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!'

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

@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!

MistyCloud thanks I grew up with these TVs

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

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

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.

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.

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

I'd also go back to 2009 in a heartbeats

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:)