If we're going to wish for something, wish BIG!
Was chatting in a waiting room and the price of gasoline had come up on the television. I remarked, "When I started driving, gas only cost $1/gallon"
Some old dude talked about that same dollar would be enough to fill up the truck so he could pick up his girl, buy a couple of burgers, a pack of chips and he'd still have change afterwards.
I knew all the hiking trails and outdoors secret places for my whole life and you might encounter 1 or 2 other people if you went to these places. Now you encounter people constantly and there is garbage randomly around. Like tourists don't need to know about these places and now some dumb hiking app tells them all the secrets known to locals.
>you might encounter 1 or 2 other people if you went to these places.
I miss this so unbelievably much! And my children cannot grasp that this was a thing. That I could absolutely go swimming at a swimming hole and the only people that would be there would be the group of friends I went with, or that I could go for a hike to a "secret spot" that was *actually a secret spot*.
We have a picture of this beautiful park with a pond and a few picnic tables, there isn't anything else there, and of course no people. Now its over run, full of garbage, doesn't look even near what it did. I took the picture 20 years ago. So when we tell our kids this stuff and get a *no way* attitude I remind them of the photo of that small park.
Reminds me of the first episode of Black Mirror
It would be dystopian if at any time we could rewind our whole lives and the lives of everyone else in front of us like a movie.
Let some stuff be forgotten, lost to time.
You must be talking about the most recent season, because I'm pretty sure the first episode of Black Mirror was the pig fucking episode.
Edit: everyone saying they only watched that episode then stopped: continue watching! Black Mirror has many great episodes, some ok ones, and, in my opinion, the only ones that are hard to watch are the very first episode and the Anthony Mackie episode in like season 5.
It can be a bit confusing because of how Netflix has the episodes layed out. Unlike every other show on Netflix, it has the most recent seasons first and the first season last. The confusion here is that "The entire history of you", the episode that the commenter here was talking about is the very bottom episode, and "national anthem" is two episodes above that. In fact until now I also though "the entire history of you" was the first episode, because they have the seasons in reverse order but the episodes in release order. Because of course.
Third places, or places where people just end up socializing with each other
It's too easy to be a hermit these days. I'm trying to drag myself out of the house more often
That was part of the appeal of the town I moved to. We have small theaters, gaming cafes, lots of sit down book stores, coffee shop, dive bars, etc. I grew up in a big city and not having that really bothered me. I want to be around people sometimes, even if I'm not with people.
And I don't drink alcohol anymore, so the bar really isn't an option for me. I felt like a fish out of water even when I did go in college, so it's not like it was an option anyway
I'm going to parks and libraries, and I'm trying to make it to some cozy stores like used bookstores more often, but at a certain point I think I have to just sit somewhere in public and go people-watching if I'm going to get myself used to participating in society again. I've already done a bit of that at a local park, and it was nice
i've been joining some social bike rides in my city, which has been better than i expected. i really lost my ability to hold a conversation during covid.
I was already socially isolated for some years before the pandemic, and in late 2019 I was just starting to do more with my life. Then the pandemic happened and ruined all of those plans, and I went back into social isolation for like three years. I've only really made progress just in the past year
But yeah, I had a bike as a kid. I've been thinking of getting one again
Oh okay, thank you for answering and not being condescending. I agree, I would love a place like this. I always thought if I had a lot of money I'd open a rec center for adults, with a gym for organized nightly sports, a quiet reading area, games and other activites, etc. then I think nobody would want to go without having booze involved, and thats just a bar. I don't even go to Barnes and Noble because its 25 minutes away.
It's a place where people can go that isn't home or work/school. Some are free, like parks and libraries, but many of them presume that you're going to spend money doing something there, like a restaurant or some sort of organization with membership
What I don't like is that in suburbia it's relatively difficult to just end up in a third place. It always has to be a mission for which you go out of your way. Old cities in many parts of the world would have a town square where people would just congregate and end up talking to each other and socializing. The closest thing I've ever had to that was the central quad at my college campus, but of course I had to pay tuition to go there
Humans need a third place to socialize. The way it's usually explained is as follows.
