New all time low for Radio Shack

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So I go into Rat Shack the other day to buy some rubber grommets. After 5 minutes of trying to make the guy understand what a grommet is, I gave up and asked him where the hardware was - nuts and bolts and stuff. Because I certainly wasn't finding it myself. He gave me the blank look of doom. I thought he just didn't hear me say "bolts". So I repeated myself. He replied with "umm..." Exasperated, I said "The screws! Where are the screws??" He comes back with "ummm....I'm not....sure...wait, screws? OH! I think I know what those are. We don't have those."

!!!

He thinks he knows what a screw is! REALLY??? My god. It's bad enough that Radio Shack doesn't have simple components and hardware anymore. But have we as a nation really raised a generation of kids that don't know what a fucking screw is???

Jeezus!!!
 
you should see kids try to read a tape measure...
 
Radio Shack died to me in the early 2,000's.....They don't have much of anything anymore! I just go to Fry's.
 
I thought it was bad when I got a blank stare at Radio Shack when I asked if they had degaussing coils. Thankfully, there's a mom & pop store nearby that time forgot and reminded me of how Radio Shack used to be.
 
you should see kids try to read a tape measure...

Or Roman Numerals. :)

I know, what use is that? Lots - it makes one have to think/recall and follow rules for decoding the Roman Numerals. That exercise has many applications in other areas.

Dumbing down all around....too many "honor students". :)
 
THIS. My nephew is almost 10 and looks at an analog clock like its printed in moon speak.

mooninites.jpg

We are also excellent spellers. Challenge us.
 
Try putting a rotary dial phone in front of a kid. That's fun.
 
speaking of roman numerals...here's something interesting
everyone knows about the whole 666, mark of the beast thing, right?

I = 1
V = 5
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500

add up both columns and they equal 666...roman numerals are alot older than ours...they've been around since before Biblical times, so the mark of the beast might not actually have 6's in it, it might have I V X L C D

just something to ponder
 
speaking of roman numerals...here's something interesting
everyone knows about the whole 666, mark of the beast thing, right?

I = 1
V = 5
X = 10
L = 50
C = 100
D = 500

add up both columns and they equal 666...roman numerals are alot older than ours...they've been around since before Biblical times, so the mark of the beast might not actually have 6's in it, it might have I V X L C D

just something to ponder

666 base 16 = 29A

666 base 8 = 1232

666 base 2 = 1010011010

:)
 
5 year old son of mine is learning to, and getting good at, reading analog clocks.

There are a lot of things I go retro with in addition to my addiction to sci fi and video games, like wing tip shoes, and I wear a porkpie hat - we have a rotary phone (one of those retro antiques with the HUGE 1940's handset) as our "storm phone" - the phone that works when the electricity is off.

My kids (most of them are grown now which makes the 5 year old an anachronism) all love pinball - the 5 year old is currently rocking a 1933 Poosh-em-up Jr bagatelle I got off Craig's list. He loves it.

On a side note, you know how hard it is to find a porkpie hat?
 
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5 year old son of mine is learning to, and getting good at, reading analog clocks.

There are a lot of things I go retro with in addition to my addiction to sci fi and video games, like wing tip shoes, and I wear a porkpie hat - we have a rotary phone (one of those retro antiques with the HUGE 1940's handset) as our "storm phone" - the phone that works when the electricity is off.

My kids (most of them are grown now which makes the 5 year old an anachronism) all love pinball - the 5 year old is currently rocking a 1933 Poosh-em-up Jr bagatelle I got off Craig's list. He loves it.

On a side note, you know how hard it is to find a porkpie hat?

http://www.villagehatshop.com/
This site has a pretty good selection of porkpies, fedoras, pretty much anything you'd need in terms of hats.

I'm thinking about bringing back the Fez.
 
I guess it depends on the RadioShack, when I go in for components they always seem to understand what I'm saying, that and they say they sell tons of components. I've noticed a lot of them are trying to be like Best Buy, but it's an odd bunch of people that shop at RadioShack, especially since where there's a RadioShack, a Best Buy is pretty close by.

RadioShack is all over around here. We have a Micro Center in St. Louis, are they better?
 
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"Radio Shack" is the old name, BTW. It's supposed to transition entirely to "The Shack" by the end of this year.
 
i had a freakout today at radio shack. went to buy plastic pcb standoffs for a soda machine board. they are the same standoffs used on pcbs all over the worl and they did not have A N Y that were even close they kept showing me other shit that wasnt even close like nuts and bolts and zipties. I told him he was a fucktard and walked out
 
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