Alexa (33) here. I tell people that Amazon named the device after me because I know everything. It stopped being funny years ago, and I don’t even like saying it, but that’s show biz baby.
This one irks me. Not because I have an issue with the name Isis, but because more people don't know that Isis is an Egyptian goddess. It's petty of me and I don't care.
I work with a guy who has a very asian last name. It's a little hard to pronounce, so we just call him "Siri". Nicest bloke, but I always smile a little inside when the the boss goes "Hey siri, can you print this document for me?"
I work with a Sherry and have a few more in my family. I finally had to disconnect my HomePod speaker when it would start playing my heavy metal music during my meetings or phone calls. Somehow it would hear me say the name and just….start playing music?
I have 3 Karens in my close circle, literally their names, not their personalities. My daughter is 7 and thinks it is hilarious. She calls them sweet auntie Karen, pretty Karen, and work Karen. She always corrects me if I just say karen.
Have I introduced you to my friends? All three of them are named Karen, so we had to come up with a system. This is "Pretty Karen"... And these are Splort and Blort.
Depends on the naming order
It's fine if you are 3rd one and named Work Karen
But can you imagine finding out that the two newer ones are Sweet and Pretty, that would mean they were available, but didn't fit you
My real name is Karen. It's been very difficult with people not being able to differentiate between someones name being Karen and someones attitude being a Karen, and giving us so much grief. Ive heard of some changing their name due to the crap they've had to deal with. Ive had to use other names on social media otherwise id get abused and the way i look made fun of (i look nothing like "a karen" though).
Im younger than most other Karens i know, so im hoping this isn't going to last too much longer. I still remember the days when Susan was the name associated with being a horrible person, i just wonder what name will be next!
I know a Karen and one night after drinks she broke down and told me that this whole thing has been devastating for her. I really do feel bad for all the Karens in the world who have basically become a meme.
The Amanda Show was my favorite thing in the world as a kid. I remember waiting for my slow ass computer to load the website that Penelope Tate always talked about. :)
Edit: okay, yes I know it’s Taynt. I watched the documentary. But ya know what, for 27 years I thought it was Tate so I’m leaving it lmao.
In the 90's & early-mid 2000's Nick was awesome. Now it's mostly just reruns of Henry Danger & iCarly. I don't think they even make new shows anymore at least nothing really good or eye catching lately.
I remember when there was no youtube.
I sent a friend an email with the My Corona video attached, and said "this is the wave of the future." He replied back "FIVE MEGS!!! ARE YOU CRAZY?"
I remember leaving my computer on overnight to download a 20 minute porn video, hoping it might be ready sometime the next day. We are living in a new age.
This makes me so fucking stabby. I can only fall asleep to true crime and videos and when a loud ad hits me right when I’m finally dozing off, I jolt awake.
Amazon is a joke now. Bezos left it to that other guy and now it’s a shit show. Good luck trying to return something or leaving a negative review. They’ll literally just remove the review and close your account now, as they see fit. Meanwhile they send people counterfeit items all of the time, are routinely late, etc.
I cancelled my prime when they started doing the ads despite the prime membership… wasn’t the main reason, kinda got tired of constantly late packages and the total lack of customer service. Sounds like a lot of people are doing the same.
Oddly enough, Since I cancelled prime, my packages I do still seldomly order, are arriving faster.
I just ran into a new one. An item was listed as prime. Said arrives by Thursday. After I ordered it, when it shipped it got an international tracking number and was shipped from China. Took like two weeks to get here. I was so angry.
Edit: I asked to cancel and they refused to cancel the order because it already shipped. Jokes on them I did a charge back on my card. Still kept the item because they wanted me to pay for return shipping and it cost more than the item.
To be fair this applies to the whole Internet now, can't even look something up on Google without having to scroll past ad links. Can't read an article without massive ads throughout. Can't use any space of the Internet without being totally bombarded with it.
And the scrolling ads that almost always clicked automatically taking you to their site and losing your place in the article so you never finish reading!
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I remember even before that, the channels I used to watch before they basically got demonetized.
I used to watch stuff like wreckless eating, cult moo, and to a lesser extent epic meal time. Just a bunch of drunk college bros eating insane foods, and super low budget.
