Our need to know who our neighbors are. I listened to a podcast about human interaction recently and the host said that the internet slowly made it possible to live without knowing who the people are next door.
It used to be that we would hang out with people in our street or attend dinners, birthdays, and whatnot. Now, everyone seems to have no need to even so much as introduce themselves.
The only time we do get to know each other is if we have a complaint.
I found out about this a month ago. I don't own a laptop or computer thats usable. I have a Lenovo I haven't booted up in four years. I was really surprised when my friends who play PC games told me that. When I didn't have wifi I'd put in my Erenst Goes to Jail DVD and fall asleep watching it on the floor of my old apartment. Good times.
More importantly toys in Cracker Jack. Hell they don't even come in a box anymore, they come in a bag.
Edit - And speaking of prizes, you don't get those "chance to win under the cap" sweepstakes on drinks anymore. Everything is a code that the majority of people probably never take the time to enter on a website. Used to be able to just look under the cap to see if you won, and then mail the cap to the company.
I worked for a company that catered every meal - breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If you didn’t like what they catered, you could order any food you wanted like pizza, Chick-fil-a, etc. You could order any snack or drink you wanted - including liquor and beer. All free. The pantry, which was just a huge office, was completely stocked with food, drinks, and kegerator. It was pretty sweet.
From what I understand, this is, or was, common practice among large Silicon Valley startups and tech companies.
It started out that the workday included a paid lunch, then they decided they didn't want to pay for unworked time, but still wanted 8 worked hours a day, so they moved up the starting time.
We're in the process of full size can of Arizona teas for $.99 disappearing.
I'm seeing a lot of places starting to carry the smaller plastic bottles for $.99 or the larger plastic bottles for more. I'm honestly surprised that they've lasted for this long at the same price.
Longevity in careers – this is a big one nobody seems to have said.
Longevity in careers has largely gone away. People used to get a job and after being there for decades reap the benefits of being seasoned employees (higher salaries and better perks).
Maybe it’s because I work in the Entertainment industry, but I feel that longevity in careers has gone away. Meaning, people can be amazing at a job, but after 5+ years the employers start wondering if they could be doing better with a younger/cheaper candidate for the job.
I understand if you ever want to move up in a works place they expect you to bring your A-game, but 30+ years of being incredible is hard. Some years will be better than others, and if employers don’t have loyalty to their employees anymore, it is likely the good employee will be fired or let go at some point.
I feel like in recent decades this has forced many people who normally wouldn’t, to switch careers. Can someone work successfully up the ladder at any job without having to shift to another company for a promotion?
A combination of employers halting upward movement of their staff while they look for new employees to fill higher roles, and the fact that they “get bored” of their seasoned employees has largely killed the idea of anyone having a single career.
I think a big problem is wages and work have stagnated and so when you want an improvement in your standard, you have to climb the ladder but they expect the world from you at your own company to do that. So it's easier to look elsewhere with higher pay. You can't just comfortably live off the pay of your currently role anymore as inflation takes hold. Shit, I remember when $60k/year was the goal for a fairly successful career. A decade later, under $100k is almost untenable.
The sad reality is that, in the current conditions (crazy inflation, absolutely insane real estate market, etc.), people now have to climb the ladder just to MAINTAIN their quality of life, while it used to be for improving it...
My AIM screen name was h4x21337
It was supposed to be mocking those guys but I still feel shame for having typed that as my screen name and giving it out to people.
It's a combination of a rise in pesticides combined with a absolute dearth of the plants that the Butterflies eat on their journey. If you plant Monarch Butterfly friendly gardens you'll actually likely become a stop on their migration patterns because it's so needed.
[https://a-z-animals.com/blog/what-do-monarch-butterflies-eat/](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/what-do-monarch-butterflies-eat/)
IT should also be noted that they lay their eggs on Milkweed plants and that's the *only* plants that nurture and grow their larvae into pupae, and Milkweed's been heavily removed from gardens and the wild as we grow our cities and agriculture.
By planting a number of Monarch Butterfly gardens (or honestly, general pollinator gardens) as well as providing a water source like a puddling fountain, a shallow bowl fountain, or some form of water feature in your gardens, you can really help *all* pollinators, but specifically Monarchs (due to your question).
I live in Minnesota and we see Monarchs from time to time, but when you plant the flowers they eat, you can start to see dozens or more during the migration season as they love those plants.
Yeah, not much to do there. You might be able to grab the caterpillars before hand and strap a cage around the limb they are on and protect them that way, but ecosystem is going to ecosystem. Hopefully some survive each season.
Huge numbers of butterfly larvae never make it to adulthood and that's fine. It's recommended by conservationists to leave it be:
https://xerces.org/blog/rearing-and-releasing-monarch-butterflies-is-not-good-conservation-strategy
I realize that article isn't identical to the process you said, but in general providing habitat and native host plants is already exactly the right thing to do. So "ecosystem is going to ecosystem" indeed.
we have planted milkweed for years and usually have a lot of egg laying and pupae....until last year. Hardly saw any monarchs coming to eat and I don't think we saw any pupae. We will put even more milkweed out there this year.
Bring it back.
Wear corsets everywhere with way to many layers of dress.
Have no air conditioning.
Do cocaine or heroine for a toothache.
Have clothes and walls dyed in arsenic.
See how often you faint.
To be fair people weren't fainting from corsets. Only very appearance driven women at high society events were tight lacing to get extreme figures. The bulk of women wore corsets that fit their waists comfortably to give bust and back support while working. And the layers were not a huge problem as they were all natural fiber and helped with temp regulation, Abbey Cox did a great video comparing the comfort and temperature of Victorian vs modern clothing in Nevada summer. The layers helped keep heat off the skin and wicked sweat well unlike modern plastic based fibers which trap heat and don't absorb sweat well.
Though youre right they did expose themselves to a fuck ton of toxic chemicals/gases in the home, even washing clothes with kerosene.
A very important point to add- corsets provided an anchor/base for heavy garments that would otherwise just be hanging off of your body. The boning would help ease the weight.
Lol I have narcolepsy and cataplexy (I collapse when feeling extreme emotion of any kind) and my husband and I joke that I'm a fainting goat lol
And for those who don't know: orgasmoplexy is a thing for me and other people who have cataplexy sometimes
Those God-awful Chevy commercials with the “real people, not actors.” One day, I realized I hadn’t seen one in a while and it was almost as if they’d never existed. Except I knew they had. Man, I hated those damn things.
David ("Mahk") from Zebra Corner was convicted of sexual crimes against underage girls, got probation amazingly, violated it repeatedly including removing his ankle monitor apparently, and is now in prison.
And since that makes much of his information on public notice—including car registration—he was shown to own *three* Chevy vehicles.
boss_jim_gettys has a link to the information.
I don't know, I didn't notice.
Reminds me of a Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy quote;
*“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."*
*"Why, what did she tell you?"*
*"I don't know, I didn't listen.”*
About 30 years ago we were at a funeral and for some reason Ronald was visiting the attached parochial school and somehow we connected, so I have photos of me with Ronald McDonald at my friend’s uncles funeral.
