I’m so old I remember when people would read the newspaper.

Like, read every sentence in every story of each day’s newspaper, trusting the editor not to print anything that would be too much of a waste of time.

    • elephantium@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      I used to get so mad at my grandparents for calling them that. They were COMICS, and it was Very Important to call them by the proper name.

      I like to think I’ve loosened up a bit since I was a kid.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, but we’re so much luckier today with options online. I remember there were definitely tiers of the comics and I read them in a particular order, from the crappy soap-opera one that wasn’t funny through (oh I’m gonna piss people off now) the also-crappy ones like Family Circus and Marmaduke and… was it called Love Is? They were always so hokey… then saving ones like Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes for last :)

      I did the same thing with food which is why I’m still fat. :(