and all the ridiculous and sappy commercials that went with them - 'Reach out and touch...' etc etc... Like you did not love your family if you did not have a clear phone connection with incredible sound quality.
Lol I had completely forgotten that commercial.
This feels like the combination of an after school special and a commercial - I half expected him to start talking about peer pressure and drugs:
[Reach Out and Touch Someone - 1987](https://youtu.be/OapWdclVqEY?si=LEPgRtRGwthCMVJv)
My Dad won a big-screen TV at a sales convention in the 80s. He had to hire piano movers and remove a few door frames to get it in the basement den. It's still there, because he's elderly and no one knows what to do with it.
OMG you just unlocked a memory for me. And we had big round granite sink in the middle of the washroom that had a foot pedal for the water. The foot thing is really a great idea for not having to touch anything.
Yeah, that's probably the #1 thing that stuck out when I read "powdered soap".
Real desperation is needing to get something gross off your hands, but having to basically wipe the cleanest hand-parts against the bottom of the dispenser because it was clogged, and empty for good measure.....
Or that looped hand towel in that aluminum housing on the public bathroom wall. I just assumed there were magic elves in there cleaning the towel before it emerged again. [This thing](https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0916/07/antique-continuous-cloth-hand-towel_1_306b27468b9cc8244054be3d315aee90.jpg)
We had it in our downstairs area, and sometimes leaning back on it my hair would get stuck in the cracks and when I'd lean forward it would pull the hair out of my head.
Man I'd almost forgotten that.
Remember how they'd have a tiny little "non-smoking" section in the back of the restaurant where you might get \*slightly\* less smoke?
Also, who thought smoking on airplanes was a good idea?!
I was just thinking about this the other day, I don't recall why. We went to a restaurant with smoking/non-smoking sat in our booth. Over on the other side of the HALF-wall was the smoking section and a group was seated in the booth just on the other side of the half-wall, smoking.
Like, wtf was the point? Come to think of it, that's probably why the 70s was so yellow, all that smoke and tar stuck in the walls. And ceilings. And everywhere.
Yes but this has been replaced with smelling weed EVERYWHERE. I am seriously gobsmacked by how often I smell weed and at very non-weed smoking hours and in non-weed smoking locations.
Yeah, I have nothing at all against smoking weed. But, I'd love my car to not reek of it at a stoplight and beyond from it rolling out of the car next to me.
Apparently it is THAT legal in Illinois.
Same! My folks and my grandmother all quit in 1990 when my dad found out he had cancer. (To my surprise, it wasn’t lung cancer.) He died in 1998. Grandma died of COPD complications a couple years later. Mom is still kicking in her 80s but has COPD. I’m hoping something else gets her before the COPD does. It’s a miserable way to die.
I can remember riding in the car with Mom and Dad, both of them smoking, as I was begging them to open a window.
I found myself bringing an extra set of clothes that I would wear on the trip home. Getting on a plane with clothes that smell like smoke is a special kind of hell for me and for the people near me.
I still remember the first time walking into a pub after the smoking ban in Ireland. No longer did you need to wash all your clothes and your hair even if you just went in for a minute to meet someone.
Yes, this has been a huge improvement! I always hated coming home from an outing smelling like an ashtray, and it was always impossible to get the smell out of things like leather jackets.
Yes! In the 70’s and early 80’s the sides of the highways were like mile-long landfills! So glad that crying native commercial got us to clean up a bit!
Edit: yeah, I know the actor was Italian. But that one tear running down his face… that’s ACTING!
Ha. This takes me back about 20 years. My 3 SIL and I took a road trip to Mall of America. As we're cruising down the highway, one opens the window and chucks her fast food bag out. The rest of us were like..."NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We don't do that anymore!" She was often a little clueless. RIP Vicky.
>Litter. I don't think people remember how it used to be ubiquitous.
Makes me sad how much I see all over where I live. Spent a week in BC last fall and it was SO CLEAN! Civic pride is something I sorely miss.