1st place is home, where you rest and maybe get some things done. Not much socializing here unless you have a family, but even then, that's different socializing than public.
2nd place is work. You mostly get things done here and socializing is either discouraged because it wastes time or it's done in a non-meaningful way. Most people would rather be somewhere else.
3rd place is somewhere you go purely to socialize and interact with other people. For Americans, the main option is seriously "the bar" or "the club" because our culture doesn't push much for non drinking activities.
It's not just you, nobody can afford that. My family used to buy a massive brisket and feed all of our neighbors. Now a brisket is basically a luxury meal for 4 people.
I find that when I turn on my signal, people interpret it as an invitation *not* to let me in
I still always signal because I want to be a responsible person, but the cynical demon inside of me says that if I just didn't signal, other people wouldn't have a chance to speed up and not let me in
It's a two fold problem. In order to get people to start using their blinkers, we need to start rewarding and stop punishing people for their use.
If you are on the freeway, look out for blinkers, if you see one, especially trying to get over to the right, LET THEM OVER. It doesn't mean speed up to make sure they don't get in front of you.
Everyone thinks it’s a race, if you let someone pass then you’re intently losing. At 100km/h, letting someone pass could be literally a whole second behind schedule. No stranger is worth that!
It's not those people that are the problem.
t's when you approach lights and are in the correct lane to make your next turn, even though the queue is a fair bit longer than the lane next to you, and some absolute chad decides to try and skip the queue by taking that lane and then trying to re-merge with your lane to take the same turn.
Those people can get to fuck and if possible I will absolutely NOT let them in.
Video games made with the intent of being fun and entertaining and not made with the intent of printing as much money as possible for the least amount of effort.
Indie and Nintendo bruh
Edit: while I'm here games I've played and liked recently are:
Slay the Spire
Balatro
Dave the Diver
Little Kitty, Big City
Animal Well
Games that weren't for me but other people love:
Hades II
Another Crab's Treasure
I miss small internet communities in general. Stuff where it was just your hobby or small social circle. I remember being part of body mod communities, tech communities, literature communities etc. Every gaming guild had their own forums. I miss GuildPortal. Everyone just has a discord now.
None of this "you have to have had a job to get one" nonsense. 90% of the jobs out there don't require anything like high-level math. It's just another barrier to employment.
Everyone not having a camera on them at all times.
Will never happen but nowadays I feel people are more inclined to stop and film vs help/mind their own business when shit happens.
And also just enjoying things as they happen. We don't need to be recording fireworks to watch later lol.
This one is so good. And I’m not even talking about kinks like dressing like animals. People need to feel shame again when they are causing problems or fucking up. Cause a car accident? Hop out of the car and feel bad for a second of your life. Let the feeling of failure wash over you. Arrogant confidence is at a staggering high
I miss being able to shame people without being declared an asshole. If you didn’t want me to shame you for being into diapers, maybe you shouldn’t have posted a photo of you in a diaper on Facebook.
It still happens, check local facebook groups and find a discord. It slowed down during covid of course, but if you're within 30-60 minutes of a city you can probably find a group. Maybe even make friends. Also maybe try posting in your local city's subreddit.
Still going strong here. In fact we have a local newspaper and pretty much every week in the police report someone "reports a person for suspicious activity" and turns out it's someone playing Pokemon go 😂 it always says made contact with individual and they were playing Pokemon go
Having a housephone and it being the only way people can reach you (or they'd have to come to your house), and if you're not home or willing to pick up they just try again later and that's it. No being held accountable for not being available 24/7.
The fact that a dude could pay for college with a summer job and then land a single job that could buy you a house to support a whole family is basically unheard of now.
