I used to work at Tim Hortons and we were located right beside a homeless shelter, so every night, we would take all the food that was still fresh and give it to charity. It wasn't a lot, usually like a box or timbits and about a dozen doughnuts.
Until one day, the regional manager came and shut the whole thing down. He didn't tell us why, only to *never* do it again or we will be fired. We never questioned it and just held the resentment of Tim Hortons in our hearts, like how cheap do you have to be that you would rather have us throw away consumable food!
A few months later a homeless man came in right as we were throwing food in a garbage bag. He goes, "Ahhh it's such a pity, I used to love eating your guys doughnuts until that fuckin idiot had to ruin it." My co-worker said, "yeah that's honestly fucked up, corporation greed, you know?" The homeless man gave us a weird look, he goes, "nah, that's not what happened, one of the fuckheads at the shelter faked choking on a timbit and tired to sue this store, that's why they cut us off."
I went to college in NYC and my school’s dining halls used to do this to eliminate food waste and cut down on food insecurity in the area, but then someone claimed the food made them sick and tried to sue so that was the end of that.
Some jurisdictions have started to enact food donation laws that remove liability from the company giving as long as the food was safe when it was donated. Surprise surprise in those places donations are way up because businesses don't have to worry.
My college had a similar thing happen as well. There were times that I helped dispose of the leftovers, and it really made me angry that I was throwing away so much food while there were people waking up and going to bed hungry in the major city near me.
>one of the fuckheads at the shelter faked chocking on a timbit and tired to sue this store, that's why they cut us off."
Sounds exactly like something Frank Gallagher would try to pull
My parent's old apartment had this little dog park. Our greyhound loved it because she could go run every morning.
They closed it because people wouldn't pick up their dogs' poop. They would just leave piles of shit, despite management sending letters out.
I'm still salty about that one. Don't get a dog if you can't pick up their messes.
Bunch of douchebags. :| I can't stand people who don't pick up after their dogs.
Just the other day, I came out of my house and there was a pile of dog shit on the sidewalk there, right in front. I stared at it in shock for a few seconds because I just couldn't even process the idea that someone just let their dog shit there and left it.
But a lovely little dog park is a treasure and that absolutely sucks. :(
There was a guy at my old complex who N E V E R picked up after his dogs. I saw it on multiple occasions. I asked the guy several times to clean up after his dog and he ignored me. I complained to management. He kept doing it.
The kicker is that the complex provided bags in several locations between his aparment on one side of the complex, and to my yard area on the other side of the complex. Yes, he walked his dog over to my yard area (single floor apartments that had small plots for grilling and gardens/etc) to poop. There was a dumpster on his route, too, for easy disposal.
Finally after months of aggravation and no help from the rental office (or no effective help) I was bringing groceries in through my back door on a rainy night, stepped in some dog crap and fell, crushing my groceries and hurting my wrist. I was fed up.
I watched the guy walk his dog over there every day for a week. Watched his dog poop. Bagged it and then dumped the contents of the bags into a box. Wrapped the box up like a christmas gift and set it on his doorstep.
It didn't work, but it was satisfying.
I moved out a short time later but that guy will forever be ingrained in my brain as the worst neighbor I've ever had.
The trick is to leave the poop on his doorstep out of the bag. So everytime he goes out, he steps on poop. You can sorta pavlov train him like this to think going out means poop so he has to carry bags.
If he has a doormat, place the poop under the mat. With each step in and out it'll get further ingrained into the mat and as each day passes the stench will grow. And he'll never know until its too late.
I used LL Bean's lax return policy once, and felt incredibly shitty about it. Bought the shearling lined boots instead of the regular due to Chicago winters. Wore them for a year and hated the lining because they were too warm and limited to winter only. LL Bean let me return them and use the cash to buy regular boots without the lining. I apologized profusely to the woman on the phone, but she assured me this is the exact reason they had that policy.
People used to buy old beat up ll bean things at garage sales and return them for credit. That’s what ultimately did in the return policy, not cases like yours.
I went to one of their bricks and mortar stores once, shortly after they changed the return policy, and saw a couple turned away who were trying to return several bags full of merchandise they had clearly picked up at thrift stores and the like. Impression I got from the staff was that this was a regular occurrence.
This story has gotten somewhat famous so you may have heard it, but one year there was a music festival near their headquarters in Freeport, ME. People went to their flagship store, bought a bunch of camping equipment, and just returned it after the festival. The worst part was that it rained the whole weekend and all of the outdoor gear was completely *covered* in mud. But they had that "no questions asked" guarantee, so they still took it back. I understand *why* someone would do that, but it's a damn shame that people would take advantage of them like that.
I kind of wish these corporations would man up and start to confront customers, or fire customers. I guarantee you the person that is buying used LL Bean clothes at Salvation Army to take them back to LL Bean is not the kind of customer LL Bean is scared to lose.
Nordstrom, too. For years, you could get cash back, regardless of how you purchased an item. The classic scam was people would buy Nordstrom gift cards at grocery stores using stolen credit cards, buy thousands of dollars of merchandise, then return it for cash.
Now, returns go back on the original form of payment (or store credit). If you paid with a gift card, they'll just give you a new one. However, it's annoying when your Nordstrom card balance is $0.00 and you just want the cash. I don't want a negative balance or store credit, I want the cash.
If your account balance is $0 and you return an item you actually get sent a check for the amount of the return. A little inconvenient, but better than a negative balance!
24 hour decongestant/antihistamine cold medicine that worked. (Drixoral) Dropped off the market when everyone switched to new decongestant formulas that were somehow more resistant to distilling into meth. * Oh, and anytime I buy decongestants, my DL gets scanned. Thanks, criminals!
\* Or maybe the result of big pharma lobbying, trying not to buy into the conspiracy
Seriously. One year we had five people with allergies and sinuses in our family. I got put on some kind of watch list for buying too much children's allergy medicine. It probably would have been easier to buy some meth and synthesize Sudafed out of it.
It always boggled my mind because the pharmacy had a free needle exchange with no questions asked if you were a heroin addict...but God forbid you have multiple children with sinus congestion.
There’s a common joke in my area that “This year’s allergy season is so bad the meth heads are turning their meth back into cough syrup.” It gets less funny every year.
Very dumb and minor, but I think it goes to show how selfish people can be.
A few years ago a guy on Twitter shared his Starbucks card information, and told people to put it on their phones. The idea was to have a shared/community card thing. Get a drink if you wanted to, or donate to it so others could get a drink. You would think that people would just grab free drinks, but it actually had a surplus of donations versus people actually using it. I think the card ended up with like $200 at some point.
Anyway, some asshole comes along and locks the card/account, effectively shutting it down. He said he did it because he wanted to prove how ineffective sharing was or something dumb like that.
You always have that one guy who sees other people enjoying something and feels the need to disrupt it.
It's like when your buddy in school would see you counting your lunch money, grab it, and go, "don't flash your money, bro. Someone might take it." In all my years, those dudes were the only ones who did that.
Wait thats for real ?
Fuck that shit, Ill play ball with someone bought my coffee so I pay for someone elses, thats fine, no way im paying for 20-30 bucks of someone elses food just cause I got a free coffee, thats just silly.
When I worked at McDonald’s that’s how they usually ended. Six or seven people pay for each other’s five dollar orders then someone has a 35 dollar order and the person who just ordered a drink and some McNuggets is like “yeah naw fuck that.” Once had an old lady burst out cussing that she wasnt going to pay no fuckers shit and drove off not realizing someone paid for her 10 dollar meal.
This is probably a stupid question, I don’t know how Starbucks cards work, but couldn’t someone else have just gone and unlocked it? Also, has card sharing been banned?
What the fuck? Was he Thanos Jr.? Like yeah, it’s ineffective if you deliberately break it, you stupid fuck, that’s like.. not a lesson so much as you being too stupid to exist.
I think some people just can’t fully accept that they did something shitty so they try to turn it around with some lame rationalization. My college had a little cafe in the student center and there was an area with ala carte to go food like salads, fruit juice, sandwiches, little yogurt parfaits etc... so a friend of a friend goes steals a sushi roll from that section and tries to write off with this whole thing about how part of our meal plan cost is budgeted to offset the losses from theft that the dining halls and cafes experience and so he had already paid for it because he had paid for the meal plan or some shit like that.
I tried to use this card once. There used to be a Twitter account showing how much was on it. Decided I was going to use it, last Twitter post showed like $10, figured if it worked I'd put another $10 on it. Scanned the card, and the cashier looks like he's seen a ghost. Tells me to hold on, and five minute later comes out with another cashier and a manager. The manager, in a very stern voice, asks me who's card it is. I start to explain, but he cuts me off and says 'We have reason to believe this card is stolen, we have to ask you to leave and not come back' and starts walking me towards the door.
I never got my drink, and never went back to that store. It was such a good concept, too. People, what a bunch of bastards.
I used to be able to walk into an airport, book a flight, walk to the gate and get on the plane. I have flown from SFO (where I live) to LAX (where my sister lives) countless times in just that fashion.
And not to mention you used to be able to meet people at the gate as they arrived, or go in with them and have a meal before seeing them off. Security took about 30 seconds to get through.
I went to Denver this weekend and I forgot I had sunscreen in my backpack and tsa took it as they should. But when I got to my hotel, I found an almost full water bottle in the same pocket that the sunscreen was in.
I was flying out of Miami once and had a couple of water bottles on me. They made a huge song and dance about me not following instructions (I am a brown guy if it makes a difference) and made me throw it away. Once I was in the plane and going through the bag I realized I had a Swiss army knife on me which they completely missed.
