Things That Disappeared Without You Noticing

[BelUwUga]

Funny Quizno's was mentioned. While there are still a few around, they are rare nowadays. Subway crushed them.

Subway didn't kill Quizno's. Quizno's owners killed it. Not only were they a franchise model but they had some of the highest fees. There was no geographic protection. The big kicker was all kitchen equipment (leased from corporate and maintained by them) and ingredients went through corporate middlemen to basically cancel out any profit the franchisees could have made. IIRC there was some kind of court action that basically undid a lot of the onerous requirements but the lion's share of stores had long since closed.

 

[I am the Muffin Maker]

I noticed that too. Daddy long legs used to be everywhere when I was a kid, and I don't think I've seen a single one in over a decade.

But these horrible things are super common now:View attachment 3033560

and I swear I didn't start seeing them until around like 2012ish

They're invasive (brown marmorated stink bug, thought to be introduced from China and first seen in Pennsylvania), and not particularly harmless because they hurt fruit crops, they have caused billions in damage.

 

[theshitposter]

Going back to your old youtube playlist to find almost 20% of the videos are gone.

Copy the links and search them in double quotes on google. You'll at least get the titles back

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

Payphones. They're kinda redundant with mobile phones nowadays, but you know.

 

[Shiny Shroodle]

Wonka brand of candies. I realized I haven't seen the little Wonka logo on Nerds, Laffy Taffy, Gobstoppers, etc. in a long time. According to the web, it was rebranded as "Nestlé Candy Shop" then eventually sold to Ferrara like every other candy it seems.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Public payphones. Lived in 3 states over the past year and still haven't seen them. I can see the discoloration on the wall where they used to be, or sometimes the enclosed privacy box is there but no phone.

I've seen one growing up and it wasn't taken down until around 2010

Subway didn't kill Quizno's. Quizno's owners killed it. Not only were they a franchise model but they had some of the highest fees. There was no geographic protection. The big kicker was all kitchen equipment (leased from corporate and maintained by them) and ingredients went through corporate middlemen to basically cancel out any profit the franchisees could have made. IIRC there was some kind of court action that basically undid a lot of the onerous requirements but the lion's share of stores had long since closed.

fucking hell I'm going to have to take a Harold and Kumar-esque trip if I want to get Quiznos ever again arent I

 

[BelUwUga]

I've seen one growing up and it wasn't taken down until around 2010

fucking hell I'm going to have to take a Harold and Kumar-esque trip if I want to get Quiznos ever again arent I

I'm down for quiznos adventure! You driving or me?

 

[The Cunting Death]

I'm down for quiznos adventure! You driving or me?

I'll drive if you cover gas.

 

[BelUwUga]

I'll drive if you cover gas.

Eurobeat, vocaloid, and nightcore on the playlist please and I'll bring enough ganja to make Willie Nelson jelly

 

[The Cunting Death]

Eurobeat, vocaloid, and nightcore on the playlist please and I'll bring enough ganja to make Willie Nelson jelly

Sure thing fam

 

[lady stoneheart]

But these horrible things are super common now:View attachment 3033560

and I swear I didn't start seeing them until around like 2012ish

these fuckers are all over my house. i never saw one until like a year or two ago and now i sometimes catch one every day. they’re stink bugs too so i’m afraid of squishing them and have to catch them super gently- so they don’t make my house smell- before transporting and murdering them outside. i hate them so much they seem almost impossible to get rid of

 

[Pissmaster]

these fuckers are all over my house. i never saw one until like a year or two ago and now i sometimes catch one every day. they’re stink bugs too so i’m afraid of squishing them and have to catch them super gently- so they don’t make my house smell- before transporting and murdering them outside. i hate them so much they seem almost impossible to get rid of

Catch them in toilet paper and flush them as fast as you can

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

Payphones. They're kinda redundant with mobile phones nowadays, but you know.

Here in the UK they've been largely converted to resuscitation stations (at least in the countryside - niggers in the city would just destroy/abuse them.)

 

[The Un-Clit]

Payphones. They're kinda redundant with mobile phones nowadays, but you know.

They're still around but more in areas where people have a chance of being somewhere without a mobile but NEED to call someone like airports and bus or train terminals. You can still find 'courtesy cab' phones in some malls and major grocery chains too.

BelUwUga said:

Subway didn't kill Quizno's. Quizno's owners killed it. Not only were they a franchise model but they had some of the highest fees. There was no geographic protection. The big kicker was all kitchen equipment (leased from corporate and maintained by them) and ingredients went through corporate middlemen to basically cancel out any profit the franchisees could have made. IIRC there was some kind of court action that basically undid a lot of the onerous requirements but the lion's share of stores had long since closed.

Thanks, Fam! I had no idea about this. Every former Quizno's seemed to die as soon as a Subway went up near it, or else were replaced by one after going tits up so it seemed the logical deduction.

There is still a Quizno's within walking distance of my house. I think I should appreciate it more and buy dinner there more often.

 

[NyQuilninja]

I had a zoomer not believe me about the number of butterflies and bees I saw growing up and it made me actually sick to my stomach.
That's the kind of difference you'd expect to see between grandparents and their grandkids, not something this fast.

Woollybear Caterpillar​

Use to see them in near endless fields. Now I almost never see them

 

[HEXbox Carousel]

where'd the fucking headphone jack go on all the phones? i hate bluetooth shit because it's one more device i need to remember to charge.

 

[L50LasPak]

Christmas lights and the season in general. At major retail stores when I was a kid Kroger, Meijer, and Big K had some lights put up for christmas now it's just dark and the lights are shoved in the back corner. People always had a minimum of a string of lights around there house now adays 1/3 houses have lights if that. It's just depressing, during the darkest part of the year we came together and lit up our homes to warm the world a little bit more. Now we put up a pre decorated tree and spend our time shopping for deals and ditching the holiday for pure commercialism.

Replying to a quote from two years ago, but I just noticed this one this year. I have never bought Christmas lights or decorations since I always go home for the holidays and thus have no reason to have my own, but this year my mom put tree ornaments on her wishlist. Guys, I could not fucking find ornaments in stores. Sure there were some of those cardboard ones for children to paint at the craft store, and those variety packs of regular baubles you get in a plastic tub, cheap garland, etc. But they were all the same. Nothing was unique, nothing looked prettier than the other stuff. They didn't even have the expensive ones at Homegoods, the $10 ones I thought were highway robbery, even those were missing.

I normally do all of my Christmas shopping online, but buying ornaments off a website and not being able to see or examine them in person felt like heresy.

 

[Shidoen]

Skylander figurines.

 

[Windows Error 98]

Liveleak. Didn’t check for two months and bam, gone

 

[Cranky Old Broad]

Regular Doritos. Just plain, ol’ Doritos, not the ass-tasting shit they sell now.

Speaking of chips, I miss how Lay’s used to taste. I’m convinced that when everyone started screaming about how bad cooking oil was, they changed things up and now the chips just taste meh.

I also miss when people would be able to put full sentences together and generally use proper grammar. Now, so many have no clue how to write a formal letter, or they have the ghetto-sounding nonsense such as “be like.” So many people sound like idiots now and simply don’t care.


Disclaimer-any grammatical errors in the above post are purely coincidental.