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What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore?
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Porno mags in hedgerows
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.
Blockbuster.
Sense.
Seeing people on roller skates or skateboards
Kids playing in the streets.
Kids having semi autonomy.
Cheap rent.
Glass ~~fold~~ food and beverage bottles and jars.
A middle class.
Hope.
Or to keep us docile/fighting each other while they build their arks and bunkers.
Jumpers for goal posts.
"We're all middle class now"
John Prescott - 1997
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.
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.
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Deep snow... like up past the hedges
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Pay phones
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The white dog poop from the seventies.
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Pedo’s in jail.
That was a television, not a jail cell.
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.
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
Children building guys and demanding money.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-penny-for-the-guy.html
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Video rental shops. Going into town to pick a movie for the weekend used to be a weekly thing for us.
Cassettes
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