Things Not Missed

[Donnie B.]

To complement the "Missed Things" thread, how about some "good riddance" lists?

I don't miss...

Mr. Whipple
Cars that fall apart after 70,000 miles
Disco (music, clothes, or the scene)
Lead paint
Rivers that catch fire
Reality TV... okay, I can dream, can't I?

[mfumbesi]

I don't miss....

My primary school teachers.(only one teacher is worth remembering)
My first car....the less said the better.
My first job.....its up there with slavery.

[Gillianren]

I don't miss my first therapist, my second therapist, or my first psychiatrist.

I don't miss my little sister and the fact that she ransacked my room for my cash all the time.

I don't miss the roommate who ruined my credit.

I don't miss Seinfeld.

Or the career of Pauly Shore.

Or the roommate who was obsessed with Scooby-Doo and K.C. and the Sunshine Band. One, I could've dealt with. But both? (Okay, I miss her some. But not those aspects of her.)

[BetaDust]

I Really Don't Miss the Headake I Had All week.


Dennis

[EndeavorRX7]

I don't miss my ex-girlfriends father (mean sob)
I don't miss having to use my fake ID

[farmerjumperdon]

I don't miss mosquitos, but they wil unfortunately be back soon enough.
I don't miss Seinfeld, because I can catch reruns pretty much at will.
I don't miss painful rectal itch when I don't have it.

[weatherc]

I don't miss spandex.

I don't miss "grunge" music. Unfortunately, I haven't really liked much that's come out to replace it, either.

I don't miss my first car.

I don't miss high school, or many of the people I attended with.

[Moose]

I miss high school. I miss the vast majority of people in it. I miss the language-based bigotry and physical abuse I experienced there.

/ Yeah, I'm lyin'.

[Nadme]

Vinyl LPs
VHS
Grunge
mid-/late 1990s "fashions"

[Noclevername]

High school, middle school, school in general. Puberty. Hospital stays. Seeing relatives dying. Hearing my parents arguing. Moving day. Job interviews. Getting punished for things I didn't do.

[Fazor]

I have to say, after my first year in college I thought I missed high school. Then when I transfered colleges I had to return to my high school to get another copy of my transcripts. In the 30 seconds or less that it took to walk through the front door and into the office, I came to the quick realization that I did not miss high school after all.

All it took was one whiny line from some anonymous high school girl, about some text message the "love of her life" sent her had apparently upset and disillusioned her.

...it's highschool...get over yourself. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I also don't miss t-shirts that change color a-la mood rings (who needs to highlight their sweat stains?), Neon colored...well, everything. Criss-Cross and New Kids on the Block. Spelling tests. Math homework. And certainly don't miss having a bedroom next to a brother's room who apparently had no need to sleep, and was self-teaching guitar. (of course, now I'm a self-taught guitarist, still early in the learning stages, and my g/f has to endure it. but that's her fault for living with me ;))

[NEOWatcher]

...Rivers that catch fire...
Hey; that's our claim to fame (http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/croe/accfire.html), or have you moved from here.

[Donnie B.]

Hey; that's our claim to fame (http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/croe/accfire.html), or have you moved from here.
I lived in Lorain up until 1968. The last big Cuyahoga River fire was in 1969.

But really, the line was intended to be a stand-in for all the environmental messes that have been alleviated since that time. We really have made a lot of progress in fighting air and water pollution... though there are still improvements to be made (CO2, anyone?)

[NEOWatcher]

...though there are still improvements to be made (CO2, anyone?)
I think that will always be the case the more we learn about things, and the more that the least obtrusive stuff become a larger part of the problem
Not long ago, nobody cared about CO2 as an environmental issue or as a pollutant.
Now; it has been learned what the effects are on the climate. It's still not percieved as pollution, but it does have an environmental impact.

Who knows? Tomorrow (figuratively), argon might be a problem.

[Fazor]

Who knows? Tomorrow (figuratively), argon might be a problem.

