Things in life that have just quietly disappeared

[SpookyLumberjack]

My TV list is bloody huge:

Through the Dragon's Eye (OMG THE THEME TUNE) we had to watch this in school and I found it amazing and creepy af.



2Point4 Children
Eerie Indiana
Round the Twist (again, the theme tune)



Game On
Due South
Two Guys and a Girl (formally Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place) on the channel Trouble (what happened to that!)
Red Dwarf
May to December
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Live & Kicking
Monster Cafe

I feel I watched more TV than I remember...

Going to Woolworths to spend your pocket money every weekend on Pick N' Mix and little toys
Taping the Chart Top 10 onto a cassette every week (over and over the same cassette)
Lee Evans
Themed FunFax

Point Horror
Scholastic book fairs
The Worst Witch
Queuing outside bookshops at midnight for the next Harry Potter instalment (I miss this)!
The band Ash

 

[emm]

Pre and early teen kids that actually look like kids. Nowadays they all wear more makeup daily than I do on a night out plus tight clothes and crop tops. When I was 12 I lived in my Gap hoodie and baggy jeans. Speaking of which...Gap hoodies have also disappeared

This change happened so quickly too, my sister is 3 years younger and was shocked looking at fotos of my 15th bday in a restaurant with friends and none of us were wearing makeup, all just in jeans and casual clothes, by the time she was 15 all her friends used makeup

 

[bassettbb]

Von Dutch (which my friend and I used to snigger at and call Von Douche)
Bench clothing
Pencil cases shaped like cans of drink (7up, Coca Cola)
A chocolate bar called Marble
Shout Magazine


A shop called What Everyone Wants and the song to the advert was, "Whatever you want! Whatever you like!" by Status Quo

 

[Keepitw0nky]

YES. Haha!!!

So shite weren’t they, yet so much hype it almost made you want one

 

[Boredinstagrammer29]

I remember I begged my mum so much for these! She got them for me... Do not ask me where I thought I was going to wear them at 10 years old

 

[LittleMy]

We should have a thread for all the things we wish would disappear in this new decade.

 

[Milfordcubicle]

Gino ginelli ice cream

 

[petitspois]

Reading through this thread has been a trip down memory lane things that come to mind are:

Bursting Bugs sweets
Fame Academy
Top of the Pops on a Friday night
Sticker albums for films, sports, etc. I remember sending off for the last few needed to complete my collection
Stamped Addressed Envelopes and entering competitions with them
Milk in cartons - when did it switch to plastic bottles?
The early days of social media - picking your top 8 friends on MySpace and giving Love on Bebo

I remember TOTP on a Thursday - showing my age

 

[prinnygrace]

Stop Kony 2012. Did anything ever come of that?

 

[Hereforthefacts]

I was trying to remember what those trousers were called anyone remember wearing drainpipe jeans and leg warmers, mind you I was a teenager in the 80s
When Snickers were called Marathons
Space raider crisps
Wham Bars
Sons and Daughters
Danger Mouse

Sons & Daughters Remember A Country Practice

 

[Juliet]

I haven’t seen an Avon book in years, do they still have the perfume pages where you can rub your wrist on to get the smell?

 

[Straight_talker_isnt_bitc]

Mystic Meg on the Lottery

Mystic Meg used to scare the shit out of me, I always left the room when she came on tv.

Also, when the computer did the dial up tone for the internet and then you would get a loud 'WELCOME TO AOL' and each time, I jumped because I had forgotten to turn the volume down on the speakers that always fell over that was placed next to the computer

 

[SarahGard83]

Going to a kids disco on a Friday night and the big tunes being:
- 5ive - Everybody Get Up / Keep on Moving
- Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting (huh!!)
- Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing (how inappropriate, but it had a resurgence cos of The Full Monty!)
- The Cartoons - Witchdoctor
- Vengaboys - Boom Boom / Vengabus
- T-Spoon - Sex On the Beach (also inappropriate!)
- Aqua - Barbie Girl / Dr Jones
- Cotton Eyed Joe

I went out on Saturday for the first time in years and ended up in a nightclub that haf3a floor dedicated to all these songs. I didn't get home until 3am

 

[coconochanel]

I used to watch it with my mother. Same with Eastenders.

We'd watch the episodes during the week then also the long recap one.

Yes I used to enjoy the EastEnders omnibus on a sun.

 

[Guacamole123]

Somerfield supermarket.

KwikSave supermarket.

And Netto!

 

[Fridgepicker]

Does anyone remember that programme Big Kids on cbbc when it the parents said anything ending in ing they would turn into kids?!

Also the ghost hunter I used to fancy the normal boy AND the ghost shoe shine boy

 

[Motherofcats]

Did anybody else have photos done at primary school of you holding an owl?

 

[you will hate me]

Bamboozled on Teletext

Omg best one yet always before school! See screen time started a long time ago

 

[Ilikethisname]

Is anybody else old enough to remember that horrible loo paper that was essentially tracing paper? We had it at school. Deeply unpleasant. Not sure if it still even exists.

Yes I remember, totally unsuitable as so flimsy. In some cheap pubs have seen it. Feels less than 1ply

 

[Notothefakes]

The original Milky Way. Which was repackaged as a flyte bar which was promoted as low cal but then that disappeared. It was brown not white in the middle, they’ve never tasted the same since. This would be in the 90s