Karl C
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 Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:12 am Post subject: Things that have changed in the last 30 years... |
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From a list compiled by BBC website, some of the best
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Once you received your gas from British Gas, your electricity from your local electricity board and your phone service from BT. Now, you will get your gas from your bank, your electricity from British Gas, and your phone service from Tesco.
I remember arranging to meet friends at a given location/time many days in advance. If they were late you had to scratch around for 10p to ring from a phone box (and their mum would always tell you they had set off). They would never stand you up, as the cowardly way of cancelling without warning by text just didn't exist then.
It's OK to take photos at concerts, so long as you use your phone.
Swear words are no longer asterisked in a newspaper.
If children carried guns, they squirted water.
You can no longer wear a hat or a hooded top inside a shopping centre.
Daleks were reduced to scraping a living in Kit-Kat adverts 10 years ago. Today they're appearing on a lunchbox, annual, poster, t-shirt, DVD, sticker collection and life-size cardboard cut-out near you.
Rebecca
Passwords were for international spies and entry to gang huts a decade ago. Now you can barely buy milk without the need for some secretive alpha-numeric code.
People go to hospital to become ill.
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