Really? But he was so instrumental in helping Frodo successfully destroy The Ring. :confused:

:)

[Noclevername]

Really? But he was so instrumental in helping Frodo successfully destroy The Ring. :confused:

:)

Weren't his followers called the Argonauts? Maybe just the sailors were.

[NEOWatcher]

Really? But he was so instrumental in helping Frodo successfully destroy The Ring. :confused:
Thus; not capitalized. ;)
I'm glad I didn't use xenon, and get some bad Disney reference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Zenon21.jpg).

[DyerWolf]

Traffic in LA

[Donnie B.]

Really? But he was so instrumental in helping Frodo successfully destroy The Ring. :confused:

:)
Well, at least he got a National Laboratory named after him.

[Nadme]

-20 F temps

Icy pavements/sidewalks

Loooong boring Sunday afternoons in the mid-1970s, as a kid.

Krista (ex-friend)

Elementary school PE/swim teacher (cruel perv)

[Trebuchet]

I don't miss elementary school, junior high, high school, or college. Seems to be a trend there.
I don't miss being in the army.
I don't miss my 1986 Mercury Sable. Which, to my everlasting sorrow, I traded the 1979 RX-7 for. (See the other thread.)
I won't miss this job when I retire sometime in the next year or two.

[KaiYeves]

Middle School.
Eating sweets.
This morning's Maths Exam.

[Noclevername]

Childrens' medicines. The taste of the supposed "cherry" cough syrup and "orange" aspirins were as convincingly real as a reality show.

[Occam]

My ex-wife
Living in the city
Dial-up internet
Acne
French nuclear tests in the Pacific
The Berlin wall
Chairman Mao
Idi Amin
Maggie Thatcher
Yassir Arafat
American Idol (and it's international clones)
Uri Geller
The Eurovision song contest
Michael Jackson
Floppy disks
Pretentious micro-portions in restaurants
Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (I'm not homophobic or violent but I seriously wanted to beat the living crap out of all of them)
Suede shoes
Rodney Dangerfield
Biorhythms
Smoking sections in aircraft, buses, trains and restaurants
Apartheid

Coming soon...
I'm very much looking forward to not missing George W Bush

[KaiYeves]

Billboards for Ghost Hunters.

[The Supreme Canuck]

School K-12

[CodeSlinger]

Floppy disks


Oh, you beat me to it!

[redshifter]

8 tracks

"where's the beef?"

ABBA

Working for minimum wage (which when I worked for min. wage, it was a lot less than half what it is now)

[torque of the town]

Working

[Nadme]

Swan (the goofy European singer who is now forgotten here).

David Hasselhoff (even if I did have a crush on him in the 1980s).

Susan Powter.

[Gemini]

-20 F temps

Icy pavements/sidewalks

Loooong boring Sunday afternoons in the mid-1970s, as a kid.

Krista (ex-friend)

Elementary school PE/swim teacher (cruel perv)

PE in general. I still think it was the coach that was stealing the lock off my locker, and then stealing my clothes. I even found my shorts in the toilet once. The coach in elementary school would spend almost the whole time lecturing us and basically calling us fat lazy slobs ( he wasn't very physically fit himself) and then make us do repetitive monotonous excersizes.

[Maha Vailo]

The Soviet Union
My old Pokemon League Leader
Middle school and high school
Jerry Falwell

[Nadme]

PE in general. I still think it was the coach that was stealing the lock off my locker, and then stealing my clothes. I even found my shorts in the toilet once. The coach in elementary school would spend almost the whole time lecturing us and basically calling us fat lazy slobs ( he wasn't very physically fit himself) and then make us do repetitive monotonous excersizes.

:( Mine would "accidentally" barge into the girls' dressing room (we also had swimming lessons)...when girls were half-dressed. And I'm talking 12 to 13 y/o girls. He was also cruel, would single out 1 student to pick on.

Yesteryear's lack of cellphones, DVDs, CDs, internet.

Jerry Falwell (also) and other ilk like him.

I would add Cher, but we'll never be rid of her apparently.

