I did NOT see that last bit coming. The whole sketch is very funny, but the end... I bursted out laughing like a maniac. Excellent job to everyone involved in it!
The ending was gruesome. I didn't think it was funny at all. I was laughing and enjoying everything until the stabbing part. Not funny to me...the ending was in poor taste.
How is the google profiting from one-liner sock puppets making comments? Plus more offensive ads! Maybe depoliticizing America's legal system would help? So: "A nonpartisan Justice may compel two recusals by junior partisan Justices." How about that idea?
@@debbiewassylenko5569 Humor's taste is never poor or rich, it is the people who has a taste different from each other. If you don't like it, then it is ok. There are other jokes that may be better for you.
No joke, when I worked at Home Depot a few of my colleagues and I learned semaphore. We had the flags for leading the forklifts and lift trucks so I suggested we learn basic semaphore for on the shop floor. We could insult customers without them ever realizing what we were saying. One of my coworkers was even able to flash SOS to another team while she was being harassed by a very angry customer
Grew up in the 80s. Digital cameras? How about a normal one with actual film where you physically had to find a kodak shop to process just to find you forgot to remove the lens cap in half of them!
Kodak increased their film price. That is why digi cams are making a comeback. Fuji X100V is the hottest thing. When you put a cinebloom filter on it, it's like magic.
It would have been funny, if they had tried to TEXT for help on a flip-phone.. 😂Remember when you had to press the same key three times to get to the next letter? 😂 I feel old.
@@JC_923 it made us SO UNCOMFORTABLE when students would do that. We knew something was going on. And if you're instructing hormone-addled teenagers, you're never sure what that is. Yes, we thought you guys were doing something else with your hand in your pants - that's why we tried to never say anything and draw attention to it.
My father joined the Navy in 1938 and learned semaphore and could send and receive. I remember his story of how, after he first learned, made the mistake of proudly sending to "go ahead and send full speed" to another signalman and promptly regretting it as the man barraged him and he had to ask him to slow down again.
The flip phone becoming popular again actually makes sense. Smartphones, for all their convenience, are full of apps vying for our time, attention, and money. They're lucky if they're even used to make a call on some days. But a flip phone is a return to basics. And considering tablets and laptops exist, having one less "do everything" device does have its appeal. And if this encourages phone companies to come up with cool designs again, sign me up!
Seems like there'd be a market for a flip phone with a camera as good as a smartphone. The screen wouldn't have to show it, but no reason the cameras have to be as bad as they were 10-20 years ago.
@@radellaf they have "dumb phones" that are really smart phones with apps blocked. We were looking into one for our 11 y.o. (the school office will NOT tell students anything, like you're getting picked up today, or I brought you lunch in, they assume that ALL kids have phones... I literally went in to get the older one for a Dentist appt and they were like "just text them you're here" and I said "they don't have a phone, you'll have to call the room." which lead to lots of sighs and drama) the issue is they're still not cheap, and $300 for something that's just as much of a security risk is pointless.
@@alisonalbright1756 That is surprising. I'm not sure that I take _more_, as I'm one of few who bothered to carry a camera with me most places, but I sure don't take less. Digital resulted in more exposures, but not really any more "keepers". The keepers are better, in general, though. The big difference for me is : more videos. Pretty hard to record a video until recently, especially one of decent quality.
i like the feeling of analogue technology, it feels so much more "real" for lack of a better word lol, either that or the feeling of clicking buttons & stuff is just satisfying, makes some part in the back of my brain happy
I can't believe Stephen left out the hardcore younger communities who are investing in old school 35mm and 120 film photography, seriously those things are making a big comeback.
Well, there is something to be said for film that digital doesn’t cover. Things like High Dynamic Range and White Point are basically incomplete workarounds to make up for the fact that digital image sensors cannot capture and encode a super wide range of colors and light levels. And with modern film chemistry, you can capture a lot more than digital has ever been able to thus far.
@@Tustin2121 Modern full frame sensors exceeded what 35mm film could do a while ago, especially 200-400 ISO... and very few photographic situations require that much dynamic range. Now if you're talking 70mm+ low ISO film, OK, that stuff can be pretty impressive.
So combining Monty Python's "The semaphore version of Wuthering Heights" and "Salad Days" sketches into one modern take on young people. Brilliant. They really are bringing the classics back!
Born in 82. Nothing like forgetting to take extra batteries for your camera, then having to figure out where the nearest store is in a location you're unfamiliar with.😂
Flip phones had cameras. Some of them, anyway. More importantly, they had that satisfying "snap-shut" motion that smartphones today just don't have. It's like hanging up the phone: no one does it anymore because no one *can* do it anymore. A good flip phone lets you snap it shut with varying degrees of intensity. So satisfying.
Same here. My 60+ friends who are obsessed with "smart" phones think I'm nuts, but I keep pointing out that most humans can speak somewhere between 250-300 words per minute. So how fast can you text on a smart phone? 10 words per minute if you're lucky? It's simply easier to pick up the phone and *talk to someone*. Oh wait! Talking to another person? To quote Mork from Ork: "what a concept!"
