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Right between the traditional baby boomers and tech-savvy millennials is the often overlooked Gen X. Known as the “Forgotten Generation,” these are the people who came of age at the height of MTV and before the digital age took over the world.
Gen Xers today are in their 40s to 60s, and many of them miss the glory days of their era. Some expressed their nostalgic sentiments in a Reddit thread, where they fondly looked back on the time when you could ride bikes for hours, disconnected from the world, or slam the phone down out of frustration.
If you were born between 1965 and 1980, many of these responses may hit home. For the younger readers, this could be your quick history lesson about the recent past.
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#1
Buying something and owning it forever instead of paying an endless monthly or annual subscription.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 9 months ago
I so miss just buying a game and that's it. No expansion packs, no pay to win, no subscriptions, no endless micro purchases...
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Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago (edited)
Gen X. I have my books and my CDs and my LPs and so on. You still can own it forever - if you're willing to pay the higher prices...
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 9 months ago
Same, I will always be willing to pay the higher price to actually own a physical copy. First, there is no way I am going to repurchase my collections in digital format. I will convert to digital format if possible, but will always retain my physical copy. Second, I do not have to worry about whatever service suddenly removing a movie, show or song that I want to see or listen too. Plus no monthly fees...just some dusting from time to time.
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 9 months ago
You can purchase MS Word (Office suite) and avoid the subscription. It's a bit expensive though and only good for one device, buy a new computer and you have to pay again. I have mixed feelings on this.
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Sven Horlemann 9 months ago
Agree. I just switch companies + products. LIke... I'll never use Adobe ever again.
Sam Lombardo 9 months ago
And don't get regular bugfixes and updates (incl. your antivirus)? Mordern software changes so rapidely, that a monthly subscription makes far more sense instead of buying a outdated retail version every couple years.
axnyslie 9 months ago
I have zero subscriptions. I can be done easily if you're smart and know where to get tit all. For instance my MS office is 100% legit and I paid $10 for the license. There's many options for free streaming services or just own your own digital downloads. So-called "smart" appliances are the stupidest things you can buy. Stop being lazy and just do things manually.
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
No one forced you to get the thing with a subscription, that was your choice
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#2
Life without social media.
Existing 9 months ago
This! Even though I’m answering this comment, I’d be thrilled if social media disappear forever
KAM 9 months ago
Reading the whistle blower book on FB (Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams ) makes me think we are going to look back and wonder why the hell we were letting kids use it. I mean selling advertising space for when a teen girl deletes a picture of themselves to a dieting or cosmetic firm is just grim. That's only the beginning of the problems. Money and power obsessed owners who have no thought for the welfare of their users. Go read it - meta has tried to stop it which tells you something. It's a sickening and depressing read.
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LauraDragonWench 9 months ago
I miss MySpace - that was the last time social media was actually fun. As much as I enjoy BP, I'd be perfectly happy to see all social media platforms disappear. Man, what would that be like...?
Uncle Panda 9 months ago
A lot of people think of the Internet as a dark mirror of humanity. It's not the mirror that's the problem.
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 9 months ago (edited)
It's a perfect mirror of humanity...the utter darkness of humanity dominates it. Only small rays of flickering light make there way through and are extinguished too quickly. *edit* I think it's time for some more funny puppy and cute kitten videos :)
Load More Replies... Petra Peitsch 9 months ago
That can be easily reached for yourself. Don't have any account on any social media. My only account is here: no Facebook, no Insta, no Reddit, no Twitter, and definitely no Tik Tok.
Little Bit 9 months ago
Definitely this. If social media disappeared overnight I wouldn't be sorry. I don't have Fakebook, Twitter or Instagram so my friends and family act like I don't exist because they all live their lives through social media. Well I'm here and I'm real.
Colleen Glim 9 months ago
I don’t really do social media. Except BP. And even that can wait if I don’t have time
K 9 months ago
Just saying nobody is forcing you to have fb, ig, x, etc. You are choosing to have it . . . .
Rick Murray 9 months ago
And indeed I don't have any of that. But sadly far too many actual companies, and some government things, think that either Facebook or Twitter (not calling it bloody X) is a perfectly acceptable way to communicate with the world, and because Elon is a w****r I usually get a "log in or sign up" screen instead of anything useful. I'm not going to cave, but these companies are digging their tentacles into life a little bit more every day so it's getting harder to avoid them. 😡
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Just getting on your bike and being GONE for six or seven hours.
Can't reach me, I'm with friends doing WHATEVER.
The freedom of not being tethered.
David 9 months ago
IF ONLY BICYCLES STILL EXISTED IN THE 2020s! /S Seriously, every one of these sorts of threads have some version of the "I wish I wasn't tethered to social media" type posts. Put your d**n phone in airplane mode and enjoy your bike ride. A cell phone is a tool and you can use it or not use it.
kaycee14 9 months ago
OP isn't talking about social media. Gen X kids had freedom and independence. My parents set boundaries- we had to stay between W and Y streets and couldn't cross Z avenue- but other than that, they might not see us between breakfast and dinner and didn't worry about us. Today's kids are practically microchipped. If they even go outside, they are monitored at all times. One of my coworkers has an app that shows where each of her family members is at all times, even her 22 yr old! Kids have no freedom anymore.
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Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago (edited)
I"m Gen X and I still do go off on my bike for hours on end, untethered. Although I do take my phone - well, if you're going to head off by yourself, it does make sense. There's no point in planning on being unable to call for help if solitary me ends up having some sort of nasty crash which leaves me unable to move, especially since almost all the phone boxes have been decommissioned on account of "everyone" having a mobile phone.
Colleen Glim 9 months ago
That’s what friends were for. If you had a nasty crash, somebody went to tell your mom
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JinxBox 9 months ago
I just turn it off or leave it at home when I need this 🤔 If you can't take a hike in nature or meet a friend without your phone the phone is not the problem, your a*******n is.
#4
I miss the not putting your trauma/b******t all over TikTok/Instagram/social media. Kinda sick of all the overshares for the sake of "like" endorphins.
I'm also heavily sick of influencers.
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
Nobody forced you to log into the various social medias, just put down your phone or tablet, whichever you use, and enjoy real life. Dogs, kids, nature are a lot more fun than social media
ManuelQue 9 months ago
It's where China records everything on the platform.
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Agent Smith 9 months ago
Attention seeking should end when you become an adult. It's what children do because they can't get things done themselves. Don't call yourself an adult if you haven't mastered independence.
