What have you been late to the party for?

By "What have you been late to the party for?" i mean something that was big and popular, but u hopped on the train a lil later than the peeps who were first part of all the rage. i might not be making sense here... i mean not literraly or not necessarily being late to an actual party (tho u could share that story if u would like), but what did u get into later after all the hype. it could be months, it could be years - but what what is something that was cool and old that u got into at a later point than most folks?

ok i'm probably still not explaining this properly but here's an example. The Office was a huge TV show but i never got into it during it's original run from 2005-2013. part of it was i didn't like Steve Carell's Evan Baxter character from the movie Bruce Almighty and also i didn't own a TV at the time. Butt! i always heard about how funny the show was, everyone always quoted it and it won a ton of awards and stuff. it was very popular. i had a friend visiting town like 3 weeks ago and we watched like 3 episodes of The Office and it was like the funniest thing ever! now i'm hooked and i've been watching 2-3 episodes a day and starting season 4! this show is ridiculous and i love it! the show ended in 2013, so i'm late to The Office party.

what about u? what show, film, band, tech or fad or whatever have u resisted during the height of its popularity butt u got into later? was it a fashion fad? book? yoga? How were u late to the party? what do u recommend?

I can relate to your late watching of the Office...and I have yet to warm up to it, for some reason. Similar thing happened to me with "The New Adventures
of Old Christine"...caught on late night re-runs & think it's pretty funny. I think if you're not really in the mood to watch something, it just falls flat...but at the
right time, it gels & can be hilarious. I like Julia Louis-Dreyfus far better in "Old Christine" than in Seinfeld (of course she has a bigger part, and that helps, but
I love the entire cast too).

I'll have to think about it more, I probably have a much longer list of these...my taste in movies is seldom for the mainstream fare, so I frequently ignore stuff
when it first comes out anyway.

Bitcoin. I toyed with buying it when I first heard about it. I think they were like $50 at the time. I still don't own any.

You know I did the same thing with The Office, except I tried to watch it and couldn’t get into it. I think I’ve tried three times to no avail but maybe I’ll give it another go. I always said I didn’t like that kind of comedy, but The Ladt Man on Earth is a favorite show of mine and it’s that same kind of humor. That show wasn’t as big sadly - I firmly believe TLMOE was a seriously underrated show - but I didn’t get into it until the middle of the fourth season. I binged watched the entire show in under a week and was so sad when it was cancelled after a huge cliffhanger. So I was late to that party. Same with the show Mom. I thought it was just another cute family sitcom but boy was I wrong! Being in recovery myself I can relate to the show but any show on network tv prime time that can get away with these sort of exchanges and do it well, has my attention:


Mother Bonnie: I don’t like doctors.
Daughter Christy: You went to a doctor for your back last year.
Bonnie: And look what happened, I got strung out on pain pills. Who knows? I go in for a mole, next thing you know I'm smoking crack.
Christy: What was your excuse for the first time you smoked crack?
Bonnie: I like crack.




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I like that show "Mom" too...definitely not your average sitcom. So I'll have to look for TLMOE then, thanks! ;)

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Originally Posted by Bogertophis

I like that show "Mom" too...definitely not your average sitcom. So I'll have to look for TLMOE then, thanks! ;)

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TLMOE is hysterical. The first episode or two are a little slow but only because they’re introducing the cast of characters as they meet at the end of the world. Once the core group is established it gets really funny. There’s some great guest stars too, Mark Boone Junior who played Bobby Elvis on Sons of Anarchy, Jack Black, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Jason Sudeikis, Will Ferrell and more. Plus if you’re a fan a Ferrell’s you’re probably familiar with Mary Steenburgen who is a main character on TLMOE.

It’s a really good show and if you end up liking it and watching it til the ending cliffhanger, let me know. I did find out how the show was supposed to end and should you get to that point and be curious I’ll gladly fill you in!

Definitely Bitcoin. I knew about way back in the day but couldn't care less as I was busy playing video games. I lost 1K, my friend lost 5k.