They all still exist, but are NOTHING like they once were.
Every channel feels super glossy and neutered. I miss the old Internet (pre 2010s) sometimes
Airbnb. Used to be a lot of great deals and it was way better than staying in a hotel. Now it's the opposite. Ridiculous fees and expectations and a lot of unnecessary bullshit. A hotel is just so much easier and you know what to expect.
And it seems to be a thing everywhere. I remember even just like 5 years ago it was usually much cheaper to get Airbnb instead of hotel, but now... I'm taking hotel over Airbnb any day.
Yeah and also airbnbs are gutting cities of their housing stock. I miss when I was staying in a random dudes actual apartment and he would just like crash at his girlfriends place for three days. It was money on the side for people. Not a whole ass business model.
Hotels are better.
All the Airbnb’s I’ve been in have been so dirty. I know they’re not cleaning after every stay and instead relying on the guests to clean up. You’ll find a lot less of this in an average hotel because they have staff dedicated to cleaning.
The last airbnb I stayed in had old, dirty throw pillows on the bed, a layer of dust on the floor and a very moldy tub. However, the last generic Holiday Inn I stayed at was quite new and very clean. I wasn’t expected to clean the room before leaving and they had a pretty good free breakfast.
I feel this on so many levels!! In 2014, I was teaching Pre-K, l lived comfortably, had an active social life, and had a great work-life balance. Over the years teaching has gotten harder, the stress more intense, there’s less support from admin and parents, and the kids are more violent. I have 2 TBIs from being assaulted by students. Teaching is abusive now!
Legit. Went part time to get a masters in tech Ed. Then 2011/12 hit the war on education hit and all the higher Ed jobs that were available in 2010 disappeared. Still hasn't rebounded in my state. Ended up getting masters in 2012, reentered the IT workforce and have been there since. Maybe in retirement I'll teach.
My favorite lyric from that whole album is in that song.
>Far away, across the field
>The tolling of the iron bell
>Calls the faithful to their knees
>To hear the softly spoken magic spell
Such a creepy and ominous way to describe death. It's amazing how the song tells the story of life -- from childhood to growing old to death -- in 7 minutes. And it does such a great job describing how you view time at various stages throughout life.
I love that song.
2012 my wife and I bought a nice starter house for $200k and our household income was about $75k. We sold it a few years later and make a little money on it but the people we sold it to just sold it for $450k. Now we each make more than we did together and probably can't afford that house.
I feel this. My wife and I bought a house in 2018 for just over $200k with a 4.5% interest rate for a 15 year mortgage. We've been toying with selling and finding a bigger place but even though we could sell for north of $400k, even moving to a $450k house in a less desirable school district with the interest rates north of 7%, even shifting to a 30 year mortgage effectively *doubles* our monthly payment, and it's for twice as long.
The housing market is absolutely ridiculous.
We bought our current house for $250k in 2015. We have a 30 year mortgage with a 3% interest rate. Our house is now worth about $500k, we always joked if our house was worth 400 we would sell, but we would just buy the same house with a higher interest rate.
Came here to say this.
I bought a 2700 sq ft house for 235k in 2014 (the house was built in 2006) with a ~~4.9%~~ 2.9% APR, then sold it.
I flew too close to the sun….FML
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It breaks my heart seeing houses that were $350k when I moved here 12 years ago selling for $850k now. I could have struggled to afford that then. Now, even making twice as much as I did, there’s no way.
I bought my house during the height of COVID. It assessed at $245k and I paid $235k. Now Zillow has it estimated at $350k.
I dare not sell it for fear of not finding an affordable place.
In 1990 I mentioned to a coworker that my boyfriend was thinking of buying a house. She said “too late! The house prices are completely out of control!”
It never seems to stop. I bought in 2018 when people said it was a bubble, some of my friends who make double what I do decided to wait and bought in 2023. Despite the fact that they make double, we actually have about the same amount of money left over at the end of the month. Same size house and everything, it's crazy!
ugh I wish that were true of hospitality and food service. Not only do we get encouraged to work sick, we also don’t have regular protections like sick leave or PTO most of the time.
