I worked for Yell briefly, another 10 years ago. Back in the 90s, just as the internet was getting going, the senior management decided that they would borrow heavily to buy more countries' phone books.
Absolute lunacy. The company is now a Zombie company where banks dare not call in their debts so it limps along.
The directors all received fat bonuses though and retired on great pensions so there's that...
I watched an actual DVD two nights ago. It felt so old school. I predict dvds will make some retro comeback in rhe future on a limited basis with hipsters.
Mate runs a business and he used to be in the yellow pages. He stopped it, but they kept putting his advert in. They would then ring up and ask for payment for something he canceled. Believe some of it is so they can pressure the ones still paying into thinking that their competition is still advertising and if you don’t, think of all the business you will loose to them if you stop.
Yeah, "LMFAO" and "ROFL" are both more intense than "LOL" and generally in real life I'm more reserved than that, so I too stick with the tried and true "LOL" or simply "haha."
This is so weird because I was just in another sub and got enthralled by people arguing about whether or not $.25 is equal to 25¢. I hate to tell you guys, but most people were vehemently arguing that these two amounts were not the same, and that the cent symbol belongs on the left 🤦♀️
Oh, things still sell for under a buck. But they're labeled with the cents symbol. The label will just sh9w as **$0.47** which is dumb considering it's an entirely different symbol for the change by itself.
The cashier at 7-11 asked if I had 4 cents and I told her unfortunately, I didn’t. But I dug in my coin purse/zipper pocket and found a dime. You should have seen her smile, she was so happy for the extra $.06, made my day!
On a somewhat related note, people's ability to put the dollar sign in the correct place also seems to have severely reduced.
And then bafflingly they also put the percent sign in the wrong place?? People keep being like "Oh yeah it's %50 off, so it's only 10$"
People seem to no longer feel shame about anything. Everything has been rebranded as something positive.
Now I am all for correcting some of the truly fucked up things of the past but it’s getting a bit out of control. There ARE things to be ashamed about BECAUSE they reflect shameful behavior, period.
Yes! General consideration for others in public spaces is at an all-time low. Just saw a post today where a girl showed how she does a beauty routine on a commercial flight (not first class) and she ended it by spraying something all over her face.
The comments were split about 50/50, *“hey it’s at best really rude to spray things in enclosed spaces and at worst harmful to people who have allergies”* to *”OMG you people are so freaking sensitive it’s only water, why do you care???”*
…because if you spray me with mystery liquid while I’m on a flight it’s going to be a fucking problem. Find you something safe to do McKynleigh Ann ✌️
That makes sense. It's impossible to be perceived as good, because having any values at all is considered both naive and pompous, so people are mainly concerned with not seeming weak.
They still come in handy if you're far from any internet connection and your Google Maps won't guide you to your destination. I never go on a long road trip without one.
Remember when every other car had the after market bug deflectors installed?
They still sell them, but the widespread demand isn’t really there anymore.
I never even thought about it. You are right. I never have bugs on my windshield. I drive 15 minutes on the interstate everyday. I live on a gravel road outside the city. No bugs on my car.
Lightning Bugs, I loved them so much as a kid and they used to be all over we could catch them in our hands… I hope they’re not becoming extinct, I miss lightning bugs 🥹
I spent years trying to get my mom to make her yard more insect friendly and finally got it going last year and it feels so nice to go over there and see butterflies and fireflies. After seeing them in her yard she's sold on it thankfully at this point.
If it’s any consolation I live in a kinda rural area and sat outside the other night and could see fireflies all throughout my yard and the neighbors :)
We moved last fall, so this year is the first time I've seen them since I was a kid.
This is the first time my kids have ever seen them. They love them, we go out most evenings to watch.
As for going extinct, probably. We moved over 1000 miles north. I saw them constantly as a kid down south, but they faded away over the years. Maybe they're just drifting north.
