Things That Disappeared Without You Noticing

[iloveallah]

Lobster tanks at the grocery store. I'm pretty sure they were already gone before the 2008 recession but I definitely haven't seen one since.

 

[The Un-Clit]

You bug-lovers can fucking speak for yourselves. There's still FAR too goddamn many around here in Canada.

Lobster tanks at the grocery store. I'm pretty sure they were already gone before the 2008 recession but I definitely haven't seen one since.

Go to an Asian grocery store. You will still see the traditional live seafood tanks, and and all the horrible stank that goes with them.

 

[Alligator Alcatraz]

Playgrounds in restaurants like McDonalds and Burger King.






Wendys "Old Fashioned Hamburgers"




Wendys Kids Meal

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.

Sony phones. They have micro sd slots and headphone jacks alongside the lastest hardware. They can also connect directly to DSLR cameras. Sony has even optimized the Playstation 4 and 5 controllers for use with Android.

Samsung's only remaining competition in the Android space is Sony, really. Unfortunately, Sony phones are incredibly expensive and don't partner with any celldata providers to my knowledge. They market their phones to professionals and enthusiasts rather than the average person. If you want a headphone jack on an affordable phone, you have to subject yourself to the lessers; Samsung Galaxy A series and Motorolas.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

Playgrounds in restaurants like McDonalds and Burger King.

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Wendys "Old Fashioned Hamburgers"

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Wendys Kids Meal

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Sony phones. They have micro sd slots and headphone jacks alongside the lastest hardware. They can also connect directly to DSLR cameras. Sony has even optimized the Playstation 4 and 5 controllers for use with Android.

Samsung's only remaining competition in the Android space is Sony, really. Unfortunately, Sony phones are incredibly expensive and don't partner with any celldata providers to my knowledge. They market their phones to professionals and enthusiasts rather than the average person. If you want a headphone jack on an affordable phone, you have to subject yourself to the lessers; Samsung Galaxy A series and Motorolas.

Growing up there were two McDonald's that had playgrounds and both took them down around the same time. I miss the time when I was a kid playing in the slides and pits. Good times the 90's were.

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

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.

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

These assholes have been a plague in the last couple of years around here. I remember going out to the kitchen one night to close the window and there were THIRTEEN, yes I counted them, of these buggers just chilling on the window frame. That was the moment we decided to get bug-screen windows. And I agree, these guys just showed up in force one day and never left.

 

[seri0us]

Skylander figurines.

That was the only good attempt at Toys to Life.

 

[Muu]

My youth

 

[Cats]

 

[Krystal]

Old character shipping videos/edits. The ones where it was just fanart of characters as a couple with really cheesy romance pop songs. While cringey, they seemed to be a guilty pleasure for me.

 

[Generic Retard]

xbox 360 controllers
I only got one wireless controller and now they are no longer produced and sold out.
If I want a second one for some local 2 player action, I have to buy some greasy ruined ass controller from some kid that likely fucked my mother

(Hate the D-Pad btw, but hate it even more to have yet another Li-Po battery that goes to shit over the next 5 years)

 

[The Jumping Dwarf]

Comic books at kiosks/newsagent's shops. At least in my country, it's common to find these little mom-and-pop shops where you can buy newspapers, mags, sweets, and the occasional crappy plastic toy or general cheap trinket. For the longest time these were the places to get kids' comics, especially of a particular, extremely old and long-running series from my neck of the woods which I used to avidly read as a wee Dwarf. I eventually stopped grabbing them, but new issues are still being made and sold, and I'll occasionally get nostalgic and try to pick one up.

Recently I learned that newsagent's just no longer stock them. I went to like five different shops and didn't find a single one. If I wanna get them I've got to go to a book store and find them buried deep inside the shop, at the comics aisle, surrounded by "artsy"/foreign comics no one has ever heard about.

It kinda bummed me out, I ain't gonna lie.

 

[Pissmaster]

Coupon dispensers at grocery stores:

Take a coupon, and a little motor would push out another one. Look at the coupon, and then put it back in the little tray up top.

 

[TiggerNits]

My state has bugles, cigarette machines, venom, gum with sugar/flavors, and sobe. Midwest is truly God's country.

Arizona is much the same. Though I think the only cigarette vending machines are in Indian casinos and duty-free stores on the Mexican border.

I was referring specifically to "cordless phones". They used a limited number of channels in the iirc 600mhz range so if your neighbor was talking sometimes you could pick up their signal and hear them.

My dad was a SIGINT guy in the Army and then a three-letter guy after. He taught me and a friend one night how to use an old CB radio to listen in on and triangulate any signal from 580mHz to 900 and how to transmit to them. My buddy and I went driving around our town talking shit to people on their own cordless phones, but the other person on the call who wasn't local couldn't hear us. We probably made a handful of people's friends and family think they were schizoids

We X'ers never had it easy, but at least we had music that had a diversity of styles and formats. I still remember going to my local music place to buy the album 'Scamboogery' by Scatterbrain and having it offered on vinyl, cassette and CD.

And while we're on diversity in music, when did 'diversity' stop meaning a Top 40 with grunge, metal, indie, pop, hip-hop, bubblegum, electronica, industrial and dance? Now 'diversity' solely refers to the artist's skin color and 85% of musical pieces are slight variations on a theme.

