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I miss the time before these forums existed.
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grandpa also foot-shaped lollipops with candy pop in bag
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Dec 26, 2015 13:39
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White dog poo poo, and that one kid who'd periodically show up with a shaved head cause of the nits.
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Dec 26, 2015 15:44
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Aesop Poprock posted:They're still the most 90s drink I can think of next to Surge I miss that poo poo. Surge was about the best thing going and it just vanished.
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Dec 26, 2015 16:22
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Good pizza from Pizza Hut. I can't say when Pizza Hut stopped being good in the USA, but I can pinpoint exactly when it went poo poo in the UK, because when my metabolism was still pretty good in my early 20s we went there often. Most Pizza Huts in the UK aren't delivery places, they are sit down restaurants. Sometime in the mid 90s they introduced the all you can eat buffet, which we had a few times until fairly quickly we noticed they were using substandard (I assume frozen) dough and also soaking the base with a SHITTON of grease, I guess so you'd get full faster and eat less from the buffet. So we stopped ordering from the buffet. A few months later though all their regular menu items went the same way. I guess most customers didn't notice the difference or didn't care. I've had Pizza Hut since (once and then never again in each respective country) in Japan and the USA and it's just as bad as the greasy frozen base stuff they started foisting on us in UK restaurants in the mid 90s, so either the same happened in those countries or Pizza Hut was always bad there and only ever good in the UK.
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Dec 26, 2015 16:35
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You've just reminded me that Pizza Hut in Australia had some really good ribs at one point, but apparently only I thought so because they only lasted a few months, if that. 
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Dec 26, 2015 16:41
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gamingCaffeinator posted:I miss that poo poo. Surge was about the best thing going and it just vanished. Surge is actually available in some places now. Some Burger Kings even have Surge slushies.
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Dec 26, 2015 16:53
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German TV was great in the 80's and early nineties. You would have French comedy (Louis de Funès), Italian Action/ Comedy (Bud Spencer), British music, weird Eastern European series, so called "Eastern" in the early nineties (and lots of Asian movies) and of course American stuff. All in all it was much more diverse than what we have now (local and American content basically) and there was maybe one interruption or no break at all. I really miss it.
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Dec 26, 2015 23:37
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I miss steroid baseball. If you didn't enjoy watching guys hit 70 home runs a year then something was wrong with you. Now it's pitchers getting no hitters every few days. Oh boy that's exciting.
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Dec 27, 2015 03:25
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My hair. <- Actual photo of my head
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Dec 27, 2015 03:46
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There was a park I loving LOVED in Ada, Michigan at an elementary school. They tore it down a few years back. Not "safe" enough anymore, much like riding bikes in residential neighborhoods without a helmet. I also miss PB crisps and Planters Cheez Balls.
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Dec 27, 2015 03:49
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13Pandora13 posted:There was a park I loving LOVED in Ada, Michigan at an elementary school. There was one of these wooden structures that I completely loving loved at a park near my school, but after a few years they stopped maintaining it properly and the whole thing turned into Splinter City. It was held together with pipes that had rubber end caps which often were missing, and one day I got the tire swing going high enough that I smacked my head on the end of one and bled all over the place (scalp wound). There were bloodstains on the wood for months. Why is this a good memory? Hell if I know, but that place was awesome.
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Dec 27, 2015 04:45
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That reminds me, they tore down my high school and there was talk about just moving reunions to the new, fancy school they build but the new school admin said nope, you didn't go here, so you don't get to have reunions, so there was never a HS reunion for my class. Not that I really want to see most of the people i went to HS with.
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Dec 27, 2015 04:49
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Lolly cigarettes. They still exist, but they're just plain white sticks and they're called Fads instead of Fags, and they're completely pointless because no one bought them for the taste. There's one of these in the park near my house. Bigger than that though.
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Dec 29, 2015 10:01
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Tiggum posted:There's one of these in the park near my house. Bigger than that though. But does it spin? Mine spun and was less jolly-looking, and the swing seats were thick black rubber, like a tire -- not wide enough to sit on properly, but very long. They were also higher off the ground so you couldn't just sit down if you were a small child, and we were all small children because it was a preschool. The only way to get on the swing was to get a teacher to pick you up or have a couple of friends help steady the thing from rotating so you could climb on. Most kids ended up sorta draping themselves over the 'seat' and then kicking at the ground. I finally asked my mom, and she said she has no idea what it's called, has never seen another one, but remembers they tore it down. I think I'm either making it sound way more or way less sinister than it was. Also, I misread the title initially. This was definitely not my favorite thing from childhood no longer around.
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Dec 31, 2015 21:25
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An actual favorite thing was this juice -- I wrote to Ocean Spray about 10 years ago asking about it, but they said it wasn't coming back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2swqFdPVkI Pretty interesting juice commercial, looking at it now!
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Dec 31, 2015 21:56
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Dec 31, 2015 23:11
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i though about mauna lai the other day. at my house we called it "mowie lowie' because we we cool like that. i can still remember the indistinct citrusy flavor of it.
