Undergraduate degrees. We’re experiencing a strange educational inflation, where most jobs now require some form of higher education that previously didn’t. I’m not suggesting education is necessarily a bad thing by any means, but it certainty drives a greater division between those that do and don’t go. It’s used to be a 30/70 spilt and now it is 80/20 as to the percentage of people that go and those that don’t, a striking difference.

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Engineering degrees "work".

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Being a musician. Oh, you have a computer? Guess you're an "artist" now. Don't worry if you can't sing that's why autotune exists.

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These days when I do play my guitar, I plug it into my iPad using an iRig device and use the software on there. Sadly no room for my big amp.

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Apple picking.
Orchards used to involve parking on a dirt lot, climbing trees to get the best fruit, and paying per bag. Visiting a farm. That’s it.
Now there’s ADMISSION, paid parking, hay rides, food stands, live music, photo taking areas, etc.
Feels like a tourist trap. Because it is.

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Another thing I find ridiculous is when there's a food truck fair, and there's an admission fee. It's like, we're already going to pay a fortune for the plate of food we buy, and on top of that, pay admission?! F**k off.

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In Australia, it's also now a thing - I can't stand it as it's not a part of our history, just retailers doing commercialism.

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There was a fish sauce that Romans used to eat. No one is sure what the recipe was precisely, but accounts say it was delicious. Even if we had the complete recipe, we would never be able to make it. The Romans ate so much of it that the fish species they made it from went extinct.

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As "Garum" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum) actually was made from rotten fish intestines, I think I would pass anyway... But they also managed to get the Silphium plant extinct. The plant was used primarily for birth control in roman times. Obviously the romans had a huge need for this, as they eradicated the plant completely.

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You used to be one of only a few people around bidding on storage lockers. It used to be a fun hobby I gave up on because it became too popular and people are grossly overpaying for the lockers which is often time just paying to make a dump run for someone.

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Back then it was The Facebook

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There’s so many things and places most people didn’t know about prior to Instagram and “influencers” visiting and taking photos there. Think “Manhattanhenge” in NYC used to be a cool phenomenon only cared about or noticed by some but now everyone and their mother comes out lining and blocking the streets for something that was once a hey look at that that’s interesting kind of thing. Now it’s just kind of goofy

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Not to mention holding everyone else up just to take a stupid posed picture to upload. Some people actually live there and have to get to work, and you’re holding them up, a******s.

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The house flipping trend has certainly not helped home affordability. It's good to make an junk house habitable again, it's not good to turn a $220k house into a $350k house.

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I would never buy a flipped house, the bottom line is profit and they do everything as cheaply as possible. When I was looking for a house it was obvious that a house was flipped as soon as we started walking around,. Buy a fixer up for cheap and do it yourself, that way you control the work done.

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Theme parks. I went to one once on a weekday when it was supposed to rain years back. There was no one there no lines for any rides at all. Was actually pretty fun. Every other time I have been was miserable I dont want to wait in a 1-3 hr line for a 3 minute ride.

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I think the extra fee for "line jumper passes" are horrible!

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We had an amazing Halloween house in our small town, walking distance from my place. Every year the family who owned it would bring in Hollywood level props and lighting and 10 or so actors in full regalia to replicate a Pirates of the Caribbean scene all around the property. The Jack Sparrow was a dead ringer for Johnny Depp. Every kid would get a bag full of real candy, not the mini Halloween stuff. Unfortunately people started coming from other towns and it turned into a mob scene to the point that cops had to direct traffic and they shut it down.