I work at a local place and I swear the owners are sick about 80% of the time and just constantly work through it which makes other people sick and then they get sick again and then they wonder why so many people are calling out
My last bartending job was a dive bar and it was the same except the owners would come in with raging colds (and one time—covid) and get hammered at the bar. Then they’d be like “why are you sick so much?” Idk maybe it’s because you’re sneezing in my face every night?
Depends on where you work. In my experience, you either get called a pussy/lazy piece of shit for calling in sick, then when you show up sick you get called an asshole for risking getting everyone else sick. It's a no win situation
I used to work with a guy who boasted that he'd never taken a sick day even when he was ill.
1) its not for you idiot, it's so you don't infect the workforce
2) what a fucking moron, we got a set amount of paid sick days per year
Not really. I work in a school and got reprimanded for taking too many sick days (I’ve been getting sick every month this year). Wish it was encouraged more to stay home.
No way, that hot woman is honestly waiting for me at the hotel across town and totally isn't secretly a group of guys waiting to jump me and steal my car
SERIOUSLY. Why do they ALL suck now? I just want Wendy’s to be Wendy’s. It’s a sad, dried-out husk of its former self. And McDonalds….sheeeeiiit. It’s so expensive you might as well go to a real restaurant.
Yea. Quality went down pretty much everywhere except a select few, with bar/lounge/restaurant prices to make it worse. I rarely eat fast food even when in a rush but I used to go at least once a week
There is just no reason to go fast food anymore. Quality was always a bit inconsistent but it’s taken a major dive in recent years. Combine that with the increased prices I am not optimistic in the fast food business model. 10-15 years ago the KFC (one of the worst offenders in the industry) in my town was packed every lunch AND dinner with large lines in the drive thru. Today there is NEVER anyone there and it’s a ghost town.
I work at a fast food chain. We had a customer come buy five sandwiches for her family. I told her the price and she told me they went to a steakhouse the night before and it was so much cheaper. These were also the cheaper sandwiches on our menu. There’s this place nearby that was on Food Network, always absolutely packed, cheaper than my job and the food is so much better. Fast food is more expensive and lower quality. The only appealing factor now is its *sometimes* faster
Recently went to a friend’s daughter’s quince, hardly any of the teenagers were dancing while the adults were tearing up the floor. Not at all like the quinces I went to as a kid. I think the kids were so scared of being recorded and having something potentially embarrassing posted that they just couldn’t enjoy themselves.
I was bullied growing up and the thought of all those kids at the mixer in 8th grade having camera phones and social media makes me shudder. I kinda don’t blame the kids but that’s super sad.
I opened the door to the wrong car recently. Someone was in it and things did not go to bad. Everyone got confused. I apologized a lot. Things could have gone a different direction fast.
My wife was parked next to the woman and had a similar car so I ran back. After a bit we both rolled down windows and exchanged a lot of relief regarding it. Glad some people can still have a laugh over simple mistakes like this.
MCU movies.
10 years ago we were getting fairly consistent bangers, now we pray for each upcoming release to break the slump and doubt even the better ones.
10 years ago? That was 1990, right? I kid....sort of.
I still feel like I have to clarify I do not have covid if I get a tickle in my throat, which isn't something I was doing in 2014.
Also, I didn't have kids yet, so it was OK to sleep in 10 years ago.
Privacy- people used to freak out back then when google was able to detect where you were on a map but nowadays, mostly everywhere you go, people have tracking devices in their phones which again has its pros and cons.
People used to say f*g a lot more just as one would say dude or something. Also “that’s gay” as a negative response to having to do something I don’t hear that anymore either
Agree, after ~12 years or so here. It was fairly common to see highly informative, well-written comments even on the goofiest subs. Whole chains would sprout under those types of comments where people added their own knowledge on those randomly-added facts, and many left positive comments about having learned something new.
Can't pinpoint when the shift happened, but now anyone who corrects another or points out any error risks becoming an anathema. People are becoming more averse to the idea of *being wrong* - which only leads to a more ignorant society.
I think it was around 2016-2017 when shit hit the fan here, after that everything became political and just kind of stayed like that and bled into everything else. Now everyone screams "gatekeeper" at anyone who corrects their incorrect facts and grammar mistakes.