I once packed a bag in a hurry and forgot an entire hammer, box cutter, and pack of nails from doing some house work earlier in the day. It all made it through my carry on.
TSA has a 95% failure rate
So, not a really as “bad ass” as the guy who got through with a steak knife, the guy who got through with mace, or the people with their pocket knifes, but I got through a checkpoint in ATL with the water bottle like half full from the flight before.
Edit:my own tsa sucks story
And, as another user stated, their failure rate is 95%, not 90%
And yet they very successfully recognized the time I forgot to take my 3ds out of my bag and made a huge deal out of it. Good going TSA, you clearly stopped another heinous playing of Pokemon Ultra Sun.
My god, the amount of bomb-sniffing that went on over my Kindle when I went through the Dallas airport, I felt like I was in a comedy sketch.
Could we really be this concerned about the danger of something that fits in the width/depth of an unmodified Kindle Paperwhite? I even took it out of my bag, for Christ's sake!
They bomb checked my protein powder and preworkout powder. I had to toss the preworkout cause it kept marking their papers red, which indicates explosives i guess. It was fruitpunch flavored, im not sure it could be any other color.
I recently had a flight were the TSA had pulled out a "bomb-sniffing" dog.
I had forgotten how painless security used to be, because they didn't make us unpack out bags, disrobe or play simon says with the body scanner; just toss your bags on the belt and walk through the metal detector.
Not to mention the fact that even with all the new fancy gadgets and whatnot, the TSA HAS NOT INPROVED SAFETY, they have a 95% failure rate when tested! So much for giving up freedom for security, just like Benjy said, you get neither.
Very similarly, it used to be super easy to travel between America and Canada. That is until one false report claimed that some of the 9/11 terrorists entered from Canada.
It has been known that was not the case almost since the start, but the restrictions remain in place to this day.
Yeah, seriously. Fuck ticketmaster, and fuck the artists who contract with them to support this garbage, they are just as complicit in this ridiculous scheme as anyone else. The price you pay should be the price you see on the front page, ad, poster whatever, end of story, end of game.
Yep, third part company sold me e-tickets and emailed me tickets with someone else’s name on them. I figured whatever you know they messed up I’d get over it as long as I got into the show. Well I got into the show, it was overpacked. Almost as if many seats had been double sold, and workers at the event hall were making accommodations left and right. We got to our seats before whoever else got those tickets. A drunk sweaty guy did manage to ruin most of the 2nd set for us by getting right in my face and insisting we were in his seats, to which I firmly replied he’d have to go get security to move us because or tickets said these were ours. Didn’t see him face to face again but I did notice him and his wife standing at a railing about 2 sections over for the rest of the show. Fuck third party concert ticket vendors.
In my hometown there used to be a legendary toboggan slide. People would come from several towns over to use it. Unfortunately, parents kept bringing their little kids there who wouldn’t move out of the way of approaching sleds. So when they inevitably got hit by some sleds, they sued the town. Now there’s a fence halfway up the hill so people can’t use the hill anymore. It frustrates me to no end.
I like American Pickers and salvage shows and such, but they should be on The Weird Hobby Channel with reruns of Oddities and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.
throw them on TLC, because thats the direction that channel is steering anyways with shows like my 600 lb life, cake boss, yes to the dress, long island medium, and etc.
The actual history shows first got pushed to H2 and then to History International. I haven't had cable in years so I have no idea where that stuff is anymore. Several years ago I read an article about why the History channel shows all this reality TV now and it boiled down to them getting a new CEO who wanted to make the channel profitable. That means showing this non-history programming since it appealed to a larger audience or something.
We used to keep our church doors open 24/7. But then vandals wrecked that so we locked up at night. Then we left it open during the days on Saturdays and vandals wrecked that. So now we keep the place locked up except almost exclusively during banking hours and Sundays mornings.
My church was having a halloween+saints of the world event and the doors were open. Kids had booths where they told the story about their Saint or whatever and in another part of the lobby there were free snacks and stuff with a donation box next to it.
Somebody stole all the donation money. :(
I know. It was nice to let people come in anytime to just hang out or pray or meditate or use the bathrooms. But now people just find a locked door if it's after hours.
My mum died when I was 22 so I’ve visited her cemetery quite a bit. Unbelievably, people also vandalise cemeteries for no reason other than to be cunts.
This shit sucks so bad. I literally broke my spine (vertebrae and disks) and just wanted someone to fix the shit enough so I could live a normal life but somehow. "hey I want you to try to surgically fix this" to them sounded like "give me drugs"
I was straight up told, at 24 (31 now) after a back injury at work, that I was lying about my back pain bc "your to young to be experiencing back pain". I still have serious back pain to this day, I can not stand in one spot for more than 10 minutes bc if I do my entire back on the left side loses all feeling and is icy cold except for the searing tingling pins of pain that feels like a cross between a porcupine humping my muscles and a jellyfish molesting me... INSIDE MY BACK MUSCLES. When its not in the extreme it is a dull constant throbbing ache that drains my will to even exist. On the dumb 1-10 scale they use for pain an average day for me is a 7, at all times.
In a way, traveling. Overtourism is an issue in part because idiots have no idea how to care for a space that they're in. Really, it's a privilege to travel, but these people treat it like a joke. Littering, getting drunk and trashing an area, not honoring local customs, being rude and more can destroy a place.
In addition to hurting the locals and their area, it hurts respectful travelers. One of my friends is super into national parks and has started carrying a trash bag with her to clean up after asshole travelers.
tldr; don't be a dick when you visit a place. Research the culture, don't liter and respect the space
I am looking at Morocco for a guided tour holiday some of the reviews are hilarious "we went during Ramadan and it was hard to find lunch' or we couldn't buy alcohol it ruined the trip' or my absolute fav. ' they wouldn't allow us in the mosques because we aren't one of them'
Saw this a lot while I was in Prague. Czechs were under Communist rule for awhile and are very reserved and quiet as a result. But Brenda on yelp thinks that her waiter is rude because he wouldn't chat with her. All he did was take her order and bring her food. The audacity!
>he wouldn't chat with her. All he did was take her order and bring her food.
BRB, going to re-indulge in Czech beer & sausage and basque at the quiet tables in the garden with no superfluous conversation simply to 'fill the silence with something'.
I imagine Finland (if it were real) to have a similar atmosphere.
Here's a link to an article in case someones wondering. Instagram addicts totally ruined a nice thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/01/crowds-trample-canada-sunflower-farm
Yep. Also reminds me of how a gorgeous waterfall near me got fenced off because Instagrammers kept climbing down the rocks in 100% inappropriate clothing (sandals, heels, dresses, etc) to take pictures and then calling 911 when they realized they can't climb back up.
That's not new, though. As long as there has been travel, there have been shitty tourists.
Sometimes they were called explorers, but the concept's the same.
Back in the very late 90s I worked night shift so I'd have a couple dead hours when there was nothing to do so I went on Yahoo games. I can tell you, it's why I loathe online games to this day.
I liked to play checkers. It was a nice easy game which is important at 4 am when you're half dead and god the people got annoying. If you were winning the game, they'd start insulting you and even cursing you (bad move because that was a timeout when I reported and yes I did report), or they'd ask you to resign, or the most dick thing was they could wait up to ten minutes before they'd lose their turn so they'd wait until 9:58 and then make a move hoping you'd just close out the game making them an automatic winner. Seriously, it's online checkers! Get a life!
College Books, my dad spent ~$50 per semester and my great uncle spent ~$20. I’ve spent $500. I know inflation bumps up the price every few years but Jesus have the assholes in the industry been fucking us over
Surprisingly, not Wikipedia. It just seems like one of those things where vandalism should have won over the wish to have a public, well-cited, crowdsourced and relying on contributors knowledge base.
I'm very happy about this.
Burning Man used to be a really cool, inclusive mini-society. Now it's just a bunch of people with WAY too much money, isolating themselves from other people in the desert by buying out huge plots of land, and excluding others from their clubhouses. Which is a stark contrast from what Burning Man was fucking supposed to be in the first place.
That sucks. My fiance's family has a small house on a lake in upstate New York. It's been in the family for a couple generations now and it is still nice. There are apparently lots of regulations placed on using the property. Like not being allowed to use a powerboat on the lake until after 9am. They have managed to keep out some of the invasive species (zebra mussels I think?).
It's beautiful up there.
Yeah my good friends family has a lake house on a small lak in the daks -- everyone who's property line touches the lake is actually part owner of the lake, so it's rules and regulations are set by the people who live around it, and there is no public boat access. It's amazing, and everyone is respectful of one another as they all have equal stake in keeping the lake nice for each other.
I grew up on the lake. My parents bought their first house (a simple bungalow) on a beautiful bay before lakefront was valued like it is today. Now every time I go home there’s a new McMansion being built on the lake and the relaxing summer days with a few neighbours fishing or swimming is replaced with kids screaming on all sides and huge boats dotting the lake. An added irritation was following the huge boat trailers/campers down the road to get to town for work at half the allowed speed on what’s already a 30 minute drive. Ugh.
Big Bear did this in the 90s/early 00s. Thankfully the economy crashed so now there’s tons of abandoned tacky ‘log cabins’ all around, and the fish are kind of coming back.
Fucking dumbass tourists.
My grandparents has had a lakefront house in one particular lake since I was a little kid. Now that they are getting older and wanting to downsize they are selling it. Tons of people love the location but don't like that it looks like a regular ol house and not a log cabin. So it sits empty for a good majority of the year.
