New things. The anti-nostalgia thread

[Minotier]

The ability to drive a car made by Skoda and not being made to feel like Charlie Cairoli.

 

[laurence]

i have a new digital camera. shiny shiny

 

[Herr-B]

GPS, not just that but on your phone!!!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Indoor velodromes - in the UK!!!!! And I'm allowed on too !!!!!!

 

[Arch]

Out of topic,but what we should realise is............Laptops are getting smaller,Mobile are becoming bigger

I remember the first time I saw tourists taking photos of York Minster with iPads. After years of digital cameras getting smaller and smaller and smaller, there they are waving what looked like A4 pads around...

 

[colly]

Twitter, Facebook, ears on the back of mice, grey pubes, GPS, dogging, bicycles that weigh less than my left testicle.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Twitter, Facebook, ears on the back of mice, grey pubes, GPS, dogging, bicycles that weigh less than my left testicle.

Is the right one significally heavier then?

 

[laurence]

Indoor velodromes - in the UK!!!!! And I'm allowed on too !!!!!!

and British domination of the sport on track and road - world champions, TdF winners, etc. who'd have thunk that even 5 years ago?

 

[TVC]

Decent Australian Wine.

Controversial I know, lets see how many wine snobs quote this one and laugh at my apparent boorishness.

 

[colly]

Sensible velvet curtains.

Years ago they were just daft.

 

[colly]

Is the right one significally heavier then?

You might well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

 

[TheDoctor]

Marloborough is a stunningly nice valley, with the vinous goodness being the tempting icing on top of an altogether delicious cake.
To construct a car-crash of a metaphor.
I've had some rank Aussie wine, but not for ages. In fact, I can't remember the last time I had a bad bottle. Possibly that's more of a comment on me...

 

[Rezillo]

Cars that don't overheat on long hills. Brilliant.

Every summer long distance holiday trip of my childhood in the 60s was marred by at some point having to wait while our car's engine cooled down enough to add more water to the radiator. This wasn't just our car - roads at hills and jam blackspots were lined with vehicles with their bonnets up all doing the same. No nostalgia for it - it was a complete pain.

This has reminded me of something I am nostalgic about - over to the other thread.

 

[srw]

World wide web
Email
Easyjet et al

I'm now into my 21st year on the internet and email. The WWW came a couple of years later - we had gopher before that.

Easyjet et al are simply a successful copy of what Freddie Laker and others did less successfully in the 1970s and 1980s.

Oh, and I remember broccoli (both purple sprouting and calabrese) from the 1970s too.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Mineral water. Who'd have thought that a bottle filled with water would over take water...... From.... A .... Tap.