The side effects are negligible. Mild fatigue. Stigma is what makes it unbearable, so please don’t contribute to it.

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SufficientlyRested@reddit

Hi yes, I agree with you. I meant, Joe Rogan has done a good job at being worse than Rush and reaching a larger audience.

I apologize that my quick response made it seem like I support this fear-factor wannabe.

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VenusVignette@reddit

I already did!

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Rich-Abbreviations25@reddit

Dial up! That godawful sound when it connected and all the waiting just to download a single song. Then someone in your house picks up the phone and boom you’re disconnected

Having to locate a pay phone to call someone from the road, and needing a prepaid long distance calling card with minutes loaded onto it. And needing to know their phone number.

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siejay@reddit

Again, current admin has decided we should go backwards on this

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Chubbadog@reddit

Smoking in restaurants.

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kenfagerdotcom@reddit

Crunching McDonald’s thin metal ashtrays on all the restaurant tables.

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crazycatlady331@reddit

More like stealing them.

Came to post this.

Broken glass everywhere! I’m not saying that the over-use of plastic is better. But I do feel like when I was a kid every sidewalk, parking lot, and playground was fairly likely to have a bunch of broken glass laying around.

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tracyveronika@reddit

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Nancy Drew was always falling in that shit too

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iAmManchee@reddit

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mechapoitier@reddit

My 7-year-old mentioned quicksand a few days ago and I was like “Jesus Christ is that still around?”

Wait, chickenpox is gone???

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BK_0000@reddit

I’m 42 and I have never had chickenpox. If I do ever get it, I’ll die.

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Awkwrd_Lemur@reddit

you might have a natural immunity

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BK_0000@reddit

My sister had chickenpox when I was seven or eight years old. I was around her the whole time and never got it.

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Awkwrd_Lemur@reddit

my mom (b1945) it was around many people as a child who had chicken pox at parties.I never caught it - i had chicken pox BRUTALLY at 9yo but neither my mother, nor my siblings, caught it even though my mother made them hang out in my bedroom while I had the worst of it. Her doctors told her she probably has a natural immunity And as such, she's refused the vaccine. at 80, she's never gotten shingles either.

*I am not advocating for not getting vaxxed. that's just what she did.

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False-Impression8102@reddit

Might want to look into the shingles vaccine.

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AmputeeHandModel@reddit

If you haven't had chickenpox, or aren't over like 50 some places won't give it to you.

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FrankNumber37@reddit

You should consider donating blood, if you don't already. You've got liquid gold in there

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picklepuss13@reddit

still have a scar on my face from it

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shutterslappens@reddit

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Too bad it’s not gone for good

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CauliflowerBoomerang@reddit

France doesn't routinely vaccinate against chickenpox.

So before that, you would call the store for directions. They'd ask where you're coming from, and get you there. "Then turn left at the 7-eleven".

There were also city maps in the phone books, if the area you needed was covered.

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de-milo@reddit

and before that, the thomas guide you had to buy every year

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bluemitersaw@reddit

I still have a road atlas in my car. I'm not sure why exactly but I think it gives me strange comfort.

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NotAboutMeNotAboutU@reddit

Navigation is a perennial skill, and an atlas is a survival tool. It’s important to be able to know where we are, and where we want to go. Someday the cell network will go down while highways are blocked by raging fires and flash floods. We’ll need to find byways and frontage roads to reach cleaner air or higher ground.

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gabbadabbahey@reddit

Now I've been reading about how we're losing elements of our spatial abilities and capacity for memory because we rely solely on GPS and things like reversing cameras in cars.

Can't we have anything nice?

Trying to convince the ceramics teacher its a vase, not a bong.

Only to discover he partakes and knows.

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lcplscary@reddit

Folks music

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mustachiomegazord@reddit

Belt whippings

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RealCauliflower773@reddit

100% hard agree.

When my daughter was 1yr old I asked my mom when it’s okay to start hitting my kid, to try and display the absurdity of talking about hitting a baby.

