# Things you don't "get" anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197 "2022-08-24T01:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/261 "2022-09-03T19:29:06Z")
(mouth waters) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/262 "2022-09-03T19:29:54Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > _Blame_ it? Give me Zelazny and LeGuin over Clarke and Asimov any day of the week. The only pre-1960 SF writer who’s still readable is Jack Vance. 👍 👍 👍 When I was much younger, we’d sometimes to go Manuel’s (i.e. El Tepeyac) in East L.A. on Evergreen. They were famous for some of their burritos. I liked the Hollenbeck, but the Manuel’s Special was so HUGE it was platter-sized. I can’t remember what you got for eating it all in one sitting (another one? no charge?). That was unusual, though. Most Mexican places had easy to handle burritos for the most part…unless they were wet and intended to be eaten with a knife and fork. Now those giant ones are ubiquitous and Too.Damn.Much. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/263 "2022-09-03T20:05:41Z")
Whoops—I thought I had put the name. It’s Rita’s Burritos in Chandler, AZ. ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/264 "2022-09-03T20:09:35Z")
It’s part of a meme that’s gotten it’s own spinoff. > creating the effect that SpongeBob’s face and the alternation of uppercase and lowercase text represents a mocking tone. > **[Mocking SpongeBob](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mocking-spongebob)** > > Mocking SpongeBob refers to an image macro of cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants in which people use the picture of SpongeBob to indicate a mocking tone towards an opinion or point of view. It’s been detached from SpongeBob, and it might not be the exact origin, but it’s how I’ve come across it first. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/265 "2022-09-03T20:25:50Z")
It means you’re being sarcastic. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/266 "2022-09-03T21:40:48Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > _Blame_ it? Give me Zelazny and LeGuin over Clarke and Asimov any day of the week. The only pre-1960 SF writer who’s still readable is Jack Vance. They both predate the New Wave by quite a bit. I was thinking more Disch and Jerry Cornelius. But I wasn’t objecting to the New Wave (though MITSFS passed a motion ordering it to die the year before I joined) I was noting that New Worlds stories didn’t have a lot of science in them. I’m old enough to have read the New Wave stuff when it came out, like the Merril England Swings anthology and the New Worlds collections. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/267 "2022-09-04T00:24:09Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > It means you’re being sarcastic. thx (both), I thought there might be a “hidden meaning” … ingnorance fought 😉 Didn’t get it, I am (and shall stay) firmly in the **/s camp** sooo much more efficient /s ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/268 "2022-09-04T00:26:00Z")
For me, it’s usually that the flavorings taste unabashedly artificial. I mean, you’re not confusing Bud Light Lime with Bud Light and a lime wedge squeezed into it. Nor are you confusing grapefruit-flavored vodka with a [vodka Greyhound](https://www.thespruceeats.com/greyhound-cocktail-recipe-759306) or a Swedish Paloma. > [@susan](#): > > Most were disgusting and we wondered why anyone would drink them rather than just getting a bottle of cheap vodka if the goal was just to get trashed. Based on my limited experience with that sort of thing as a dorm RA in college, going and getting cheap vodka is basically admitting to themselves that they have a problem and submitting to it. If they’re making some kind of drink, then they can keep up the internal charade that it’s just social drinking. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/269 "2022-09-05T19:24:29Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > And when the Harry Potter books first come out, I wanted to see why it was generating such a stir. So…I read it and WHAT a disappointment. As far as I could tell, this was just like every other “British lad goes off to boarding school, has a rough time, and makes good” with a bit of magic jargon thrown into the mix. Not to insist on it being a literary masterpiece, but it did get better. The second volume was a re-write of the first book, but as the series expanded the plots and character development improved. ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/270 "2022-09-05T21:16:53Z")
Known as alcopops here, designed to not taste of alcohol and marketed at the underaged (though not officially of course) [https://www.choice.com.au/food-and-drink/drinks/alcohol/articles/alcopops](https://www.choice.com.au/food-and-drink/drinks/alcohol/articles/alcopops) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/271 "2022-09-06T15:23:58Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I don’t get oversized burritos or sandwiches that are difficult to pick up with one hand I like to eat burritos with a knife and fork, cutting 1/2 -1 cm slices (an easy mouthful). For large sandwiches I like to cut them into quarters (actually I quarter all sandwiches). ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/272 "2022-09-06T15:26:13Z")
> [@Thylacine](#): > > Known as alcopops here, designed to not taste of alcohol and marketed at the underaged (though not officially of course) ProTip: These 4-5% ABV drinks can be made more adult by adding some cheap vodka and bumping them up to 10%ABV. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/273 "2022-09-07T07:39:33Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > ProTip: These 4-5% ABV drinks can be made more adult by adding some cheap vodka and bumping them up to 10%ABV. If you already have cheap vodka, why not just buy some orange juice? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/274 "2022-09-07T10:54:52Z")
Someone brought a couple of six packs of some sort of alcohol-pop to our house. I doctored them up. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/275 "2022-09-07T15:02:27Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > ABV drinks I thought for a moment it was a drink utilizing “already been vaped”. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/276 "2022-09-07T15:03:55Z")
Hah! I never noticed that before. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/277 "2022-09-07T23:29:51Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > I have had discussion on comic book forums about how if they want monthly (not TPB) comics to ever be mass-appeal instead of niche again, I really do think having a complete story in one issue is the way to go - a lot of people don’t want to wait a year to get a complete story. That and putting them in Wal-Marts and grocery stores and making them easily accessible to a broad audience. Put them where people (especially kids, if they ever write towards them again) go instead of people having to go a special place or order them. And I say that as someone who actually really likes continuity and details and things building on top of each other. Totally agree. I never had the money as a kid to buy an issue of Spidey or whoever every month. But I’d just fill in the blanks (“Oh, I must’ve missed Peter leaving his costume on the subway…”). Now, in my 60s, I’m still a cheapskate, so I hit the Dollar Bins and grab whatever looks good. So now I do that “mentally fill in the missing issues” thing on a much grander scale: “Oooh, looks like Peter lost his costume… because Zombie Uncle Ben is now Spider-Man…” ---
**Author:** ![omenran](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omenran/32/3318_2.png) [@omenran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omenran)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/278 "2022-09-08T02:52:51Z")
I’ve heard good things about the Marvel and Shonen Jump apps, if I’m remembering right. Pretty sure DC has one too. They might be roughly the same price for a month of access - I think they go by subscriptions- and you can have a lot more of the library to check out. Worth looking into, I feel ---
**Author:** ![Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/279 "2022-09-08T13:18:36Z")
Microsoft Paint. I used to use it from time to time with pretty good results. I tried a few moments ago to used the latest version to do just about the simplest photo editing imaginable this morning. I want to draw a white box around a rectangle in a photograph, then erase everything outside the white box. Among the things I can’t figure out how to do that should be preternaturally simple are: zooming out to see the whole picture at once, using any magnification less than 100%, and drawing any color line other than black. Even figuring out how to draw a shape without a black outline took longer than it should have. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197/280 "2022-09-08T18:43:36Z")
With regard to series becoming soap operas upthread, here is an Arlo & Janis today on just that. > **[Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 08, 2022 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2022/09/08)** > > September 08, 2022 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-dont-get-anymore/970197.md?page=15)