Schmebulock 9 months ago
Everyone wants attention and you get it with sharing either really good stuff or really bad. Simple human nature.
David 9 months ago
Why do people always hate on influencers? I don't like them either, just like I don't like realty TV shows. In both cases I just don't watch them. It's like those Japanese folklore stories where this or that god is fading away because nobody believes / worships them any more. If you don't watch influencers, they don't influence you. And if everyone did it, they don't influence anyone.
Nota Robot 9 months ago (edited)
They may not influence you personally, but a lot of people are buying into the uninformed, wrong, useless and sometimes plainly dangerous BS most influences are peddling. They create a 'people like you and me' vibe, but are just parroting whatever their current sponsors are paying them for. They shamelessly target children and other vulnerable groups, all for clicks, likes and money. I know, I know -not all influencers. But waay too many of them.
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You paying for your market research? I’d bring back the buying power and stability of the middle class. I’d bring back strong labor unions. I’d bring back affordable housing. I’d bring back a full cart of groceries for $80.
chicken soup 9 months ago
Strong labor unions, you commies. Corporate entities scared of you...do it
BP Aunt C 9 months ago
I grew up as a child of Labor Unions. When I was old enough, I started working there as well. As a middle class family, I didn’t think we were rich. I know I never wanted for anything. Had fantastic insurance. Was proud to be a Union family. I wish that these young kids joining have the same comfort that I did/do.
Robin Roper 9 months ago
In the US, when these things were achievable, the tax rate on the most wealthy was WAY higher than now.
The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
Thanks to Reagan, this ended in the 80s. Now, instead of investing back in their business, rich people and corporations just pocket the cash. This is exactly the opposite of what Reagan and conservative economists said would happen if we lowered marginal rates drastically. “Trickle down” is and always has been absolute horseshït.
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I miss skinny-dipping in a Great Lake under a star lit sky with only the light of a beach bonfire exposing our vulnerabilities and the kisses and conversations had while sharing sips of Bartles and Jaymes snuck from a parent’s fridge.
I miss having a local radio station that tallies call-in votes for a top 8 at 8 show.
I miss late night comedy and horror movies that were interrupted by commentary from Gilbert Gottfried and Rhonda Shear and Elvira.
I miss New York Seltzer Water and Clearly Canadian.
I miss tent sleeper overs in backyards and playing games like light as a feather/stiff as a board, using Ouija Boards, and telling ghost stories.
I miss bike riding on dirt trails that were created as new streets and houses were being built. Related, I miss hanging out in “the woods,” which in reality were just small patches of trees between new neighborhoods.
I miss roller or ice skating on Friday nights.
I miss being dropped off at the mall at noon on Saturday to see a movie, go to McDonalds, read Fangoria magazine on the floor of the bookstore, and hitting the arcades until being picked up before dinner.
I miss camping out in a parking lot and forming a line the night before concert tickets went on sale.
I miss HBO’s series, Dream On, and sneaking episodes of Real S*x.
I miss capturing life on a hand held camcorder and being amazed at special effects such as strobe, sepia tone, and black and white.
I miss sleeping over at my grandparents house. I miss the stacks of The National Enquirer and Weekly World News in my grandparents’ bathroom.
I miss making mix tapes.
I miss band buttons on jean jackets.
I miss Mexican Baja hoodies, Skidz, and Jams.
I miss meatball omelets at 2:30 am in a locally owned 24 hour dinor.
I miss wanting to stay out past midnight.
Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
I still put band patches and buttons on my denim jacket and vest, says this 51 year old metalhead.
Hisseefit 9 months ago
Sweet, rock on! My kiddo headbanger is working on her own battle jacket.
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Brian Droste 9 months ago (edited)
Only read some of these. This was too long of a list to read.
Data1001 9 months ago
Apparently one thing you don't miss is longer attention spans, lol.
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martin734 9 months ago
One of the perks of being single and childless is that i have no responsibilities to anyone else apart from my dogs. If I want to go swimming and sunbathing naked at my local beach, i do it. If I want to spend the day at home doing nothing but reading, listening and walking my dogs, i can do that too and if I get bored and want to go for a hike in the forest, or go out in my kayak or boat, there is nothing to stop me. Outside of work I am free.
Rick Murray 9 months ago (edited)
I miss the days when I got up feeling great. These days half the time I hurt more in the morning than when I went to bed - I'm gonna have to tell those dåmn aliens to give it a rest and go find a different puppet.
#7
Affordable housing.
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
It never was that affordable it just wasn't as far out of reach as it is now.
#8
My good knees.
Roshan Kassan 9 months ago
Add in my back, my shoulders, my carpal tunnel - getting old isn't for everyone
ninjaTrashPandaBoom 9 months ago
You are of course assuming my body is still bendy lol
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Heh. The last time I had two well functioning knees was in the early 1980s. Gen X, but sports injured...
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
It's part of the aging process and embrace it. The alternative to aging is croaking. It's going to happen to all of us but, enjoy the journey and stop being a whinny baby
#9
Politics being mundane as s**t, and not teeth-grindingly insane and divisive.
I know things were just as f****d back then, but it wasn't shoved up our a******s sideways with hot sauce in a 24 hour news cycle.
Bacon Tentacles 9 months ago
I miss the fact that a politician could be actually ashamed enough to drop out of a race when being called out on doing something incredibly s****y. Gone forever.
Marnie 9 months ago
It's sad to say that I was quite surprised that Republicans in the Minnesota Congress called for resignation by that Senator just caught trying to solicit who he thought was a 16yo for s*x. We might be the last state where we have not quite yet jumped the shark.
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Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
Maybe, but then the GOP was more moderate and understood that the things we spent tax money on had value. Now, unless it benefits a corporation or billionaire, it's "waste fraud and abuse".
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
I'm Gen X. We had insanely divisive poltics here in the UK most definitely from at least 1979. If you don't know, look up "Mrs T" - and bear in mind that the use of the phrase "Tory Scum" has been judged in court to be reasonable conduct in certain situations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory_scum
Marnie 9 months ago
Politics absolutely was NOT just as f****d up back then. I mean, we no longer actually have a United States anymore. Unless something turns it around, we should give it a new name.
keyboardtek 9 months ago
I am sure Putin and Trump already have a new name in mind.
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#10
Malls in all their glory.
Data1001 9 months ago
I know! It's so depressing whenever I happen to go to a mall now. And if there are a lot of stores, they're all clothing stores, it seems.