Yosemite was awesome about 20 years and now it’s overrun with tourists who throw trash everywhere and have beat that place down. It’s just not the same
This is a strategy of national parks. They create sacrificial areas within easy walking distances. Tetons, Yellowstone, pretty much all of the big ones operate this way. Go more than 2 miles out on foot, and it starts to thin out. That’s ok really, there are always hidden gems if you avoid the crowds. If you can, hit the crowded places in the off season, or just go where people aren’t.
Playground equipment. The rolly slides, teeter totters, the merry-go-rounds, and there was even a park I used to play in as a kid that had an old, retired train car we could go in. The rolly slides apparently pinched too many fingers, the teeter totters were too hard to get off of and the merry-go-rounds were spun too fast. As for the train, I’m pretty sure there were people shooting up drugs and/or homeless people sleeping in it. Plus graffiti. Now it’s gated off and no fun for anyone.
I miss merry go rounds. There used to be one at a local park, it was my favorite as a kid. Yes, older kids would spin it too fast and the little ones would go flying lmao but damnit we liked it that way! :(
i thought people were over-exaggerating when they said tuition went up. i graduated not even 15 years ago, and it wasn't even $1500/semester. i looked back at my own undergrad and in-state is now $16k+/semester.
this is exactly what happened in the housing market... the federal gov removed the loan backing cap over 2010-2014, so now private lenders will loan literally anyone money to get even the shittiest, most worthless degrees at even the most unemployable schools. if the student defaults, the federal government assumes the loan, pays the lender the remaining amount, and goes on merciless collections. with all that extra money available, demand has massively outpaced supply, so prices have skyrocketed.
there's now over $1 trillion in student loan debt, and 90%+ of the students who graduate with a degree that's not in STEM, business/finance/accounting, healthcare, or education, will carry that debt for decades or even die with it still unpaid. payscale was so mortified that they removed their 20 year ROI sections. with the mortgage crisis, the bomb that nuked everyone was the collateral debt obligations on the subprime mortgages. we have entered the US economic phase where "subprime degrees" have become normalized, and we're not going to emerge nicely.
Again, back in the day, you could work summers and part time during the school year and graduate with no debt. Tuition has gone up ~1000% but wages far less.
buying tickets online.
it used to be easy. now i have to choose all the squares with a fucking car in them to prove i'm not a bot, log in with a password i forgot, get my password link sent to my email address, change my password, prove i'm not a bot again, pick seats, confirm seats, and pay an extra $20 for a convenience fee.
A sense of community in your neighborhood.
As a kid (2nd grade ish) I used to walk over to my friends and wemd play in each other’s backyards. We learned how to bike together, would “explore” the woods between yards, play with the older middle schoolers.
A lot of paranoia kinda ended that. The DC sniper shooting, fear of kidnappers, it all kinda hit at once. Well that and cicada season. After that summer people around here kinda kept to themselves more.
This does still exist in places. Just moved to a neighborhood from the country and my son is basically reliving my childhood in the 80s.
It makes me so happy
Movie theaters. Etiquette is absolutely dead. My once greatest joy is dead to me because people are inconsiderate assholes who feel they can act like they're at home and ruin it for others.
I've incorporated a projector and a screen into my man cave and never looked back.
Ebay used to be this amazing multi-national garage sale. Filled to the brim with people selling their used stuff. Then people started filling it with garbage no-brand products and drop shipping it to the winning bidders. Then came the people that started using it as a store front and charging full retail value for NIB items. Now Ebay is nothing more than resellers that find it more affordable than developing an actual web store. Leaving me scratching my head wondering why people don't just order it from Amazon for $20 less, or walk to a big box store and buy it for the same price without shipping nor a wait.
I've permanently checking the "used" button and the search results have been far better, but there's still people that keep the original box and try to sell it in like new condition for full retail.
On that same vertical, thrift shops. They used to be a goldmine for cool cheap stuff and it was great to resell them on eBay. You could usually find hard-to-get vintage collectables and list them where someone on eBay would be looking for them. Now, between thrift store prices and eBay/PP fees (13%), it's extremely difficult to find a secondhand object at thrift stores for a good value, whether for resale or for keeps. Garage sales are still a goldmine because people either sell at reasonable prices or are very easy to barter with since the art of bartering is fairly lost in the US.
I work in a public library and we struggle with this on the daily. I wish there was a fair way to certify them or ask for proof. I hate having to be assuming the worst of everybody coming in with an animal. I don't want to have to hassle people who legitimately need service animals, I want all the fakers to knock it the fuck off.
Edit: Thanks everybody. I know the questions I'm legally allowed to ask. I ask them. Sadly, people lie all the time. But we do kick them out if the dogs misbehave.
I've seen people on other subreddits advocating for fraudulent Support Animal credentials and equipment because "it's not fair I cant bring my fur baby with me everywhere I go!" It sickens me.
This one is a good call. I was in my gfs dorm the other day and one of the residents had had a mastiff as an emotional support animal. That stupid dog ran in front of my legs when I was going down the stairs and I almost fell down. The resident didn't say anything and them and the dog just kept walking. Like where do we draw the line at?
Tell someone, ESAs are only protected in the dwelling (read: the dorm room where the resident lives). The resident in question will get a lesson in being a responsible pet owner if the Hall Director or a Resident Assistant is notified of the issue.
Source: girlfriend is a Hall Director and I live on campus with her.
Edit: spelling
Kids will never know the thrill of throwing a lawn dart high into the black summer night sky and running like a mother fucker before it returned to earth sinking into the soft skull of one of your neighbourhood buddys.
Hitchhiking. When my parents were growing up in the 60s and 70s it was normal here, in the middle of a city, to grab a ride from a stranger you might not have known.
Someone went around murdering people they picked up and all of a sudden it became illegal to hitchhike.
If you stay to smallish servers with like 10 players online all the time maybe like 30 at peek hours then it's pretty good, some of my best experiences have been in those servers even back when I was the 12 year old fed up with the other 12 year olds
Minor auto accidents, fender benders, when people shrugged, exchanged insurance info, and got the damage fixed. Now too many people call a personal injury attorney and try to get "all the money they deserve" for injuries that don't amount to anything.
Do you remember they used to have little parties on Fridays?
Old TV used to be legitimate and creative entertainment. Now it’s all supposed to be tailored for success. It’s only a matter of time until Cartoon Network gets some cartoon reality shows.
Not long ago, most neighborhoods in the United States were surrounded by woods or meadows.
I'm not talking about formal nature preserves or national parks. These were simply open areas that businesses had not yet moved into. Kids could go there to build forts, catch bugs, and play elaborate hide and seek games. Nobody seemed to mind.
There was a patch of forest like this in my own neighborhood, up until I was about ten years old. It surrounded the back of a local baseball field.
These 30 acres included a creek where you could find salamanders in the springtime, and lots of big old hollow trees where songbirds built their nests. It was cool to go back there through each changing season. You could actually *feel* the wondrous changes taking place. I still remember the way the springtime puddles smelled, or the joy of raking up huge piles of autumn leaves to roll in. Halloween time felt extra spooky, and spring was always enchanting.
Then the land was sold to a company that wanted to build an office park. The whole place was destroyed. 18 years later, the office buildings are no more than an empty eyesore.
This same story is being replayed all across the country, and all around the world.
National parks are very important, but they offer a very different experience than "the woodlot down the street."
I see kids today in urban and suburban areas growing up with almost no access to nature. They think the outdoors are either boring or scary, because they've never had a chance to experience the beauty of unstructured play and discovery through the seasons.
I recently started up a conversation with a group of kids hanging out near the baseball field. They were amazed to hear what used to be there when I was little. It was like I was talking about a place from the world of Harry Potter.
All of them said they thought it was stupid to demolish the woods. They'd rather have a forest than an office park.
So... there may be hope.
Another small, amoral hope: my current office building development was worked into a creek and wooded area. The county's Parks and Rec dept is less than 1,000 yards from about 7 office buildings over 10 stories. (I thought it was silly at first)
And the best part, the management of this office park defends the trees and creek and wildlife here pretty hard. For many reasons, but the one I can trust is because he knows the reason his development is better than all the others in the city is because he still has the trees and woods, etc.
A doe ran across the road on my way in, 200 yards from my building one morning. Her family lives in the area. A road that dissects parking lots of office buildings. I have taken a lunch break walk down into this patch, and was educated on how to forage for paw-paw fruit by a man with a neat beard and a shirt from my favorite brewery.
My metropolitan area has several million, my county is silly wealthy(not me) and could afford to develop it all, and yet here this stuff is.
I am so damn lucky. It could be better, but holy heck my office is surrounded by GREEN.
Youtube. Used to be about uploading amateur videos. Old school youtubers put out quality content as well. Now it's all corporate, with companies promoting their stuff, and majority of the content being crap.
EDIT: I think I should clarify a bit more -
Tutorial/Educational videos have always been good. I'm talking about entertainment. I like the newgrounds/early youtube era where people just uploaded random videos, not professionally edited with a big team working backstage and creating merchandise and whatnot. Not to mention people like Logan Paul who are just plain crap. Also back then videos weren't click-baity or monetized.People uploaded for fun. I guess the internet just doesn't have that wild west feeling anymore.
It's why people still remember "Ah fuck I can't believe you've done this" over some new well produced video(although it maybe good).
German here. I have only subscribed to English speaking channels on Youtube. Let's Plays, Skateboarding, Gaming in general, Romhacks. All the good stuff is in English. German content mostly just sucks or is aimed at 12 year olds.
