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Person Wonders “What Eventually Disappeared Without Anyone Noticing?”, Receives 35 Various Replies
And yet, you must admit that Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for a reason! At least for the phrase The Times, They Are a-Changin', which perfectly embodies the ruthless flow of time. And indeed - just yesterday something or someone was literally on everyone's lips - and now it is already in the past. Just like Dylan himself...
But old Bob is still with us, and there are things that have disappeared completely without a trace, although it would seem that only yesterday they worried our minds and were of interest to the whole world. And this viral thread in the AskReddit community is dedicated to just such things. So please fasten your seatbelts, our time machine is about to dive into the misty depths of the past...
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#1
Fireflies aka *lightning bugs. I live rural and I used to see hundreds on a warm summer night. Now I get excited if I see just one. I mentioned it to other people who live in the same area as I do and they were just like "Huh. Yeah. You're right!"
Jeffrey Keffer 2 years ago
Not poured onto crops bred into the crop it's self through Genetically Modified Plants ... don't believe me go check out Dow and Monsanto .. legally you are not even allowed to plant seeds from last years batch or mix them
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LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
They all died while held captive in an empty mayonnaise jar placed on 12 year old Billy Sumtner's nightstand.
Cassidy Moore 2 years ago
Lightning bugs or fireflies dont fly very far from where they are born and they dont have long lives, light pollution and agricultural change effects them greatly. If you see any in your yard its likely that generations have lived there, so even providing a spot that is untouched can help them thrive.
Brocken Blue 2 years ago
We have a bunch of fireflies in our neighborhood which is very wooded and had multiple streams, despite living close to the rest of NJ’s overdeveloped suburbia. I often wonder if the higher amount of native trees and shade plants and low amount grass lawns is why we have so many fireflies 🤷
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LuLuBelle 2 years ago
1) Indiscriminate overuse of pesticides, and 2) loss of habitat, encouraged by the essentially insane desire to have a pristine yard devoid of any decaying plant material.
The Other Guest 2 years ago
We let our front lawn die out years ago, and stopped raking the leaves other than to redistribute them a little more evenly across the yard. There's still grass in the backyard, but we don't do much with it other than mow it. We use the clippings as mulch, too. It took a while, but there's been a noticable increase in butterflies and lizards, and our small mint patch has attracted a plethora of little moths. I saw an earwig & a slug recently, and it struck me as to how long it had been since I'd seen one. They used to be everywhere! Crazy thing, some guy came by last month claiming to be doing pesticide treatment at some of the neighboring homes (doubtful), and said their "special chemicals" would get rid of mosquitos and fleas while somehow (magically? miraculously?) not affecting butterflies. Yeah, I turned him away.
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Jackie Bruce 2 years ago
Grow a biodiverse yard, before its too late. Something local, obviously. Grass is useless.
naylene hess 2 years ago
Some places are grasslands my dude grass wasnt made by man
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Jim Mack 2 years ago
Fireflies! What a great memory! I grew up in the south and always so fireflies everywhere on summer evenings. When we were in Tokyo, the kids there would buy little cages. Put the fireflies in them for gatherings and parades. Then release the flies afterwards. Amazing memories. Thanks!
Jennifer_Crowley_Luci 2 years ago
It does seem true that there are a LOT less than there used to be!!
Michele Garrard 2 years ago
I see many in my SE Michigan home's front and back yard too. Also hear cicadas in the late afternoon. 💜
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#2
Saturday Morning Cartoons
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I do recall when they became less and less, then poof. That was a sad, sad Saturday. I needed my My Little Pony, My Pet Monster, Denver The Last Dinosaur, Beetlejuice, Biker Mice From Mars, C.O.P.S, Care Bears Countdown, The Raccoons, Samurai Pizza Cats, Speed Racer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, She-Ra, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes, Bonkers, The Bots Master, Captain Planet, The Smoggies, Count Duckula, Tales From The Cryptkeeper, Bump In The Night, Dennis The Menace, Dog City, Ghostbusters, Hello Kitty, Keropi, Pink Panther, Little Shop, Santo Bugito, Taz-Mania, Tom & Jerry Kids, Garfield & Friends, The New Archies Toxic Crusaders, Transformers, Felix The Cat, What-a-Mess.
Nikole 2 years ago
Now I have the Denver The Last Dinosaur song in my head.
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Jessica N 2 years ago
At 40 I still watch cartoons on Saturday, friends come over for French toast or eggs :) it is all adult or animal shows over the air "antennae" tv now though. 8 years ago when the bf and I met we used to watch HeMan on channel 26.1 on Saturday am but now it's not on
David 2 years ago
They didn't disappear. They became available 24/7. We used to get up early on Saturdays because that was the only time you could watch them. It was very rare to find a cartoon on TV any other time except maybe like holiday movies. I am also of the opinion that cartoons are now more in depth and varied. There is still a lot of 'simple' stuff as well but back in the 60s it was almost all simpler. Coyote tries to kill Roadrunner. Elmer Fudd tries to kill Bugs Bunny. Boris and Natasha tried to end Rocky and Bullwinkle. Not EVERY cartoon was about failed murder plots but a lot of them were. And others were just very predictable. There is a IRL reason for the Scooby Doo memes related to "Oh! The monster was mean old Mr. Smith in a mask the whole time"
Jeffrey Keffer 2 years ago
That's the governments fault when they forced TV stations to show so much educational Television as well as a reintroduction of the ban on adds ... that's why in the 1980's till the mid 1990's you could have cartoons about flipping ceral .. He Man, Shera , G.I.Joe , Rainbow Brite etc etc etc where all 30 min adds ...
Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
That didn't help, but we still had Saturday morning cartoons up until around 2000. The real culprit was the increase in cable and satellite in homes with 24/7 cartoons making Saturday morning cartoons on basic TV redundant.
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DarkViolet 2 years ago (edited)
Saturday mornings are totally wrecked. I miss the days of getting up early to watch my favorite cartoons, getting dressed, watch more cartoons, eat breakfast, watch more cartoons. When My Friend Flicka, The Monkees, and the CBS Children's Film Festival came on, I knew that the cartoons were over until next week. Now, I'm buying the DVD'S in order to get my Saturday mornings back. (BTW, I'm 63, and STILL miss them.)
naylene hess 2 years ago
You can probably thank streaming services for that cause now you can watch them anytime anywhere
UselessKnowledgeFont 2 years ago
Love Bluey, but she airs on cable and Disney plus in the US
Load More Replies... Amanda 2 years ago
This makes me angry, to watch cartoons now you must have cable, or streaming. No kids anything on network TV AT ALL.(except PBS 2,, that is for very small) and sick of Netflix they put out a few real great shows for my tween daughter, awesome ratings too cancel after one or two seasons even tho better ratings then so many of their other c**p! (Exp. Julie and the phantoms and babysitters club)
#3
Somewhere along the way 9-5 turned into 8-5
Kristin Gullard 2 years ago
I'm a bit older but my parents and my grandparents were paid during their lunch breaks. So they still worked an 8 hour day. At some point CEOs figured out that they and their shareholders could make more money if they stopped paid lunch breaks. Therfore the work day went from 9 to 5, to 8 to 5, with your break being unpaid.
