What's your ringtone(s)?

[hefdaddy42]

My general ringtone is the Marvel Studios fanfare.

I also have specialized ringtones for my kids.

[Evermind]

Riverside - Guardian Angel for incoming calls
Arstidir - Shine for alarm

I change it up every ~2 years or so.

[pg1067]

Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

[Stadler]

Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Perhaps the same reason they're called "tin cans"? 

[bosk1]

Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Because tin was widely used as foil before aluminum and the name stuck long after the product ceased to be widely used.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil   https://www.spectatornews.com/showcase/2007/09/history-of-tin-foil/

[hefdaddy42]

In another case of a name sticking around past its usefulness, and to my wife's everlasting chagrin, I continue to refer to our TV remote as a clicker.

lol

[Adami]

In another case of a name sticking around past its usefulness, and to my wife's everlasting chagrin, I continue to refer to our TV remote as a clicker.

lol

I have an apple TV remote and call it a remote, but I'm 99% certain that if I had cable and a remote control for that, I'd still call it a clicker.

[hefdaddy42]

I love you.

[pg1067]

Thanks to Bosk for googling what I was too lazy to google.

In another case of a name sticking around past its usefulness, and to my wife's everlasting chagrin, I continue to refer to our TV remote as a clicker.

lol

This was the remote for our downstairs TV when I was growing up.  My mother called it the "magic plunker."  The second picture is of the inside of a similar model.  It made the channel and volume by banging two pieces of metal together.  Occasionally, jangling a set of keys would have the same effect.   

[ProfessorPeart]

Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Probably the same reason I call my Puffs Plus with Lotion, Kleenex.

[TAC]

Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Because tin was widely used as foil before aluminum and the name stuck long after the product ceased to be widely used.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil   https://www.spectatornews.com/showcase/2007/09/history-of-tin-foil/

I use the term "tin foil" all the time. Or..foil.

[cramx3]

Yeah, I still use the term tin foil.  It really doesn't occur to me that it's aluminum foil even though the package says so 

[Stadler]

No matter what the format is, if I'm listening to a collection of songs by an artist, it's a "record". 

[TAC]

No matter what the format is, if I'm listening to a collection of songs by an artist, it's a "record".

Yes. I even refer to a new CD as a new album.

[pg1067]

No matter what the format is, if I'm listening to a collection of songs by an artist, it's a "record".

Yes. I even refer to a new CD as a new album.

Well...it is.  CD is just one format in which you can buy an album.  In the Columbia Record & Tape Club days, you could buy albums on LP, cassette, 8-track and reel-to-reel.

[TheCountOfNYC]

My text tone is the vocal line leading up to the F#5 in Learning to Live

My phone ringtone is the repeating Octavarium vocal line at the end of the Intervals section.

My vibrate is set to the rhythm of the intro for YYZ.

Yes I am a giant nerd.

[jingle.boy]

Marc, Tim probably still uses rabbit ears for his TV too.

We know this; there is tin foil involved.

Serious, albeit completely off topic, question (and not necessarily directed to you).  Has ANYONE ever actually seen/bought/used tin foil?  It's not tin; it's aluminum, so why do so many folks say "tin"?

Simple - one syllable vs four

[Stadler]

Plus, al-loo-MIN-ee-yum sounds funny.

[pg1067]

I'm gonna go off script and start calling it indium foil.

[jingle.boy]

I'm gonna go off script and start calling it indium foil.

Still too many syllables.

[MoraWintersoul]

Back when I had Androids, I used a lot of different sounds, am too lazy to figure out how to achieve the same on an iPhone, but this is what they were:

ringtones - the outro of Learning To Live, that cool riff in On Rich And Poor by Amorphis, that one cool keyboard bit in OSI's Dirt From A Holy Place, and Oblivion by Grimes in 8-bit.

the two SMS tones I used instead of the vibration sometimes were a clip of Lumpy Space Princess from the cartoon Adventure Time saying "hey gurl" and - how did I even come up with clipping this out and using this, I was so annoying - a clip of Stu Block screaming "METAAAAAL" during that one DVD Iced Earth filmed while he was there

[a51502112]

Mines EVH's Eruption, the tapping part. When it goes off, people are like, WTF is that?

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

I Can't Drive 55

[dparrott]

I sync my ringtones to my sports wallpaper, this summer it's the Space Cowboys https://youtu.be/Axrlhj5zbds

Before it was Lithium by Nirvana for the Seattle Kraken

[TheRich13]

My main ringtone is the beginning of Under a Glass Moon ,
When my wife calls it’s Erotomania , and when my brother calls it’s the chorus from The Silent Man.
He is a man of few words …

[Bolsters]

The Super Bomberman 3 battle options theme

[Spider In The Sky]

Breakthru by Queen. When I had a flip phone it was from the very start with the beautiful a capella intro and everything, but since I have a smartphone that doesn’t seem to let you record your own ringtone, it’s the same song but starting from the “Now!” When the baseline kicks in and the tempo picks up.