Kids playing in the streets.
Kids having semi autonomy.
Cheap rent.
Glass ~~fold~~ food and beverage bottles and jars.
A middle class.
Hope.
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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
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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.
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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.
Same mate. The jury is still out on that one.
I think an actual left wing political party as an option would be a bloody good start.
I agree with you, but I'm too old and worn down to do it, and nobody else seems to be in much of a hurry either.
I don't think it's coming in my lifetime.
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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
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Pay phones
The white dog poop from the seventies.
Ahh no all the dog shit on the ground around our way are dark colours.
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.
Children building guys and demanding money.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/a-penny-for-the-guy.html
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
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.
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.
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Edit: came from all, didn't look at the comm, not from the UK.
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US
Fucking self absorbed nation
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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
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Trousers that fit :-(
Blockbuster.
mouldy ceilings and weird smells of rain and soot coming from the chimney
Sense.
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/
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Telephones
Seeing people on roller skates or skateboards
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