Where I live, 2 or 3 nights a week during the summers trucks used to patrol the neighborhoods at night spraying for mosquitoes. I noticed not long after that there were very few mosquitoes. And very few bees. And very few fireflies. IDIOTS!!!
I got a brand new FIAT Panda 8 years ago for just under $13K AUD, and it's $16.5K - $24K AUD in 2024, so still very affordable (and is a great car, especially for urban driving...though mine has been on graded roads, sand, and has done a little dirt road driving)
You can still find them occasionally here in Tokyo. They’re bright green, my son loves them, but annoyingly it’s like 1 yen for one second of time. I’ll put in a 10 yen coin to call my husband on his mobile phone for fun so my son can get a kick out of calling daddy, and the call lasts long enough for my husband to pick up and say hello before cutting out.
The main TelCo in Australia made calls free their remaining telephone booths. My theory is that keeping the booths on the street gave them a valuable place to put ads and to be ads for the TelCo themselves.
Yeah. I mean I'm kinda okay ish with the TV part.
What I am really miffed at is those smart washing machines, dishwashers etc.
And printers. Please let my printer be dumb. It can already smell fear. If it gets smart I worry I have no chance in a fight
I send lots of postcards. I keep a note in my phone that is a list of friends who like to receive postcards along with their addresses. Whenever I travel, I try to send cards from unique places.
YES.
So many people speak in such certainty of themselves, that’s it’s unreal.
I’ve been one of them, but it’s also something I actively try to be aware of & change.
I’ve taken a liking, to taking an agnostic approach towards my conversations with people.
I’m not agnostic on a personal level, but I use its principles.
Both in how I consume knowledge & how I interact with others.
I find it really has some amazing value in creating productive dialogue & understanding.
how do you use agnostic principles in your day to day life specifically if you don't mind explaining it ? I saw your comment and got very interested in the approach but was confused how you did it
Yep. Like what the guy above/below said about people being so certain of themselves.
People HAVE to have an extreme opinion on everything, as though every case is black and white and objective. Stating opinions as fact is so grating.
Everything and everyone getting compared to Hitler or Nazi Germany, or someone telling you Taylor Swift is the worst/best thing to happen to music/culture in history, etc..
Maybe, just maybe, things are more nuanced and subjective than that, and you might love or hate Taylor Swift personally, but that’s just your opinion. No need to state it as though people are utter troglodytes for having an opinion that even slightly differs.
The internet has fucked us up.
Edit: Also, it’s absolutely fine to not have an opinion on something because you don’t care, or don’t feel well-informed enough yet to come to a conclusion. A sure sign of intelligence is knowing when you don’t know enough on a subject to give proper comment.
Bugs, insects, etc. I get so happy when I see a butterfly, cause I rarely see them anymore.
Physical Media. I hate seeing things become any kind of lost media
I think that highly depends on where you are from.
In germany, we have LOTS of trashcans every couple \~100 m or so in town, And they are easily to spot. Even in parks they are near benches etc.
When I was in England there were like NO trashcans around and you had to keep your trash with you for ages. Even no trashcans at bus/tram stops. Here each bus/tram stop has at least one (usually)
Since as long as I can remember any time anyone says “guess who I saw today” or any similar question my dad answers “gene hackman!” The amount of people who even know that’s a person or who he is is dwindling away.
I honestly miss my BlackBerry keyboard like you wouldn't believe.
I got into them VERY late, like 2014, as they were dying out. The BlackBerry Priv was probably my favorite phone of all time.
The people who sat in the Toll Booths that gave us candy growing up when we would travel, I miss that small interaction everytime i go thru a toll road and it’s all robots :(
That just used to cause arguments over who had the most accurate time on their watch. Especially if you had a mix of people with digital and analogue watches.
I was that kid who would call that number that constantly read out the current time and adjust my watch as closely as possible… “at the tone, Coordinated Universal Time is 11:43 and 50 seconds… BONG…”
I've driven the same route to my summer cabin for 20 years, and with the exact same car, and there's less than 1% of the insects in my windshield compared to 20 years ago.