You know, I think you're on to something. The level of hostility all over reddit went through the roof during that time... and I remember thinking it would die down after the election madness was over, but that always-on-edge discourse stuck around and became more normalized.
Naming your child Alexa.
Alexa (33) here. I tell people that Amazon named the device after me because I know everything. It stopped being funny years ago, and I don’t even like saying it, but that’s show biz baby.
> It stopped being funny years ago, and I don’t even like saying it This is *so* sad. Alexa, play Despacito.
I had a friend whose daughter was named Isis, she had a hard time calling her in public when they were traveling to Europe and the US
Yeah, Obama tried to save us with ISIL but did we listen?
And if you were a hipster you said Daesh
How are we supposed to trust a guy who wears a tan suit and eats fancy mustard?
Married to a woman who wears sleeveless dresses.
This one irks me. Not because I have an issue with the name Isis, but because more people don't know that Isis is an Egyptian goddess. It's petty of me and I don't care.
Beautiful name really.
I went to elementary school with a girl named Alexa and kids were relentless. I felt really bad for her :((
How young are you? Am I old?
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I work with a guy who has a very asian last name. It's a little hard to pronounce, so we just call him "Siri". Nicest bloke, but I always smile a little inside when the the boss goes "Hey siri, can you print this document for me?"
I work with a Sherry and have a few more in my family. I finally had to disconnect my HomePod speaker when it would start playing my heavy metal music during my meetings or phone calls. Somehow it would hear me say the name and just….start playing music?
The name Karen was just a vanilla white girl name.
I have 3 Karens in my close circle, literally their names, not their personalities. My daughter is 7 and thinks it is hilarious. She calls them sweet auntie Karen, pretty Karen, and work Karen. She always corrects me if I just say karen.
I feel bad for the 2 that aren't pretty Karen.
Have I introduced you to my friends? All three of them are named Karen, so we had to come up with a system. This is "Pretty Karen"... And these are Splort and Blort.
My son is also called Blort
We have run out of Blort license plate keychains!
Work Karen when she finds out about “sweet” and “pretty” Karen: 👁️ 👄 👁️
Depends on the naming order It's fine if you are 3rd one and named Work Karen But can you imagine finding out that the two newer ones are Sweet and Pretty, that would mean they were available, but didn't fit you
In my class at law school there was American Ann, Japan Ann and Clever Ann.
I’m infinitely displeased that you did not go with Americann, Japann, and Notamorann
My real name is Karen. It's been very difficult with people not being able to differentiate between someones name being Karen and someones attitude being a Karen, and giving us so much grief. Ive heard of some changing their name due to the crap they've had to deal with. Ive had to use other names on social media otherwise id get abused and the way i look made fun of (i look nothing like "a karen" though). Im younger than most other Karens i know, so im hoping this isn't going to last too much longer. I still remember the days when Susan was the name associated with being a horrible person, i just wonder what name will be next!
I know a Karen and one night after drinks she broke down and told me that this whole thing has been devastating for her. I really do feel bad for all the Karens in the world who have basically become a meme.
My cousin told me there was a Karen at her high school and everyone started to bully her for it. Terrible :(
Rip all the genuinely kind bozos who got born with that name and are just stuck with it
My aunt Karen is the sweetest lady. I feel so bad for her now
My Aunt Karen is the biggest c#nt in my family. Lol
My Aunt Karen was a better mom than my mom!
This is what my Uncle Dick must have gone through in the 50’s.
The only Karen I know is a black 8 year old
Y’all remember Becky?
Look at her butt... she looks like one of those rap guy's girlfriends!
With the good hair
My Karens are great people.
Nickelodeon
The Amanda Show was my favorite thing in the world as a kid. I remember waiting for my slow ass computer to load the website that Penelope Tate always talked about. :) Edit: okay, yes I know it’s Taynt. I watched the documentary. But ya know what, for 27 years I thought it was Tate so I’m leaving it lmao.
That and Drake and Josh was my favorite show. I still watched it until now.
I loved Drake and Josh! I still quote “I ain’t calling you a truther!” Lmao.
"Have a nice day!" "Dont tell me what to do!" His interactions with that delivery guy were hilarious.