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Dec 31, 2015 23:30
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did anybody actually drink this?
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Jan 1, 2016 00:18
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Heath posted:did anybody actually drink this? It tasted OK
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Jan 1, 2016 00:39
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I.C. posted:But does it spin? Yes.
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Jan 1, 2016 02:39
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amityville anus posted:It tasted OK
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Jan 1, 2016 09:10
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I liked going to Wendy's once a month to eat the glorious salad bar that had unlimited pudding and smashed strawberries with bananas. You'd fill a plate and then go sit at your table which had a laminate pattern of old time newspaper ads. The whole experience was probably horrible but I remember it as loving magic.
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Jan 1, 2016 16:19
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Snorkzilla posted:I liked going to Wendy's once a month to eat the glorious salad bar that had unlimited pudding and smashed strawberries with bananas. You'd fill a plate and then go sit at your table which had a laminate pattern of old time newspaper ads. The whole experience was probably horrible but I remember it as loving magic. Oh god, the Superbar. I was always clamoring to go to Wendy's for that goddamn thing. From my parent's reaction and the fact that they hardly ever caved, I think it was pretty awful but goddamn 5 year old me loved cheese sauce and lovely tacos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4iQq4oTcmI
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Jan 1, 2016 16:54
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Ponderosa Pines
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Jan 1, 2016 19:19
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 This would have made such a great mixer. 
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Jan 1, 2016 20:24
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Daytime TV being a bunch of reruns of cheesy old TV shows instead of lovely talk shows and judge shows. How are kids going to appreciate American history and culture if they don't watch Gilligan's Island while they're home sick?
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Jan 2, 2016 00:45
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Phone booths used to be everywhere when I was a kid. There was one next to my school, outside the store, at a crossing on our suburban home street and in the lobby of the airport. By the early 2000s all of them were gone due to the proliferation of mobile phones. I makes you wonder what mundane urban fixture is gone next. I suspect it's the postbox, because people send fewer and fewer letters these days. Overall a large number of physical services performed at certain premises have been rendered obsolete by electronic services. The ranks of photo developers, bank branch offices, post offices and computer stores have been severely thinned by digital photography, online banking, email and online shopping.
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Jan 2, 2016 01:13
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Saturday morning cartoons also the idea that if you just went to school, did a good job, and were a team player you would make a comfortable living, own a nice house, and could retire at 50
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Jan 2, 2016 01:30
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Jan 2, 2016 02:20
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Soft drinks in glass bottles. When I was a kid, soft drinks came in 12oz cans or glass bottles (10 & 16oz). You had to pay a deposit on these (usually five cents). I used to collect these in my neighborhood by the dozens and turn them in. It helped finance my comic book and candy habits for years.
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Jan 2, 2016 03:10
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Mister Kingdom posted:Soft drinks in glass bottles. When I was a kid, soft drinks came in 12oz cans or glass bottles (10 & 16oz). You had to pay a deposit on these (usually five cents). Both parts of this are still a thing. More or less so, depending on where you are in the world, anyway.
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Jan 2, 2016 03:28
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Polyseme posted:Both parts of this are still a thing. More or less so, depending on where you are in the world, anyway. I have seen modern drinks in glass bottles, but with no deposit.
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Jan 2, 2016 03:34
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Mister Kingdom posted:I have seen modern drinks in glass bottles, but with no deposit. It varies wildly. South Australia and the Northern Territory, for example, get 10c on even plastic and tetra packs, but the rest of the same country doesn't get it on anything. I can't know for sure but I imagine it varies between states in America too.
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Jan 2, 2016 04:18
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Heath posted:They're literally re-releasing this They renewed the copyright (which companies always do to protect themselves), but nothing has been announced to my knowledge.
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Jan 2, 2016 05:19
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AKA Pseudonym posted:Daytime TV being a bunch of reruns of cheesy old TV shows instead of lovely talk shows and judge shows. How are kids going to appreciate American history and culture if they don't watch Gilligan's Island while they're home sick? Hey now Jerry Springer has been on for 25 years so it's certainly part of American history. And by watching it and Maury you get to learn about American culture by viewing actual, everyday Americans 
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Jan 2, 2016 05:57
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Schwing Stingrays with banana seats and Ponderosa when they didn't suck.
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Jan 2, 2016 06:46
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Mister Kingdom posted:Soft drinks in glass bottles. When I was a kid, soft drinks came in 12oz cans or glass bottles (10 & 16oz). You had to pay a deposit on these (usually five cents). As others have said, you can get pop in glass bottles still. They're not as common, as 7-11 doesn't carry them very much, but most takeout places near me have glass bottled coke, and all the burrito places have that mexican pop brand. I do miss 2l glass bottles. Those were fantastic.
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Kakairo posted:They renewed the copyright (which companies always do to protect themselves), but nothing has been announced to my knowledge. They've been selling it for decades, they just stopped calling it Ecto Cooler. I think it was called Atomic Orange or something?
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