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New Labour hadn't fully implimented their 1984 style rule.
I could still take tap water on aeroplanes.
The Terminator was still an 18 certificate.
Microsoft Word hadn't ruined my spelling.
Britons used to speak English or their specific regional variance instead of American.
I could still confidently refer to a billion and be understood as meaning 1,000,000,000,000 instead of the American 1,000,000,000 (which rather throws etymolgy out of the window).
People could afford to go to the pictures.
The curse of DVDs had not yet been fully realised.
Children's television was worth watching.
It wasn't a social crime to not have a mobile telephone.
People still recognised that 'phone was an abbreviation and therefore needed the apostrophe.
The hospitality industry was still hospitable.
Adults could still be friendly to children without being suspected of evil.
I was optimistic about the future.
I could still take tap water on aeroplanes.
The Terminator was still an 18 certificate.
Microsoft Word hadn't ruined my spelling.
Britons used to speak English or their specific regional variance instead of American.
I could still confidently refer to a billion and be understood as meaning 1,000,000,000,000 instead of the American 1,000,000,000 (which rather throws etymolgy out of the window).
People could afford to go to the pictures.
The curse of DVDs had not yet been fully realised.
Children's television was worth watching.
It wasn't a social crime to not have a mobile telephone.
People still recognised that 'phone was an abbreviation and therefore needed the apostrophe.
The hospitality industry was still hospitable.
Adults could still be friendly to children without being suspected of evil.
I was optimistic about the future.
M
I agree with those, especially the mobile telephone thing, although now the actual telephone is the most minor function on a handset when you find out about the 50 other things they apparently do these days, the looks I get when I tell people they can't have my number because I don't have a number, it's like they're struck dumb.
Back in the nineties we were a nation of shopkeepers as well, no 'mini' supermarket everywhere you looked with an almost catatonic staff member running the till.
How I miss Super Ted and Button Moon
that might be the eighties though, not sure.
What's so bad about DVD's anyway???
Back in the nineties we were a nation of shopkeepers as well, no 'mini' supermarket everywhere you looked with an almost catatonic staff member running the till.
How I miss Super Ted and Button Moon
that might be the eighties though, not sure.What's so bad about DVD's anyway???
M
Even before I became cynical about the new technology coming out, I thought DVDs were over rated and over priced.
The only downside to VHS tapes (or Betamax if you were so inclined) was that the quality gradually reduced over time and use. The absolute worst case scenario would be that the VCR chewed up the tape, but that was rare.
However, DVDs go wrong an awful lot in my experience - and when they go wrong they really go wrong. I can cope with a bit of fuzz from tape wear but I tear my hair out when the film I'm watching stutters, skips, plays the audio out of sync, or just insists there's some kind of disc read error and won't let me watch it. I'd rather watch a slightly diminished quality picture than no picture at all.
Then there's the awful digital fastforward and rewind that makes it hard to see where you are because it just skips a load of frames instead of actually running them faster. Oh, and with a tape you could stop it, take it out, watch another video, and then put the first one back in and resume exactly where you left off. The DVD chapter select nowhere near makes up for this.
Also, I can tape television programmes with my VCR; I can't with my DVD player.
And DVDs have painful menus that force you to watch their boring animations whenever you select anything instead of just getting on with it.
And then there's the rubbish you have to sit through just for putting the DVD in: adverts (one DVD was even trying to sell me Malteasers!) and unskippable copyright warnings and logos.
The only downside to VHS tapes (or Betamax if you were so inclined) was that the quality gradually reduced over time and use. The absolute worst case scenario would be that the VCR chewed up the tape, but that was rare.
However, DVDs go wrong an awful lot in my experience - and when they go wrong they really go wrong. I can cope with a bit of fuzz from tape wear but I tear my hair out when the film I'm watching stutters, skips, plays the audio out of sync, or just insists there's some kind of disc read error and won't let me watch it. I'd rather watch a slightly diminished quality picture than no picture at all.
Then there's the awful digital fastforward and rewind that makes it hard to see where you are because it just skips a load of frames instead of actually running them faster. Oh, and with a tape you could stop it, take it out, watch another video, and then put the first one back in and resume exactly where you left off. The DVD chapter select nowhere near makes up for this.
Also, I can tape television programmes with my VCR; I can't with my DVD player.
And DVDs have painful menus that force you to watch their boring animations whenever you select anything instead of just getting on with it.
And then there's the rubbish you have to sit through just for putting the DVD in: adverts (one DVD was even trying to sell me Malteasers!) and unskippable copyright warnings and logos.
B
As a kid who grew up in the 90s I remember many things that filled out my childhood... most notable were Friends, Pokemon cards (my friends and I never knew how to play it but we loved it) and listening to the latest music on the car radio... I remember Semi-Charmed Life and You Oughtta Know very well.
It was a blissful, care-free time for me. ^_^
It was a blissful, care-free time for me. ^_^
H
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised. >.>
Anyway... What all do I miss? This will be lengthy, so bear with me... <3
Good cartoons, VHS, Slip N Slides, when kids actually went outside to play and stayed out til it was time for them to come in, lazy summers (By which I mean Summers that were spent outside with friends and not in the house on the Wii), ZThing, Goosebumps, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, NSync, Vitamin C (The group), Monster's Inc., The Fox And The Hound, Pogz, Reading Rainbow, Between The Lions, Blue's Clues with STEVE, Maggie and The Ferocious Beast, Gullah Gullah Island, Goosebumps by R.L. Stine, Power Ranger, Pokemon, Slap bracelets, Barbie dolls, phones with cords, pagers... I could go on forever... <3
Anyway... What all do I miss? This will be lengthy, so bear with me... <3
Good cartoons, VHS, Slip N Slides, when kids actually went outside to play and stayed out til it was time for them to come in, lazy summers (By which I mean Summers that were spent outside with friends and not in the house on the Wii), ZThing, Goosebumps, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, NSync, Vitamin C (The group), Monster's Inc., The Fox And The Hound, Pogz, Reading Rainbow, Between The Lions, Blue's Clues with STEVE, Maggie and The Ferocious Beast, Gullah Gullah Island, Goosebumps by R.L. Stine, Power Ranger, Pokemon, Slap bracelets, Barbie dolls, phones with cords, pagers... I could go on forever... <3