I've been late to a lot of things, but I wouldn't say I've missed out.

For those of you who feel bad about not buying bitcoin when it was trading for practically nothing, I wouldn't worry about it. I don't consider Bitcoin an investment because there are no measurements we can take to indicate that it is valued fairly or has any reason to rise in value over time. It was designed to be used as a legitimate decentralized currency, but people aren't using it that way, so for me personally it has no value.

People liken Bitcoin to stocks, but there's a huge difference. When you buy stock in a company, you actually have a proportional ownership stake in an enterprise that owns assets of value and presumably is able to use their assets to make money each year, which gets passed down to you as an owner in the form of dividends or growth of the company (which in turn raises the stock price). You can also very easily own an index that gives you small proportional ownership stakes in so many companies that a chunk of them can go belly up and you will still (historically) continue to make money.

I spent a couple years as a licensed investment advisor and always find the cryptocurrency discussions interesting. That doesn't mean that bitcoin won't go on to reach new highs again, but I personally wouldn't put a penny of my own money into it.

I was late to the iPhone. Had an android till the iPhone 5. A guy said if u don’t like it bring it back. I didn’t bring it back and I love it way more than my androids. Everyone converted to iPhones at my work and it was great

Also I was a few seasons late to game of thrones. Which is the best show ever!!

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Also I was a few seasons late to game of thrones. Which is the best show ever!!

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Yeah same here ... I caught a bit of one night and wasn’t sure about it but thankfully a colleague suggested ( very strongly) that I watch the very first episode... I was hooked ..


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breaking bad, just started it a few weeks ago
i've still never seen the titanic and i didn't have my first big mac until i was 30 years old (and in ireland lol)

i've never watched GOT and never will....

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I was late to the iPhone. Had an android till the iPhone 5. A guy said if u don’t like it bring it back. I didn’t bring it back and I love it way more than my androids. Everyone converted to iPhones at my work and it was great

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Oh heck no!! I'm a Samsung guy all the way. I bought one iPhone years ago and HATED it. I couldn't switch back to Samsung fast enough.

...now on to Ax's original question...
I'm not sure if I'll catch flack for this or not, but here goes...

I wish I had jumped on a job a few years back with a chef friend of mine. He left the grind of the restaurant industry to make marijuana edibles (legally in MA).
So, he works for a dispensary here in MA and is making bank. He has stocks in the company and is killing it. Not to mention his job is EXTREMELY less stressful than restaurantville.
I wish I jumped on that train when I could have. With $9.8 MILLION in sales the first month between just 2 locations (we now have 7 and counting) the market is obviously BOOMING!!

Now, some of you may say "But, Craig, aren't you an addict?"
I am, and an alcoholic. But I can say this with a 100% open, honest mind...I have never lied, cheated, stolen or manipulated for marijuana, nor did it ever change the person I am. I became a pro at lying, cheating, stealing and manipulation for drugs and alcohol, and I became a rotten shell of the person I am when drinking and using.

I'm also a firm believer that medicinal marijuana can save lives. Picture a world where instead of seeing your Dr for back pain, knee surgery, etc... and walking out with a script for a narcotic...you walk out with a script for marijuana. It is much safer, and I can speak from experience here, nobody gets addicted to marijuana and jumps to heroin because it's cheaper. It happens EVERY DAY with people on narcotic pills FROM THE DR!!

Anyway, medicinal and legal marijuana are booming, and within a few years will be legal in almost every state. I wish I got on that train sooner.

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Originally Posted by SilentHill

breaking bad, just started it a few weeks ago
i've still never seen the titanic and i didn't have my first big mac until i was 30 years old (and in ireland lol)

i've never watched GOT and never will....

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I was intentionally late to the party with Breaking Bad. I knew it was a great show and that I would love it, but what I wouldn't love would be the year long wait between seasons.

I started as the last season was ending, reasoning that it would be available on Netflix just as I was getting ready for it, and it was! It was nice to be able to enjoy the decent at my own leisurely pace.