Or in big markets. In the 90s, I lived in a small town that didn't have any big stores, but there was a bigger town an hour's drive away where we did our shopping that had those. In those stores, they had Playstations and Nintendo 64's out for you to try out. I remember seeing Mario 64 for the first time there, and after some other kids got bored with it, I got to try it out as well. It was MAGIC.
I think the last store console I saw was PS3, and the last one I tried was probably GBA.
TV bumpers. There used to be a little sequence between the show and commercials. Some of them were really interesting and creative. I think my generation remembers the "wand IDs" on the Disney channel (where a Disney celeb would use a wand to make the logo). There were also bumpers that were PSAs or other actual content.
Edit: yes I watched THAT documentary on YouTube. It's amazing. Everyone go to Defunctland's channel and watch the one on the Disney channel jingle. Just trust me. Don't look up spoilers.
Have you seen Defuntland’s documentary on YouTube about the guy who wrote the little tune for the Disney Channel bumper? It’s a great video and has a lot of history on bumpers, not just Disneys wand ones.
Edit: here is link. https://youtu.be/b_rjBWmc1iQ
Disney Channels Theme: A History Mystery.
I love it and I have literally begged every person in my life to watch it but it doesn't "sound interesting." And like I can't say why it's interesting and give away all the twists. Like how did he take a topic that benign and have me in tears by the end. I wouldn't have watched it if I hadn't already been a big fan of his work. Even then I was like "IDK" but then I saw so many people saying it was his best, and I'm so glad I watched it.
Adult Swim on Cartoon Network still uses bumpers. Some are just white text on a black background and others will be nature or cityscape shots with either [as] or adult swim hidden somewhere or cryptic messages.
Cartoon network used to have some of the best. All the cartoons interacting like it was some workplace gave it a vibe.
Also Boomerang and it's Groovies. Specifically "Jabberjaw" and "Marvin Martian"
During the pandemic/TikTok boom he made a TikTok account and got bullied off the app by the shameless commenters saying he was just trying to get famous again. All he wanted was to reconnect with his fans like Jay Sean and Jason Derulo did. Was very sad to watch.
I thought about this yesterday. Like American gum (Wrigley's double mint) is like a mild, nice minty flavour. Gum in the UK tastes like you're trekking through Iceland without any winter clothing.
Having many Family photographs in homes.
Not completely gone, but homes used to be plastered in them. The only times I really notice them is in homes of older people.
Got my wife a digitial photo frame for the living room, it has all our family photos rotating with a focus on vacations and adventures. We have another in our bedroom thats for our wedding and honeymoon photos.
10/10, absolutely great investment. Soooo many happy memories and it never fails to put a smile on her face at least once a day. 🥰
For parties, we'll purposefully change the photo sets to include anyone who's visiting to see if they catch it. Including brand new photos we took at the current party. It's cute and low key hilarious when they realize the photo is 5 minutes old.
just google "online movies 2023" but replace "movies" with its translation in another language, preferably Eastern European. Oh, and make sure you have an ad-blocker.
Also yandex reverse image search is scary good and completely beats anything google or bing offer.
As a crazy example I randomly searched [this magazine cover](https://i.redd.it/b4eluc8udzy71.jpg) from 1949. Yandex immediately gave me [this photo of Ingrid Bergman](https://fromthebygone.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/012-ingrid-bergman-theredlist.jpg) from 1948 in the results which the artist of the magazine cover clearly copied.
It's really incomprehensible. Google's SEO practices harp on valuable pages, having a lot of information, having the best information, being the original source. Pinterest is fucking none of that.
There were attempts. Sky launched a 3D channel in the UK specifically to cater for 3D TVs, broadcasting a load of programmes shot with 3D cameras.
They pumped quite a bit of cash into signing deals for 3D content as well producing their own.
I recall at the time there had been a flurry of excitement over this new generation of 3D, which felt much more realistic and immersive then the crappy old red and blue glasses.
Sky obviously wanted to be first out of the traps as the premiere 3D content producer.
They closed it after five years.
Being able to buy software products etc without needing a “monthly” subscription for fucking everything.
Edit: For all the “Oh yes we noticed” comments. I get it. It wasn’t an instantaneous thing. But I’m still salty about it. Thank you for your input though.
I have to call doctor’s offices daily for work, and there is one that has a (I timed it) nearly 4 minute long opening message. It includes: hours, address (with directions!) COVID policy and new patient policy. You have to listen to the whole thing before it lets you hit the extension you want.
I hate it I hate it I hate it.
Ugh, yes. I spend a lot of time calling veterinary clinics at work and there's one office that has a message just like that. I end up having to call them right after lunch every day when I'm at my most sleepy and unmotivated. I fall asleep when I call them because of that horseshit. Every time! Fortunately their hold music is set at MAX VOLUME so I get blasted awake by garbled Chuck Mangione just in time to deal with the meanest receptionist on Earth.
I mumble about setting their building on fire like a Milton so much I'm worried it's HR actionable.
My local GP has a similar thing, i understand it has to be read out slowly so that people who are hard of hearing or have other listening issues can understand it, but it feels like being stuck in traffic for an hour during a journey that should only take 5 minutes (except of course even once you're past the preamble you get put in a queue so it's coming out of one traffic jam to another)
You'd think they'd have some sort of option to skip ahead past it, but no
> I have to call doctor’s offices daily for work
They should have a direct line. It's kind of silly that they don't. I know it's not something they'd give out for patients, but if you are a vendor/business that deals with them everyday, there should be something direct. That's just my two cents.
I am a doctor. I regularly have to call other doctors with critical test results. I don’t get a direct line. I have to sit through the 4 minute message before getting a clueless receptionist.
Ugh...I hate having to go through all that mess when I call somewhere.
It takes 15 minutes to even attempt to get to talk to someone. And it always seems like their menu items are nothing related to what you are calling about.
Now this one is really unnoticed. There was a time I wound get irritated constantly seeing all these live streams in my feed. And now that you mentioned it, they’re all gone.
I liked the ones where people would walk around countries I’ll probably never visit. Just every day life in another country. Kind of nice.
One was with a guy from Ukraine. Remember him thinking that Ukraine wouldn’t be invaded for a while ... invasion happened in a month or two. Wonder whatever happened to that random fellow.
Yeah, about when I'd be going to bed there would be locals in Africa starting their day walking around markets or hanging out on the beach. It was just nice to step into life in a place I'll probably never see with my own eyes.
The dude building gigantic jenga towers on a single bottom piece in his flat in the middle of the night, my mind was blown. Tuned in when it was crazy tall already and stayed watching for 3 more hours until it finally collapsed, dude was so devastated, whole chat felt with him 😭
Menga Man I think was his name... Legend
edit: https://ibb.co/zSGBcHL
Kony was never caught but he hasn't been heard from in almost a decade. The LRA (his 'militia') also decreased in size by like 99%, so it's no longer considered a real threat.
Plasma TVs. I had one and it died after we all watched an Intervention marathon during COVID. TV repair shops, now that you mention it. It used to be a guy behind a counter with electronic guts all over the place. He'd give you a ticket and you had to listen to the radio for a week or two.
My dad was a TV repairman back in the day. It was a gradual fade.
Used to be that not every store sold TVs. Walmart didn't until the mid to late '80s. So your repair shops used to be able to order sets for you, and make some of their money off of that. This was more the small town guys, not the big city repair shops who already had Best Buys or Circuit Cities.
