The Old School

[Bewleybrother]

What's changed for the better or the worse in the last 15 - 20 - 25 years?.

 

[Bewleybrother]

I'll start.
As a 54 yr old person,the idea even 25 years ago that for negligible costs a person could be walking around with a phone with the capabilities of a computer and can use it to make video calls and interact quickly on the world wide web.

 

[WillJ8787]

I'll start.
As a 54 yr old person,the idea even 25 years ago that for negligible costs a person could be walking around with a phone with the capabilities of a computer and can use it to make video calls and interact quickly on the world wide web.

Yeah, this has made me super efficient at work and also for access to knowledge that took forever to research.

Flip side... nobody under 30 knows how to have a conversation anymore. You go to a restaurant (when we could two months ago) and even if your standing right at the door they say they will text you. Wtf! I always say, I'm right here and they say sorry we text.

 

[Saint_Ann]

In my old hs we used to run through the dungeon hallway to the gym and jump up and slap the asbestos covered heating duct and the fibers would rain down on the next person.

 

[hogjack]

Not that many changes really. Much of it is cosmetic.

For me I probably use the dishwasher "delay" start cycle feature the most. Sometimes I set it to go off in the middle of the night. Wake up to clean dishes. That's pretty cool!!

 

[Bewleybrother]

In my old hs we used to run through the dungeon hallway to the gym and jump up and slap the asbestos covered heating duct and the fibers would rain down on the next person.

Naughty,naughty:but I like the anecdote because it's sounds credible.

 

[MNGuy]

Automobile durability.

When I was a kid, every four years my old man would get a new car. I've had my current vehicle for 10 years now, with no major mechanical problem. The cars I owned in the 1980s and 1990s would need a new head gasket at about 45,000 miles.

Also dating is easier for the younglings, or so I think, since I don't date anymore because I have an SO. Now they just have to go on an app. When I was young, us guys would hit the bar in a pack, find some women in a herd, and the goal for us was to separate one from the herd.

 

[Bewleybrother]

Automobile durability.

When I was a kid, every four years my old man would get a new car. I've had my current vehicle for 10 years now, with no major mechanical problem. The cars I owned in the 1980s and 1990s would need a new head gasket at about 45,000 miles.

Also dating is easier for the younglings, or so I think, since I don't date anymore because I have an SO. Now they just have to go on an app. When I was young, us guys would hit the bar in a pack, find some women in a herd, and the goal for us was to separate one from the herd.

As a 54 year old male I can definitely relate to that.Younger people whether they know it,care about it,or believe it are spoilt today for dating.lol

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

THINGS THAT ARE WORSE

• Medical Quackery
• Bar Codes on Fruit
• Grocery Club Cards
• Broadway Musicals
• The Republican Party
• Russia
• The Airline Industry
• Mainstream White Supremacy
• Attention Spans
• The Disneyfication of Times Square
• The Measles
• AT&T
• Rock and Roll

THINGS THAT ARE BETTER

• Everything Internet and Personal Tech Based
• Vegan Options
• Television (except for the News)
• The Vanishing Practice of Spanking Children
• Female World Leaders
• Book on American History
• AIDS Treatments
• Personal Medical Monitoring Devices
• Golf Course Water Conservation
• Germany
• NASA/JPL
• The Ozone Layer

THINGS THAT ARE EXACTLY THE SAME

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[FataMorgana]

Worse

Chocolate bars smaller.
No distinguishing seasons.
Milk in cartons.
Soap operas and reality tv.
PC gone mad.

Better

Medicine.
Cinemas.
Amazon.
Binge watching.

 

[dolf]

Better

My zits

Worse

My wrinkles

 

[FataMorgana]

Better

No white dog shit.

Worse

No bus conductors or inspectors.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Cars are supposed to be so much better...




But they are all so similar that they are worse.

 

[Bewleybrother]

THINGS THAT ARE WORSE

• Medical Quackery
• Bar Codes on Fruit
• Grocery Club Cards
• Broadway Musicals
• The Republican Party
• Russia
• The Airline Industry
• Mainstream White Supremacy
• Attention Spans
• The Disneyfication of Times Square
• The Measles
• AT&T
• Rock and Roll

THINGS THAT ARE BETTER

• Everything Internet and Personal Tech Based
• Vegan Options
• Television (except for the News)
• The Vanishing Practice of Spanking Children
• Female World Leaders
• Book on American History
• AIDS Treatments
• Personal Medical Monitoring Devices
• Golf Course Water Conservation
• Germany
• NASA/JPL
• The Ozone Layer

THINGS THAT ARE EXACTLY THE SAME

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Great example sir,Steff doffs his cap in an antiquated mannerism.
Did you write the list off the top of your head?
Because I can't get my lists to stay balanced as I walk around.

P.S. You missed one and I'm assuming your not in your 40's or 50's?
The weather:Seasonal patterns are most DEFINATELY worse.

 

[domroger]

Retirement
worse
less money .

 

[Bewleybrother]

A resurgence of right wing(fascist) politics,posing under the guise of nationalism.
Not just in the UK but across the western world.In the 1970's we had the anti-nazi league and the anti-national front campaigns.

"Patriotism Is the last vestige of a scoundrel".

 

[Islander55]

Worse: I am older. Can't do some of the crazy stuff.

Better: I am older. Actually know better than try to do some of the crazy stuff.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Great example sir,Steff doffs his cap in an antiquated mannerism.
Did you write the list off the top of your head?

It is extempore from my mother wit.

 

[Bewleybrother]

It is extempore from my mother wit.

So little wit about it is refreshing after the deluge of noises under the guise of rational opinions.
I should now include a well worn allegory or topical reference but can't think of anything applicable.
I go to bed a sleep and wake inside the morrows might.Steff

P.S. read "The Devils Dictionary"

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I should now include a well worn allegory or topical reference but can't think of anything applicable.

A witty mother, witless else her son.

 

[Bewleybrother]

Shortest poem by Muhammad Ali

"Me,We".