I wish I had done that with Game of Thrones! I started that in Season 1 and have had to deal with the annual frustration between season. I mean c'mon HBO, 10 episodes then a year wait for the next 10! My whole family is drooling now for those last 6 installments.

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Originally Posted by Danger noodles

I was late to the iPhone. Had an android till the iPhone 5. A guy said if u don’t like it bring it back. I didn’t bring it back and I love it way more than my androids. Everyone converted to iPhones at my work and it was great

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Originally Posted by craigafrechette

Oh heck no!! I'm a Samsung guy all the way. I bought one iPhone years ago and HATED it. I couldn't switch back to Samsung fast enough.

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get both! i have an work issued iPhone and a Samsung/Android personally. overall the Samsung and Android is superior but i still love beauty and the simplicity and ease of use of the iPhone. the thing i hate most about the iPhone is that all your icons are pretty much on a grid that blocks your background wallpaper. WTF is up w/ that? :mad:

also i miss Windows phone.

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Originally Posted by craigafrechette

...now on to Ax's original question...
I'm not sure if I'll catch flack for this or not, but here goes...

I wish I had jumped on a job a few years back with a chef friend of mine. He left the grind of the restaurant industry to make marijuana edibles (legally in MA).
So, he works for a dispensary here in MA and is making bank. He has stocks in the company and is killing it. Not to mention his job is EXTREMELY less stressful than restaurantville.
I wish I jumped on that train when I could have. With $9.8 MILLION in sales the first month between just 2 locations (we now have 7 and counting) the market is obviously BOOMING!!

Now, some of you may say "But, Craig, aren't you an addict?"
I am, and an alcoholic. But I can say this with a 100% open, honest mind...I have never lied, cheated, stolen or manipulated for marijuana, nor did it ever change the person I am. I became a pro at lying, cheating, stealing and manipulation for drugs and alcohol, and I became a rotten shell of the person I am when drinking and using.

I'm also a firm believer that medicinal marijuana can save lives. Picture a world where instead of seeing your Dr for back pain, knee surgery, etc... and walking out with a script for a narcotic...you walk out with a script for marijuana. It is much safer, and I can speak from experience here, nobody gets addicted to marijuana and jumps to heroin because it's cheaper. It happens EVERY DAY with people on narcotic pills FROM THE DR!!

Anyway, medicinal and legal marijuana are booming, and within a few years will be legal in almost every state. I wish I got on that train sooner.

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yeppers! 27 states and the country overall is sooo late to this party. :rolleyes:

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I'm also a firm believer that medicinal marijuana can save lives. Picture a world where instead of seeing your Dr for back pain, knee surgery, etc... and walking out with a script for a narcotic...you walk out with a script for marijuana. It is much safer, and I can speak from experience here, nobody gets addicted to marijuana and jumps to heroin because it's cheaper. It happens EVERY DAY with people on narcotic pills FROM THE DR!!

Anyway, medicinal and legal marijuana are booming, and within a few years will be legal in almost every state. I wish I got on that train sooner.

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I don't quite think it will replace "knee surgery" ;) but I do agree that it's a better option for many conditions & should be legal & an available option. And no way
should all these people be locked up over petty violations, but of course the current system does make a lot of money for those running the private prisons, and they
gotta fill them somehow...:rolleyes: (-the whole mess needs to be fixed!)

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I don't quite think it will replace "knee surgery" ;) but I do agree that it's a better option for many conditions & should be legal & an available option. And no way
should all these people be locked up over petty violations, but of course the current system does make a lot of money for those running the private prisons, and they
gotta fill them somehow...:rolleyes: (-the whole mess needs to be fixed!)

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No, it certainly won't replace surgery, but it is a healthier pain relief alternative to opiates and narcotics for post surgery pain relief.

Boa constrictors. I was late the party with Boas.

Kept reptiles for over 20 years before I got my first. Now I have two.

Love them!

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Originally Posted by JRLongton

I was intentionally late to the party with Breaking Bad. I knew it was a great show and that I would love it, but what I wouldn't love would be the year long wait between seasons.

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have you seen better call saul??