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What was better in your childhood. (self.askuk)

submitted 9 months ago by Oneeightnine to c/askuk

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The size of Freddo's, Saturday morning TV, free to air sports, Jamie Oliver-less school lunches. You get the picture.

What was better twenty years ago than it currently is today.

And you can't say everything, because it wasn't. The country is in ruin but at least now we can.........order a takeaway without having to speak to another human...??

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[–] fakeman_pretendname 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The visual design of cars - small, sleek and angular instead of giant, fat and round (however the engines were all leaded petrol etc)
Nothing was tracking me or spying on me (perhaps except the PE Teacher)
Fewer things were packed full of artificial sweeteners
The music charts used to be a thing that mattered. We were entering the era of manufactured trash pop, but there were still some genuinely good songs released, which charted, such as this one (Youtube Link)
The "Golden Age" of action films (all the Stallone/Schwarzenegger ones etc)
Lots of small independent shops and manufacturers, rather than 10 mega-corporations

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

1985 was 20 years ago