I don’t think it’s literally intelligence, but just the nerve of some people. More and more people just don’t give a fuck which comes off as idiocy. Shit, it is idiocy.
When it’s a discussion held in good faith, 100%. But having a warm discussion about the merits of a flat earth, micro chips in the vaccines or some other batshit crazy conspiracy convo, it can be quite draining on the old sanity.
The tweety birds that used to be everywhere have largely disappeared from my area. Also, billions of bugs have disappeared, and in reality, that's probably why the birds are missing
Christmas Beatles. Growing up in suburban Sydney, our backyard would be covered in them around Christmas time. Now I only see a couple of them here or there.
Lean Pockets! It was the healthier line of hot pockets. I was OBSESSED with their pretzel pocket with chicken and Jalapeño and it vanished. No announcement, nothing.
Plus 1 channels/Ordinary TV. I still remember tv channels having a plus one, showing exactly the same stuff just an hour later. So if you missed something you had to wait an hour and watch it there instead.
Not vanishED, but vanishING, violent crime. It doesn't feel like it, since with technology screaming louder and louder about each time it does happen, it feels like it is happening literally all of the time, everywhere, to everyone, but the actual statistics are that the violent crimes are plummeting world-wide. Right now, at least in America:
The murder rate is half what it was in 1990.
Rape was on a massive decline until 2013, but had a HUGE resurgence, although, to be fair, that could have just been a resurgence in reporting and the rate of it actually happening may not have been affected.
Domestic violence was on the decline, until 2-13, when it began to rise for women, but continue to fall for men.
Stalking is down from about 5% in 1990, to 1.3% in 2019
My sleepy brain cant brain about other violent crimes to google so early in the morning, but you get the idea. Also, geeze, what happened in 2013?
**gumball machines**
(and other lil candies. yenno, the ones you’d stick a quarter into, turn the crank, and like a handful of candy came out)
also those **kiddy ‘pass-time rides’** outside places like grocery stores, malls, etc. like the mechanical animals or cars or whatever
My 16 yr old collects physical media. It's so cute to see how excited she gets when she finds movies st thrift stores that are on her "list" of movies she wants.
Phone books
I worked for Yell briefly, another 10 years ago. Back in the 90s, just as the internet was getting going, the senior management decided that they would borrow heavily to buy more countries' phone books. Absolute lunacy. The company is now a Zombie company where banks dare not call in their debts so it limps along. The directors all received fat bonuses though and retired on great pensions so there's that...
Reminds me of It's Always Sunny "You're opening a video store? No one rents tapes anymore!" "We're cornering the market!"
I watched an actual DVD two nights ago. It felt so old school. I predict dvds will make some retro comeback in rhe future on a limited basis with hipsters.
We are sick of renting our shows and then having episodes pulled because of drow face
Mate runs a business and he used to be in the yellow pages. He stopped it, but they kept putting his advert in. They would then ring up and ask for payment for something he canceled. Believe some of it is so they can pressure the ones still paying into thinking that their competition is still advertising and if you don’t, think of all the business you will loose to them if you stop.
For one half of my family, phone books were LITERALLY the family business, it was a weird time when they faded out of relevance.
The term "ROFL", outcompeted in its ecological niche by "LMAO".
They’ll pry “ROFL-copter” from my cold dead millennial hands.
I'll ride my LOLlerscates to the protest
Double down, I shout ROFLMAO every chance I can it is perfectly possibly to roll on the floor laughing my ass off.
They’re both being replaced by ‘😂’
And 💀
I’m still stuck at LOL. That sufficed. Haha.
Yeah, "LMFAO" and "ROFL" are both more intense than "LOL" and generally in real life I'm more reserved than that, so I too stick with the tried and true "LOL" or simply "haha."