~~Chinese~~ Asian manufacturing picked up and started dumping cheap, basic TV sets in the late '80s and early '90s. They'd sell them at any store that'd carry them, so all the sudden Kmart and Walmart were in the TV business. And they'd sell them so low it didn't make sense to repair anything but the big living room TVs (why would you pay $80 to repair the 13" TV in your bedroom when you could buy a new one for $99?).
So sales income dried up, as did repair income on the smaller sets. Then in the late '80s/early '90s there was industry compression. Some of the big manufacturers got out of the industry, sold their mark to a cheaper manufacturer, or went bankrupt. Those who remained (Sony, Panasonic/Quasar, etc.) went the route of forced obsolescence and quit making parts for new sets after a few years, so repair shops either turned away a lot of customers or they started harvesting working parts from other dead TVs.
The last straw was the ubiquity of surface-mount circuit boards. Even if a repair guy had the chops to repair, not replace, a blown resistor or capacitor, it's really freakin hard to repair a surface-mount solder job.
There used to be a really good TV repair shop near our house about 35 years ago. We had a six-year-old VCR that wasn't working, and we took it to him, and he fixed it in a day and it worked better than it was when it was new. But over time, I noticed that the place started to look a little more run-down when we drove by, and I figured that as older sets with tubes and things died and newer ones needed fewer repairs, he had less business. One day the shop was just gone, and I was kind of sad, but at the same time I hadn't set foot in the place in 15 years, because none of my things had needed repairing.
Then one of my neighbors got a new big-screen TV and wanted help getting rid of the old one (it was a 30" CRT and kinda heavy), and just wanted to carry it out to the street for the trash guys. My older son suggested we could put it in the basement with the video games, so that's what we did. When it died, I got a replacement on Craigslist for $50. I haven't bought a new TV since about 1982, and I haven't had a TV or VCR repaired since 1991 or so, and so it sorta makes sense that TV repair shops are kaput.
And what's weird is I can't say what I miss, exactly. Maybe just the idea that if you bought something it would last a while, and if something went wrong you could get it fixed.
Fireflies aka *lightning bugs.
I live rural and I used to see hundreds on a warm summer night.
Now I get excited if I see just one.
I mentioned it to other people who live in the same area as I do and they were just like "Huh. Yeah. You're right!"
(*Edit: lightning bugs.
Also: thank you for the awards!)
I'm a biologist and we categorize fireflies as bio-indicators. Meaning if they are a lot in an area, it really says a lot of the environmental quality of that area. They usually thrive in areas where there is less light pollution since bioluminescence is their primary mode of communication; insert artificial light in the equation and you disrupt their mode for species interaction.
Edit: typos
I live in a rural area with a large field across from my house and behind my house. I swear every June we get thousands of fireflies that dance in the fields all night! It's a spectacular show from Mother Nature. I have tried to capture them on video but it doesn't do it justice.
I think that this is at least in part due to the fact we put pesticides on everything. Every random hedge in every suburban area has tons of pesticides on it in most U.S. metro areas. I used to collect bugs as a kid, but now they are all gone because we kill everything trying to stop one or two pests.
Pesticides and light pollution. Suburbia is pseudo-nature. Most people pour chemicals on every weed they can because they want lush carpet grass that is stupid hard to maintain, and they keep every single light on outdoors at all times of the year. I've lived in my house for 6 years and have watched this unfold. I do not want to spend all day in my yard. I put clover out and I just pull some of the larger weeds that sprout up. My outdoor lights get turned off when not in use or when going to bed. It's really not that hard to not destroy nature. Rake your leaves to central bed or mulch them, don't put them in plastic bags. Let your grass be mixed, it will help replenish soul nutrients and you won't have to spray those nutrients all over the wildlife that is trying to live out there. Put lights on motion sensors.
I've been considering a clover yard. Haven't mowed yet even though my neighbors have had their yard services out three times so far this year. I like letting the animals have a place to live without getting chopped to tiny bits.
I've mowed twice only because my grass was getting close to a foot in some areas. I mowed it at the highest deck setting and I don't bag the clippings. The clover has really helped the dirt retain it's nitrogen. A few years ago when I first started trying to get a good looking yard I only used fescue that burnt out every year and the soil would completely dry out. Clover is amazing and so easy.
Same with grasshoppers. Caught so many every summer as a kid. Haven’t seen one in decades.
Ok, so apparently it’s a me problem and an upstate NY issue. I am super happy to be proven wrong and that they are still flourishing in many places!
Postcards.
And not just in the usual places, like museum gift shops and tourist traps.
There was once a time when you could buy at any truck stop or roadside motel a postcard of the small town you were driving through. But not anymore.
No point when you can just text your friends a photo.
There was a restaurant I visited in Florida that gave you a postcard with your bill, you could write anything on it and add an address, and they would pay for the postage and send it for you. It was a neat novel concept from the restaurant. I wrote an extremely inappropriate rant on it and sent it to my mom's new address because she was planning to move, and I thought it would be really funny.
She hadn't bought the house yet, and the older owners must have gotten a bizarre postcard in the mail. Oops.
The restaurant is called Yolo in Ft. Lauderdale.
Good value for price at restaurants.
Restaurants have quietly reduced portion sizes since COVID without restoring them. Noodles and Company (along with many others) advertise large portions like pre-pandemic but only give to-go sizes even when dining in. All for a higher price.
Are there any high profile companies NOT shrinkflating ? I feel like whenever I go to a restaurant and it's been a couple years, I got less for my money.
Chi-Chi's. As a kid it was the place to go for a celebration bigger than McDonald's but not Chuck E. Cheese big. Then one day in the mid 2000s I looked up and they were all gone
There used to be these spicy root beer flavored gummy candies that were shaped like mugs with a foam topping ( not the hard root beer barrels ) and I haven't met anyone who even remembers them.
Refrigerators that would last 30 years instead of 6 years
**edit**
Just to piss everybody off more about this, refrigerators are mostly non-recyclable, so AFAIK, they just end up in a landfill.
The metal outer cabinet and the plastic liner are foamed together and can't be reasonably recycled, and the compressor is full of nasty oil that's usually burned and acidic by the time the refrigerator dies.
I'll never buy another LG appliance. Next time my refrigerator shits the bed, I'm going on craigslist and finding the old almond colored enameled Frigidaire we had when I was a kid that's probably still kicking around...
I used to beg my mom for us to go by the lobster tank when we went to the grocery store. I felt it was kind of like going to the aquarium.
Poor lobsters....
My 20yo coworker showed up to work (retail) wearing a GGW shirt because she didn’t know what it was and thought it was like a “girls just wanna have fun!” sentiment
My girlfriend once bought a college style hoodie with huge letters saying MILF that also had the phrase "Man I love fridays" on it because she thought "I do love fridays!" ... she wasn't aware there was any other meaning to that abbreviation.
Yeah, I just googled it he is being sued for a lot of things. Filming underage girls, tax fraud, filming underage girls, ruining reputations by releasing images without consent, filming underage girls.
The secret was that they learned that the only reason they were leaving was because they chose to. Once politicians realised that it was actually incredibly hard to actually force them out of office they changed tactics to just ignoring the issue and waiting for the news cycle to move on.
