Things you will have to explain to your grandchildren that are here and disapearing..

[HAMSTER INSPECTOR]

1960s

It cost you big to buy a skin mag to see this.

 

[HAMSTER INSPECTOR]

2010

It cost you nothing to call a toll free number and get a mag to see this.

 

[SaturnFan]

Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles have gone the way of the Edsel.

Plymouths ("A nice Reliant automobile.")

 

[oldjones]

The knife sharpening guy who traveled the streets.

He was on my street last week, dinging his bell. And my rotary dial phone still works, although it frightened my nephew when he tried to use it.

 

[HAMSTER INSPECTOR]

Plymouths ("A nice Reliant automobile.")

Also gone are :

AMC American Motors ( Pacer )

Failed experimemts :

Asuna Automobiles

Merkur Automobiles

 

[HAMSTER INSPECTOR]

Leaded gasoline.

 

[esoterica]

sugared gum

 

[burt-oh-my!]

How about the ability to have a good old fashioned snowball fight in the school playground?

 

[burt-oh-my!]

The right to offend someone and not be hauled off to a human rights tribunal

 

[Cycleguy007]

People taking responsibility for their own actions...

 

[roblestone]

Bareback sex with someone you just met.

 

[diehard]

Smoking?

 

[rafterman]

Glaciers.
The great coastal cities.
Dozens of languages.

 

[gar]

You can tell your grandkids that the walls of buildings/houses, bus shelters were free of any graffiti or posters.

 

[hamermill]

Things you will have to explain to your grandchildren that are here and disappearing..

Manners and common courtesy

And saying thank you instead of shrugging or my favorite "no problem"

 

[diehard]

And saying thank you instead of shrugging or my favorite "no problem"

btw, where did "no problem" originate?

I just can't get to say it.

 

[oil&gas]

How about usage of terms that were used freely by man for the fair sex
before the age of political correctness. These days I have to be really
careful with my language in the more "progressive" insituties of the society
like the universities. It won't be long before the day come that the
younger generation won't know guys used to call women 'chicks'. Some words
like 'bombshell' and 'fair sex' are even explicitly forbidden in the guidelines
provided by a few schools. I could even get myself into trouble calling a
younger woman a girl.

 

[Dewalt]

Vinyl car seats, Triptyks from CAA for road trips, Straight razors in barber shops that weren't disposable, the Sherwood milk truck, and kids carrying a jacknife with them in gradeschool.

 

[OutForFun]

Slingshots
Cords connecting computer equipment
Opening a car door with a key
Lego not in pre-defined set
Arcades
Incandescent light bulbs

 

[HAMSTER INSPECTOR]

Returnable milk and pop bottles.