Load More Replies... Michael P. 9 months ago (edited)
And department stores given the recent news of the Hudson's Bay liquidating all but six of its stores. First, it was Eaton's, then Sears, and now Hudson's Bay, another one bites the dust.
ManuelQue 9 months ago
And none of the six stores will be in western or Atlantic Canada. Just Toronto, Montreal and their surrounding areas.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
I always loathed shopping malls. Gen X. I grew up with the dissolution of the old high street independent shops.
Ruthie R 9 months ago (edited)
Malls were where it all started going wrong - killing off town centres and independent shops, cafes, bars, and relocating everything to these grey, joyless, sterile soulless, identikit temples to capitalism out on the drab edges of town, all full of the same chain stores.
Schmebulock 9 months ago
They could be fun, but i remember them in their heyday. Parking sucked and you could be a half mile away. They were crowded, with lines for everything.
Earonn - 8 months ago
Not so much malls but department stores where you could get at least a decent enough version of about everything - from washing machines and knitting needles to school fountain pens and birthday cards. And sometimes even pets and a perm. (For the Germans - Kaufhof and Karstadt....)
Roshan Kassan 9 months ago
The malls in my province USED to be cool - now they're just for people to spend on unnecessary cr@p
#11
I miss a world without plastic surgery and a world that doesn't treat aging like disease. I'm not saying I was easy on my grandma or aging family members, but jeebus, the younger generations act like wrinkles are the plague. So much so that they are injecting themselves with TOXINS so they don't look 30?!
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Modern plastic surgery was developed to repair the mutiliated appearance of soldiers wounded in the two 20th century world wars. It was a wonderful medical advance that gave ao many their lives back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_surgery#Development_of_modern_techniques
Uncle Panda 9 months ago (edited)
I think the hippocratic oath needs reexamination. "Thou shalt not profit from patient s e l f h a r m." (ffs)
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ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago (edited)
I'm having plastic surgery on Wednesday. I'm so excited to look "normal" again! So pfft on you. Edit: they're fixing a part of my body that was disfigured in an accident and it's not my face.
Earonn - 8 months ago
I think it's pretty clear from the context that OP was not talking about cases like yours. Ask them to remove that chip on your shoulder while they're at it.
Load More Replies... LA Murphy 9 months ago (edited)
I disagree. When the world stops treating women who age naturally like they do not exist, matter, or have a right to an opinion without being told to stfu because they are no longer "fuckable", then maybe they might not mess with their faces so much. But again, it's their face, not yours and aging is f*****g ugly. Get good work done if you are going to reshape your mug.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago (edited)
Neither Barbara Castle nor Angela Merkel ever had plastic surgery and that never stopped either of them making sure people paid attention to their opinions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Castle. and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel "The world" has always paid attention to older women.
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Saturday morning cartoon-fest.
Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
And most were 'all ages' toons. My folks laughed like crazy at Bugs, Coyote, and others that did sly adult references on our times. We didn't necessarily get it, but as we aged, we sure did.
keyboardtek 9 months ago
And all those Loony Toones used classical music. It is where we all got our first exposure to orchestra music.
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Isabela Cincu 9 months ago (edited)
Quality time with my father, who now starts showing signs of dementia. He would laugh like a kid to Tom&Jerry.miss the old times
Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
I used to love going out to my grandparents' house in Texas, and one reason was because their local independent station showed a cartoon (anime really, but I was six) called "Star Blazers". It was the English dubbed and slightly edited version of Space Battleship Yamato and it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. It didn't show in the Atlanta area where I lived, so I looked forward to the three weeks I could spend out there to watch it. Still one of the best sci-fi epics I've ever seen. star-blaze...b17511.jpg 
Lowrider 56 9 months ago
Saturday morning cartoons, then watch some roller derby then watching wrestling! Saturday nights were for watching Elvira and the spooky movies.
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
They will never come back because there aren't people with enough talent to write something that both children and their parents will enjoy. Of course, some of the adult stuff went over the heads of the children, but that wasn't a problem. When you grew up there was a whole new level of entertainment in the cartoon. RIP looney tunes and merry melodies
David 9 months ago
I have fond memories but my rational brain recognizes they are romanticized memories. Yes, it was fun to get up early and watch the only cartoons shown for the week. As a young boy that was enough. But adult me recognizes it was the same old slog every Saturday. The coyote never caught the road runner, Tom never managed to do in Jerry, every episode of Scooby Doo ended with a disgruntled old man in a mask who "would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you pesky kids!" Now I have Netflix and Crunchyroll and I can watch a bazillion more shows, any time I want. So, I'm good. LOL
Beth Wheeler 9 months ago
The original Warner Brothers cartoons not the pc c**p they have now. My 33 yo son even talks about how crappy they made them.
#13
I miss being feral children, I miss running into other bands of feral children, and shenaniganing...all f*****g day.
I miss taking that chance and hanging out with cool a*s people, that you'd never think was f*****g cool.
I miss the kindnesses that we used to show each other.
Roshan Kassan 9 months ago
I miss walking in the rain and encourage my kid to do it - some traditions should never change
Beth Wheeler 9 months ago
I like walking in a light rain with my female dog her brother (same litter) hates getting wet.
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Unkeptwoman 9 months ago
I would wake my son up in the wee hours of the morning for "downtown walks". Everything was closed, no cars, just lights from the stores. It was a town of 15,000 people. And when it snowed? It became a winter wonderland for us.
#14
I genuinely miss the original MTV. I discovered countless bands from various shows/segments that I never once heard on local radio stations. 120 Minutes and Headbanger's Ball were like crack to me.
Michael P. 9 months ago
If MTV goes under for whatever reason, they should at least play "Video Killed the Radio Star" in its final moments, a nice bookend to MTV.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs. That great American institution, MTV - launched with an English hit. 😁 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buggles
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Toothless Feline 9 months ago
I lived on MTV during my adolescence. I can watch many iconic videos completely in my memory.
Mike F 9 months ago
It used to be, it's just 3 videos and commercials now.
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
We have far greater access to any kind of music than ever, sometimes to the point of being too much. If you can’t find new bands that don’t get radio play, that’s a you problem.
Toothless Feline 9 months ago
It very much depends on what you have access to. Internet radio is a very random prospect, and many stations are just too specific in their genre. Local radio can be great, or it can be like in Columbus, OH, where rock stations keep changing their format to country or Christian. Don't even get me started on Spotify and other music streaming services. Yes, there's a million ways to find new music, and few have the time to parse any reasonable fraction of them.
