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Shnag
Dec 8, 2010

"I'll be whatever I wanna do!"
The internet is almost entirely about porn, but the rest of it is about bitching, bitching about the past when you were kids. There literally doesn't exist a generation that didn't think that everything was better when they were 12 years old, but is that actually unarguably true in some cases?

Take cadbury creme eggs for example. They are straight up smaller then they once were.

exhibit A. Some knob on some assholes show

I ended up not getting many kids trick or treating this year, and I ended up with a bunch of snack size candy bars left. Not only were they way more tiny then usual, they didn't taste near as good. And this isn't some "taste better when you were kids" poo poo, I always liked indulging in a little candy on Halloween (problem with that? gently caress you!) and this poo poo has been the worst its ever been. Less cocoa butter (or none at all), way smaller, and way more expensive. And inflation isn't a valid reason as wages haven't went up poo poo, so even if you include inflation you are paying way more for way less and/or a worse product.

Post poo poo that was literally better you were a kid. Remember it isn't about personal taste, its about things have to have worst materials going into them, less time on them etc etc. Bonus points if some rear end in a top hat can hold the two things up or something.

And remember that it has to be a measurable quality. Don't post poo poo like Dexters lab was the poo poo but Johnny Test is stupid loving human being or something unless you can prove it with a side by side comparison or whatever

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ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
Childhood obesity.

Rapman the Cook
Aug 24, 2013

by Ralp
You weren't posting threads when I was a kid.

revmoo
May 25, 2006

#basta
Pizza Hut

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
we had sensational tabloids instead of fox news

Over There
Jun 28, 2013

by Azathoth

a pipe smoking dog
Jan 25, 2010

"haha, dogs can't smoke!"
When I was a kid I would spend November afternoons running through the woods chasing rabbits and collecting nuts and what have you.

Now I'm sat at a desk writing a report about some arsehole fire-fighters letting a house burn down.

spud
Aug 27, 2003

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
Sex

Nonviolent J
Jul 20, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Soiled Meat

The North Tower
Aug 20, 2007

You should throw it in the ocean.

a pipe smoking dog posted:

arsehole fire-fighters letting a house burn down.

Go on :munch:

Nelson Mandingo
Mar 27, 2005




Realpost

Halloween.

Nonviolent J
Jul 20, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Soiled Meat

Since I was 13, 27 now. was better back then

EvilJoven
Mar 18, 2005

NOBODY,IN THE HISTORY OF EVER, HAS ASKED OR CARED WHAT CANADA THINKS. YOU ARE NOT A COUNTRY. YOUR MONEY HAS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON IT. IF YOU DIG AROUND IN YOUR BACKYARD, NATIVE SKELETONS WOULD EXPLODE OUT OF YOUR LAWN LIKE THE END OF POLTERGEIST. CANADA IS SO POLITE, EH?
Fun Shoe
When i was a kid in elementary school a pack of kids could play soldier without a SWAT team being called in to murder them.

Also, toys were able to withstand being played with by a child. These days the poo poo my nephews get for Christmas seem to be broken by new years eve. Especially transformers. I'm not buying any more of that poo poo for them.

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007
Polar ice was measurably better

Shasta Orange Soda
Apr 25, 2007
cheap clothes used to hold up for at least a couple years of active kid stuff

now if i get a cheap sweatshirt, i rub holes in both sleeves in less than a year just by propping my elbows on the desk at work

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy
The hole in the ozone layer was bigger. That's still a thing, right? Nobody seems to give a poo poo since global warming

Idiot Kicker
Jun 13, 2007

notZaar posted:

The hole in the ozone layer was bigger. That's still a thing, right? Nobody seems to give a poo poo since global warming

that's SO 80s

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
whenever a restaurant opens near you, try it out and if you like it, don't hold onto it because within a year they'll realize that ingredients cost a helluva lot and within no time their food will be demonstrable poo poo compared to what it was when they first opened.

this is the law of margins.

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

cartoons

looking back on them now, it was all just a bunch of poo poo made by corporate suits to score merchandising rights so kids would bug their parents for toys

all cartoons are terrible

p.s. anyone who uses the phrase "raped my childhood" lacks critical thinking skills

Shnag
Dec 8, 2010

"I'll be whatever I wanna do!"