(before anyone goes ”well actually”, I have seen that glass bottles are still a thing, just not a common one)

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Fantastic-King-5709@reddit

have you ever been to Denver? this never went away

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LimeFizz42@reddit

They still do here in my area. Houston looks like a dump puked all along the roadsides, & I (outside but close to Houston) have to pick up trash from the front of my yard several times a week. Beer cans & bottles, vape cartridges, food wrappers, liquor bottles, etc. One time I picked up 2/3 of a double chocolate muffin..like WHY?!? Why toss what looked like a perfectly good bit of food? Why my yard? I'm not trying to attract raccoons over here, cut that crap out.

It's so disheartening having grown up with the Don't Mess With Texas commercials & seeing just how much worse littering has gotten recently. It's not like plastic bags are hard to come by, keep one in the car to chuck yer trash in. It's as if folks are being willfully contrary & tossing their trash out in the roads just to reinforce the fact that they are indeed gigantic, gaping, putrid pus pouring assholes.

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DiscombobulatedWavy@reddit

Howdy fellow Texan. San Antonioian checking to say same. There fucking trash everywhere and no one gives a single fuck.

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DiscombobulatedWavy@reddit

I see youve never been to San Antonio. It’s a daily eyesore.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

This all depends on where you are. There are tons and tons of shit in the ditches around certain area's. Hell for the most part I think our area is pretty clean, until you clean the ditches for adapt a highway. Some of this crap you find is unique.

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DontGrumpyStop@reddit

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My son would like a word... Dumped both his shoes, full of sand, into the clean laundry a few months ago. 😅

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MungoJennie@reddit

In elementary school, when the girls would wear dresses to school, the boys would try to pull their skirts up at recess so our underwear showed. They never got in trouble for it, either. If we told the teachers, they just said to play someplace else, or told us they only did it because they liked us. 🙄

Just carpet. The incredible overuse of carpet, everywhere. I have no idea who had this dumb idea to nail down the rug to the floor so that it could never, ever be cleaned. Rugs are old af, no improvement needed

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

Right up there with covering hard wood with linoleum.

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Slow_Ad3662@reddit

I think carpet in the 50s was a status symbol. If you got carpet then you could afford a vacuum cleaner, etc. Then people just forgot that hardwood/tile floors were better and kept carpeting everything for decades.

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cj8scrambler@reddit

It's cheaper to put in carpet. Always about the Almighty dollar.

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Dry-Discount-9426@reddit

We bought a house from the 60's about a year ago that is all hardwood except this one room in the main floor that has this nice soft blue carpet. It was about a month ago when my wife discovered that the nice blue carpet is just a big ass rug that the previous owner left.

I remember my friend dumbfounding his mom. His mom was complaining about cleaning the carpet and he was like "Why do we even carpet? Like seriously, does carpet have ONE advantage over just wearing slippers?"

His mom couldn't think of a single word to say back.

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jungle4john@reddit

We were watching Colombo the other night. OMG so much carpet in the bathrooms. I shuddered.

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ThroughtonsHeirYT@reddit

Well. I came to say saddam hussein

Wood Playgrounds

Splinter hell

Brought to you by the makers of other child appropriate products like lawn darts, trampolines, and slip and slides

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ennuiismymiddlename@reddit

I can still hear that horrible screeching sound!

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On_my_last_spoon@reddit

My friends and I figured out that if we brought wax paper to the playground, we could slide down reeeeeeally fast!

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ilovecostcohotdog@reddit

True but those slides will still be standing long after the plastic stuff breaks.

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sarabridge78@reddit

And you could wax them. Everyone took a couple of turns, scooting yourself down with wax paper under your butt, and you could make those slides slippery as all hell. Looking back, so not safe, but it was fun when you got a good wax on them.

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Novel_Towel6125@reddit

Why am I just hearing about this now???

Brb going to 1987 to try something

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sarabridge78@reddit

My 3rd grade teacher told the class about how they used to do it as kids. Guess who tried it out?!?! Also, take a guess which class got eventually busted for it after a few times, sent to the principal's office, and completely threw our amazing teacher under the bus. She did later say that the moment she told that story, she knew she had screwed up, but really didn't think we listened to her as much as we did. Of course, we listened to her! A faster slide, yes, please!

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rememblem@reddit

I went back to a playground I played at in the 80s and sure enough, most of the metal stuff like monkey bars and lazy Susan merry go round is still there except the slide made of metal pipes you rolled across going down where it pinched your skin as well as burned.

