Things that have been ruined by other people doing them to

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Was thinking this today when driving to work and taking one of my little shortcuts to beat the traffic. Only bloody everyone knows the shortcuts now so it doesn’t work! Damn them!

Anyone else care to share things that were great until other people got involved?

Train journeys. I commute. There is always somebody doing something antisocial now. There are no pleasurable journeys anymore, you know the ones where you settle with a good book and the seat next to you is empty.

Now it is loud phone calls, loud conversations, people playing music too loud through headphones, or they don't bother with headphones but you are too scared to tell them to reduce the volume in case they knife you. Parents who give their children tablets with sound up to pacify them. Really bad on way home, torture at 7 am in the morning. People bashing away on laptops, worse if they have headphones on, they don't realise how hard they are typing. Women with long talons constantly texting, that hideous tap tap sound. Or where they have not turned off the noise when a key is depressed. Smelly food, noisy eating. People aggressively begging or trying to leave you a pack of tissues. The whistlers, the tappers. The white middle class teenagers who are trying to speak like black youth, doing it badly and loudly.

Yep, miss it when life was quieter and people were more respectful that they were in a public space, and that the world did not revolve around them.

The Northern Line

What about when tattoos looked edgy? Now they are part of the a basic uniform look. Sad times lol

I blame facebook for a lot of hidden gems being found by holidaymakers. They join local groups and lurk. When a local posts pictures of a nice beach, lake, restaurant for the locals to enjoy they start invading them.

Then the cheeky buggers say I am retiring to your lovely spot, so that I can overwhelm your surgeries, hospitals, start petitions against your childrens parks, recreation spots. Push the price of your homes out of local reach and get apartment blocks built in front of your homes.

Cinemas-used to be nice and cheap sometimes youd get 2 films (showing my age) or a cartoon

prices are now ott they want me to watch it in a dollby stereo surrond sound 400 and also charge extortinate food price

lucky if you get a trailer now

sorry not really what you were looking for op but it does annoy me

impossible on a nice weekend to walk down without frequently stopping to wait for people to call their dc to heel.

Cinemas-used to be nice and cheap sometimes youd get 2 films (showing my age) or a cartoon

And you could just pay and go in at any time - didn't matter that the film was halfway through because you could just stay in your seat and watch the beginning at the next showing - 10 minutes after the 2film+1 cartoon programme ended.

In fact, you could pretty much stop and watch it all day over and over if you liked. And a wumman would come round with a tray, and you could buy a choc-ice, or a drink-on-a-stick (that's and ice-lolly, to the uninitiated.)

Ah good times schaudenfreud

People saying that Park Run is now too crowded - look at the results for Gainsborough Park Run. It averages about 28 runners a week. Lovely and quiet! Its a fucking tough course though.

We used to go to Barcelona back in the early 90s (before Sagrada Familia even had a roof) and you could pretty much walk up, buy a ticket and go straight in. Parc Guell was free with open gates.

Veganism. Me and friends were all angry teenage vegans for animal rights reasons. Now everyone's a vegan for health and lifestyle reasons. I'm half joking but I preferred it when it was angry punks that were vegan!

I had a kitchen with base cupboards and then shelving as we were renovating the whole house and couldn't stretch to the top cupboards. For thirty years I had that kitchen. Last year we changed it and had the whole thing changed and it looks lovely but what have they decided is on trend now ...shelving I'm never in fashion and now my kitchen isn't either. It looks gorgeous though so I don't care and I shall sit in it and drink GIN with my best pal. Any kind of gin we aren't too fussy whether it is old or new as we've been drinking it for thirty years!

Feel the same as you gin people about jagermeister. No I don't want a bloody jagerbomb as they look at me really odd for wanting a normal mixer.

My daughter's a vegan...ten years from going to Uni. She was veggie from five. Her choice. One brother was veggie the other two weren't. She bought me a subscription to Vegan magazine for a year.

You can tell because as soon as they’ve grabbed all the gluten free lasagne or pizza they move on to the yellow stickered stuff that is full of gluten.

Tbf it’s possible they are doing family shopping where one or two are gluten free and the rest aren’t. My sister is gluten free but my mums trolley will also have loads of other stuff with gluten in too. I don’t see why she shouldn’t take gluten free reduced stuff when she is shopping.

ahh Jagermeister we used to serve (drink) that in my dad's pub near an RAF base. The lads used to ask for it. No Jagerbombs there. They did diffuse two WW2 bombs on the beach though. My son and his little mate found one of them.

Our local music shop used to do loads of secret free gigs when bands were promoting albums. We saw some brilliant artists for the cost of the CD in tiny clubs with meet the band afterwards. Now they have such a (well-deserved) reputation that they have pretty much become band promoters and the gigs are in normal venues for normal prices and sell out in seconds.

Prosecco. We used to go to Italy camping in the early noughties and Prosecco was a delicious holiday treat. Now it is so ubiquitous and naff and a bit of a joke really.

And camping itself really. We used to go on holiday and our accommodation happened to be a tent (because we were skint) and everyone was pretty cool and respectful and kept the noise down when it got late etc. Now people just go “camping” for the sake of saying they have spent the night in a tent, big deal. And they are so rowdy and frequently pissed, with mahoosive tents that overspill their pitch and badly behaved kids and dogs.

Knowing that the function room toilet at the theatre is (was) always available while a mile-long queue formed in the main lobby

Gin
I have always loved very dry gins, me and a friend from uni used to love them and get the piss taken out of us for drinking “mothers ruin” and get told some story about how it made everyone’s widowed granny’s sit and cry on the stairs.

Now every cunt drinks it and there are so many that are so disgustingly sweet

Try Blood Orange. I have had several tonight!

Oh and craft beer
I like weird beers, opaque yellow 11% TIPAs, Sours, all sorts. If other people want to get in on that, more the merrier, what I can’t stand is when shitty pubs or restaurants claim to have a “craft beer menu” which is if you are lucky, punk IPA, but usually is some pseudo west coast IPA that is probably made by Heineken and is at best a hoppy lager.

Hmm, I do love a hoppy lemony beer though. Very happy that it’s available most places.

I’m pretty sure that when I first went to Paris and Rome you could just walk up to the Eiffel Tower/Colosseum, buy a ticket and go in.

Agree that London, and the City in particular used to be dead quiet at weekends apart from the odd film crew taking advantage of the empty streets. The Ring of Steel had a particularly beneficial effect on traffic. Many City workers spent their weekends at home dicing with imminent death as they kept their workday habits of casually meandering across the road in the confident expectation that any vehicle in the vicinity would get out of pedestrians’ ways rather than vice versa. I found myself recently walking past Liverpool Street at midnight on a Saturday: it was like Notting Hill Carnival.

Northern Line was never quiet but after taking a year out doing a different commute I’ve come back to it and now it’s absolutely insane.

Tinkly I’m sure most people do! However when I see “craft beer” on a menu I want a proper craft beer!