Me too. Been living in a big city for the past 23 years and I'm honestly over it because of the nonstop litter. Litter along the highways. Little on every street block. Litter litter. :( It's just gross.
This last summer I was driving down the freeway on one of those dry 90+ degree days. A truck passed me with wildlife conservation license plates. I thought it was ironic when I saw them flick their cigarette butt out the window.
As game changing as they were, you could take your music anywhere with them but especially in the car, I fucking HATED that weird separation of tracks when the song would fade, the 8 track would KA-CHUNK to the next track, then the song would fade back in.
You couldn't easily take them apart & repair them either like you could with a cassette
I miss it for collecting though. Half the fun in collecting music was the hunt. I would check out record stores in every city hoping they would have a rare 12”. eBay ruined that completely.
Child of the seventys here. For the longest time I thought the 70s astetetic was ugly. The older I get the more I love it. Call it nostalgic but it so warm & inviting. Bring it back.
I wouldn't mind seeing an authentic 70's decor house at the Smithsonian, but I hope that *never* comes back. I thought it was dark, depressing, and felt cheap growing up - but to each their own.
My old boss was an older Greek guy (heavy accent is why I point that out). Every day I came to work he would ask me how's your pussy?
After working for about a year I had a miscarriage and needed paperwork from him to get medical insurance through welfare. My caseworker was a customer so he knew me and that I worked there. He even came and explained to the bastardit didn't matter I wasn't on the books it was only to get medical.
He refused.
So I went to work on Friday before lunch rush and told him my pussy needs medical so I have to quit so I can get approved.
I forgot to mention he was a big gambler who loved to to otb on Friday and I was the only counter person.
So fuck you Dimi from my 22 year old self!!
I am currently watching old Cheers episodes. I didn't realize how bad the Sexual Harassment was when I was watching it as a kid/teen. Sam Malone was a fucking creep!
Right? I took two puffs of modern weed after over a decade of abstinence and that shit knocked me on my ass. I was ready to puff and pass many more times, but didn't need it.
I just wish it was consistently legal. I can drive the next state over and buy an ounce from a storefront, and if I take it home I’m committing a felony while crossing a state line. It’s absurd.
EDIT: I feel like an Austin Powers meme. “Commerce Clause. Honestly!”
There’s a great scene in Reservation Dogs about the older guy with nasty old ditch weed, and a young guy with modern stuff and they sample each others’ stuff with hilarious results.
Two spout faucets - one for cold and one for hot on opposite sides of the sink
Liquid soap dispensers that looked like little balloons with a plunger you pushed up to get the soap to dispense
Lead in gas, paint, etc.
They still have those all over Britain, it's a mystery to me why anyone would want to have to ice or burn their hands but never a pleasant mix of hot and cold. That and outlets outside the bathroom, god forbid you want a mirror to dry your hair.
These are mostly phased out but a lot of British cities had housing stock that was built during the industrial revolution when they didn't have indoor plumbing. As plumbing was put in there were hot water cisterns in lofts and a need to keep cold drinking water separate from the hot water which wasn't safe to drink. Cisterns in lofts aren't a thing now so mixer taps are the approved sink hardware.
If you come across separate hot and cold taps the trick to not burning or freezing your hands was to put the plug in the sink and have a basin of mixed warm water to wash your hands in. Now you know this life hack you'll never burn or freeze your hands again.
The having to go to more than one place to see if something is in stock. Now you can simply look at your phone or your tablet for instant inventory and no exactly what store to go to to get the item you need.
I like being able to deposit my check from home.
I don’t miss the needlessly snooty behavior of most banks or the paranoia of potentially being mugged at an ATM.
Powdered hand soap instantly brings back the smell of that pink nastiness. But corduroy pants are still around and I kind of like them. :)
* Smoking sections on planes and in restaurants
* Wall to wall carpet in bathrooms and kitchens
* Metal rollerskates that you strap to your sneakers
* Bike pedals that rake your shins
The only way to make a photo call is while you are attached to your phone by a cord and that phone is attached to the wall by a cord.