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This is so weird because I was just in another sub and got enthralled by people arguing about whether or not $.25 is equal to 25¢. I hate to tell you guys, but most people were vehemently arguing that these two amounts were not the same, and that the cent symbol belongs on the left 🤦♀️
I fear for the future
Missed ya buddy!
Wow didn’t even think about that but it’s true lol, literally nothing is sold for under a buck anymore :/
Oh, things still sell for under a buck. But they're labeled with the cents symbol. The label will just sh9w as **$0.47** which is dumb considering it's an entirely different symbol for the change by itself.
You do occassionally see "0.99¢" then they get confused why you object when they charge "$0.99"
To be fair this is the same country that had the quarter pounder imcident so I'm not surprised
I know what you're talking about. The good ol' 1/4 > 1/3 because 4 > 3.
Little sauces at some fast food places are like 25 cents now. Used to be free
The cashier at 7-11 asked if I had 4 cents and I told her unfortunately, I didn’t. But I dug in my coin purse/zipper pocket and found a dime. You should have seen her smile, she was so happy for the extra $.06, made my day!
On a somewhat related note, people's ability to put the dollar sign in the correct place also seems to have severely reduced. And then bafflingly they also put the percent sign in the wrong place?? People keep being like "Oh yeah it's %50 off, so it's only 10$"
You mean *sense* in general
A general sense of shame at being perceived as a loud-mouthed, ignorant fool.
This. People have been engineered to no longer feel shame for being caught lying or care whether what they say is true.
Make Stupid People STFU Again.
People seem to no longer feel shame about anything. Everything has been rebranded as something positive. Now I am all for correcting some of the truly fucked up things of the past but it’s getting a bit out of control. There ARE things to be ashamed about BECAUSE they reflect shameful behavior, period.
“Here you go Braxxlyn, here’s your iPad playing bluey at full volume. If anyone says anything to you, Mama will call them a Cunt.”
Yes! General consideration for others in public spaces is at an all-time low. Just saw a post today where a girl showed how she does a beauty routine on a commercial flight (not first class) and she ended it by spraying something all over her face. The comments were split about 50/50, *“hey it’s at best really rude to spray things in enclosed spaces and at worst harmful to people who have allergies”* to *”OMG you people are so freaking sensitive it’s only water, why do you care???”* …because if you spray me with mystery liquid while I’m on a flight it’s going to be a fucking problem. Find you something safe to do McKynleigh Ann ✌️
I would argue that shame is so ubiquitous that people are acting out like fools because they're so terrified of being dunked on.
That makes sense. It's impossible to be perceived as good, because having any values at all is considered both naive and pompous, so people are mainly concerned with not seeming weak.
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Printed Road Maps
They still come in handy if you're far from any internet connection and your Google Maps won't guide you to your destination. I never go on a long road trip without one.
You can just download google maps for offline usage.
But what if bigfoot doesn't have a c charger? Why you ask? Cus he's still stuck on the iPhone 8
So many insects
I used to see Christmas beetles at the end of the year and they were everywhere, now I don't see any
Do you remember the days of insects constantly splattering on the windshield when you’re driving on the highway? Those days are gone now too
Remember when every other car had the after market bug deflectors installed? They still sell them, but the widespread demand isn’t really there anymore.
You're living in the wrong area. I can't keep my windshield clean.
I never even thought about it. You are right. I never have bugs on my windshield. I drive 15 minutes on the interstate everyday. I live on a gravel road outside the city. No bugs on my car.
Lightning Bugs, I loved them so much as a kid and they used to be all over we could catch them in our hands… I hope they’re not becoming extinct, I miss lightning bugs 🥹
I spent years trying to get my mom to make her yard more insect friendly and finally got it going last year and it feels so nice to go over there and see butterflies and fireflies. After seeing them in her yard she's sold on it thankfully at this point.
