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56 Funny Illustrations Proving The World Has Changed For the Worse
Why are the good-old-days always behind us? Sure, your TV is 20lb lighter than it was 10 years ago, but you've put on 20lb of weight in the meantime; your old Nokia cellphone was so durable it damaged the floor when you dropped it, but your new iPhone costs as much as a fresh organ on the black-market, and shatters into pieces at the slightest touch.
This open-list has some of our favorite then-and-now comparisons. Can you think of any funny juxtapositions? Vote on your favorite below, or post your own!
(h/t: justsomethingcreative)
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#1
Teachers In 1960 And 2010
FlunkedTuring 10 years ago
Check your math: 60's kids are 2010 *grandparents*.
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LianeFleury 10 years ago
Back then you're parents kicked your butt if your grades were bad, now they blame the teacher!! That's what it's saying.
JeannieFoye 10 years ago
both points of view Sad but true! not the way for progress , revision of styles need work on it is time new communication break through
Rose Froehlich 5 years ago
People stop freaking out over this. It’s just a cartoon. If you don’t like it then just scroll.
TammyChapman 10 years ago
I am 45, and I was on the A/B honor roll all through school. My daughter was the same way. She is now 20, in her 3rd year of college to be a nurse and she is engaged to be married in the coming fall. As you can see I am extremely proud of her. She, Thank God, has both book sense and common sense. I am truly blessed.
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#2
Mail Then And Now
MichelleFernung 10 years ago
My children are all in college but I taught them to write letters by hand while they were growing up. It is so much more personal, fun to get and they will last for a long time! Everyone likes to get a letter in their mailbox!
#3
Tv's Then And Now
SuzanaSantos 10 years ago
Aaaaaand that's why I ditched the TV since I moved out of my parents'.
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IngridKokshoorn 10 years ago
Ha ha.....true.....we had no remotes back in 1957......and small B&W TV's....lots of walking to change channels..........lol.
GlynisLailann 10 years ago
In the old days the quality of TV shows was not as good as it is today (although there is still a lot of c**p being shown). People were more active. Now we can just watch people being active. The advent of the remote control is also a factor - now we just exercise our thumbs by pushing buttons on it.
Caroline Driver 7 years ago
Nah. I went to the States in 1984 and there were lots of people as big as 2008 guy even back then.
#4
George Lucas Then And Now
Gaspar Giunio 7 years ago
How many hours did it took to put all those stuff on the left pic? :/
TrinaRisos 10 years ago
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE star wars ep 4-6... But working w/ CGI has helped George share with us his dreams and imagination far more than he could w/ scale models and his analog babies... So I think this one has made Star Wars turn for the better.
MikoSandejas 10 years ago
that's ironic since eps 1-3 were really bad stories. eps 4-6 were cases of how limitations can spark one's imagination as a film maker and as audience
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MikoSandejas 10 years ago
since when has a film's success solely depended on CGI or props?
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BiankaBanova 10 years ago
Depends. For example Christopher Nolan barely uses CGI and his movies look incredible.
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#5
Cellphones Then And Now
Adrian Salazar Escoriza 7 years ago
LIKE SI VIENS DE EL ISNTI DEL IES HAHAHAH TU ILLO ME PARTON EL CULO IMPRESIOANTE ASINQUE
GlynisLailann 10 years ago
I don't think the old Nokia would break the floor. Does anyone still have one of those old 'bricks'? Those 'bricks' would break the floor.
Hugo Kwame Coles 4 years ago
Most people use cases often they are cheap and hurt your hand when you knock on them
Samuel Jay Brown 9 years ago
1 someone in my house found an old Nokia and all the children were throwing it against the house trying to break it.
#6
Before And After Smartphones
DavidWallin 10 years ago
sure we do! we just care more about our legs than about our friends
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JeannieFoye 10 years ago
selfie selfie go away like the old way., oldfashion but great for all is my idea anyway
#7
Evolution Of Cellphones
JeannieFoye 10 years ago
bit like conception information too, as takes a swimmer to reach egg it is true, hope it continues as way to conceive..Old fashioned idea so if works still the ideal!
