Contest -Three Winners Will Be Selected

[BullGoose]

The theme of this contest is "Old Man Shakes Fist at Sky." Sometimes change is good, sometimes it is bad, and sometimes its all in the eye of the beholder. Sometimes change simply comes too quickly for some of us. Tell us about a change that has occurred in the last 30 years that you are not happy with. Post your reply in this thread. Have fun with it!

Random.org will select three winners from the entries. Each winner will receive a $50.00 gift certificate to spend at BullGoose Shaving. We will let the contest run for two weeks and will then draw the winners.

 

[Phoenixkh]

Respectfully "not in"... I already feel like a winner, getting two Mergress razors you got in stock recently. I have a feeling they'll become unavailable in years to come. They are works of art... taking an old classic (I have backups of the original Progress for myself and our youngest son. He likes the XL, I prefer the shorter handle one) and improving it just a little bit more.

 

[BullGoose]

Respectfully "not in"... I already feel like a winner, getting two Mergress razors you got in stock recently. I have a feeling they'll become unavailable in years to come. They are works of art... taking an old classic (I have backups of the original Progress for myself and our youngest son. He likes the XL, I prefer the shorter handle one) and improving it just a little bit more.

Thank you Kim! I'm really glad to hear that you are enjoying the Mergress razors.

 

[DesertIguana]

Well 30 years ago I was making good money do photo illistratratizn for Magazine & Newspapers, remember last good paying assignment November 1995. Then my phone went deal, and when big News was breaking, and I called someone like Time, Newsweek, or US News & World Report. Reply was if you want to shoot, we will look at your images. No more guaranteed day rates, plus expenses.

About February or March 96 I started calling good clients, they all said same thing, internet& 24 x 7 Tv news is killing Print Media. Everyone was cutting staff, and staff that survived saw salaries deminish.

Saw light, sold off equipment, and move on with life. For some years I still got royalty check, and today most of the checks might buy a bottle of Jack Daniel on sale.

Getty bought up all the photo News agencies, and sold images at fire sale prices. Now they own that world.

 

[Darth Scandalous]

I guess I'm in, for once.

Used to be you could get an economy, 4-door car with a manual transmission cheaper than just about anything else.

Nowadays they all seem to be going to CVTs. Noisy, and never in the right gear ratio when you need them to be.

Heck, it's tough to even find a performance car with 3 pedals these days, even if you can afford it.

I understand, but I don't like it.

 

[BullGoose]

I guess I'm in, for once.

Used to be you could get an economy, 4-door car with a manual transmission cheaper than just about anything else.

Nowadays they all seem to be going to CVTs. Noisy, and never in the right gear ratio when you need them to be.

Heck, it's tough to even find a performance car with 3 pedals these days, even if you can afford it.

I understand, but I don't like it.

I agree. Even 20 to 25 years ago, you had to special order a manual transmission car unless it was a sports car. These days, manual transmission may be the perfect theft deterrent since the car thieves are baffled by it.

 

[Tathlum]

Internet chat rooms. At first I didn't like them. Then after awhile I was spending a lot of time in them. Then around the mid 2000's along came Facebook and MySpace and the chat rooms quickly went bye bye.

 

[Ckmaui]

Love to be in and thanks

for me its just the way people seem so divided and also no respect for others the later being example when you are with groups of folks at some social events say and they are busy on their phones texting others checking on things rather than just hanging out at the moment
the division I think speaks for itself

 

[Big_T]

Tell us about a change that has occurred in the last 30 years that you are not happy with.

Something must have changed with the clothing manufacturers because 30 years ago I would buy 36-inch waist pants and now I have to buy doggone 42's!

 

[BullGoose]

Love to be in and thanks

for me its just the way people seem so divided and also no respect for others the later being example when you are with groups of folks at some social events say and they are busy on their phones texting others checking on things rather than just hanging out at the moment
the division I think speaks for itself

I miss pre cell phone days. The golden age was when you were only allotted 20 minutes a month on your plan so it was available in an emergency but, you were not anchored by it.

 

[Darth Scandalous]

I miss pre cell phone days. The golden age was when you were only allotted 20 minutes a month on your plan so it was available in an emergency but, you were not anchored by it.

And yet...back in those days, my wife (at the time) would burn through those minutes by calling me 5 minutes before I got home, wondering where I was, and then would proceed to chat until I pulled into the garage

 

[kaufdrop27]

My hairline being in full tactical withdrawal…

 

[Jut]

I'm in. I wish my new truck had a cd player as an option. I don't want to load albums in my phone or listen to Spotify...I want to take a disc out of it's case, shove it in the slot, and look at the liner notes!

At least 30 years ago I could use one of those tape deck adapters paired with my discman and shove it in the tape deck of my '89 Escort.

 

[ewk]

I'm in.

Thirty years ago I had met the woman who would become my wife. I knew it, she knew I knew it, but she did not think so. Two years later she accepted my proposal.

That was right before the internet explosion. Would things have turned out differently if we met in the world as we know it 30 years later? I have no idea. But I am certain we would not have gotten to know each other the way we do if electronic communication was part of our courtship.

 

[spacemonkey42]

In.

30 years ago everyone agreed that fascists were bad. Now it doesn't seem they do.

 

[mikhou]

I’m in.

The 2 things immediately come to mind are 1) the great political divide in the US between liberals and conservatives. 30 years ago you could at least have a conversation. Now if you identify with one camp you’re expected to hate the other one. And it doesn’t have to be that way. 2) Housing prices. We sold a house 20 years ago to move overseas working in the humanitarian aid field. After coming back last year, the house that we sold is worth 2x what we sold it for and we can’t find anything reasonable to purchase that we can afford. It’s unreal.

 

[Bobbers]

I am in.
30 years ago you buy a new basic truck with 2 doors regular cab, 4 wheel drive, a full size bed and a manual transmission under $17,000.
Today new truck no regular cabs and no manual transmission. They now cost more than my first house which I bought in 1997 for $51,000.
Do not even start with me about the cost of a house today.

 

[AndyPanda]

I'm in! Thank for the chance!

I miss the days when we experienced the world and people around us ... the first mobile phones were bad enough when everyone in the area had to listen to one side of someone's phone conversation. Then with bluetooth headsets suddenly it seemed like everyone was walking around the neighborhood talking (loudly) to themselves like crazy people - until I realized they were having a loud phone conversation and thought the whole neighborhood needed to hear it. And now I see people walking across the street against the red light staring at their smartphone screen while cars trying to go thru the intersection on the green have to slam on their brakes and wait for the smartphone zombies who don't even look up. I tell ya, I am glad I grew up hiking and fishing and being in the real world -- I feel sorry for kids growing up in this crazy smartphone zombie world!

 

[Ckmaui]

I miss pre cell phone days. The golden age was when you were only allotted 20 minutes a month on your plan so it was available in an emergency but, you were not anchored by it.

So true the majority of us I reckon were in school pre cell days can not imagine being in school now

yet we always knew where everything was going on and who was doing what where etc.

 

[gpjoe]

In please.

I remember when the sales pitch for "pay TV" was something like this:

"Well, yes, you have to pay for it, but there's NO COMMERCIALS!"...and we're still paying and now get 6 minutes of commercials for every 10 minutes of programming.