this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
483 points (93.4% liked)

Memes

45655 readers
2382 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 172 points 1 year ago (4 children)

RadioShack, and it's not even close.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we do radio shack from the 80s early 90s over the cellphone retailer they turned into before death.

[–] al177@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 year ago

Just before they flatlined, they started stocking more modern hobbyist stuff. Arduinos, shields, Parallax Propeller, and Vex, but stupid expensive.

[–] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I mean…it kinda makes the most sense to bring Jesus back.

  • Still none of us would leave the house to rent movies if blockbuster came back.

  • None of us have shopped at toys r us since were had our own money to spend, so toys r us wold exist to us all the same way it does now: a fond memory.

  • RadioShack…I mean, would anyone not buy their shit online if that happened? Nah. Also, not to mention, fuck corporations and chain stores and consumerism.

And if you bring Jesus back…he’s a socialist pacifist Jew that might have a chance of setting the worst America has to offer right on their misguided opinions. We need more powerful anarcho-socialists, especially powerful ones—and I mean, literally powerful. He is purportedly magic. Boom. Goodbye capitalism.

No question. Bring Jesus back. And Conan.

[–] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I mean, if we're bringing like Bible Jesus back, I'd agree. But if we were to bring back the actual Jesus, he'd probably just be some religious lefty with a podcast and no one would care.

I'm not sure how a socialist jew half way around the world from me is going to help me find a specific value capacitor that I need immediately to fix an AV reciever I just picked up from goodwill.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to mention the absolute melt down that would happen with the worst of Americans if he came back the same race he was when he died.

Oh man the amount of evangelical Christians in America who think Jesus was white is way too damn high.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone who tinkers with electronics, hard agree

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The same old 555 timers, opamps, and LED PCB xmas trees they've been selling for 30 years are nice but...there's much more interesting shit now and they didnt seem to catch on to that until the very end when they suddenly rushed out all the Arduino shit.

Around here, Micro Center replaced Radio Shack for my component impulse buy needs, and they even have Adafruit and Sparkfun stuff, and several aisles of a variety of other hobby electronics stuff. It's RadioShack x100.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)

Jesus.

Only because I want to see how Right wing "Christians" would react to being faced with their messiah being a middle-eastern globalist communist that preaches love and acceptance.

[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly this time, instead of crucifying him, we really should strap him down to a table and put him in a lab to see if we can figure out some more medical modern miracles before he rage quits to heaven again.

Not like anyone on this Earth is going to gain anything from listening to his actual teachings or anything.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (23 replies)
[–] Pinklink@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Either RadioShack or Toys R Us. The other two, one is useless in this day and age, and the other is Blockbuster

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] eddietrax@dmv.social 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

RadioShack had everything you were looking for and absolutely nothing at the same time. It was glorious.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] SignorPao@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'd say Jesus. Either to prove everything written in the bible is fake or to watch some sweet miracles happen. Either way, I win.

[–] BlackLodgeCooper@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"You didn't bring back the real Jesus. This is a false flag. Jesus was a Soros plant and not the same savior mentioned in the Bible." Is probably what people will say if you did the former.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] MajinBlayze@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Modern Christians wouldn't recognize him and would crucify him again

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
[–] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Radioshack fs, bring back the idea of repairing your shit to the public mind

[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

1980s-90s RadioShack, yes.

They really went off the rails during their decline. They became a cellphone store, and not at all a good one.. Their pricing on EVERYTHING was not only non-competitive, it was ludicrously expensive.

[–] Graphine@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

RadioShack.

I remember going as a kid, once. I was 5 I think. It was....unique. A shit ton of red I remember. And cheap cell phone cords. Wish I could've experienced it more. Especially during the 90s. But that's before my time.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I would choose Jesus and I'm not even Cristian 🤣🤣🤣

[–] Noughmad@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You monster. You know the modern Christians would just kill him again. And he wouldn't fare any better if he came back in a Muslim country either.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is the point, then we can finally lay Christianity to rest. It is clear the majority of Christians are not followers of Christ. Killing off or ignoring their own prophet would force them to recognize they are just authoritarian assholes.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)

80s RadioShack for sure. I miss that place so much.