@@gallifreyantauri But if time allows there is nothing wrong with texting. In fact, it may be more beneficial to some people because you can easily find among messages the stuff that you forgot. Also, texting can help to express your thoughts more coherently and systematically which lowers the probability of misunderstanding. In addition, some people just don't want to talk every time because it can get tiresome. So, no, it's not only about speed.
@@gallifreyantauri Well, IMHO if used "properly" the text is for short messages that don't interrupt the other person. If you really have a lot to say, the silliest thing I see is people writing long texts to each other while both looking at their phones. If you don't need to be quiet, then... yeah, seems ridiculous.
Gen Z really missed out on the cell phone revolution of the early 2000’s. Back then, each year new phones would come out with exciting new features. Today smartphones just get minor updates. Motorola Razor was a popular phone. Sleek. Great flip phone, and had a camera. Many flip phones had a camera. I still miss my “chocolate” phone. It was a slider and brown and I guess shaped like a tiny chocolate bar? It was tiny and the antenna was built in. Before that I had a cool phone that had a wireless hands free ear piece that stored on the back of the phone. Quickly pop it out and put in your ear to have hands free calls - without having carry around the hands free headset separately. If Gen Z wants to “earn their photographs”, let them convert old 80’s SLR’s to digital, and deal with setting the f-stop manually. The little point and shoot compact cameras were a serious compromise to get a camera that could fit in your pocket.
You know what would be cool? Smartphones that can play radio by using wired headphones as an antenna, like my old crappophone. I miss going outside and listening to the radio on my phone. Also, ringtones. These old ringtone apps were nice.
The wired headphones thing being "vintage" always annoys me. Audiophile headphones with the best sound quality are always wired. They're never going to be phased out.
wireless sound quality is fine these days, for 99.9% of us, but there's just nothing to make you want a wire more than an unexpected BATTERY LOW! in the middle of your music. Usually a non-replaceable battery, even in $200+ headphones. Just sad.
Wired headphones are retro? It's the only ones I trust. Wireless ones fall out of my ears, and wireless ones connected to each ear like an earmuff hurt my ears. Wired headphones allow my ears space, and can actually stay with my ears through a whole song.
A while back college kids in my city had a fad for giant 1970s earphones. They needed an adapter to play on phones or MP3 players but the sound quality and comfort was so much better.
@@WyvernYT l'm surprised they needed an adapter. Headphone jacks haven't changed since the 70s. I have a 90s cassette player which works with my 2010s headphones.
@So Mad Oh yeah, there's two different versions. My B. But other than that version, I'm still amazed that most headphones haven't changed in 30-50 years. I love backwards compatibillity like that.
I get that it’s funny that gen Z is using lower quality old technology but it can be really great. Found an aiwa Walkman in my grandparents basement and when I got home my parents showed me their old cassette collection. It brought back so many memories for them. I found my moms old Graceland cassette and asked if I could listen to it and she said I could but it might be worn out from how much she used to play it 🥲. Luckily it’s still in great condition and I listen to it all the time. And seeing all of the mixtapes they made for themselves and each other and friends and ones that friends made for them was so meaningful. I listen to some of my dads and can see his tiny handwriting on the paper inside and think of how long it must’ve taken for him to record them and label them. Helps that my parents have good taste in music. But seriously old technology can be awesome. And the audio quality of the cassettes with the little headphones that came with the player was often much better than my AirPods!
GenZ may be the finest among us. The ones in my life are broadminded, kind, sensible, and hip to gaslighting. And yes, the youngest has taken over all my old tech. And the oldest has raided & cleared out my old clothes. 😊
I would like to meet those GenZers you've met. Because the ones I've met are just regular humans with all the flaws of every other human being in any other generation.
Very true! I have 2 80s kids. I also have 2 70s kids. They all are kind and quick witted, but those 2 decades definitely had a separate focus. Birth order plays into this, too, as well as the intelligence of (or lack of) the parents.
You've given me hope that it will be finally be possible to find buyers for my old cameras, an old flip phone and maybe my ancient Radio Shack TRS 80 Model 100.
I still use a Motorola Razr for calls and texts! My iphone is purely for them internets - i love knowing that when my flip phone goes off, its not just an app trying to get my attention. Its my friends! .. and sometimes work i guess lol
I hear that a lot... gotta remind people that you can turn off all the app notifications, or at least the sound/vibration ones. I don't need to be buzzed for every amazon or facebook notification.
@@danielgehring7437 Gibberish. Or they have a stuttering problem. Think of your hands like clock hands but switch between hour and minute hands as they go around from top to bottom back around to top again, "A-I" are also 1-9, "K" is 0 "J" or a backwards "T" switch between letters and numbers, waving like flapping is "Attention", crossed at the feet means "Stop" or "Rest". There's a few other signs but it's pretty simple to learn.
@@ll7868 Well thank you for confirming. I figured it would just be random but you never know when the writing staff will stick in a joke only a few people would ever get. Like they could have been describing the filthiest pr0n ever made and nobody would know.
@@danielgehring7437 TBF it's even easier to learn than the alphabet in sign language. I learned semaphore 40ish years ago and still remember it. I barely remember "SOS" in Morse.
