What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore?
What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore?
What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore?
Kids playing in the streets.
Kids having semi autonomy.
Cheap rent.
Glass fold food and beverage bottles and jars.
A middle class.
Hope.
Or to keep us docile/fighting each other while they build their arks and bunkers.
Glass fold ?
Food and beverage.
Jumpers for goal posts.
"We're all middle class now"
John Prescott - 1997
1, 2 could be explained by pedophiles are on the prowl, plus people have IPAD/youtube kids now.
Paedophiles are no more prevalent now than they were. The fear of paedophiles is through the roof though.
Deep snow... like up past the hedges
Pay phones
The white dog poop from the seventies.
Pedo’s in jail.
Windshields being covered with bug guts. Way more fireflies in the summer (but our yard still has some because we don't rake under the bushes). People smoking just fucking everywhere.
I thought of the bugs when I posted this. I remember on long journeys dad would have to pull over and wipe the windshield clear.
Video rental shops. Going into town to pick a movie for the weekend used to be a weekly thing for us.
Discarded ring pulls from drinks cans
Oil-puddle stains in car parking bays
White dog poo on the street.
A staple of 90s observational comedians
Porno mags in hedgerows
Children building guys and demanding money.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-penny-for-the-guy.html
Man, I haven't seen a bonfire with a straw effigy in years
Edit: came from all, didn't look at the comm, not from the UK.
/c/askuk
US
Fucking self absorbed nation
lack of bugs, mostly due to global warming pesticide use, and planting non-native ornamental plants, most of which can be weedy or poisonous.
More specific for a better visualization, bugs hitting the windshield of a car. I had never thought about it until someone pointed it out, It was so common back in the day, in the 90s at least.
That opening scene in MIB is not relatable anymore.
Cassettes
I still buy cassettes! New ones too!
A windscreen covered with insects
Because all of the insects are dead
You ought to see my car... they're all on the front of that one
You definitely see a lot less of them. Some of that was intentional, at least in the US, as the "love bug" problem was supposedly something that we caused and the solution was to spread sterilized bugs that would mingle with the regular bugs and prevent the population booms. No idea how well it worked, it could just be that our overuse of pesticides did the real work.
Trousers that fit :-(
Amega and Acorn? NES, Master System, etc made sort of come backs with retro stuff. Not so much Amega, and certainly not Acorn.
You probably didn't know about this as it didn't get the attention of the NES and such, but here is a remade Amiga PC. https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/
Blockbuster.
Sense.
mouldy ceilings and weird smells of rain and soot coming from the chimney
Telephones
Seeing people on roller skates or skateboards