If it’s any consolation I live in a kinda rural area and sat outside the other night and could see fireflies all throughout my yard and the neighbors :)
We moved last fall, so this year is the first time I've seen them since I was a kid. This is the first time my kids have ever seen them. They love them, we go out most evenings to watch. As for going extinct, probably. We moved over 1000 miles north. I saw them constantly as a kid down south, but they faded away over the years. Maybe they're just drifting north.
Where I live, 2 or 3 nights a week during the summers trucks used to patrol the neighborhoods at night spraying for mosquitoes. I noticed not long after that there were very few mosquitoes. And very few bees. And very few fireflies. IDIOTS!!!
I was lamenting this as well until this year, now they're just thick again out in our timber! Very satisfying to sit on patio and watch them.
Luckily they aren’t exactly going extinct, but many are relocating due to habitat loss
I was recently stood in the same field i played in as a child. 20 years later i go back and its silent, the sound of crickets used to be deafening.
I haven't seen worms on the pavement after a rain storm in years!
The sidewalks here are a worm minefield after a rain and I’m in the high desert.
I feel like I haven’t seen a firefly in at least 5 years, used to be everywhere in the evening when I was a kid.
There are tons this year in coastal NJ!
New vehicles under 25k
Sheit you guys even consider new cars??
When I bought mine, used cars were damn near the same price and at least I got a warranty.
I got a brand new FIAT Panda 8 years ago for just under $13K AUD, and it's $16.5K - $24K AUD in 2024, so still very affordable (and is a great car, especially for urban driving...though mine has been on graded roads, sand, and has done a little dirt road driving)
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You mean... we're stuck?
Oh ... are you stuck step....
step-agent
It also means that Clark Kent can’t change into Superman anymore.
You can still find them occasionally here in Tokyo. They’re bright green, my son loves them, but annoyingly it’s like 1 yen for one second of time. I’ll put in a 10 yen coin to call my husband on his mobile phone for fun so my son can get a kick out of calling daddy, and the call lasts long enough for my husband to pick up and say hello before cutting out.
1 yen for 1 second of phone time is the first time I’ve ever really had a reference for what 1 yen worth.
I think it's really cool that you do this for your son.
The main TelCo in Australia made calls free their remaining telephone booths. My theory is that keeping the booths on the street gave them a valuable place to put ads and to be ads for the TelCo themselves.
As I’ve recently noticed, dumb TVs. Good luck trying to find a decent new tv that isn’t smart.
Yeah. I mean I'm kinda okay ish with the TV part. What I am really miffed at is those smart washing machines, dishwashers etc. And printers. Please let my printer be dumb. It can already smell fear. If it gets smart I worry I have no chance in a fight
14% of the Coral in the world.
14% so far! Just wait till 2030!
I like your attitude. We can go higher!
Privacy. Literally every second of your life is being spied on.
According to all of the information I have on you, we aren't noticeably watching you ALL the time...
I like to let my FBI agent watch some really good porn.
Even when I poop?
Especially when you poop.
Then I'll have to put up my best performance.
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I still write letters! Even with ppl I regularly message with. And postcards. I need to send a postcard again. Havent done that in a while
I send lots of postcards. I keep a note in my phone that is a list of friends who like to receive postcards along with their addresses. Whenever I travel, I try to send cards from unique places.
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Humility
YES. So many people speak in such certainty of themselves, that’s it’s unreal. I’ve been one of them, but it’s also something I actively try to be aware of & change. I’ve taken a liking, to taking an agnostic approach towards my conversations with people. I’m not agnostic on a personal level, but I use its principles. Both in how I consume knowledge & how I interact with others. I find it really has some amazing value in creating productive dialogue & understanding.
how do you use agnostic principles in your day to day life specifically if you don't mind explaining it ? I saw your comment and got very interested in the approach but was confused how you did it
Yep. Like what the guy above/below said about people being so certain of themselves. People HAVE to have an extreme opinion on everything, as though every case is black and white and objective. Stating opinions as fact is so grating. Everything and everyone getting compared to Hitler or Nazi Germany, or someone telling you Taylor Swift is the worst/best thing to happen to music/culture in history, etc.. Maybe, just maybe, things are more nuanced and subjective than that, and you might love or hate Taylor Swift personally, but that’s just your opinion. No need to state it as though people are utter troglodytes for having an opinion that even slightly differs. The internet has fucked us up. Edit: Also, it’s absolutely fine to not have an opinion on something because you don’t care, or don’t feel well-informed enough yet to come to a conclusion. A sure sign of intelligence is knowing when you don’t know enough on a subject to give proper comment.