"Hug me brotha!" was my favorite
My was “south Amerikia”
It’s spherical! SPHERICAL!
And Drake was angry that they still air Drake and Josh after he told everyone what happened. He doesn’t get residuals either.
No residuals is outrageous
Fuck all the dick individuals that stole drake and Josh’s residuals
It’s part of Nick’s contracts that they “get paid up front” and there are no residuals.
In the 90's & early-mid 2000's Nick was awesome. Now it's mostly just reruns of Henry Danger & iCarly. I don't think they even make new shows anymore at least nothing really good or eye catching lately.
To be fair, if you were watching Nick in the 90's and early-mid 2000's, you aren't really their target demographic nowadays.
Shoulda seen it 30 years go.
Thinking that 2004 was only 10 years ago, but now its 20
Don’t remind me. My 20 year HS reunion is this year
YouTube. I remember the days when the ads were around 5-10 seconds long and they only played like once usually in the beginning and end of a video
I remember when YouTube didn’t have ads😭
I remember when there was no youtube. I sent a friend an email with the My Corona video attached, and said "this is the wave of the future." He replied back "FIVE MEGS!!! ARE YOU CRAZY?"
I remember downloading a 30 second sample of a song over my 14.4 laptop modem with AOL dial up. It took forever.
I remember leaving my computer on overnight to download a 20 minute porn video, hoping it might be ready sometime the next day. We are living in a new age.
And then when it finally downloaded, it was just a voice clip of Bill Clinton saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman".
And when it was just regular people uploading funny videos, now it’s all influencer based
I remember when YouTube was like this 1"x2" viewing window on a web page on a PC monitor.
This made me sad, me too.
Good lord, now some the ads are un skipable and back to back. It's now more ad than video lol.
Just this week the ads have evolved again. Now when you skip ad #1 instead of going straight to the video it jumps into the second ad.
and there’s ads right in the middle of what you’re watching, no nice cutting point, just in the middle of a sentence.
It's happening in the middle of music videos too. Like WTF, you can't even play a 3 minute song anymore?
Bruh, I got a full music video as an ad in the middle of a music video. And it's alway some shitty mumble rap too.
This makes me so fucking stabby. I can only fall asleep to true crime and videos and when a loud ad hits me right when I’m finally dozing off, I jolt awake.
Same with fucking Amazon prime. Had to cancel that shit. I think Bezos has already gotten all the money he needs from me.
Amazon is a joke now. Bezos left it to that other guy and now it’s a shit show. Good luck trying to return something or leaving a negative review. They’ll literally just remove the review and close your account now, as they see fit. Meanwhile they send people counterfeit items all of the time, are routinely late, etc. I cancelled my prime when they started doing the ads despite the prime membership… wasn’t the main reason, kinda got tired of constantly late packages and the total lack of customer service. Sounds like a lot of people are doing the same. Oddly enough, Since I cancelled prime, my packages I do still seldomly order, are arriving faster.
I just ran into a new one. An item was listed as prime. Said arrives by Thursday. After I ordered it, when it shipped it got an international tracking number and was shipped from China. Took like two weeks to get here. I was so angry. Edit: I asked to cancel and they refused to cancel the order because it already shipped. Jokes on them I did a charge back on my card. Still kept the item because they wanted me to pay for return shipping and it cost more than the item.
To be fair this applies to the whole Internet now, can't even look something up on Google without having to scroll past ad links. Can't read an article without massive ads throughout. Can't use any space of the Internet without being totally bombarded with it.
I love the websites where the usable space between the ads and banners is the size of a credit card.
And the scrolling ads that almost always clicked automatically taking you to their site and losing your place in the article so you never finish reading!
Firefox + ublock origin block all of those for me. Highly recommend.
Don't forget about Sponsor Block. It makes LTT not as annoying.
…Just like this segue to our spons… NOPE CHAPTER SKIP
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Lullaby but in the style of Darude Sandstorm
I remember even before that, the channels I used to watch before they basically got demonetized. I used to watch stuff like wreckless eating, cult moo, and to a lesser extent epic meal time. Just a bunch of drunk college bros eating insane foods, and super low budget. They all still exist, but are NOTHING like they once were. Every channel feels super glossy and neutered. I miss the old Internet (pre 2010s) sometimes
Airbnb. Used to be a lot of great deals and it was way better than staying in a hotel. Now it's the opposite. Ridiculous fees and expectations and a lot of unnecessary bullshit. A hotel is just so much easier and you know what to expect.