#8
Evolution And Philosophy
Adrian Salazar Escoriza 7 years ago
who tf is lil jon lmao guys, get reck with: Lil Pump, Lil Xan, Lil uzi vert, Lil peep (rest in peace my n***a) LMAO
Rose Froehlich 5 years ago
AHAHAHHAH ITS TRUE THO!! Some of us are getting dumber and dumber..
#9
Gaming Then And Now
StephieCaptor 10 years ago
As a gamer, this offends me greatly, I can't believe that some people actually buy themselves their victory. That's stupid. Gaming is about skills, practice and fun, not money.
DarcRispect 10 years ago
Which is why I wait a year after a game is released before getting it.
GreenTeaMochi 10 years ago
So Valid....New games are costing $80+ to compete with pay to win! Disgusting time for video games =(
AlbertoCartínArteaga 10 years ago
They forgot: - Before: i spent only $30 for this game! - Now: $1.99 for a game?? What a ripoff!
#10
Running Then And Now
MariusJan 10 years ago
You don't need to update status after running. It updates automatically
AngelaArantula 10 years ago
haha true, good thing there is an option to post stats
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BobbyLuckan 10 years ago
True, why not tell the world of your accomplishments, really why not? They have nothing else to do right?
JustinHeubrock 10 years ago
Actually the person in the second part would have just as likely to immediately go tell their friends they just got done running before this technology.
#11
Wasting Timeline
#12
Then And Now
#13
Then And Now
#14
Birthdays Before And Now
Samuel Jay Brown 9 years ago
XD this is so funny with all these so true and sad things
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Nixon Moreno 5 years ago
1. I'm not used to being alone on my birthday. 2. He is getting used to spending his birthday locked up. 3. my cousin is used to sharing his birthday with his family
Santiago Perez 5 years ago
yo estaba Acostumbrado a compartir en familia ahora me acostumbro a estar solo
#15
Cellphones Then And Now
JuliaFedorova 10 years ago
Именно за эту привычку всё время писатьписатьписать, а не звонить меня чаще всего поругивал мой муж Дима))
IngridKokshoorn 10 years ago
My text s are free....send thousands....all long ones...a life story version......to talk I have to pay............so I don't make many calls.....maybe 1 a fortnight....lol.
Chung Mai Thanh 6 years ago
20th century saw many revolutionary technological changes, we now must show the adaptability as the effects of those changes meant constantly making adjustment to our living and working conditions
JohnStoops 10 years ago
I was actually the opposite, didn't start to call until my first Smartphone, as it didn't have the similar buttons i had gotten used to anymore. before, i could text a whole A4 page text message with no typos easy, now im lucky if i even get the first setence correctly written...
#16
California Then And Now
DustinBradley 10 years ago
Chantal. Relax. I've lived in California my whole life and we're fine. We can take showers, drink from the faucet, go to the beach. Droughts in the US are much different from other nations. It just means we get yelled at a lot here. It's just a joke. Lighten up a little...
JulienCornet 10 years ago
Well for having an european point of view in the western part of US as I have passed 1 year there. I can say from the moment where the Californians' wineries are buying a lot of land in Oregon to get more water and also how richest californian are buying hay to poor Oregonian because not enough grow in California anymore. Well, Californian must think about a way to manage better this resource instead of drain water from mountains to make grow GMO's corn, to be then pollute by chemicals because of californian lobby. Like said Angela, get out of your bubble, it's amazingly scary what you are up to fight against in the near future.
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ElodieCinquanta 10 years ago
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money"... Native Indian wisdom
DamianMcMahon 10 years ago
surely you mean, Native American or American Indian. A Native Indian is someone from the South Asian Sub-continent Country of India.
Load More Replies... IngridKokshoorn 10 years ago
Visiting friends in California they only had bore water in San Francisco in 1981.
