I can still remember my friends phone numbers for being in my early teens. Am 46 now

Exactly! Problem is my car (VW Tiguan), just like many many other is not even available in any bright color. Default is grey, or another shade od grey. Most crazy you can get is dull dark red, and dull dark blue ...

Those matte grey and browns they have now are horrible.

My car is orange and I love it -- bought it used, so I didn't exactly choose the color deliberately -- but I started realizing what an advantage it was, especially in a vast parking lot.

I have often wondered why we no longer have lots of bright, colourful cars, although I am noticing more bright green,orange and yellow one in the last few years

Fiat is actually taking an interest approach to this problem, not offering any factory models in gray from now on, as shown with a video dipping a new gray 600e into a vat of orange paint

This is a chart of colors of cars registered in Poland, divided by years. Sums it up pretty nicely. car-color-...596689.jpg

you can get renaults in cool colours like yellow, orange and obviously red. However yes, most cars seem to be silver, white or grey these days.

I really miss seeing different colored cars. I realize that black & white paint are cheaper than bright colors, but I hate all the vehicles looking the same these days.

White cars cost less than their colored version.

My car is silver. I come out of a store and have to find it among the sea of other cars that all went through the same wind tunnel and have the same shape too..

my dodge Challenger is (or rather was) a cherry red. i imagine when it was new it was stunning. it's older now and the paint is dulled and chipped. still gets me from A-B though

Is it about 2nd sale? To sell your car easily without worrying if the buyer likes green or purple

Remember when almost all cars looked like jelly beans? 90’s mostly.

My car is "soul red", which is really pretty, but seems kinda evil!

I like my charcoal colored car, it has to be really filthy to show.

Black can be a nice color. Plus cars are a lot safer these days

Gould wrote about the trend of having a relatively small number of models but each being unique to having many models but these are basically the same with minor variations. You see it in nature as well. Each taxonomic groups starts ith a moderate number of species with radically different body shapes and end up with a very large number of species, but they are pretty similar.

I still see some nice colors out there. A girl my older daughter went to school with had a Barbie pink truck with a camouflage tailgate. My van looks dark blue but when it's clean and in the sunlight you can see all kinds of sparkles in the paint. And some of those color-change paint jobs out there, wow! I'd love to have one but they're too expensive.

My Mahindra is fire engine red. So was my Ford EcoSport. South Africa at least has colour

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The same can be said for our neighborhoods (U.S.), especially newer ones. Every house is either boring beige, bleak gray, uninspired white, dreary green, or dismal blue. new-develp...1-jpeg.jpg

In my last holiday, I was wondering why all the rental cars are white. I was told that's because white is the cheapest / easiest to replace car paint.

Too often, you cannot even recognize the brand anymore. They all look alike. However, one thing in which they are trying to distinguish themselves is the shape of the braking lights :).

that's why I drive a cute bright yellow one

When I was a kid we only got three channels through the antenna and one of them was PBS.

9-11 changed a lot of things.

I can hear this picture

Was called carbon paper..

Dude! I miss that so much. Reality TV is GARBAGE. I want the Music back in MTV.

Except on weekends and then it was 2am

And also share a single phone which was kept in a communal room.

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I had the atlas. I could figure out the miles, how long a trip could take, possible shortcuts. I loved that thing

The struggle to find a working phone or having coins...or have to stop in the middle of no where and try to find a phone...I'm so glad that we have a phone that we can use anytime...and we have GPS...my worst nightmare was to try to go to a certain address using a map, without having no one to help me...dear lord...

For us, it was the argos catalogue or the index catalogue

Yeah, I didn't quite believe it when my mum told me that mid 70s (ten years before I was born) the bank wouldn't let her have a chequing account without dads approval. In their words "husband, boyfriend or father". Seriously so long as their was some random p*nis owner next to her they were happy. So dad went in with her, closed their account and told them why (their treatment of mum) (Edit: they technically could legally have chequing accounts, but the bank had every right to decline women or impose these requirements. So the closing of the account did mean something, as he found a bank that would be fine with mum having free reign as much as he did)

And the temperature! For some weird reason I thought that was so cool as a kid

I was still doing this as a teenager working construction. Me and the rest of the laborers got hauled from jobsite to jobsite just like that in the 90s.

Would you like to sit in the smoking section, or directly next to the smoking section?

In the 80s and early 90s in Poland very little people even had an account, work pay was in cash, all shoppping was in cash. Cheques existed, but never gained any popularity and were phased out in late 1990s, when debit cards gained popularity.

Italy and other European countries still have those, but you need some form of ID to be able to purchase.

Where I grew up (NI in the early 70's), you HAD to leave someone in the car, or it would be removed & blown up.

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And the pop bottles were generally re-fillable. You'd go to the store with a six-pack of empties, and come home with full bottles, save on the 2-cent deposit charge. And the Cub Scouts would go from door-to-door collecting bottles to generate money for trips, picnics, and courses.

Really, REALLY miss this. Also miss real music.

It was so exciting to get a letter from my pen friends...such an amazing feeling...

Until much more recently, ice cream was never tamper proof. Then some jerks started licking ice cream and closing it back up, so now it's much more common for there to be a foil or paper cover.

Our house had an autostoker so you only loaded the hopper up once a week. We's buy a dump truck load a year. Blue Mountains so long winters.

Or before allowed women to have credit card on their own name #LandOfTheFree 😁

We could only ring our grandparents in the country on Sundays because it was cheaper.

Did you see any of the videos from Coldplay’s recent tour where everyone was given an LED wristband to hold up? Amazing Honestly, put lighters to shame! (I’m old enough to have a lighter to my first concert though)

You could drive and drink alcohol. But you couldn't drive inebriated. There were limits. A couple cold beers and the road was the way to go !

They used to refresh/cycle the air on aircraft. Now they are just smoke-free flying petri dishes

Not my first job but my second. I went to work for Pizza Hut by answering a newspaper ad.

No secrets in small towns. Except for the secrets.

This is why you collected links during the day and did your downloads after 11pm, when everyone had gone to bed. If you didn't, you should have.