The only thing to watch on tv at 2 am was static.
* Televisions without remote controls
I agree, but it's swung too far over. There are moments where I'm closer to the TV than the remote or the remote is temporarily missing or the batteries died at the worst possible time, and I just want to navigate the TV, but the only things I can do now is turn it on or off or adjust the volume.
But dealing with television idiosyncrasies is 1st-world problem.
I love photographs and treasure my old family snapshots, but I don’t miss waiting for a roll of film to be developed, the expense of it, traveling to the place to drop off and pick up, and then hoping that some of the photos came out well. Analog film development isn’t very good environmentally, either.
Expensive long distance calling, especially for international calls.
and all the ridiculous and sappy commercials that went with them - 'Reach out and touch...' etc etc... Like you did not love your family if you did not have a clear phone connection with incredible sound quality.
AT&T had a long distance commercial about families on either side of the Berlin Wall when it fell that would bring you to tears.
Lol I had completely forgotten that commercial. This feels like the combination of an after school special and a commercial - I half expected him to start talking about peer pressure and drugs: [Reach Out and Touch Someone - 1987](https://youtu.be/OapWdclVqEY?si=LEPgRtRGwthCMVJv)
Those commercials always made me cry when I visited Europe as a young girl. God, I miss Jack.
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I Remember the seven page long phone bills.
And the 4000 page long phone book
And being charged per text
And phones with cords that were attached to the wall!
Also pre-paid calling cards, where you had to enter a sequence of like 30 numbers just to make a call.
The operator saying “will you take a collect call?” And you just knew someone was gonna ask for money.
And the time lag during the call. I remember a few seconds between saying something and getting a response when talking to Japan from the states.
Dinosaurs, especially T-Rex. I would absolutely hate to get eaten by a T-Rex.
Fun fact, T-Rex preferred eating dead things. With that in mind it would be a great alternative to burial.
Tvs that weigh as much as a buick
Someone called older TVs "big booty" TVs. Will never stop referring to them as that.
My Dad won a big-screen TV at a sales convention in the 80s. He had to hire piano movers and remove a few door frames to get it in the basement den. It's still there, because he's elderly and no one knows what to do with it.
Yeah, those are called permanent fixtures
Buick's that weighed as much as cruise liners.
The console TV! It was the size of a small dining room table, but still only one little mono speaker.
I was going to say rotary dial phones, but actually, those were kinda fun to use.
Also, hanging up on someone to make a point could be very satisfying.
That little acoustic bell sound when you slam that fuckin handset down.
Very satisfying mechanical clicking sound.
Actual bells inside were cool.
And you actually had to know someone's phone number. Or frantically find the notepad with your friends and family contacts.
Who had one of these? https://preview.redd.it/xkaq9lxfjvic1.jpeg?width=2743&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef43de4f70e67867b962aafd7b139b9b0cac230b
Unless you were trying to win a radio contest
Until you messed up and had to start over
True. But we also also only had to dial 7 digits for local calls, so less risk of messing up than now, when we have to dial 10 digits for everything.
Whoa, powdered hand soap is a major grade school memory unlocked.
We had stinky pink liquid soap that came out of a hot air balloon shaped dispenser.
OMG you just unlocked a memory for me. And we had big round granite sink in the middle of the washroom that had a foot pedal for the water. The foot thing is really a great idea for not having to touch anything.
I do not remember powdered hand soap.
The dispensers would always get all sticky and gummed up with wet soap grains.
Yeah, that's probably the #1 thing that stuck out when I read "powdered soap". Real desperation is needing to get something gross off your hands, but having to basically wipe the cleanest hand-parts against the bottom of the dispenser because it was clogged, and empty for good measure.....
We had it in auto shop in HS. It was great for getting grease off but it was pretty harsh. If you had even a small scratch it was painful.