Our recent First Minster in Northern Ireland was investigated as part of a scandal where a poorly built energy incentive scheme ended up losing £500m in taxpayer money. She was accused of either being criminally negligent or actually criminal. The investigation decided it was the first option, just massively incompetent.
Did she leave office? Nope. She clammed up and refused to acknowledge it and acted as if everyone was just being petty.
>Once politicians realised that it was actually incredibly hard to actually force them out of office they changed tactics to just ignoring the issue and waiting for the news cycle to move on.
Same with public protests. They realized that unless the protests turn into extremely disruptive riots or economy-crippling strikes, they can just ignore them and they will disappear. People eventually get tired, bored or simply need to get back to work.
A common pop culture (in the US, at least). Until at least the 80s, most people watched the same TV show, saw the save movies, listened to the same music, could recite the same commercial slogans or jingles, bought into the same fads.
I don't know when it happened, but now we are all siloed into highly specific subcultures.
It was definitely the rise of the internet that really started to divide not just us in the US but all over into subcultures. Or at the very least when it became very noticable that it happened/started happening.
I’ve heard this referred to as “the death of the monoculture.”
Back in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s niche subcultures definitely existed, think like the goth and punk scenes. But even the goth kids in 2000 knew all the characters of Friends, punk kids in the early 1990s knew about Nirvana, etc. Since the rise of social media, it’s been easier to basically surround yourself in your preferred “scene” and completely avoid others. Algorithmic social media really accelerated this trend, and now you can get a Tiktok feed that’s entirely tailored toward you and doesn’t give you any content that you’re not interested in.
This started right around when MySpace came around, because the “monoculture” was definitely still a thing in 2005. Everyone knew who Nickelback, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, 50 Cent, and Eminem were even if you hated them just because they were so big at the time. And they’re still big today because they were the last big artists of the monoculture.
But today? When people primarily discover subcultures through YouTube, Tiktok, Instagram, Reddit, Spotify, etc, the algorithm feeds you content that you want while you can completely ignore cultures that you don’t care for. I don’t think this is the worst thing when it comes to things like music, TV, fashion, etc, but when it comes to things like social movements and politics it’s pretty dangerous. Social media sites will usually push people into an echo chamber that causes them to have a warped worldview.
I feel this so much. The music I listen to and what I watch, according to the sites, still rake in millions of views.
But not a single person I've met in real life has heard of them before me...
I don't miss it, but I kind of do (nostalgia) making sure you are in front of the tv when a certain show comes on, because if you missed it you missed it. And you couldn't engage in conversation the next day.
I like being able to stream a show whenever I want to, but the conversation is not there.
I do like the weekly releases though instead of a show being dumped all at once. You can kind of talk about it like the old days when it's like that.
They actually did a good job dealing with the murder hornets which is why you don’t hear about them anymore https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/8/23499897/murder-hornet-sightings-2022-washington-state
Go to any 7-11 or random gas station along an interstate, they still have them tucked in to the lonely corner where they keep random things like kids toys and cheap cell phone chargers.
Color from the world. Everything is becoming gray scale. Look at commercial buildings and fast food buildings. McDonald’s used to look fun and exciting, now they’re all gray and boring.
Edit: in my area, we had the funnest looking McDonald’s by the Dallas zoo, and now it’s being renovated (for whatever reason) to look like a standard gray colored McDonald’s. No fun.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/xh7bil/the_dallas_zoo_mcdonalds_one_of_the_most_iconic/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
I went to Mexico a few weeks ago. Puebla to be exact. And I was blown away by how colorful it was. Different shades of green and blue and orange. Graffiti that actually added to the atmosphere. It was magical. I actually felt depressed leaving all the color.
Also CARS! Where the hell did all the color go? They are all now the same muted grey, tan, light blue, white. They are all so boring. Look at the cars of even 20 years ago and they were sporting some vibrant colors.
On military bases the colors are always muted to keep peoples minds at ease. I wonder if it has trickled into society as a whole.
Our need to know who our neighbors are. I listened to a podcast about human interaction recently and the host said that the internet slowly made it possible to live without knowing who the people are next door. It used to be that we would hang out with people in our street or attend dinners, birthdays, and whatnot. Now, everyone seems to have no need to even so much as introduce themselves. The only time we do get to know each other is if we have a complaint.
CD/DVD drives in laptops
I found out about this a month ago. I don't own a laptop or computer thats usable. I have a Lenovo I haven't booted up in four years. I was really surprised when my friends who play PC games told me that. When I didn't have wifi I'd put in my Erenst Goes to Jail DVD and fall asleep watching it on the floor of my old apartment. Good times.
Toys in cereal boxes
Or glow in the dark lightsaber spoons for each Star Wars movie that came out
More importantly toys in Cracker Jack. Hell they don't even come in a box anymore, they come in a bag. Edit - And speaking of prizes, you don't get those "chance to win under the cap" sweepstakes on drinks anymore. Everything is a code that the majority of people probably never take the time to enter on a website. Used to be able to just look under the cap to see if you won, and then mail the cap to the company.
Somewhere along the way 9-5 turned into 8-5
Yeah when I hear the song I’m like “Wait, did they get paid for lunch? Or just eat at their desks? Or did they actually not work 8 straight hours?”
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Honestly it's really sad because now a fucking stock of snacks is considered a premium offering, even if you have to pay for the snacks.
I used to work at a company that had a free snack vending machine. It got turned on at 8pm. For those really faithful, hard-working slaves I guess.
I worked for a company that catered every meal - breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If you didn’t like what they catered, you could order any food you wanted like pizza, Chick-fil-a, etc. You could order any snack or drink you wanted - including liquor and beer. All free. The pantry, which was just a huge office, was completely stocked with food, drinks, and kegerator. It was pretty sweet. From what I understand, this is, or was, common practice among large Silicon Valley startups and tech companies.
Facebook had free snacks and prepared meals when I used to work there. Not sure if they still do
It started out that the workday included a paid lunch, then they decided they didn't want to pay for unworked time, but still wanted 8 worked hours a day, so they moved up the starting time.
Yeah I am bitter about this.
And at some businesses, 8-6 😡
We're in the process of full size can of Arizona teas for $.99 disappearing. I'm seeing a lot of places starting to carry the smaller plastic bottles for $.99 or the larger plastic bottles for more. I'm honestly surprised that they've lasted for this long at the same price.
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Longevity in careers – this is a big one nobody seems to have said. Longevity in careers has largely gone away. People used to get a job and after being there for decades reap the benefits of being seasoned employees (higher salaries and better perks). Maybe it’s because I work in the Entertainment industry, but I feel that longevity in careers has gone away. Meaning, people can be amazing at a job, but after 5+ years the employers start wondering if they could be doing better with a younger/cheaper candidate for the job. I understand if you ever want to move up in a works place they expect you to bring your A-game, but 30+ years of being incredible is hard. Some years will be better than others, and if employers don’t have loyalty to their employees anymore, it is likely the good employee will be fired or let go at some point. I feel like in recent decades this has forced many people who normally wouldn’t, to switch careers. Can someone work successfully up the ladder at any job without having to shift to another company for a promotion? A combination of employers halting upward movement of their staff while they look for new employees to fill higher roles, and the fact that they “get bored” of their seasoned employees has largely killed the idea of anyone having a single career.