StrangeOne 2 years ago (edited)
I work 8.5 hours with 2 15 minute paid breaks and a 30 minute unpaid lunch. So I'm still paid 8 hours. My last job was 8 hours with a 30 minute paid lunch and a 15 minute unpaid break, so I was actually paid for 7.45 hours. I'm happy with my current job hours, where I get more breaks with more pay, with a slightly longer day.
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Ba-Na-Na 2 years ago
What?!? Please tell me that’s factoring in the commute too!
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Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
"9-5...ain't no way to make a living! Barely - gets you by...you've exhausted all your credit! You may lose your mind, but the boss won't seem to let me. It's enough to drive you CraZy if you let it!..." - something like that. Thank You Dolly Parton for the wonderful song!
Fun Fan 2 years ago
My work-time ends at 14:18, At that time I'm out. No matter what. If you stay, it sounds a "YOU" problem. I'm working my work-time throughoutly, if there are tasks still to do, it's the management's fault. Being understaffed it''s not my problem, I'm doing exactly, what I'm paid for. Nothing more.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
7:45am - 4:15am. I get home usually around 5pm, earlier or later depending on how quickly I get to the bus stop. It's tough to get up in the morning but I don't do much in the morning other than sleep and get ready for the day. When I get home it's still early enough to do stuff if I have the energy for it. Or I'll go to bed extra early for a 12 hour sleep. I used to work 4pm-10pm. Got to sleep half the day while staying up later. Wasn't all it was cracked up to be. I had to be woken up for building maintenance, fire alarm tests, lawn mowers and children screeching echoing in the courtyard, urgent phone calls, the caretaker walking in my suite to wake me up about some sort of repair request they claimed I made (reported him to the tenancy board). Then after that I didn't feel safe sleeping during the day. Everyone was saying how hard I was to get a hold of, and how I wasn't available enough all damn day. Days/nights were flipped, so even on the weekends I was sleeping in super late.
Some of the things you'll find in this Bored Panda selection have lost their meaning simply because the phenomena they were directly associated with are gone. For example, telephone booths - just because there is no more need for street pay phones. Some have moved into the category of museum exhibits simply because they found a replacement - like video game cartridges. And some are still with us, but we do not pay the same attention to them as before.
#4
I never see swarms of Monarch butterflies anymore.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
We traded our monarch butterflies for billions of people that we don't need.
TrippyBanana 2 years ago (edited)
This is a problem that has solutions. Plant Monarch friendly plants like Milkweed. Milkweed is the only plant monarch butterflies will lay eggs on as it provides the caterpillars with the toxins they need to ward off predators. Create a pollinator friendly garden either in pots or in a section of your yard. Make sure the plants used are native to your location to help even more like the many bumblebees that call the US home.
Clover 2 years ago
I grow milkweed for the monarchs in my yard. The milkweeds smell really nice when they're blooming too.
Load More Replies... LuLuBelle 2 years ago
Stop using pesticides for no good reason, goobers. Stop insisting on sterile swathes of lawn. Start allowing a little wildness in, let the wildflowers grow. It's not really rocket science. Either we start encouraging and respecting insect life, of which Monarchs are an ambassador species, or we cease to exist. Your choice.
Michelle C 2 years ago
Thankfully, they are coming back in my area and there are plans to reintroduce more native plants.
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
We had a hummingbird hawk moth last year, never seen one before, he was awesome. Big chonky boy too.
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
We had one last year! I was ridiculously excited, the nearest I will get to a hummingbird. We've planted more phloxes for them
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Marta Black 2 years ago
We still get swarms of Monarchs during the migration season in Texas. They are so pretty.
Maggie Fanelli 2 years ago
I lived in the lake a few years ago and every fall millions would pass by my window heading south. They still very much exist.
#5
Places children and teenagers can hang out without supervision
Almost sunny 2 years ago (edited)
Thanks to the wrong people! Edit: I meant obviously your there supervising but not watching them like a hawk every second, like I have had to do with my son because I was terrified of anything happening. My comments get taken way out of text people.
Jeffrey Keffer 2 years ago
Is it really the wrong people or is it people are just scared of their own shadows ? Seems to me when you look the actual numbers up in places like the FBI data base they are no where near as bad as the news media makes it out to be ...It's almost like the media wants us to be scared ? Why would they do that ? It couldn't be control could it 🤔
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hazelfairy1986@googlemail.com 2 years ago
There aren't suddenly more bad guys. People were just ignorant back in the day and kids were encouraged not to report things or snitch on dodgy elders.
Nicolette Meyer 2 years ago
Too many people scaring parents. 24 hour news, social media. A flasher is big news. Had 2. I didn't have a breakdown. Didn't require 'councilling'. These nuts have always been around. Stranger danger is rare. Most sex attacks are committed by someone known to the victim.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Teenagers were always kicked out of playground parks. Teens had to go later at night when the kids were in bed.
Rowboat 2 years ago
It's not just parks though. Libraries are usually only open when people are at work or school, malls have all shut down, cinemas are expensive, in some countries you can't even walk from place to place. Everything costs too much money, the media sensationalises everything to make it seem like people are constantly murdering kids, no-one is teaching kids how to keep themselves safe and recognise dodgy situations, and parents are less likely to allow their kids out for long periods of time. They have nowhere to go except indoors, and if they can't stay indoors they'll end up being labelled as a nuisance.
Load More Replies... Fun Fan 2 years ago
Those places still exists, we just made them not-safe-anymore. It always amazes me, when older generations are whining about in-my-childhood-there-were-safe-places. Duh, say thanks to your parents and grandparents. Now, it's your turn as a generataion to create them, as you are the parent or even grandparent. Yeah, you obviously failed ...... And what are you doing about? Yeah, whining..... or worst, blaming others.
Jesha 2 years ago
Or some Karen calls the cops the second teenagers hang out in a place.
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s0nicfreak 2 years ago
Can you give some examples? Because everywhere I use to go is either gone or doesn't allow unsupervised minors anymore. Arcades, gone. Malls, either completely gone or most of the stores are closed and they don't allow unsupervised minors. Skating rinks don't allow unsupervised minors and some don't allow groups of teens even with an adult! The beach near me literally made a rule a couple of years ago that kids under 12 must be within arms reach of someone over 18 (which is kind of understandable from a water safety standpoint, but there's also playgrounds, bike lanes, hiking trails, etc.). The pool I went to as a kid allowed unsupervised kids as long as they passed a swim test, but they don't do that anymore. Playgrounds, MAYBE you have them and maybe they allow unsupervised minors, depending on your neighborhood. Amusement parks, the ones that allow unsupervised minors are now so expensive that they are more like a family vacation and unsupervised minors are filtered out anyway.
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Jessica Bertram 2 years ago
the forest! arcades! biking the streets and abandoned lots! library (no joke-would take city buses at 11 y.o to the downtown library)! schoolyards! the mall! the movies! the ditch behind the school where all the cool kids smoked! 😅
#6
Someone answering the phone at businesses.
Never Snarky 2 years ago
I'm so tired of recordings giving me multiple menus just to get a quick answer, if you ever get a real person at all.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
If you are not sure who you need there is no operator option and the machine hangs up.
