Who still has a radio-cassette in their car - Maggie (2015) Discussion

[–] fargoesto11 10 years ago

Um, did you see the age of the truck? Vinyl was still the main way to listen to music when that truck was made.

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[–] phantomF-12 10 years ago

Yeah, but the radio is like one of the most easily changeable parts.

In the late '90s I had a car that came with a radio-cassette, almost immediately I added a multi-cd changer in the trunk, then in the early 2000s out went the radio-cassette for a cd-mp3 enabled unit, and finally shortly before getting rid of the old clunker it got a dvd unit (with dtv receiver).

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[–] Sir_Hugo_Rune 10 years ago

so, you expect a 60 year old (assuming the character was younger than arnold)farmer from the midwest to put a state of the art music system in his crappy old truck? A truck he's had for years and we never see him listen to music in, except once and even then he bought the tape out of his pocket and put it straight in the player, didn't eject a previous tape.

i don't think music was a big deal to him whilst driving to warrant having an upgrade.

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[–] Savage_Pacifist 10 years ago

That's right! Everyone should be just like you! Let's throw you a parade and ban this movie for not following your awesome example!

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[–] Tyler-A-Arse 10 years ago

They also had a rotary phone in the house. So who knows what was up with them. Even the police were driving a mid-80s Dodge Diplomat.

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[–] leiastarkiller 9 years ago

I was honestly a little confused about what year it was supposed to be set in. When I was the old landline phones in their house I thought it was meant to be in an alternative past. But then I noticed they had normal cell phones too so I guess they just really liked the old technology?

I know a few people who still have tape decks in their vehicles but I don't know anyone with rotary phones like that. Most people that still have landlines at least have cordless phones.

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[–] bmuzyka 9 years ago

They had issues with power. Modern cordless phones often need external power to function, especially a cordless phone. Also, many older farms keep stuff around that still works. They don't replace things, just to have new. Old school farmers tend to shun the disposable lifestyle we have adopted.

This was alluded to with his conversation with Maggie about his truck. His wife had been through 3 or 4 vehicles, yet his old dependable truck was always there to bail them out when those others broke down.

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[–] curryla_07 10 years ago

I do. I drive a 99 corrolla. You're more than welcome to buy me a car made this decade if it bothers you so much.

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[–] cellphonefred 10 years ago

His once adorable little girl grew up and got huge ass titties. I think car audio is the LEAST of his concerns.

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[–] mattshular 9 years ago

My 2006 Audi has a cassette player. They took a long time to die out.

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[–] benman46 9 years ago

I do.

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[–] Suntory_Times 9 years ago

I still have a radio-cassette player in my car and no cd player etc. The horrors. :p

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[–] Taravilyaion 9 years ago

I do..
I have a cassette/cd player actually kinda like this one:
http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/v0/532220612/Car_CD_MP3_Cassette_AM_FM_player.jpg.
I also have a huge cassettes collection from the 80's and the 90's with music which even hasn't been released on CD so that's why I still keep the cassette player in the car..

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