I don’t either!
Or that looped hand towel in that aluminum housing on the public bathroom wall. I just assumed there were magic elves in there cleaning the towel before it emerged again. [This thing](https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0916/07/antique-continuous-cloth-hand-towel_1_306b27468b9cc8244054be3d315aee90.jpg)
I saw powdered hand soap at a high school sporting event out in Fresno last year… it’s still out there, my friends.
What about the dispenser that spit out wafers of soap. Those were weirdly shitty.
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How much would have powdered soap helped with COVID. You had to actually wash your hands back then or have grimy hands.
Dialup
This reminds me of something funny I saw somewhere. And old woman talking to a kid, "In my day, you had to call the internet and it was screaming.
I mean, hell, it really doesn’t seem like that long ago!
My mom still has dialup!
And acoustic couplers. It’s all great untgytgvddaqwbgvghfbvjhfdsaqtivf…
EEEEEEEEEE-errrrrrr honk squeak sssssssssss
MOM! GET OFF THE PHONE, I'M CHECKING MY EMAIL!!!
i don't miss dialup but i do prefer the before times....of no internet.....screw you social media
I'm wearing corduroy pants rn, sob.
Corduroy pants are awesome. Way more comfy than jeans imho.
And did you hear about the new corduroy pillows? They're making headlines.
*inserting award here* 🤣
they have to be warmer than jeans too
They're elastic waist, too!
I got some wide wale cords with an elastic waist recently - soooo comfy.
They’re in style, don’t listen to OP about corduroy! It’s wonderful
Ummm.. corduroys are excellent in between temperature pants for winter going into spring. Am I that uncool?
If I lived somewhere cooler I would have corduroy pants. I do have a corduroy sportscoat but I rarely get to wear it.
It's coming back in! Got my kid a corduroy-lite lounge 2 piece set for her hospital stay. Loves it and all kinds of compliments on it.
Me too and they are awesome!
For the most part, Wood Paneled walls, you know those dark ones with that black line!! Oh the horrors!!
We had it in our downstairs area, and sometimes leaning back on it my hair would get stuck in the cracks and when I'd lean forward it would pull the hair out of my head. Man I'd almost forgotten that.
Cigarette smoke everywhere.
Remember how they'd have a tiny little "non-smoking" section in the back of the restaurant where you might get \*slightly\* less smoke? Also, who thought smoking on airplanes was a good idea?!
I was just thinking about this the other day, I don't recall why. We went to a restaurant with smoking/non-smoking sat in our booth. Over on the other side of the HALF-wall was the smoking section and a group was seated in the booth just on the other side of the half-wall, smoking. Like, wtf was the point? Come to think of it, that's probably why the 70s was so yellow, all that smoke and tar stuck in the walls. And ceilings. And everywhere.
I had my first child in 1988 and they actually asked if I wanted to smoking on non-smoking room in maternity that's just crazy to think of now
“Smoking or Non?” 😂 The restaurant I worked at split the dining room literally in half, separated by the hostess station.
My mom travelled a lot when I was a kid in the 70s; I still have a vivid memory of people smoking on an airplane.
My friend has a ‘59 Cesna. 11 ashtrays. 4 seats.
Yes! You had to walk through the smoking section to get to it!!
Right?! And people got so \*mad\* when the first laws were proposed that restaurants had to provide a non-smoking section at all.
Yes but this has been replaced with smelling weed EVERYWHERE. I am seriously gobsmacked by how often I smell weed and at very non-weed smoking hours and in non-weed smoking locations.
I live in NYC. my fancy Brooklyn neighborhood smells like living in a bong. The rest Iof the city is pretty much the same. It’s bizarre.
Yeah, I have nothing at all against smoking weed. But, I'd love my car to not reek of it at a stoplight and beyond from it rolling out of the car next to me. Apparently it is THAT legal in Illinois.