I actually liked my old digital camera. My phone camera is alright, but it doesn't have the same settings you can control, and no phone cam has an optical zoom. If you want a good looking closeup, you have to have optical zoom. Otherwise the camera distorts your face.
Years ago a Gen-Z friend of mine was rummaging through some old stuff and found an "old" film camera, the thing wasn't even that old back then, but I understand how it would have looked like an antique to her. I burst out laughing when she asked "how many megapixels was this thing even?"
wired headphones never went anywhere. That's what happens when marketing invents a solution to a made up problem, when most people just want to listen to music without worrying about earphones dying.
The biggest advantage of wired anything, in my opinion: If it's plugged it, that's where the signal is going. You never have to troubleshoot whether your headphones are refusing to connect or whether your phone connected to the neighbor's TV for some reason. It's a massive reliability advantage. I still use wireless when I'm working, but Bluetooth is older that Gen Z itself and it shows.
I work in a place where I have to wear earplugs because of the noise. On my breaks and lunches, I use headphones with wires to listen to music because I don't want to have to take the earplugs out. Not everything from the past should be discarded just because it's not hip and trendy anymore. And don't tell me about "noise-cancelling" this and that. I'm a poor man; I can't afford every trendy gadget that comes out.
@@HavokTheorem Lmao. I spent years adjusting my wired headphones so it's plugged in just right otherwise the sound would not come out or come out in one ear only. One wrong twist and it stopped working. Wired headphone ain't problem free. The wire broke all the damn time. Let's be honest, they both have their pros and cons. Wired headphone means never having to charge the battery and easy connect. Wireless is great when you need to move around the house doing chore and want to connect to a laptop or computer instead of your phone. Wireless is also great for dancers and performers practicing their routine with music on without bothering anyone else. Many people can practice in the same place, to their own music instead of fighting each other for the speaker.
I guess everything becomes eventually "authentic" and "vintage", if you wait long enough. Who knows, in 10-20 years time, we will be hearing about a nostalgia boom in e-mail or Excel 😂😂
no reason to NOT learn semaphore... but that had to be one of the funniest things I have seen on the show in a long time... normally their cutaway gags are quick one-and-dones with little actually follow-up.. this was well-made and funny.
To be fair, if you pause the video at 3:23 you can see that the sailor code is mostly chronological based on positioning similar to the face of a clock. Match that w/two flags, w/two triangles each, & two ways to hold them, & you've got the basis for quite a few characters that could all be sorted out fairly quickly.
@@mho... Exactly. Plus many of these things are not actually secure at all. Admittedly cable management is a price and the occasional contact issues spring up, but its not like wireless doesnt have its own issues.
“T9 texting” was the best. You could write text messages without looking at your phone, and also finish them faster than on a modern smartphone. It was brilliant. The only trick was knowing the few common words it had trouble with. “Cool” often turned into “book”. (Fun fact : “book” became slang for “cool” 😆)
I am gen X, and my son is 2014 (gen Alpha). He loves new and old tech. All game consoles and games, CGI to stop motion and claymation, AI and handmade, texting and post-it notes, acustica to dubb step, 80's cartoon/anime to present. It's been so much fun raising him. He loves my Nintendo 3DS, old school donkey Kong, arcade style TMNT, and Spore, plus can talk your ear off about them just as well as the new stuff. He does prefer handmade to mass produced, especially when I make it as he loves to see how things are made, plus asks where he can help. ❤
I went back to flip phone. I will not have equipment that sets MY agenda. When I want a phone, I want a phone. Not shit-based ads blocking a call to an ambulance for a friend. Bastards.
@@anobody3803 I used to do that for a living. Much easier to replace a small little lcd than buying equipment to heat the adhesive the smartphone screen has etc etc
Except those old flip phones ran off 2G or 3G networks that are no longer operating, so in most places the old flip phones wont work. Newer flip phones work bc they’re made for today’s networks.
People get bored at what they got if they're using it everyday so that's why old trends comes back and the new generation are fascinated by old technology because they never saw/used them before!
I wouldn’t say we’re ditching e-books for real books, we’ve always used real books. I literally needed a second bookshelf because I had too many books to store on my one. And that’s not including my comics.
Mmmmmmm I was born in 1980, whatever that generation is, and I agree with Gen Z. I even get excited when I show my kids how VHS and old cassette tapes work or rotary phones... I have never read an e-book in my life (or audiobook) and I still put my CDs on the living room to listen to music (I do use streaming services too, but still). PS. You looked amazingly handsome and cute, Steveeee!
I've always been a fan of audiobooks, but there was nothing vintage-chic about needing a box full of tapes or CDs just for one book. They could have made CDs capable of holding hours of mono, lower quality, sound. Never did.
A few years ago, my son was telling me about a great new shaving technology; double edge safety razors. He was a bit deflated when I told him that my father used one. I will admit however that this led me to dumping cartridges for safety razors . . . .
A lot of people don't realize the semaphore letters were what inspired the 1960s "peace sign" it was N and D for "nuclear disarmament" (N being like 6:00 clock hands and D being like 4:40 clock hands), when you overlap the N and the D positions that inspired the shape,
The ending of this sketch really raises a few flags.
