Things you don't miss at all - The counter-nostalgia thread

[cybertoaster]

And not just not miss at all but in some cases I'm glad its finally over.

I'll start with dubstep: as shit as today's music is the cancer that is soundcloud rappers and billie ellish can't even compare to the absolute abortion that was this music. And the fans were completely autistic about it, trying to make retards like skryllex the modern Mozart.

Nextel phones: that fucking chirp.......before the crackberry hustle it was the nextel hustle, every retard who believed the ads thought having one of those meant he was in business, like come on you poser the fedex guy bringing my GeForce 6800 had one too. It was particularly popular among ghetto niggas who thought having one meant you were winning at life, some retard even made a song about it.

Prius faggotry: for all the bitching about EVs at least teslas are fast, have you ever driven the gen2 prius? its torture. Modern prius are way less shitty but haven't seen any, meanwhile that fucking toaster on wheels was everywhere in the mid to late 00s.

Cable TV: modern streaming is getting to the same levels of shit but I pirate everything anyway, netflix et al can suck it, but this wasn't really an option in the 90's and only by the late 00s was broadband fast enough, P2P good enough and storage cheap enough to finally ditch that shit forever, which I did. Anyone having couch potato nostalgia should think hard and remember how much it sucked having 200 channels with nothing to watch.

Old handhelds and pocket computers: no I don't miss the 6AA batteries in my GameGear, or the shitty screen on my Watchman, or the eye-destroying 240x160 resolution of my GBA. I don't miss having to draw each letter on my Palm, I don't miss having to sync that thing to my PC or losing all my data and having to restore it because it ran out of power. Electronic organizers were shit, all of them.

 

[0 0]

Console wars. They were funny in retrospect but even living through it, the blind consumerist loyalty to a random product was annoying.

It's still around in some regard now, but it isn't as nearly as bad as it was during the late 2000's.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

Getting up for school

 

[BrodyDaMan]

Paying in notes and coins, ever since it became possible to pay through qr codes here, I've never bothered withdrawing cash other than to avoid taxes on certain big transactions.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

Public phone boxes, you only needed to use one when it was important. Finding one, finding one working, finding the right change to use it, hope it does not smell like a homeless toilet.

 

[RollerGator]

Sitting on the toilet without a smart phone.

 

[seri0us]

Sitting on the toilet without a smart phone.

Shit and get off. Not hard.

 

[RollerGator]

Shit and get off. Not hard.

Sometimes a nigga be shitting his guts out, retard.

 

[glue eater]

Dial up. Kids don't remember actually having to take time to download images. Getting to hear robots speak was kinda cool tho.

 

[Tablet County]

I simultaneously do and don't miss shutter shades. On the one hand they were stupid and looked dumb, but on the other hand they were stupid and looked dumb and the fact that people wore them unironically was hilarious.

 

[Peewee Herman]

expensive storage. I can buy terabytes for pennies on the dollar today. Same goes for processing power. I can put together a storage server for dirt cheap and have damn near infinite storage for all my media.

 

[Historical Strelkov]

Blockbuster.
No, it wasn't cool.

Artificial colored whacky foods like purple or green ketchup.
Terrible american car design from the 90s.
Floppy disks and zip drives.
Nickel Cadmium batteries.
Game boy and GBP screens.
4:3 television.
Ed Hardy.
Affliction.
Juicy couture.
Reality tv madness.
Dial up.
Cassette tape adapters and the like.
Late grunge numetal ballads.
Obama.
Beige computers.
Got milk ads.
Pet rocks.
Crunk.
MTV in general.
Shoes from 2001.
Wazzzzaaaaap.
VHS.
70s furniture patterns.
That fish that sings and dances.
Family guy era of references.
Quirky dad joke t shirts.
Bumper sticker of Calvin pissing on things.
John cena shit.
Juggalos.
Like omg so randumb ADHD humor.
Scene kids.
Emo hardcore screamo.
3oh3/BOTDF/Party rock.
Boy bands.
Pre-picatinny scope mounts on ARs.
Saturn cars.
Bucket hats.
Tie dye.
Turtlenecks with bowl cuts.
Realplayer.
Urban camo.