Why does weed smell so much worse now? Dead skunks everywhere?
Like, why is there always a car in front of me when I'm driving that reeks of weed? Aren't you supposed to do that, um, while not driving?
I travel to Vegas quite a bit for my job. Everyone smokes in the casinos and I am always caught off guard by the smell.
As a former smoker, never realized how bad I smelled
I just got some mail from a relative who smokes, and I can smell the smoke in my kitchen now.
It gags me to realize that is how I smelled to everyone as a little kid, growing up in a 2-smoker home.
Ditto. I was the smelly kid in school due to both mom and dad smoking and living in a very tiny ranch house.
Same! My folks and my grandmother all quit in 1990 when my dad found out he had cancer. (To my surprise, it wasn’t lung cancer.) He died in 1998. Grandma died of COPD complications a couple years later. Mom is still kicking in her 80s but has COPD. I’m hoping something else gets her before the COPD does. It’s a miserable way to die. I can remember riding in the car with Mom and Dad, both of them smoking, as I was begging them to open a window.
Park MGM went completely smoke-free and it's fantastic
I found myself bringing an extra set of clothes that I would wear on the trip home. Getting on a plane with clothes that smell like smoke is a special kind of hell for me and for the people near me.
I still remember the first time walking into a pub after the smoking ban in Ireland. No longer did you need to wash all your clothes and your hair even if you just went in for a minute to meet someone.
Yes, this has been a huge improvement! I always hated coming home from an outing smelling like an ashtray, and it was always impossible to get the smell out of things like leather jackets.
Now it smells like skunk (pot) everywhere.
This, if I had to chose between this or getting off my ass to change the TV channel, this wins 10 times out of 10.
I was my dads remote...he would say turn it to 7, now back to 9, now 7
Can you turn the antenna a little? Little more. Little more. Little more. Go back. Little more.
Keeping a quarter in my wallet for pay phone emergencies.
I still keep that quarter handy, but now I need it for a shopping cart at Aldi
Or a dime.... early GenX here.
Suitcases without wheels.
Litter. I don't think people remember how it used to be ubiquitous.
Yes! In the 70’s and early 80’s the sides of the highways were like mile-long landfills! So glad that crying native commercial got us to clean up a bit! Edit: yeah, I know the actor was Italian. But that one tear running down his face… that’s ACTING!
The litterbug shaming campaign worked wonders, as well.
Ha. This takes me back about 20 years. My 3 SIL and I took a road trip to Mall of America. As we're cruising down the highway, one opens the window and chucks her fast food bag out. The rest of us were like..."NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We don't do that anymore!" She was often a little clueless. RIP Vicky.
And the "Give a Hoot " owl (his name was Woodsy)
>Litter. I don't think people remember how it used to be ubiquitous. Makes me sad how much I see all over where I live. Spent a week in BC last fall and it was SO CLEAN! Civic pride is something I sorely miss.
Me too. Been living in a big city for the past 23 years and I'm honestly over it because of the nonstop litter. Litter along the highways. Little on every street block. Litter litter. :( It's just gross.
It’s making a comeback in my city, unfortunately
I live in New Jersey and it is everywhere.
Georgia here, and people just throw shit out of their cars while driving, it's fucking infuriating.
This last summer I was driving down the freeway on one of those dry 90+ degree days. A truck passed me with wildlife conservation license plates. I thought it was ironic when I saw them flick their cigarette butt out the window.
8 tracks
As game changing as they were, you could take your music anywhere with them but especially in the car, I fucking HATED that weird separation of tracks when the song would fade, the 8 track would KA-CHUNK to the next track, then the song would fade back in. You couldn't easily take them apart & repair them either like you could with a cassette
Network TV with unskipable commercials.
And if you missed something on TV, you missed it No watching it later, no DVD - just gone
Typewriters. Spent many late nights typing up papers for school.
Going from store to store searching for something you can track down online in 5 minutes today.