1973 - 1975 "fashionable" hillbilly look. Thankfully I was only 8 thru 10 then.

Having to get up to change the channel (all 4 of them).

All the "Bicentennial Year!" hype in 1975, leading up to 1976 of course. That got OLD fast.

[Noclevername]

Having to get up to change the channel (all 4 of them).

And the foil on the "rabbit ears", and using the pliers to change it because the knobs fell off.

For that matter, TVs with knobs and having four (three) channels. And having to wait for the set to "warm up".

[DyerWolf]

Flak jackets that didn't stop fragmenting munitions, much less bullets.

Cotton field jackets.

Shelter halves.

Spit-and-polish combat boots.

NVG's the size of a toaster.

Anti-war protesters who targeted their ire at servicemembers rather than politicians.

Beverly Hills, 90210.

Checkbooks.

Duck and cover drills.

Y2K.

[KaiYeves]

My life before I was geeky.

[Fazor]

The target-silhouettes at the shooting range. I certainly don't miss those. :evil grin:

[DyerWolf]

The target-silhouettes at the shooting range. I certainly don't miss those. :evil grin:

Neither do I my friend... Neither do I!







...of course the stabilization system of the M1-A1 does help a bit!:lol:

[Van Rijn]

And the foil on the "rabbit ears", and using the pliers to change it because the knobs fell off.

For that matter, TVs with knobs and having four (three) channels. And having to wait for the set to "warm up".

That brings up memories: Testing tubes to see which went bad, spraying a tuner that was going bad (and at best, that just bought a bit of time before you needed to take it in), fiddling with the fine tuning, or adjusting the horizontal and vertical hold. I don't miss any of that.

I did have a remote control sooner than a lot of people, though. Granted, it was a "tuning fork" untrasonic design, with one button that, on first click turned the TV on, another click turned the sound down one level, two more clicks for sound level, and finally turned it off again. There was two other buttons, for "up" channel" and "down" channel. That covered all the VHF channnels (2-13, but only four were on the air) and one UHF channel. If you wanted to watch a second UHF channel, you had to walk over to the TV and change it.

It was better than no remote, but I don't miss that design. By the way, you could also change the channel with a bicycle air pump (apparently it made some of the same ultrasonic sounds).

[Donnie B.]

It was better than no remote, but I don't miss that design. By the way, you could also change the channel with a bicycle air pump (apparently it made some of the same ultrasonic sounds).
My family had a similar TV. You could change the channel by jiggling the spare change in your pocket.

[KaiYeves]

Having a locker next to the big bully's.

[Noclevername]

Bullies.

[KaiYeves]

Classmates who think they are soooo funny.

[Nadme]

The days before ATMs (automatic teller machines), when you'd better darn well have checks in your checkbook OR enough cash on hand until the bank was open again...

[closetgeek]

acne - though my prayers for younger skin have been answered with the return of smaller battles with blemishes every month.

the riddiculous fights I used to have with my hubby in our teen years.

being pregnant

snow

[KaiYeves]

That buzzy noise when you pick up the telephone and there's nobody on the other end. If I had to listen to five minutes straight of it, I'd go mad.

[torque of the town]

Tony Blair.

[closetgeek]

It wasn't the bully's, persay, in school that bothered me, it was the fights. It seemed that every fight that took place in that school, took place right in front of my locker. There must have been some kind of vortex that increased aggression in that hallway and my locker was the climax point. I sustained more injuries as an innocent bystander, just trying to get out of the way than I did in all my years of treeclimbing combined. I actually became a walking punchline at the nurses office.

Having a locker next to the big bully's.

[Neverfly]

It wasn't the bully's, persay, in school that bothered me, it was the fights. It seemed that every fight that took place in that school, took place right in front of my locker. There must have been some kind of vortex that increased aggression in that hallway and my locker was the climax point. I sustained more injuries as an innocent bystander, just trying to get out of the way than I did in all my years of treeclimbing combined. I actually became a walking punchline at the nurses office.

Bad Boys can smell women that like bad boys;) They congregated where it was strongest:whistle: