How have things changed since 2009?

[caravanette]

These expressions on social media:

E.g 'here's a picture of x person and it's a whole mood'

X is ' low key 'doing this/doing that

'Slay!'

[BlueGingerale]

I’d go back to the 90s or 89s!

Most damage was already done by 2009 :)

Actually I’d go back to the 80s. And stay there forever:)

[caravanette]

skidley sorry for your losses I had a Nokia smart phone in 2009 go me!!!!

I'd also go back to 2009 in a heartbeats

[LunarCrane]

No teenage goths or emos! Or far fewer, anyway
A lot less smoking
People are heavier, and concurrently the rise in "body positivity" etc
Streaming all the time
Being online 24/7
Rise in the popularity of flat faced dogs
Increased awareness of climate change
Increases awareness of abuse eg #metoo and the Yewtree stuff
Politics in the West becoming more rightwing
"Generation Rent"
Mental health a bit less stigmatised where some conditions are concerned
Much more awareness of autism

[skidley]

I was happy in 2009. Both sets of parents still alive, job was great, had a little bit more money than ever before.and thought I was rich. HA! I DID though still have a Nokia brick. Dh had a Nokia smart phone and he used a stylus. It was shit and i couldn't see the point. 2019, smart phones still amaze me (I couldn't be without mine), both sets of parents are no longer with us, money is fine but it doesn't bring our parents back. We've both got depression and anxiety but we are getting help and can see light at the end of the tunnel but id go back to 2009 in a heartbeat.

[Itstheprinciple]

In 2009, we used LoveFilm and had to order DVDS which were sent out to us to watch and then post back! It got taken over by Amazon Prime and became the on demand service.

[Mamsnetter2020]

I love this thread too! I wonder what will be different in 2029?!?

[caravanette]

MistyCloud thanks I grew up with these TVs

You're welcome - I love a bit of nostalgia !

[MistyCloud]

@caravanette

CRT = Cathode Ray Television. The sort most people over 40 grew up with. Before flat screen/OLED 50 inch screen monster.

This is a brilliant thread. Thank you.

Ooooh, and I have to say I hate the phrase 'dropped' for a new single.

EG: .............. Ariana Grande's new single 'DROPS' on 7th December.

ARGH! No, her new single is released!

[GalactiCat]

Digging up real grass to put fake grass down. Really bloody stupid destroying the natural environment .

[GalactiCat]

Hacks. I can't stand that word. Life hacks. Cooking hacks. Cleaning hacks . 😡
And dont get me started on every day cleaning products being labelled as Mrs Hinch recommends.

[caravanette]

People DROP not release singles.

X TEASES new music

[caravanette]

What's s CRT television?

[57mama]

Reading this has made me think so much... I have to say I was fairly naïve in 2009 and I thought my DC, who turned 4 & 2 that year, were going to be like the teenagers then were. They're nothing like that, the youngest describes herself as "VSCO", they're always quoting things they call vines, and don't even start on the hand gestures! Remember when putting 2 fingers up was seen as offensive? That's how my eldest greets her friends and her sister now.

[B0bbin]

When did people start contouring their faces? Some teens were talking about this on the train earlier and about laminating their eyebrows, which sounds very strange to me.
I don't know when the massive painted on eyebrows started and have no idea how to laminate them... or why
This may be as much about me getting older as times changing...

[CheeseAndOnionIceCream]

People saying 'Can I get......' When asking for something in Greggs,or a coffee shop. Never heard this expression until about 6 or 7 years ago,it was always 'Can I have......' Whenever I hear someone say this,I always think to myself that the assistant should say, 'No,you can't get,I will get it,and you can have it'.

[dontalltalkatonce]

'reaching out' . No one ever contacts another person anymore.

'Gift' as a verb. You don't give people anything anymore, you gift them or you were gifted something.

Weddings, just be honest and charge admission and bypass the rigmarole with 'We have lived together/have kids so buy us a honeymoon/house' roundabout ways to get guests to pay for the event.

[MoobaaMoobaa]

Ooops didn't mean to kill the thread

Smart phones are the big one for me. thinking ten years ago I didn't have one, yet I can't remember what it was like to not have one now. Bit like kids really

[refraction]

A lot of sobering things have changed but one for me speech wise is triggered.

Everyone is triggered. If they are slightly irked they are triggered.

Teenagers actually try to wind each other up to ' trigger ' each other.

[OoohTheStatsDontLie]

On a less serious note, in 2009, I still took pictures on my camera. My current phone has double the pixels of that camera!

[MoobaaMoobaa]

I saw this post on Facebook just before seeing this thread.


via Jane Wood

Just in case anyone is STILL thinking of voting Tory!
2010-2019, in case you missed it…

1,000 sure start centres closed.
780 libraries closed.
700 football pitches closed.
Food bank use up 2,400%.
Homelessness up 1,000%.
Rough sleeping up 1,200%
Bedroom tax caused mass evictions.
Evictions are running at record highs.
35% of U.K. kids live in poverty.
Student fees up 300%.
Student debt has risen 150%.
Eradication of EMA (education maintenance allowance).
National debt has risen from £850billion to £2.25trillion.
Emergency Brexit stimulus from BoE in June 2016 of £175b.
Brexit related fall in national revenue £500b.
GDP fallen to -0.1%.
GBP fallen by circa 15% versus EUR and USD.
Manufacturing in recession.
Construction in recession.
Services close to recession.
25-30% cuts to all govt departments.
25-30% cuts to all councils, mainly centred on Labour councils.
Half of councils facing effective bankruptcy.
185k extra deaths attached to the political ideology of austerity.
25,000 less police.
7,000 less prison officers.
10,000 less border officials.
10,000 less firefighters.
10,000 less medical professionals.
25,000 less bed spaces for people suffering mental illness.
OECD calculate 3 million hidden unemployed, rate is really 13%.
Creation of 1.3m jobs, mainly temporary, self employed, gig economy and ZHC.
Only 30k full time work positions created.
Close on 50% of workers are self employed, ZHC, or part time precariat.
80% of the 5.3 million self employed live below the poverty line.
35% of self employed only earn £100 a month.
25% cuts for our disabled community.
80% cuts to Mobility Allowance.
Closing Remploy.
40% of working households have practically no savings.
70% of households have less than 10k savings.
60% of households can only survive 2 months without a wage.
Household debt reaches a new peak, despite emergency base rates.
Increase of 50% in hate crimes.
Increase of knife crime by 150% to 22,000 per year.
Increase in teenage suicide by 70%.
Suicide up 12% in the year 2018.
Self-harm among young women up 70%.
Life expectancy down 3 years.
NHS satisfaction level at lowest recorded rate.
Council home building down 90%.
200k social homes lost since 2010.
Zero starter homes built, despite Tory flagship programme.
Council home building down 90%.
200k social homes lost since 2010.
One million families on council home waiting list.
100,000 increase on the council home waiting list since 2010.
36,000 teachers have left the profession.
Six form funding cut by 25%.
33,000 nurses leave the NHS each year…

Tories; killing our people and society while stealing our assets, since 1834.

[OoohTheStatsDontLie]

People living their best life when they're doing something fun (and presumably living their shite life the rest of the time)

Uber

Every restaurant doing some form of delivery (eg through deliveroo), even McDonalds

Instagram influencer or vlogger being an actual job title

The high street has changed so much in the last 10 years loads of shops gone and looks set to continue

The rise in street food and little independent cafes etc while some of the big chains slowly die

Environmental issues used to be seen as for extremists or students etc now finally using less plastic etc is pretty mainstream

Being 'woke'

Netflix, now everyone binges on series instead of watching films

[TooTrueToBeGood]

CRT televisions. Does anyone still have one?

[DartmoorChef]

Wait what?
This one
This lovely human
Best life
Woke



Those irritate me.

[Fr0g]

I don't use them loads, but do find it a good way on line to make it clear that I'm joking or being sarcastic, etc.

[Oilyoilyoilgob]

Thanks @Fr0g good to know I wasn’t imagining it!
It’s amazing how most people I know (including moi!) use them as the norm, can’t imagine not having them now.