Spudders Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 What do we take for granted now that you wish was around in the past? For me, the accessibility of cameras and film to capture everything these days is amazing. I know it’s not all good, for example recently I saw a video showing the police busting people who were trying to film a road traffic accident as they drove past it. I mean FFS if you’re driving past a car crash, what kind of person thinks about getting their phone out to film it? So there are darker aspects to it, but generally having a documented record of almost everything these days is pretty amazing!!! I wish such a level of accessible photos and film footage had been around earlier, imagine if events of the past were captured like they are now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 postit pad Would have made a fortune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Ring Pull would have been another belter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Well when I was a kid I would have given anything for the sort of gaming technology my kids have access to. Spending 20 minutes loading a game onto our BBC acorn computer by tape cassette wasn't fun (especially when there was an error loading 50% of the time). The games were hardly all that after the effort either anyone who has ever played Sphinx adventure will agree I'm sure (you are in a room, there is a dwarf, he throws an axe you are dead:lol:) On the plus side with such crap electronic gaming as a child I did spend a lot of time out side playing football, riding my bike o rmaking dens in the local woods so it wasn't all bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Actually the thing that has made the biggest impact in my life it the Internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MongoNeil Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 The wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Sliced bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WindsorSaint Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Sliced bread. What was that the best thing since? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Irrigation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Essruu Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 y o u p o r n . c o m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Colonic Irrigation eww Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Sky Plus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocco boxo Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Skype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Buttock wax Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Them wet look leggings that girls have been wearing for the last few years are nice. They is good invention. They give me boner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Not everything is positive. When miniskirts appeared tights followed soon after. Before then they all wore stockings and suspenders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Mobile phones have got to be the biggest leap forward. Do you remember the days when you would actually fail to meet someone in town? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 This is going to sounds terrifically homosexual of me, but hair straighteners would have been entirely useful during my college and uni years and trying to recreate the Madchester look with my long, wiry, matted mad thatch. I ended up getting a grade 1 all over instead as it was too much hard work to try to maintain such a scruffy and out of control mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 This is going to sounds terrifically homosexual of me, but hair straighteners would have been entirely useful during my college and uni years and trying to recreate the Madchester look with my long, wiry, matted mad thatch. I ended up getting a grade 1 all over instead as it was too much hard work to try to maintain such a scruffy and out of control mess. As someone with a best mate who occasionally gets the tag "super noodle", I hear where you're coming from. Just go for it if it's still follicably possible. Weirder the better is my motto these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 As someone with a best mate who occasionally gets the tag "super noodle", I hear where you're coming from. Just go for it if it's still follicably possible. Weirder the better is my motto these days. Lord no. Sadly the possibility of my cultivation of a thatch akin your impressive mane has long since passed, pap. When you own your own set of clippers, as I do, then you've likely come to the realisation that your chances of maintaining a "hairstyle" are no more, and its best just to bite the bullet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Lord no. Sadly the possibility of my cultivation of a thatch akin your impressive mane has long since passed, pap. When you own your own set of clippers, as I do, then you've likely come to the realisation that your chances of maintaining a "hairstyle" are no more, and its best just to bite the bullet. Ah, that is sad news. Is there not a chance for an epic comb-over that'd make Paul Daniels blush? It's the sort of thing that if you attempt, you shouldn't even try to hide. Hold it all together with a luminous bulldog clip, etc. I do giggle at the gifts we're all bestowed though and I reckon its better to be a baldy than a shorty. If you're really hung up on it; there are actually decent treatments for being bald. Look at Wayne Rooney. He was able to transform himself from "balding footballer" to "idiot footballer who wasted his dosh because he was over-concerned with appearance". What is there for people like me, eh? Milk crates? Platform shoes? Every concert I go to that is standing only is sh!t. 