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Rowboat 2 years ago
My phone is off a lot because not many people call me, but I do do my best to follow up missed calls.
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kath morgan 2 years ago
I answer the phone at work, an awful lot of it is spam! Usually telling us we are eligible for some funding or other.
Heather Wolmarans 2 years ago
I don't live in the US, but damn, it's almost impossible to get through on the phone, or get a reply to an email asking for a quote. Don't they like customers any more??
Falcon on Dizzy 2 years ago
damn I guess the place I work at is different (although, we are a repair and rental shop for equipment)
For example, postcards. Back in the '90s, postal services around the world sent millions and probably billions of postcards for festive occasions... and for no reason at all. But communication standards have changed several times since then - and who would think of waiting a whole week for a postcard when you can just call and see anyone's face on Zoom? Postcards have gradually become an anachronism - although you will agree that getting this small modest piece of cardboard with handwritten (another anachronism, isn't it?) words is still damn nice.
#7
A healthy sense of shame
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. People are more confident to publicly be themselves and laugh at themselves and their mistakes
ljbeanfield 2 years ago
Or talk about taboo subjects. I see this comment a lot on videos about periods or setting healthy boundaries in a relationship.
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Hugh Crawford 2 years ago
Rather there are those who insist others have shame about things that they shouldn't while having none themselves about things they should.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
It's like you could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and people would still vote for you.
Nikole 2 years ago
Ohh this made/makes me feel rage… And the worst part is that he was right.
Load More Replies... Maggie Fanelli 2 years ago
The internet killed that. If you have a weird kink you can always find a million other people just like you to reinforce it.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
No shame is healthy. Never was. It was, and apparently is, confused for accountability, responsibility, treating folks of any sort with dignity, considering the impact on others of our actions and the environments we create in our wakes, civic- and social- mindedness, putting ourselves in others' shoes, etc. And one more thing: some people think that their discomfort is a result of others' actions and behavior, which is imposed on their targets as shame. NO SHAME IS ACCEPTABLE AND NEITHER IS SHAMING OTHERS OR TRYING TO MAKE THEM RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR FEELINGS
Monday 2 years ago
If you purposefully do something that hurts someone else you should absolutely feel shame. If you've failed your child for the 34th time because you'd rather do something fun than be a parent you should 100% feel shame. Shame goes hand in hand with empathy, only a person devoid of empathy will be devoid of shame. All emotions are healthy, they all exist for a specific purpose. The issue is in the balance. If you're angry 24/7 there's a problem. If you're angry for 20 minutes after someone did something to you that's your boundaries making themselves known and encouraging you to act to enforce them.
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Privacy
Lea 2 years ago
But did it ever really exist in the first place? Or has the nature of privacy just changed? Small towns long before the internet everyone knew everyone's secrets.
Rowboat 2 years ago
Yeah but we still had anonymity and could go without the government and large corporations spying on our every move for the purposes of "safety". There's a huge difference between Carol and Beryl spilling the local gossip and everyone's information being uploaded to massive data banks on the off chance that someone might do something shady. At times it feels like we're five steps away from Minority Report tactics
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Jeffrey Keffer 2 years ago
Yeah but really are we going to do anything about it besides pretend like we are up set .. we can't live with out our phones and computers "Gaaaa I'm so mad my privacy has been invaded I'm going to go make a ticktok about it and post on Facebook and reddit and bored panda and every other place I have freely given my info to" 🤣
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
The best way to take away your privacy is to desensitize you to the invasion of your privacy.
Little Johnny...and Laura 2 years ago
I turned of all cookies on my phone. Also I will deactivate my location. Privacy, returned.
WindySwede 2 years ago
if you use your phone at al, I think it's not easy to stay private??
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Michael None 2 years ago
Voluntarily given up for "likes" and self esteem boosts, along with originality and intelligent thought.
Stephen Smith 2 years ago
Yes it's completely gone, anyone walking past my house now is on camera.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Don't think a majority of the people in the world are paying much attention to majority of us. How many faces have you seen on social media that you remember very well? Or names? Unless you've made it really big on social media, if you're caught in someone picture or video, not many people will recognize you in public to the point of being hounded. But there is an uncomfortable sense of not being just left alone. Some people are just too nosy and want to invade you just because of your presence, or what your wearing or something.
Lorraine 2 years ago
This. Yeah, a lot of your information is tracked, that doesn't mean someone "knows" about you as a person. What is tracked is part of millions of data gathered that is used to create statistics, algorithms, plans, etc. I would worry more about creeps that either know you from real life or that know about what you willing share on social media, those are the ones that will track you personally and invade your privacy. Companies only want to direct communication and don't give a damn about who these people are individually.
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️️Upvote faery️ 2 years ago
Gosh yes!! I miss the times when I could leave my house and no one was able to find me until I went home again and returned their calls. I keep my mobile only for emergencies and for internet useage.
Lesbitarian Lady 2 years ago
These things on this post will never return. How sad, at least for some
#9
Those coin-operated rocking horses you used to see in front of grocery stores.
Tim 2 years ago
At first, I thought that was the German word for them. Seemed appropriately long.
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sofacushionfort 2 years ago
It’s true: nobody wants to work anymore. Fiberglass horses would rather chew free astroturf all day.
Lyoness 2 years ago
When I was a little kid there was a child sized, coin operated video booth outside the grocery store that played Mighty Mouse cartoons. My mom would leave me there with a stack of change while she shopped. Ah, those were the good old days, when parents could abandon their kids to a screen. Wait...
Tee Rat 2 years ago
My mom would ditch us in the ones that played Looney Toons.
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Jeremy Crocker 2 years ago
They replaced them with lottery machines, even Walmart has those now.
By the way, have you noticed how we gradually forgot how to write by hand? Moreover, with the spread of voice messages, even the skill of typing is gradually losing its importance and significance. And still, nostalgia is not the same as grumpy lamentations, as it was good before. In the end, in the years of my student youth, when we had to take notes a lot, I would have literally sold my soul for one of the voice transcription services widely available nowadays...
#10
Having many Family photographs in homes.
Not completely gone, but homes used to be plastered in them. The only times I really notice them is in homes of older people.
Rosalyn Smith 2 years ago
That's because family pictures are something that happens on a daily basis they're not a special occasion thing anymore
Lene 2 years ago
I have this daydream about having all the good pics of all my kids printed and put in albums. It's working OK but is expensive because I order the prints online but I love that we have actual photos of the kids. Also, am thinking about making it tradition to gift the kids'grandparents with a photobook of our year each Christmas. Would be nice, I think :)
Auntriarch 2 years ago
My sister in law has a photo book printed every year of that year's best photos, it's a lovely thing to do
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
I still have family photos around my home. Most are in many photo albums.
AnnaRachelle 2 years ago
I have a full suit case and a box full of photos. I print them off my phone a few times a year. I also have family photos in my living room. I am 45?