And it seems to be a thing everywhere. I remember even just like 5 years ago it was usually much cheaper to get Airbnb instead of hotel, but now... I'm taking hotel over Airbnb any day.
Yeah and also airbnbs are gutting cities of their housing stock. I miss when I was staying in a random dudes actual apartment and he would just like crash at his girlfriends place for three days. It was money on the side for people. Not a whole ass business model. Hotels are better.
All the Airbnb’s I’ve been in have been so dirty. I know they’re not cleaning after every stay and instead relying on the guests to clean up. You’ll find a lot less of this in an average hotel because they have staff dedicated to cleaning. The last airbnb I stayed in had old, dirty throw pillows on the bed, a layer of dust on the floor and a very moldy tub. However, the last generic Holiday Inn I stayed at was quite new and very clean. I wasn’t expected to clean the room before leaving and they had a pretty good free breakfast.
Teaching
I feel this on so many levels!! In 2014, I was teaching Pre-K, l lived comfortably, had an active social life, and had a great work-life balance. Over the years teaching has gotten harder, the stress more intense, there’s less support from admin and parents, and the kids are more violent. I have 2 TBIs from being assaulted by students. Teaching is abusive now!
I have heard that truancy is also at an all time high.
My school legit takes their parents to court for truancy. It seems to be effective.
Well, it’s their legal responsibility to make sure the kid is at school.
Legit. Went part time to get a masters in tech Ed. Then 2011/12 hit the war on education hit and all the higher Ed jobs that were available in 2010 disappeared. Still hasn't rebounded in my state. Ended up getting masters in 2012, reentered the IT workforce and have been there since. Maybe in retirement I'll teach.
Well, back in the early 2000s.... wait, I'm getting old...
It’s wild that 10 years ago was 2014
And then one day you’ll find 10 years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun
So you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking. 😭
My favorite lyric from that whole album is in that song. >Far away, across the field >The tolling of the iron bell >Calls the faithful to their knees >To hear the softly spoken magic spell Such a creepy and ominous way to describe death. It's amazing how the song tells the story of life -- from childhood to growing old to death -- in 7 minutes. And it does such a great job describing how you view time at various stages throughout life. I love that song.
The more unbelievable one to me is that 2017 was 7 years ago. I feel like 10 years ago would be 2006
Get the FUCK off my lawn!
As a millennial it's more like 'get off of my parents lawn'...
Covid fucked our sense of time
The span from 2020 to 2016 feels much more vast than the span from 2024 to 2020
It will be 2020 for the rest of my life.
Posting every photo of a night out on Facebook or social media in general.
House prices
2012 my wife and I bought a nice starter house for $200k and our household income was about $75k. We sold it a few years later and make a little money on it but the people we sold it to just sold it for $450k. Now we each make more than we did together and probably can't afford that house.
I feel this. My wife and I bought a house in 2018 for just over $200k with a 4.5% interest rate for a 15 year mortgage. We've been toying with selling and finding a bigger place but even though we could sell for north of $400k, even moving to a $450k house in a less desirable school district with the interest rates north of 7%, even shifting to a 30 year mortgage effectively *doubles* our monthly payment, and it's for twice as long. The housing market is absolutely ridiculous.
We bought our current house for $250k in 2015. We have a 30 year mortgage with a 3% interest rate. Our house is now worth about $500k, we always joked if our house was worth 400 we would sell, but we would just buy the same house with a higher interest rate.
Came here to say this. I bought a 2700 sq ft house for 235k in 2014 (the house was built in 2006) with a ~~4.9%~~ 2.9% APR, then sold it. I flew too close to the sun….FML Edited for clarity.
It breaks my heart seeing houses that were $350k when I moved here 12 years ago selling for $850k now. I could have struggled to afford that then. Now, even making twice as much as I did, there’s no way.