...and my breakfast 🥴
That pun is in pole position.
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It just went downhill so fast. 😂
Red ones?
OMFG! that semaphore sketch was so unbelievably good it shocked me.
THIS. So good
I think the pun is over my head 😞 I don't get it 😭
"you can still yell hot takes at strangers" 😂
@@mason96575 its not a pun. its the fact that they went full Monty python tennis skit at the end. ;-)
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I did NOT see that last bit coming. The whole sketch is very funny, but the end... I bursted out laughing like a maniac. Excellent job to everyone involved in it!
Why oh why were they trying to pull the flag out of that gal’s eye?? Don’t!! Ahhhh 😅
The ending was gruesome. I didn't think it was funny at all. I was laughing and enjoying everything until the stabbing part. Not funny to me...the ending was in poor taste.
How is the google profiting from one-liner sock puppets making comments? Plus more offensive ads!
Maybe depoliticizing America's legal system would help?
So: "A nonpartisan Justice may compel two recusals by junior partisan Justices."
How about that idea?
@@debbiewassylenko5569 Humor's taste is never poor or rich, it is the people who has a taste different from each other. If you don't like it, then it is ok. There are other jokes that may be better for you.
@@ShannonJacobs0 I think you are on the wrong side of the internet.
No joke, when I worked at Home Depot a few of my colleagues and I learned semaphore. We had the flags for leading the forklifts and lift trucks so I suggested we learn basic semaphore for on the shop floor. We could insult customers without them ever realizing what we were saying. One of my coworkers was even able to flash SOS to another team while she was being harassed by a very angry customer
That's a lovely story, thanks!
It is a great story, but Terra's comment was so wholesome it honestly put a smile on my face.
Even better for when society collapses altogether.
That's a cool story.
@@mason96575 Thank you, happy to hear!! ☺
"We've got Elizabeth Olsen. You might know her from... the stuff she does." 😂😂😂😂😂 That was amazingly unspecific 😂
Grew up in the 80s. Digital cameras? How about a normal one with actual film where you physically had to find a kodak shop to process just to find you forgot to remove the lens cap in half of them!
People are getting into those too.
Kodak increased their film price. That is why digi cams are making a comeback. Fuji X100V is the hottest thing. When you put a cinebloom filter on it, it's like magic.
@@peggedyourdad9560 Film never fully went away because artists prefer it. No pixilation or chance your perfect shot is going to be ruined by a glitch.
@@danielgehring7437 Good point, I guess it’d be better to say that it’s becoming more popular with young people along with digital cameras.
Remember the flash cubes?
That sketch was one of the funniest I’ve ever seen. 😂
It would have been funny, if they had tried to TEXT for help on a flip-phone.. 😂Remember when you had to press the same key three times to get to the next letter? 😂 I feel old.
But I love the fact that we could text without looking at the screen. I used to look at the lecturers nodding while texting under the table.
And calling mom was 666.
Or a pager.
@@JC_923 it made us SO UNCOMFORTABLE when students would do that.
We knew something was going on. And if you're instructing hormone-addled teenagers, you're never sure what that is.
Yes, we thought you guys were doing something else with your hand in your pants - that's why we tried to never say anything and draw attention to it.
I got really good at that.
My father joined the Navy in 1938 and learned semaphore and could send and receive. I remember his story of how, after he first learned, made the mistake of proudly sending to "go ahead and send full speed" to another signalman and promptly regretting it as the man barraged him and he had to ask him to slow down again.
There are old Navy semaphore training films available on TH-cam for anybody interested in learning it.
@@JusticeAlways Thank you!
Absolutely hilarious towards the end lol! Total chaos!!
The flip phone becoming popular again actually makes sense. Smartphones, for all their convenience, are full of apps vying for our time, attention, and money. They're lucky if they're even used to make a call on some days.
But a flip phone is a return to basics. And considering tablets and laptops exist, having one less "do everything" device does have its appeal.
And if this encourages phone companies to come up with cool designs again, sign me up!
Seems like there'd be a market for a flip phone with a camera as good as a smartphone. The screen wouldn't have to show it, but no reason the cameras have to be as bad as they were 10-20 years ago.
@@radellaf they have "dumb phones" that are really smart phones with apps blocked. We were looking into one for our 11 y.o. (the school office will NOT tell students anything, like you're getting picked up today, or I brought you lunch in, they assume that ALL kids have phones... I literally went in to get the older one for a Dentist appt and they were like "just text them you're here" and I said "they don't have a phone, you'll have to call the room." which lead to lots of sighs and drama) the issue is they're still not cheap, and $300 for something that's just as much of a security risk is pointless.
I'm actually taking less pictures these days. Maybe I forget I have a camera or I'm too preoccupied with everything else on the phone.
@@alisonalbright1756 That is surprising. I'm not sure that I take _more_, as I'm one of few who bothered to carry a camera with me most places, but I sure don't take less. Digital resulted in more exposures, but not really any more "keepers". The keepers are better, in general, though.
The big difference for me is : more videos. Pretty hard to record a video until recently, especially one of decent quality.