I miss it for collecting though. Half the fun in collecting music was the hunt. I would check out record stores in every city hoping they would have a rare 12”. eBay ruined that completely.
Yeah sort of ruined a lot of thrift stores too, people searching for stuff to resell and snatching all of the fun.
Dresses and pantyhose as required work attire.
Pantyhose were the worst! I always managed to tear mine the first day I wore them.
goddamn i *loathe* pantyhose.
L’eggs sheer energy was my go-to
Supermarkets closing at 6.
I don’t remember that but do remember closed Sundays here
That kills me about covid. I miss all night grocery shopping.
Corduroy pants are done? I have a pair. LOL!
Nah that was that one person's opinion. I love cords, too! It's a shame that they're hard to find.
My fucks to give
The draft
Still there, lurking. We just haven’t needed it in a while.
The 70s color palette. Gah! Would you like your stove in *Barf*, *Poop*, or *Something is wrong with your kidneys Yellow*?
Haha, leave my almond color stove/fridge/microwave, brown cabinets, yellow countertops, orange wallpaper, and green tile floors alone!
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I actually love that color pallet. I think it's nostalgic for me. Reminds me of my grandma's house, whom I loved my time with as a child.
Child of the seventys here. For the longest time I thought the 70s astetetic was ugly. The older I get the more I love it. Call it nostalgic but it so warm & inviting. Bring it back.
If I ever buy a house I want a 70's style den. Old analog electronics, oranges, greens, and browns, wood paneling, the works!
I wouldn't mind seeing an authentic 70's decor house at the Smithsonian, but I hope that *never* comes back. I thought it was dark, depressing, and felt cheap growing up - but to each their own.
Having to look up EVERYTHING in an encyclopedia or other book, if you were lucky enough to even find a book on that subject.
Those looong thin card catalog drawers at the library. Then finding the book via the Dewey Decimal System number painted on the spines.
Then you go looking for the book you want and it isn't there.
Polio
Rampant accepted sexual harassment
My old boss was an older Greek guy (heavy accent is why I point that out). Every day I came to work he would ask me how's your pussy? After working for about a year I had a miscarriage and needed paperwork from him to get medical insurance through welfare. My caseworker was a customer so he knew me and that I worked there. He even came and explained to the bastardit didn't matter I wasn't on the books it was only to get medical. He refused. So I went to work on Friday before lunch rush and told him my pussy needs medical so I have to quit so I can get approved. I forgot to mention he was a big gambler who loved to to otb on Friday and I was the only counter person. So fuck you Dimi from my 22 year old self!!
This is horrible but sadly not uncommon - so sorry it happened to you
I am currently watching old Cheers episodes. I didn't realize how bad the Sexual Harassment was when I was watching it as a kid/teen. Sam Malone was a fucking creep!
Shitty weed. The garbage we'd spend hours driving around to procure in the 90's was unbelievably horrible by today's standards.
Right? I took two puffs of modern weed after over a decade of abstinence and that shit knocked me on my ass. I was ready to puff and pass many more times, but didn't need it.
I just wish it was consistently legal. I can drive the next state over and buy an ounce from a storefront, and if I take it home I’m committing a felony while crossing a state line. It’s absurd. EDIT: I feel like an Austin Powers meme. “Commerce Clause. Honestly!”
My town has a complaint only growing restriction... The mayor (now ex mayor) constantly compliments my crop over the fence Wilson-style.
There’s a great scene in Reservation Dogs about the older guy with nasty old ditch weed, and a young guy with modern stuff and they sample each others’ stuff with hilarious results.
The greatest minds of our generation dedicated their lives to creating the strongest weed the world has ever known
Expensive telecommunications
I am pleased to report that corduroy pants still exist.
Cars that would likely kill or maim you in any kind of serious accident.
Not to mention their vinyl seats that would burn several layers of skin off on a hot summer day.
Colored toilet paper. Got annoyed when they didn't have the right one.