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lastcallhall@reddit

Metal fucking slides.

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BeeswaxingPoetic@reddit

Cars that wouldn't start in the winter.

See also: car locks where you had to actually use a key to open the door. Cars with no air conditioning and/or barely any heat. Cars with no airbags!

I know, I know - those old cars lasted forever and they were beautiful and all that. I went to a classic car show a week ago and while I can appreciate them, I also realized I LOVE the convenience of modern cars.

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smokiechick@reddit

I have a 2022 with crank windows!

I drive a 35 year old truck but it has most modern conveniences. Power windows, power steering, power breaks, air conditioning, fuel injection, and with a manual transmission. And it uses a physical key. I love it.

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turtlenipples@reddit

those old cars lasted forever

In reality, they didn't. It used to be quite an accomplishment to hit 100,000 miles. Now even the cheapest econo-shitbox will make that easily. 200k was almost unheard of through the 80s at least. I meet a guy driving a second generation Prius the other day with over 520,000 miles and still going strong.

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

You are correct. However I think that comments refers to all metal cars over modern plastic/metal ones with horrible paint quality/rust preventative.

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bluemitersaw@reddit

"new every 2" was a common phrase back in the day, meaning you wanted to get a new car every 2 years. Though much of this was also driven by the auto industry. They were intentionally making cars that didnt last to make sure you had to buy more cars over your life. The Japanese cars broke that cycle by biulding long lasting cars, now every one makes quality cars (Chrysler excepted).

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rotorocker@reddit

Old import cars that you had to lock and close the door with the handle open and then let go or it would unlock.

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On_my_last_spoon@reddit

I love my Apple Car Play! It’s seriously the best!

When I was little my mom’s car only had an AM radio. Then I remember when she got a car with FM radio! At some point there was also a tape deck.

But man, being able to hook my phone up to the car and access my maps and all my music and all my podcasts is seriously the best!

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

You mean your car always starts in the winter? Mine actually had the battery die due to the cold last January.

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Relevant-Package-928@reddit

My first car was a diesel and you had to plug it in to warm the engine and it always started.

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Tiny-Reading5982@reddit

I appreciate my automatic car starter. Mostly for the summer though.

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KatVanWall@reddit

My car is 22 years old and still has crank windows in the rear and no aircon!

The stupid thing is, there's a button blank for aircon, but obviously mine was much too budget of a model for that!

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AmandaMarsh@reddit

Tesla has entered the chat

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FancyFrosting6@reddit

Sunny Delight

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idiotsbydesign@reddit

And Tang

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derango@reddit

Tell that to the shelf full of Sunny D at my local grocery store.

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mickeltee@reddit

I was on the receiving end of it for a relatively minor physical disability as a child and preteen

Correct, they were laundered, re-spooled and then used again.

MexicanVanilla22@reddit

Dental x rays and liquid flouride treatments.

I swear like 4 years ago I went to a new dentist. The hygienist started doing her thing, clipping on the paper bib, checking out my teeth. Then she says ok let's get some x-rays! So I stand up to follow her. But she just gives me these wide eyes and asks "where are you going?" "Uhh, to take x rays?" Exchange awkward looks. Then I ask if we don't have to go to a special room for that??? Nope. Not anymore. They use this cute little x ray gun right in the exam room. No more biting on those hard ass huge plastic plates and waiting for her to saunter out of the room while they dig into your soft pallet. Holy shit it's so much better now. Our kids will never know the torture.

Also having to adjust those antennas to get a signal. Having to go to Channel 3 to play Nintendo. UHF/VHF

FoppyDidNothingWrong@reddit

Casual violence and parental neglect.

My wife wants an old Wagoneer sooo bad.

I'm shocked at how expensive they are now, but still not as shocked as I am at vintage BMX bikes selling on eBay for $10,000.

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odin_the_wiggler@reddit

Good news. You can bid on a replica:

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Character_Bend_5824@reddit

I am actually happy for cell and dash cams everywhere. Shady things still go down, but now people can call it out. Even the overly woke reactions can get a national conversation if enough people online vote to talk about it (by liking). Media was not like this before. It took a lot more courage and being a squeaky wheel to get the attention of the news and the editor controlled the spin.

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