1990s vs 2000s

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Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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I think it would be interesting to put across good and bad points about life since the millennium. I'll start off with a few. Feel free to add more or debate my own ones, as I've probably got a few of these wrong :-)

Good points:

- More places serving real coffee now
- Home shopping, ordering tickets online etc
- Broadband vs dial-up
- Postal votes
- Home recycling bins (local council permitting)
- Prices of technology
- Uprise of LED lighting
- TV on demand

Bad points:

- Outsourcing callcentres to India (communications barrier)
- Uprise of compensation / sueing culture
- Smoking ban in pubs, affecting trade
- Jobhunting and its competativeness
- Crime becoming more violent
- Budget deficits
- Chart music less creative, too much R&B
- The "everyone is a paedophile" attitude

Politics was never really my area, so someone else may want to discuss that. Things like CGI films taking over traditional 2D animation could be seen as good or bad, down to preference. I will stick by what I said about the charts though. Whether you were a dance kid or an indie kid, you gotta admit that it was better in the 90s :-)
 
franco_22 said:
How could house prices not be on that list? :P
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not to mention it was a damn site easier & cheaper to rent in the 90's, this last 5 - 10 years there's been an explosion in letting agencies & there rip off charges.
 
People will disagree about whether certain things are a step forward or a step backward, which is the point of the thread I guess. For example, contrary to your opinion I'd consider postal votes to be a bad innovation and the public smoking ban a good one.
 
Moses said:
Essentially, your list is whack.
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Yeah, everything's open for discussion. I'm not a smoker myself. It's just that I don't like the pub disappearing trend. They've should have gone for a separate smoking room like what some workplaces used to have.

The Indian call centre I do have a problem with because I wear hearing aids. Just ask any deaf person you know.

As for the jobhunting, it happens that I am employed, thank you :-)

The music one, I go on unsigned artist sites to get what I want.
 
Monserrat said:
Good points:

- More places serving real coffee now Err, what?
- Postal votes great, those who can't be arsed to vote still can...
- Home recycling bins (local council permitting) these are notoriously ****e
- Prices of technology high end stuff is still expensive
- Uprise of LED lighting Audis look like they've crashed into fairy lights
- TV on demand shame the majority of programming is still ****e
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Back in the 90s Nirvana was on the radio, Warren Zevon was reducing records, ******* hadn't been invented and the nonexistence of Facebook made life so much more pleasant.

That being said, we didn't have paedophiles in our day. We had to buy our own ****ing sweets. :mad:
 
Violent crime has gone down, I don't know how wrong you could be.
Music is subjective, the current generation will not like what you liked. I doubt you liked your parents music when you were a young un.
Also knowledge is so much easily accessible than in the 90's, you can learn everything on the internet. I can't imagine living without it.
But, for god damn sake I want bookface to come to a death that gives out a fair bit of karma, if you want to post ridiculous tripe it should be come back to haunt you in later life.
 
The 90s were awesome! Proof:

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I had a life in the 90's, mainly because the internet didn't rule my life. I was better off without it I'm sad to say.

Though the fashion was a bit on the dodgy side :D

Wouldn't want to be a teenager growing up round here today though. Too much gangland and too many teen stabbings going on. Looks like another one has happened on my old road, judging by the Selotaph that has been set up a few doors down from my old house :(
 
There was quite an intriguing documentary on BBC a while back about technology in the 70s 80s 90s etc. Worth a watch. I think it was 4 parts or so

They got a family to live as though they were in each decade for a week.
 
Are postal votes a new thing in England?
I thought we had them for a very long time in NI.

Smoking ban is a good thing, not bad.


Technology has bred a generation of kids who look to their phones for the next text or social network message and can't look or interact with the world around them. I do like technology but its applications drive me insane when kids do this.
 
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