I go to check the weather and 3 hours later...
New. Flag. Who. This?
This comment needs a heck of a lot more kudos than its getting.
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that was like an SNL sketch
i like the feeling of analogue technology, it feels so much more "real" for lack of a better word lol, either that or the feeling of clicking buttons & stuff is just satisfying, makes some part in the back of my brain happy
I'm a millennial, we felt the same way about LPs as they were replaced by CDs. You do your thing.
I can't believe Stephen left out the hardcore younger communities who are investing in old school 35mm and 120 film photography, seriously those things are making a big comeback.
Well, there is something to be said for film that digital doesn’t cover. Things like High Dynamic Range and White Point are basically incomplete workarounds to make up for the fact that digital image sensors cannot capture and encode a super wide range of colors and light levels. And with modern film chemistry, you can capture a lot more than digital has ever been able to thus far.
Every recent generation has had a love affair with film photgraphy at some point...
My "ever helpful" phone refuses to let darkness be darkness. For that, I reach for my digital SLR.
Millennials started that comeback 2 decades ago, though. Sorry to say but it's not a Gen Z thing.
@@Tustin2121 Modern full frame sensors exceeded what 35mm film could do a while ago, especially 200-400 ISO... and very few photographic situations require that much dynamic range. Now if you're talking 70mm+ low ISO film, OK, that stuff can be pretty impressive.
So combining Monty Python's "The semaphore version of Wuthering Heights" and "Salad Days" sketches into one modern take on young people. Brilliant. They really are bringing the classics back!
I was wondering if someone would mention the Wuthering Heights sketch
i was thinking about those two skits too! amazing. python fans don’t die or fade away, they lurk on youtube!!!
Born in 84...Kids, you have no idea the pain of losing the digital camera back in Paris 2005 at 2AM
Oh yes I do. I lost a digital camera at Burning Man in 2006 at 2am. I think I left it in a porta-potty. Thousands of priceless photos GONE!
Born in 70 - Or losing a roll of film from a trip to the Caribbean. 🙃
First time on holiday in the US in the 80s, mum didn't realise there wasn't a film in the camera.
Born in 82. Nothing like forgetting to take extra batteries for your camera, then having to figure out where the nearest store is in a location you're unfamiliar with.😂
I was too busy dodging Tom Hanks car being filmed for the Da Vinci Code and throwing up after drinking too much for my 30th at the Hotel De Louvre.
That snake bumping into itself joke flew right over the audience, but I remember that game. Got your back Stephen and I chuckled.
Flip phones had cameras. Some of them, anyway. More importantly, they had that satisfying "snap-shut" motion that smartphones today just don't have. It's like hanging up the phone: no one does it anymore because no one *can* do it anymore. A good flip phone lets you snap it shut with varying degrees of intensity. So satisfying.
Mine did. I was using flip phones from 1999 until the summer of 2018.
Ok that flag bit was hilarious….bravo 👏👏👏
Flip phones are hip? Wow. I'm finally ahead of the curve!
Stay alive long enough and the curve comes back to you! Time is a flat circle!
Same here. My 60+ friends who are obsessed with "smart" phones think I'm nuts, but I keep pointing out that most humans can speak somewhere between 250-300 words per minute. So how fast can you text on a smart phone? 10 words per minute if you're lucky? It's simply easier to pick up the phone and *talk to someone*. Oh wait! Talking to another person? To quote Mork from Ork: "what a concept!"
@@gallifreyantauri But if time allows there is nothing wrong with texting. In fact, it may be more beneficial to some people because you can easily find among messages the stuff that you forgot. Also, texting can help to express your thoughts more coherently and systematically which lowers the probability of misunderstanding. In addition, some people just don't want to talk every time because it can get tiresome. So, no, it's not only about speed.
@@gallifreyantauri Well, IMHO if used "properly" the text is for short messages that don't interrupt the other person. If you really have a lot to say, the silliest thing I see is people writing long texts to each other while both looking at their phones. If you don't need to be quiet, then... yeah, seems ridiculous.
I... I think they just flagged their own video.
Gen Z really missed out on the cell phone revolution of the early 2000’s. Back then, each year new phones would come out with exciting new features. Today smartphones just get minor updates.
Motorola Razor was a popular phone. Sleek. Great flip phone, and had a camera. Many flip phones had a camera. I still miss my “chocolate” phone. It was a slider and brown and I guess shaped like a tiny chocolate bar? It was tiny and the antenna was built in. Before that I had a cool phone that had a wireless hands free ear piece that stored on the back of the phone. Quickly pop it out and put in your ear to have hands free calls - without having carry around the hands free headset separately.
If Gen Z wants to “earn their photographs”, let them convert old 80’s SLR’s to digital, and deal with setting the f-stop manually. The little point and shoot compact cameras were a serious compromise to get a camera that could fit in your pocket.
You know what would be cool? Smartphones that can play radio by using wired headphones as an antenna, like my old crappophone. I miss going outside and listening to the radio on my phone. Also, ringtones. These old ringtone apps were nice.
The wired headphones thing being "vintage" always annoys me. Audiophile headphones with the best sound quality are always wired. They're never going to be phased out.
