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I think social media was an invention that made the world an inferior place.
Websites. Early websites were clean, loaded quickly, didn’t have tracking cookies or cookie pop-ups and focused on telling you what you wanted to know without a ton of extraneous low-value images.
Led headlights. The older halogens were just fine and better for everyone.
Kitchen white goods such as washing machines etc. My mum’s washing machine she bought in 1980 lasted her nearly 20 years. Modern ones don’t seem to last more than 5-6 years.
Mobile phones. The worst thing to ever happen as a supposed ‘technological advance’ was removing the earphone socket in mobile phones. Now, I have to rely on wireless earphones that always fall out, and the possibility that my phone might lose connection and start blasting music out loud.
2 Things.Completed products. Before the rise of online gaming all games had to be completed before they could be pushed out and you couldn’t really do upgrades (although there were add ons). I gave up gaming when I had a PS4, every time I wanted to do anything it it needed time to do uploads. Just got sick of it.Owning things. I hate subscription models. They are great for a physical thing you get every month but for lots of digital products they are rubbish. Give me the software and stop messing around with it. I’ve stopped caring so much about paying them now. If it can’t be owned, it can’t be piracy.
Online menus,it doesn’t hurt to just tell me what you have on a list at the very least.
Keyless ignition serves no useful purpose and is much less secure than a physical car key. You can’t clone a key through a brick wall.One of those Jurassic Park moments of people trying to show what they could do without thinking whether they should.
Banks and branches with managers you could talk to and ask for things, e.g. overdraft extensions. Nowadays you have to be on hold for an hour to speak to someone in the Philippines who doesn’t know what an ISA is.
Modern cake mixers. I have a mixer from the 1960s that is still going strong today. I have tried modern mixers, but not only do they not work as well, they don’t last very long either.It’s more than 60 years old, used to belong to my grandmother, has all its original parts and is still making cakes to this day. It’s outlasted every single modern mixer I’ve tried.
HousesMy house is 150 years old and is built to last. Very little issues. I know 2 people who have a ‘newish’ build house (built within the last 10 years) and because of the extreme weather the UK has had with wind the past few years both their houses need serious work. Not a single shingle has come off my roof.New builds in the UK are built like S***E. I used to work in construction retail and traders would even comment how out of line walls/floors would be when working in new houses.
I had a vhs player that worked for 30years. Now when I buy a digital film, apparently I don’t actually own it and it could disappear.
Shops where the workers could do more than than tell you to go back home and call customer services. Looking at you Samsung.
Maybe already said but fridges. I don’t need a coffin sized, Bluetooth connected cold wardrobe. I need an accessible, adjustable and flexible fridge that is not going to take up half the wall.
Streetlamps used to give a nice warm glow before we replaced them with those ghastly white lights.
Cars. Too wide, too bulky, headlights too bright, too locked in with ridiculous diagnostics and sensors and god knows what else…and they all look the f*****g same!I bought an ‘09 Vauxhall last year, hoping I can keep it running as long as possible, but I’m really dreading having to choose something else in a few years’ time.
Plastic packaging. Nobody needs blister packs and polystyrene can be replaced with the sensible use of cardboard. At one time, supermarkets used to give away paper carrier bags - now they care so much about the environment that they don’t have paper bags but will sell you a plastic carrier bag instead.
Multi stage authentication b****t. Either let websites track you constantly or have to use your password, then enter a 6 digit code that they text to you. Fk off!
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Clothing.Everything available now is absolutely shte and doesn’t survive long at all. 3 pairs of identical levis jeans I have all came out of the same wash different sizes. Tshirts go out of shape in weeks. Everything is plastic or contains it. Bog standard suits from M&s are absolutely garbage (and stretchy! Who wants stretch fabric suits?)This wasn’t the case 20 years ago. Jeans were cheap, cut better, and lasted. Trainers lasted a year and not the 4 months I now get out of them. You could get nice wool jumpers that wouldn’t shrink miles in a gentle wash. Generally things were worth repairing. The good old days!Edit: should say “everything available on the high street is absolutely s**e.” There are new UK-based companies making good clothes, but they tend to be online only and a lot more pricey (which I suppose you’d expect).