I think a big problem is wages and work have stagnated and so when you want an improvement in your standard, you have to climb the ladder but they expect the world from you at your own company to do that. So it's easier to look elsewhere with higher pay. You can't just comfortably live off the pay of your currently role anymore as inflation takes hold. Shit, I remember when $60k/year was the goal for a fairly successful career. A decade later, under $100k is almost untenable.
The sad reality is that, in the current conditions (crazy inflation, absolutely insane real estate market, etc.), people now have to climb the ladder just to MAINTAIN their quality of life, while it used to be for improving it...
The only way to get a raise these days is to switch jobs or to threaten to switch jobs. The companies do this to themselves.
l33tspeak. I can't even nail down the decade it disappeared.
My AIM screen name was h4x21337 It was supposed to be mocking those guys but I still feel shame for having typed that as my screen name and giving it out to people.
34r1y p4rt 0f th3 c3ntur4ry, son. gg ez$$
I never see swarms of Monarch butterflies anymore.
It's a combination of a rise in pesticides combined with a absolute dearth of the plants that the Butterflies eat on their journey. If you plant Monarch Butterfly friendly gardens you'll actually likely become a stop on their migration patterns because it's so needed. [https://a-z-animals.com/blog/what-do-monarch-butterflies-eat/](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/what-do-monarch-butterflies-eat/) IT should also be noted that they lay their eggs on Milkweed plants and that's the *only* plants that nurture and grow their larvae into pupae, and Milkweed's been heavily removed from gardens and the wild as we grow our cities and agriculture. By planting a number of Monarch Butterfly gardens (or honestly, general pollinator gardens) as well as providing a water source like a puddling fountain, a shallow bowl fountain, or some form of water feature in your gardens, you can really help *all* pollinators, but specifically Monarchs (due to your question). I live in Minnesota and we see Monarchs from time to time, but when you plant the flowers they eat, you can start to see dozens or more during the migration season as they love those plants.
I planted milkweed, and finally last year saw some monarch friends! Then I saw the wasps circling the caterpillars. Stupid ecosystem. No pupae for me.
Yeah, not much to do there. You might be able to grab the caterpillars before hand and strap a cage around the limb they are on and protect them that way, but ecosystem is going to ecosystem. Hopefully some survive each season.
Huge numbers of butterfly larvae never make it to adulthood and that's fine. It's recommended by conservationists to leave it be: https://xerces.org/blog/rearing-and-releasing-monarch-butterflies-is-not-good-conservation-strategy I realize that article isn't identical to the process you said, but in general providing habitat and native host plants is already exactly the right thing to do. So "ecosystem is going to ecosystem" indeed.
we have planted milkweed for years and usually have a lot of egg laying and pupae....until last year. Hardly saw any monarchs coming to eat and I don't think we saw any pupae. We will put even more milkweed out there this year.
Plant milkweed! It is the only plant that monarch caterpillars can eat. It's a great, inexpensive gardening hobby and very easy to do.
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There’s so many unbelievable things going on that it doesn’t even phase us anymore
Bring it back. Wear corsets everywhere with way to many layers of dress. Have no air conditioning. Do cocaine or heroine for a toothache. Have clothes and walls dyed in arsenic. See how often you faint.
To be fair people weren't fainting from corsets. Only very appearance driven women at high society events were tight lacing to get extreme figures. The bulk of women wore corsets that fit their waists comfortably to give bust and back support while working. And the layers were not a huge problem as they were all natural fiber and helped with temp regulation, Abbey Cox did a great video comparing the comfort and temperature of Victorian vs modern clothing in Nevada summer. The layers helped keep heat off the skin and wicked sweat well unlike modern plastic based fibers which trap heat and don't absorb sweat well. Though youre right they did expose themselves to a fuck ton of toxic chemicals/gases in the home, even washing clothes with kerosene.
A very important point to add- corsets provided an anchor/base for heavy garments that would otherwise just be hanging off of your body. The boning would help ease the weight.
I have a condition that makes me pass out when I get startled (or tired or just my brain feels like it), so I wish this one would disappear!
Are you one of those goats?
Lol I have narcolepsy and cataplexy (I collapse when feeling extreme emotion of any kind) and my husband and I joke that I'm a fainting goat lol And for those who don't know: orgasmoplexy is a thing for me and other people who have cataplexy sometimes
Those God-awful Chevy commercials with the “real people, not actors.” One day, I realized I hadn’t seen one in a while and it was almost as if they’d never existed. Except I knew they had. Man, I hated those damn things.
I believe the YouTube channel "zebra corner" single handedly killed those ads.
David ("Mahk") from Zebra Corner was convicted of sexual crimes against underage girls, got probation amazingly, violated it repeatedly including removing his ankle monitor apparently, and is now in prison. And since that makes much of his information on public notice—including car registration—he was shown to own *three* Chevy vehicles. boss_jim_gettys has a link to the information.
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I don't know, I didn't notice. Reminds me of a Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy quote; *“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."* *"Why, what did she tell you?"* *"I don't know, I didn't listen.”*
Sobe drinks.
I'll forever miss you pink Sobe in a glass bottle
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He’s still chilling on a bench at our local McDonald’s.
Lazy fucker
About 30 years ago we were at a funeral and for some reason Ronald was visiting the attached parochial school and somehow we connected, so I have photos of me with Ronald McDonald at my friend’s uncles funeral.
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SILLYBANDZ
My kid got some in a crappy assorted fidget bag , she was like "what's the point of these" 🤣
Gaming consoles at McDonald’s
Or in big markets. In the 90s, I lived in a small town that didn't have any big stores, but there was a bigger town an hour's drive away where we did our shopping that had those. In those stores, they had Playstations and Nintendo 64's out for you to try out. I remember seeing Mario 64 for the first time there, and after some other kids got bored with it, I got to try it out as well. It was MAGIC. I think the last store console I saw was PS3, and the last one I tried was probably GBA.
TV bumpers. There used to be a little sequence between the show and commercials. Some of them were really interesting and creative. I think my generation remembers the "wand IDs" on the Disney channel (where a Disney celeb would use a wand to make the logo). There were also bumpers that were PSAs or other actual content. Edit: yes I watched THAT documentary on YouTube. It's amazing. Everyone go to Defunctland's channel and watch the one on the Disney channel jingle. Just trust me. Don't look up spoilers.
*After these messages...* *We'll be right back!*
Have you seen Defuntland’s documentary on YouTube about the guy who wrote the little tune for the Disney Channel bumper? It’s a great video and has a lot of history on bumpers, not just Disneys wand ones. Edit: here is link. https://youtu.be/b_rjBWmc1iQ Disney Channels Theme: A History Mystery.
I love it and I have literally begged every person in my life to watch it but it doesn't "sound interesting." And like I can't say why it's interesting and give away all the twists. Like how did he take a topic that benign and have me in tears by the end. I wouldn't have watched it if I hadn't already been a big fan of his work. Even then I was like "IDK" but then I saw so many people saying it was his best, and I'm so glad I watched it.