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The beach resort I live close to used to be pretty much just vacationers from within my state. We’re not southern enough to be warm year round, so the busy season is mid-May to end of September (lots of people don’t want to be there until after the kids go back to school, plus it’s not as hot and the ocean water is still warm). 50-60 years ago, kids who just graduated high school or college would spend the week after graduation there. We call them “Junebugs”. One week for high school and one for college (they graduated different weeks), and only kids from the local or in-state schools. Then word got out, and now kids from schools in all the surrounding states started coming down, and their schools graduate different weeks than ours (some states get heavier snow than we do), so now Junebug season isn’t just one or two weeks, it runs from the end of May all the way through the end of June. The kids got to be so rude, obnoxious, drunk, wasted (and not laid back and happy drunk or wasted, either, but dangerously and violently drunk and wasted), and so destructive to people’s property that the local police force has to hire a load of summer cops to handle the amount of calls they get. Basically double their year round number of officers. There have also been murders and sexual assaults resulting from unsupervised 18-22 year olds, who are just not old enough to recognize when a situation is going bad and it’s time to leave before it gets worse, and not authoritative enough to very loudly nd publicly tell someone to f*****g leave them alone. Throw in raging hormones and a lack of critical thinking skills, and you get the picture. It is a f*****g mess, and drives the family vacationers away. Oh, and the f*****g entitled parents of the f*****g entitled kids! “Oh, MY honor student wouldn’t do that!” Well sir, they took Polaroids of everything they did, if you’d like us to send you copies (yeah, you know damned well that hefty check for the damages their “honor student” did would be overnighted! Still wonder if the parents ever made their “honor students” pay them back as a consequence. Probably not. Sadly). Sorry for the F-bombs. I used to both live and work IN the resort. Off season was nice and quiet. In season was a f*****g nightmare. When I changed jobs and moved way outside the resort, I swear it was like getting out of jail. Summer months, summer holidays, and summer weekends aren’t the pain in the a*s they are at the beach. And it is QUIET out here in the boonies!

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Everything that has to do with true Crime. Some years ago it was not "popular" at all and you had to search for any documentary and/or website. Now there are extra TV Channels, Podcasts, Magazines, everything and everyone is "an expert".

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Must disagree on this one. I love that’s there’s so much True Crime stuff around. There’s nothing better on a wet Sunday than donning loose fitting pants, thick socks and curling up on the sofa with the dog/s and a whiskey or 3 and binge watching serial killers! 😀

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Reddit. It used to be the social media you could go to that wasn’t overrun by idiots and kids. There are still some gem subs around, but for anything mainstream or front page it’s garbage.

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I cannot understand Reddit. I enjoy content from Reddit through third websites but I cannot , for the love of me, figure out how to navigate Reddit directly to find content I might like.

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Right now, fanfiction.

Oh boy, take a look through some of the nonsense started because of tictok and Twitter.

There's still a lot of great stuff out there, but the anti-everything-I-personally-dislike mentality and the if-its-not-100%-unproblematic-you're-a-monster-for-writing-it ideals that showed up in the last few years is baffling.

It's fanfiction. Sorry, I guarantee it's never going to be a 100% wholesome or sfw... that's literally the point.

Plus, it is fabulous to see minors suddenly invading established Fandom spaces and yelling weird regurgitated Christian purity slogans and censorship arguments straight out of the 1980s and the 1960s.

And they are SHOCKED when you point this out and show them sources from those times saying the exact same things. Like sweetheart, you're literally quoting stuff from the anti dungeons and dragons satanic panic days...

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I'm a fanfic writer from back in the day when we first coined the Citrus Scale! When we had to bring it back because of Tumblr banning NSFW we were all stunned, but we knew how to work things safely out. I'll tell you, though, I've had my life threatened, accounts tampered with (kids trying to guess my pw), and a lot more just because they don't like what I write. Newsflash - DON'T READ IT THEN. That said I'm on Ao3 and still going lol

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Nurse practitioners. It was meant for experienced nurses with decades of experience in one field to act as physician extenders. Now a bunch of 21yr olds recently graduated with a BScN directly go into part-time online NP schools and then go to become dangerous clinicians and prescribers that push for independent practice when they have a fraction of the supervised clinical experience and rigour that MD/DO physicians do.

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When I herniated my lower disk the back clinic doctor was booked solid so I had to see a NP. She told me there was no surgery that could deal with my problem. I would just have to live with crippling pain the rest of my life. So I went to a neurosurgeon who did a laminectomy. Just a routine operation for him.

