things you remember from your childhood that zoomers will not get to have

GrammaNazi said:
Ashtrays. They were everywhere. Ashtrays in the car. Ashtrays on the coffee table. Ashtrays in the restaurant's smoking section. Ashtrays on an airplane. Ashtrays on every desk in the office. You could even find ashtrays in the hospital.
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I remember when they took ashtrays out of cars in an effort to convince people to stop smoking. Rather than success, it instead convinced smokers to just disposed cigarettes by littering them on the ground. I remember about 10 or so years ago if you walked down a busy street you might find at least 100 cigarette butts laying on the ground per a 1/4 of a mile.
 
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Flidds2:Toonyboogaloo said:
Oh my goodness, we had a couple of those. I thought I had imagined or mis-remembered it because it's a long time ago now. Some of them were really dark and messed up. I can remember one of the tapes being what felt like hours long, but maybe that's just because of how your perception of time is skewed as a child?
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Yeah, the tapes were at least two hours long, I think. Possibly more than that. The ones I watched were old Disney cartoons, so they weren't dark and messed up. They were hilarious to me as a child and I've watched short clips of them here and there since then and they still hold up. Not something I'd watch as an adult for fun, but the quality is evident and I show them to my own kids, especially over some of the contemporary crapola that's made for children in current year. Not messed up, but this definitely wouldn't fly in current year, in one of the Chip and Dale/Donald Duck cartoons, they end up blowing a giant hole in the ground towards the end. The chipmunks listen to voices coming from the hole, as evidently the hole was so deep it went all the way to China. The Chinese voices sound like gibberish, it was hilarious.

Here it is. Donald Duck blew himself all the way to China:

One of them in particular that I remember had Mickey Mouse fighting with a little tornado, and towards the end, the little tornado gets pissed and the big mama tornado comes after Mickey. Another one had Chip and Dale on a farm, eating farmer Donald Duck's apples, to which he gets pissed at and nearly destroys the entire farm trying to kill the two chipmunks. Just good, quality classics, and since it's Disney, the animation is top notch. That's probably what confused us as children, the fact that the cartoons looked so good. We were used to old movies with old timey special effects that couldn't compare to newer movies, so having cartoons look that good tricked us into thinking they were contemporary.

About perceptions being skewed as children: Not my perception of time, but I must've had a dream as a child where the cartoons I was watching went on for longer after the original endings. For instance, I remember seeing longer versions of the Disney cartoons that I watched all the time, that still had another 15-20 minutes after the normal endings. I had convinced myself that these were special cuts of the original cartoons that went on for longer. I had myself believing this for a long time, but have come to realize that I must've dreamed this whole thing up.
 
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The handsome tard said:
Early internet was a god damn experience of a lifetime. A true free internet, an undiscovered country full of opportunity.
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I remember computers with Internet access setup as demos for use at a science centre.

I also recall being young and naive enough in coming across webpages with innocent browsing featuring "women in their birthday suits" and still not understanding what was going on.
 
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Mordecai 3 Finger Brown said:
I remember computers with Internet access setup as demos for use at a science centre.

I also recall being young and naive enough in coming across webpages with innocent browsing featuring "women in their birthday suits" and still not understanding what was going on.
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I remember searching for nazi websites or neo nazi forums when I was 11 or 12, and one of the results that came back was a fetish website with a title that said something like: "Gay men who find men in nazi uniforms attractive."
 
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Gender: Xenomorph said:
When people who were pedos/freaks were bullied instead of boosted and allowed to roam free.

A lot of this fake positivity culture is allowing all sort of degenerates to run amok and zoomers have virtually no protection. Even calling them out can get you ostracized from major platforms and rsilenced.
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Its symptons of a larger problem that has been brewing for a few decades in my opinion. We are just sadly finally getting what boomers sowed for years.
 
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Also, just having someone to admire that isn't a paid shill or corporate pusher.

All these zoomers wanna be esports players or streamers or vtubers or 'influencers' and they cite personalities that didn't even build their careers or personalities; it's all fake.

At least when people like Pewdiepie got popular, they did it by themselves. These companies pick girls off the street, dime a dozen, and give them personalities, gear, scripts... People don't do it for the fun and passion of it, they do it because it's their daily job.

Big companies crushed small creators in music, now they stomp small creators in streaming/video.
 
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Swimming in clean, cool lakes with no toxic blue green algae.
Not knowing what gay is until middle school.
Never hearing of trannies as a child.
Stuff, even toys, being more affordable.
Racism against whites being seen as just as bad as racism against any race.
Not getting bullied by feral Muslim refugee children.
No Great Whites coming near the shore in the North Atlantic.
 
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having to use rAndOm cAps to identify which search results in Limewire were sketchy
 
Being able to fuck around outside until it got dark.

Going to school and not being diddled and told to cut my dick off

Not being told I'm inherently evil because of the race I was born into

Being able to go online and find cool niche stuff. People teaching you to not reveal too much online vs oversharing the details of every turdlet you shit out that morning because "who cares? You're not a criminal are you?"

I'd say not being blasted with doom propaganda, but that really kicked off with Hurricane Katrina when I was in 8th grade
 
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One thing is the absence of printed material. Phone books used to have EVERY restaurant in town. Newspapers had pages of comics, reviews of entertainment options, and what was going on in the world beyond regurgitating AP slop. Hotels had printed directories. Computer games had thick manuals and video games had full-color companion books.

Even the bookstores now are half Funko pops and other bullshit now.
 
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