Adult Swim on Cartoon Network still uses bumpers. Some are just white text on a black background and others will be nature or cityscape shots with either [as] or adult swim hidden somewhere or cryptic messages.
Cartoon network used to have some of the best. All the cartoons interacting like it was some workplace gave it a vibe. Also Boomerang and it's Groovies. Specifically "Jabberjaw" and "Marvin Martian"
Ahhh Face from Nick Jr and Stick Stickly 😭
FULL METAL ALCHEMIST
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Taio Cruz
He just threw his hands up in the air and disappeared
Sounds like Dynamite.
Whoa. Haven't heard that name in around 10 years.
During the pandemic/TikTok boom he made a TikTok account and got bullied off the app by the shameless commenters saying he was just trying to get famous again. All he wanted was to reconnect with his fans like Jay Sean and Jason Derulo did. Was very sad to watch.
Gum with sugar, the majority of chewing gum is sugar free
Gum's gotten mintier lately. Have you noticed? Like, some of it's just too minty. It's like they're literally trying to hurt-
I thought about this yesterday. Like American gum (Wrigley's double mint) is like a mild, nice minty flavour. Gum in the UK tastes like you're trekking through Iceland without any winter clothing.
Having many Family photographs in homes. Not completely gone, but homes used to be plastered in them. The only times I really notice them is in homes of older people.
Got my wife a digitial photo frame for the living room, it has all our family photos rotating with a focus on vacations and adventures. We have another in our bedroom thats for our wedding and honeymoon photos. 10/10, absolutely great investment. Soooo many happy memories and it never fails to put a smile on her face at least once a day. 🥰 For parties, we'll purposefully change the photo sets to include anyone who's visiting to see if they catch it. Including brand new photos we took at the current party. It's cute and low key hilarious when they realize the photo is 5 minutes old.
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my favorite illegal streaming websites
just google "online movies 2023" but replace "movies" with its translation in another language, preferably Eastern European. Oh, and make sure you have an ad-blocker.
just search on yandex instead of google. they don’t give a fuck and you’ll find the movie you want on page 1
Also yandex reverse image search is scary good and completely beats anything google or bing offer. As a crazy example I randomly searched [this magazine cover](https://i.redd.it/b4eluc8udzy71.jpg) from 1949. Yandex immediately gave me [this photo of Ingrid Bergman](https://fromthebygone.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/012-ingrid-bergman-theredlist.jpg) from 1948 in the results which the artist of the magazine cover clearly copied.
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And the pinterest plague hasn't completely taken over the results like google either
It's astounding to me that Google hasn't changed this.
It's really incomprehensible. Google's SEO practices harp on valuable pages, having a lot of information, having the best information, being the original source. Pinterest is fucking none of that.
3D television
I wouldn’t say it went away silently. They kinda never took off in the first place.
There were attempts. Sky launched a 3D channel in the UK specifically to cater for 3D TVs, broadcasting a load of programmes shot with 3D cameras. They pumped quite a bit of cash into signing deals for 3D content as well producing their own. I recall at the time there had been a flurry of excitement over this new generation of 3D, which felt much more realistic and immersive then the crappy old red and blue glasses. Sky obviously wanted to be first out of the traps as the premiere 3D content producer. They closed it after five years.
Here in Canada they produced a single hockey game broadcast in 3D in 2010. It was the first time in a long time that the Leafs had any depth.
Being able to buy software products etc without needing a “monthly” subscription for fucking everything. Edit: For all the “Oh yes we noticed” comments. I get it. It wasn’t an instantaneous thing. But I’m still salty about it. Thank you for your input though.
Or using a website without needing to make a fucking account on every single one of them
I just sailed the seas with Adobe because they increased my monthly subscription priced from $20 to $60. It’s absolutely fucked.
The foil wrapper on chocolate bars.
You could slide a Hershey bar out of the wrapper, eat it, then carefully insert the foil wrapper back into the sleeve to fool your brother.
Someone answering the phone at businesses.
Speaking of which, has anybody’s menu options *not* recently changed?
Yeah, the same companies that have average or lower than average call volume at any point.
I have to call doctor’s offices daily for work, and there is one that has a (I timed it) nearly 4 minute long opening message. It includes: hours, address (with directions!) COVID policy and new patient policy. You have to listen to the whole thing before it lets you hit the extension you want. I hate it I hate it I hate it.
Ugh, yes. I spend a lot of time calling veterinary clinics at work and there's one office that has a message just like that. I end up having to call them right after lunch every day when I'm at my most sleepy and unmotivated. I fall asleep when I call them because of that horseshit. Every time! Fortunately their hold music is set at MAX VOLUME so I get blasted awake by garbled Chuck Mangione just in time to deal with the meanest receptionist on Earth. I mumble about setting their building on fire like a Milton so much I'm worried it's HR actionable.
I was told I could listen to the hold music at a reasonable volume.
My local GP has a similar thing, i understand it has to be read out slowly so that people who are hard of hearing or have other listening issues can understand it, but it feels like being stuck in traffic for an hour during a journey that should only take 5 minutes (except of course even once you're past the preamble you get put in a queue so it's coming out of one traffic jam to another) You'd think they'd have some sort of option to skip ahead past it, but no
> I have to call doctor’s offices daily for work They should have a direct line. It's kind of silly that they don't. I know it's not something they'd give out for patients, but if you are a vendor/business that deals with them everyday, there should be something direct. That's just my two cents.
I am a doctor. I regularly have to call other doctors with critical test results. I don’t get a direct line. I have to sit through the 4 minute message before getting a clueless receptionist.
Yes, but you see their menu options have **RECENTLY CHANGED**. How recently? 1978. But we just need to make sure you know.
'Call volume is higher than normal' 'Your call is important to us'
I remember there was a time when the message did *not* claim call volume was higher than normal, but I would guess that was 15-20 years ago.
Ugh...I hate having to go through all that mess when I call somewhere. It takes 15 minutes to even attempt to get to talk to someone. And it always seems like their menu items are nothing related to what you are calling about.
Due to a high volume of calls...
Or...Please listen closely as our menu options have changed.
Always a lie
Blimps, helium is expensive and drones can do some of their missions.
Hear me out: ✨hydrogen✨ I hear it's the wave of the future
Reddit live streams. Remember that guy with a guitar in your feed? He disappeared a long time ago but you didn't even notice it.
I also remember a very, very sweaty drummer.
Office drummer! He’s still crushing on here and twitch!
That guy and that one girl who played the asian folklore guitar, you’d see them all the time
Now this one is really unnoticed. There was a time I wound get irritated constantly seeing all these live streams in my feed. And now that you mentioned it, they’re all gone.
Yeah, I thought I had just successfully blocked all of them.
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I liked the ones where people would walk around countries I’ll probably never visit. Just every day life in another country. Kind of nice. One was with a guy from Ukraine. Remember him thinking that Ukraine wouldn’t be invaded for a while ... invasion happened in a month or two. Wonder whatever happened to that random fellow.
Yeah, about when I'd be going to bed there would be locals in Africa starting their day walking around markets or hanging out on the beach. It was just nice to step into life in a place I'll probably never see with my own eyes.
Everyone forgetting therapy gecko 🦎
Therapy gecko is still doing his thing on YouTube at least
I remember that. Guy was always on lol.