That sounds very crotchety...just FYI! 😉
wireless sound quality is fine these days, for 99.9% of us, but there's just nothing to make you want a wire more than an unexpected BATTERY LOW! in the middle of your music. Usually a non-replaceable battery, even in $200+ headphones. Just sad.
@@radellaf Or the fact that $200 headphones will be landfill when the battery won't charge any more.
@@radellaf nope, too much latency in wireless phone...definitely not for music enthusiasts and pro
Also mics through Bluetooth aren’t as good
Wired headphones are retro? It's the only ones I trust. Wireless ones fall out of my ears, and wireless ones connected to each ear like an earmuff hurt my ears. Wired headphones allow my ears space, and can actually stay with my ears through a whole song.
A while back college kids in my city had a fad for giant 1970s earphones. They needed an adapter to play on phones or MP3 players but the sound quality and comfort was so much better.
@@WyvernYT l'm surprised they needed an adapter. Headphone jacks haven't changed since the 70s. I have a 90s cassette player which works with my 2010s headphones.
@So Mad Oh yeah, there's two different versions. My B. But other than that version, I'm still amazed that most headphones haven't changed in 30-50 years. I love backwards compatibillity like that.
@So Mad As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
I have two pairs of wired headphones in my bag just in case my Bluetooth ones aren't charged or fail.
"Everything old is cool again."
Everything? There could be hope for me yet!
That semaphore skit went off the rails pretty quickly ... and hilariously. I think I scared the cat...
I get that it’s funny that gen Z is using lower quality old technology but it can be really great. Found an aiwa Walkman in my grandparents basement and when I got home my parents showed me their old cassette collection. It brought back so many memories for them. I found my moms old Graceland cassette and asked if I could listen to it and she said I could but it might be worn out from how much she used to play it 🥲. Luckily it’s still in great condition and I listen to it all the time. And seeing all of the mixtapes they made for themselves and each other and friends and ones that friends made for them was so meaningful. I listen to some of my dads and can see his tiny handwriting on the paper inside and think of how long it must’ve taken for him to record them and label them. Helps that my parents have good taste in music. But seriously old technology can be awesome. And the audio quality of the cassettes with the little headphones that came with the player was often much better than my AirPods!
GenZ may be the finest among us. The ones in my life are broadminded, kind, sensible, and hip to gaslighting. And yes, the youngest has taken over all my old tech. And the oldest has raided & cleared out my old clothes. 😊
I would like to meet those GenZers you've met. Because the ones I've met are just regular humans with all the flaws of every other human being in any other generation.
Very true! I have 2 80s kids. I also have 2 70s kids. They all are kind and quick witted, but those 2 decades definitely had a separate focus. Birth order plays into this, too, as well as the intelligence of (or lack of) the parents.
Yep, my vinyl record collection and sony walkman including tapes is basically being heisted by my daughter
You've given me hope that it will be finally be possible to find buyers for my old cameras, an old flip phone and maybe my ancient Radio Shack TRS 80 Model 100.
Hey wait, that TRS is worth $$$ to collectors!
I still use a Motorola Razr for calls and texts! My iphone is purely for them internets - i love knowing that when my flip phone goes off, its not just an app trying to get my attention. Its my friends! .. and sometimes work i guess lol
I hear that a lot... gotta remind people that you can turn off all the app notifications, or at least the sound/vibration ones. I don't need to be buzzed for every amazon or facebook notification.
Absolutely was not prepared for that ending. 😮😮😮😅😅😅
Vintage tech? Hey, I'm STILL very salty they ended the Blackberry! That thing was AWESOME!
Agreed! I was working for a Telcom as BB was releasing it's final models. It was kinda sad. I miss the tactile keyboard!
The semaphore sketch was truly laugh out loud hilarious! Wiping tears from my eyes.
I learned semaphore while I was in the navy cadets in middle school. It's easier to learn than morse code.
Oh, cool. So, what are the people in the video _actually_ saying?
@@danielgehring7437 Gibberish. Or they have a stuttering problem. Think of your hands like clock hands but switch between hour and minute hands as they go around from top to bottom back around to top again, "A-I" are also 1-9, "K" is 0 "J" or a backwards "T" switch between letters and numbers, waving like flapping is "Attention", crossed at the feet means "Stop" or "Rest". There's a few other signs but it's pretty simple to learn.
@@ll7868 Well thank you for confirming. I figured it would just be random but you never know when the writing staff will stick in a joke only a few people would ever get. Like they could have been describing the filthiest pr0n ever made and nobody would know.
@@danielgehring7437 TBF it's even easier to learn than the alphabet in sign language. I learned semaphore 40ish years ago and still remember it. I barely remember "SOS" in Morse.
Learnt semaphore in brownies, 1965. Glad to see its renaissance.😅
That horror movie-like ending caught me off guard, lol!
That flag sht had my cryin😅😅😅
At least it didn't put your eye out😵🥴
And misspelling, too!
