It's 2025. What things do you miss now that we used to have?

[Toril Toran]

I don’t want to get on a soap box, but…

The problem starts in the home. There used to be discipline in the home.
Children used to be seen and not heard as the old saying goes.
Now kids are telling adults to go F themselves.

I miss the days when kids would run the neighborhood with their friends without worrying about there a pervert on every corner.
We ran free.
T.v. Stations went off the air at around 1:30 am.
OFF. Just off.
After Johnny they played the national anthem and then there was a test pattern until morning at around 7.

On Saturday morning we would get up, grab a bowl of cereal, and park ourselves in front of the T.v. To watch cartoons.


It was a simpler time.

Now it seems like a dream…

 

[BillJ]

The problem starts in the home. There used to be discipline in the home.

Because there were parents at home. The modern economy makes that largely impossible, with parents having to work multiple jobs to make ends meet.

 

[MurphyCooper]

Agreed, 100%. Why do you think I rarely comment in the political threads of The Neutral Zone anymore? It just becomes a ton of chaos, and I have no patience for anyone who's already decided to hurl insults rather than listen.

I don't discuss politics online with people outside of my friend groups. I have nothing to prove to anyone.

 

[Tim Walker]

Noticed that a number of forums have banned discussion of politics, to avoid being overwhelmed.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Noticed that a number of forums have banned discussion of politics, to avoid being overwhelmed.

Steam is being asked to censor both forums and games, what a wild time?

 

[Extrocomp]

Video libraries.

There's just something about going there, holding the DVD and Blu-ray cases, reading the descriptions on the back, picking which ones you like and going home with them in a bag that streaming can never replace. I even enjoyed the smell of my local video libraries. Some of the movies at my local libraries still aren't available on any streaming service.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Democracy.

You had a good run. All good things, and such.

 

[BillJ]

You had a good run. All good things, and such.

It was only a matter of time before someone figured out how to rig the system.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

Noticed that a number of forums have banned discussion of politics, to avoid being overwhelmed.

It all comes from the terrible tradition of political correctness, which insists that all views are equally true, and that no one should ever say anything that offends another for any reason. But this is both irrational and impossible - everything we say has either a positive or negative impact on someone else. With regard to the latter, the best we can do is avoid malice - if they still respond badly, it's not our fault.

 

[Aragorn]

I wasted a lot of money on baseball cards growing up. Not a lot of money, but a lot for a kid who barely made money. Yes, baseball card value is all a scam, but the innocence of collecting for the sake of collecting, I miss that.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Double features at the movie theater or drive in.
In that same vein, I remember when they used to show shorts, like old silent movies or cartoons before the movie started; not endless commercials or trailers.

 

[Toril Toran]

I remember that as well…just. It was a long long time ago.

 

[John Clark]

I don't discuss politics online with people outside of my friend groups. I have nothing to prove to anyone.

That's a recent drop of topics with friends for me

I do miss the video rental places as we had fun back in the day chilling out watching something after looking at the store on a saturday night. Sure, there's netflix or the like, but just reading the box descriptions did lead us to seeing some stuff we might not have seen otherwise.

 

[Toril Toran]

That's a recent drop of topics with friends for me

I do miss the video rental places as we had fun back in the day chilling out watching something after looking at the store on a saturday night. Sure, there's netflix or the like, but just reading the box descriptions did lead us to seeing some stuff we might not have seen otherwise.

So true.
Going to the video store was an event.
You made plans in advance, gathered friends, went to the store, wandered around trying to find something in whichever genre you were interested in (or the latest action flick).
You could ask the clerk or someone else if the movie you wanted was any good.
When you finally picked a movie, you went home, made popcorn, drank soda, and enjoyed a movie because you picked it out of hundreds of movies.

People today don’t seem to understand that.

 

[Gryffindorian]

"Live" customer service over the phone.

A phone-free conversation with family ... within the same room.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

"Live" customer service over the phone.

Or, if you do get a live person on the line, they're usually based overseas, India, most likely.

 

[Set Harth]

Democracy.

Don't you mean ardemocracy?

 

[scotpens]

I miss the days when kids would run the neighborhood with their friends without worrying about there a pervert on every corner.

As it happens, I personally know all the perverts in my neighborhood and there's one maybe every five or six blocks, tops.

Seriously, parents these days keep their children bubble-wrapped. When I was a boy I would ride my bicycle everywhere -- to school, to the store, to the movies, to a friend's house. And no helmets in those days. A few skinned knees and bruises were considered part of a normal childhood. Nowadays parents chauffeur their kids everywhere -- God forbid the precious little tykes should have to walk or bike a few blocks. And we wonder why so many American kids are overweight and out of shape.

Okay, end of rant. Now I have to chase some damn kids off my lawn.

 

[SithHappens]

As it happens, I personally know all the perverts in my neighborhood and there's one maybe every five or six blocks, tops.

Seriously, parents these days keep their children bubble-wrapped. When I was a boy I would ride my bicycle everywhere -- to school, to the store, to the movies, to a friend's house. And no helmets in those days. A few skinned knees and bruises were considered part of a normal childhood. Nowadays parents chauffeur their kids everywhere -- God forbid the precious little tykes should have to walk or bike a few blocks. And we wonder why so many American kids are overweight and out of shape.

Okay, end of rant. Now I have to chase some damn kids off my lawn.

I tend to agree.

We live in a small village, and when I was younger everyone walked to school, now the number of parents dropping kids off is crazy, it's so congested at start and finish times.

I do get roads are busier today. The street we lived on we always were out on bikes, playing football or kerby and you hardly saw a car, now it's busy and the street is full of parked cars.

I agree kids are wrapped in cotton wool though, a few scrapes and bruises is the best way for them to learn what hurts.

I also don't believe there are more dangerous people about, we just know about them now. The world has always been full of pedophiles, they probably just got away with it more back in the day.

My parents always say we live in a terrible world, and some of it is, but when they where young news wasn't available 24/7, you got a news program and daily papers, you got a headline a day, today you can have a headline every minute.

And I do remind them when they say the world used to be safer that millions died in 2 horrific world wars , 1 of which they grew up through.

Glad I wasn't made to go and fight in them.

 

[Toril Toran]

Okay, end of rant. Now I have to chase some damn kids off my lawn.

Don’t forget to shake your fist at them, while yelling “Get off my lawn you bunch of raggamuffins.”

Or scallywags

Or troublemakers

Or ruffians