XanthippeⓐWulf🇨🇦️️🇬🇧 2 years ago (edited)
Maybe because we interact differently now. 🤷♀️There was a time when you would put pictures of someone up so you could see family/loved ones. It wasn't so long ago that many people were unable to physically see / interact with each other without an actual visit or sending someone pictures. Now we can connect through video chat, FaceTime, social media, it's not as necessary any more. I love pictures as well, but I'm not crazy about having them all over the house like both my Nans.
not your average weirdo 2 years ago
My mom is a photographer and has literal bins full of family pictures
#11
Video Game Manuals
Aaron Proctor 2 years ago
As do manuals period. TV's and other appliances used to have "instructions for setup and use" manuals, furniture used to have assembly instructions, and PC and laptops had manuals with instructions for anything that might go wrong with it and what to do in that eventuality that could be done without breaking warranty... I guess these things are now being considered "common knowledge" or, in the event of software, how to obtain the digital download manual is also considered common knowledge.
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
My internet was down and I was told I had to go onto the internet to fix the internet.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
*Any* manuals. You get a new phone and all it has (other than all those lawyer related about warranties etc) is a slip of paper with maybe a picture of your phone or a QR code
naylene hess 2 years ago
Thats because almost all phones are essentially the same
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Persephone 2 years ago
OMFG! I was so annoyed to not have them with the Switch and I felt old!!!
TwirlyGirly 2 years ago
I miss them so much. It's frustrating to pay $60 -70 for a complicated game, and having to spend just as much time online trying to figure out how to play it as you spend in the game playing it. And how many people have played 50-75% of a game only to discover a mechanic that had you known about it at the outset would have made your experience up to that point less frustrating and more fun?
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Video games once came with manuals? Why don't I remember them? (I'm sure somewhere along the line I PAID for a video game.)
Seth 2 years ago
It was an expectation in the 90's, a common inclusion in the early 00's, had all but disappeared in the early 10's, and gone completely during the previous console generation. Some manuals were poorly written garbage with unhelpful (and sometimes blatantly wrong) information, but quite often they had beautiful art, lore, and detailed instructions with diagrams on how to play the game. Tutorials were super rare; you either figured it out on your own or referred to the manual.
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Telephone booths.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
Ha! I was gonna make the same joke. Get out of my head and have another upvote.
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Bethany Brookes 2 years ago
We still have telephone booths, they just don't get used as them anymore. We had to repurpose the big red telephone boxes somehow, or they would be wasting space and would have to go, and we'll, we can't have that, we'd loose our identity as British. So, yeah. They're now all sorts of things including cash machines, mini libraries and defibrillator stops.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
In Australia too. Some still work as phones, some just have free wifi
Load More Replies... Manny 2 years ago
There should still be pay phones/telephone booths. Not everyone has a cell phone. What if something happened and you have no cell service or don't even have your phone on you?
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
It all comes down to $. The cost of maintaining them slowly began to outweigh the profit made from them.
Load More Replies... Betsy Ray 2 years ago
This Panda looks anything but bored. Is it wrong that I find them very attractive?
Almost sunny 2 years ago
Still here in Australia, but you get the occasional arsehole who breaks the phone part!
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
There was a time, about three years ago when I accidently locked myself out of my car. I was at a shopping center and thought I'd just call my nextdoor neighbor to help me out. Could I find a payphone? Nope. And then I realized that the only phone number I knew for them was their house phone and I knew they weren't home anyway. But the lack of a place to make a phone call was really annoying. I ended up walking the 3½ miles home, and then sat on their patio until they returned from their errands (they had a key to my house).
Be that as it may, times are changing, and we are changing with them. And yes, for the first time this phrase was uttered back in the days of Ancient Rome, and it cannot be said that all the innovations of humanity since then have been to its detriment. So please feel free to scroll this list to its very end, enjoy this slightest touch of nostalgia and be sure - the best is yet to come!
#13
Longevity in careers – this is a big one nobody seems to have said.
Longevity in careers has largely gone away. People used to get a job and after being there for decades reap the benefits of being seasoned employees (higher salaries and better perks).
Maybe it’s because I work in the Entertainment industry, but I feel that longevity in careers has gone away. Meaning, people can be amazing at a job, but after 5+ years the employers start wondering if they could be doing better with a younger/cheaper candidate for the job.
I understand if you ever want to move up in a works place they expect you to bring your A-game, but 30+ years of being incredible is hard. Some years will be better than others, and if employers don’t have loyalty to their employees anymore, it is likely the good employee will be fired or let go at some point.
I feel like in recent decades this has forced many people who normally wouldn’t, to switch careers. Can someone work successfully up the ladder at any job without having to shift to another company for a promotion?
A combination of employers halting upward movement of their staff while they look for new employees to fill higher roles, and the fact that they “get bored” of their seasoned employees has largely killed the idea of anyone having a single career.
Steve D 2 years ago
Employers expect loyalty from employees but they show none to their employees. It doesn't work that way, folks.
pfeils wife 2 years ago
I couldn't agree with you more. Sadly, loyalty just doesn't work both ways anymore.
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Tracy Mason 2 years ago
As a healthcare worker, I have been with my employer for 10 years. They have raised the incoming pay significantly over the years. So someone brand new makes $5 less than me an hour. If I left and came back I would make more than my current rate because I have experience, but lose seniority, which barely matters. It makes you bitter
A B C the Third 2 years ago (edited)
Same here. I work in a rather small business (~ 150-200 employees) and there's a colleague in my department who used to work for this company, left for another, then another BIG company (big as in Microsoft, Walmart, SpaceX), and then came back to my company. He earns at least 30% more than if he had stayed with the company and gave all those years for the company's benefits instead of others. It's a flawed system.
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TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
Yes, the 401k is such a joke. It was originally developed to be a supplement to a pension plan, but big corporations, ever in search of more $, sold it as a full retirement program so they wouldn't have to contribute as much $. It's extremely susceptible to being wiped out since it's tied to the stock market.
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Kathy Loman 2 years ago
People see others spend 30+ years at a company only to be fired before their retirement/pension kicks in. Or the company goes under. Yellow trucking company 😕
Nikole 2 years ago
What that company did was disgusting. Wish it were an isolated incident.
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aubergine10003 2 years ago
I was at my job for 21 years and had no plans to leave... unfortunately the company suddenly felt differently, and laid me off in January :(
Scott Rackley 2 years ago
I'm in skilled trades, the company that trained me I stayed with 10 years. Since then I've averaged around 3 years each place. As soon as the first new guy gets hired on at my pay, I go find another job for higher. I straight up tell them in the interview now that this will happen. Fortunately there are not many journeymen in my field anymore, so I usually get a good raise. Sadly, a couple of those companies I liked, and would have stayed if they matched the other offer. Oh well.
#14
The magnetic tape from a crushed audio cassette blowing across the sidewalks and roadways.
Wim Westerlaken 2 years ago
Remarkably i saw one about a week ago. And i was like wow a broken cassette tape, that's something you don't see often anymore.
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
I was just thinking about this the other day! Once I picked one up and spent ten minutes spooling it all back into the cassette. That was when we were used to hisses and warbles in our music.
David 2 years ago
You youngsters! I have seen both reel to reel and 8 track tapes doing this. LOL (for real I have). But going forward in time - remember all those helpful instructions for creative things to do with all of your free AOL CDs? Creative art projects, hanging them up to scare birds away from your garden, drink coasters at parties and so on?
Tim 2 years ago
I remember when AOL came on a floppy disc, which was actually useful since you could format it and use it as a blank disc.
