Now just realizing they look exactly like toilet paper rolls
well dam I can’t unsee that now
Its just made from the same “shove this cardboard strip into a cyllander because its [was] way cheaper than a seamless roll” process.
Well it works have been nice if it wasn’t just orange sherbet.
* Christian Slater appears *
(to the Americans, he was in a scene in the first Austin Powers movie which was deleted for the USA release for some reason, where Austin Powers hypnotises him to let him pass… and get him some orange sherbet. He reappears later in the movie, gives Austin some orange sherbet, and leaves. It was a brilliant call-back, and I have no idea why they deleted it for the American audience.)
There were clearly some questionable recycling methods for used toilet paper rolls back in the day, but don’t worry, the sweet orange flavor covered up the after taste.
Mmm… Chocolatey.
(Just kidding; I hate chocolate ice cream.)
Lucky you, these toilet paper tubes only came in one flavor… Orange sherbert.
Yum.
The fuk, what’s wrong with a bowl, or ice cream cone? Who uses toilet paper rolls?
You don’t know how hard we had it in the 80s, man.
Cassettes are coming back
Which is ridiculous because it’s really inarguable that between cassettes, CDs, vinyl and digital music, cassettes are by far the lowest quality. No amount of Dolby noise reduction is going to get rid of the hiss entirely either.
One big problem I’ve always had with cassettes is due to the nature of how cassettes work, the sound literally slows down as the battery in the player gets lower.
But with pristine audio in our pockets I do find a charm to it.
I can appreciate that.
I really should know how they figured out how to do this what with going to school for audio engineering when cassettes were still around, but at some point, they figured out a way to get walkmen to just stop working when the battery was too low instead of slowing down.
But yeah, because of that, occasionally music at the right speed sounds too fast for me, especially classical music.
I can’t say I actually know how they made it work, because I’ve never designed or worked on one, but circuitry that cuts out when the voltage drops is pretty common. More of an electrical/electronics engineering type of thing than audio engineering.