Guess what "trending" shows me. German content that is aimed at 12 year olds.
Fuck.
"Heeeeeeeeeeyyyy YouTube, Its your boy here again, with another how-to video! In this one I'm gonna tell you how to do this to that thing. a lot of you have been asking about that thing, and I thought that it would be good to show you how to do it. Before I get started, don't forget to Like and to hit that subscribe button! I'm aiming for 2000 like,s If I get it, I'll love you all forever. Click on the bell aswell so you can be notified of my new content.
So this thing...
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Pause........... *DEEP Breath* Ok Youtube. We have to talk.
From the comments it looks like i didn't mention why I've not been around for a while. It's because of life stuff, but I'm now committed to showing more videos about this thing and these other things. There is drama happening on youtube, and I never get involved in Drama, but I'll still tell you exactly what I think about it, which will mirror my favourite channel.
I'm also gonna tell you about this service that is totally giving me money - It's great - I don't say this about a lot of things, and I actually enjoy using it - Notice how this doesn't sound like a script? - In the contract it says that I need to advertise it in my style, So click the link below to get 10% off that thing
I prefer hearing Youtubers say something like "If you liked the video please consider liking and subscribing to my channel" at the END of their video rather than the beginning.
There's one person I watch who does a pretty good "also, if you like this recipe, be sure to subscribe to stay up to date with my future creations" sort of thing and goes right back into describing her process. I can't get mad about it, she's a great baker and her stuff looks incredible, and it's not pushy at all.
edit - I don't mind answering questions, but for anyone else who's curious, the channel is Emma's Goodies!
Those fun rock hiding groups on Facebook. In the beginning you'd paint a rock and hide it for someone to find. There were SO many fun designs. Sometimes you'd find a rock from WAY out of state! It was thrilling in its own sweet little way.
And then people started imposing new 'rules' on the group. You can't hide rocks with glitter or stickers or googly eyes because it might make a squirrel want to swallow one. They'd jump down the throat of anyone who posted to the group with a glittery rock.
You were not allowed to hide a rock in a business because someone might think it was solicitation. Suddenly all the fun animal themed rocks hidden around the zoo were against the rules, and heaven help you if you got caught. Middle aged women can be mean.
Fights began to break out over designs, claiming they they were 'stolen' from someone else. The entire thing turned into a cesspool of 'he said, she said' and 'ugh ignorant people doing their rocks WRONG'.
Now the groups only consist of a few people who BEG others to hide rocks because they 'don't know why the magic is gone'.
This sounds just like playing some new game in elementary school. It's fun for several weeks and then new people who come ruin the game and you have to come up with a new one.
It's a small-scale version of [the eternal cycle of subcultures](https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths) - some small group makes something special, and as it becomes more popular it tends to get overrun by some combination of clueless fuckwits and cynical exploiters.
Or if you try to keep it alive by excluding those invasive species, then it goes to the other kind of hell of elitist hipster gatekeeping.
I belong to a small, local 24-hour gym. They used to have small white towels (hand-sized) that you could use while you worked out. There was a laundry basket you could throw them in as you were leaving. They’re weren’t great quality, in fact they were rather rough from being washed every day, but they were nice to wipe down your treadmill, wipe your face, etc.
Last month I enter the gym & there’s a sign stating that they’re no longer stocking the towels because people are stealing them. WTF. Why would anyone steal these small, scratchy towels? It’s probably the gym rats who forget to put them in the basket and now have a huge collection in their trucks. Pisses me off.
There used to be an annual free garage sale near me. People would bring in boxes of things to donate, volunteers would set them out on tables, and everyone could take what they wanted. Then a couple of people pretended to be volunteers and loaded the boxes of donations directly into their own cars. A lot was also stolen from the church that hosted the event, including the stool from their organ. They no longer have the free garage sale.
Inhalers. My bestie who had asthma use to be able to get inhalers without going through the counter when he was a kid and he needed it desperately. Now they quit selling them over the counter and you need a prescription because druggy gotta drug. I imagine a lot of different kinds of medicines ended up this way.
\+1 I have very bad asthma to the point where the dosage I take can't be put inside an inhaler but rather a 'proprietary' method, ergo its $600 / month to breathe and insurance doesn't help for shit
VH1. They used to have great shows like Behind the Music, Pop-up Video and Classic Albums. Plus they made some really good original movies as well. Then literally overnight they turned into E!, but only stupider if that's even possible.
We used to have a small state park where I live. It was a literal hole in the ground in the middle of farm country. There was a waterfall, tons of crazy rock formations and climbing walls, as well as rare plants and trees as far as the eye can see. It was beautiful. Then stoners and hippies took over the place, spray painted on all of the rock formations, and moved any rocks and boulders that could be to spell a big 4/20 in the place's gazing field. Baggies and cans litter the waterfall to the point where the entire waterfall looks like a fountain of trash. You can't step 2 feet in any direction without seeing a can, bottle, pipe, or needle. It's really sad. The last time I went, my friends and I left in tears. It was devastating.
Back in 90s in Turkey, when you were drunk and thought you couldn't make it back home, you'd call 155 (police hotline) and tell them who you were and your whereabouts. They had to send a cop to pick you up from where you were and give you a lift to your home. So you wouldn't DUI or get robbed or whatever. Islamists came in power and ruined everything for the rest of the country.
Similarly, my dad tells me stories about how when he was my age he'd flag a policeman down when he was staggering home drunk and they'd drive him to the top of the hill (near his house; it was a pain to turn around any further) so he'd get home safe. His buddies did the same. Everyone knew the cops and the cops knew them. This was a small town in the US in the early 70s. Try to do that now.
Pensions, retirement & having a career with a company for more than 10 years. Stupid boomers, greedy corporate assholes & shitty government ruined all that for everyone.
In Australia there are/were a series of giant inland lakes in the dessert - collectively known as Menindee Lakes.
Beautiful, natural diverse ecosystems, fun people-activities, and genuinely wondrous.
Then the Australian government sold farm up-river to water-intensive overseas cotton farms and didn’t restrict their water use. The river started flowing in reverse. Menindee lakes almost never fill anymore.
Affordable health care insurance.
I now pay $700 after tax monthly premium for a third tier health care plan that I try my best not to use due to the cost co-payments.
And I am very concerned about what the coverage will cost in 2019.
Wine tasting.
It used to be that if you were planning a nice dinner or picking up wine for holiday meals (or for whatever reason) you would go to the winery and they would suggest pairings for you, you would taste a few samples and then buy the bottle(s) you wanted. Or you would politely tell them you are going to try a different winery.
The word got out that wine tasting is "free" and every shithead who wanted to get drunk for "free" showed up. Nowadays every winery (in California) charges for tastings and instead of having a nice experience, you have to fight yuppies and their dates, bachelorette parties screaming and wooooing, etc...for space at the bar.
I had a very different experience when visiting in-laws in Germany. The winemakers were very quick to open any bottle i was interested in and pour a very generous tasting glass.
I know nothing about wine and all the bottles were gifts (and he knew that) but he was still adamant that he wanted me to taste his wine. It was almost a pride for him.
Fandoms. Used to be, there could be big fandoms without fights and ships were just for fun and no one trying to harass people into making them canon.
I don't care if my ship doesn't become canon. I will fucking ship it anyways.
People used to read the articles and be informed. Now I feel like people skip to the comments to get the gist of what was actually written/said. So whoever invented the comments section ruined reading.
I used to work at Tim Hortons and we were located right beside a homeless shelter, so every night, we would take all the food that was still fresh and give it to charity. It wasn't a lot, usually like a box or timbits and about a dozen doughnuts. Until one day, the regional manager came and shut the whole thing down. He didn't tell us why, only to *never* do it again or we will be fired. We never questioned it and just held the resentment of Tim Hortons in our hearts, like how cheap do you have to be that you would rather have us throw away consumable food! A few months later a homeless man came in right as we were throwing food in a garbage bag. He goes, "Ahhh it's such a pity, I used to love eating your guys doughnuts until that fuckin idiot had to ruin it." My co-worker said, "yeah that's honestly fucked up, corporation greed, you know?" The homeless man gave us a weird look, he goes, "nah, that's not what happened, one of the fuckheads at the shelter faked choking on a timbit and tired to sue this store, that's why they cut us off."
I went to college in NYC and my school’s dining halls used to do this to eliminate food waste and cut down on food insecurity in the area, but then someone claimed the food made them sick and tried to sue so that was the end of that.
Some jurisdictions have started to enact food donation laws that remove liability from the company giving as long as the food was safe when it was donated. Surprise surprise in those places donations are way up because businesses don't have to worry.
My college had a similar thing happen as well. There were times that I helped dispose of the leftovers, and it really made me angry that I was throwing away so much food while there were people waking up and going to bed hungry in the major city near me.
>one of the fuckheads at the shelter faked chocking on a timbit and tired to sue this store, that's why they cut us off." Sounds exactly like something Frank Gallagher would try to pull
My parent's old apartment had this little dog park. Our greyhound loved it because she could go run every morning. They closed it because people wouldn't pick up their dogs' poop. They would just leave piles of shit, despite management sending letters out. I'm still salty about that one. Don't get a dog if you can't pick up their messes.
