What have you seen change big time in your life so far?

r3nu4l wrote: »

Communications:
In the late 90s, mobile phones meant we no longer had to wait under Cleary's clock for ages looking up and down the street to see if our date was coming. Our dates could just phone us to say they would be late (or had dumped us )

I never actually thought of that, I remember spending quite a lot of time under the Clearys or Easons clocks, sometimes people wouldn't turn up and you would end up going home and finding out why days later.

I remember going outside as a child, from what I gather that is not the done thing these days, no playing around and hiding in strangers gardens these days.

I remember talking to adults I wasn't related to, learning about things like welding and electrical safety from wandering around the place seeing what people were up to.
If one of my neighbours kids walked in on me working in my garage I wouldn't let them hang around, my immediate thoughts would be 'this is going to look bad, how do I get rid of them?'.

More people hire in professionals to get work done. How many people these days would build an extension by themselves, or even service their own car? People these days have the money to call people in and, hopefully, get the job done properly. I wonder if that will change back, things such as they are.

500 channels, there's still nothing on. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Plenty of big event, political, disasters and the likes, but it's the likes of the above that are imperceptible until we look back a decade or more and realise how much they have changed.

+1 on milk going off differently.

Adyx wrote: »

Dogshit isn't white anymore.

I just had to look this up, found the below on some science forum:

The disappearence of white dog poo is down to what dogs eat these days.

White **** is the calcium left behind as the water evaporates, and the 'organic' components of the crap are consumed (in various ways) leaving the inorganic stuff behind.

Historically, before BSE came along, butchers used to dish out bones for dogs to munch on.

But nowadays dogs don't eat as much bone as they used to, including bone meal. This all got the lid shoved on it due to the BSE crisis. Also, tighter regulation on dogs crapping on pavements means that turds don't hang around for years in public places like they used to, giving them less opportunity to dry out and turn white.

So it seems it's all down to a big change in how we feed our hounds.