like, my neck went solid red maybe twenty minutes after. Besides, what happens if you're attacked by ninjas while you're shaving? Is that what the mustache trimmer is for?

*gasp* NEVER speak down to Scotch! Except in this case where we seem to be moving towards a "to each their own" moment. If you don't like the burn, I would suggest you try a combination of 1/4 rum 1/4 root beer schnapps and 1/2 coke. The sugar masks the burn, so you can't actually tell that it's full of booze. Or at least that is what I discovered in my first year of university.

Well...

My former car never really ever forgot to change gears, or ever really did it improperly. So I just couldn't really care what the car wanted to do with itself as long as it drove smooth and got me to my various destinations, and it did. Standard just seemed like extra, unneeded work.

I'm truly the opposite with the razor thing. My electric razor is good, so it does do a close shave. It's not as good as manual but whether I do manual or electric I'm still shaving daily to stay boyish. However, with manual, I break out into hives after a single shave and they stick around for a good hour or two after the shave. I will still use a manual every so often to get some of the ingrown hairs on my neck that an electric simply can't, but otherwise nah, not worth the irritation.

Rum and coke is the shit, I got little beef against mixing. All alcohol tastes like balls, but our saviour Sugar is there to mask it as much as possible, while still getting one where one needs to go, be that in a chillax mode, a dance floor, or a pretty person's mouth.

[Amake]

Me, I prefer walking to driving. I really dislike polluting, complicated machines in general and things not made to last. I prefer bartering to dealing with cash. I make my own shaving blades. I might be a product of the Bronze Age.

[DarkDrgon]

I'm so old fashioned, I have a beard I neatly trim with scissors, and use a pocket watch instead of a wrister.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I thought this was going to be a thread on actual time travel, like how some scientist has finally built a working time machine and immediately used it to corrupt history for his own benefit and doomed the world. I am so dissapointed right now you don't even know...

[Osterbaum]

I'm so futuristic that my ideas about everything are something you archaic people of the past just wouldn't understand.