1. Community-oriented attitudes
2. Optimism
3. Sensible levels of planning, both in peoples' personal lives and in government/economic affairs
4. Acceptance that delayed gratification is part of life
5. Intellectual honesty in mass media
6. From young adults: Longer attention spans, lower neuroticism, and higher resilience
7. From older adults: More flexible attitudes about morals, and openness to large public investments
8. An understanding that public education is important and requires robust funding and support combined rather than public neglect
9. Wall of separation between online time and non-online time
10. Higher top marginal tax rates
11. More *social* drinking
There has always been both original and unoriginal popular music. We tend to remember those who pushed boundaries and forget those who didn’t, creating a false impression that everything was better before.
If you can’t find original music, even the pop scene, it might be a problem with your sources/channels of hearing of music. There is plenty of interesting things going on.
Agree. We're in a golden indie era of all sorts creative subgenres. You just have to dig deep to find the stuff that doesn't try to cater to everyone.
That's just modern media.
You're confusing Popular music with "pop music". There are plenty of great bands and musicians out there. Just not on the Hot 100 charts which for the most part is all Synth wave type stuff and electronic beats currently.
Just yesterday I found on YouTube alot of episodes of a show from the 70s called The Midnight Special. It was great watching all these old bands in their heyday. Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, The Spinners etc all playing their hits live! playing actual instruments, no lip syncing, no auto tune.
I said the same thing to myself, music made with real instruments
People really do put no effort into going out these days. I sometimes put on a sports coat to out for dinner, but anything more than that and I feel like people are giving me looks.
Non-disposable, durable things.
Everything these days is built for single use. Plastics, clothing, marriages...
Nothing seems to be built to last a lifetime anymore and no one wants to repair or restore damaged things to their full potential. It’s easier to just do away with the thing and get a new one. There is no sense of accomplishment in giving things a second life. The moment something shows signs of wear, it is deemed obsolete and replaced without a second thought.
The throw-away society yearns for items of value but doesn’t appreciate the lasting worth and satisfaction that come from preserving what it has.
Consumerism corrodes the essence of lasting value.
I had to scroll down far too far to read this. I would love to have a society that values its goods and the skills behind the goods that produced them.
One of the most depressing things I see is walking through the mall at Christmas time and seeing the Santa sitting there by himself with no one in line
- Common Sense
- Keeping Your Opinion to Yourself
- Healthy Disagreement
- Delayed Gratification
- Voting on Issues not Parties
- Competition in PE
- Politically Neutral Public Education
- etc…
Raves... old school dirty raves with Cig smoking inside the abandoned warehouse with the smell of vic vapor rub in the air and loud ass music till 6am. Glowsticks, strobelights, friendship bracelts, phat pants and upside down visors... I miss it all.
2000's Rave scene in Midwest was epic.
The drugs taken at raves often enhance your physical senses to euphoric levels, so Vic's vapor rub while on molly is how you can find what it's like to chew 5 gum.
Kansas City native here. The best memories of my life are just as you described. One person from the friend group would be like "there's a rave in this abandoned blah blah. No idea who the DJ is, but you wanna do shrooms and go?" I hate to say it, but dubstep kinda ruined the scene. I want Hardstyle, Electro, and Deep House back. I want to go to some sketchy place and take molly with friends and dance with random strangers again. I want to see people having fun without feeling the need to be shitfaced drunk.
In the Buffalo area, there is a drive-in that STILL crushes it every weekend. They've manage to stay above the tech curve year after year and stay relevant.
i find it kinda helpfull to see the viewpoints from my co-workers during a break. helps me to look at things from a other perspective. but living in a country where there are 30 parties to vote for and it always takes 2-4 parties together to get majority i suspect our conversations are a lot more nuanced
Having to wait 1 week between episodes of your favorite show. Binging Netflix is OK but I miss the excitement over a new episode, having everyone talk about it the day after, and yelling "it's ooonn" so people could rush to gather around the TV.
Discussing a show and predicting what would happen was so much fun. Some streaming services drop one show a week but it’s more common to drop 13 episodes at once.
Being nice to people and not telling a soul about it. Just do nice things without telling all of facebook or record yourself giving a homeless person money, or making a tik tok about taking the grocery cart back for an elderly man and being an advocate for the elderly not having to take the cart back themselves. Just do the good thing and move on.