Dude that last sketch was probably the best I've seen this show do so far. The violence has strong Colbert vibes, love it😂
Bonus for the writers who came up with the sketch and the actors for really selling it 😂
As someone born in 92, HAM RADIO SHOULD NEVER DIE!
i am actually a ham operator though i am only really active when storm chasing
Who ever came up with the signal flag joke needs a solid raise.....that was pure gold.
we better teach them proper fire safety for when they discover smoke signals...🤣
Hey. HEY. Flags don't need batteries.
Goofiest sketch in LSSC history!!!! What a time to be alive
I actually liked my old digital camera. My phone camera is alright, but it doesn't have the same settings you can control, and no phone cam has an optical zoom. If you want a good looking closeup, you have to have optical zoom. Otherwise the camera distorts your face.
flip phones did have cameras
That's what I thought, maybe more accurate is people are using cameras because the ones in flip phones are so bad
Mine had phone
_Some_ flip phones had cameras. Early ones certainly didn’t, and even later on the cheap ones didn’t either.
Mine does. I never use it.
Near the end of their life cycle they did yes but they were awful.
A little gruesome at the end. But...
You guys really poured everything into this, and we appreciate it.
Well. That was silly. I loved it.
My late father (1934-2019) would have laughed at this sketch. He was a navigator and signalman in the USN for 20 years. He knew semaphore well.
High praise to your father.
“See? That only took 10 minutes.”😂
Years ago a Gen-Z friend of mine was rummaging through some old stuff and found an "old" film camera, the thing wasn't even that old back then, but I understand how it would have looked like an antique to her.
I burst out laughing when she asked "how many megapixels was this thing even?"
do u guys have samples from that cam?
I would have answered "Seven, it has seven megapixels. And they're REMOVABLE!"
@@Jaq365 lol
That was one of the best skits they have ever done! Absolutely hilarious! 😂😂
wired headphones never went anywhere. That's what happens when marketing invents a solution to a made up problem, when most people just want to listen to music without worrying about earphones dying.
Wired ones are also cheaper and harder to lose.
The biggest advantage of wired anything, in my opinion:
If it's plugged it, that's where the signal is going. You never have to troubleshoot whether your headphones are refusing to connect or whether your phone connected to the neighbor's TV for some reason. It's a massive reliability advantage. I still use wireless when I'm working, but Bluetooth is older that Gen Z itself and it shows.
The solution is to Apple's bottom line, when people have to replace the earbuds they lost.
I work in a place where I have to wear earplugs because of the noise. On my breaks and lunches, I use headphones with wires to listen to music because I don't want to have to take the earplugs out. Not everything from the past should be discarded just because it's not hip and trendy anymore.
And don't tell me about "noise-cancelling" this and that. I'm a poor man; I can't afford every trendy gadget that comes out.
@@HavokTheorem Lmao. I spent years adjusting my wired headphones so it's plugged in just right otherwise the sound would not come out or come out in one ear only. One wrong twist and it stopped working. Wired headphone ain't problem free. The wire broke all the damn time. Let's be honest, they both have their pros and cons. Wired headphone means never having to charge the battery and easy connect. Wireless is great when you need to move around the house doing chore and want to connect to a laptop or computer instead of your phone. Wireless is also great for dancers and performers practicing their routine with music on without bothering anyone else. Many people can practice in the same place, to their own music instead of fighting each other for the speaker.
That semaphore sketch escelated quickly
I guess everything becomes eventually "authentic" and "vintage", if you wait long enough. Who knows, in 10-20 years time, we will be hearing about a nostalgia boom in e-mail or Excel 😂😂
Mmmm vintage spreadsheets. Some good macros I wrote in the day.. 😁
Please please please post the semaphores and the Fox apology as standalones.
They will get lots of views!
no reason to NOT learn semaphore... but that had to be one of the funniest things I have seen on the show in a long time... normally their cutaway gags are quick one-and-dones with little actually follow-up.. this was well-made and funny.
They're literally just preparing themselves for the coming apocalypse.
None coming. Not in your lifetime.
🤔.. and flipphones will help out better then smartphones after the apcalypse, how exactly?!
Using things that don't need external servers to operate. Been saying this for awhile
To be fair, if you pause the video at 3:23 you can see that the sailor code is mostly chronological based on positioning similar to the face of a clock. Match that w/two flags, w/two triangles each, & two ways to hold them, & you've got the basis for quite a few characters that could all be sorted out fairly quickly.
Back in the late 70’s early 80’s CB radio was social media.
Wired headphones are now retro...?
I never stopped being retro?
I am old enough to have been retro all along?!
wired headphones, keyboards, mice, etc are all great!, no need for extra batteries!
@@mho... Exactly. Plus many of these things are not actually secure at all.
Admittedly cable management is a price and the occasional contact issues spring up, but its not like wireless doesnt have its own issues.
“T9 texting” was the best. You could write text messages without looking at your phone, and also finish them faster than on a modern smartphone. It was brilliant. The only trick was knowing the few common words it had trouble with. “Cool” often turned into “book”. (Fun fact : “book” became slang for “cool” 😆)
2:10 ❤❤❤ my heart is so warm RN 🥰
The end felt like an old school horror comedy 😅👏👏
OMG!!!!!!!! 😍😎😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😃🤣😂😆😅 The ending skit is outrageously, shockingly hilarious, lol.