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I wish my kid could have the Original, Patented, Small City, Sixth Grade Mall Experience™️
— Pick up friend, mom drops you both off. Mom mumbles something unnecessary about strangers but whatever.
— Proceed directly to the food court.
— Eat absolute c**p.
— Go to the first book store. Think about sneaking look at the Naughty Magazines. Chicken out.
— Look at a bunch of clothes you won’t buy.
— Second bookstore. Discover they don’t have The Naughty Magazines, which is fine because they *do* have The Joy of S*x and a bored clerk who doesn’t care what you’re giggling about.
— Use allowance to buy one amazing thing you’ve been saving for. In my case it was a big, fluffy bow for my hair. I was very sophisticated about it.
— Go to the store named something like Chinese Pagoda Trading Inc and look at all the cool things you’ll definitely buy for your first apartment because you will have Money and Taste.
— Go to the Cookie Company and eat a cookie.
— Notice the cute boy/girl/dog and listen to friend talk for at least five minutes about how cute they are.
— Sneak a Coke from the vending machine nobody knows is broken yet.
— Wait for mom to pick you up again and when she’s ten minutes late you call…nobody. You aren’t wasting a coin on a pay phone when she’s not even going to answer because she’s already on her way. People don’t need to worry about it.
— Be silently embarrassed mom listens to 70s easy listening the whole way home.
Ron Man 9 months ago
lol this is a great explanation! Malls were great. They were the first taste of the freedom of adulthood we had as kids. No supervision, a few dollars in your pocket, hanging with your friends at the arcade, hanging with your friends at the food court, walking around checking out stores, deciding to go to the movies... You were safe there, nobody worried that you were at the mall... because it was the mall.
FlamingZombies 9 months ago
Also: No money for the payphone. Call collect and say your name is "(Mom)(Dad)i'mat(place)pickmeup"
CariBear 9 months ago
I grew up in Europe; my friends and I would take a bus or train to a different city to go shopping along the Main Street. In and out of various stores right along one of the busiest streets in the city (cars, street cars, train station at the one end). I miss the freedom of being a teen without the fear. Yes, I was aware of my surroundings and not naive of potential dangers, but I felt safe and comfortable doing this with my friends.
#16
Slamming the phone down in anger.
Erica J 9 months ago
YES!! THIS!!! Hitting the "end call" button is no where near as satisfying as slamming the reciever down.
Marat Singh Farout 9 months ago
I did this but I was so out of practice that I caught my finger in the cradle and smashed my finger,, diluting my visceral pleasure
#17
I miss not being watched 24/7 and having photo, video evidence for everything.
LauraDragonWench 9 months ago
Remember when you could do stupid s**t and only have to relive it in your head? Now, the stupid is out there for all and sundry.
Annik Perrot 9 months ago
LOL, I did plenty of stupid sh*t in the 70s, and some of it still haunts me in the dark of the night but... no proof!
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Friends and family now gone.
Lady Eowyn 9 months ago
As of 2016, I have no living parents. Or any relatives.
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roddy 9 months ago
Me too. And no grandchildren either. I'm sad about that. I can trace my ancestors back to Alfred the Great, but I'd rather have the grandkids.
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I miss dedicated record stores. I loved flipping through all the albums, talking to the employees who knew their stuff - “if you like this band, try this other one”. And, as crazy as it sounds, I miss lining up for concert tickets. I had some of my best times lining up outside of Coconuts Records & Tapes (our local ticket seller) with friends and getting those tickets in my hands. Then hiding them at a friends house so my stepsister couldn’t steal them. Good times!
Toothless Feline 9 months ago
I made so many random instant friends waiting in line for concert tickets. Never saw most of them again, but for that brief time, we bonded over shared love of music.
Roshan Kassan 9 months ago
I miss concerts - where i live, we haven't had a decent concert in well over 20 years
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
They are still around in Australia, but not as many as in the past. The small independent ones are the best. They usually stock a lot of cult classic dvds too.
#20
That smell of a freshly opened cassette tape that was clear.
#21
UNorganized sports.
Used to be we played wiffle ball, threw nerf footballs, fumble rumble, throwing frisbees, riding a bike or walking to the school grounds after hours or on weekends and finding a bunch of kids playing team ditch, playing “butts up” against a wall or making a dirt bike trail with a jump.
Head to the local YMCA to play shuffleboard, carroms, pool, ping pong…
Everywhere you went kids just playing UNorganized sports.
Now by 8th grade if you’re not competitive in a league you simply don’t play sports or games anymore. Even worse kids now practice and play a single sport all year. See so many kids with serious soft tissue injuries by the time they’re 15 from over training a single event. We used to twist ankles, now they tear rotator cuffs.
I remember we used to have the more talented kids have to play dodge ball on their knees so everyone could have fun. What a crazy idea for the better kids to make it fun for the less capable kids because… sports are supposed to be fun!
Having to be the best at sports has really been a huge change.
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
Most sports and game have been ruined by parents. They push and push , travel teams, why so their child can get a scholarship or maybe even a professional contract. In most cases it ain't going to happen. Back off and let your kids enjoy their childhood, it only happens once in a lifetime
Buttrnutsquash 9 months ago
I remember back in the 80's in the summer, our local public school gym would have a morning group for the younger kids playing games, making crafts, having a great old time, and in the afternoon, it was for the older kids outside, doing sports - whoever turned up that day got to decide what they did - track, soccer, dodgeball. you name it, So many schools in our region had these programs and they were FREE! I spent my mornings volunteering with the younger kids, then playing with the older ( was a preteen at the time) and loved the experience. I was then introduced to the Boys & Girls club up the road and let me tell you, it was a BLAST!
nottheactualphoto 9 months ago
We played stickball, stoop ball and fist. All variations on the baseball theme, now that I think about it.
#22
I miss 24 hour diners that didn’t serve the same corporate b/s food available everywhere else.
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
Yes, but think of what the cost of going out for a meal would be
LA Murphy 9 months ago
Most in America get all their food from Sysco and have the same uninspired menu that all tastes the same. It's why I don't bother dining out. I am always disappointed by the quality at a high price.
Colleen Glim 9 months ago
You aren’t going to the right places. Experiment. Go outside your comfort zone. You might be surprised
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Sears catalog at Christmas time.
LauraDragonWench 9 months ago
JC Penney, Sears, and the occasional - and the ultimate out-of-reach shopping experience - Spiegel catalog throughout the year, the Sears Wish Book at Christmas; the smell and feel of the paper used; the heft of those catalogs. I miss that so much!