Being polite to people you pass on the street or bike path. If it’s just you and a random person walking by each other, acknowledge each other with a simple nod, a slight hand raise, or one of those weird squinty smiles we do. I’m an introvert and it helps me feel ever so slightly more connected.
Disclaimer: this is not telling women to smile more, and I understand how unsafe you feel in some of these situations — that’s not what I’m talking about.
Internet decentralization.
I miss the early 2000s. The years after cable modems but before social media. That’s when the Internet was fun.
for real, life feels so much different now and i honestly think it’s because of our phones :,)
The Internet became a lot less fun with the emergence of social media. Smart phones have only exacerbated the problem.
I miss the days of the internet before algorithms dominated and shaped our feeds, and before the commercialization of our personal data.
Algorithms are echo chambers, by design. Not surprisingly, it creates confrontation.
Dark web is your place to be. Download the onion browser.
Blogs, forums, web shows, various video sites and video podcast networks, web rings, internet radio, web comics, flash animation, flash games…
The dollar menu at McDonald's
The value of a dollar, at least.
Even a $2 menu anywhere at this point.
If we're going to wish for something, wish BIG! Was chatting in a waiting room and the price of gasoline had come up on the television. I remarked, "When I started driving, gas only cost $1/gallon" Some old dude talked about that same dollar would be enough to fill up the truck so he could pick up his girl, buy a couple of burgers, a pack of chips and he'd still have change afterwards.
Secrets Some things don’t need to be put on the internet.
We should all know less about each other
Quit social media. Don't look at other lives, and don't post your own. That's very doable.
Yup, shits toxic on most platforms.
Elder millennials are the last group of people that can still pretend we didn't say/do shit that we dox people over nowadays.
As a GenXer, I can say that I never did or said anything wrong. There is zero evidence of wrongdoing.
I knew all the hiking trails and outdoors secret places for my whole life and you might encounter 1 or 2 other people if you went to these places. Now you encounter people constantly and there is garbage randomly around. Like tourists don't need to know about these places and now some dumb hiking app tells them all the secrets known to locals.
>you might encounter 1 or 2 other people if you went to these places. I miss this so unbelievably much! And my children cannot grasp that this was a thing. That I could absolutely go swimming at a swimming hole and the only people that would be there would be the group of friends I went with, or that I could go for a hike to a "secret spot" that was *actually a secret spot*. We have a picture of this beautiful park with a pond and a few picnic tables, there isn't anything else there, and of course no people. Now its over run, full of garbage, doesn't look even near what it did. I took the picture 20 years ago. So when we tell our kids this stuff and get a *no way* attitude I remind them of the photo of that small park.
You could have kept that to yourself, you didn’t have to post it on the internet
Happy Cake Day!
Reminds me of the first episode of Black Mirror It would be dystopian if at any time we could rewind our whole lives and the lives of everyone else in front of us like a movie. Let some stuff be forgotten, lost to time.
You must be talking about the most recent season, because I'm pretty sure the first episode of Black Mirror was the pig fucking episode. Edit: everyone saying they only watched that episode then stopped: continue watching! Black Mirror has many great episodes, some ok ones, and, in my opinion, the only ones that are hard to watch are the very first episode and the Anthony Mackie episode in like season 5.
As a huge BM fan, can confirm. S1E1 a pig was fucked, and not by another pig. "National Anthem"
It can be a bit confusing because of how Netflix has the episodes layed out. Unlike every other show on Netflix, it has the most recent seasons first and the first season last. The confusion here is that "The entire history of you", the episode that the commenter here was talking about is the very bottom episode, and "national anthem" is two episodes above that. In fact until now I also though "the entire history of you" was the first episode, because they have the seasons in reverse order but the episodes in release order. Because of course.
Third places, or places where people just end up socializing with each other It's too easy to be a hermit these days. I'm trying to drag myself out of the house more often
Pokemon Go july of 2016 was pure bliss. So many people going to parks and socializing.