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HF 2 years ago
while trying to remember what side of the cassette you wanted to listen to and which direction to wind
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Joshua David 2 years ago
I worked 7 years in HR. I started entry level recruiting and ended up working the President and Vice President of HR and was only offered a 3k difference. I left.
#15
Phone books
Jeffrey Keffer 2 years ago
Phone books !! I never had a personal phone book at one time I could remember like 20 different numbers .. Now I have a hard time remembering mine... the only number I still remember is the old time and temp number and it shut down in 2018 😞
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I want to get a new phone book. My stupid cordless tends to die and I'm not sure I trust the longevity of the battery. Cellphones can be easily broken, stolen, lost. I'd rather all the numbers I need be in a book, safe at home and accessible without technology. However, whip out a phonebook in front of someone and they act like you took your shoes off and started clipping your toenails over their plate of food. I don't get why people are so offended or upset over none tech stuff.
Robert T 2 years ago
That's not a phone book, BP. A phone book is printed by the telecoms company and lists home and business numbers in the local area. The kind the Terminator used to find Sarah Conor. The last one I got is titled 2020/21. It is very much thinner than it used to be as so many people are now ex-directory. I've never used it!
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
I still have my personal phone book from a couple of decades ago. Every once in a while, I look through it and sadly realize how many people I've forgotten about or can't remember.
David 2 years ago (edited)
GOOD RIDDENCE! Soooo many wasted trees. They were great when we didn't have the internet and my telephone was not also a computer and data storage device. I can find any number in my local phone book in seconds via multiple online sources. In recent years the printed phone books finally stopped showing up at my mailbox. For probably the past 15 years at least the ritual has been - phone books show up (for a while I got three a year from different competitors). I place phone book in cabinet because MAYBE I will need it some day if the internet is down. Next year phone books arrive. I remove unused last year's phone books from cabinet and place in paper recycling and put new phone books in cabinet. Lather, rinse, repeat.
#16
Walmart opened for 24 hours.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
As someone who works overnights I miss that so much. It was so nice to get off work and go shopping without my kids. Especially at Christmas/birthday time
Nikki Gross 2 years ago
You and me both! I used to work some really odd shifts that definitely didn't fit normal business hours. Stopping at the store in the middle of the night was something I did on a regular basis. We also have several Walgreens where I live, but the one next to the hospital was 24 hrs. Now due to staffing shortages they are on the same hrs as all the rest of them which sucks.
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RabidChild 2 years ago
I hate having to shop when the store is full of people. I miss my 2 am browsing
Shayne Randlett 2 years ago
I miss this and 24hr grocery stores more than anything else on this list. Apparently I didn't spend enough to keep these places open 24hr a day, but I sure tried.
Lesbitarian Lady 2 years ago
I loved shopping at two am. Rarely was anybody else there shopping. Get in, get out
#17
Epstein's client list
Ima Manimal 2 years ago
There’s some rich people who are very nervous about that……… time to spill the beans.
Michelle C 2 years ago
Whoever has it would do well to be accountable and release it at this point. As some others here have pointed out, I bet we’d genuinely be shocked by who’s on the list. Why not just get it overwith and hold those responsible accountable already??
WindySwede 2 years ago
someone is collecting money from the list? or is dead and someone else saved/burned the list?
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Mental Liberals 2 years ago
Will never come to light since the corrupt elites are hiding their wrong doings...
Lesbitarian Lady 2 years ago
Sorry folks, doubt that'll ever happen. I believe there are too many higher ups on it. You know what I mean
Ramón Doomernik 2 years ago
It's just a to do list as an example of a list
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Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
Can someone please tell me what this is, I have heard it referenced but I don't know what it is.
Cara G 2 years ago
Jeffrey Epstein, known sex trafficker who was arrested and charged with numerous felonies right before COVID shut down the entire world. He entertained über wealthy people (who are on "the list") in various private luxurious places where they could engage in sexual activity with minors. He then died while in custody under suspicious circumstances, reported to be a suicide but with the high profile of both the case and the clientele, it's more likely that he was murdered. That happened in March of 2020, on practically the same day that the pandemic changed the world forever and other than the arrest of his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, almost nothing else about the situation has been reported.
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Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
Not until after the powerful a******s on that list have been dead for 100 years...
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Ask Jeeves
Kristen Bagan 2 years ago
I miss Jeeves. He was my first search engine. I still have this "terrible" habit of writing my Google searches as a question b/c that's how I first learned to search.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
Wasn't this one of those obnoxious things that used to come bundled with other software and used to hijack your browser startup page without your consent? If so, good riddance
Cerridwn d'Wyse 2 years ago
Not originally no it was a very simple Web search type page where you can actually ask it questions in English
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Willowbilly 2 years ago
Many of its 'people' moved to the newly created Answerpool. It was lovely!
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
Brittanica became "ask Jeeves"...ask Jeeves became wikipedia, ask Google, etc...
#19
Those plastic lanyards people used to braid and make.
Raymond Smith 2 years ago
I still make those just out of 550 paracord (parachute cord) now. Dog leashes, slings, monkey fists, grab bars. Things like that.
#20
my favorite illegal streaming websites
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
I miss the days of being able to watch a new movie before it even comes out in theaters. Terrible quality but still lol
Rowboat 2 years ago
Or when your grandparents would have a shady dvd from the guy down the road and there was also that silhouette of someone in the theatre going to get snacks
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Anthony Pieper 2 years ago
Yall just don't know what sites to use. They got smarter and started locking them behind logins so the bots the movie studios use can't find them as easily.
Monday 2 years ago
The favourites are gone though. Sure I can still get all the pirated content I want....but gone are the days of good ol' megaupload.
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Winters Dev 2 years ago
I remember watching the Wolverine origin movie before it came out, but they hadn't added the CGI yet and they were just running around on a huge green screen.
bElLa sTairZz 2 years ago
and those ten are hard for alot of people to find
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Or trying to watch porn on the scrambled cable channel while it flipped and jittered..
Andy Cran 2 years ago (edited)
it's free on internet now,not difficult to find according to a friend ... pmsl while what flipped and jittered 😆😆😆
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#21
Custom ringtones.
(obviously I know some people have them but we somehow went from virtually everyone having them to almost no one giving a s**t.)
Doctor Strange 2 years ago
I don't know anyone who Doesn't have them, save for my one friend's work provided phone.
Em 2 years ago
Most people don't. I once saw a tweet or something that said "if your phone makes any noise at all, you're a million years old." (I am, apparently, a million years old, but since my phone is primarily a clock and music player, I need an obvious alert on the rare occasion someone actually calls me.)
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erica joi 2 years ago
My phone lives on vibrate. I have no idea what my ringtone or notifications sound like off of vibrate mode.
Beck 2 years ago
Right? If my phone actually rang I wouldn't know it was mine
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BatPhace 2 years ago
How else do you know who's calling from your pocket. I have the cliched haunted house organ music as my work ringtone 🤣
Tina Kathrarg 2 years ago
I have Wipe Out on mine. I don't normally have my ringer on, but I was at the library waiting to hear how my out of state friend's surgery went when all of a sudden there's the maniacal laughter & someone saying "wipe out!" I apologized to the librarian, but she was too busy laughing.
