Alright kids, microsoft is down so we’ll be watching old movies today. Thank goodness we still have these old crts kicking around. I just hope the magnetic tape isn’t decayed too much.

  • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    The moment I saw the teacher roll in one of these bad boys was the best moment of that day every single time. They never knew how to use them and always needed a student to help, the screen was awfully small when you were in the last row, and the audio kinda sucked, but it was still great because it meant no real lesson and just chilling for a while. Until they started saying, “I want you to take notes” because I didn’t know how to take notes or what was important and always ended up with pages upon pages of notes lmao. Looking back, I should’ve just not taken any notes because we never really discussed anything in depths anyway

    • snoons@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      Perhaps it was just used a projector stand that could also still play VHS’ if one wanted.

      • alapakala@quokk.auEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        I don’t believe in Cambridge students without citations, but I went to look it up:

        Etymology From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele,[1] from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”)

        I can actually believe it when I hear it as “gaurā.” “gurilā” is almost stretching it. “Rā” is too beautiful of a noun.

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago
    Lost in the valley of the unicorns
On a quest for Aberdeen
Fighting the demons of the netherstorm
Guided by a force unseen
Cursed by the magic of the evil one
In a fight to save the throne
Lost in the valley of the unicorns
For Aberdeen I stand alone

    Gloryhammer - On a Quest for Aberdeen