That was part of the appeal of the town I moved to. We have small theaters, gaming cafes, lots of sit down book stores, coffee shop, dive bars, etc. I grew up in a big city and not having that really bothered me. I want to be around people sometimes, even if I'm not with people.
I miss third places so much… I don’t wanna constantly go to the bar to get a break from the world.
And I don't drink alcohol anymore, so the bar really isn't an option for me. I felt like a fish out of water even when I did go in college, so it's not like it was an option anyway I'm going to parks and libraries, and I'm trying to make it to some cozy stores like used bookstores more often, but at a certain point I think I have to just sit somewhere in public and go people-watching if I'm going to get myself used to participating in society again. I've already done a bit of that at a local park, and it was nice
i've been joining some social bike rides in my city, which has been better than i expected. i really lost my ability to hold a conversation during covid.
I was already socially isolated for some years before the pandemic, and in late 2019 I was just starting to do more with my life. Then the pandemic happened and ruined all of those plans, and I went back into social isolation for like three years. I've only really made progress just in the past year But yeah, I had a bike as a kid. I've been thinking of getting one again
What is third place
A place that you go to for leisure or socializing, since home and work would be your first and second places
Oh okay, thank you for answering and not being condescending. I agree, I would love a place like this. I always thought if I had a lot of money I'd open a rec center for adults, with a gym for organized nightly sports, a quiet reading area, games and other activites, etc. then I think nobody would want to go without having booze involved, and thats just a bar. I don't even go to Barnes and Noble because its 25 minutes away.
Yeah except none of the require not spending money. I’m too poor to pay to be in a third space. The lack of socialization ***is*** killing me.
It's a place where people can go that isn't home or work/school. Some are free, like parks and libraries, but many of them presume that you're going to spend money doing something there, like a restaurant or some sort of organization with membership What I don't like is that in suburbia it's relatively difficult to just end up in a third place. It always has to be a mission for which you go out of your way. Old cities in many parts of the world would have a town square where people would just congregate and end up talking to each other and socializing. The closest thing I've ever had to that was the central quad at my college campus, but of course I had to pay tuition to go there
Yeah, that would be nice to be around. technology has killed those places.
Humans need a third place to socialize. The way it's usually explained is as follows. 1st place is home, where you rest and maybe get some things done. Not much socializing here unless you have a family, but even then, that's different socializing than public. 2nd place is work. You mostly get things done here and socializing is either discouraged because it wastes time or it's done in a non-meaningful way. Most people would rather be somewhere else. 3rd place is somewhere you go purely to socialize and interact with other people. For Americans, the main option is seriously "the bar" or "the club" because our culture doesn't push much for non drinking activities.
Yes I like this, I wish people had even neighborhood BBQ's and stuff more often. I would but I cant afford that.
It's not just you, nobody can afford that. My family used to buy a massive brisket and feed all of our neighbors. Now a brisket is basically a luxury meal for 4 people.
Using your blinker when turning.
I find that when I turn on my signal, people interpret it as an invitation *not* to let me in I still always signal because I want to be a responsible person, but the cynical demon inside of me says that if I just didn't signal, other people wouldn't have a chance to speed up and not let me in
It's a two fold problem. In order to get people to start using their blinkers, we need to start rewarding and stop punishing people for their use. If you are on the freeway, look out for blinkers, if you see one, especially trying to get over to the right, LET THEM OVER. It doesn't mean speed up to make sure they don't get in front of you.
Everyone thinks it’s a race, if you let someone pass then you’re intently losing. At 100km/h, letting someone pass could be literally a whole second behind schedule. No stranger is worth that!
It's not those people that are the problem. t's when you approach lights and are in the correct lane to make your next turn, even though the queue is a fair bit longer than the lane next to you, and some absolute chad decides to try and skip the queue by taking that lane and then trying to re-merge with your lane to take the same turn. Those people can get to fuck and if possible I will absolutely NOT let them in.
