Porno mags in hedgerows
Kids playing in the streets.
Kids having semi autonomy.
Cheap rent.
Glass
foldfood and beverage bottles and jars.A middle class.
Hope.
Or to keep us docile/fighting each other while they build their arks and bunkers.
Man, I miss hope. It was so great.
It’s a nice town. But it’s so small you could almost miss it as you drove through.
There is always hope, and things have always been quite bad one way or another. You’re looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses, and forgetting how bad it was too
Yes, but it’s not that things in the past were perfect, it’s that you could identify a general trend of things getting better. Sure, there were still huge problems, but you could believe it was just problems we hadn’t gotten to yet. Now we live in a world that’s actively going backwards.
I get what you mean.
Personally I am unsure of whether it’s one of two things
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Things are getting better now as they were back then but now I am older and more cynical so I don’t accept they really are improving as a whole. Much like many people my age probably did when I was younger.
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Things are getting worse and we’re all fucked.
I have absolutely no faith and see zero evidence of it being 1. I’d love to be proven wrong though.
Same mate. The jury is still out on that one.
I think an actual left wing political party as an option would be a bloody good start.
I agree with you, but I’m too old and worn down to do it, and nobody else seems to be in much of a hurry either.
I don’t think it’s coming in my lifetime.
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Jumpers for goal posts.
“We’re all middle class now”
John Prescott - 1997
Glass fold ?
Food and beverage.
1, 2 could be explained by pedophiles are on the prowl, plus people have IPAD/youtube kids now.
Paedophiles are no more prevalent now than they were. The fear of paedophiles is through the roof though.
Now they’re grooming your kids through the iPads, en masse.
lack of bugs, mostly due to global warming pesticide use, and planting non-native ornamental plants, most of which can be weedy or poisonous.
More specific for a better visualization, bugs hitting the windshield of a car. I had never thought about it until someone pointed it out, It was so common back in the day, in the 90s at least.
That opening scene in MIB is not relatable anymore.
Amega and Acorn? NES, Master System, etc made sort of come backs with retro stuff. Not so much Amega, and certainly not Acorn.
You probably didn’t know about this as it didn’t get the attention of the NES and such, but here is a remade Amiga PC. https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/
There’s AmigaKit’s A600GS, but that feels a bit less polished compared to the A500mini
No, I didn’t know. Not something I expect to see in the middle aisle at Aldi. Pretty sure I’ve seen cheap retro consoles as stocking fillers!
I have certainly have seen some cheap knockoff retro consoles at Aldi in their random seasonal aisle, but I’ve never seen any of the proper, branded retro remakes like this, the C64, or the NES/SNES/etc consoles.
I’ve seen very cheap MegaDrives clones, with real Sega games, somewhere. Maybe it wasn’t Aldi.
Deep snow… like up past the hedges
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Discarded ring pulls from drinks cans
Oil-puddle stains in car parking bays
White dog poo on the street.
A staple of 90s observational comedians
Pay phones
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The white dog poop from the seventies.
Ahh no all the dog shit on the ground around our way are dark colours.
they used to put ash in the pet food in america and so the poops would turn white and linger
Ash in the pet food? Did they hate pets? 🐶
In the UK, there’s still a small amount of “crude ash” in most cat/dog food - but I guess not as much as there used to be. They also used to use a lot more ground-up-bone and other fillers.
It’s not necessarily a hatred of animals, it’s just the manufacturers perhaps love money a bit more than they “love” animals, and filling the food with ash and dust and stuff is cheaper.
I think I remember seeing white dog poo in the 80s/90s. It was easier to spot and avoid when walking down a dark ginnel.
No they loved Money. Still do, too.
Pedo’s in jail.
That was a television, not a jail cell.
Blockbuster.
Windshields being covered with bug guts. Way more fireflies in the summer (but our yard still has some because we don’t rake under the bushes). People smoking just fucking everywhere.
I thought of the bugs when I posted this. I remember on long journeys dad would have to pull over and wipe the windshield clear.
Video rental shops. Going into town to pick a movie for the weekend used to be a weekly thing for us.
Sense.
Children building guys and demanding money.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-penny-for-the-guy.html
Man, I haven’t seen a bonfire with a straw effigy in years
Here we just put Irish flags on them
A windscreen covered with insects
Because all of the insects are dead
You ought to see my car… they’re all on the front of that one
You definitely see a lot less of them. Some of that was intentional, at least in the US, as the “love bug” problem was supposedly something that we caused and the solution was to spread sterilized bugs that would mingle with the regular bugs and prevent the population booms. No idea how well it worked, it could just be that our overuse of pesticides did the real work.
