When people say television set

I have a friend who says things like, “we’re watching a program…”. She even says it (unironically) like Bea Arthur.

What do today's youngsters say instead of television set?

Icebox, gramophone, Victrola, stereo, boiler, wringer ....

tureen

When people post on DL ….

I love the old words and expressions.

What is OP's problem with old people?

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I don't say "television set, say "TV set".

In the 1950s it was known as the "Jew Box".

TV is old ffs. It was invented in the 1920s. By definition it's antique.

Speaking of television sets, I refer to streaming services as channels, as I hunt for the remote, which I call the clicker, all to the great disapproval of my family members under the age of 40.

We say Philco, as in, "Warm up the Philco, Ferd, it's time for Twilight Zone!".

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Anyone who says "slacks" instead of pants. Absolutely ancient.

Dungarees for jeans. Fossil.

The kids saying watching a show or Netflix.

Why is there a dressy dress but no pantsy pants?

Or slacky slacks doris ?

Whenever we watch a movie on Netflix, mother will ask, "Is that a tape?"

Watching television set on the Davenport.

Thanks for the reminders.

Douchebags.

I wonder how many of these are in the landfill?

Anyone 'member "action slacks" in the 1970s? We'd giggle at teachers sporting those. Synthetic hip huggers with a cloth belt, I think. Not infrequently worn with "earth shoes", which were funky plastic platform orthopedics with a bunion-friendly toe box.

I cancelled all my streaming subscriptions to save up money for new broadloom.

R4 …of boeuf

Philo Farnsworth got screwed.

What am I supposed to say if someone tips over the TV? after SHIT! Someone knocked over the audio visual unit? What's wrong with TV?

When they tell a joke that involves a 'milkman'

When people say "you're welcome"...

A few years ago, I told some friends that I’d watched something on my color TV. It got quite a laugh. It seems I went into an eldergay time warp back to to the 1960s!

“Tonight we will eat Swanson dinners, in front of the color TV. Followed by those tiny little plastic ice cream cups with the paper lids.

Oleo..

^^with metal TV trays, no less

R34 That’s way frozen meals should be cooked.

Somebody wants $1,599 for this baby on eBay.

We had a similar console at home as our first color TV when I was a gayling, but not with all the “high tech” features. The eldergay geek in me got excited looking at the TV’s features in the eBay listing, as if it were 1972 again! At this stage of life, I’ll take whatever I can get to feel young again, even if only fleetingly!

When I was little, my neighbors did say "oleo" and called their blender an "Osterizer."

Zap it in the radar range

Briefly in the ‘60s we lived with an elderly great aunt who would always tell me to get something for her from the “fridge over there”. It was years before I realized she was saying “Frigidaire”.

People who refer to eyeglasses as 'specs' or 'cheaters'

"TV" is fine, R28. It's the "set" that gives you away. It's like calling your radio "the wireless".

R17, my heart bleeds for the younger generation that they think "streaming services" are convincingly represented as "Netflix", which is by far the worst of the major services for quality and diversity. (Diversity meaning lots of well differentiated content, not wokeness.)

The console entertainment unit at R36 sold for $1,350.00 in 1972. That’s a bit over 10k today.

In 72 a High School teacher earned around 8k a year.

Zenith - The Quality Goes In Before The Name Goes On.

The cost seemed high but on most major purchases for the home you would expect an appliance to last at least 20 years. When my mother died my sister claimed her Electrolux vaccuum. It's at least 50 years old but my sister uses it. Mostly for fun and nostalgia but she uses it. The fucking thing still works like it's day one. She is, and my mom was, a clean freak. They bonded over cleaning. So I guess it means something to her.

As a kid I always wanted a "Quasar, by Motorola." They were a new line of transistorized "tv set" and could be easily repaired by pulling out a drawer on the back panel. They were US built until the company was sold to a Japanese manufacturer in the 1970's.

I remember would something would break down my father would say something like "what was this shit made in Japan?".

I'm going to put this new LP on the hi-fi.

Dialtone.

