Someone Wonders “What Was Actually Better In The Past?”, And 35 People Deliver

Upvoting all y'all in achy solidarity

True this, went yesterday to kick the ball with some friends now I can hardly walk.

Thought the same thing. Diagnosed with osteoarthritis at 36. Then I lost 100 lbs. The difference is almost magical. 46 now and get around better than I did at 33.

I do not have a moment in the day when something is not hurting. Now I know why older folks are grumpy all the time.

I hear ya!

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Gonna give props to the 'late '60s / early 70s heyday, too. A mix of classic theater cartoons From Warner Bros. and MGM with fun newer ones like Bullwinkle, Speed Racer and the original Scooby-Doo. And, of course, SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! "Conjunction Junction, what's your function?"

Yes! Sitting in front of the tv with a big bowl of cereal at 7am!

Late 60s and 70s.

60s and 70s cartoons ROCKED!!

I also feel like it has just made us all more hateful. Since you can spew horrible words to someone without them knowing your identity, too many people do it. Social media also contributes to the fighting and the influencers and the people taking videos instead of helping, etc.

What bothers me is when young people will sit in the same room and text each other rather than talk.

These days some people know a lot of people without ever seeing or meeting them. Also, in the past if you had a follower, you could actually see and touch them but nowadays, nope.

Uh, we were hanging out drinking coffee and taking turns on the Ms Pac man and Centipedes machines, or at my friend's apt playing endless games of Acey Deucey back gammon. Even then was not a fan of personal interactions.

Oh, well. We wouldn't be scrolling and posting then.

Things used to be made to last, then somebody was like wait, now they don't need to keep giving us money... and decided to screw everybody over. Plus if you get a warranty, it's going to last the duration and then the next day it'll break like it was engineered that way.

Your fridge stops working because there is no wifi to upgrade the software :D

Newer is not always better. I have been married 21 years. We were given a large crockpot, a blender, a waffle iron, a set of Le Crueset pots and pans, and several sets of towels and bed linens as wedding gifts (amongst other things). They were all good quality items, not cheap stuff. We’re still sleeping on the bed linens, drying ourselves on the bath towels, drying our dishes on the kitchen towels, and using the pots and pans, crockpot, blender, and waffle iron every week. 21 years later. And these were items made in 2001, so the s**t appliances that fall apart if you blow on them are either cheap off brands made without quality control in who knows what country (take your pick of the worst), or the brand names have outsourced their manufacturing to those very same countries, and as a result have had a huge drop in quality as well. I remember people used to joke about American factories having lazy employees—-“don’t buy anything made on Monday morning or Friday afternoon, ha-ha!” I’d say it certainly wasn’t true, because f**k if they didn’t make stuff that lasted!

So true. Our washer and dryer are 30 years old - THIRTY YEARS OLD. And they still work great.

Too many things are made to be disposable; simply because companies don't make enough by making products that last. That's why I'll never buy an Apple product.

It is so bad that sometimes when city wide power-outages occur, people flood emergency services with panicked calls about the stange lights in the sky.

During a power outage in California, people were calling 911 over "alien lights in the sky". They were seeing the Milky Way galaxy in the night sky for the first time. As ADULTS.

Amen, just turn your damned lights off a d whatever happened to stores etc. turning off poke signs when they are closed.

I moved to the country just to see those 2 beautiful wonders that people never see anymore. And it's the most amazing sight.

I walk my dog every night, and every night without fail my heart is broken when I look at the night sky and can only make out a few dozen stars. I finally got to see the Milky Way for the first time in years this last winter when we took a weekend in the mountains. I stood freezing in the snow for as long as I could, marveling at every twinkling red, blue, gold and white star, and the spill of dust and stars that make up the disk of our galaxy. The night sky is our heritage as human beings, and city life robs us of that.