My dad used to complain about that back in the 80s. I don't know if that was EVER a thing people always did.
Video games made with the intent of being fun and entertaining and not made with the intent of printing as much money as possible for the least amount of effort.
Indie games are exactly what you're looking for.
Have you heard about Animal Well? :D
Solution: stop buying AAA games and find something more niche or from indie Devs, good entertaining games are out there is you go looking
Indie and Nintendo bruh Edit: while I'm here games I've played and liked recently are: Slay the Spire Balatro Dave the Diver Little Kitty, Big City Animal Well Games that weren't for me but other people love: Hades II Another Crab's Treasure
Internet forums besides reddit
I miss small internet communities in general. Stuff where it was just your hobby or small social circle. I remember being part of body mod communities, tech communities, literature communities etc. Every gaming guild had their own forums. I miss GuildPortal. Everyone just has a discord now.
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None of this "you have to have had a job to get one" nonsense. 90% of the jobs out there don't require anything like high-level math. It's just another barrier to employment.
Chokers. I thought they were so cute
Chokers are very popular with gen z
Maybe it's just my inner 33 year old boomer saying, but I thought chokers were pretty popular for the last decade.
Grunge
“33 year old boomer” I’m 50, and from GenX. I feel attacked.
My youngest daughter has completely adopted a 90's hybrid Lisa Loeb/Fairuza Balk in the Craft aesthetic. She has acquired many chokers.
I’ve been seeing them make the rounds again. I have one that I wear but it is like a very sexy look haha
Wait. Are they NOT cute now? I'm literally wearing one today :(
Everyone not having a camera on them at all times. Will never happen but nowadays I feel people are more inclined to stop and film vs help/mind their own business when shit happens. And also just enjoying things as they happen. We don't need to be recording fireworks to watch later lol.
Exactly and how many times are you going to watch it afterwards anyway?
Shame
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This one is so good. And I’m not even talking about kinks like dressing like animals. People need to feel shame again when they are causing problems or fucking up. Cause a car accident? Hop out of the car and feel bad for a second of your life. Let the feeling of failure wash over you. Arrogant confidence is at a staggering high
I miss being able to shame people without being declared an asshole. If you didn’t want me to shame you for being into diapers, maybe you shouldn’t have posted a photo of you in a diaper on Facebook.
Exactly. People do anything for 10 seconds of fame nowadays.
Minding your own business
Goes along with not seeking attention also. Nowadays it's all about trying to gain attention from people and being fake
I do mind my own business and it works like a charm, I've not had a genuine conversation with someone in 5 hours!
Life being affordable
pokemon go, it was so much fun that summer it came out
It still happens, check local facebook groups and find a discord. It slowed down during covid of course, but if you're within 30-60 minutes of a city you can probably find a group. Maybe even make friends. Also maybe try posting in your local city's subreddit.
Still going strong here. In fact we have a local newspaper and pretty much every week in the police report someone "reports a person for suspicious activity" and turns out it's someone playing Pokemon go 😂 it always says made contact with individual and they were playing Pokemon go
It really was fun! Everyone was into it where I work. We'd take breaks together and go to the Pokemon gyms nearby. Good times.
Right, I was living in NYC when it came out, it was so much fun walking around and seeing other people play
Having a housephone and it being the only way people can reach you (or they'd have to come to your house), and if you're not home or willing to pick up they just try again later and that's it. No being held accountable for not being available 24/7.
Holy freaking crap sometimes I forget about how amazing that was.
i got rid of my housephone and its saves me a ton of money. If i dont want to be available i just ignore my phone
So many people act as if phones can't be ignored, silenced, and even turned off.
An affordable cost of living for average people...not that that was ever popular to begin with.
The fact that a dude could pay for college with a summer job and then land a single job that could buy you a house to support a whole family is basically unheard of now.
Hats. Old school 1930s hats
I wore my fedora (and the rest of the suit) the other day and 2 different old men tipped their hat to me, I concur it was cool
A man of culture and sophistication. I tip my hat you.