 

[Easterling]

Dubstep

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

Paying $20 for a single CD or video and being limited to what was available in the shop. Once I realised you could get whatever you want on Napster, those days were way the fuck over.

 

[Shroom King]

I don't miss having to deal with some sketchy shitbag to buy weed, and have to wait 3 hours for the fucker to return with a bag of something that looks like it has been sitting under his couch since 1975 instead of the "purple dank nugs" he promised me and wants to charge accordingly for.

Anyone having couch potato nostalgia should think hard and remember how much it sucked having 200 channels with nothing to watch.

Trying to cancel cable for a dead parent is needlessly difficult. Why? Do they actually think someone hacked the account and cancelled cable TV for the account holder as a form of harassment? If it turns out to be bullshit, just turn the service back on again. It's easier to get a million dollar 401K paid out to the heirs than cancel a TV subscription.

 

[Hitman One]

Having to use the one phone in the house to phone your friend and hoping that their mum or dad didn't pick up, especially if you were phoning a girl.

Having to remember everyone's phone number in your head, or write them down in a little book.

Paper airline tickets, stupid coupon bullshit I was always terrified I'd lose it and get stranded.

Having to record TV shows and the radio on fucking tapes.

Getting a large denomination note and having to break it by buying a tin of juice or whatever

The choke in petrol cars

Leaded petrol - what the fuck were we thinking?

Manual windows in cars.

Shitty FM/AM radio reception. Digital/online radio is honestly the best thing ever.

The fucking power going out all the time in winter.

Having to write cheques.

Having to queue at the Post Office to pay bills.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Blockbuster.
No, it wasn't cool.

Artificial colored whacky foods like purple or green ketchup.
Terrible american car design from the 90s.
Floppy disks and zip drives.
Nickel Cadmium batteries.
Game boy and GBP screens.
4:3 television.
Ed Hardy.
Affliction.
Juicy couture.
Reality tv madness.
Dial up.
Cassette tape adapters and the like.
Late grunge numetal ballads.
Obama.
Beige computers.
Got milk ads.
Pet rocks.
Crunk.
MTV in general.
Shoes from 2001.
Wazzzzaaaaap.
VHS.
70s furniture patterns.
That fish that sings and dances.
Family guy era of references.
Quirky dad joke t shirts.
Bumper sticker of Calvin pissing on things.
John cena shit.
Juggalos.
Like omg so randumb ADHD humor.
Scene kids.
Emo hardcore screamo.
3oh3/BOTDF/Party rock.
Boy bands.
Pre-picatinny scope mounts on ARs.
Saturn cars.
Bucket hats.
Tie dye.
Turtlenecks with bowl cuts.
Realplayer.
Urban camo.

Blockbuster nostalgia is remarkably trite and idiotic, even taking the stone cold autism of modern American soy-drenched consoomerism into consideration. I never set foot in one BB in my life, between the ages of 12 and 16 I lived in a small town called Milford, NH (not to PL) and went to a mom and pop to rent movies and PS games. Reasonable borrow time, fees weren't too steep if you happened to be late a day or two.

 

[GloriousScarf]

Getting up to change the TV channel directly on the TV when the remote was lost/broken.
Missing an episode of a TV show and then never seeing it again.
Rewinding cassette tapes to listen to songs.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

I lived in a small town called Milford, NH (not to PL) and went to a mom and pop to rent movies and PS games.

I think I know which one you mean and it’s also long gone now, not that that’s a surprise. They’ve still got the Drive-In theater at least.

 

[Roland TB-303]

I'll start with dubstep: as shit as today's music is the cancer that is soundcloud rappers and billie ellish can't even compare to the absolute abortion that was this music. And the fans were completely autistic about it, trying to make retards like skryllex the modern Mozart.

It figures a Yankie Doodle Fuckwit would think Brostep = Dubstep.