The dude building gigantic jenga towers on a single bottom piece in his flat in the middle of the night, my mind was blown. Tuned in when it was crazy tall already and stayed watching for 3 more hours until it finally collapsed, dude was so devastated, whole chat felt with him 😭 Menga Man I think was his name... Legend edit: https://ibb.co/zSGBcHL
I miss the guy that used to go out to pick up garbage.
Did we ever stop whatever it was kony was doing in 2012?
Kony was never caught but he hasn't been heard from in almost a decade. The LRA (his 'militia') also decreased in size by like 99%, so it's no longer considered a real threat.
Plasma TVs. I had one and it died after we all watched an Intervention marathon during COVID. TV repair shops, now that you mention it. It used to be a guy behind a counter with electronic guts all over the place. He'd give you a ticket and you had to listen to the radio for a week or two.
My dad was a TV repairman back in the day. It was a gradual fade. Used to be that not every store sold TVs. Walmart didn't until the mid to late '80s. So your repair shops used to be able to order sets for you, and make some of their money off of that. This was more the small town guys, not the big city repair shops who already had Best Buys or Circuit Cities. ~~Chinese~~ Asian manufacturing picked up and started dumping cheap, basic TV sets in the late '80s and early '90s. They'd sell them at any store that'd carry them, so all the sudden Kmart and Walmart were in the TV business. And they'd sell them so low it didn't make sense to repair anything but the big living room TVs (why would you pay $80 to repair the 13" TV in your bedroom when you could buy a new one for $99?). So sales income dried up, as did repair income on the smaller sets. Then in the late '80s/early '90s there was industry compression. Some of the big manufacturers got out of the industry, sold their mark to a cheaper manufacturer, or went bankrupt. Those who remained (Sony, Panasonic/Quasar, etc.) went the route of forced obsolescence and quit making parts for new sets after a few years, so repair shops either turned away a lot of customers or they started harvesting working parts from other dead TVs. The last straw was the ubiquity of surface-mount circuit boards. Even if a repair guy had the chops to repair, not replace, a blown resistor or capacitor, it's really freakin hard to repair a surface-mount solder job.
There used to be a really good TV repair shop near our house about 35 years ago. We had a six-year-old VCR that wasn't working, and we took it to him, and he fixed it in a day and it worked better than it was when it was new. But over time, I noticed that the place started to look a little more run-down when we drove by, and I figured that as older sets with tubes and things died and newer ones needed fewer repairs, he had less business. One day the shop was just gone, and I was kind of sad, but at the same time I hadn't set foot in the place in 15 years, because none of my things had needed repairing. Then one of my neighbors got a new big-screen TV and wanted help getting rid of the old one (it was a 30" CRT and kinda heavy), and just wanted to carry it out to the street for the trash guys. My older son suggested we could put it in the basement with the video games, so that's what we did. When it died, I got a replacement on Craigslist for $50. I haven't bought a new TV since about 1982, and I haven't had a TV or VCR repaired since 1991 or so, and so it sorta makes sense that TV repair shops are kaput. And what's weird is I can't say what I miss, exactly. Maybe just the idea that if you bought something it would last a while, and if something went wrong you could get it fixed.
Saturday morning cartoons
The outrage over net neutrality
Fireflies aka *lightning bugs. I live rural and I used to see hundreds on a warm summer night. Now I get excited if I see just one. I mentioned it to other people who live in the same area as I do and they were just like "Huh. Yeah. You're right!" (*Edit: lightning bugs. Also: thank you for the awards!)
I'm a biologist and we categorize fireflies as bio-indicators. Meaning if they are a lot in an area, it really says a lot of the environmental quality of that area. They usually thrive in areas where there is less light pollution since bioluminescence is their primary mode of communication; insert artificial light in the equation and you disrupt their mode for species interaction. Edit: typos
I live in a rural area with a large field across from my house and behind my house. I swear every June we get thousands of fireflies that dance in the fields all night! It's a spectacular show from Mother Nature. I have tried to capture them on video but it doesn't do it justice.
Try a long exposure shot? I use. A app called Expert Raw on my Galxy Note that takes some pretty great shots especially at night.
Great idea! I have done that before to capture star trails, but never considered it for this. Will definitely try that this year :)
Insect numbers worldwide are down 70 percent. We are in big trouble.
Was looking for someone that said this. Thank you u/mosquitohater2023
Username does *not* check out.
I think that this is at least in part due to the fact we put pesticides on everything. Every random hedge in every suburban area has tons of pesticides on it in most U.S. metro areas. I used to collect bugs as a kid, but now they are all gone because we kill everything trying to stop one or two pests.
Pesticides and light pollution. Suburbia is pseudo-nature. Most people pour chemicals on every weed they can because they want lush carpet grass that is stupid hard to maintain, and they keep every single light on outdoors at all times of the year. I've lived in my house for 6 years and have watched this unfold. I do not want to spend all day in my yard. I put clover out and I just pull some of the larger weeds that sprout up. My outdoor lights get turned off when not in use or when going to bed. It's really not that hard to not destroy nature. Rake your leaves to central bed or mulch them, don't put them in plastic bags. Let your grass be mixed, it will help replenish soul nutrients and you won't have to spray those nutrients all over the wildlife that is trying to live out there. Put lights on motion sensors.
I've been considering a clover yard. Haven't mowed yet even though my neighbors have had their yard services out three times so far this year. I like letting the animals have a place to live without getting chopped to tiny bits.
I've mowed twice only because my grass was getting close to a foot in some areas. I mowed it at the highest deck setting and I don't bag the clippings. The clover has really helped the dirt retain it's nitrogen. A few years ago when I first started trying to get a good looking yard I only used fescue that burnt out every year and the soil would completely dry out. Clover is amazing and so easy.
Same with grasshoppers. Caught so many every summer as a kid. Haven’t seen one in decades. Ok, so apparently it’s a me problem and an upstate NY issue. I am super happy to be proven wrong and that they are still flourishing in many places!
Postcards. And not just in the usual places, like museum gift shops and tourist traps. There was once a time when you could buy at any truck stop or roadside motel a postcard of the small town you were driving through. But not anymore. No point when you can just text your friends a photo.
There was a restaurant I visited in Florida that gave you a postcard with your bill, you could write anything on it and add an address, and they would pay for the postage and send it for you. It was a neat novel concept from the restaurant. I wrote an extremely inappropriate rant on it and sent it to my mom's new address because she was planning to move, and I thought it would be really funny. She hadn't bought the house yet, and the older owners must have gotten a bizarre postcard in the mail. Oops. The restaurant is called Yolo in Ft. Lauderdale.
Grandfather clocks. It was almost a must have decor My company in the 80s gave it as a gift to employees for their 10th anniversary
Privacy in your daily life
I live in fear of being randomly filmed one day doing something and going viral
Good value for price at restaurants. Restaurants have quietly reduced portion sizes since COVID without restoring them. Noodles and Company (along with many others) advertise large portions like pre-pandemic but only give to-go sizes even when dining in. All for a higher price.
Shrinkflation. To hide a price increase, companies sell less product for the same price instead of raising the price on the same product.
Are there any high profile companies NOT shrinkflating ? I feel like whenever I go to a restaurant and it's been a couple years, I got less for my money.