Will Cable 2 years ago
Or having a 'burn' phone and that number programmed in to your partners phone with a special ringtone of a loud fart...and calling them at work.
Andrew McLoughlin 2 years ago
I do have custom ring / notification sounds on my phone but it's a holdover from about 4 phones ago. (Just migrating my profile whenever i get a new one.) I haven't heard them in almost a decade though. Phone is always on vibrate or silent (and notifications just sync to my watch anyway.)
Bethany Brookes 2 years ago
I have one, my brother has one, my dad has one (a recording of me singing two decades ago, assigned only to my name on the phone). My mum doesn't.
#22
We're in the process of full size can of Arizona teas for $.99 disappearing.
I'm seeing a lot of places starting to carry the smaller plastic bottles for $.99 or the larger plastic bottles for more. I'm honestly surprised that they've lasted for this long at the same price.
Larry XK 2 years ago
SoBe is available in my local Safeway and they're very much still in existence, some folks just need to get out more https://www.sobe.com/
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Em 2 years ago
Read a newspaper article about how the founder was adamant they remain 99 cents. A few months later, we started getting non-priced cans (with "NON-PRICED" very prominently marked on the cases). Keep meaning to look up what that's about. We've always sold the smaller plastic bottles for more, which apparently was part of the strategy to keep the standard cans at 99 cents.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
I read something once about how they manage and will continue to manage selling the cans or bottles for 99¢. I don’t remember what it was tho. Probably something along the lines of having other products that they can sell for more money to offset the cost of the cheaper ones
Say No to Downvoting 2 years ago
We rarely see these in Australia (they’re a specialised import) so they’re usually closer to $5. 99c is incredible!
#23
Postcards.
And not just in the usual places, like museum gift shops and tourist traps.
There was once a time when you could buy at any truck stop or roadside motel a postcard of the small town you were driving through. But not anymore.
No point when you can just text your friends a photo.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
I still see them. They are probably more prevalent in tourist areas tho
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
Sent my mom a postcard from Afghanistan in 2015. Half the fun was seeing if she would ever get it. She did
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
Way back in the dark ages, when I travelled, I'd buy a few postcards instead of hoping I took a good photo because film, and developing it, weren't free. At least I knew I'd have a few good pictures of where I'd been.
Georgie Montague 2 years ago
I sent my family lots of postcards from all over the world when I travel.
Debra Brooks Kapellakis 2 years ago
I'm a memeber but now to send one postcards costs 2 Euros so I will only a few once in awhile.
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Tiffany Wilson 2 years ago
I'm going on a big road trip next year. I might get a recipe box and collect post cards at all the places we stop at.
Never Snarky 2 years ago
I collect postcards and have for 60 years. In some places it's difficult to find them unless it's a tourist place.
#24
Newspaper machines at random corners
Tina Kathrarg 2 years ago
Cigarette machines outside of stores & sometimes next to the gumball machines in store entrance. And the gumball machines were 1 cent for a handful of gum/candy or 5 cents for a plastic "egg" with some kind of toy in it.
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
Smoking on airplanes, smoking in bars - along with a cigarette machine, or 2...
StrangeOne 2 years ago
We still have some but they're mostly for renters guides and they get vandalized a lot. We have a lot of less fortunate people in the city, so the city tries to keep information and resources accessible to everyone as much as they can. The grocers still sell newspapers. Not sure how much they are now.
TiNaBoNiNa 2 years ago
When I lived in Las Vegas, they contained "adult" content instead of newspapers.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I noticed when I went to Canada in 2019 there were still lots around. Until then it was something I only ever saw on tv. Not sure we ever had them in Australia but we did always have newsagent stands in Melbourne where a (usually middle aged or older) man would be sitting surrounded by papers and magazines. I always thought it would be a miserable job, especially given Melbourne weather! Haven't been to the city recently so not sure if they still exist.
I’mSoEmotional 2 years ago
Or newspapers at all. When I realized we were paying $600 a year for the paper that had news I had read the day before, I cancelled it.
#25
TV bumpers. There used to be a little sequence between the show and commercials. Some of them were really interesting and creative. I think my generation remembers the "wand IDs" on the Disney channel (where a Disney celeb would use a wand to make the logo). There were also bumpers that were PSAs or other actual content.
Edit: yes I watched THAT documentary on YouTube. It's amazing. Everyone go to Defunctland's channel and watch the one on the Disney channel jingle. Just trust me. Don't look up spoilers.
Trophy Husband 2 years ago
They were called a "legal ID" and the FCC requires them every so often on all OTA TV and radio stations. Cable stations copied them because they were in style. Then cable stations stopped. Tune in to an OTA station (using a real antenna) and you'll see one. I know radio stations have to do it once an hour, I don't know how often it is for TV. I used to be a radio DJ, I liked saying my own ID instead of using the premade ones.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Our free to air government funded station in Australia still has them, every 1-2 hours. Most commonly a choir singing 'I still call Australia home'.
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Walter Brameld 2 years ago
The bumpers got replaced by the ever-present (except during commercials) station logo in the corner of the screen. Remember when that wasn't there?
#26
Limewire
TrippyBanana 2 years ago (edited)
Got some great music from Limewire and PirateBay. I found a version of Rhianna's S&M featuring Britney Spears that way. Does it have a voice watermark..? Yes, but it's still a good song. Then again their used to be sites where you could convert a YouTube link into an MP3.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Those mp3 converter sites still exist. Some are a bit phishy. Some want you to pay for the service. Some are alright.
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I had no idea what Limewire was, so I had to look it up. Now I know *why* I had no idea what it was.
Zephyr343 2 years ago
It was a download site like Napster where you could illegally download music or movies. Most of the time, they were attached with viruses.
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"Ringback" tones or "CallerTunes". Where you could assign a song to play when people called you instead of them hearing ringing.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I still have this set up. Unsolved Mysteries theme song as a default, for unknown callers, spam, scammers. Then I have a "special" song assigned for my mom. Some other songs for people who don't call me anyways. Basically it's either "Donatella" by Lady Gaga or the creepy tunes of UM I hear.
C Cat 2 years ago
Not what YOU hear when getting a call, but what someone else hears when they call you.
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I do not miss these. Most of my friends did not use. But one really long time friend who is a country gal had a donkey braying loudly. I love her but I hated the noise. "Please enjoy this Verizon ring tone while your party is being contacted". Followed by several seconds of "HEE-HAW! HEE-HAW! HEE-HAW! HEE-HAW! HEE-HAW! HEE-HAW! "
Gaming Elementalist 2 years ago
Way too many people commenting on this have no idea what it's talking about, sad.
#28
The hole in the ozone.
Walter Brameld 2 years ago
Yeah, because we addressed the cause and fixed it. This is one case where world leaders and regulators actually listened to environmental scientists.
Anna Ś 2 years ago
Yeah, and people just glossed over it completely, which is horrible.
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ann hoskins 2 years ago
"They" just move on to another environmental issue when people aren't scared about the current one anymore. Ice age, ozone hole, sea level rising, global warming... Changed it to the catch-all 'climate change '. They'll find a new term soon now that people don't take that seriously.