Staplers, I’m sure the staples used to be able to penetrate more than twe sheets of paper.
Vacuum cleaners. They have lower levels of suction compared to rhe 90s and are massively over engineered.I got to use an old early 2000s vacuum while cleaning a church hall the other day and it’s pick up was fantastic compared to my modern Shark device.
I saw a tiktok that lamented the loss of detail in every day objects. Take metal bollards, for example. Across the UK, we still have beautifully forged metal bollards with fluted edges, crested designs and round plated tops. However, newer ones are just a galvanized steel pole.Another somewhat outdated example from the UK are the differences between older and newer phone boxes.Once you start seeing this loss of detail within the landscape it becomes difficult to miss.
Supposed fully automatic hand washing facilities in public toilets, restaurants etc.Very rarely do they work. If you’re lucky you’ll get cold water to rinse your hands then have to leave with them wet or wipe on your trousers.Worst case you get a squirt of soap and no water that you then have to wipe off somehow. Bring back manual taps, soap and push button drier.
Cars. There was a point, early to late 90s when cars were just about perfect. They were mostly reliable and didn’t break down like cars in the 70s and 80s. They were still mechanical mostly, you could service them yourself and if you were handy with tools, you could fix a lot of problems yourself.Now, car’s are filled with pointless electrical gubbins that can and will break down leaving you unable to repair yourself.Electric handbrakes, automatic lights and wipers. Doors/boots that have motors to open them. LCD screen dashboards. Oddly shaped music systems that can’t be swapped out. Cards/button to start them and insanely complicated canbus system that control everything and require software update that only main stealers can install at extortionate costs. And batteries that effetely make the car a write off when they need replacing.
Health service used to be more accessible and quicker for GPs and A&E.
30 years ago you could post a letter and expect it to appear in a day. I’m lucky to see a letter within 10-14 days now.
Gaming. You bought a game, inserted in the console and it was working. You could play.Now? 100GB update, then you need to be connected to the online, update game, then you need to buy dlcs to get complete experience, excessive grind and option to buy speed up perks, then years later, servers shut down and your own game doesn’t work anymore.. (examples, warzone has 100GB updates, pokemon scvi don’t have post game, to get anything resembling postgane, you need to buy dlcs, ubisoft games are infamous for their microtransactions of xp boosts in single player games, the crew is odd mix of single player game which needs constant Internet connection and they will close servers this year, making game unplayable for anyone who bought it).
Light bulbs. I recently learnt that the longest burning lightbulbwas first installed in 1901.I moved into my room 3 years ago and already changed 2 light bulbs.
Packaging has got worse.You no longer get a protective plastic lid for cream or yogurt.Most of the ‘pull here’ lids don’t work at all anymore.Large items like 24 cans of coke, no longer have a box that you can open easily to allow access.
McDonalds had straws with which you could drink their milkshakes. .
Shoesf*****g shoesmore and more cushiondon’t y’all notice that your feet hurt after wearing them all day?i switched over to minimal shoes and have had zero foot pain at the end of the day. takes a bit to get used to, but 100% worth it and “regular” shoes hurt like hell after 30 minutes. Stop squishing your feet! The hell, balls of your feet, outside of the foot, and toes are what hold you up. Not your arch. Arch support in shoes spreads your body weight to parts of your foot that are not supposed to carry that weight all day longIf you have a foot injury, arch support can help put your foot back into a natural shape. If you never remove your arch support, the muscles in your feet will never get strong enough to support that arch. Need to be as barefoot as possible to get your foot back to how it’s supposed to be.
F*****g fruit juice cartons.
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