ATOT old folks. how did you settle arguments with friends before the internets?

[jemcam]

We kept arguing and drinking beers for hours at a time. Then next time we saw the same people we'd argue some more an drink more beer, could take weeks or months of discussion before we got anywhere. If someone did eventually find the answer (and many questions were unresolved) it would be the killer blow after a long struggle and the source of much celebration by the winner. That only happened like three times a year so it was easy to keep score against a nemesis. It was great.

Pulling out the phone and googling the answer takes the fun out of it. Stupid modern technology. Get off my lawn!

Sometimes it would devolve into an ass kicking if enough beer was consumed.

 

[mb]

Silly kids. Unbeknownst to youse, back in the dark ages, we had these magical deviced called "BOOKS" that were often used as a source of information.

Of course, laying your hands on such a thing meant leaving the comforts of home...and only old, out of date books were generally found in your mom's basement.

Why there were even brick & mortar places where you could go to buy books...called bookstores, and even places where you could "borrow" said books...called libraries.

Get the fuck out. Lies, all lies.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Arguments always ended with them laying in a pool of their own blood.

 

[BoomerD]

Get the fuck out. Lies, all lies.

Don't make me take out "THE BOOK," child.

 

[mb]

Don't make me take out "THE BOOK," child.

The Book? Is that like a video game guide? I don't understand

 

[DrPizza]

You should get out more.

I get out plenty. And have for decades. You kiddies are the ones with the retarded arguments. It's not that we didn't/don't have arguments - it's that they weren't about stupid trivia. You kiddies today: "She's 20" "No, she's 21" "Nah aww, she's 20. I know this for fact because I had the countdown until she was 18 as my homepage."

 

[Dumac]

Before the internet, there were no arguments.

 

[spaceman]

fisticuffs
i know 2 guys
that went at it over ford v chevy in a fishin boat

 

[KeithTalent]

Usually just forgot about it and moved on with our lives.

Either that or a slap fight.

KT

 

[Dumac]

I can't recall ever being out at a bar - past or present - and having an argument over some stupid statistic.

Almost every argument can benefit from some non-memorized facts that you can look up.

For example, how would you argue with a friend about whether cheesecake is a cake or a pie (its a tart, which is a pie) without the internet?

Without fact checking, arguments boil down to opinion.

 

[erikistired]

punch in the face.

 

[highland145]

I get out plenty. And have for decades. You kiddies are the ones with the retarded arguments. It's not that we didn't/don't have arguments - it's that they weren't about stupid trivia. You kiddies today: "She's 20" "No, she's 21" "Nah aww, she's 20. I know this for fact because I had the countdown until she was 18 as my homepage."

I mentioned I had to go to the library to win my bet.

Lol, got caught in the middle of your edit.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

I get out plenty. And have for decades. You kiddies are the ones with the retarded arguments. It's not that we didn't/don't have arguments - it's that they weren't about stupid trivia. You kiddies today: "She's 20" "No, she's 21" "Nah aww, she's 20. I know this for fact because I had the countdown until she was 18 as my homepage."

you have boring friends.

 

[vi edit]

I get out plenty. And have for decades. You kiddies are the ones with the retarded arguments. It's not that we didn't/don't have arguments - it's that they weren't about stupid trivia. You kiddies today: "She's 20" "No, she's 21" "Nah aww, she's 20. I know this for fact because I had the countdown until she was 18 as my homepage."

That's kinda the truth. Before google & wiki you simply didn't argue over stupid shit you knew nothing about or wanted to be a martyr for..or at least in the numbers that people do online.

You either knew something or you didn't. If you didn't know, you didn't argue about it.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Single shot pistols at twenty paces of course

 

[MotionMan]

Almanacs;
Encyclopedias;
Guinness Book of Word Records;
Librarians directing you to the book(s) with the answer.

It was slow, but it worked.

Everybody knows this.

MotionMan

 

[hpkeeper]

There was a time when the internet didn't exist? -- it's been around ever since I was alive ;-)

Start feeling old.

All of you.

 

[Dumac]

There was a time when the internet didn't exist? -- it's been around ever since I was alive ;-)

Start feeling old.

All of you.

Starting feeling young, inadequate, and immature.

NOW!

 

[highland145]

Almanacs;
Encyclopedias;
Guinness Book of Word Records;
Librarians directing you to the book(s) with the answer.

It was slow, but it worked.

Everybody knows this.

MotionMan

He,he.

The first one I got actually meant something. Not the stupid crap they put in them today.

 

[highland145]

There was a time when the internet didn't exist? -- it's been around ever since I was alive ;-)

Start feeling old.

All of you.

So what's your generation going to invent/create?

 

[Dirigible]

That's kinda the truth. Before google & wiki you simply didn't argue over stupid shit you knew nothing about or wanted to be a martyr for..or at least in the numbers that people do online.

You either knew something or you didn't. If you didn't know, you didn't argue about it.

Naw. It was even better to have zero knowledge. Having no information about a subject and fabricating an argument out of thin air was fun, and if my buddies bought it, it was mega win! With my friends it didn't matter what was true. As long as something sounded good it could be declared the answer.



Truth and facts do nothing but get in the way of good drinking conversation.

 

[lxskllr]

That's kinda the truth. Before google & wiki you simply didn't argue over stupid shit you knew nothing about or wanted to be a martyr for..or at least in the numbers that people do online.

You either knew something or you didn't. If you didn't know, you didn't argue about it.

Nah, you argue for the sport of it. It doesn't have to be important, it's all for fun.

I like Dirigible's explanation best. Funny and true :^D

@Areacode "Impact" is a bullshit word made up by modern media, and generally overused. Impact is when one thing physically collides with another. Affect is when when one things influences another, either physically, or otherwise.

 

[vi edit]

Nah, you argue for the sport of it. It doesn't have to be important, it's all for fun.

I like Dirigible's explanation best. Funny and true :^D

@Areacode "Impact" is a bullshit word made up by modern media, and generally overused. Impact is when one thing physically collides with another. Affect is when when one things influences another, either physically, or otherwise.

Well I'd...uh...argue that you call that just bullshitting and it's not the same as the arguments that you see people really getting worked up about online trying to defend things to death.

We'd bullshit stuff all the time just to occupy ourselves. But it wasn't really arguing stuff.

 

[lxskllr]

Well I'd...uh...argue that you call that just bullshitting and it's not the same as the arguments that you see people really getting worked up about online trying to defend things to death.

We'd bullshit stuff all the time just to occupy ourselves. But it wasn't really arguing stuff.

The internet's anonymity leads people to be dicks about arguing. If they pulled the same crap in real life they do online, they'd get punched. Real life is self regulating :^D