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LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 7 days ago

What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore?

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What's something common from your childhood that you never see anymore?

LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Ask UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 7 days ago
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    Porno mags in hedgerows

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    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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      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.

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    Discarded ring pulls from drinks cans

    Oil-puddle stains in car parking bays

    • essell@lemmy.world
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      White dog poo on the street.

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        A staple of 90s observational comedians

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    Amega and Acorn? NES, Master System, etc made sort of come backs with retro stuff. Not so much Amega, and certainly not Acorn.

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      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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        There’s AmigaKit’s A600GS, but that feels a bit less polished compared to the A500mini

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        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!

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          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.

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            I’ve seen very cheap MegaDrives clones, with real Sega games, somewhere. Maybe it wasn’t Aldi.

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    Pedo’s in jail.

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      That was a television, not a jail cell.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Blockbuster.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    Cassettes

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      I still buy cassettes! New ones too!

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    Sense.

  • Tramort@programming.dev
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    A windscreen covered with insects

    Because all of the insects are dead

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.uk
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      You ought to see my car… they’re all on the front of that one

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      You definitely see a lot less of them. Some of that was intentional, at least in the US, as the “love bug” problem was supposedly something that we caused and the solution was to spread sterilized bugs that would mingle with the regular bugs and prevent the population booms. No idea how well it worked, it could just be that our overuse of pesticides did the real work.

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    Edit: came from all, didn’t look at the comm, not from the UK.

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      /c/askuk

      US

      Fucking self absorbed nation

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      Wrong forum, yankee

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    Trousers that fit :-(

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    mouldy ceilings and weird smells of rain and soot coming from the chimney

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    deleted by creator

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.world
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    Seeing people on roller skates or skateboards

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    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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        Or to keep us docile/fighting each other while they build their arks and bunkers.

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      Jumpers for goal posts.

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      Glass fold ?

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        Food and beverage.

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      “We’re all middle class now”

      John Prescott - 1997

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      1, 2 could be explained by pedophiles are on the prowl, plus people have IPAD/youtube kids now.

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        Paedophiles are no more prevalent now than they were. The fear of paedophiles is through the roof though.

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        Now they’re grooming your kids through the iPads, en masse.

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      Man, I miss hope. It was so great.

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        It’s a nice town. But it’s so small you could almost miss it as you drove through.

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        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

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          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.

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            I get what you mean.

            Personally I am unsure of whether it’s one of two things

            1. 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.

            2. Things are getting worse and we’re all fucked.

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              I have absolutely no faith and see zero evidence of it being 1. I’d love to be proven wrong though.

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                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.

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                  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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