Guys who call cocks "peckers"

tallywhakers

I have been known to call it the 'Weather Bureau' instead of the 'Weather Service'

Pocketbook, as in "Does she always wear her pocketbook on her head?"

My rheumatism and lumbago are actin' up!

My mom always calls it her pocketbook R52 - but she’s almost 90.

Was pocketbook a term that was regional to the Northeast?

I have a friend from Philly who's in his early 40s who says "pocketbook."

Oh no it's a rerun !

Well I usually say it as well R55, those few times I need to refer to a handbag - I’m sure your Philly friend just absorbed it from his mom and grandma like me.

r57 it must be a mid-Atlantic thing. I grew up in the Midwest and spent many years in New England. I never heard "pocketbook" either place.

Pronouncing the word "beautiful" as "beauty-ful." Billie Holiday does this on Lady in Satin.

And when they say Telly, they're British.

I’m watching my stories!!

That’s what I suspected R58 - we’re all old school Brooklynites and I never heard the it when I was in Chicago for college.

Pocketbook vs. Purse. With my mom smaller ones were a pocketbook. A purse you could keep your family alive with for a week or so. Plus moms had this radar with her purse. I still don't get it. She'd be by the pool reading. Us, out of ear shot and sight in the kitchen. Going through her purse for money and ciggies. Sure enough, and how she did it I don't know, GET OUT OF MY PURSE!

I have to correct myself it was: "GET OUT OF MY PURSE. GOD DAMMIT!".

There is no 'pantsy pants' Doris - but there is 'fancy pants.'

"Well look at fancy pants!" - said about you if you deviated one bit from the mediocre.

[quote]I have a friend who says things like, “we’re watching a program…”

What else would you call a program?

[quote]I'm going to put this new LP on the hi-fi.

At least you didn't refer to it as a "vinyl."

[quote]I have a friend from Philly who's in his early 40s who says "pocketbook."

"Pocketbook" is what we called a woman's purse in New Jersey. I still call it that, though I no longer live in NJ. And I'm in my late 60s.

It's always been "pocketbook". I assumed it was a Massachusetts thing.

Channel 4 has good cartoons and The Little Rascals, but Channel 6 has the best movies and afternoon tv shows.

I had a neighbor (lady) who was from Texas. She called her purse a "pocketbook."

Mom had a boyfriend a few years after dad died (back in the 70's). He was about 20 years older than she was. He would call his luggage his "grips" and whatever he drove was a "vehicle". Of course mom adopted those terms whenever she referred to a suitcase, or car or truck.

My neighbors, the ones who said "oleo" and "Osterizer" called a suitcase a "valise," emphasis on the 1st syllable, and the "i" pronounced as in "it." These people were probably part of the Dust Bowl diaspora, I've come to realize. I remember another neighbor being kind of snobby towards them. It wasn't right to be snobby, but I understand, now.

r70 "vehicle" instead of "car or truck" is one of my pet peeves, but it seems to me a class marker rather than a generational marker.

What does "vehicle" signify, as far as class?

"Vehicle" is cop talk, IME.

It's a lower-class thing, r73.

I've watched hundreds of hours of The People's Court and it becomes apparent.

[quote]I've watched hundreds of hours of The People's Court

Talk about a lower-class thing, r74.

[quote] I've watched hundreds of hours of The People's Court and it becomes apparent.

I'll defer to your research, then.

I have my grandparents' 1950s TV in my garage. It is a black and white set with a screen which measures 18"x12" with rounded edges. Cabinet doors can hide the screen. I can't bear to part with it. It's probably not fixable, but the image of my mom, my aunt and my two grandparents watching it like it was modern technology is ingrained in my mind.

I grew up near Philly. We had a console tv in the 70s. In the 80s, 90’s, and probably beyond we had watched a portable that sat atop the now non-operable console set.

The term pocketbook was used almost unilaterally. I live in California now. A few years ago the word pocketbook appeared in a novel. Almost no one here, adults nor kids, had any idea what pocketbook meant.

Turn me on

I’m a Radio

If they say 'Chinaman'

Have you got a $1.10 for the paperboy?