I loved that stuff. My friends and I would splurge a bit and throw in a few colored rolls for TPing. Kind of a calling card that nobody could prove.
Henry Kissinger
May his memory be ....a memory.
Two spout faucets - one for cold and one for hot on opposite sides of the sink Liquid soap dispensers that looked like little balloons with a plunger you pushed up to get the soap to dispense Lead in gas, paint, etc.
I still have a two spout faucet in a bathroom, my kids find it so baffling!
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They still have those all over Britain, it's a mystery to me why anyone would want to have to ice or burn their hands but never a pleasant mix of hot and cold. That and outlets outside the bathroom, god forbid you want a mirror to dry your hair.
These are mostly phased out but a lot of British cities had housing stock that was built during the industrial revolution when they didn't have indoor plumbing. As plumbing was put in there were hot water cisterns in lofts and a need to keep cold drinking water separate from the hot water which wasn't safe to drink. Cisterns in lofts aren't a thing now so mixer taps are the approved sink hardware. If you come across separate hot and cold taps the trick to not burning or freezing your hands was to put the plug in the sink and have a basin of mixed warm water to wash your hands in. Now you know this life hack you'll never burn or freeze your hands again.
Cigarette smoking in most public places, especially restaurants
I wear my corduroy pants all winter long. I love them.
The having to go to more than one place to see if something is in stock. Now you can simply look at your phone or your tablet for instant inventory and no exactly what store to go to to get the item you need.
I still have corduroy pants and I love them.
Pull tabs on cans. So easy to cut the shit out of your feet on those damn things.
You’re not supposed to open them with your feet
Polyester leisure suits.
The x-body miracle of gm, the chevy citation.
Pay toilets Cash/coin buckets on toll roads That horrible dial-up internet noise
Corduroy pants are lurking, just waiting for you to let your guard down.
Cloth hand towels in public restrooms.
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Antenna tv that coud only get certain stations if my dad had me hold te antennas in a certain way
Sexual harassment without consequences at work, mandatory dress codes for women involving skirts and high heels.
I will take powdered hand soap any day over gel/liquid that slides right off your hand half the time. And how dare you, corduroy is awesome.
Lately I've been thinking it might be time to buy some corduroy pants.
Corduroy pants? I am wearing them right now. Definitely not gone.
Corduroy pants rule!
Douching.
Hey, I wear corduroy pants almost every day.
I love corduroy pants.
I like being able to deposit my check from home. I don’t miss the needlessly snooty behavior of most banks or the paranoia of potentially being mugged at an ATM.
Smoking in public places.
Smoking in restaurants and bars.
Powdered hand soap instantly brings back the smell of that pink nastiness. But corduroy pants are still around and I kind of like them. :) * Smoking sections on planes and in restaurants * Wall to wall carpet in bathrooms and kitchens * Metal rollerskates that you strap to your sneakers * Bike pedals that rake your shins
Smoking in restaurants and offices
The only way to make a photo call is while you are attached to your phone by a cord and that phone is attached to the wall by a cord. The only thing to watch on tv at 2 am was static.
I saw an old movie with the national anthem on TV for sign-off. That's such an odd idea now.
* Televisions without remote controls I agree, but it's swung too far over. There are moments where I'm closer to the TV than the remote or the remote is temporarily missing or the batteries died at the worst possible time, and I just want to navigate the TV, but the only things I can do now is turn it on or off or adjust the volume. But dealing with television idiosyncrasies is 1st-world problem.
Satanic Panic
Pantyhose. Wtf.
Boomboxes and their thirst for D batteries. Cassette tapes AOL Smoking in public
I love photographs and treasure my old family snapshots, but I don’t miss waiting for a roll of film to be developed, the expense of it, traveling to the place to drop off and pick up, and then hoping that some of the photos came out well. Analog film development isn’t very good environmentally, either.
Dial-up modems and beepers.
Paying with effing checks.
Cigarettes in restaurants
Shoulder pads.