Data1001 9 months ago
As a young boy just hitting puberty, the bra section of the big catalogs was always something to look forward to. ;-)
Beth Wheeler 9 months ago
Sears and JC Penney Christmas wish books. Would go through them with my kids to see what they were interested in and make lists. They knew they would not get everything on their lists. When they were old enough to do it alone I told them to write down the page numbers.
#24
Hope.
Petra Peitsch 9 months ago
Growing up in an eastern-european country under a commnunist regim, I have to say, there was not much hope.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
I too live in an authoritarian state where the leaders are just puppets to Russian imperialism. I too have little hope for my country, the United States.
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Gen X. I grew up without hope - on account of the assumption that the nuclear war was inevitable and would get me long before I got to this age. Since that doesn't seem to have happened, I gained some hope which hasn't gone away, not even recently.
Kenneth Barns 9 months ago (edited)
Preach brother. It's a damned miracle that the world didn't end in September 1983 (thanks Lt.Col. Petrov!) or November 1983 (the Able Archer war games - look it up). "When the Wind Blows" (1982), "The Day After" (Nov 1983), and "Threads" (Sep 1984) were the backdrop to my primary school years. Public policy only became more sane after the recognition that "nuclear winter" meant even a successful first strike without any counterstrike would be an act of s*****e/omnicide ("Conference on the Long-Term Worldwide Consequences of Nuclear War" in Washington DC Oct/Nov 1983, followed by the wider publication of the keynote findings in the popular book "The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War" in early 1984). I won a local regional public speaking competition--aged 11--in 1986 summarising the findings of "The Cold and the Dark": that this is how everyone in this room is going to die, and there is nothing that can be done about it. No kid should have to deal with that c**p.
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I miss a time when the internet and smart phones didn't exist. Life was, just, simpler and less stressful.
axnyslie 9 months ago
This is Nostalgia Mandela Effect. What you really miss being young, but for the most part the pre-Internet past was much less convenient. Banking, paying bills, niche shopping, scheduling appointments, GPS maps, planning vacations, booking flights, selling used goods, fact-checking information, developing photos, etc... Every time I solo travel around the world I am reminded this would have been extremely hard or impossible or just plain dangerous 30-40 years ago.
JinxBox 9 months ago
My son lives and travels without an intelligent internet phone. His adventures are awesome tho yes he has a computer to take out when paying bills or other is compulsory. But travel-wise I do recommend trying to go with the flow without checking everything out before-hand on the internet. The world is not so dangerous and by asking directions/rides/recommendations from people he always find a lot of friends while travelling. He is also real fit because he walks to places to buy stuff. Both my parent solo-travelled around Asia before the internet, not impossible then and still a possibility 🤔
Load More Replies... Mike F 9 months ago
While I miss the pre-phone days, I wouldn't go back. I manage my banking and my bills on my phone along with my emails. I rarely turn on my computer anymore and I don't miss it. That's just me though, if someone else wants to return to the days of mailing checks to pay bills and whatnot, more power to them.
Unkeptwoman 9 months ago
I don't even have a laptop anymore. Paying for services and banking is in person or from my phone.
Load More Replies... CariBear 9 months ago
I miss the internet before adds took over; I miss searching for something random or obscure and receiving 15+ good websites right away, not 40+ suggested Ad sites that may or may not be relevant to my search; I miss sharing stories/poetry and art/photography without having to pay a subscription fee or to make sure it is licensed so someone else won't steal it.
The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
Life may have been simpler but it wasn’t easier and I don’t know that it was necessarily less stressful.
Petra Peitsch 9 months ago
Why do you even need a smartphone? Like really ... for what? I don't have one, just a normal handy.
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
Well if you don't have a computer or tablet?
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Cost of living. My family was poor back then, I can't imagine having to factor in internet, phone, subscription services.
Owning things, vs digital copies. Making mix tapes. Affordable movies ($2 Tuesdays, anyone?). Non franchise movies. More independent stores, fewer chains.
Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
Told Dish to pound sand. Bought an OTA antenna for the cost of one month's subscription. The amount of OTA programming is incredible. Used to be 4 or 5, now 30 channels.
Lady Eowyn 9 months ago
Most of the over the air channel I get are spanish language/always infomercial/home shopping/ true crime.
#27
Civility, common sense, friendly neighbors.
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
My neighbour has been a jerk since the good ole days of the 90s, and if anything has gotten worse.
David 9 months ago
I still have those things. Same neighbors for 22 years (except one house changed) and I trust all of them.
Richard Iachetta 9 months ago
Choose your friends well and you will get a taste of all three. I've been around since the 50's and some bad things they didn't hide, like racism, others like a lack of common sense they tried to hide. And the friendly neighbors were only friendly in front of you. Behind your back was a whole other story. The good old days weren't that good and the bad new days aren't that much worse. enjoy what you have and make the most of it
Karl 9 months ago
Our neighbours are all fine (and all over 60) and we look out for each other, have copies of each others' house keys, etc. It's the 20 and 30 somethings over the road who never acknowledge a friendly wave or a "Hello". Perhaps they're living their lives completely online and see no need to interact with those living across the road? Seems odd (and a bit rude) to me.
Little Bit 9 months ago
I miss having friendly neighbours. In the street I grew up in, the door was always open, the kettle was always on and everybody looked out for one another. When I bought my first house, although I was only I my mid 20s the elderly lady who lived next door became one of my best friends. The next door neighbours I have now are horrendous, always swearing and shouting at their kids.
Beth Wheeler 9 months ago
I've had all but 3 of my neighbors for the last 37 years. Somebody new moved in next to my SIL 4 houses down, don't know what happened to Michelle that lived there. and whoever the ppl are on the other side of the road that moved in a couple of years ago.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
"Civility, common sense, friendly neighbors." - they all exist around me, here in NW England. Gen X, with Gen X and older neigbours.
#28
Television specials that everyone watched at the same time. You'd get all keyed up because some movie or made-for-TV thing would be aired on a certain day at a certain time. Then there was a special intro graphic, maybe even a song, to let you know it was time to gather 'round. Not just stuff like Rudolph or Charlie Brown but also "the network television premiere of ___" or the yearly airing of The Wizard of Oz.