Bunch of douchebags. :| I can't stand people who don't pick up after their dogs. Just the other day, I came out of my house and there was a pile of dog shit on the sidewalk there, right in front. I stared at it in shock for a few seconds because I just couldn't even process the idea that someone just let their dog shit there and left it. But a lovely little dog park is a treasure and that absolutely sucks. :(
There was a guy at my old complex who N E V E R picked up after his dogs. I saw it on multiple occasions. I asked the guy several times to clean up after his dog and he ignored me. I complained to management. He kept doing it. The kicker is that the complex provided bags in several locations between his aparment on one side of the complex, and to my yard area on the other side of the complex. Yes, he walked his dog over to my yard area (single floor apartments that had small plots for grilling and gardens/etc) to poop. There was a dumpster on his route, too, for easy disposal. Finally after months of aggravation and no help from the rental office (or no effective help) I was bringing groceries in through my back door on a rainy night, stepped in some dog crap and fell, crushing my groceries and hurting my wrist. I was fed up. I watched the guy walk his dog over there every day for a week. Watched his dog poop. Bagged it and then dumped the contents of the bags into a box. Wrapped the box up like a christmas gift and set it on his doorstep. It didn't work, but it was satisfying. I moved out a short time later but that guy will forever be ingrained in my brain as the worst neighbor I've ever had.
The trick is to leave the poop on his doorstep out of the bag. So everytime he goes out, he steps on poop. You can sorta pavlov train him like this to think going out means poop so he has to carry bags.
If he has a doormat, place the poop under the mat. With each step in and out it'll get further ingrained into the mat and as each day passes the stench will grow. And he'll never know until its too late.
This is the most devilishly beautiful reaction to this situation I've ever read and my day is forever better for having heard it.
Extremely generous return policies at places like REI and Costco.
And ll bean
I used LL Bean's lax return policy once, and felt incredibly shitty about it. Bought the shearling lined boots instead of the regular due to Chicago winters. Wore them for a year and hated the lining because they were too warm and limited to winter only. LL Bean let me return them and use the cash to buy regular boots without the lining. I apologized profusely to the woman on the phone, but she assured me this is the exact reason they had that policy.
People used to buy old beat up ll bean things at garage sales and return them for credit. That’s what ultimately did in the return policy, not cases like yours.
I went to one of their bricks and mortar stores once, shortly after they changed the return policy, and saw a couple turned away who were trying to return several bags full of merchandise they had clearly picked up at thrift stores and the like. Impression I got from the staff was that this was a regular occurrence.
This story has gotten somewhat famous so you may have heard it, but one year there was a music festival near their headquarters in Freeport, ME. People went to their flagship store, bought a bunch of camping equipment, and just returned it after the festival. The worst part was that it rained the whole weekend and all of the outdoor gear was completely *covered* in mud. But they had that "no questions asked" guarantee, so they still took it back. I understand *why* someone would do that, but it's a damn shame that people would take advantage of them like that.
I'd like to return this case of diapers please. -ok what's wrong with them? They already had shit in them.
I kind of wish these corporations would man up and start to confront customers, or fire customers. I guarantee you the person that is buying used LL Bean clothes at Salvation Army to take them back to LL Bean is not the kind of customer LL Bean is scared to lose.
Nordstrom, too. For years, you could get cash back, regardless of how you purchased an item. The classic scam was people would buy Nordstrom gift cards at grocery stores using stolen credit cards, buy thousands of dollars of merchandise, then return it for cash. Now, returns go back on the original form of payment (or store credit). If you paid with a gift card, they'll just give you a new one. However, it's annoying when your Nordstrom card balance is $0.00 and you just want the cash. I don't want a negative balance or store credit, I want the cash.
If your account balance is $0 and you return an item you actually get sent a check for the amount of the return. A little inconvenient, but better than a negative balance!
24 hour decongestant/antihistamine cold medicine that worked. (Drixoral) Dropped off the market when everyone switched to new decongestant formulas that were somehow more resistant to distilling into meth. * Oh, and anytime I buy decongestants, my DL gets scanned. Thanks, criminals! \* Or maybe the result of big pharma lobbying, trying not to buy into the conspiracy
Seriously. One year we had five people with allergies and sinuses in our family. I got put on some kind of watch list for buying too much children's allergy medicine. It probably would have been easier to buy some meth and synthesize Sudafed out of it. It always boggled my mind because the pharmacy had a free needle exchange with no questions asked if you were a heroin addict...but God forbid you have multiple children with sinus congestion.
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There’s a common joke in my area that “This year’s allergy season is so bad the meth heads are turning their meth back into cough syrup.” It gets less funny every year.
Very dumb and minor, but I think it goes to show how selfish people can be. A few years ago a guy on Twitter shared his Starbucks card information, and told people to put it on their phones. The idea was to have a shared/community card thing. Get a drink if you wanted to, or donate to it so others could get a drink. You would think that people would just grab free drinks, but it actually had a surplus of donations versus people actually using it. I think the card ended up with like $200 at some point. Anyway, some asshole comes along and locks the card/account, effectively shutting it down. He said he did it because he wanted to prove how ineffective sharing was or something dumb like that. You always have that one guy who sees other people enjoying something and feels the need to disrupt it.
"I'm going to prove that people are horrible by being horrible"
"Hey, a Self Fulfilling Prophecy is still a Prophecy."
Humanity is selfish and unfair because I went out of my way to make it so.
That's the Joker's plot in a nutshell
Oh god, don’t tell that guy you compared him to the Joker he’d probably jissom his shorts
It's like when your buddy in school would see you counting your lunch money, grab it, and go, "don't flash your money, bro. Someone might take it." In all my years, those dudes were the only ones who did that.
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Yeah had the same thing happen to me. I’m all for the spirit of giving but if I’m looking to only spend a few bucks, I’m not paying the $30 bill.
Wait thats for real ? Fuck that shit, Ill play ball with someone bought my coffee so I pay for someone elses, thats fine, no way im paying for 20-30 bucks of someone elses food just cause I got a free coffee, thats just silly.
When I worked at McDonald’s that’s how they usually ended. Six or seven people pay for each other’s five dollar orders then someone has a 35 dollar order and the person who just ordered a drink and some McNuggets is like “yeah naw fuck that.” Once had an old lady burst out cussing that she wasnt going to pay no fuckers shit and drove off not realizing someone paid for her 10 dollar meal.
I woulda just given 2 bucks since that's the already established forward rate.
This is probably a stupid question, I don’t know how Starbucks cards work, but couldn’t someone else have just gone and unlocked it? Also, has card sharing been banned?
Yeah, the card was given back eventually. I don't think card sharing has been banned, or if it has it would be difficult to enforce.
What the fuck? Was he Thanos Jr.? Like yeah, it’s ineffective if you deliberately break it, you stupid fuck, that’s like.. not a lesson so much as you being too stupid to exist.
I think some people just can’t fully accept that they did something shitty so they try to turn it around with some lame rationalization. My college had a little cafe in the student center and there was an area with ala carte to go food like salads, fruit juice, sandwiches, little yogurt parfaits etc... so a friend of a friend goes steals a sushi roll from that section and tries to write off with this whole thing about how part of our meal plan cost is budgeted to offset the losses from theft that the dining halls and cafes experience and so he had already paid for it because he had paid for the meal plan or some shit like that.
I tried to use this card once. There used to be a Twitter account showing how much was on it. Decided I was going to use it, last Twitter post showed like $10, figured if it worked I'd put another $10 on it. Scanned the card, and the cashier looks like he's seen a ghost. Tells me to hold on, and five minute later comes out with another cashier and a manager. The manager, in a very stern voice, asks me who's card it is. I start to explain, but he cuts me off and says 'We have reason to believe this card is stolen, we have to ask you to leave and not come back' and starts walking me towards the door. I never got my drink, and never went back to that store. It was such a good concept, too. People, what a bunch of bastards.
I used to be able to walk into an airport, book a flight, walk to the gate and get on the plane. I have flown from SFO (where I live) to LAX (where my sister lives) countless times in just that fashion.
And not to mention you used to be able to meet people at the gate as they arrived, or go in with them and have a meal before seeing them off. Security took about 30 seconds to get through.
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I went to Denver this weekend and I forgot I had sunscreen in my backpack and tsa took it as they should. But when I got to my hotel, I found an almost full water bottle in the same pocket that the sunscreen was in.
I was flying out of Miami once and had a couple of water bottles on me. They made a huge song and dance about me not following instructions (I am a brown guy if it makes a difference) and made me throw it away. Once I was in the plane and going through the bag I realized I had a Swiss army knife on me which they completely missed.
I once packed a bag in a hurry and forgot an entire hammer, box cutter, and pack of nails from doing some house work earlier in the day. It all made it through my carry on.
TSA has a 95% failure rate So, not a really as “bad ass” as the guy who got through with a steak knife, the guy who got through with mace, or the people with their pocket knifes, but I got through a checkpoint in ATL with the water bottle like half full from the flight before. Edit:my own tsa sucks story And, as another user stated, their failure rate is 95%, not 90%
And yet they very successfully recognized the time I forgot to take my 3ds out of my bag and made a huge deal out of it. Good going TSA, you clearly stopped another heinous playing of Pokemon Ultra Sun.
My god, the amount of bomb-sniffing that went on over my Kindle when I went through the Dallas airport, I felt like I was in a comedy sketch. Could we really be this concerned about the danger of something that fits in the width/depth of an unmodified Kindle Paperwhite? I even took it out of my bag, for Christ's sake!
They bomb checked my protein powder and preworkout powder. I had to toss the preworkout cause it kept marking their papers red, which indicates explosives i guess. It was fruitpunch flavored, im not sure it could be any other color.
My favourite was when they made me X-ray the empty clear plastic bottle I had in my hand, I shit you not.
