Kids playing in the streets.
Kids having semi autonomy.
Cheap rent.
Glass ~~fold~~ food and beverage bottles and jars.
A middle class.
Hope.
Man, I miss hope. It was so great.
There is always hope, and things have always been quite bad one way or another. You're looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses, and forgetting how bad it was too
Yes, but it's not that things in the past were perfect, it's that you could identify a general trend of things getting better. Sure, there were still huge problems, but you could believe it was just problems we hadn't gotten to yet. Now we live in a world that's actively going backwards.
I get what you mean.
Personally I am unsure of whether it's one of two things
Things are getting better now as they were back then but now I am older and more cynical so I don't accept they really are improving as a whole. Much like many people my age probably did when I was younger.
Things are getting worse and we're all fucked.
I have absolutely no faith and see zero evidence of it being 1. I'd love to be proven wrong though.
It's a nice town. But it's so small you could almost miss it as you drove through.
Or to keep us docile/fighting each other while they build their arks and bunkers.
Glass fold ?
Food and beverage.
Jumpers for goal posts.
"We're all middle class now"
John Prescott - 1997
Deep snow... like up past the hedges
Pay phones
The white dog poop from the seventies.
Ahh no all the dog shit on the ground around our way are dark colours.
they used to put ash in the pet food in america and so the poops would turn white and linger
Ash in the pet food? Did they hate pets? 🐶
In the UK, there's still a small amount of "crude ash" in most cat/dog food - but I guess not as much as there used to be. They also used to use a lot more ground-up-bone and other fillers.
It's not necessarily a hatred of animals, it's just the manufacturers perhaps love money a bit more than they "love" animals, and filling the food with ash and dust and stuff is cheaper.
I think I remember seeing white dog poo in the 80s/90s. It was easier to spot and avoid when walking down a dark ginnel.
No they loved Money. Still do, too.
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.
Pedo’s in jail.
Children building guys and demanding money.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-penny-for-the-guy.html
Man, I haven't seen a bonfire with a straw effigy in years
Porno mags in hedgerows
Video rental shops. Going into town to pick a movie for the weekend used to be a weekly thing for us.
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
Cassettes
I still buy cassettes! New ones too!
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.
Edit: came from all, didn't look at the comm, not from the UK.
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US
Fucking self absorbed nation
Wrong forum, yankee
A windscreen covered with insects
Because all of the insects are dead
You ought to see my car... they're all on the front of that one
Trousers that fit :-(
mouldy ceilings and weird smells of rain and soot coming from the chimney
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/
Blockbuster.
Sense.
Telephones
Seeing people on roller skates or skateboards
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