Ron Man 9 months ago
Yep. Or when schools would assign those specials as mandatory viewing like the Roots miniseries or The Day After
Marie Clear 9 months ago
Yes, and Roots - which aired on network TV during prime time - had uncensored naked breasts . HEAR THAT BP?!? N A K E D B R E A S T S! And no one watching died, or turned into s*x fiends, or spontaneously went to hell. Most of the kids I knew in grade school and highschool watched it with their entire family. It was like a video version of National Geographic, which was also UNCENSORED.
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#29
Arcades. Real independent arcades with cabinet video games, pinball, foosball, and pool tables. A place where you could safely hang out with your friends (or by yourself) and keep yourself entertained (and fed with a snack) for $2-4. I miss those places.
Data1001 9 months ago
Where the heck did you live? In the 1970s where I lived, pinball, pool tables and video games were 25c each, and if you were decent enough, you could rack up free games on the video consoles. Soda pop was typically somewhere between 50c and a dollar, and you could often get a pizza slice for a buck or so.
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#30
Paper maps.
Loves Baby Soft
Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific
Encyclopedias
Phone books
MTV with only music
School House Rock, even though you can still get it I’m sure it could use a lot more episodes
After School Specials
Edit; Adding malls. Big malls with multiple levels, Hot Dog on a Stick in the food court.
Beth Wheeler 9 months ago
I was given a bottle of Love's Baby Soft for Christmas by my 2nd Mama. I very rarely wear perfume because of allergies & have to have light scents like it. She saw it in Walmart and remembered that I used to wear it & hadn't seen it in a long time
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
The school house rock dude was the piano player at my then boyfriends mom's wedding. Not very nice and didn't play any school house rock :(
Uncle Panda 9 months ago (edited)
"Hot dog on a stick!" said CMOT Dibbler, "Well, mostly dog."
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
I continue to have paper maps. I've always loathed big shopping malls.
Ron Man 9 months ago
Encyclopedia and other reference books were great. So much lies and misinformation online that I can't imagine trying to research a topic for a report now days. You could put whatever nonsense you wanted to into a report back then and as long as you had a reference book listed as the source, you were good.
Susan Reid Smith 9 months ago
The phone book in Tonopah Nevada that had "Brothel" ( house of happy endings) listed after "Bridal."
#31
Roller skating rinks.
Ruth Watry 9 months ago
Roller skating to "We are the Champions" in 1980 when US beat Russia in Olympic Hockey
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
I think one of the ones I used to go to still exists, but last time I went, when I was in my 20s and babysitting some kids (2010s), I discovered how painful my legs get from skating.
ManuelQue 9 months ago
Roller skates are a lot heavier than ice skates. I went roller skating as a kid, loved it, and wanted to go again the next day. Dad took me to the rink and I couldn't move due to the extreme pain from the day before.
Load More Replies... Ron Man 9 months ago
And with elementary school skating parties. My school would have a skating party after school once a month for 5th and 6th grade students. School buses would take you there and drop you off, then your parents had to get you afterwards. Cost about $2 for 3 hours of hanging with friends, loud music, video games and bad snackbar food.
#32
Hyperpartisanism makes me crazy. Nobody is accepting of different opinions anymore and are actively attacking others who don’t think like them. It’s so stressful. Where did the middle go?
Luke Branwen 9 months ago
Sorry but I'm not going to "accept a different opinion" if that "opinion" involves stripping certain groups of their rights, advocating genocide, controlling women's bodies etc. The ones in the middle always support the perpetrator, not the victims.
XenoMurph 9 months ago
In the 80s and 90s we felt that the racists and sexists were older, less educated, and gradually dying out. We spoke out against them, and stood up for the oppressed, but it felt like that's where society was heading, that there was a natural progression towards equality. The ones in the middle often didn't speak up, but you also knew they didn't "support" the bigots. Sadly the bigots seem to have got their voice back. We are losing the progress, and the middle ground are turning back the other way.
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meeeeeeeeeeee 9 months ago
This is because the media only shows extremist opinions from both sides.
Geoffrey Scott 9 months ago
Oh...trust me we're here. Marginalized by both partisan clowns, but were we are.
The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
We weren’t nearly as polarized as we are now. With all of the right-wing extremism (yes, there is some left-wing extremism out there but it isn’t currently having any noticeable success), there is definitely going to be less agreement.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
The middle seemed to have vanished not long after Mrs T got into power in 1979. 😁
#33
Anticipation: The instantaneous world of streaming, on-demand media means we rarely have to “wait” for the next show or song etc. My kids have no idea HOW EXCITING Saturday morning cartoons were because that was the ONLY time we could watch them.
Radio programs like King Biscuit Power Hour or the individual DJs, who played a wide variety of music.
The word of mouth for parties. Like, we somehow just knew where to be when we were supposed to be there without cell phones or social media. I feel like we were more responsible because we didn’t have the option of texting someone five minutes before an event and canceling on them.
#34
My dad giving me $5 at the pool hall to buy two beers for him and my godfather, a pack of smokes from the machine and still having change left to play space invaders
Hell, just being allowed to buy two beers at the bar and the tender trusting that I would bring them to my dad and not sue them is a bygone era.
Existing 9 months ago
My husband’s dad would write a note to the jiffy store guy asking to sell the cigarettes to him. I can’t image a 10yr old kid getting cigarettes
BookFanatic 9 months ago
Same. My mom sent me to the store with a signed blank check (!!) and a note from her.
Load More Replies... Karl 9 months ago
When I was a kid in the early 70s, neighbours would ask me to get their cigs for them from the corner shop. Everyone knew everyone else so they were happy to sell them to a 7 year old. If I wanted a cig myself, we could just buy them from cig machines - four of us would each contribute 5p, we'd get 10 Players' Gold Leaf and then smoke them in the nearby field undercover of gorse bushes.
#35
I miss no one talking about or giving a f**k about politics.
Marat Singh Farout 9 months ago
We didn't have convicted felons as president back then, corrupt and maybe headed to prison, but not someone that really should be in jail but isn't because he's rich and has even richer backers
cerinamroth 9 months ago
The problem now is the break in the social contract. Politicians don’t even claim to be accountable to the people they serve any more. This is what happens when corporations have more power and less legal accountability than nation states.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Gen X here. Talking about politics and people giving a F**K about politics was a big thing in my part of the world. I mean we had stuff like this kicking off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech
cerinamroth 9 months ago
I remember writing about Gorbachev, glasnost and perestroika in my holiday diary when I was about 9. (I’m from the UK.) My family has always talked about politics, as I’m sure many have!
