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Loris Yeltsin said:
This is what the pizza delivery boy from Home Alone looks like today:
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His comeback role is tremendous

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Norms Abused Liver said:
I had one of those, I think you can still find them in specific stores geared more towards hospitality.

But honesty, they aren't very good. Work fine on office carpet and thin rugs, everything else it won't clean very deep.
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They also get completely immobilised by long hair very quickly. I had one and it was honestly faster, easier and more effective to just sweep the carpet with a stiff broom.

My father said to me when I was growing up that I couldn't imagine how different his childhood was from mine, that it was like living in a completely different world, and he wasn't exaggerating in the slightest. And now my nieces are starting to think the same thing about the 80s and 90s, and that blows my mind. My father is old enough to remember when the very first salesman for home television sets came to his town... and my memories of the very early days of home PCs are equally quaint to my nieces. Sometimes I imagine my own grandparents being resurrected into 2025, and it's an uncomfortable thought. They couldn't even cope with the late 90s.
 
Oh yah, growing up my mom didn't even have running water in her house, or electricity until her early teens. And now kids go ape shit if their precious iPad doesn't boot up in 2 seconds or a video buffers. Growing up like a lot of US did in the 80s/90s would drive them insane, god forbid you dump them into the 40s or 50s. Especially in a rural area, where if you weren't in school past a certain age, your ass was working.
 
Captain Syrup said:
I don't know, Angela Landsbury is a tough act to top. She hit the notes for that role pretty much perfectly.
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I was just kidding. But it’s weird, isn’t it. That it was like this cultural monolith in the ‘90s and then poof gone. No reruns, no reboot, nothing.

Edit: Oops, spoke too soon. Looks like Jamie Lee Curtis is playing Fletcher in some reboot movie.
 
Captain Syrup said:
I was just kidding. But it’s weird, isn’t it. That it was like this cultural monolith in the ‘90s and then poof gone. No reruns, no reboot, nothing.
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It looks like Start TV (a broadcast subchannel) runs Murder She Hopes every morning and all day on Sunday, if you aren't getting your fill of local-community-theater-quality entertainment.
 
When I don’t understand the slang of younger generations and I no longer care to understand what “skibidi” or “ahh” or “6-7” means.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
I still have a tendency to think it was just about 20 years ago. Said it before: it really does feel like it shouldn't be at 2025 yet.

In other words, I feel like it should still be in the late '00s or sometime near it.
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I think it's because the world hasn't really advanced in like 20 years. Everything that is now we already had back then, minus the normies on the Internet and their endlessly scrolling attention traps. Maybe the AI will change things or the robots who knows.
 
Wood said:
I think it's because the world hasn't really advanced in like 20 years.
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One example is vidya. If you compare games from the '80s with vith games from the '00s, you can see a huge difference. But it seems all that's really changed in vidya in the '00s and vidya now is the effort put into it and the politics. Another example: '80s cars are fairly different from '00s cars, but a '00s car isn't that different from now.*

* Aside from all the new electronic crap, that is.
 
Wood said:
I think it's because the world hasn't really advanced in like 20 years. Everything that is now we already had back then, minus the normies on the Internet and their endlessly scrolling attention traps. Maybe the AI will change things or the robots who knows.
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There's been plenty of change but almost none of it for the better.
 
Pedophobe said:
There's been plenty of change but almost none of it for the better.
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Could be why it seems there's far more nostalgia now than there was before Current Year. Nostalgia before was more like a theme party, now it's more like wanting to go back.
 
Went to the state fair yesterday. You know those carnival games where you win a goldfish as a prize? Some little kid was swinging around a bag with a fish in it like a toy.
That being said......
Being a kid is getting excited to win a cute pet fish.
Growing up is feeling terribly sorry for the poor fish.
 
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