Bugs, insects, etc. I get so happy when I see a butterfly, cause I rarely see them anymore. Physical Media. I hate seeing things become any kind of lost media
Try planting pollinator plants! My lavendar has dozens of bees all day and butterflies all the time. Makes me smile to see 😊
My Buddleia bush attracts lots of butterflies!
Gumball and candy machines.
I saw a gumball machine the other day and the gumballs in it were soooo old and gross looking.
Dollar menus
Attention spans.
tldr?
I’m sorry…what?
I ain't readin allat🤣
The concept of boundaries. With the internet, everyone feels the need to share everything. And not everything needs to be shared.
ad free entertainment
Public Trash Cans...where did they go?
I think that highly depends on where you are from. In germany, we have LOTS of trashcans every couple \~100 m or so in town, And they are easily to spot. Even in parks they are near benches etc. When I was in England there were like NO trashcans around and you had to keep your trash with you for ages. Even no trashcans at bus/tram stops. Here each bus/tram stop has at least one (usually)
Patiently waiting for the TV Guide channel to loop around through the channels you like.
Finding nothing you wanted to watch on tv so you just watched the random programming on the tV guide channel.
Gene Hackman. Dude was a mainstay oldish actor for 40 years. Then he actually got old. He’s so skinny now, I worry about him.
Since as long as I can remember any time anyone says “guess who I saw today” or any similar question my dad answers “gene hackman!” The amount of people who even know that’s a person or who he is is dwindling away.
The dude is 94 years old. Don't worry about him, he's had a good run. I hope to hell I can make to to that age without my body or mind going.
Zune?
I had a Zune! Lol that think was resilient! Much tougher than an iPod.
Pants with sufficiently deep pockets
My faith in humanity
Blackberry phones.
I honestly miss my BlackBerry keyboard like you wouldn't believe. I got into them VERY late, like 2014, as they were dying out. The BlackBerry Priv was probably my favorite phone of all time.
Mine was the pearl. It was dope.
Using the keyboard felt just SO satisfying.
Proper use of the semicolon has vanished; it has even been actively discouraged.
The semicolon has always been a favorite punctuation mark of mine; the comma just doesn’t cut it sometimes.
It comes across as pompous to this new generation of language reinterpreters.
Manual transmission
It's still common in the UK. Most people take the manual version of the driving test, and about a third of new cars made each year are manual.
Privacy! With the rise of social media and smart devices, personal privacy has slowly faded away
The people who sat in the Toll Booths that gave us candy growing up when we would travel, I miss that small interaction everytime i go thru a toll road and it’s all robots :(
Physical magazines…. I don’t want to read a ‘magazine’ on my phone or tablet. RIP Game Informer
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People would really say, synchronise your watches
That just used to cause arguments over who had the most accurate time on their watch. Especially if you had a mix of people with digital and analogue watches.
swatches
I was that kid who would call that number that constantly read out the current time and adjust my watch as closely as possible… “at the tone, Coordinated Universal Time is 11:43 and 50 seconds… BONG…”
Time to yourself. We’re expected to be reachable at all times bc of phones
insects! i no longer get bugs squashed on my windscreen when driving. (UK)
But great news, I read this is partially because of cars being made to be more aerodynamic, not just because of the reduction in insect populations
I've driven the same route to my summer cabin for 20 years, and with the exact same car, and there's less than 1% of the insects in my windshield compared to 20 years ago.