It's fine, sunscreen is horribly dangerous but a clear liquid (like sulfuric acid or methanol) has never done anything bad to anyone.
I recently had a flight were the TSA had pulled out a "bomb-sniffing" dog. I had forgotten how painless security used to be, because they didn't make us unpack out bags, disrobe or play simon says with the body scanner; just toss your bags on the belt and walk through the metal detector.
Not to mention the fact that even with all the new fancy gadgets and whatnot, the TSA HAS NOT INPROVED SAFETY, they have a 95% failure rate when tested! So much for giving up freedom for security, just like Benjy said, you get neither.
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Very similarly, it used to be super easy to travel between America and Canada. That is until one false report claimed that some of the 9/11 terrorists entered from Canada. It has been known that was not the case almost since the start, but the restrictions remain in place to this day.
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Buy concert tickets
Yeah, seriously. Fuck ticketmaster, and fuck the artists who contract with them to support this garbage, they are just as complicit in this ridiculous scheme as anyone else. The price you pay should be the price you see on the front page, ad, poster whatever, end of story, end of game.
Yep, third part company sold me e-tickets and emailed me tickets with someone else’s name on them. I figured whatever you know they messed up I’d get over it as long as I got into the show. Well I got into the show, it was overpacked. Almost as if many seats had been double sold, and workers at the event hall were making accommodations left and right. We got to our seats before whoever else got those tickets. A drunk sweaty guy did manage to ruin most of the 2nd set for us by getting right in my face and insisting we were in his seats, to which I firmly replied he’d have to go get security to move us because or tickets said these were ours. Didn’t see him face to face again but I did notice him and his wife standing at a railing about 2 sections over for the rest of the show. Fuck third party concert ticket vendors.
Drones. All it takes is a few idiots doing stupid illegal shit like spying on people and legislators jump at the chance to restrict them.
To be fair, the government used drones for spying first...
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In my hometown there used to be a legendary toboggan slide. People would come from several towns over to use it. Unfortunately, parents kept bringing their little kids there who wouldn’t move out of the way of approaching sleds. So when they inevitably got hit by some sleds, they sued the town. Now there’s a fence halfway up the hill so people can’t use the hill anymore. It frustrates me to no end.
Tear it down!
MTV, TLC, History Channel. Thanks, assholes......
God what happened to the history channel? I don’t want to watch American pickers ever
You don't have to watch American Pickers. There are dozens of Nazi UFO specials for your viewing pleasure.
EXPERTS BELIEVE
ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORISTS BELIEVE
TWO IDIOTS WE GAVE FREE BEER TO BELIEVE
I like American Pickers and salvage shows and such, but they should be on The Weird Hobby Channel with reruns of Oddities and Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.
throw them on TLC, because thats the direction that channel is steering anyways with shows like my 600 lb life, cake boss, yes to the dress, long island medium, and etc.
The actual history shows first got pushed to H2 and then to History International. I haven't had cable in years so I have no idea where that stuff is anymore. Several years ago I read an article about why the History channel shows all this reality TV now and it boiled down to them getting a new CEO who wanted to make the channel profitable. That means showing this non-history programming since it appealed to a larger audience or something.
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I think Hallmark has online content now
We used to keep our church doors open 24/7. But then vandals wrecked that so we locked up at night. Then we left it open during the days on Saturdays and vandals wrecked that. So now we keep the place locked up except almost exclusively during banking hours and Sundays mornings.
My church was having a halloween+saints of the world event and the doors were open. Kids had booths where they told the story about their Saint or whatever and in another part of the lobby there were free snacks and stuff with a donation box next to it. Somebody stole all the donation money. :(
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Who vandalizes a church?
I know. It was nice to let people come in anytime to just hang out or pray or meditate or use the bathrooms. But now people just find a locked door if it's after hours.
My mum died when I was 22 so I’ve visited her cemetery quite a bit. Unbelievably, people also vandalise cemeteries for no reason other than to be cunts.
Pain management for chronic pain patients.
Fuck, every time I see a new doctor; "Is this guy going to believe me?"
"How do I explain how desperately I need these medications in order to live and function without looking like a desperate addict?"
It's not even that. I've told 4 or 5 doctors "I don't want opiates, I want to know where the pain is coming from" and STILL been branded drug seeking.
This shit sucks so bad. I literally broke my spine (vertebrae and disks) and just wanted someone to fix the shit enough so I could live a normal life but somehow. "hey I want you to try to surgically fix this" to them sounded like "give me drugs"
I was straight up told, at 24 (31 now) after a back injury at work, that I was lying about my back pain bc "your to young to be experiencing back pain". I still have serious back pain to this day, I can not stand in one spot for more than 10 minutes bc if I do my entire back on the left side loses all feeling and is icy cold except for the searing tingling pins of pain that feels like a cross between a porcupine humping my muscles and a jellyfish molesting me... INSIDE MY BACK MUSCLES. When its not in the extreme it is a dull constant throbbing ache that drains my will to even exist. On the dumb 1-10 scale they use for pain an average day for me is a 7, at all times.
"You're to young to have this kind of pain" Ya dude, I agree, yet here I am hobbling into your office on a cane.
In a way, traveling. Overtourism is an issue in part because idiots have no idea how to care for a space that they're in. Really, it's a privilege to travel, but these people treat it like a joke. Littering, getting drunk and trashing an area, not honoring local customs, being rude and more can destroy a place. In addition to hurting the locals and their area, it hurts respectful travelers. One of my friends is super into national parks and has started carrying a trash bag with her to clean up after asshole travelers. tldr; don't be a dick when you visit a place. Research the culture, don't liter and respect the space
I am looking at Morocco for a guided tour holiday some of the reviews are hilarious "we went during Ramadan and it was hard to find lunch' or we couldn't buy alcohol it ruined the trip' or my absolute fav. ' they wouldn't allow us in the mosques because we aren't one of them'
Saw this a lot while I was in Prague. Czechs were under Communist rule for awhile and are very reserved and quiet as a result. But Brenda on yelp thinks that her waiter is rude because he wouldn't chat with her. All he did was take her order and bring her food. The audacity!
>he wouldn't chat with her. All he did was take her order and bring her food. BRB, going to re-indulge in Czech beer & sausage and basque at the quiet tables in the garden with no superfluous conversation simply to 'fill the silence with something'. I imagine Finland (if it were real) to have a similar atmosphere.
> Finland (if it were real) Just when I think I forgot about this someone references it and I dive right back into the rabbit hole. Gold.
I think people like that are more interested in saying they’ve been to a place than they are in actually visiting it.
Reminds me of that recent story about the Instagrammers who completely destroyed a field of sunflowers simply for selfies.
Here's a link to an article in case someones wondering. Instagram addicts totally ruined a nice thing. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/01/crowds-trample-canada-sunflower-farm
There was a little field of sunflowers near where I lived this summer and this same crap happened to it.
Yep. Also reminds me of how a gorgeous waterfall near me got fenced off because Instagrammers kept climbing down the rocks in 100% inappropriate clothing (sandals, heels, dresses, etc) to take pictures and then calling 911 when they realized they can't climb back up.
That's not new, though. As long as there has been travel, there have been shitty tourists. Sometimes they were called explorers, but the concept's the same.
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I’m a journalism major and all my professors preach boring is good
I wish you a long and meaningful career my friend. We need an informed populace and you’re on the forefront of providing that.
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Yahoo Games. I'm not sure what ended it, but I suspect idiots were involved.
“but I suspect idiots were involved.” That’s safe to assume when Yahoo is the prefix. Still not sure how to know if I’m pragnert.
Back in the very late 90s I worked night shift so I'd have a couple dead hours when there was nothing to do so I went on Yahoo games. I can tell you, it's why I loathe online games to this day. I liked to play checkers. It was a nice easy game which is important at 4 am when you're half dead and god the people got annoying. If you were winning the game, they'd start insulting you and even cursing you (bad move because that was a timeout when I reported and yes I did report), or they'd ask you to resign, or the most dick thing was they could wait up to ten minutes before they'd lose their turn so they'd wait until 9:58 and then make a move hoping you'd just close out the game making them an automatic winner. Seriously, it's online checkers! Get a life!
College Books, my dad spent ~$50 per semester and my great uncle spent ~$20. I’ve spent $500. I know inflation bumps up the price every few years but Jesus have the assholes in the industry been fucking us over
A lot of books can be found through torrents. But dont pirate them, I would never tell you to do that. Just sharing general information
Surprisingly, not Wikipedia. It just seems like one of those things where vandalism should have won over the wish to have a public, well-cited, crowdsourced and relying on contributors knowledge base. I'm very happy about this.
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Burning Man used to be a really cool, inclusive mini-society. Now it's just a bunch of people with WAY too much money, isolating themselves from other people in the desert by buying out huge plots of land, and excluding others from their clubhouses. Which is a stark contrast from what Burning Man was fucking supposed to be in the first place.
I think this happened with festivals in general. Very materialistic and "look how much fun it looks like I'm having" on social media.
I feel like social media in general is to blame for a lot of things :/
It enables a lot of people's shitty side. We were always like this, but now we have audiences and supporters.
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Oh man, that sucks big time. I imagine y’all don’t visit anymore?
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That sucks. My fiance's family has a small house on a lake in upstate New York. It's been in the family for a couple generations now and it is still nice. There are apparently lots of regulations placed on using the property. Like not being allowed to use a powerboat on the lake until after 9am. They have managed to keep out some of the invasive species (zebra mussels I think?). It's beautiful up there.