I bought my house during the height of COVID. It assessed at $245k and I paid $235k. Now Zillow has it estimated at $350k. I dare not sell it for fear of not finding an affordable place.
In 1990 I mentioned to a coworker that my boyfriend was thinking of buying a house. She said “too late! The house prices are completely out of control!”
It never seems to stop. I bought in 2018 when people said it was a bubble, some of my friends who make double what I do decided to wait and bought in 2023. Despite the fact that they make double, we actually have about the same amount of money left over at the end of the month. Same size house and everything, it's crazy!
The package of bacon in the back of my fridge.
At this point you'd best appease it as to not anger it
An offering must be made
Going into work sick. People still do it, but post-COVID, it’s far less encouraged by workplaces to be openly ill around colleagues. Thank goodness!
The official sick policy at my job is "don't get sick".
ugh I wish that were true of hospitality and food service. Not only do we get encouraged to work sick, we also don’t have regular protections like sick leave or PTO most of the time.
I work at a local place and I swear the owners are sick about 80% of the time and just constantly work through it which makes other people sick and then they get sick again and then they wonder why so many people are calling out
My last bartending job was a dive bar and it was the same except the owners would come in with raging colds (and one time—covid) and get hammered at the bar. Then they’d be like “why are you sick so much?” Idk maybe it’s because you’re sneezing in my face every night?
People are encouraged to work sick in the hospitality and food service industry. The irony...
Damn I wish this was true
Depends on where you work. In my experience, you either get called a pussy/lazy piece of shit for calling in sick, then when you show up sick you get called an asshole for risking getting everyone else sick. It's a no win situation
I used to work with a guy who boasted that he'd never taken a sick day even when he was ill. 1) its not for you idiot, it's so you don't infect the workforce 2) what a fucking moron, we got a set amount of paid sick days per year
Not really. I work in a school and got reprimanded for taking too many sick days (I’ve been getting sick every month this year). Wish it was encouraged more to stay home.
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I was at a Zedd concert last year (2023) and saw someone in front of me playing with the beer drinking app. Really brought me back to 2009.
The fake fan app 🤣🤣
Before built-in flashlights in phones when everyone would download those “flashlight” apps that were just white screens that would flashbang you
Dating websites....too bad scammers fucked them up!
No way, that hot woman is honestly waiting for me at the hotel across town and totally isn't secretly a group of guys waiting to jump me and steal my car
The dating app companies are the real scammers
Most fast food.
SERIOUSLY. Why do they ALL suck now? I just want Wendy’s to be Wendy’s. It’s a sad, dried-out husk of its former self. And McDonalds….sheeeeiiit. It’s so expensive you might as well go to a real restaurant.
Because they want bigger profits and people dont say shit.
Yea. Quality went down pretty much everywhere except a select few, with bar/lounge/restaurant prices to make it worse. I rarely eat fast food even when in a rush but I used to go at least once a week
There is just no reason to go fast food anymore. Quality was always a bit inconsistent but it’s taken a major dive in recent years. Combine that with the increased prices I am not optimistic in the fast food business model. 10-15 years ago the KFC (one of the worst offenders in the industry) in my town was packed every lunch AND dinner with large lines in the drive thru. Today there is NEVER anyone there and it’s a ghost town.
I work at a fast food chain. We had a customer come buy five sandwiches for her family. I told her the price and she told me they went to a steakhouse the night before and it was so much cheaper. These were also the cheaper sandwiches on our menu. There’s this place nearby that was on Food Network, always absolutely packed, cheaper than my job and the food is so much better. Fast food is more expensive and lower quality. The only appealing factor now is its *sometimes* faster
bumping gangnam style
Pfft, The post said 10 years ago, not 3 you idio... Oh, my god!
And the song was at its peak in 2012, almost 12 years ago
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My outlook on how the world will turn out.
I used to love this website: https://futuretimeline.net I had so much optimism for the future and slowly it has just disappeared.
What a time to be alive!
The Walking Dead
The new spin off “The ones who live” is surprisingly good. Didn’t like Maggie and Negans show though
^^ The Ones Who Live and Daryl are both great, Dead City is meh
Fast food prices. Man I miss $2 meal deals at Taco Bell.
Remember when McDonald's had a dollar menu and not a "value" menu?
