Things That Disappeared Without You Noticing

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Beaters, jalopies, whatever you call shit cars. Growing up I remember seeing all kinds of clapped out junkers but nowadays I hardly even see mismatched body panels.
 
Kiwi Lime Pie said:
I think a lot of people have lost the Christmas spirit because stores have commercialized the holiday and radio stations play Christmas music as soon as Halloween is over. By the time the Christmas/New Year's holiday week arrives, everyone is all Christmas-ed out.

It's a far cry from when I was growing up when people would put their lights up on Thanksgiving and Christmas music gradually began in December and continued to play, albeit less frequently, through January 1.
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Oh I'd agree with this. It's hard to get into the spirit of any holiday or season when your first reaction to festive stuff is to roll your eyes and think "Already?" Then, of course, by the time the holiday season actually rolls around and you could possibly enjoy it, everything's all picked over and the shelves are filling up with the junk for the next holiday.

PFM said:
Something else that came to mind were cordless phones that allowed you to listen to your neighbor's conversations.
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Okay, that just dredged up a long-buried memory.
 
Kiyoshi's Wristbrace said:
Can girls count?

It's funny how many 'so-called' friends I make online regularly, and when it comes to the female variety, 9/10 times they either up and vanish for months at at a time out of nowhere, no reason, and some forever after that.

It's like "Is it me, or is it them?"

All I know is, the male ones never do that.
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Honestly, I do that too. I feel bad about it and it’s never personal, it just kind of happens. Then once enough time has passed I feel really bad for not responding, so I forget about it on purpose instead of just responding. I acknowledge that this is pathological behavior
 
bugs. when i was a kid, when we would go for a long drive the windshield would get covered in splattered bugs. i noticed like two years ago that that doesn’t happen any more, i can go for an hour long drive in high summer and arrive at my destination with a pristine windshield. it made me sad. i hope the bats and birds are getting enough to eat
 
lady stoneheart said:
bugs. when i was a kid, when we would go for a long drive the windshield would get covered in splattered bugs. i noticed like two years ago that that doesn’t happen any more, i can go for an hour long drive in high summer and arrive at my destination with a pristine windshield. it made me sad. i hope the bats and birds are getting enough to eat
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Bug population has been getting decimated in the past 20 years
 
lady stoneheart said:
bugs. when i was a kid, when we would go for a long drive the windshield would get covered in splattered bugs. i noticed like two years ago that that doesn’t happen any more, i can go for an hour long drive in high summer and arrive at my destination with a pristine windshield. it made me sad. i hope the bats and birds are getting enough to eat
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There's like 80% less bugs, don't quote me. I remember moths and earthworms the most. Sidewalks would be full of worms after a rain, and digging even a little bit would net you handfuls. Now I don't see either.

I haven't seen a caterpillar or cocoon in years, same with daddy long legs and all the smaller butterflies. Dragonflies are a rare sighting.

Now almost any time I see a bug I take a picture, it's such a rare occurence.

Last year was the first year I noticed birds of prey out during the day. Usually they keep away from humans and daylight. It's gotta be dire if a hawk is hunting at high noon mid summer.
 
Do they still give out toys with kid meals at fast food restaurants? I know for a fact Ronald McDonald and all those characters were purged from the earth like 15 years ago. Hindsight it's probably a good thing you don't see fast food advertised directly at kids anymore. I remember growing up there were kids at school who'd have McDonalds every couple days and the advertisements made the restaurants seem like a fun fantasy land for kids. I was always so pissed at my mom for never taking me but now I can appreciate her intentions.
 
Of course you still get toys with your happy meal.

Ronny was purged in the 2000s at the moment McCafe was introduced along with mumblerap playlists and free wifi. Maccas tried to pivot away from a burger joint to a place you can hang out in.

Bring back the 90s
 
Picklechu said:
Canada Dry recently came out with a "bold ginger ale" that I saw at Walmart and was optimistic about, but it was nothing in comparison
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I don’t know where you are but there’s a brand called ‘Bundaberg’ that uses cane sugar, real ginger, and is brewed instead of just mixed and carbonated. It’s pretty good. You should look into it.
 
Record stores. Not used record stores or hipster shops, but actual records stores like Tower, NRM, Peaches, etc. It actually didn't hit me that they were completely gone in the US until I visited the UK and got all jazzed about a shopping spree at HMV and stopped and thought "wait oh shit". Took my kid to one on a family trip to London and he actually said "wow is this how people used to buy music", like a starving orphan stumbling into a Vegas buffet. Streaming is ass and must die.

Didn't realize how much I missed copious amounts of Christmas decoration until moving from a bugman urban hole to the Free State of Florida right before the holidays -- like going from black and white to blinding technicolor, it was awesome. Actually, Florida in general seems to be stubbornly and defiantly hanging onto a lot of 90s/00s shit that everyone else has trashed, like work ethics, friendly neighbors, physical cash, and restaurants with actual fucking menus (though even this is spotty, and I want to rub my bare balls on the counter of every restaurant that expects me to use a QR code for their menu with everyone hovering over a tattered soda-stained sticker like an angry locust, then squinting to read a small ass menu on your fucking phone -- or worse, have to install yet another bloatware app just to decide on what size wings you want with your microwaved burger).
 
lady stoneheart said:
bugs. when i was a kid, when we would go for a long drive the windshield would get covered in splattered bugs. i noticed like two years ago that that doesn’t happen any more, i can go for an hour long drive in high summer and arrive at my destination with a pristine windshield. it made me sad. i hope the bats and birds are getting enough to eat
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Legit highways are an ecological genocide on flying insects.

This isn't a issue in forests and lands where there are no highways, but I noticed insects, specifically flying landborne kind, have decreased in numbers in a large radius against cities and civilization. I'm not sure whether it's a combination of dust, sound and light pollution, but something is causing insect numbers to go down fast.
 
Gender: Xenomorph said:
something is causing insect numbers to go down fast.
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Address all complaints to the Monsanto corporation.

But seriously, I believe there’s too much genetic fuckery and too many pesticides, insects are finding it harder to get food that doesn’t kill them or make them sterile. And of course that has flow-on effects for the entire food chain.

China is learning that excess zeal in non-diverse aggressive agriculture isn’t a good idea. Their seas are stripped of edible life, their wheat crops failing due to wireworms, their pig and chicken herds regularly suffering spectacular outbreaks of lethal viruses. I just pray the Western world learns from their stupidity.
 
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The only difference between DDT and Roundup is marketing. Pesticide companies only learned how to mitigate public outrage instead of trying to fix food chain collapse.
 
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