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BigmanPigman

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8. I remember watching TV with my grandparents

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2020, 05:17 PM

Apr 2020

in the 70s and we counted how many commercials they had in a row since it seemed like so many...4! Now there are twice as much.

I had a VCR that would automatically fast forward through the commercials. When it died I couldn't get another one like it since they stopped making that variety, the salesman told me the advertisers pushed for that feature to be removed on all recording products.

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