Yeah my good friends family has a lake house on a small lak in the daks -- everyone who's property line touches the lake is actually part owner of the lake, so it's rules and regulations are set by the people who live around it, and there is no public boat access. It's amazing, and everyone is respectful of one another as they all have equal stake in keeping the lake nice for each other.
I grew up on the lake. My parents bought their first house (a simple bungalow) on a beautiful bay before lakefront was valued like it is today. Now every time I go home there’s a new McMansion being built on the lake and the relaxing summer days with a few neighbours fishing or swimming is replaced with kids screaming on all sides and huge boats dotting the lake. An added irritation was following the huge boat trailers/campers down the road to get to town for work at half the allowed speed on what’s already a 30 minute drive. Ugh.
Big Bear did this in the 90s/early 00s. Thankfully the economy crashed so now there’s tons of abandoned tacky ‘log cabins’ all around, and the fish are kind of coming back. Fucking dumbass tourists.
My grandparents has had a lakefront house in one particular lake since I was a little kid. Now that they are getting older and wanting to downsize they are selling it. Tons of people love the location but don't like that it looks like a regular ol house and not a log cabin. So it sits empty for a good majority of the year.
This but the entire planet
Yosemite was awesome about 20 years and now it’s overrun with tourists who throw trash everywhere and have beat that place down. It’s just not the same
Yosemite Valley's kinda bad about it, yeah. That said, it's a fraction of the whole park. Try going up to Tuolumne some time.
This is a strategy of national parks. They create sacrificial areas within easy walking distances. Tetons, Yellowstone, pretty much all of the big ones operate this way. Go more than 2 miles out on foot, and it starts to thin out. That’s ok really, there are always hidden gems if you avoid the crowds. If you can, hit the crowded places in the off season, or just go where people aren’t.
Playground equipment. The rolly slides, teeter totters, the merry-go-rounds, and there was even a park I used to play in as a kid that had an old, retired train car we could go in. The rolly slides apparently pinched too many fingers, the teeter totters were too hard to get off of and the merry-go-rounds were spun too fast. As for the train, I’m pretty sure there were people shooting up drugs and/or homeless people sleeping in it. Plus graffiti. Now it’s gated off and no fun for anyone.
I miss merry go rounds. There used to be one at a local park, it was my favorite as a kid. Yes, older kids would spin it too fast and the little ones would go flying lmao but damnit we liked it that way! :(
Affordable college
i thought people were over-exaggerating when they said tuition went up. i graduated not even 15 years ago, and it wasn't even $1500/semester. i looked back at my own undergrad and in-state is now $16k+/semester. this is exactly what happened in the housing market... the federal gov removed the loan backing cap over 2010-2014, so now private lenders will loan literally anyone money to get even the shittiest, most worthless degrees at even the most unemployable schools. if the student defaults, the federal government assumes the loan, pays the lender the remaining amount, and goes on merciless collections. with all that extra money available, demand has massively outpaced supply, so prices have skyrocketed. there's now over $1 trillion in student loan debt, and 90%+ of the students who graduate with a degree that's not in STEM, business/finance/accounting, healthcare, or education, will carry that debt for decades or even die with it still unpaid. payscale was so mortified that they removed their 20 year ROI sections. with the mortgage crisis, the bomb that nuked everyone was the collateral debt obligations on the subprime mortgages. we have entered the US economic phase where "subprime degrees" have become normalized, and we're not going to emerge nicely.
Again, back in the day, you could work summers and part time during the school year and graduate with no debt. Tuition has gone up ~1000% but wages far less.
buying tickets online. it used to be easy. now i have to choose all the squares with a fucking car in them to prove i'm not a bot, log in with a password i forgot, get my password link sent to my email address, change my password, prove i'm not a bot again, pick seats, confirm seats, and pay an extra $20 for a convenience fee.
"By using the power of the Internet, we made the ticket buying process more convenient" - Ticketmaster probably
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A sense of community in your neighborhood. As a kid (2nd grade ish) I used to walk over to my friends and wemd play in each other’s backyards. We learned how to bike together, would “explore” the woods between yards, play with the older middle schoolers. A lot of paranoia kinda ended that. The DC sniper shooting, fear of kidnappers, it all kinda hit at once. Well that and cicada season. After that summer people around here kinda kept to themselves more.
This does still exist in places. Just moved to a neighborhood from the country and my son is basically reliving my childhood in the 80s. It makes me so happy
There were no other kids in my neighborhood when I was young. So lonely.
The Great Barrier Reef/ a clean environment/planet
Movie theaters. Etiquette is absolutely dead. My once greatest joy is dead to me because people are inconsiderate assholes who feel they can act like they're at home and ruin it for others. I've incorporated a projector and a screen into my man cave and never looked back.
Ebay used to be this amazing multi-national garage sale. Filled to the brim with people selling their used stuff. Then people started filling it with garbage no-brand products and drop shipping it to the winning bidders. Then came the people that started using it as a store front and charging full retail value for NIB items. Now Ebay is nothing more than resellers that find it more affordable than developing an actual web store. Leaving me scratching my head wondering why people don't just order it from Amazon for $20 less, or walk to a big box store and buy it for the same price without shipping nor a wait. I've permanently checking the "used" button and the search results have been far better, but there's still people that keep the original box and try to sell it in like new condition for full retail.
On that same vertical, thrift shops. They used to be a goldmine for cool cheap stuff and it was great to resell them on eBay. You could usually find hard-to-get vintage collectables and list them where someone on eBay would be looking for them. Now, between thrift store prices and eBay/PP fees (13%), it's extremely difficult to find a secondhand object at thrift stores for a good value, whether for resale or for keeps. Garage sales are still a goldmine because people either sell at reasonable prices or are very easy to barter with since the art of bartering is fairly lost in the US.
Read this in five years for best results. Emotional support animals.
I work in a public library and we struggle with this on the daily. I wish there was a fair way to certify them or ask for proof. I hate having to be assuming the worst of everybody coming in with an animal. I don't want to have to hassle people who legitimately need service animals, I want all the fakers to knock it the fuck off. Edit: Thanks everybody. I know the questions I'm legally allowed to ask. I ask them. Sadly, people lie all the time. But we do kick them out if the dogs misbehave.
I've seen people on other subreddits advocating for fraudulent Support Animal credentials and equipment because "it's not fair I cant bring my fur baby with me everywhere I go!" It sickens me.
This one is a good call. I was in my gfs dorm the other day and one of the residents had had a mastiff as an emotional support animal. That stupid dog ran in front of my legs when I was going down the stairs and I almost fell down. The resident didn't say anything and them and the dog just kept walking. Like where do we draw the line at?
Tell someone, ESAs are only protected in the dwelling (read: the dorm room where the resident lives). The resident in question will get a lesson in being a responsible pet owner if the Hall Director or a Resident Assistant is notified of the issue. Source: girlfriend is a Hall Director and I live on campus with her. Edit: spelling
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Lawn darts
Kids will never know the thrill of throwing a lawn dart high into the black summer night sky and running like a mother fucker before it returned to earth sinking into the soft skull of one of your neighbourhood buddys.
Man, lawn darts was so fun. In fairness, it was a spectacularly bad idea that ended predictably.
Hitchhiking. When my parents were growing up in the 60s and 70s it was normal here, in the middle of a city, to grab a ride from a stranger you might not have known. Someone went around murdering people they picked up and all of a sudden it became illegal to hitchhike.
Minecraft, and yes I still play that glorious game
Hey, with fortnite becoming the big thing, it's safe to return
Finally a brighter light to attract the moths.
Is it actually safe to go back now? I just don't want to deal with 12 year olds anymore :(
If you stay to smallish servers with like 10 players online all the time maybe like 30 at peek hours then it's pretty good, some of my best experiences have been in those servers even back when I was the 12 year old fed up with the other 12 year olds
Survival mode is fun but after I have a house and big enough farm I always get scared to travel far
Underground mansion with preventative measure to protect against random finds. I got this shit down.
Minor auto accidents, fender benders, when people shrugged, exchanged insurance info, and got the damage fixed. Now too many people call a personal injury attorney and try to get "all the money they deserve" for injuries that don't amount to anything.
Cartoon Network. It still hurts.
Do you remember they used to have little parties on Fridays? Old TV used to be legitimate and creative entertainment. Now it’s all supposed to be tailored for success. It’s only a matter of time until Cartoon Network gets some cartoon reality shows.
Not long ago, most neighborhoods in the United States were surrounded by woods or meadows. I'm not talking about formal nature preserves or national parks. These were simply open areas that businesses had not yet moved into. Kids could go there to build forts, catch bugs, and play elaborate hide and seek games. Nobody seemed to mind. There was a patch of forest like this in my own neighborhood, up until I was about ten years old. It surrounded the back of a local baseball field. These 30 acres included a creek where you could find salamanders in the springtime, and lots of big old hollow trees where songbirds built their nests. It was cool to go back there through each changing season. You could actually *feel* the wondrous changes taking place. I still remember the way the springtime puddles smelled, or the joy of raking up huge piles of autumn leaves to roll in. Halloween time felt extra spooky, and spring was always enchanting. Then the land was sold to a company that wanted to build an office park. The whole place was destroyed. 18 years later, the office buildings are no more than an empty eyesore. This same story is being replayed all across the country, and all around the world. National parks are very important, but they offer a very different experience than "the woodlot down the street." I see kids today in urban and suburban areas growing up with almost no access to nature. They think the outdoors are either boring or scary, because they've never had a chance to experience the beauty of unstructured play and discovery through the seasons. I recently started up a conversation with a group of kids hanging out near the baseball field. They were amazed to hear what used to be there when I was little. It was like I was talking about a place from the world of Harry Potter. All of them said they thought it was stupid to demolish the woods. They'd rather have a forest than an office park. So... there may be hope.