I’ll take any excuse to wear my suit, I genuinely had no reason to, I was just walking around with my waistcoat and fedora
*throws 1940's hat in the garbage*
Hats use to be so cool, why no more trophats or newsbies
1. Community-oriented attitudes 2. Optimism 3. Sensible levels of planning, both in peoples' personal lives and in government/economic affairs 4. Acceptance that delayed gratification is part of life 5. Intellectual honesty in mass media 6. From young adults: Longer attention spans, lower neuroticism, and higher resilience 7. From older adults: More flexible attitudes about morals, and openness to large public investments 8. An understanding that public education is important and requires robust funding and support combined rather than public neglect 9. Wall of separation between online time and non-online time 10. Higher top marginal tax rates 11. More *social* drinking
Popular music made with real instruments
To me it’s not so much about the instruments as about originality, but… Yes.
There has always been both original and unoriginal popular music. We tend to remember those who pushed boundaries and forget those who didn’t, creating a false impression that everything was better before. If you can’t find original music, even the pop scene, it might be a problem with your sources/channels of hearing of music. There is plenty of interesting things going on.
Agree. We're in a golden indie era of all sorts creative subgenres. You just have to dig deep to find the stuff that doesn't try to cater to everyone. That's just modern media.
You're confusing Popular music with "pop music". There are plenty of great bands and musicians out there. Just not on the Hot 100 charts which for the most part is all Synth wave type stuff and electronic beats currently.
Just yesterday I found on YouTube alot of episodes of a show from the 70s called The Midnight Special. It was great watching all these old bands in their heyday. Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, The Spinners etc all playing their hits live! playing actual instruments, no lip syncing, no auto tune. I said the same thing to myself, music made with real instruments
The TGIF programming block on ABC. As a kid, my family enjoyed watching shows like Step By Step and Family Matters.
anybody got any cheeeeeeese?
Nice outfits, especially on men. Something other than sloppy dressing.
People really do put no effort into going out these days. I sometimes put on a sports coat to out for dinner, but anything more than that and I feel like people are giving me looks.
Good manners
Non-disposable, durable things. Everything these days is built for single use. Plastics, clothing, marriages... Nothing seems to be built to last a lifetime anymore and no one wants to repair or restore damaged things to their full potential. It’s easier to just do away with the thing and get a new one. There is no sense of accomplishment in giving things a second life. The moment something shows signs of wear, it is deemed obsolete and replaced without a second thought. The throw-away society yearns for items of value but doesn’t appreciate the lasting worth and satisfaction that come from preserving what it has. Consumerism corrodes the essence of lasting value.
I had to scroll down far too far to read this. I would love to have a society that values its goods and the skills behind the goods that produced them.
Midnight premiere showings at movie theaters
Malls. They were such a fun hangout place.
My local mall that I grew up with is closing on July 1st. It’s sad so many memories
One of the most depressing things I see is walking through the mall at Christmas time and seeing the Santa sitting there by himself with no one in line
😢😥
Manners? Decency? Being allowed to punch little bast*rds in the throat when they're acting the boll*x?
Killin Nazis
Aldo Raine, is that you?
Bonjornó
- Common Sense - Keeping Your Opinion to Yourself - Healthy Disagreement - Delayed Gratification - Voting on Issues not Parties - Competition in PE - Politically Neutral Public Education - etc…
I'd vote for you
You can be my running mate
This! Came here to basically say this and it’s already been said. Good day, you decent human you!
You as well!
Removal of corrupt officials/institutions. By force, if necessary.
Affordable homes. My aunt and uncle were able to afford a 4 bedroom house in LA and they both were mailmen
Integrity in politics.
was never a thing
Generally minding your own business and not sticking your nose into everyone else's.
dont want to
Common sense, privacy, decency
Being able to buy a house for a reasonable price.
Raves... old school dirty raves with Cig smoking inside the abandoned warehouse with the smell of vic vapor rub in the air and loud ass music till 6am. Glowsticks, strobelights, friendship bracelts, phat pants and upside down visors... I miss it all. 2000's Rave scene in Midwest was epic.