Mel in Georgia 9 months ago
Never remember talking politics with my high school friends. I now hate knowing about their extreme views.
Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
I miss a time when I didn't have to give multiple fvcks about politics on a daily basis. My fvck reserves are just about tapped out now, and I need those fvcks for other things.
Huddo's sister 9 months ago
Plenty of politics in casual conversations back when I was younger. That's how I learned about how it works and what I wanted to vote for when I finally turned 18. The way it's spoken about seems different to the US though. Random people wouldn't just start yelling at each other because of what party they go for. Maybe it's because we have compulsory voting or maybe how it's taught in school but it's more about the policies than a particular party. Mind you, it used to be a given that whatever your parents went for you would do the same, but my mum's generation pushed back on this.
veirdbuttrue 9 months ago
Voting now is not about policies, unfortunately. It is a cult of personality.
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tee-lena 9 months ago
Nope. We will fight for our rights. Loudly for those in the back
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#36
I miss reading the newspaper.
Mike F 9 months ago
Who can afford them? They are so awfully expensive it's unreal. Before I left the Detroit area I used to buy both dailies and read them then do the puzzles. It would cost way too much to try that now.
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Huddo's sister 9 months ago
They aren't all gone. I bet you could find one to buy if you wanted. My dad still gets them delivered on Saturday and Sunday. The only thing that is different is that it went from broadsheet to tabloid size, but the content quality is the same as far as I can tell.
#37
Neighbor kids knocking on the front door to see if I could play. I almost always could, as long as I was home when the street lights came on.
My kids have never had this experience. These days, the norm is for pre-arranged play dates set up by the parents. Spontaneity and independence are so absent from childhood these days. It makes me sad.
Ron Man 9 months ago
Or not even knocking on the door. Your friends riding their bikes in circles in front of your house until either you see them or someone else sees them and tells you they're out there. Then you get on your bike and you're gone for 10 hours to parts unknown.
Nagatha 9 months ago
You forgot to mention something. You are on your bike for 10 hours usually barefoot, in shorts but in sight of your house near dark so you won't miss the porch light!
Load More Replies... Huddo's sister 9 months ago
When I didn't feel like going out, I had my mum tell the neighbours that I was grounded!
Little Bit 9 months ago
A few years ago my youngest daughter asked if I ever had play dates when I was her age. I replied no I just went into the street and played with whoever else was out there and if nobody was out playing I would go round to my friends' houses and ask if they were coming out. I think it it sad that you virtually have to make an appointment with other parents so that your kids can play together.
CariBear 9 months ago
I grew up in a cul-de-sac with fields at the end. The neighbors at the end owned the fields; when not actively in use, they would let use have free run of the fields and hay bales :) Hide and seek in a corn field, flying kites in an open field, collecting pottery shards or other treasures from a freshly tilled field :) I miss those days
BookFanatic 9 months ago
I'd start it off with my next door neighbor and we'd just go down the block collecting everyone as we went.
The Darkest Timeline 9 months ago
I’m glad my kids can just get together with friends at the park or our house or wherever. We don’t try to micromanage their time, we just ask that they communicate.
#38
I miss being disconnected. Having the world's collected information at my fingertips is nice, but f**k- there is a camera and a recording device and a performing g*****n monkey EVERYWHERE these days. Used to be you could sometimes just go somewhere and be cool. Now everything is on the internet.
martin734 9 months ago
Being constantly connected is a choice. If you have become so dependent on technology that you cannot function without it, that is a choice you have made. Turn your dam*ed phone off and do what you want to do for a few hours. Get out of the town or city and go somewhere fun.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago (edited)
Gen X again. Turn off your phone. Take yourself into the countryside. Walk up a hill. Avoid the sheep muck. then sit down, enjoy the the heather, the peace and the birds as you enjoy your sandwiches and the hot tea from your themos. Works for me. Pick the right hill, your trip won't be on the internet - not even here in densly populated NW England/NE Wales/
#39
Most of all I miss that we all had great hope in the future. Hope that we could make things better for everyone. Before being hit with the reality of just how outnumbered we are and how nobody wanted anything to change.
Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago
Gen X here. I grew up being pretty sure nuclear war was going to get me. Hope? I had none. Try watching: https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20190925-was-threads-the-scariest-tv-show-ever-made
Kenneth Barns 9 months ago (edited)
Yep. See my response further up the list. Life is a bit of a s******w (feces demonstration) now, especially for my young adult kids, and the impacts of climate change will impose an increasing misery burden in the years and decades ahead, but the fact that we all survived the last decade of the Cold War, and so even the very existence of my kids, is an expression of hope that I am VERY grateful to have had the opportunity to enjoy.
Load More Replies... CariBear 9 months ago
At 8-11 I had hope and dreams galore, 11-14 typical teenage angst and feelings of being unsure, 14-17 would not have thought I'd make it to 25, 17-25 so many changes I THOUGHT I knew what I wanted (career wise) and what I was working towards (life goals/relationship). 25 and on .........Nothing I planned for happened the way I had hoped, and I still don't quite know what I am doing but I try my best; although current social and political situations leave me feeling very sad and unhopeful :(
#40
I miss the library and how you would need to work for knowledge. You would wonder something and it would take time and work to find the answer. I love google but before google I was google. And people respected me for it.
Marat Singh Farout 9 months ago
They have movies on disc, books on pads, and books tons of books. Use them before trump totally defunds them
Scott Rackley 9 months ago
I got a free goof off period by volunteering as a senior. I occasionally had to restack books and help find something, but it was mostly peace and quiet.
Susan Reid Smith 9 months ago
I spent so much time at our local library, and then worked there for a couple of years.
Admiralu 9 months ago
You can search the library from home with hoopla or libby
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I miss renting movies from a store. I miss the excitement of grabbing a new release off the shelf before all copies got checked out. I miss making friends with the people who worked there and having them hold the first returned copy so you can come get it without waiting. I miss standing there, reading the back of the display copy to see if it was a movie you wanted to watch.
I miss really catchy ad jingles like the ones for Big Red and Double Mint Gum and Coke’s “I’d like to teach the world to sing…”
I miss catching lightning bugs to try and make a lantern.
I miss talking on the phone because cell phones and texting didn’t exist.
Beak Hookage 9 months ago
The guy who worked at my local video hire joint was such a champ he not only helped me pick good movies but also saved my dog!
Beth Wheeler 9 months ago
Redbox, we rent from Redbox if there's nothing on Hulu, Netflix, Disney or any of the free streaming channels that we want to watch.