#29
Lobster tanks in grocery stores! Not that I particularly want them back, but those are nostalgic af
Ashley Conover 2 years ago
There's two Ocean Mart stores that I know of here in Utah. They have them.
Harley 2 years ago
I’d rather hear a lobster tale than eat a lobster tail. Once upon a time there lived a lobster…
Jojo_hobkin 2 years ago
Still see them here, not the US tho. How do you expect to buy lobsters then ? Frozen ? Meh
#30
People fainting when something unexpected happens. And people carrying smelling salts for just such an occasion. It’s so 19th century…
g90814 2 years ago
I vaguely misremember it being something to do with ladies wearing corsets? maybe not.
Cara G 2 years ago
The notion that corsets were restrictive, uncomfortable, and made to be tightlaced is complete fiction, largely made up by Hollywood as a visual trope. The purpose of the corset was to provide structure and support while assisting the wearer with maintaining proper posture and creating a fashionable silhouette. Both the hourglass and S-curve were achieved not by forcing the waist inward but with padding on the hips and adornments at the breast/neckline. They were designed to be comfortable and stylish.
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Honestly officer, I’m only carrying this vial of amyl nitrate in case some masher so offends the sensibilities of our ladies that they need resuscitation!
Trish 2 years ago
😂 'Masher'. I haven't heard that since Bugs Bunny said it.
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Trish 2 years ago
Now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever been overcome by the vapors.
Ryan Mercer 2 years ago (edited)
When I was 12, I found a strange small dark brown bottle in the medicine cabinet. There were chunks of something in the bottom with a little bit of liquid. I opened it and took a deep wiff. Oh man... it was like someone slapped me upside the head, from from the inside.
Lanswyfte 2 years ago
I read somewhere that back before smelling salts were created (or discovered), they used to burn feathers under the nose of the unconscious person.
Trish 2 years ago
Hmm. I would definitely roll over to get away from that smell.
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Fainting Couches were the thing when a southern woman heard something shocking and had a sudden case of The Vapors..... "ahhh do declare... I feel faint"
LittleWombat 2 years ago
I remember being a kid and copying that, probably from a cartoon!
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Automatic seatbelts
Wilf 2 years ago
never even knew these existed. Must be a uniquely American thing because I've NEVER seen a car fitted with those in the UK.
Tim 2 years ago
They were stupid and you still had to fasten the lap belt. So basically, you had two seat belts. One was automatic and the other was manual.
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Worst Cop in Britain 2 years ago
LOL I was so confused at first but then I remembered we DID have a car with auto belts 😂 just sliiiidin along that track on top of the door
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
And it was useless, bc you had to do your own lap belt anyway. Otherwise it'd just decapitate you.
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M O'Connell 2 years ago
An automatic seatbelt has the shoulder belt attached to the door instead of the pillar, thereby automatically belting you in when the door is closed. A study conducted by the US Department of Transportation found that cars with automatic seatbelts had a 60% lower fatality rate than cars with manual seatbelts (mostly because people weren't using them). Lots of political lobbying resulted in legislation requiring cars to have either automatic seatbelts or airbags. The belts were cheaper, and continued to be in some cars through the 1995 model year when all cars were required to have drivers-side air bags.
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daniel sullivan 2 years ago
Good riddance, my car kept trying to strangle me. I always wear one anyway, you don’t need to kill me before I even start driving
David 2 years ago
BECAUSE THEY WERE A PITA! I owned one car that had these. They would often kick in before you were ready. Like you closed the door but you are still trying to move around to reach some things. Or your started your car to let it warm up / defrost but you are not leaving yet. And they failed at their most basic purpose of trying to get people to wear their seatbelts because if somebody wanted to there are ways to disconnect / override. Wearing seatbelts is an automatic habit for me but I prefer putting them on when I'm ready to drive away rather than when the car decides.
Lytse Draak 2 years ago (edited)
Automatic seatbelts? Idk if it's my age (80's kid), my location (Europe) or the fact my parents used second-hand cars through the 80's and 90's, but I never came across those.
#32
McDonald’s salads.
MakeupMama68 2 years ago
I worked there in the 80’s when they still had a salad bar!
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David 2 years ago
Are they just less common now? According to McDonald's web site their salads are still a thing. More choices than I remembered. But maybe it is only in select locations now. I make almost all of my food from scratch and very rarely eat fast food. Not a 'flex'. Just a practical thing due to limited food budget and health issues related to aging. I'm kind of out of touch with what the fast food places have compared to years ago when I frequently ate at them.
Dirk Daring 2 years ago
I've had a McDonald's salad exactly once. The next day I coiled out a green dookie.
Sarah Mezei 2 years ago
Going to McDonald's for a salad is like going to a hooker for a hug. The amount of cheese, dressing, and breaded chicken . . . most fast food salads have just as many calories as a Big Mac Combo.
#33
Blimps, helium is expensive and drones can do some of their missions.
Lyoness 2 years ago
This is a good thing. Helium is a non renewable resource and it has way more important uses than flying blimps or filling balloons.
Worst Cop in Britain 2 years ago
And the celebration helium balloons are really bad for the environment, so this isn't exactly a bad thing.
Sean Simpson 2 years ago
There are only 25 blimps in the world right now. They aren’t really good for much, other than promotions (and even that takes a liberal use of the word ‘good’)
David 2 years ago
Blimps are kinda sorta making a come back. Have seen some youtube videos on prototypes and in use models. Not as passenger vehicles but for research and military observation. The public sees fewer blimps because Goodyear is down to three. With drones and wire fly cameras there isn't as much need for blimps covering sports games so the public does not see them as much.
#34
The spirit of the 90s that was alive in Portland.
Spanish Cat 2 years ago
No... like the actual 90's, even before the year 1000
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UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
Moved here in 98. Thought I’d found my forever home, I loved it so much. That city is dead.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
Nothing is more hipster than saying it was cooler before everyone knew about it.
Vermonta 2 years ago
you mean when it was just a town of murderous lumberjacks?
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Jason Scott 2 years ago
They let their dope fiend children take over now noone wants to go there
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
When I first moved here 15 years ago this town had so much more going on. I blame gentrification. They started bulldozing NY favorite dive bars and music venues and at the same time the creative bohemian types that made this city so cool can't afford to live here anymore.
Debra Brooks Kapellakis 2 years ago
late 80's, early 90's club Satyricon Souvlaki o'Takis or the Eat or Die Cafe
#35
Sobe drinks.
Maggie Fanelli 2 years ago
They still exist but not in the same numbers. Also they only have like 5 flavors now.
Brandon GIlbert 2 years ago
I miss the strawberry daiquiri flavor. Was soooo good
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Robert Wiersema 2 years ago
It's a brand name that belongs to Pepsi. SoBe. I think they were mainly a Florida thing. The name means South Beach.
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Rehtaeh2596 2 years ago
Just commented about this above 😍 I stored all my change in those jars
#36
l33tspeak.
I can't even nail down the decade it disappeared.
#37
Intense dark lipstick from the early 2010’s
Stay Off My Lawn 2 years ago
They were popular in the 90s too. Give it a few years, it’ll come back in style.