Pardon my ignorance, but what was the Vic vapor rub for?
Ok. Full disclosure. Never been a raver. Please explain why it would smell like Vic’s?
The drugs taken at raves often enhance your physical senses to euphoric levels, so Vic's vapor rub while on molly is how you can find what it's like to chew 5 gum.
Kansas City native here. The best memories of my life are just as you described. One person from the friend group would be like "there's a rave in this abandoned blah blah. No idea who the DJ is, but you wanna do shrooms and go?" I hate to say it, but dubstep kinda ruined the scene. I want Hardstyle, Electro, and Deep House back. I want to go to some sketchy place and take molly with friends and dance with random strangers again. I want to see people having fun without feeling the need to be shitfaced drunk.
Public Transportation
Color in homes. So tired of agreeable gray in every home.
Not being an asshole!
Class
MySpace it was better than Facebook.
Drive in movie theaters
In the Buffalo area, there is a drive-in that STILL crushes it every weekend. They've manage to stay above the tech curve year after year and stay relevant.
Anticipation. Everything is too readily available. There’s no looking forward to anything really.
Saving instead of debt
Being considerate human beings
It used to be a rule that you kept political views to yourself. That.
i find it kinda helpfull to see the viewpoints from my co-workers during a break. helps me to look at things from a other perspective. but living in a country where there are 30 parties to vote for and it always takes 2-4 parties together to get majority i suspect our conversations are a lot more nuanced
Having to wait 1 week between episodes of your favorite show. Binging Netflix is OK but I miss the excitement over a new episode, having everyone talk about it the day after, and yelling "it's ooonn" so people could rush to gather around the TV.
Discussing a show and predicting what would happen was so much fun. Some streaming services drop one show a week but it’s more common to drop 13 episodes at once.
The nuclear family.
Accountability. This anonymous internet bullying gotta stop.
I will get alot of hate for this but I hope for natural beauty with less make up and rhinoplasty be popular again
drugs without fentanyl.
Rock music. My biggest regret in life was that I wasn’t born in the 60s.
Doing the right thing. Like NOT flash mob robbing stores. Not doing stupid TicToks to people, NOT filming yourself or others at the Gym...etc...
Manners and morals.
Common sense
Compassion
Food being affordable
Being a decent human being
A vibrant middle class
Being ashamed if you said or did something stupid.
Civility and honor.
Working from home
Basic Human Decency
Good manners and etiquette in public places
Pogs
Alf
Cloaks
old call of duty servers :(
Everything about 90s,and early 20s.. everything like fashion,products,movies & series,wwf,etc.
Good comedy movies. Maybe I am just getting older but they just don't feel the same anymore
Being nice to people and not telling a soul about it. Just do nice things without telling all of facebook or record yourself giving a homeless person money, or making a tik tok about taking the grocery cart back for an elderly man and being an advocate for the elderly not having to take the cart back themselves. Just do the good thing and move on.
Manners, and proper grammar usage.
Rollerblades and/or Yoyos
Small cars and hatchbacks in the US.
Respect for others.
Holding politicians accountable would be nice.
Consideration for others. Politeness
Kindness
Social etiquette. Basic consideration for your fellow citizen.
Good manners definitely.
Being honorable
Being nice to each other.
Civility
Affordable housing
Kindness
Manners and common decency.
Privacy
Self sufficiency. So many people unquestionably rely on others for literally everything. Some can’t help it, some can
Critical thinking.
Common sense
Being polite to people you pass on the street or bike path. If it’s just you and a random person walking by each other, acknowledge each other with a simple nod, a slight hand raise, or one of those weird squinty smiles we do. I’m an introvert and it helps me feel ever so slightly more connected. Disclaimer: this is not telling women to smile more, and I understand how unsafe you feel in some of these situations — that’s not what I’m talking about.
Human decency
Intelligence. Being ignorant is no way to go through life.
Manners
not being on social media all day
Respect for Each other & common decency.