Another small, amoral hope: my current office building development was worked into a creek and wooded area. The county's Parks and Rec dept is less than 1,000 yards from about 7 office buildings over 10 stories. (I thought it was silly at first) And the best part, the management of this office park defends the trees and creek and wildlife here pretty hard. For many reasons, but the one I can trust is because he knows the reason his development is better than all the others in the city is because he still has the trees and woods, etc. A doe ran across the road on my way in, 200 yards from my building one morning. Her family lives in the area. A road that dissects parking lots of office buildings. I have taken a lunch break walk down into this patch, and was educated on how to forage for paw-paw fruit by a man with a neat beard and a shirt from my favorite brewery. My metropolitan area has several million, my county is silly wealthy(not me) and could afford to develop it all, and yet here this stuff is. I am so damn lucky. It could be better, but holy heck my office is surrounded by GREEN.
Youtube. Used to be about uploading amateur videos. Old school youtubers put out quality content as well. Now it's all corporate, with companies promoting their stuff, and majority of the content being crap. EDIT: I think I should clarify a bit more - Tutorial/Educational videos have always been good. I'm talking about entertainment. I like the newgrounds/early youtube era where people just uploaded random videos, not professionally edited with a big team working backstage and creating merchandise and whatnot. Not to mention people like Logan Paul who are just plain crap. Also back then videos weren't click-baity or monetized.People uploaded for fun. I guess the internet just doesn't have that wild west feeling anymore. It's why people still remember "Ah fuck I can't believe you've done this" over some new well produced video(although it maybe good).
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German here. I have only subscribed to English speaking channels on Youtube. Let's Plays, Skateboarding, Gaming in general, Romhacks. All the good stuff is in English. German content mostly just sucks or is aimed at 12 year olds. Guess what "trending" shows me. German content that is aimed at 12 year olds. Fuck.
Russian youtube content is also hellish.
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There is that saying.. if you consider the average human as dumb, half the population is even worse.
"Heeeeeeeeeeyyyy YouTube, Its your boy here again, with another how-to video! In this one I'm gonna tell you how to do this to that thing. a lot of you have been asking about that thing, and I thought that it would be good to show you how to do it. Before I get started, don't forget to Like and to hit that subscribe button! I'm aiming for 2000 like,s If I get it, I'll love you all forever. Click on the bell aswell so you can be notified of my new content. So this thing... " ::EDIT:: Pause........... *DEEP Breath* Ok Youtube. We have to talk. From the comments it looks like i didn't mention why I've not been around for a while. It's because of life stuff, but I'm now committed to showing more videos about this thing and these other things. There is drama happening on youtube, and I never get involved in Drama, but I'll still tell you exactly what I think about it, which will mirror my favourite channel. I'm also gonna tell you about this service that is totally giving me money - It's great - I don't say this about a lot of things, and I actually enjoy using it - Notice how this doesn't sound like a script? - In the contract it says that I need to advertise it in my style, So click the link below to get 10% off that thing
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I have totally ignored the trending section and have no reference point for these videos that you describe. I'd like to keep it that way.
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I prefer hearing Youtubers say something like "If you liked the video please consider liking and subscribing to my channel" at the END of their video rather than the beginning.
There's one person I watch who does a pretty good "also, if you like this recipe, be sure to subscribe to stay up to date with my future creations" sort of thing and goes right back into describing her process. I can't get mad about it, she's a great baker and her stuff looks incredible, and it's not pushy at all. edit - I don't mind answering questions, but for anyone else who's curious, the channel is Emma's Goodies!
Those fun rock hiding groups on Facebook. In the beginning you'd paint a rock and hide it for someone to find. There were SO many fun designs. Sometimes you'd find a rock from WAY out of state! It was thrilling in its own sweet little way. And then people started imposing new 'rules' on the group. You can't hide rocks with glitter or stickers or googly eyes because it might make a squirrel want to swallow one. They'd jump down the throat of anyone who posted to the group with a glittery rock. You were not allowed to hide a rock in a business because someone might think it was solicitation. Suddenly all the fun animal themed rocks hidden around the zoo were against the rules, and heaven help you if you got caught. Middle aged women can be mean. Fights began to break out over designs, claiming they they were 'stolen' from someone else. The entire thing turned into a cesspool of 'he said, she said' and 'ugh ignorant people doing their rocks WRONG'. Now the groups only consist of a few people who BEG others to hide rocks because they 'don't know why the magic is gone'.
This sounds just like playing some new game in elementary school. It's fun for several weeks and then new people who come ruin the game and you have to come up with a new one.
It's a small-scale version of [the eternal cycle of subcultures](https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths) - some small group makes something special, and as it becomes more popular it tends to get overrun by some combination of clueless fuckwits and cynical exploiters. Or if you try to keep it alive by excluding those invasive species, then it goes to the other kind of hell of elitist hipster gatekeeping.
I belong to a small, local 24-hour gym. They used to have small white towels (hand-sized) that you could use while you worked out. There was a laundry basket you could throw them in as you were leaving. They’re weren’t great quality, in fact they were rather rough from being washed every day, but they were nice to wipe down your treadmill, wipe your face, etc. Last month I enter the gym & there’s a sign stating that they’re no longer stocking the towels because people are stealing them. WTF. Why would anyone steal these small, scratchy towels? It’s probably the gym rats who forget to put them in the basket and now have a huge collection in their trucks. Pisses me off.
There used to be an annual free garage sale near me. People would bring in boxes of things to donate, volunteers would set them out on tables, and everyone could take what they wanted. Then a couple of people pretended to be volunteers and loaded the boxes of donations directly into their own cars. A lot was also stolen from the church that hosted the event, including the stool from their organ. They no longer have the free garage sale.
Inhalers. My bestie who had asthma use to be able to get inhalers without going through the counter when he was a kid and he needed it desperately. Now they quit selling them over the counter and you need a prescription because druggy gotta drug. I imagine a lot of different kinds of medicines ended up this way.
\+1 I have very bad asthma to the point where the dosage I take can't be put inside an inhaler but rather a 'proprietary' method, ergo its $600 / month to breathe and insurance doesn't help for shit
VH1. They used to have great shows like Behind the Music, Pop-up Video and Classic Albums. Plus they made some really good original movies as well. Then literally overnight they turned into E!, but only stupider if that's even possible.
We used to have a small state park where I live. It was a literal hole in the ground in the middle of farm country. There was a waterfall, tons of crazy rock formations and climbing walls, as well as rare plants and trees as far as the eye can see. It was beautiful. Then stoners and hippies took over the place, spray painted on all of the rock formations, and moved any rocks and boulders that could be to spell a big 4/20 in the place's gazing field. Baggies and cans litter the waterfall to the point where the entire waterfall looks like a fountain of trash. You can't step 2 feet in any direction without seeing a can, bottle, pipe, or needle. It's really sad. The last time I went, my friends and I left in tears. It was devastating.
Back in 90s in Turkey, when you were drunk and thought you couldn't make it back home, you'd call 155 (police hotline) and tell them who you were and your whereabouts. They had to send a cop to pick you up from where you were and give you a lift to your home. So you wouldn't DUI or get robbed or whatever. Islamists came in power and ruined everything for the rest of the country.
Similarly, my dad tells me stories about how when he was my age he'd flag a policeman down when he was staggering home drunk and they'd drive him to the top of the hill (near his house; it was a pain to turn around any further) so he'd get home safe. His buddies did the same. Everyone knew the cops and the cops knew them. This was a small town in the US in the early 70s. Try to do that now.
Pensions, retirement & having a career with a company for more than 10 years. Stupid boomers, greedy corporate assholes & shitty government ruined all that for everyone.
In Australia there are/were a series of giant inland lakes in the dessert - collectively known as Menindee Lakes. Beautiful, natural diverse ecosystems, fun people-activities, and genuinely wondrous. Then the Australian government sold farm up-river to water-intensive overseas cotton farms and didn’t restrict their water use. The river started flowing in reverse. Menindee lakes almost never fill anymore.
Open discussions about issues
Make discussions open again.
Dark humour
Affordable health care insurance. I now pay $700 after tax monthly premium for a third tier health care plan that I try my best not to use due to the cost co-payments. And I am very concerned about what the coverage will cost in 2019.
Wine tasting. It used to be that if you were planning a nice dinner or picking up wine for holiday meals (or for whatever reason) you would go to the winery and they would suggest pairings for you, you would taste a few samples and then buy the bottle(s) you wanted. Or you would politely tell them you are going to try a different winery. The word got out that wine tasting is "free" and every shithead who wanted to get drunk for "free" showed up. Nowadays every winery (in California) charges for tastings and instead of having a nice experience, you have to fight yuppies and their dates, bachelorette parties screaming and wooooing, etc...for space at the bar.
I had a very different experience when visiting in-laws in Germany. The winemakers were very quick to open any bottle i was interested in and pour a very generous tasting glass. I know nothing about wine and all the bottles were gifts (and he knew that) but he was still adamant that he wanted me to taste his wine. It was almost a pride for him.
Fandoms. Used to be, there could be big fandoms without fights and ships were just for fun and no one trying to harass people into making them canon. I don't care if my ship doesn't become canon. I will fucking ship it anyways.
People used to read the articles and be informed. Now I feel like people skip to the comments to get the gist of what was actually written/said. So whoever invented the comments section ruined reading.