[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I think people are forgetting that Blockbuster video was the shitty megacorp that killed all the charming local, independent video stores.

Those stores had personality. I miss that experience.

Blockbuster felt corporate and bad.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

I’d like to bring back the market environment that made Radio Shack profitable - when the “right to repair” was a given, and not something that needed to be fought for in court.

[–] Uvine_Umbra@partizle.com 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jesus. Imagine how much of the world would react if

1: jesus literally proved he existed to faiths that say he's a hoax (im agnostic btw)

2: He reforms the groups that use his name as a pretext to exclude & marginalize others.

3: Dude turned out to have been gaming like a boss in heaven, like dude comes down & faces the pope in Dungeons & Dragons or Pokemon lmfaooo

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

Plot twist: he gets crucified, again.

[–] supercriticalcheese@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago
  1. World Christian churches split into at least 2 additional factions per each existing faction (Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, whatever orthodox, and whatever else exists). Each having a slightly different view on the new Jesus dude.

Nevermind if Jesus turns up to be non binary I expect a meltdown then.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Driftking@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus. He is slated to return one day anyway but we need him now to show republicans what christianity is all about

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Dwarpheus@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

As a non-American I'm not familiar with any of these things. That dude looks kinda familiar though, wasn't he one of the Beatles? The one that got shot? Bring him back please!

[–] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I miss having knowing there's a Radio Shack around the corner if I need an obscure component or an exotic battery for a project.

Yeah, you can find anything online now, but you have to wait for it to ship, hope it doesn't get lost or stolen, and hope they actually sent the right part.

Edit to add: Basically 80-90s RS, not the husk that it was more recently that sold mostly phones and crap toys around the holidays.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RadioShack, the real thing but modernised, like Fry's and microcenter but way more hardcore. It's not even a contest

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely Jesus. I want to eat popcorn while I watch Christo-fascists and the prosperity gospel crowd hysterically calling Jesus a terrorist because he took a flamethrower to their vile McChurches.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fuck the nostalgia treats. As far as I have read, jesus-cleanse was a comrade and would be a comrade again.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] stonedemoman@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

RadioShack was great when every electronic was analog and you needed some random VGA to RCA adapter at 9pm on a weekday

load more comments (3 replies)

RadioShack. Without a doubt.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who worked at RadioShack, I would only want to bring it back if we could have owners who care about electronics and technology more and making profits less. I got to live the decline as they tried to become a cell phone store, and then got destroyed by big box stores and provider stores in that market. RadioShack would need to stay in its lane. Electronics, home theater, computers.

If you have a MicroCenter in your area, it will have all this for you, tho, so I honestly would pick ToysRUs. There just isn't a real "fun focused" retailer anymore. Even adults could feel like kids at ToysRUs.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] benjamin@artemis.camp 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jesus but only if He's vibing with His roommate the Buddha in some small apartment like in that one manga

[–] bq@artemis.camp 11 points 1 year ago

I live in a crazy ancient backwards land where Toys R’ Us still exists.

So the obvious choice is RadioShack.

[–] AlgonquinHawk@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Toys r Us still alive in Canada!

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Frank@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Y'all really need to step up the meme game. What does this even mean. "I'm old ha ha ha?"

Also, Jesus. I don't need more cheap crap, I need to get drunk on a friday without spending my whole paycheck and Josh can hook that up.

[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Surprisingly, I might pick Blockbuster. Having even just one streaming service costs the same as like 8 rentals per month. Idk about the rest of you, but I think I watch more movies than most and it's still not 8 per month. And remember video game rentals?! Game Pass and PS+ Extra are amazing, but the selection is far from endless.

And it's kinda win-win. I'd bet anything that revenue for these media companies would rise since it would be cheap enough and convenient enough to curb some amount of piracy. It's just not worth the effort and risk for lots of people if they can just pop in for a rental while they're already out for groceries. Redbox should be more successful, but there's something about browsing in person through aisle after aisle and seeing what jumps out, and it saddens me that my generation may be the last to have had that experience.

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus, that way he can end the world before global warming kills us all.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›