I think this new trend is raising a few red flags ...... 🤔🙃🚩🤣
I am gen X, and my son is 2014 (gen Alpha). He loves new and old tech. All game consoles and games, CGI to stop motion and claymation, AI and handmade, texting and post-it notes, acustica to dubb step, 80's cartoon/anime to present. It's been so much fun raising him. He loves my Nintendo 3DS, old school donkey Kong, arcade style TMNT, and Spore, plus can talk your ear off about them just as well as the new stuff. He does prefer handmade to mass produced, especially when I make it as he loves to see how things are made, plus asks where he can help. ❤
Also, apparently vinyl records are once again cool...
Cool. Not Good.
I still think that's worthy of saving, the art on a lot of those album covers alone are masterpieces.
Like... 10 years ago. You're a little late.
I still have a small vinyl collection, just don't have any thing to play them on .. ☹️
Vinyl has always been popular with people who somehow think digital music sounds worse😂
Omg the flag bit was amazing. I just love her so much, so funny 🤣
Particularly in restaurants, smoke signals are problematic.
Way too much interference at a bbq restaurant when trying to use smoke signals.
Omg I’m laughing so hard…. Can’t stop 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂
Thing is, Gen Z is mostly getting into retro tech because it's cheap and works out of the box, not because they're hipsters.
It's a lot easier to repair as well.
I went back to flip phone. I will not have equipment that sets MY agenda. When I want a phone, I want a phone. Not shit-based ads blocking a call to an ambulance for a friend. Bastards.
@@iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS replacing iPhone screens is so easy
@@anobody3803 I used to do that for a living. Much easier to replace a small little lcd than buying equipment to heat the adhesive the smartphone screen has etc etc
Except those old flip phones ran off 2G or 3G networks that are no longer operating, so in most places the old flip phones wont work. Newer flip phones work bc they’re made for today’s networks.
That was a very Monty Python-esque sketch! Especially the end! 😂😂😂
I thought he was gonna go with a tiny portable chimney to use as a smoke signal but he took the flag route. Still brilliant.
the sketch's ending had brian stack and his conan influence written all over it.
People get bored at what they got if they're using it everyday so that's why old trends comes back and the new generation are fascinated by old technology because they never saw/used them before!
Holy moly did not ever take a turn! I love it!😂
I wouldn’t say we’re ditching e-books for real books, we’ve always used real books. I literally needed a second bookshelf because I had too many books to store on my one. And that’s not including my comics.
"You might know her from the stuff she does" lol
Similar to how rich people think, "camping" is a great pastime. Poor people are tired of "camping"
Lol no
@@dacksonflux You must be great fun at parties.
trevor noah did a really good bit about this
@@dacksonflux Agreed. I don't think rich people go camping.
@@candacen7779 They go "glamping" in $1-2 million motor homes.
The Nokia Semaphore sounds like perfection!!! 🥰💞🥰💞
When she jammed that flagpole into her eye, that's the hardest I've laughed in years!
Beautiful escalation of metaphors in the usually violent semaphore sub-genre...two thumbs up! [insert thumbs here].
Mmmmmmm I was born in 1980, whatever that generation is, and I agree with Gen Z. I even get excited when I show my kids how VHS and old cassette tapes work or rotary phones...
I have never read an e-book in my life (or audiobook) and I still put my CDs on the living room to listen to music (I do use streaming services too, but still).
PS. You looked amazingly handsome and cute, Steveeee!
I've always been a fan of audiobooks, but there was nothing vintage-chic about needing a box full of tapes or CDs just for one book. They could have made CDs capable of holding hours of mono, lower quality, sound. Never did.
😂😂😂
That sure when full SNL at the end... Funny AF
It's just nostalgia. As an older millennial, i have a blast dusting off the video and computer games of my youth
Lincoln logs. No plastic parts.
Genius writers, you outdid yourselves! Brilliant & hilarious.
Give it a year and they'll only want to use cave drawings for communitication
Still better than Facebook.
@@danielgehring7437 - any social media, really.
Whew! Those effects and makeup were believably gruesome! Holy shit. Lol
A few years ago, my son was telling me about a great new shaving technology; double edge safety razors. He was a bit deflated when I told him that my father used one. I will admit however that this led me to dumping cartridges for safety razors . . . .
That was what I needed, thanks for delivering again!
I may need to flag this video for gratuitous violence...
Nokia Semaphore lmfao! that's gold
A lot of people don't realize the semaphore letters were what inspired the 1960s "peace sign"
it was N and D for "nuclear disarmament" (N being like 6:00 clock hands and D being like 4:40 clock hands),
when you overlap the N and the D positions that inspired the shape,
How very 'Happy Tree Friends' was the semaphore skit! ...so retro, ...so good!
1:24 the flip phone? OMG, I grew up with that and now I feel old…at 30 years of age.
The flags had me dying 😂🤣😂
My belly hurts from laughing. And I have a 2004 Olympus in the back of the junk drawer!! The damn thing still works.
Almost choked laughing so hard!
I couldn't see that end coming! Hahahhaha😅