Things that quietly disappeared in the last 20 years

[Pistol Night]

Balsamic ****ing vinegar is making an unwelcome comeback

Great way to make a nice fresh garden salad taste like a cat just pissed on it

 

[Mofra]

Great way to make a nice fresh garden salad taste like a cat just pissed on it

I'll never forget a chef tip I was told years ago - red wine vinegar is softer and the best choice for an ingredient in dressing.
I still stick to it.

 

[Over The Post]

The Golden Dragon in Geelong was great. But then in early 2023 I paid a visit to Geelong for the first time in a number of months, my mouth watering as I arrived eagerly anticipating a tasty* Chinese meal and still undecided on what dish I was going to enjoy.

*succulent

 

[errant bounce]

People don't like balsamic?! are you talking about the premade shit from a squeeze bottle?

 

[Over The Post]

I'm talking about the trend to drizzle bedizzle ****ing kangaroo dance performative art balsamic all over the plate and food.

Absolutely ****ing ruins it for me. A little bit of the good stuff on a salad? Fine. Having your meal looking like an accident in a chocolate factory? **** off.

 

[Jane Doe]

Jarrod Fogle says that Subway food is healthy, and if you can't believe and trust Jarrod Fogle who can you believe and trust?

Jokes aside, buying a six-inch turkey sub made on whole-meal or rye bread with salad from Subway would without doubt be a much healthier option than a hamburger, pizza or fried chicken from other fast-food franchises.

Subway is very pricey these days. Went to my local one recently. The foot long was terrible. Was not fresh at all.

 

[Shane Sheridan]

Car registration stickers

 

[Frank Bunn]

Do kids still wear badges? That might have disappeared more than 20 years ago. I remember having one for a soft drink that said "I'm a Tizer Fizzyologist". There was another that showed two different images depending on which angle you looked at it. My primary school had a badge making gadget so we made our own shitty ones.

 

[Billy ray]

We are so due a return of yo-yos

 

[craffles]

Cadbury chocolate bars. Shrinkflation is outta control, had a cherry ripe yesterday and it legit was like it was from the favourites box

 

[Pistol Night]

Cadbury chocolate bars. Shrinkflation is outta control, had a cherry ripe yesterday and it legit was like it was from the favourites box

Snickers are the same. They try and fool you with the twin pack now which is roughly the same size as the regular ones used to be

 

[rocker_oz33]

Do kids still wear badges? That might have disappeared more than 20 years ago. I remember having one for a soft drink that said "I'm a Tizer Fizzyologist". There was another that showed two different images depending on which angle you looked at it. My primary school had a badge making gadget so we made our own shitty ones.

I only seen badges at the footy.

 

[Andre]

And smartphones - using a forum on a PC or laptop was a more deliberate act, that, along with the bigger screen led to fewer, but longer and more thoughtful posts.

The time between the internet emerging from defense / uni's, into being available on home PC's and smart phones was the golden age of the internet. You needed at least a minimal tech familiarity to be online, precluding the many idiots with smart phones, who could never have figured out how to get online, if it wasn't all done for them. Unsurprisingly, if you just looked at those old enough to potentially have been online before smart phones, but weren't, and those who are the most tin-foil hat, alternate medicine, etc. nuts, there's a hell of a lot of overlap.

 

[Andre]

Cadbury chocolate bars. Shrinkflation is outta control, had a cherry ripe yesterday and it legit was like it was from the favourites box

As I ranted in a different thread, what shits me is they still have the glass and a half of milk image on them. They've shrunk so much, a half glass would be about it.

 

[the_interloper]

Happy pants

 

[rocker_oz33]

Big back yards.

 

[Pistol Night]

Happy pants

If you were still running Happy Pants in 2005 I salute you.

 

[the_interloper]

If you were still running Happy Pants in 2005 I salute you.

Fair point more like 35 years ha ha

 

[Gough]

Fair point more like 35 years ha ha

Sometimes the 90s still only feels like ten years ago.

 

[Cleavy]

We are so due a return of yo-yos

knucklebones and jacks due for a return too

 

[craffles]

As I ranted in a different thread, what shits me is they still have the glass and a half of milk image on them. They've shrunk so much, a half glass would be about it.

That’s actually a damn good point and I guarantee their marketing team haven’t considered that. Class action here we come!

 

[Plugger35]

Sometimes the 90s still only feels like ten years ago.

I miss the music from the 90s as well as the movies and the tv shows but I don't miss the dial up internet.

For the first half of the 90s the internet didn't exist though and when it existed dial up internet was great.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Sometimes the 90s still only feels like ten years ago.

Was talking about this the other day when i was talking vinyl at work and I said that's not that old and it came out in about 95 , the younger fella at work laughed as he was born in the 2000s LOL

Our car is a 2008 and we still love it and in 3 years its 20 years old!
Then realized the one tucked in the shed to restore when we come close to retirement is 50 this year.

Is time getting quicker as we get older???

The Mrs likes cherry ripe and gets them reg and they've 100% shrunk by half I reckon
Deff were fatter and longer.

When I bought a new laptop I had to buy an external disc drive for it and was asked why would I need that all laptops now dont come with them

 

[Syd]

Local newspapers

Painting this weekend and could sure use some

 

[Frank Bunn]

Local newspapers

Painting this weekend and could sure use some

Coles usually has a rack of free advertisers on the way out. There's no-one stopping you grabbing a few of them.