#42
I want my MTV.
#43
1. Truth in advertising and news
2. Malls
3. Being able to actually survive on a single minimum wage job
4. Anonymity.
David 9 months ago
Which decade / planet do you think had truth in advertising? Is it the one that said smoking was good for you? I don't remember much advertising from the 60s, but I do remember that even in the 70s ads were full of hyperbole.
CariBear 9 months ago
Listen to some of the old (1930-1950's) radio programs; sponsored by cigarette company intros and war ads (ex. Camel - Abbott and Costello)
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Playing outside instead of kids always busy with their phones. Less information about what happened every second of the world made it (looking back) less stressful. Better quality of education, less quality regarding healthcare.
CariBear 9 months ago
I am so grateful I grew up with an even balance of nature/outdoors/imagination play and technology (TV and the first NES - no PC's or internet); I played so much with friends and my dad and I spent hours with Super Mario and Link/Zelda :) and we also did a lot of family activities (mom, dad and me - extended family was on the other side of the world LOL)
#45
I miss not knowing every d**n thing from every "celebrity" I never cared about to begin with.
Also, and I might get c**p for this, but I worked in Toys R Us and Sam Goody. I took those places for granted but still had fun but thinking back, those were awesome places.
David 9 months ago
Lately BP seems to be leaning heavily into trash gossip about trash people. Both celebrities and random "AITA for selling my GF's car with her puppy inside while she was at work?" kind of articles.
Multa Nocte 9 months ago
I wish more people who don't like them would downvote them.
Load More Replies... David 9 months ago
I kind of miss the National Enquirer of the 70s. They've always had celebrity trash but back in the early 70s when most folks didn't know much about photo editing they usually had at least one aliens story. Real headlines - Mystery Blasts Linked to UFOs, and Demons Terrorize Family. I think Weekly World News leaned more heavily into the (should be) obviously fake news. Like the infamous Bat Boy of the 90s. Once in a while my grandmother would get a copy and I can remember laughing until I was in tears at some of the articles.
Load More Replies... nottheactualphoto 9 months ago
Sam Goody! Also, there's a whole lot of records at Record Town.
#46
Zines, mix tapes, talking on the phone, cheaper gas, high school friends, better music.
#47
Perms. I hate my straight hair. Getting perms weren’t fun, but I enjoyed having some body to my hair (not talking about teeny tiny frizzy curls).
My body. Oh, to be as “fat” as I was back then as what I thought I was.
JinxBox 9 months ago
Yeah most of these posts have been quite stupid.... What is stopping these people?! Go, do, explore, get that perm or go skinny dipping if that's was you miss doing!
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#48
I miss sitting at a bar where people who don’t know each other actually make eye contact and have a conversation.
JinxBox 9 months ago
People you seem so helpless here -just go to a bar and don't take out your phone and this will happen by just making eye-contact with that other person who isn't on their phone. At our local we sit around and talk and if I need to check my phone it is polite to say "excuse me this won't take long"
#49
Metal band-aid containers.
#50
Pension plans.
Michael Largey 9 months ago
My dad worked for a major corporation and then died suddenly, leaving a wife and five young children. The corporation told my mother "Sorry, ma'am, but you have to live to collect a pension" and just put the money in its pocket. How did we survive? Not well and not happily.
ElfVibratorGlitter 9 months ago
I have a pension plan! Currently. I mean over a third of my salary disappears, but in 24 years I can retire and get a few hundred bucks a month.
Tropical Tarot 9 months ago
My dad had one. He retired in the mid-90s and was still getting it when he died in 2020. My mom gets a widow's portion of it now. She can survive on it without her social security or her pension.
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What do you think ?
Leslie Victor 9 months ago
I think my generation was the last free spirited generation and i miss it all...i am not biased, i like computers as a tool, but i would give it up for a time machine...
CariBear 9 months ago (edited)
Same, I feel like I had the best balance of no tech (outdoors, imagination, friends in person - not online) and basic tech (TV and original NES)
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Wendy Miller 9 months ago
I miss the dollar theaters. The ones where you got to see movies for like a $1 or $2. Under 18 dance clubs. The disconnect from all the BS.
zovjraar me 9 months ago
i miss skipping school and spending all day at the $1 movie theatre.
Load More Replies... axnyslie 9 months ago (edited)
I miss a plain simple 9-5 job where I punch in do my work, punch out and get a paycheck to pay my bills. That's it. Not micromanaged to death, no performance reviews, constantly setting goals, always expected to go "above and beyond", team builder workshops, and on and on. It's never enough to just want to do an honest day's work, you are expected to give your life to the corporation and "do more with less". Not to mention the insane amount of hurdles you have to go through just to get hired somewhere.
Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
I miss playing outside with the neighbor's kids and throwing lawn darts at each other for fun.
Brian Droste 9 months ago
Imwas just thinking about these. The old stand up arcades games. Where I grew up didn't have a regular arcade game store but I just remember when the fair came to town they had a tent with the arcades in it. I was a young adult at the time. Also the local mall would have some arcade games in them.
Leslie Victor 9 months ago
I think my generation was the last free spirited generation and i miss it all...i am not biased, i like computers as a tool, but i would give it up for a time machine...
CariBear 9 months ago (edited)
Same, I feel like I had the best balance of no tech (outdoors, imagination, friends in person - not online) and basic tech (TV and original NES)
Load More Replies... Wendy Miller 9 months ago
I miss the dollar theaters. The ones where you got to see movies for like a $1 or $2. Under 18 dance clubs. The disconnect from all the BS.
zovjraar me 9 months ago
i miss skipping school and spending all day at the $1 movie theatre.
Load More Replies... axnyslie 9 months ago (edited)
I miss a plain simple 9-5 job where I punch in do my work, punch out and get a paycheck to pay my bills. That's it. Not micromanaged to death, no performance reviews, constantly setting goals, always expected to go "above and beyond", team builder workshops, and on and on. It's never enough to just want to do an honest day's work, you are expected to give your life to the corporation and "do more with less". Not to mention the insane amount of hurdles you have to go through just to get hired somewhere.
Chris the Bobcat 9 months ago
I miss playing outside with the neighbor's kids and throwing lawn darts at each other for fun.
Brian Droste 9 months ago
Imwas just thinking about these. The old stand up arcades games. Where I grew up didn't have a regular arcade game store but I just remember when the fair came to town they had a tent with the arcades in it. I was a young adult at the time. Also the local mall would have some arcade games in them.
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