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vinyl record still rolling?


after the incident, some of the guys goes to a house of an old lady that has been.. "wasted"?, and a vinyl record just finnishes rolling, if the incident happened days or even just hours ago, how in the world can a vinyl record been rolling all that time, and remember a vinyl record has two sides also, so that makes it even shorter than a regular cd. so unless these kids came to the place within 30 minutes of the incident, that record would most probably has been played out, and ofcourse, the lady had to have put it on just as the incident accured then.


i wouldn't have stayed away for so long,
i would have stayed home,
if i had known you'd be gone,
now i see, but its too late,
i walked out on deals, that were unbelievably great,
i must have stayed away too long,
many things got left alone,
now i'm back, but you're no longer here,
if i know this would happen, i'd stay more aware,
i stayed away, for much too long,
now i only can regret, that you are gone,
i had a deal that was so great,
but i lost it all couse of my own mistake,
a bad move i put on,
i left it all alone for too long,
now you're gone.

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many record players had/have a feature that would repeat the record, or drop a new one from a cache of records that were loaded above.

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That's a Bingo!

The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.

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I don't seem to recall any record players that had a repeat feature on them, and I saw quite a few in my day but I could be mistaken. maybe on some of the better models but hers looked like an old cheapy from sears. I do remember the ones that could load from above, but we never used them, as we were told it would damage the records long term to play them on top of each other. I thought about this too, and the best I could come up with is that the record had a scratch on it that was causing the record to keep skipping and finally it wore through the scratch at the time he entered.. lame but it was the best I could think of

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Even some inexpensive record players had a replay/repeat feature. It was just a simple switch on the machine, which made the stylus go back to the outer edge of the record instead of replacing itself on its pedestal. But it was definitely possible to leave your turntable playing the same record over and over.

The war is not meant to be won... it is meant to be continuous.

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Most record players back in the day had a repeat function. The stacker thing was more popular in the 50s and 60s. I worshipped my collection of vinyl way too much to ever treat them like that.

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Worshipped? Past tense?

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Lots of turntables back then had a repeat setting.

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Shouldn't it have kept repeating, then?

The movie doesn't take itself too seriously, so it's not that important. Little things like that do take you out of it a little bit, though.

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Yes it should.

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This was something they actually got right. If you watch the scene, you will notice the record stabilizer arm that is swung out of position and then swung back over the stack when the stack of records are played was not over the stack of records but parked over the tone arm. The reason that's important is that the stabilizer arm not only stabilizes the stack of records waiting on the spindle as the turntable is playing, but when the last record in the stack waiting on the spindle drops, the stabilizer arm drops as well which trips a link inside the turntable to turn the machine off after the last record is finished.

If you wanted to keep playing a record over and over, you would lift the stabilizer arm and swing it out of the way so that it remained in the up position keeping the turntable on repeat.

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