Anouk Badwolf 2 years ago
i still rock that colour both during summer and winter. it really compliments some of my makeup looks :3
MakeupMama68 2 years ago
I guess since my crowd are mostly old goths and punks I see it a lot lol
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
It'll come back in. Girls are wearing the horrid light lip gloss with brown lip liner again, thinking it makes their lips look bigger. They didn't learn from our mistakes. And now they line outside the lips, so it's like having a tiny mustache at the same time. Everything goes around and comes back again.
#38
The clouds of bugs during the summer
Samsquatch & Monko 2 years ago
If you miss them go in a forest without bug spray (let’s just say I now have mosquito bites on two of my finger knuckles and also the place where you cannot itch in public….)
Robert Wiersema 2 years ago
Mosquitos are my friends compared to the biting fly's in the north woods.
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Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
I want to live where you live cuz I can’t sit on my front porch without getting covered in no-see-ums
KingsRaven 2 years ago
I didn't notice it disappeared because it hasn't mosquitos still alive, strong, and abnormally large in the southern US
ROSESARERED 2 years ago
Come to my place, bugs, ants, frogs, lizards, birds, and snakes and spiders....but it is in Australia
Wilf 2 years ago
This one is very alarming. It signals a near collapse in bio diversity ride down at the most fundamental level of an ecosystem. When I was a child in the 80s your car windscreen would be absolutely plastered with dead bugs- you could barely see out. Nowadays, it's almost completely clear. The implications for birds and other animals that predate on bugs is huge. Add in the huge decline in pollinators and we could be facing an actual ecosystem and agriculutral collapse in the west.
Blyss Blyssylb 2 years ago
Not true, just go to any park that has (1) body of water: pool, Creek, run off, etc...and (2) grass. Trust me, the no see ums are there.
Mark Boelte 2 years ago
Overuse of insecticides have knocked down the insect populations to the point it is dangerous. I hate bugs, but we need them badly. Part of the reason invasive species like the spotted lanternbug can thrive is that they are not effected by the insecticides we are using, and we have killed off the bugs that would have eaten the lanternflies.
#39
Fidget spinners
AnnaRachelle 2 years ago
We have fidget spinners.. my 3 year old gets them from a claw machine at Wacky Wearhouse
TwirlyGirly 2 years ago
They still exist! It's just that now there are hundreds of fidget items, so Fidget Spinners don't have the market for fidget products cornered anymore.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Exactly! We have a whole basket of fidgets at the after school program I work at, including spinners. Usually it's the squishy ones that are the favourite, which I find interesting as they were popular when I was a kid, just marketed as general toys, but went dormant for a while. My brothers used to have them on the trays of their wheelchairs, attached by straps.
Load More Replies... Pickles, Pennies, & Ponies 2 years ago
They have tons of them on Amazon. All different shapes and sizes. Metal and plastic. There are some pretty cool ones.
Cat Chat 2 years ago
You can Google for a photo, but they are basically a toy that you can hold between your thumb and another finger and spin it there in place. They were designed to help ADHD students be able to concentrate better while doing schoolwork. In other words, a gadget to provide a background activity for fidgety students. Great for both children and adults with uncontrollable limited attention spans.
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Nancy Marine 2 years ago
I have one at my desk at work! I play with it when I need to ponder something.
#41
Carrot Top. What even was that guy?
Jp@nda 2 years ago
He is truly frightening, the weird face, super skinny high eyebrows and then he's all jacked in top of that. Like a scary muscled up clown
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Walter Brameld 2 years ago (edited)
I saw this gem of a performer live back in 1995 when he came to the university most of you have never heard of in a little mountain town most of you have never heard of. This was a celebrity who never acted like one. Might be different these days, but back then...what a class act.
Ryan Mercer 2 years ago (edited)
The only thing odder than his personality was watching him turn into the hulk later in his career. Some people know when they're done being picked on.
Nancy Marine 2 years ago
I saw Carrot Top live at a USO show back in early 2000s. He was so funny I had to force myself to stop laughing because my ribs hurt so much from laughing. I had no idea he was so hilarious! Fun fact about him: He does USO shows because his brother was/is in the Air Force and he supports our military 100%.
#42
Ellen degeneres
Ryan Mercer 2 years ago (edited)
I remember her when she was still a barely known stand up comic. I don't know a lot about the allegations of emotionally abusive behavior towards her staff, but I will say there is a lot more to her than that. She had a real impact in changing societal assumptions and opinions regarding the LGBT community during the Seinfeld "Not that there's anything wrong with that" era. It's easy to forget how far that community has come in terms of acceptance over the last 30 years. She played a role in that, for sure.
What do you think ?
StrangeOne 2 years ago
"Punch buggy. No returns" Does anyone still do this whenever they see a Volkswagon Beetle?
Jeffrey Keffer 2 years ago
Some body down voted you I brought you back to even because it's true .. with the change of dog food to be healthier there is less bone meal meaning less calcium so as the 💩 dries it does not turn into a white glob of calcium rich excrement... And now you know and knowing half the battle G.I.Jooooooeee ( the other half is violence, orphan and widowmaking violence)
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Samsquatch & Monko 2 years ago
Unrelated but once my dad went to a gardening type of store to by coconut husk for our urban worm farm and the cashier was acting like a high person and said “you know, it’s legal to grow w33d here in Canada, right?” In a very, very excited voice…
Johnny Ogden 2 years ago
#43 - Crop Circles. For decades they appeared all over the planet by the tens of thousands... And then... Surveillance cameras began appearing on poles around fields. Suddenly crop circles faded away. Not because aliens are camera-shy, but because the real sources - mathematically talented pranksters - could no longer do their thing without getting caught. Nearly everyone in my family swore they were signs from aliens and some still insist it, saying the aliens now work in politics. LOL
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Yeah, the culprits have admitted how they do it.
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Littlemiss 2 years ago
Very true, often lingers then fades as if it were never once there.
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Now that's a good one, I had completely forgot!
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
"Punch buggy. No returns" Does anyone still do this whenever they see a Volkswagon Beetle?
Jeffrey Keffer 2 years ago
Some body down voted you I brought you back to even because it's true .. with the change of dog food to be healthier there is less bone meal meaning less calcium so as the 💩 dries it does not turn into a white glob of calcium rich excrement... And now you know and knowing half the battle G.I.Jooooooeee ( the other half is violence, orphan and widowmaking violence)
Load More Replies... Samsquatch & Monko 2 years ago
Unrelated but once my dad went to a gardening type of store to by coconut husk for our urban worm farm and the cashier was acting like a high person and said “you know, it’s legal to grow w33d here in Canada, right?” In a very, very excited voice…
Johnny Ogden 2 years ago
#43 - Crop Circles. For decades they appeared all over the planet by the tens of thousands... And then... Surveillance cameras began appearing on poles around fields. Suddenly crop circles faded away. Not because aliens are camera-shy, but because the real sources - mathematically talented pranksters - could no longer do their thing without getting caught. Nearly everyone in my family swore they were signs from aliens and some still insist it, saying the aliens now work in politics. LOL
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Yeah, the culprits have admitted how they do it.
Load More Replies... Littlemiss 2 years ago
Very true, often lingers then fades as if it were never once there.
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Now that's a good one, I had completely forgot!
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