Remember when a "radio car" was a special police car, and most police needed to carry change for a pay phone?
Otherkin? I don't mean to derail the thread but I've actually never heard of the term until I just looked it up just now and.....boy strange. Ya know? ....Don't get it. How can you identify as being a vampire but not be a vampire. Right? Doesn't make much sense. Look supernatural stuff is plenty cool to write about and I love fantasy as Im sure many of us do but huh....never knew people actually identified as elves and such in real life or at least never knew the name for it. This makes for a wonderful story idea. Where real supernatural creatures sue otherkin people in a court of law.
Remember when there weren't terms such as, cisgender, genderqueer, trans, heteronormative, or heteroflexible? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with them per say, I just do a lot more Googling these days.
I used to love Pogs! I didn't even know they were in the states to be honest. I can't remember what slammer I had, but I do remember I had some ridiculous slamming technique that was more of a flashy move to impress the other kids.
This is still valid (as a primary property) and all of those "identity" parts are decoration placed along a long line that has "macho" and "femme fatale" on it's ends.
Remember when gas stations were called "service stations" and they actually provided service? They would pump your gas for you, check your oil, and wash your windows. Then "self-serve" stations became the norm and we were told the price would go down, but it went up. Argh.
Remember when you were utterly blown away by the first pocket calculator you ever saw, and thought it was the most amazing thing ever? My dad showed one to the young son of one of his friends, but said, "You can't play with it now - we have to recharge the battery." The boy said, "Oh, please? I promise I won't ask it any hard questions! Nothing higher than ten!" Remember when you could buy a Coke from a coke machine for a dime? And the dime actually had to be a pre-1968 dime, because they had silver in them and the mechanism wouldn't recognize the new dimes? (This may be just a Canadian thing.) Remember when you could buy a new car that didn't have seatbelts in the back seat? Nobody thought they were necessary then. Remember when there were garbagemen who actually collected garbage? Nowadays, it's all done with special trucks and special trashcans the trucks can empty. It used to be that garbagemen would get off the truck and pick up whatever you'd left at the curbside regardless of what kind of can (or bag) it was in. Remember milkmen? And houses that had milkboxes, so that each morning the milkman could deliver fresh milk into the milkbox? Remember when kids wore their baseball caps with the bills facing front? When did it become cool to have them shade your neck? Remember when airlines would serve actual hot meals on flights, and they'd be included in the ticket price? And we'd always complain about the airplane food? Now, you're lucky if you can get a bagel, and even if you can, you have to pay four dollars for it. Remember banana seats on bicycles?
Remember when minimum chips was 20c? Remember when sunny boys were 7c? Remember when you could buy 100 x 1c lollies for $1? Remember when you could remember the correct format for this thread? le sigh.
Remember when Sunny Delight was all the rage, and you could buy Freddos for 10p? Remember when Woolworths existed, and penny sweets actually cost pennies?
YESSSSSS I loved pogs. Never have small circles of cardboard brought so much joy. I still have a lucky slammer that I carry around with me in my wallet. It used to be a poison skull slammer, but the logo has long since worn off. I used to be part of a MySpace group (remember when MySpace was a thing? so many angsty blog posts!) dedicated to bringing back pogs. We were not successful.
Hmm, this is really going to show people's ages. But I'll bite. Remember when music from the 80s and 90s were not considered "oldies?" Remember when making a mistake when you wrote meant stopping everything, unplugging your electric typewriting, opening up the feed, taking your whiteout that was usually dried out, finding a newer white out bottle, dabbing and caaarefully spotting the error, cursing because you missed by a little, reattaching the feed, plugging the machine back in and then accidentally pressing the wrong key so you had to go back and do the process all over again? Remember when personal phone messages were simply "leave a message" instead of having an automated voice tell you the 5,000 options you'll never need ("For Klingon Braille, press 4459,...")? Hell, remember when the concept of a cell phone was absurd? Remember when people thought pagers would last? Remember when you could find a phone booth? Remember when a 27-inch TV was what people referenced as their "if I were rich" dream? Remember when Michael Jackson was black? Remember when you had to flip through index cards when finding a book at the library?
You still can in the UK. But this is a country that still has a monarchy, so ... we aren't a clever country.
I'll do you a few better. Remember when ABBA still had new singles hitting the airwaves? Remember when Joni Mitchell did too? Remember that first bike you had with the banana seat and the sparkly tassels on the ends of the handle bars? Remember lawn darts? Remember the moment your dad brought home the first VCR and got into a small spat with mom because it cost more than $700?
Remember when you had to sing Christian hymns in school assembly? Not sure if it still goes on (or if it ever did) in other countries, but now in the UK we don't sing any religious hymns at risk of offending other students with different religions. I'm actually glad because I am an atheist and as far as I can tell, so is my son (although he is a little young to decide) and it really annoyed me the thought of him singing religious songs if he didn't want to.
Yeah. Back then I didn't actually realise they were religious hymns, but now I actually think it's a bloody disgrace forcing crap like that onto unsuspecting children.
Completely agree. As a child I didn't think twice, it was just the way it was but now my son is in school I'd protest it every step of the way if they tried anything like that.
Dr 1 Valley Thunder 'Yes Mrs Butterworth, I completely object to this brainwashing of our infants. If it continues I shall be forced to home educate my Kwezi-Oasis.' 'Oh, but Mr Kipling please, it is the school nativity this Tuesday.' 'And yes, I have thought about your predicament. I don't know if you know, but actually I am a writer, yes. It's a script, thirty pages, the boy reaches conclusions over his, his sexual identity via counselling, a very moving piece. Consider my offer. I would of course remove the picket.' 'And set to music?' 'Of course.' 'Mr Kipling, you have saved the entire national curriculum...'