Rapman the Cook posted:

You weren't posting threads when I was a kid.

Hmmmm... I need a side by side comparison of something awful posts now, and something awful posts 15+ years ago.

ikanreed posted:

Childhood obesity.

No pictures needed, no one needs a picture to point out the exponential growth of fat kids.


Holy poo poo, is world of war craft over a decade old? Talk about feeling old.



Noice, mighty mask was the poo poo! I had at least the grey goat skull, the big dark green lizard head and the coiled snake one. Though, this post is only relevant if you post a picture of how mighty mask looks now. Because polly pocket still exists, why wouldn't might mask?(!)

MOOBS!
Dec 10, 2013


holy poo poo these ruled especially after Max captured my sisters Polly pocket girls to use as human shields

GET MY BELT SON
Sep 26, 2007

doritos

doritos were better

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
There were a lot more frogs.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
That's not a joke, there were a lot more frogs. This bugs me a lot more than the size of a cadbury's contained blowjob spillage nodule

ZombieParts
Jul 18, 2009

ASK ME ABOUT VISITING PROSTITUTES IN CHINA AND FEELING NO SHAME. MY FRIEND IS SERIOUSLY THE (PATHETIC) YODA OF PAYING WOMEN TO TOUCH HIS (AND MY) DICK. THEY WOULDN'T DO IT OTHERWISE.
Dinner

mom cooked every night and it owned.

Hingehead
Nov 24, 2013
Toy R Us. Back then you had aisles upon aisles of warehouse style shelves with abundance of toys and vehicles, enough to build an army. The toys were cool, ships were so massive for a child. Now you can't find cool toys like you used to, you cant spread that childhood joys to your children.

Raku
Nov 7, 2012

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Roll Tide
Papa Johns started out as fairly decent pizza

Iprazochrome
Nov 3, 2008

Pick posted:

There were a lot more frogs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_amphibian_populations

Grandpa, tell us about what it was like when frogs still existed

Shnag
Dec 8, 2010

"I'll be whatever I wanna do!"

Pick posted:

There were a lot more frogs.

273423-X posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_amphibian_populations

Grandpa, tell us about what it was like when frogs still existed

That's legit sad. First no bee's, now no frogs. My kids, kids are going to marvel at the idea of animals existing aside from the ones we breed and harvest for our own needs. :smith:

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe

Pick posted:

That's not a joke, there were a lot more frogs. This bugs me a lot more than the size of a cadbury's contained blowjob spillage nodule

There were a lot more fireflies too

Hefty Leftist
Jun 26, 2011

"You know how vodka or whiskey are distilled multiple times to taste good? It's the same with shit. After being digested for the third time shit starts to taste reeeeeeaaaally yummy."


273423-X posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_amphibian_populations

Grandpa, tell us about what it was like when frogs still existed

actually it's about ethnics in frog culinary

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

the real estate market

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

the job market, the american economy, food (generally)

uwaeve
Oct 21, 2010



focus this time so i don't have to keep telling you idiots what happened
Lipstick Apathy
Snow.

Used to be someone else would shovel it out of the driveway then take me skiing on it for free.

Now I'm the idiot moving it out of the driveway and skiing is really expensive.

Thanks mom and dad for the memories. P.S. Your grandchildren are never skiing.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

nomadologique posted:

whenever a restaurant opens near you, try it out and if you like it, don't hold onto it because within a year they'll realize that ingredients cost a helluva lot and within no time their food will be demonstrable poo poo compared to what it was when they first opened.

this is the law of margins.
There was this place a colleague of mine loved and we went there a lot for lunch, it eventually changed ownership (but otherwise had same staff) and the food quality dropped like almost overnight. We never go there now.

NadaTooma
Aug 24, 2004

The good thing is that everyone around you has more critical failures in combat, the bad thing is - so do you!

273423-X posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_amphibian_populations

Grandpa, tell us about what it was like when frogs still existed

I pray for airborne Ebola.

Tricky D
Apr 1, 2005

I love um!
Dr. Pepper used to be made with real sugar

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug
Do kids still have woods to play in? I used to just wander into the woods with my brother all the time and I don't think that's really a thing anymore.

Motherfucker
Jul 16, 2011

I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.
Everything basically.

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Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT
Being able to get up from sitting on the ground without groaning because now you are old and fat and should just die already

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