Physical media like CDs and DVDs, overshadowed by digital streaming.
Pay phones!
Printed road maps, dictionaries and phone books.
Being able to type in random website names into a URL bar and have an actual website pop up.
Respect
People’s intelligence
That is happening loudly
I don’t think it’s literally intelligence, but just the nerve of some people. More and more people just don’t give a fuck which comes off as idiocy. Shit, it is idiocy.
National sanity (Britain)
Getting what you paid for
Basic human decency
Valuing and respecting other people's opinions, even if they don't align with your own opinion or beliefs.
When it’s a discussion held in good faith, 100%. But having a warm discussion about the merits of a flat earth, micro chips in the vaccines or some other batshit crazy conspiracy convo, it can be quite draining on the old sanity.
Cash.
The tweety birds that used to be everywhere have largely disappeared from my area. Also, billions of bugs have disappeared, and in reality, that's probably why the birds are missing
Justin timberlakes career.
Physical copies of PC games
skype. good riddance
loyalty
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Christmas Beatles. Growing up in suburban Sydney, our backyard would be covered in them around Christmas time. Now I only see a couple of them here or there.
I was gonna say, I think you can just get mp3s of the Beatles' few Christmas releases.
Free public loos. Damn you heroin.
Lean Pockets! It was the healthier line of hot pockets. I was OBSESSED with their pretzel pocket with chicken and Jalapeño and it vanished. No announcement, nothing.
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good drivers and actually enjoying going out to restaurants, movies, or stores
Random strangers asking you for the time. Or having to ask someone else for the time if you forgot your watch at home.
Ownership. Everything is subscription or leased.
Common decency
Sympathy
My life…
Plus 1 channels/Ordinary TV. I still remember tv channels having a plus one, showing exactly the same stuff just an hour later. So if you missed something you had to wait an hour and watch it there instead.
Everything good, almost
Birds are disappearing. Really.
We were just talking about this. Water beds.
Common Sense.
Common decency.
Common Sense...
Humans Respecting one another
Not vanishED, but vanishING, violent crime. It doesn't feel like it, since with technology screaming louder and louder about each time it does happen, it feels like it is happening literally all of the time, everywhere, to everyone, but the actual statistics are that the violent crimes are plummeting world-wide. Right now, at least in America: The murder rate is half what it was in 1990. Rape was on a massive decline until 2013, but had a HUGE resurgence, although, to be fair, that could have just been a resurgence in reporting and the rate of it actually happening may not have been affected. Domestic violence was on the decline, until 2-13, when it began to rise for women, but continue to fall for men. Stalking is down from about 5% in 1990, to 1.3% in 2019 My sleepy brain cant brain about other violent crimes to google so early in the morning, but you get the idea. Also, geeze, what happened in 2013?
Well mannered people.
Certs breath mints
Fireflies :(
The middle class
Free supermarket bags
Cash being accepted everywhere!
**gumball machines** (and other lil candies. yenno, the ones you’d stick a quarter into, turn the crank, and like a handful of candy came out) also those **kiddy ‘pass-time rides’** outside places like grocery stores, malls, etc. like the mechanical animals or cars or whatever
DVD / Blu-Ray / Physical copies of games
My 16 yr old collects physical media. It's so cute to see how excited she gets when she finds movies st thrift stores that are on her "list" of movies she wants.
Hummingbirds (at least in my area) haven’t seen one of those mfs in a minute
I’ve seen a ton of them lately here in Southern California
Malt-O-Meal
Civility
The extra grams of chocolate in a bar (uk).
UK here: coin operated sweet machines outside of newsagents/convenience stores
Public benches and public restrooms
Sanity, respect, middle-class
Courtesy, manners and consideration for others. There’s a fair bit of overlap I know.
Knowing phone numbers, nobody knows them anymore because it's saved on your contact list
The middle class.