'Course, if you're bald and short, I can't help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kraken Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 A combover wouldn't work, so I'm stuffed in that regard. Rather than "balding" my hair has taken on a "significantly thinning" look. Not quite enough to truly get the razor out and be done with it (apart from summer holidays to avoid the drowned rat look coming out of the pool) but enough to make that regular trip to the hairdressers an ever-more depressing event than the last time and witnessing first hand the latest fallout. Luckily I'm of above average height so I'm not at the point of cursing all of my luck just yet. To get back to the original question; I think people massively underestimate the combinations of internet, downloadable music and ipods. The ease with which you can now get hold of any tune in the world and own it for personal play within seconds is night and day from a mere 15 or 20 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 To get back to the original question; I think people massively underestimate the combinations of internet, downloadable music and ipods. The ease with which you can now get hold of any tune in the world and own it for personal play within seconds is night and day from a mere 15 or 20 years ago. I've noticed this a lot lately. First off, if you remember something, you can almost instantly reinforce it. Like old ads from the eighties, and all the things you mention. In pretty much every respect, I've been reliving the early 1990s lately. Installed an Amiga emulator on my PC, been listening to grunge on Spotify. Then you've got Friends Reunited and more recently, stuff like Facebook. That stuff is profound in ways we do not yet realise. The vast majority of our ancestors met people, lost touch and that was that. I'm confident that I can get in touch with anyone I've ever known quickly and easily. Many of them are Facebook friends; others can be reached through social networks. That's quite cool but it's also quite scary. Life seems more permanent; more published. There was a TV show called Caprica, in which a scientist recreated his dead daughter as an AI personality by aggregating and analysing all her social media comments. At the time, I thought that was boll0cks, but you look at some people's feeds, and you could literally recreate a ton of them at a pinch ( "moaning cow who talks about her kids too much" = covers 90% of cases ). The weird thing about technology is that we really can't see the wood for the trees. Who'd have thought that mobile telephony would be what it is today after seeing one of those morons lugging their "car phone" into their company cars? A lot of the stuff we think is cool now is used for entirely cynical purposes. I'm not friends with any entirely professional contacts on Facebook, and I don't share outside friends. I used to be friends with 100s of people from work; unfriended the lot of them when I saw how integrated FB was becoming with everything I did. My point is that we willingly allow systems to track us, and yep - it's handy - but damn, constitutes a sh!tload of potential for abuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMike Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Nothing life was simplier without all these gadgets. Watching saints was a fun community event without constant analysis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Facebook and mobiles, easier to flirt with multiple girls and multi-time various women at once I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggie Dunlop Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Penicillin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 subprime mortgages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 22 November, 2012 Share Posted 22 November, 2012 Penicillin You were alive when penicillin hadnt been invented?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 23 November, 2012 Share Posted 23 November, 2012 You were alive when penicillin hadnt been invented?!! It was discovered, not invented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 23 November, 2012 Share Posted 23 November, 2012 Mongboards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 23 November, 2012 Share Posted 23 November, 2012 It was discovered, not invented. Still, Reggie must be even older than you Gramps to remember the days before it was first utilized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 24 November, 2012 Share Posted 24 November, 2012 Still, Reggie must be even older than you Gramps to remember the days before it was first utilized. Whitey Grandad is always lying about his age. He lies about his age all the time. One time Frank's Cousin came in here and sat in this chair. I said Frank's Cousin, 'you hang out with Whitey Grandad, just between me and you, how old is Whitey Grandad?' You know what Frank's Cousin told me, he said "Hey, Whitey Grandad is 137 years old." A hundred and thirty-seven years old! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 24 November, 2012 Share Posted 24 November, 2012 It's the penicillin that keeps me going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudders Posted 24 November, 2012 Author Share Posted 24 November, 2012 Them wet look leggings that girls have been wearing for the last few years are nice. They is good invention. They give me boner. For slim girls, yeah. But why do fatties think that wearing these things is a good thing? I saw one the other day and her leggins were stretched so much they were almost see through and she was massive, wearing the smallest thongs the were suffocating between her butt cheeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 24 November, 2012 Share Posted 24 November, 2012 For slim girls, yeah. But why do fatties think that wearing these things is a good thing? I saw one the other day and her leggins were stretched so much they were almost see through and she was massive, wearing the smallest thongs the were suffocating between her butt cheeks. Please, this is not good for my heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 25 November, 2012 Share Posted 25 November, 2012 Red Bull, and other legal stimulants, including the availability to purchase coffee on any street in the land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 25 November, 2012 Share Posted 25 November, 2012 Sonos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank's cousin Posted 26 November, 2012 Share Posted 26 November, 2012 Whitey Grandad is always lying about his age. He lies about his age all the time. One time Frank's Cousin came in here and sat in this chair. I said Frank's Cousin, 'you hang out with Whitey Grandad, just between me and you, how old is Whitey Grandad?' You know what Frank's Cousin told me, he said "Hey, Whitey Grandad is 137 years old." A hundred and thirty-seven years old! LOL... Me, Whitey and Derry - like the 3 old 'Barbers' in 'Coming to America' - although I am only 43 going on 120 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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