Truth. I've noticed that anything popular now will be turned in to a mildly different genre and rereleased by a band and get the "Ft. Band-name" added to it and then put on the air for a different format. Like if a hip hop song gets big, there will be a radio playable "rock" and country song of it within the next 6 months, Music has become the most incestuous industry imaginable.

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

I didn't realize they were dead until I went to check it the other day for Ukraine footage, which I thought would be amazing coming out of there. I was shocked

As for me, comic books

I remember when every grocery store, K-Mart and drug store atleast had 3 or 4 of those small spinning racks loaded with them. Now you have to go to a specialty store that really just exists to sell Pokemon and Magic Cards and host War Hammer tournaments. Which is all the same, the comics industry went to shit after it got progressive in the mid 2000s

 

[TurdFondler]

Woollybear Caterpillar​

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

Now I'm sad. Haven't seen one of these in god damn years and as a kid there would hardly be a day in summer where I wouldn't.

Anyone remember those dispensers for temporary tattoos and really garish shiny stickers? They'd always have shit like cherries, skull n crossbones, rat fink and other boomer counterculture stuff in em. Almost every diner used to have them by the doors.

 

[Pissmaster]

Now I'm sad. Haven't seen one of these in god damn years and as a kid there would hardly be a day in summer where I wouldn't.

Anyone remember those dispensers for temporary tattoos and really garish shiny stickers? They'd always have shit like cherries, skull n crossbones, rat fink and other boomer counterculture stuff in em. Almost every diner used to have them by the doors.

Random Mexican restaurants still have them. I saw one vending Rick & Morty stickers a few years ago.

 

[seri0us]

Woollybear Caterpillar​

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

Those used to freak me the fuck out

 

[ToroidalBoat]

where'd the fucking headphone jack go on all the phones?

Apple thought it was a good idea to do away with them on the iPhone*, and Apple can be seen as a trend-setter?

*(likely in favor of some Apple-exclusive tech)

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

Human decency, Common coutesy, Tolerance for ideas/opinions that are different than the woke majority, What respect there was for natal women

Plasma TVs. I remember people debating whether Plasma or LCD was better. Now I doubt most people even know the difference let alone even remember Plasma was a thing.

The new one is going to be direct-view μLED (Mu-LED/Micro-LED) vs. QD-LED/QD-EL (Quantum Dot-LED/Quantum Dot-Electroluminescent). The QD is not the same QD we are seeing today. The current QD technology is miniLED/MicroLED backlight with QD as the color layer, so it's a passive element. In QD-LED the QD itself is the source of the light, known as emissive, or active QD, which is electroluminescent in nature.

QD-LED is going to be consumer available, at a relatively reasonable price, by 2026-2027. Without an unforeseen breakthrough, MicroLED will be here by 2030. Overall, MicroLED is a superior technology. It's brighter, has no potential for burn-in, and it has a very long life (100's of thousands of hours). QD-LED is almost as good, also very bright, very pure colors, no potential for burning, and it should have a long life (but that is the current problem with it, the organic parts of it don't live very long, same problem as OLED).

People born between 1900 and 1940. A whole generation is gone and I feel like people didn't care. I am glad to have known my great-grandmother (1911-2011).

Um, people born in 1940 are not all dead. My great aunt is a good example of that. She was born in 1938 and still kicking ass.

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.

Hate these things. They are a recent invasive species that came from where else, China. They can bite and trigger nasty reactions in both humans and pets.

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

This is the best way to handle them. Crush them, it will actually attract more.

 

[TiggerNits]

Now I'm sad. Haven't seen one of these in god damn years and as a kid there would hardly be a day in summer where I wouldn't.

Anyone remember those dispensers for temporary tattoos and really garish shiny stickers? They'd always have shit like cherries, skull n crossbones, rat fink and other boomer counterculture stuff in em. Almost every diner used to have them by the doors.

Don't fret too much, I see shit tons of them every summer when my wife plants tomatoes and caribes in the front yard. They swarm those plants like nobody's fucking business. Also doesn't help that I have two neighbors with bee farms and another with a half dozen horses. I'm at 5k feet and still dealing with bugs like I'm still in the goddamed swamp

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

Playgrounds in restaurants like McDonalds and Burger King.






Wendys "Old Fashioned Hamburgers"




Wendys Kids Meal

Growing up there were two McDonald's that had playgrounds and both took them down around the same time. I miss the time when I was a kid playing in the slides and pits. Good times the 90's were.

I can answer this one - Insurance and Accidents, Kids play areas are disappearing in places that are more food orientated because it add's a huge cost per establishment and accidents relating to poorly maintained or inspected equipment cost a lot more than youd imagine so they are side stepping the issue as a whole by getting rid of them all together.

It's one of the downsides of living in a overly litigious society like the US and increasingly the UK.

Arizona is much the same. Though I think the only cigarette vending machines are in Indian casinos and duty-free stores on the Mexican border.

God this takes me back, the UK got rid of them in 2006 all the Pubs had them and then got rid of them or changed them to something else back in the late 90's I used to get my fags from a machine in a pub where it was right next to the door and out of sight of the Bar (it was a iffy pub) they banned smoking in pubs and clubs not long after but it was a god send if you smoked as a kid.