MandyDelaforce(PCGirl) 10 years ago
The 2000s drought in Australia, also known as the Millennium drought, is said by some to be the worst recorded since settlement.[1] The drought began in 1995 and continued Australia wide until late 2009 with the final areas in drought ceasing to be eligible in early May 2012.[2][3] With the official end of the drought declared in 2012, the Federal Government had provided $4.5 billion in drought assistance.[4]
JeanneDeaux 10 years ago
I think you might have missed the point. The author wants to say that Earth is so f****d up because of human activity that now, some people have problems to find what they need.
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AmyWatson 10 years ago
Are you referring to CA being located next to the Pacific Ocean? If so, you should read about the extreme drought and how being next to an ocean doesn't help us yet because there's no efficient way of desalinating salt water.
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#17
Then And Now
kory holt 8 years ago
You're right, copies items can be enjoyed by many people all at the same time :)
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Caroline Driver 7 years ago
Yeah, well there are a lot of things they teach you as a kid that you have to unlearn when you grow up, like, Life is fair, and, nothing bad happens to good people. I suppose we have to try though
Samuel Jay Brown 9 years ago
I haven't seen a sign like that second 1 but I'm laughing so hard.
#18
Before And After Smartphones
AnnaWall 10 years ago
Well, you could always choose not to act like this, and call people out who are in your company and doing it. I do it all the time!!! :D
LisaFreeman 10 years ago
It's weird though, sometimes when I ask a question like that just to be sociable, someone will snark back, "Google is your friend". Sad.
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AnnaMarian 10 years ago
This is not about what you could or not do, but what in fact people do. It's the sad reality.
mcami 10 years ago
Well, in this example, that was the most boring conversation the could've had.i'd rather have no conversation at all. But, yeah, there's a point, it gets pretty boring when everybody takes out their phones and you are left to feeling forever alone even when physically surrounded by people.
deanna woods 6 years ago
Whenever my family goes out to dinner together we always make it device free. We all really enjoy it and have good conversation. Sometimes it's nice to talk to actual people than to stare at your phone.
Caroline Driver 7 years ago
Nope. I LOVE being able to look stuff up, rather than having to try to remember what it was that I wanted to know and have to go to the library to attempt to find it out. Not that I'm against libraries, I love them, used to work in them.
#19
Evolution Of Baggy Pants
AnnRos'a 10 years ago
im with you on that one... I so want to walk up behind someone and yank their pants ALL THE WAY DOWN... And say "There you go, was this what you were going for?" LOL
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ChrisFarr 10 years ago
Nope. Not cool. Rude, actually. Shows lack of self-respect and lack of respect for others.
Caroline Driver 7 years ago
Isn't that what rebellious youth is about? Did Teddy Boys and Punk teach you nothing?
Load More Replies... ChantalWard 10 years ago
I tell ya, sometimes I feel the need to kick these young(and sometimes older) men when I pass them on the road. -__-. At least it's not all men who dress this way, thank goodness for that. (But why is it that the ones who do wear baggy pants are always in plain sight? We don't want to see you) In my country it's still very much in :(, along with the skinny jeans fad. I can't stand it! Like Chris said, it shows a lack of respect. I can never understand their need to dress like that.
AnnRos'a 10 years ago
I like to see Mothers of dudes slap then in the back of their heads... Saying "I didn't raise you that way!! Pull your D@MN pants up" LOL
Load More Replies... AnnRos'a 10 years ago
Working at JCPenneys I see a lot of weird combinations of clothes people wear, I change Mannequins for the visual team all the time... I've wanted to put some saggy jeans on one & take a pic to show how it looks ridiculous...but they won't stay on the mannequin long enough todo so (unless I put double sticky tape on them- LOL, that must be how the idiots do it...)
JulioFerreris 10 years ago
This ones not so true. Specially when most people where slim fit jeans nowadays.
Rose Froehlich 5 years ago
Ugh I hate it when people (males mostly) let their pants sag..IT DOESNT LOOK GOOD PULL OF YOUR FREAKING PANTS I DONT NEED TO SEE YOUR UNDERWEAR UGHUHH
deanna woods 6 years ago
If you have to wear your pants like this, you might as well not wear pants at all.
#20
Then And Now
GlynisLailann 10 years ago
Funny how 'computer nerds' don't look like their predecessors anymore.