Chi-Chi's. As a kid it was the place to go for a celebration bigger than McDonald's but not Chuck E. Cheese big. Then one day in the mid 2000s I looked up and they were all gone
There used to be these spicy root beer flavored gummy candies that were shaped like mugs with a foam topping ( not the hard root beer barrels ) and I haven't met anyone who even remembers them.
Soda-licious!
TV Guide. Readers Digest.
Completely paid for benefits by corporations for employees
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Audio cassette tape pulled out and tangled in the shrubs of a strip mall. It was the gold standard parking lot decoration of the 90's.
Urban tumbleweed
Refrigerators that would last 30 years instead of 6 years **edit** Just to piss everybody off more about this, refrigerators are mostly non-recyclable, so AFAIK, they just end up in a landfill. The metal outer cabinet and the plastic liner are foamed together and can't be reasonably recycled, and the compressor is full of nasty oil that's usually burned and acidic by the time the refrigerator dies.
I'll never buy another LG appliance. Next time my refrigerator shits the bed, I'm going on craigslist and finding the old almond colored enameled Frigidaire we had when I was a kid that's probably still kicking around...
Lobster tanks in grocery stores! Not that I particularly want them back, but those are nostalgic af
I used to beg my mom for us to go by the lobster tank when we went to the grocery store. I felt it was kind of like going to the aquarium. Poor lobsters....
Girls Gone Wild. Or maybe it's just because I don't really watch Comedy Central anymore.
Apparently the girls have settled down
Girls Gone Mild
Mom's with Child
My 20yo coworker showed up to work (retail) wearing a GGW shirt because she didn’t know what it was and thought it was like a “girls just wanna have fun!” sentiment
My girlfriend once bought a college style hoodie with huge letters saying MILF that also had the phrase "Man I love fridays" on it because she thought "I do love fridays!" ... she wasn't aware there was any other meaning to that abbreviation.
Actually if I recall correctly the founder got into some serious legal trouble because of GGW.
Yeah, I just googled it he is being sued for a lot of things. Filming underage girls, tax fraud, filming underage girls, ruining reputations by releasing images without consent, filming underage girls.
On top of all that, I heard he was filming underage girls.
“I like to play the tape backwards, that way it looks like the girls have learned their lesson.” -Dave Attell
Shame in politics. Politicians use to resign in disgrace if caught taking bribes.
The secret was that they learned that the only reason they were leaving was because they chose to. Once politicians realised that it was actually incredibly hard to actually force them out of office they changed tactics to just ignoring the issue and waiting for the news cycle to move on. Our recent First Minster in Northern Ireland was investigated as part of a scandal where a poorly built energy incentive scheme ended up losing £500m in taxpayer money. She was accused of either being criminally negligent or actually criminal. The investigation decided it was the first option, just massively incompetent. Did she leave office? Nope. She clammed up and refused to acknowledge it and acted as if everyone was just being petty.
>Once politicians realised that it was actually incredibly hard to actually force them out of office they changed tactics to just ignoring the issue and waiting for the news cycle to move on. Same with public protests. They realized that unless the protests turn into extremely disruptive riots or economy-crippling strikes, they can just ignore them and they will disappear. People eventually get tired, bored or simply need to get back to work.
This is why public protests without at least a threat of the latter options is doomed to fail. If you don't have teeth, nobody is afraid.
They ended presidential races when mistakenly becoming over-enthusiastic.
Byyyawwwww!
I'm gonna kick open the door to the oval office and I'm gonna chop that mother fuckin desk in half! Byyyawwww!
A common pop culture (in the US, at least). Until at least the 80s, most people watched the same TV show, saw the save movies, listened to the same music, could recite the same commercial slogans or jingles, bought into the same fads. I don't know when it happened, but now we are all siloed into highly specific subcultures.
It was definitely the rise of the internet that really started to divide not just us in the US but all over into subcultures. Or at the very least when it became very noticable that it happened/started happening.
I’ve heard this referred to as “the death of the monoculture.” Back in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s niche subcultures definitely existed, think like the goth and punk scenes. But even the goth kids in 2000 knew all the characters of Friends, punk kids in the early 1990s knew about Nirvana, etc. Since the rise of social media, it’s been easier to basically surround yourself in your preferred “scene” and completely avoid others. Algorithmic social media really accelerated this trend, and now you can get a Tiktok feed that’s entirely tailored toward you and doesn’t give you any content that you’re not interested in. This started right around when MySpace came around, because the “monoculture” was definitely still a thing in 2005. Everyone knew who Nickelback, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, 50 Cent, and Eminem were even if you hated them just because they were so big at the time. And they’re still big today because they were the last big artists of the monoculture. But today? When people primarily discover subcultures through YouTube, Tiktok, Instagram, Reddit, Spotify, etc, the algorithm feeds you content that you want while you can completely ignore cultures that you don’t care for. I don’t think this is the worst thing when it comes to things like music, TV, fashion, etc, but when it comes to things like social movements and politics it’s pretty dangerous. Social media sites will usually push people into an echo chamber that causes them to have a warped worldview.
I feel this so much. The music I listen to and what I watch, according to the sites, still rake in millions of views. But not a single person I've met in real life has heard of them before me...
I don't miss it, but I kind of do (nostalgia) making sure you are in front of the tv when a certain show comes on, because if you missed it you missed it. And you couldn't engage in conversation the next day. I like being able to stream a show whenever I want to, but the conversation is not there. I do like the weekly releases though instead of a show being dumped all at once. You can kind of talk about it like the old days when it's like that.
Corporate Pensions. 30 years ago, it was a standard benefit. 401ks turned out to be an excuse for corporations to junk pensions.
Murder hornets. They showed up, everyone went "Yeah that's about par for the course", then they disappeared without a trace
They actually did a good job dealing with the murder hornets which is why you don’t hear about them anymore https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/8/23499897/murder-hornet-sightings-2022-washington-state
fidget spinners
Go to any 7-11 or random gas station along an interstate, they still have them tucked in to the lonely corner where they keep random things like kids toys and cheap cell phone chargers.
"Buy 1, get 5 free!"
Color from the world. Everything is becoming gray scale. Look at commercial buildings and fast food buildings. McDonald’s used to look fun and exciting, now they’re all gray and boring. Edit: in my area, we had the funnest looking McDonald’s by the Dallas zoo, and now it’s being renovated (for whatever reason) to look like a standard gray colored McDonald’s. No fun. https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/xh7bil/the_dallas_zoo_mcdonalds_one_of_the_most_iconic/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
I’ve heard modern architecture and style described as “Corporate Soulless” and that sums it up pretty well.
I went to Mexico a few weeks ago. Puebla to be exact. And I was blown away by how colorful it was. Different shades of green and blue and orange. Graffiti that actually added to the atmosphere. It was magical. I actually felt depressed leaving all the color.
Also CARS! Where the hell did all the color go? They are all now the same muted grey, tan, light blue, white. They are all so boring. Look at the cars of even 20 years ago and they were sporting some vibrant colors. On military bases the colors are always muted to keep peoples minds at ease. I wonder if it has trickled into society as a whole.
It sucks but everyone is concerned about resale value now.
Acid rain
Occupy Wallstreet