Jump to content
Sign in to follow this  
VeryBumpy

What do you miss about the old days?

Recommended Posts

I agree with jimburke on point numbers 7 and 8 especially! Oh and I miss when music was about music, not big bouncing titties, the same old rubbish about "love" when it's actually about profanity, debauchery and sin, when sport was played by honest people who really cared about the game, and when we didn't have Facebook - eugh, what nonsense, haha! You know, when people actually listened, cared, spoke with each other, rather than just mimicking others' experiences and taking moronic selfies and creating endless status updates, both of which actually detract from the thing one allegedly does!

Whew, what a rant!

Oh and 'member berries...I miss those too.

  • Upvote 2

Share this post


Link to post

Man...do I like what Jim Burke said.  I just CAN'T improve on that!

 

Stan

  • Upvote 1

Share this post


Link to post

Standing up and sitting down without going 'Oof!'

  • Upvote 4

How long does it take for 'smug' to wear off after buying an EV?

"It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled". Whoever said it wasn't wrong!

 

Share this post


Link to post

jimburke nailed it. However, I would personally add...

 

-- Getting an old fashioned, personal Letter in the Mail, from an old Friend.

 

-- Common courtesy.

 

Maybe this has always been this way, but the feud over VC versus no VC bothers me sometimes; a Freeware airplane may have excellent flying qualities, it's fun to fly, and it looks great. But, if it doesn't have a VC, usually it'll be summarily dismissed and thrown aside like a piece of waste paper...

 

Alan   :nea:

  • Upvote 1

COSIMbanner_AVSIM3.jpg

Share this post


Link to post

I miss the following.

 

1. People taking pride in their appearance and dressing up for work. Once casual Friday took over in the late 90's and early 2000's, it's been all downhill from there.

 

2. Miss people being more polite to each other.

 

3. Miss the fact that people didn't feel so entitled to have anything they wanted without having to work for it.

 

4. Manners

 

5. I miss the fact that when things didn't go people's way they usually found a way to deal with it and move on. Just look at the crying and melt downs people are having his week when their chosen candidate didn't get elected.

 

6. Men wanted to be masculine and women wanted to be feminine. Now people want to be identified as all types of genders or gender neutral. New York City has a list of 31 different gender types. What ever happened to being either being a man or a women. Guess I'm just old fashioned.

 

7. I miss people saying please and thanks.

 

8. I miss the fact that people used to drive without having their eyes looking at their smart phone instead of looking at the road. Before cell phones became really mainstream I used to ride motorcycles and also cycle on public streets, with the only fear of being hit by a drunk driver. Now your more likely to be hit by someone texting that being drunk. I don't motorcycle or cycle anylonger.

 

 

I miss all these things so much it hurts.

 

There is one other thing I miss as a old time clubber/DJ. The slow dance at the end of the night.  :wub:

The rave scene killed men and women dancing together.. 

Share this post


Link to post

Old games...

 

Remeber when computer games came in full fat cardboard boxes, with massive paperback manuals, and had no copy protection or online verification, and very few bugs?

 

Those where the days!

  • Upvote 4

Simmerhead - Making the virtual skies unsafe since 1987! 

Share this post


Link to post

Tom Allensworth, God rest his soul.


Engage, research, inform and make your posts count! -Jim Morvay

Origin EON-17SLX - Under the hood: Intel Core i7 7700K at 4.2GHz (Base) 4.6GHz (overclock), nVidia GeForce GTX-1080 Pascal w/8gb vram, 32gb (2x16) Crucial 2400mhz RAM, 3840 x 2160 17.3" IPS w/G-SYNC, Samsung 950 EVO 256GB PCIe m.2 SSD (Primary), Samsung 850 EVO 500gb M.2 (Sim Drive), MS Windows 10 Professional 64-Bit

Share this post


Link to post

At 73 I miss so many things, but here are a few;

 

- Buying a game and owning it.

 

- Answering your phone and actually talking to someone.

 

- Being able to fix my car myself, now I am lucky if can find the spark plugs.

 

- Mom and Pop stores. Remember the little grocery store on the corner?

 

- Hanging with the guys at the A@W drive in.

 

- Cars that looked cool and had style and when a Chevy looked different than a Ford. 

 

- Young love, need I say more?

  • Upvote 7

Paul Grubich 2017 - Professional texture artist painting virtual aircraft I love.
Be sure to check out my aged cockpits for the A2A B-377, B-17 and Connie at Flightsim.com and Avsim library

i-5vbvgq6-S.png

Share this post


Link to post

My serious list excluding items already touched on above...

 

Living in a society, rather than an economy.

 

A high standard of written English was required in order to work as a journalist.

 

Newspapers went looking for stories, instead of just regurgitating press releases or copying and pasting Twitter output.

 

There was no reality TV

 

50-minute documentaries that had 50 minutes of content, instead of 25 minutes of content padded out with look-aheads and recaps.

 

Even more recently, crazy things like MTV showing, you know...music and the History Channel showing...wait for it...history programmes.

 

 

 

But let's not get too misty-eyed about a past that included things like:

 

Flight sims with wire-frame graphics

 

VCRs that you had to programme

 

No microwave ovens

 

Loading games from a cassette

 

No Satnav or Google Street Maps/View - remember actually having to ask for directions (shudder!)

 

4 TV channels...and no remote control!!!

  • Upvote 6

 

 

Share this post


Link to post

 Remember when jet nacelles had to be modeled with angles, and we were all elated when they were finally round in later years...

 

I too miss civility in our new world: the days before the Internet, "social media", selfies, fear of being hacked, really nasty PC viruses, cable news pundits, having dinner with both adults and children when they were not looking down at the cell phones in their laps.  Plus I live in South Florida - as this State has no laws against cell phone use, or texting while driving, the roads here are esp. dangerous...

 

One fine memory I still have from long ago: the very first taste of a Quarter Pounder with Cheese! 

  • Upvote 1

Share this post


Link to post

Air accident documentaries in which not in the first 2 seconds the final outcome is already revealed.

Share this post


Link to post

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
Sign in to follow this  
  • Tom Allensworth,
    Founder of AVSIM Online


  • Flight Simulation's Premier Resource!

    AVSIM is a free service to the flight simulation community. AVSIM is staffed completely by volunteers and all funds donated to AVSIM go directly back to supporting the community. Your donation here helps to pay our bandwidth costs, emergency funding, and other general costs that crop up from time to time. Thank you for your support!

    Click here for more information and to see all donations year to date.
×
×
  • Create New...