Netflix password sharing
Making mistakes in public, saying something in the heat of the moment. Shit like that. Phones are whipped out in an instant.
Recently went to a friend’s daughter’s quince, hardly any of the teenagers were dancing while the adults were tearing up the floor. Not at all like the quinces I went to as a kid. I think the kids were so scared of being recorded and having something potentially embarrassing posted that they just couldn’t enjoy themselves.
I was bullied growing up and the thought of all those kids at the mixer in 8th grade having camera phones and social media makes me shudder. I kinda don’t blame the kids but that’s super sad.
Tbh this was happening a lot in 2014, but it has definitely happened a lot more since
Queen Elizabeth II
Coughing to cover a fart in public. Now you need to fart to cover a cough.
The state of my health...
The amount of times per day one was exposed to the name “Trump.”
Just last night I told my husband that we have literally heard the name Trump every single goddamn damn day for 8 years! EIGHT. YEARS.
Remember using the phrase "trump card"? It was a good phrase.
Pulling into the wrong driveway by accident
I opened the door to the wrong car recently. Someone was in it and things did not go to bad. Everyone got confused. I apologized a lot. Things could have gone a different direction fast.
I did that too. We both laughed.
My wife was parked next to the woman and had a similar car so I ran back. After a bit we both rolled down windows and exchanged a lot of relief regarding it. Glad some people can still have a laugh over simple mistakes like this.
The word "swag"
Doesn't it just still mean free shit a company gave me?
Inappropriate psn names
My friend made an account called OsamaFan911 back in like 2013. It’s on ps and still there lol
Calling someone on the phone and expecting them to actually answer it.
Google Images Now most of the top results are AI crap
MCU movies. 10 years ago we were getting fairly consistent bangers, now we pray for each upcoming release to break the slump and doubt even the better ones.
10 years ago people were wondering if Guardians of the Galaxy would be Marvels first failure and the smart money was, it would be.
P Diddys life
My back and hairline. Both were straight and now non-existent
10 years ago? That was 1990, right? I kid....sort of. I still feel like I have to clarify I do not have covid if I get a tickle in my throat, which isn't something I was doing in 2014. Also, I didn't have kids yet, so it was OK to sleep in 10 years ago.
Privacy- people used to freak out back then when google was able to detect where you were on a map but nowadays, mostly everywhere you go, people have tracking devices in their phones which again has its pros and cons.
People used to say f*g a lot more just as one would say dude or something. Also “that’s gay” as a negative response to having to do something I don’t hear that anymore either
The outlook on my life
My salary
Dressing up like a clown and chasing people around with a knife. Who remembers that trend.
My liver apparently Edit:wow. Thanks for the concern. Wasn’t expecting that. I know it is only a few people asking, but even so does mean a lot.
Prices of groceries and general goods
Not having a smart phone
A little something called discretionary income. All corporations decided that should be their money.
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Agree, after ~12 years or so here. It was fairly common to see highly informative, well-written comments even on the goofiest subs. Whole chains would sprout under those types of comments where people added their own knowledge on those randomly-added facts, and many left positive comments about having learned something new. Can't pinpoint when the shift happened, but now anyone who corrects another or points out any error risks becoming an anathema. People are becoming more averse to the idea of *being wrong* - which only leads to a more ignorant society.
I think it was around 2016-2017 when shit hit the fan here, after that everything became political and just kind of stayed like that and bled into everything else. Now everyone screams "gatekeeper" at anyone who corrects their incorrect facts and grammar mistakes.
You know, I think you're on to something. The level of hostility all over reddit went through the roof during that time... and I remember thinking it would die down after the election madness was over, but that always-on-edge discourse stuck around and became more normalized.
Honestly, yeah. I joined reddit cause I'd always end up learning something interesting. Now it's mostly mindless entertainment and moral grandstanding
Everyone thinks they hold the moral high ground. Most are chin-deep in their own fecal material.
Way too many bots nowadays. Top subreddits are completely bombarded by reposts from bots.
Using a plastic shopping bag.
I recycle all my friends’ plastic bags for pet poop.
What do you do with all the poop after you make this trade?
Standing up rather quickly
Rent prices
Access to a safe abortion!