#21
Then And Now
JohnStoops 10 years ago
Not doctor bills... Dentist bills, that's terrifying, the holes, drilling, filling and all that stuff? I can just sleep through that, the bills however... even if i sleep, all it does it postpone the inevitable...
ChinaTosin 10 years ago
Then: Children fear doctors' injection. Now: Doctors fear the parents sue for medical malpractice.
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StephenBranley 10 years ago
Doctors' bills? What sort of mad, medieval country are you from where you have to PAY to visit the doctor?
#22
Going To Mcdonalds Then And Now
FrédéricEeckman 10 years ago
Actually the burgers are not the disaster. The c**p is the full size drink full of sugar and the french fries.
Load More Replies... Dween123 10 years ago
The image of the McDonald's Now is actually ten times the size (Super Size) of the original menu. The sizes of the portions have tripled. And is additionally more c**p. The large fries years ago are now smaller than the small fries now. It's just cheaper. They need to update the pic...
Dween123 10 years ago
It doesn't represent the present food. I wish it was way smaller than previously, but alas, is not..
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BrunoDeFreitasMotta 10 years ago
Here in Brazil, unfortunately it's still a big of a deal to have Mcdonald's at shopping centers.
ArchieMoore 10 years ago
Bruno - it still is here in the US, too, but you can get it at Walmart so you don't even have to go to the shopping center.
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captaingrumpy 10 years ago
It used to be a real treat , but now some people go often in the same week because they could not be bothered cooking dinner.
#23
Then And Now
DamienCavanagh 10 years ago
I wanted to attend a procrastinators' meeting the other day, but it had been postponed.
#26
Playground Then And Now
AnnRos'a 10 years ago
Nice save there with "shrimp" !! Your comment might not have GOTTEN past the censors... LOL
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#27
Gaming Then And Now
StephenBranley 10 years ago
I think children is just one example of why adults can't play games all day. What about work, for example? Or cooking dinner?
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#28
Dinner Then And Now
#29
Then And Now
TroolStawrosiejko 10 years ago
But maybe he meant exactly the good old Jurassic Park? :D
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#31
Music Players Now And Then
Final score:
20points
#32
Before And Now
SnorriTrolle 10 years ago
well atleast he does'nt get lied to now and he's lerning to do his own reserch. i'd call that a big improvement
captaingrumpy 10 years ago
very poor answer. Just because you don't believe it does not make it a lie.
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AdamEve(Atwas911) 10 years ago
There are still many places in the country where children are lied to and brainwashed and told some big invisible man in the sky is responsible for everything.
#33
Father's Day Then And Today
JeannieThomas 10 years ago
NO... What??? When was the last time someone sent an e-card?? 2005?
A.B. 10 years ago
My grandma sent me one a few months ago. Which says alot about e-cards.
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#35
Gaming Then And Now
MichelleFernung 10 years ago
How about..."I'm bored..want to play football? Sure, let's go outside..."
#36
Birthday Songs Then And Now
ValentinCrucifix 10 years ago
I still hate this song... It's reminding me that one year is gone, and I'm closer to doom, no one came at by birthday excepted my familly and my birthday is in summer break so no can say "happy birthday" to me
Frecklebuddy 10 years ago
Ugh i hate this. It's like now people never socialize on their birthday r something!!! On my birthdays I always have lots of people over who sing happy birthday to me, even at school.
#37
Before And Now In Schools
Final score:
10points
WilliamBrightwell 10 years ago
How can you say that there is no God??? Just take a look out side and you will see
StephenBranley 10 years ago
That's a stupid answer. Because stuff exists does not imply god put it there. In fact, "it's god" is the same weak answer people too lazy to research have been putting out for millennia. Slowly, science has taken them and found the real cause. It's only a matter of time because each and every thing that people have previously claimed is god will be shown to be totally unconnected to god. It's 2015, I can't believe we're still having this debate. God is such an absurd idea, mostly believed by poor people in the middle east and idiots in America. Most of Europe has grown up.
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Love
Final score:
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#39
Going To The Movies: Then And Now
Final score:
3points
#40
Damn Emojis!
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