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Things that didnt exist 20 years ago (24 posts / 1,915 views)
Teddybare
Posts: 994
Post #1 2 Jan 2023 14:47
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Things that didn't exist 20 years ago:

YouTube
Instagram
Twitter
TikTok
Gmail
Netflix streaming
WhatsApp
Messenger
Google Maps
iPhone
Facebook
Android
Bitcoin
Tesla
iPad
Chrome
Zoom
Skype
Amazon Prime
Slack
Reddit
Etsy
Snapchat
LinkedIn
Pinterest
Spotify
Airbnb
Uber
bluebeat13
Posts: 2,168
Post #2 2 Jan 2023 15:36
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Between this thread and the Christmas TV one that nobody replied to it reads like a cry for help.

Try this 0800 585858
scozza
Posts: 18,421
Post #3 2 Jan 2023 16:45
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Load of ***** lol

Uber eats, that's one, up there with deliveroo, all these skint people on the breadline totally ****ed now having McDonald's delivered to the house ordered on the latest iPhone with app. WTF
Teddybare
Posts: 994
Post #4 2 Jan 2023 17:23
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🤣🤣🤣 Tom's easily triggered

Not too bright are you mate, you mention the Christmas TV post and no one replied, so? Not really posted for replies , you could of mentioned the cost of living crisis post/thread with 100s of replies but that didn't support your agenda🤣🤣🤣🤣 not that I care either way.

Tom Tit is a very apt name in your case mate.🤣🤣🤣

Football's starting now and I've got a bet on so better go 👍
Greybeard54
Posts: 310
Post #5 2 Jan 2023 17:31
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cant be bothered.
Tinhead Tinhead
Posts: 17,089
Post #6 2 Jan 2023 17:39
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I think you've pretty much summed it up, can't think of anything else.


Oh wait a minute I've thought of couple.
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and greenwashing

Also LED lightbulbs great things better than those ****ty compact fluorescents that took 5 minutes to reach brightness

A bit marmite but what about windturbines.
Air source heat pumps which by the looks of it won't be around in 20 years and will be the next source of 'Have you been missold' companies.

Oh and the Spomb

@Scozza
My daughter ordered a slush puppy at 1am from Gopuff.
fiver for the drink and 4 quid for delivery. WTF
Teddybare
Posts: 994
Post #7 2 Jan 2023 18:10
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Not my list but thought it interesting.

I expect there's a conspiracy theory or two in there 🤣
scozza
Posts: 18,421
Post #8 2 Jan 2023 19:57
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My daughter ordered a slush puppy at 1am from Gopuff.
fiver for the drink and 4 quid for delivery. WTF


Madness mate, mines the same and everybody else as I see it, I was in a retail park the other day, never seen as many drivers with cool bags in and out and stood waiting! I think a lot of people have no value for money, plastic card generation, can't see the cash they are spending and can't be arsed to go out and get things either

Starbucks and Costa are another, what did people do before they popped up, drive throughs near me, queues all the time and packed inside when I look over. I see the same people every morning walking with a coffee, say a fiver a day, £25 per week, £100 per month, £1200 a year on coffee ffs then they wonder where their money goes, guess it's me that's tight
Stokebloke Stokebloke
Posts: 597
Post #9 2 Jan 2023 20:03
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Cancel culture!!!
JasonM JasonM
Posts: 1,764
Post #10 2 Jan 2023 20:04
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Woke
framey framey
Posts: 5,319
Post #11 2 Jan 2023 20:14
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Speed cameras
Woke
Me too
Lgbt and all the extensions for people who feel they need to be labelled
JasonM JasonM
Posts: 1,764
Post #12 2 Jan 2023 20:33
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Help to buy mortgages.
Teddybare
Posts: 994
Post #13 2 Jan 2023 21:26
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There's been a little gang on here for years promoting that 😉
mal mal
Posts: 8,986
Post #14 2 Jan 2023 22:04
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LGBT people have been around for more than 20 years you know (as has the term in recognised use)

And so have speed cameras

As for some of the other stuff mentioned a lot of it could be called 'progress' - women feeling that they can speak up after being sexually abused for example.

And cancel culture doesn't exist. Its just a term used by snowflakes who don't like it that they get told when they're being bigoted dinosaurs....



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Jon Jon
Posts: 4,294
Post #15 3 Jan 2023 10:09
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Here's something that didn't exist 20 years ago .. the increasing unjustified sense of victmhood expressed by an increasing number of British people.

From 'the European Union tells us how bendy our bananas can be' boo-hoo...

to 'you can't say Christmas anymore' snivel...

including 'black lives? what about myyyyyyy life!' sob...

not forgetting 'THEY are trying to take away my right to do XYZ' (often expressed while doing XYZ) wail wail ...

I find it very odd, quite depressing, yet highly entertaining.
Tinhead Tinhead
Posts: 17,089
Post #16 3 Jan 2023 12:31
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Yes I remember the bendy bananas fiasco and so I have revisited it.
It came about after Commission Regulation 2257/94 identified certain restrictions for fruits that producers have to conform to in order to sell their produce within the EU. The regulation states that bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature."

It was still possible to buy bananas with malformation or abnormal curvature and in 2011 this regulation and other relevant rules were brought together for the sake of clarity under a single implementing regulation (1333/2011), and in 2013 a further change simplified reporting requirements (implementing regulation 565/2013).

So yes you've always been able to buy straight bananas, they were never banned but it was probably the amount of regulation and red tape that caught the media's eye.
It must have been important to someone but as long as my bananas were fresh I wasn't bothered and I'd imagine that was the case for most people and they saw it as a barmy EU regulation.




Greybeard54
Posts: 310
Post #17 3 Jan 2023 12:48
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An Honest politician.
manic manic
Posts: 277
Post #18 3 Jan 2023 17:11
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So if we don't agree with you we are bigoted dinosaurs!
Teddybare
Posts: 994
Post #19 3 Jan 2023 18:41
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That's basically how it works with people like him.
mal mal
Posts: 8,986
Post #20 3 Jan 2023 20:38
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Yes that's what I posted..... (except its not of course)

If the pointy white hat fits then...

If not then no need to complain eh?
Deano48 Deano48
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Post #21 4 Jan 2023 00:07
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Covid-19
Chelsea
Manchester City
Teddybare
Posts: 994
Post #22 4 Jan 2023 01:15
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🤣🤣🤣👍
Tinhead Tinhead
Posts: 17,089
Post #23 4 Jan 2023 02:48
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scozza
Posts: 18,421
Post #24 4 Jan 2023 06:15
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