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I've mentioned this before but in the early 2000s I got into record collecting. I got a record player from Salvation Army for like $5, and people would just give you records. I would buy boxes of records for $2-3 from garage sales. If every single record in there sucked a*s, who cares - I was out $2 and I usually got a milk crate out of the deal! I found so much great music that I probably would have never come across otherwise, and part of the joy for me was exactly that - finding new music to listen to. Now the same things that I picked out of someone's garbage are $30 at a picked over, overorganized store and god forbid you want to get a recent release - the 150 gram audiophile on super cotton candy swirl double album deluxe of whatever is the flavor of today will run you $60 and you better preorder so it can arrive at your door six months later than it was scheduled to in a package that isn't fit to transport styrofoam and left in a puddle and f****n A I hate my post office driver.

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Collecting of anything that becomes popular (Comic books, Sports cards etc). The whole grading of items that turn a hobby more into an investment then what it should be, a hobby. Having anything and everything graded by PSA is getting out of hand. You say you have a sealed Back to the Future VHS ? Well send it in to be graded, they're grading a box.

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That’s because the true collectors get priced out of their hobby by people who are merely in it for an investment. Same goes for art collecting. If you’re not a billionaire, you can forget buying any original—-unless you’re lucky enough to buy really early works from an artist who later become famous.

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Sweet Caroline at EVERY F*****G sports event

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Better than, “who let the dogs out?” At every sports game.

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Financial news. It used to be non-biased and actually contain information and ideas. They genuinely wanted the readers go make money if it worked. For example, "Here's a good company that if you have some extra cash you should buy. It has these great qualities and here's the history of how it started and what it can do".

Now its b******t like 'Motely Fool' and 'Bazinga' that are owned by mega-corporations that lead sheep to slaughter. The mega corps buy a company on mass, causing a stock price increase. Then they release an article about why you should buy it, which causes slight increases in price. Because of said increases, they short it (bet against where they profit if the price decreases). Then, they sell their entire stake at a small % gain and plummet the price to cash out on the short options. Retail investors get screwed because of the 'News'

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I gave up on Motley Fool years ago. I paid attention to them for a while, then slowly realized they were spewing B.S. Or maybe they started out honest and then became a B.S. factory.

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The Appalachian Trail. People leaving their trash everywhere is really ruining the trail and it’s so f*****g crowded now.

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You should leave no evidence of your visit

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Havasupi Falls in AZ. Went back in the early 2000’s and it was nice and little to no trash…. Now all these f**k heads have trashed the park and over crowded it for a effing instagram post making wait times ungodly long. I hold great anger towards people that litter in cities but i get enraged at dipshits that litter in parks! Like wtf is wrong with you people?! CLEAN UP YOUR S**T! And for those who actually care please bring a waste bag and we can start cleaning up after these f**k sticks.

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Disney world toy story characters dropping to the ground if someone yelled Andy’s coming. It used to be a little known secret but it went viral and way too many people started yelling it out constantly that the actors had to just stop doing it

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Aww, I never knew about this. It sounds cute

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Any local joint ruined by Diners, Drive ins, and Dives.

Case in point, my favorite morning breakfast place, Pete's Breakfast, was awesome to pop into, grab a nice bite, enjoy some coffee, and b******t with your neighbors.

After D³ ran the Pete's episode, we were looking at a 60-90 minute wait, period. Never went back before we moved.

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I'll bet the owners are happy though.

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Grocery couponing. Apparently it only used to be done by a relatively small number of people, which is why they were able to get major discounts. But once word of it spread, grocery chains took them away.

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Can’t find decent coupons for stuff people actually buy anymore. With prices of every little thing skyrocketing, every little bit of a discount would help. A buck saved us still a buck saved, and does add up over time. One per week is $52 per year.

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Okay Karen.

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Watching anime.

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Anime has always been this way. Take a look at Crunchyroll, you'll see plenty of very *old* anime that has tons of fanservice. If you look through, however, you'll find the hidden gems, even now.

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Looking like Kim Kardashian

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When was it a good thing???

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Skiing at any resort in Colorado/Vermont.

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Geek culture. Back in the day, being into stuff like anime, Star Wars, & Star Trek used to be its own subculture. Now all of a sudden being into geek culture is cool and has come out with a lot of s****y stuff lately.

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Gatekeeping is never a good look. There is so much quality content around now, but because it's no longer niche enough for the Comic Book Guy types, they complain.

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